Download or read book Growing Up in Pioneer America 1800 to 1890 written by Judith Pinkerton Josephson and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes what life was like for young people moving to and living on the western frontier.

Download or read book The Official Museum Directory 1992 written by and published by National Register Publishing. This book was released on 1992-12 with total page 1582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Official Museum Directory 1991 written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hunger written by Alma Katsu and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Supernatural suspense at its finest . . . It will scare the pants off you." —The New York Times Book Review Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the isolated travelers to the brink of madness. Though they dream of what awaits them in the West, long-buried secrets begin to emerge, and dissent among them escalates to the point of murder and chaos. As members of the group begin to disappear, the survivors start to wonder if there really is something disturbing, and hungry, waiting for them in the mountains...and whether the evil that has unfolded around them may have in fact been growing within them all along.

Download or read book John Sutter written by Albert L. Hurtado and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-examines the life of John Sutter in the context of America's rush for westward expansion in a fully documented account of the Swiss expatriate and would-be empire builder and his times.

Download or read book Sources of Free and Inexpensive Educational Materials written by Field Enterprises Educational Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lies Across America written by James W. Loewen and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called "jim-dandy pop history," by the bestselling, American Book Award–winning author "The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cause and the movement to whitewash history." —Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updated—and more timely than ever—version of the myth-busting history book that focuses on the inaccuracies, myths, and lies on monuments, statues, national landmarks, and historical sites all across America. In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. This is a one-of-a-kind examination of historic sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships. New changes and updates include: • a town in Louisiana that was the site of a major but now-forgotten enslaved persons' uprising • a totally revised tour of the memory and intentional forgetting of slavery and the Civil War in Richmond, Virginia • the hideout of a gang in Delaware that made money by kidnapping free blacks and selling them into slavery Entertaining and enlightening, Lies Across America also has a serious role to play in contemporary debates about white supremacy and Confederate memorials.

Download or read book Folsom California written by Folsom Historical Society and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1999-09-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the nearby discovery of gold in 1848, Folsom, which began as a remote camp for trappers and traders, quickly became a prosperous mining town in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains. When the railroad arrived, Folsom boomed, serving as a transportation hub and gateway to the gold country. Downtowns Sutter Street became a busy center for merchants, hotels, and commerce, as well as the terminus for the Pony Express. Encompassing 135 years, this book celebrates Folsoms diverse heritage from its beginnings as Granite City to the recent growth attributed to the influx of high-tech corporations. Over two hundred images illustrate its history, including personal glimpses of family and home life, churches, schools, holiday celebrations, local culture, politics, and social organizations, to photographs of well-known landmarks and institutions such as the Cohn House, Sutter Street, the Folsom Powerhouse, the railroad, and of course, the infamous Folsom Prison.

Download or read book Rise Ruin Restoration written by Cheryl Anne Stapp and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, Sutter's Fort attracts more than 100,000 visitors from all over the world, and occasionally the very famous come. Queen Elizabeth II scheduled Sutter's Fort as a must-see during her 1963 tour of California. Rise, Ruin and Restoration answers the questions visitors ask: - Why (and how) did Swiss immigrant John Sutter build a high-walled fortress in the wilderness? Who were his employees? - Who were the pioneers that traveled to California in covered wagons, making Sutter's Fort their initial destination? - What was the role Sutter's Fort played in the rescue of the Donner Party? The Bear Flag Revolt? The American conquest of California? - Why did the 1848 gold discovery bring ruin-and who owned Sutter's Fort after John Sutter left? When did the structure decay and collapse? - Why was it important to restore Sutter's Fort in the 1890s? How much did it cost? - What great discovery in the 20th century changed the ways in which visitors experience Sutter's Fort today?

