Download or read book We Went West written by Ellen Allmendinger and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book We Went West: Civil War Soldiers of the Yakima Valley highlights the life stories of a small portion of the more than two hundred Civil War soldiers and their families who traveled west after the war and settled in the Yakima Valley. The soldiers’ stories briefly touch on their lives prior to and during the war with more detailed information on their lives and accomplishments after settling in Central Washington. The book is of interest to those who are Civil War history lovers as well as Central Washington history. It may also captivate those who are unaware of the vast impact that Civil War soldiers had on the Yakima Valley or their accomplishments. The relevant message reminds readers that although the Civil War occurred on the other side of the country, its post-impact and soldiers played a significant role in the historical development, settlement, and lives of those in the west after the war. No other known book shares the soldiers’ stories and their impact on the area. The author’s hope is that readers can learn more about the impact of the Civil War on its soldiers, as well as their accomplishments in Central Washington after the war. About the Author Ellen Allmendinger lives in the Yakima Valley with her son Zakary and their three dogs. Ellen worked in the civil engineering field for over thirty years. After retiring from the field in 2021 she expanded her role in the research and sharing of local history. Today Ellen leads historical tours at various locations in the Yakima Valley. She is also a public speaker and gives various presentations for both public and private functions. When she isn’t sharing history in person, she can often be found conducting research at various archives, libraries, museums, and other locations. As an author, Ellen has written three previous books. She has also written several historical articles. Some of which have been published in the Sunnyside Sun newspaper and the Yakima Magazine. When she isn’t being a mom, researching, or writing, she can be found at the Woman’s Century Club of Yakima’s Donald House where she serves as the House Historian and an Executive Board Member. She is also an active member of PEO, Rosalma, and the Yakima Valley Genealogical Library where she volunteers as a librarian.

Download or read book They Went West written by Sharon McKinzie and published by Hv Chapman & Sons. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They went West. Indeed, they did.Less than thirty years after American independence and twenty-three after its successful revolution, the "back door" of our countrycracked open with the exploratory party of Lewis and Clark into thegreat unknown, joining independent mountain men in vast reachesof the great West. By mid-century of the 1800s, an exodus from theestablished environs of the country slipped into full-swing. Once adventurerscrossed the Allegheny and Appalachian ranges, the pathwestward opened like an unread book.While the world itself was once a frontier, the archive of the AmericanWest is unique in history. Settler families in wagon trains, surveyors, trappers, prospectors and miners, mail and freight coaches, ships around Cape Horn, the Pony Express, the beginnings ofrail and telegraph communication, soldiers and forts, cowboys andranches, trade of all kinds, the search for a new opportunity and, perhaps, boundless acres of untilled land. And then there was theyen for sheer adventure, lawful or not.Truly, the East with its cities, seaports, historic places, and greenlandscapes is beloved and appealing! Still, there is something aboutthe West that draws this writer like metal to a magnet. And Westernresearch proves a never-ending treasure hunt. Mountains, certainly, and crystal air. Forests of fir and pine. Badlands and Plains. Mines, deserts, canyons, and ghost towns. The Columbia rushing into thePacific, while Might Mo leaves the Divide on its eastward journey.People went West. And so shall we.- x -The writer expresses gratitude to supportive friends and belovedfamily members, who listen with interest (or politeness) to the myriadof stories from the West. (Paul gets the "full load." Thanks, sweetheart.)Also, special appreciation is extended to Carolee Juergens, ever helpful and enthusiastic.

Download or read book Some Went West written by Dorothy M. Johnson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the lives and varied experiences of some of the many women who traveled across the American West, including Cynthia Ann Parker, Mary Richardson Walker, Harriet Sanders, Maria Virginia Slade, and Elizabeth Custer.

