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Book The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail  1858   1861

Download or read book The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail 1858 1861 written by Glen Sample Ely and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the antebellum frontier in Texas, from the Red River to El Paso, a raw and primitive country punctuated by chaos, lawlessness, and violence. During this time, the federal government and the State of Texas often worked at cross-purposes, their confused and contradictory policies leaving settlers on their own to deal with vigilantes, lynchings, raiding American Indians, and Anglo-American outlaws. Before the Civil War, the Texas frontier was a sectional transition zone where southern ideology clashed with western perspectives and where diverse cultures with differing worldviews collided. This is also the tale of the Butterfield Overland Mail, which carried passengers and mail west from St. Louis to San Francisco through Texas. While it operated, the transcontinental mail line intersected and influenced much of the region's frontier history. Through meticulous research, including visits to all the sites he describes, Glen Sample Ely uncovers the fascinating story of the Butterfield Overland Mail in Texas. Until the U.S. Army and Butterfield built West Texas’s infrastructure, the region’s primitive transportation network hampered its development. As Ely shows, the Overland Mail Company and the army jump-started growth, serving together as both the economic engine and the advance agent for European American settlement. Used by soldiers, emigrants, freighters, and stagecoaches, the Overland Mail Road was the nineteenth-century equivalent of the modern interstate highway system, stimulating passenger traffic, commercial freighting, and business. Although most of the action takes place within the Lone Star State, this is in many respects an American tale. The same concerns that challenged frontier residents confronted citizens across the country. Written in an engaging style that transports readers to the rowdy frontier and the bustle of the overland road, The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail offers a rare view of Texas’s antebellum past.

Book The First Overland Mail  Butterfield Trail  St  Louis to San Francisco  1858 1861   v  2  San Francisco to Memphis  1858 1861

Download or read book The First Overland Mail Butterfield Trail St Louis to San Francisco 1858 1861 v 2 San Francisco to Memphis 1858 1861 written by Walter Barnes Lang and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Civil War Era and Reconstruction

Download or read book The Civil War Era and Reconstruction written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 1911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The encyclopedia takes a broad, multidisciplinary approach to the history of the period. It includes general and specific entries on politics and business, labor, industry, agriculture, education and youth, law and legislative affairs, literature, music, the performing and visual arts, health and medicine, science and technology, exploration, life on the Western frontier, family life, slave life, Native American life, women, and more than a hundred influential individuals.

Book An Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of the United States

Download or read book An Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transportation and Communication

Download or read book Transportation and Communication written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Communities and Place

Download or read book Communities and Place written by Katherine Crawford-Lackey and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have established gathering spaces to find acceptance, form social networks, and unify to resist oppression. Framing the emergence of queer enclaves in reference to place, this volume explores the physical and symbolic spaces of LGBTQ Americans. Authors provide an overview of the concept of “place” and its role in informing identity formation and community building. The book also includes interactive project prompts, providing opportunities to practically apply topics and theories discussed in the chapters.

Book Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas written by New York Public Library. Reference Department and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subject matter Index of Patents for Inventions Issued by the United States Patent Office from 1790 to 1873

Download or read book Subject matter Index of Patents for Inventions Issued by the United States Patent Office from 1790 to 1873 written by United States. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue  Classified and Alphabetical

Download or read book Catalogue Classified and Alphabetical written by John Jay Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Who s who in Railroading in North America

Download or read book Who s who in Railroading in North America written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California Why Stop

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  • Author : Marael Johnson
  • Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
  • Release : 1995-08-01
  • ISBN : 1461708567
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book California Why Stop written by Marael Johnson and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are in your car, blazing down the road. A historical marker appears. You want to stop but you can't. What did it say? Here at last is the solution to your problem. This book presents the actual inscriptions of Califorina's 1,013 offical markers.

Book Authors and Subjects

Download or read book Authors and Subjects written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office  United States Army

Download or read book Index catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office United States Army written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office  United States

Download or read book Index catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: