Download or read book TIME LIFE The Wild West written by The Editors of TIME-LIFE and published by Time Home Entertainment. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The settling of the West in the 19th century is the essential American story, rich in symbolism and full of inspiration. This narrative of intrepid explorers, hardy pioneers seeking a better life, and daring outlaws who flouted authority, defintes the American spirit even today.
Download or read book The Texans written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1975 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and numerous illustrations trace the history of Texas during the nineteenth century.
Download or read book The Women written by Joan Reiter and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1978-08-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wild West written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indians written by Benjamin Capps and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were the Indians of the Old West? Everyone knows them - the hawk-faced men with braided hair and war feathers, their copper skin stretched over high cheekbones. The tribal names are familiar too: Comanche, Cheyenne, Sioux, Kiowa, and others - all resonant of fierce valour, calling up images of painted horsemen with lances and bows. To most whites they represented the model of all Western Indians: the men trained from birth to hunt and fight; the women raised to sustain the warriors, sharing in celebrations of victory or slashing their bodies in moments of grief. For some tribes these images were true, but only partly true. For the Western Indians as a whole, they were only the most visible and spectacular manifestations of a broader, more complex story.
Download or read book If You Were a Kid in the Wild West written by Tracey Baptiste and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the 1800s, many settlers moved westward across North America to seek their fortunes as farmers, ranchers, and miners. In the Wild West, there were few towns and few people paid much attention to laws. Readers will take a trip through this thrilling period of American history as they join Louise and Nat for a tale of cowboys in a frontier town. They will find out how people lived, worked, and traveled in the Wild West, and much more."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Railroaders written by Keith Wheeler and published by Time Life Education. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the building of railroads in the old West and of their effect on frontier life.
Download or read book The Red Man s Bones George Catlin Artist and Showman written by Benita Eisler and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography in over sixty years of a great American artist whose paintings are more famous than the man who made them. George Catlin has been called the “first artist of the West,” as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a “vanishing race” before their “extermination”—his word—by a government greedy for their lands. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over six hundred portraits—unforgettable likenesses of individual chiefs, warriors, braves, squaws, and children belonging to more than thirty tribes living along the upper Missouri River. Political forces thwarted Catlin’s ambition to sell what he called his “Indian Gallery” as a national collection, and in 1840 the artist began three decades of self-imposed exile abroad. For a time, his exhibitions and writings made him the most celebrated American expatriate in London and Paris. He was toasted by Queen Victoria and breakfasted with King Louis-Philippe, who created a special gallery in the Louvre to show his pictures. But when he started to tour “live” troupes of Ojibbewa and Iowa, Catlin and his fortunes declined: He changed from artist to showman, and from advocate to exploiter of his native performers. Tragedy and loss engulfed both. This brilliant and humane portrait brings to life George Catlin and his Indian subjects for our own time. An American original, he still personifies the artist as a figure of controversy, torn by conflicting demands of art and success.
Download or read book The Ranchers written by Time-Life Books and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes in texts and illustrations the development of large ranches in the western plains, the impact of these establishments on the economy of the area, their organization, and some famous ranches and their owners.
Download or read book The Mexican War written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Education. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the social and political events that preceded the war, military buildup on both sides, battles, weapons and strategies, with reproductions of contemporary posters, paintings and early photographs
Download or read book The Gamblers written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an illustrated history of gamblers and gambling in the Old West.
Download or read book The Forty niners written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gold rushes of the 1840s and 1850s are highlighted in text and stunning illustrations.
Download or read book The Spanish West written by William W. Johnson and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1976-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account showing the Spanish influence in the west on both the native Indians and the incoming pioneers. Index. Bibliography.
Download or read book The Chroniclers written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Education. This book was released on 1976 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of the journalists, artists, and photographers who went west to report on the terrain, native peoples, and opportunities of frontier America
Download or read book The Canadians written by Time-Life Books and published by Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the exploration, settlement, and development of Canada from the seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth.
Download or read book The Expressmen written by and published by . This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history with many illustrations of stagecoach service in the Old West that includes material on Wells Fargo and the Pony Express. Part of the Time-Life Old West series.
Download or read book No More Than Five in a Bed written by Sandra Dallas and published by . This book was released on 1967-06-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the story of Colorado's old hotels--some lavish, some lascivious, a few just long forgotten. Before the turn of the century, when travel was arduous, not to mention downright dangerous, voyagers to the Rocky Mountains wanted to lower their travel-weary limbs into plush chairs, nibble oysters, and sip champagne. No luxury was denied them when they arrived at most Colorado hotels. At the Hotel de Paris in Georgetown, for example, an unexpected guest might dine on wild game, tiny French peas, crusty French bread, and properly chilled wine after only a few minutes' wait. At the Sheridan in Telluride a heartier traveler could sit down to a plank steak, named after the piece of wood whose size it resembled. At the Teller House in Central City one could order buffalo tongue in aspic. At Gold Hill, where the miners knew good food if not good French, one could select from Casey's "Tabble Dote" a cup of coffee "demy tass" and "floatin' Ireland." To the eastern visitors' happy surprise, the hotels for the most part were opulently Victorian, as proper as they were in Boston or Saratoga, with ladies' entrances, ordinaries, and endless private parlors. Yet there was still enough of the raw frontier in hotels where a miner might sleep an eight-hour shift on someone else's sheets for a mere fifty cents. He would sleep in the cold, clawed by a bedmate's spurs and chewed by bedbugs, but he did have one guarantee of relative comfort--the landlord's posted promise of "No More Than Five in a Bed."