Download or read book The Voice of the Home Or How Roy Went West and How He Came Home Again written by Sarepta Myrenda Irish Henry and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Download or read book Go West Young Man written by William W. Johnstone and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One nation on the brink of war. Two families in search of peace. Twenty-seven wagons on an epic cross-country journey as bold as America itself..."--Page 4 of cover.

Download or read book Want to Go West Lady written by Ben Steinlage and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From book cover: "The characters are so real, you feel they are family and you will laugh and cry along with them. Follow the lives of three teens, prior to and through the Civil War, Reconstruction of the South and then into the twentieth century in Oregon and California."

Download or read book Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes written by Samuel Purchas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 20-volume seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 1905-7 edition) which follows Hakluyt in recording voyages of exploration.

Download or read book Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society written by Hakluyt Society and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Go West Young Man written by B. J. Hollars and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 Silver Midwest Book Award Winner At the sound of the bell on the last day of kindergarten, B.J. Hollars and his six-year-old son, Henry, hop in the car to strike out on a 2,500-mile road trip retracing the Oregon Trail. Their mission: to rediscover America, and Americans, along the way. Throughout their two-week adventure, they endure the usual setbacks (car trouble, inclement weather, and father-son fatigue), but their most compelling drama involves people, privilege, and their attempt to find common ground in an all-too-fractured country. Writing in the footsteps of John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, Hollars picks up the trail with his son more than half a century later. Together they sidle up to a stool at every truck stop, camp by every creek, and roam the West. They encounter not only the beauty and heartbreak of America, but also the beauty and heartbreak of a father and son eager to make the most of their time together. From Chimney Rock to Independence Rock to the rocky coast of Oregon, they learn and relearn the devastating truth of America's exploitative past, as well as their role within it. Go West, Young Man recounts the author's effort to teach his son the difficult realities of our nation's founding while also reaffirming his faith in America today.

Download or read book If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon written by Ellen Levine and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1992-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Answers questions about what it was like to travel to the Oregon Territory by covered wagon, crossing rivers, mountains, and prairie.

Download or read book We Came Naked and Barefoot written by Alex D. Krieger and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no one has ever been such a survivor as álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600-man expedition sent out from Spain to colonize "La Florida" in 1527, he survived a failed exploration of the west coast of Florida, an open-boat crossing of the Gulf of Mexico, shipwreck on the Texas coast, six years of captivity among native peoples, and an arduous, overland journey in which he and the three other remaining survivors of the original expedition walked some 1,500 miles from the central Texas coast to the Gulf of California, then another 1,300 miles to Mexico City. The story of Cabeza de Vaca has been told many times, beginning with his own account, Relación de los naufragios, which was included and amplified in Gonzalo Fernando de Oviedo y Váldez's Historia general de las Indias. Yet the route taken by Cabeza de Vaca and his companions remains the subject of enduring controversy. In this book, Alex D. Krieger correlates the accounts in these two primary sources with his own extensive knowledge of the geography, archaeology, and anthropology of southern Texas and northern Mexico to plot out stage by stage the most probable route of the 2,800-mile journey of Cabeza de Vaca. This book consists of several parts, foremost of which is the original English version of Alex Krieger's dissertation (edited by Margery Krieger), in which he traces the route of Cabeza de Vaca and his companions from the coast of Texas to Spanish settlements in western Mexico. This document is rich in information about the native groups, vegetation, geography, and material culture that the companions encountered. Thomas R. Hester's foreword and afterword set the 1955 dissertation in the context of more recent scholarship and archaeological discoveries, some of which have supported Krieger's plot of the journey. Margery Krieger's preface explains how she prepared her late husband's work for publication. Alex Krieger's original translations of the Cabeza de Vaca and Oviedo accounts round out the volume.

Download or read book The South Western Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, and Court of Appeals of Kentucky; Aug./Dec. 1886-May/Aug. 1892, Court of Appeals of Texas; Aug. 1892/Feb. 1893-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals of Texas; Apr./June 1896-Aug./Nov. 1907, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory; May/June 1927-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Appeals of Missouri and Commission of Appeals of Texas.