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book River City and Valley Life written by Christopher J. Castaneda and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often referred to as “the Big Tomato,” Sacramento is a city whose makeup is significantly more complex than its agriculture-based sobriquet implies. In River City and Valley Life, seventeen contributors reveal the major transformations to the natural and built environment that have shaped Sacramento and its suburbs, residents, politics, and economics throughout its history. The site that would become Sacramento was settled in 1839, when Johann Augustus Sutter attempted to convert his Mexican land grant into New Helvetia (or “New Switzerland”). It was at Sutter’s sawmill fifty miles to the east that gold was first discovered, leading to the California Gold Rush of 1849. Nearly overnight, Sacramento became a boomtown, and cityhood followed in 1850. Ideally situated at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers, the city was connected by waterway to San Francisco and the surrounding region. Combined with the area’s warm and sunny climate, the rivers provided the necessary water supply for agriculture to flourish. The devastation wrought by floods and cholera, however, took a huge toll on early populations and led to the construction of an extensive levee system that raised the downtown street level to combat flooding. Great fortune came when local entrepreneurs built the Central Pacific Railroad, and in 1869 it connected with the Union Pacific Railroad to form the first transcontinental passage. Sacramento soon became an industrial hub and major food-processing center. By 1879, it was named the state capital and seat of government. In the twentieth century, the Sacramento area benefitted from the federal government’s major investment in the construction and operation of three military bases and other regional public works projects. Rapid suburbanization followed along with the building of highways, bridges, schools, parks, hydroelectric dams, and the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant, which activists would later shut down. Today, several tribal gaming resorts attract patrons to the area, while “Old Sacramento” revitalizes the original downtown as it celebrates Sacramento’s pioneering past. This environmental history of Sacramento provides a compelling case study of urban and suburban development in California and the American West. As the contributors show, Sacramento has seen its landscape both ravaged and reborn. As blighted areas, rail yards, and riverfronts have been reclaimed, and parks and green spaces created and expanded, Sacramento’s identity continues to evolve. As it moves beyond its Gold Rush, Transcontinental Railroad, and government-town heritage, Sacramento remains a city and region deeply rooted in its natural environment.

Download or read book Brand Book written by Westerners. New York Posse and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Notes Toward a Bibliography of Sources Relating to Fort Ross State Historic Park California written by John A. Hussey and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous works exist covering the history of the Russian American Company and that of Fort Ross. This publi- cation of the California Department of Parks and Recreation, Notes Toward a Bibliography of Sources Relating to Fort Ross State Historic Park, California, by John A. Hussey, is the most complete compendium of sources to date.

Download or read book Pioneer Forts of the West written by Herbert M. Hart and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1981 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hart has taken photographs of forts, posts, and military relics, and supplied accounts and reminiscences in accurate detail. The result is a picture of the true beginnings of Western life. From Lewis and Clark's Ford Clatsop, to the "Pig War" in the San Juan Islands, you'll find ground plans, sketches, and anecdotes to make the outposts come alive.

Download or read book Benicia written by Julia Bussinger and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special Bay light falls on beautiful Benicia, on the north shore of the Carquinez Strait. Two U.S. citizens, Robert Semple and Thomas Larkin, bought the land from Mexican Army General Mariano Vallejo for $100 and the promise to name it for Vallejo's wife in 1847. The next year a customer at Von Pfister's Benicia waterfront store let slip the secret of the gold discovery at Sutter's Mill. Benicia's deep water harbor attracted Pacific Mail and Steamship Company, the first major California industry, the famous Matthew Turner shipyards, tanneries, and the Central Pacific Railroad, which made Benicia its transcontinental terminus. State legislators made the town their third state capital in 1853. That oldest surviving capitol building still stands along with many historic buildings, including the stately structures of a U.S. military base that began with the Benicia Barracks in 1849 and continued to serve until 1964.

Download or read book Settling the West written by and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the period of westward expansion from 1860 to 1900 including the search for gold via the Oregon Trail, outlaws and lawmen, the Chisholm Trail, and a railroad that would span the country.

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1950 1977 written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 2352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: