Download or read book Oregon or a short history of a long journey from the Atlantic Ocean to the region of the Pacific by land Drawn up from the notes and oral information of J B W written by John B. WYETH and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wyeth s Oregon written by John Wyeth and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is, indeed, a short history of a long journey, spanning the entire U.S., from Boston to Oregon.

Download or read book The History of Science in St Louis written by Mary J. Klem and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book After Lewis and Clark written by Robert M. Utley and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1807, a year after Lewis and Clark returned from the shores of the Pacific, groups of trappers and hunters began to drift West to tap the rich stocks of beaver and to trade with the Native nations. Colorful and eccentric, bold and adventurous, mountain men such as John Colter, George Drouillard, Hugh Glass, Andrew Henry, and Kit Carson found individual freedom and financial reward in pursuit of pelts. Their knowledge of the country and its inhabitants served the first mapmakers, the army, and the streams of emigrants moving West in ever-greater numbers. The mountain men laid the foundations for their own displacement, as they led the nation on a westward course that ultimately spread the American lands from sea to sea.

Download or read book The Chinook Indians written by Robert H. Ruby and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinook Indians, who originally lived at the mouth of the Columbia River in present-day Oregon and Washington, were experienced traders long before the arrival of white men to that area. When Captain Robert Gray in the ship Columbia Rediviva, for which the river was named, entered the Columbia in 1792, he found the Chinooks in an important position in the trade system between inland Indians and those of the Northwest Coast. The system was based on a small seashell, the dentalium, as the principal medium of exchange. The Chinooks traded in such items as sea otter furs, elkskin armor which could withstand arrows, seagoing canoes hollowed from the trunks of giant trees, and slaves captured from other tribes. Chinook women held equal status with the men in the trade, and in fact the women were preferred as traders by many later ships' captains, who often feared and distrusted the Indian men. The Chinooks welcomed white men not only for the new trade goods they brought, but also for the new outlets they provided Chinook goods, which reached Vancouver Island and as far north as Alaska. The trade was advantageous for the white men, too, for British and American ships that carried sea otter furs from the Northwest Coast to China often realized enormous profits. Although the first white men in the trade were seamen, land-based traders set up posts on the Columbia not long after American explorers Lewis and Clark blazed the trail from the United States to the Pacific Northwest in 1805. John Jacob Astor's men founded the first successful white trading post at Fort Astoria, the site of today's Astoria, Oregon, and the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company soon followed into the territory. As more white men moved into the area, the Chinooks began to lose their favored position as middlemen in the trade. Alcohol; new diseases such as smallpox, influenza, and venereal disease; intertribal warfare; and the growing number of white settlers soon led to the near extinction of the Chinooks. By 1&51, when the first treaty was made between them and the United States government, they were living in small, fragmented bands scattered throughout the territory. Today the Chinook Indians are working to revive their tribal traditions and history and to establish a new tribal economy within the white man's system.

Download or read book History of the Oregon Country written by Harvey Whitefield Scott and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Washington Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Washington Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States written by Edwin Wiley and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The United States written by Edwin Wiley and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plotting the Golden West written by Stephen Fender and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the literary and cultural reaction to the Californian Gold Rush of 1849-50.

Download or read book Wyeth s Oregon and Townsend s narrative of a journey across the Rocky Mountains v 22 25 Travels in the interior of North America by Maximilian prince of Wied v 26 Flagg s The far West pt 1 written by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West written by LeRoy Reuben Hafen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary mountain men—the fur traders and trappers who penetrated the Rocky Mountains and explored the Far West in the first half on the nineteenth century—formed the vanguard of the American empire and became the heroes of American adventure. This volume brings to the general reader brief biographies of eighteen representative mountain men, selected from among the essay assembled by LeRoy R. Hafen in The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West (ten volumes, 1965-72). The subjects and authors are: Manuel Lisa (Richard E. Oglesby); Pierre Chouteau Jr. (Janet Lecompte); Wilson Price Hunt (William Brandon); William H. Ashley (Harvey L. Carter); Jedediah Smith (Harvey L. Carter); John McLoughlin (Kenneth L. Holmes); Peter Skene Ogden (Ted J. Warner); Ceran St. Vrain (Harold H. Dunham); Kit Carson (Harvey L. Carter); Old Bill Williams (Frederic E. Voelker); William Sublette (John E. Sunder);Thomas Fitzpatrick (LeRoy R. and Ann W. Hafen); James Bridger (Cornelius M. Ismert); Benjamin L. E. Bonneville (Edgeley W. Todd); Joseph R. Walker (Ardis M. Walker); Nathaniel Wyeth (William R. Sampson); Andrew Drips (Harvey L. Carter); and Joseph L. Meek (Harvey E. Tobie).

Download or read book Transactions of the Academy of Science of Saint Louis written by Academy of Science of St. Louis and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume, except v. 5.

Download or read book The Critic written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Early Western Travels 1748 1846 written by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Early Western Travels 1748-1846 by Reuben Gold Thwaites

Download or read book Rudolph Matas History of Medicine in Louisiana written by and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: