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Book Transactions of the     Annual Reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association

Download or read book Transactions of the Annual Reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association written by Oregon Pioneer Association. Reunion and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions of the     Annual Reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association

Download or read book Transactions of the Annual Reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association written by Oregon Pioneer Association and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions of the Oregon Pioneer Association

Download or read book Transactions of the Oregon Pioneer Association written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions of the  1st  56th Annual Reunion

Download or read book Transactions of the 1st 56th Annual Reunion written by Oregon Pioneer Association and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence

Download or read book The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence written by Robert Thomas Boyd and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1700s, when Euro-Americans began to visit the Northwest Coast, they reported the presence of vigorous, diverse cultures--among them the Tlingit, Haida, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka), Coast Salish, and Chinookans--with a population conservatively estimated at over 180,000. A century later only about 35,000 were left. The change was brought about by the introduction of diseases that had originated in the Eastern Hemisphere, such as smallpox, malaria, measles, and influenza. The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence examines the introduction of infectious diseases among the Indians of the Northwest Coast culture area (present-day Oregon and Washington west of the Cascade Mountains, British Columbia west of the Coast Range, and southeast Alaska) in the first century of contact and the effects of these new diseases on Native American population size, structure, interactions, and viability. The emphasis is on epidemic diseases and specific epidemic episodes. In most parts of the Americas, disease transfer and depopulation occurred early and are poorly documented. Because of the lateness of Euro-American contact in the Pacific Northwest, however, records are relatively complete, and it is possible to reconstruct in some detail the processes of disease transfer and the progress of specific epidemics, compute their demographic impact, and discern connections between these processes and culture change. Boyd provides a thorough compilation, analysis, and comparison of information gleaned from many published and archival sources, both Euro-American (trading-company, mission, and doctors' records; ships' logs; diaries; and Hudson's Bay Company and government censuses) and Native American (oral traditions and informant testimony). The many quotations from contemporary sources underscore the magnitude of the human suffering. The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence is a definitive study of introduced diseases in the Pacific Northwest. For more information on the author go to http: //roberttboyd.com/

Book Annual Report of the American Historical Association

Download or read book Annual Report of the American Historical Association written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oregon Historical Quarterly

Download or read book Oregon Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book With Golden Visions Bright Before Them

Download or read book With Golden Visions Bright Before Them written by Will Bagley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers—men, women, and children—followed the “road across the plains” to gold rush California. This magnificent chronicle—the second installment of Will Bagley’s sweeping Overland West series—captures the danger, excitement, and heartbreak of America’s first great rush for riches and its enduring consequences. With narrative scope and detail unmatched by earlier histories, With Golden Visions Bright Before Them retells this classic American saga through the voices of the people whose eyewitness testimonies vividly evoke the most dramatic era of westward migration. Traditional histories of the overland roads paint the gold rush migration as a heroic epic of progress that opened new lands and a continental treasure house for the advancement of civilization. Yet, according to Bagley, the transformation of the American West during this period is more complex and contentious than legend pretends. The gold rush epoch witnessed untold suffering and sacrifice, and the trails and their trials were enough to make many people turn back. For America’s Native peoples, the effect of the massive migration was no less than ruinous. The impact that tens of thousands of intruders had on Native peoples and their homelands is at the center of this story, not on its margins. Beautifully written and richly illustrated with photographs and maps, With Golden Visions Bright Before Them continues the saga that began with Bagley’s highly acclaimed, award-winning So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848, hailed by critics as a classic of western history.

Book What Trouble I Have Seen

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  • Author : David Peterson del Mar
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-07-01
  • ISBN : 0674042085
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book What Trouble I Have Seen written by David Peterson del Mar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was 1869 and Sarah Moses, with "a very black eye," told her father: The world will never know what trouble I have seen. What she'd seen was violence at the hands of her husband. Does the world know any more of such things today than it did in Sarah's time? Sarah, it so happens, lived in Oregon, that Edenic state on the Pacific Coast, and it is here that David Peterson del Mar centers his history of violence against wives. What causes such violence? Has it changed over time? How does it relate to the state of society as a whole? And how have women tried to stop it, resist it, escape it? These are the questions Peterson del Mar pursues, and the answers he finds are as fascinating as they are disturbing. Thousands of thickly documented divorce cases from the Oregon circuit courts let us listen to voices who often go unheard. These are the people who didn't keep diaries or leave autobiographies, who sometimes could not write at all. Here they speak of a society that quietly condoned wife beating until the spread of an ethos of self-restraint in the late nineteenth century. And then, Peterson del Mar finds, the practice increased with a vengeance with the florescence of expressive individualism during the twentieth century. What Trouble I Have Seen also traces a dramatic shift in wives' response to their husbands' violence. Settler and Native American women commonly fought abusive mates. Most wives of the late nineteenth century acted more cautiously and relied on others for protection. But twentieth-century privatism, Peterson del Mar discovers, often isolated modern wives from family and neighbors, casting abused women on the mercy of the police, women's shelters, and, most important, their own resources. Thus a new emphasis on self-determination, even as it stimulated violence among men, enhanced the ability of women to resist and escape violent husbands. The first sustained history of violence toward wives, What Trouble I Have Seen offers remarkable testimony to the impact of social trends on the most private arrangements, and the resilience of women subject to a seemingly timeless crime.

Book Kansas Quarterly

Download or read book Kansas Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative  1876 1949  Non Dewey decimal classified titles

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1876 1949 Non Dewey decimal classified titles written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 2200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Washington Historical Quarterly

Download or read book Washington Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Idaho Yesterdays

Download or read book Idaho Yesterdays written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Old Greenwood

Download or read book Old Greenwood written by Charles Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes his role in the overland emigration of 1844-45, his part in the relief of the Donner party, and his life near Sutter's mill after the gold strike.

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 Dept and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions of the     Annual Reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association

Download or read book Transactions of the Annual Reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association written by Oregon Pioneer Association and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Doolittle Family in America

Download or read book The Doolittle Family in America written by William Frederick Doolittle and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.