Download or read book We Were There Too written by Phillip Hoose and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2001-08-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This may be the most exhilarating and revelatory history of our country. It is must reading for today's youth-as well as their elders." --Studs Terkel From the boys who sailed with Columbus to today's young activists, this unique book brings to life the contributions of young people throughout American history. Based on primary sources and including 160 authentic images, this handsome oversized volume highlights the fascinating stories of more than 70 young people from diverse cultures. Young readers will be hooked into history as they meet individuals their own age who were caught up in our country's most dramatic moments-Olaudah Equiano, kidnapped from his village in western Africa and forced into slavery, Anyokah, who helped her father create a written Cherokee language, Johnny Clem, the nine-year-old drummer boy who became a Civil War hero, and Jessica Govea, a teenager who risked joining Cesar Chavez's fight for a better life for farmworkers. Throughout, Philip Hoose's own lively, knowledgeable voice provides a rich historical context-making this not only a great reference-but a great read. The first U.S. history book of this scope to focus on the role young people have played in the making of our country, its compelling stories combine to tell our larger national story, one that prompts Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, to comment, "This is an extraordinary book-wonderfully readable, inspiring to young and old alike, and unique." We Were There, Too! is a 2001 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.

Download or read book Go West written by Jeremy Sparks and published by Elevate Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Readers looking for inspiration (or just a great story) will discover a wild ride that proves just how twisty some paths to Christ can be." - Publisher's Weekly Many of us would say it takes guts and a little bit of crazy to step toe-to-toe with a powerful, 1,700 pound bull. For Hall-of-Fame bullfighter, Jeremy Sparks, it took faith. Sparks' remarkable and illustrious journey began at a young age when he received a God-given calling to become a professional bullfighter. Soon after accepting a college scholarship for rodeo, he suffered a near-fatal electrocution, which, but for his faith in God, would have ruined his dream. After three years of training under a world champion, he was accepted into the elite Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, and spent years tussling with raging bulls until God, once again, showed him another path. While the terrorist attack on September 11th rocked the country, Sparks saw it as an invitation to serve. He enlisted just weeks after the attack, and earned his commission as a second lieutenant in the US Air Force and an endorsement from the Pentagon as the "only professional bullfighter in the history of the USAF." Once a small town kid from Arkansas, now a Hall-of-Fame rodeo icon, Sparks is sharing his stories of strength and service. With God at the center of this fascinating story, Go West highlights the 10 Biblical principles that Sparks learned, experienced, and lived by as a professional bull fighter, officer in the armed forces, and follower of Jesus Christ.

Download or read book Diaspora and Visual Culture written by Nicholas Mirzoeff and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In examining the visual culture of the "classic" African and Jewish diasporas, contributors address different aspects of the multiple viewpoints inherent in diasporic cultures.

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Download or read book The Wattson Brothers Go West written by BG Hines and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time is a measure of duration, not a barrier or obstruction. The Wattson Brothers Go West follows teenage brothers William and Bob Wattson, scions of a huge fortune, and how they spend a summer break. Their holiday begins with them traveling from their New Hampshire school to their late father's unique mountain home near Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Located there is another part of their inheritance, a machine able to transport people through time. They are joined by two schoolmates, southerner Ellie and New Yorker Paul. Then it's on to 1805 Big Sky Montana where a fifth crew member is added, a young Crow brave, Spear. They travel along the scenic Missouri River then down to the future home of Yellowstone National Park. They pass through the wonders of Yellowstone and fly east, arriving back in Montana. Among the sights they see are thousands of buffalo and millions of now-extinct passenger pigeons. During their travels, they encounter the Corp of Discovery and Meriwether Lewis. Also, they find there is a rival time machine, with a villainous crew, from 1945 Germany. They are confident they will see these guys again. It's the adventure of a lifetime, perhaps the first of many.