Download or read book Homesteading the Dryland a History of Northeast Weld County Colorado written by Bud Wells and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Homesteading the Dryland written by Bud Wells and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Homesteading Haxtun and the High Plains written by Jean Gray and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very little has been written about the "real" northeastern plains of Colorado, the small communities that dot its open, sky-filled, mountainless landscape. Haxtun began as two separate homesteads, "proved up" by Alice Strohm and Kate (Fletcher) Edwards, who sold their land to the Lincoln Land Company in 1887, which led to the founding of the town. The area was generally viewed as useless land in those early days but was promoted as being full of opportunity--neglecting mention of a proclivity toward drought, hailstorms and blizzards and the gamble of the land. The High Plains survived, though. Its settlers, proving to be hardy and industrious, faced the challenges head on. Today, Haxtun and the surrounding communities of Fairfield, Dailey, Fleming and Paoli are filled with the descendants of those early settlers, people with a strong sense of community and pride in their little High Plains towns.

Download or read book Homesteading the Dryland a History of Northeast Weld County Colorado written by Bud Wells and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Researcher written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The William and Alice Setchfield Holmes and Carlos E Hait Families in Michigan Kansas Oklahoma and Colorado 1840 1992 written by Anne Hait Christian and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Holmes (bp. 1806, d. 1885), son of Francis and Alice Brown Holmes, married Alice Setchfield (1806-1880), daughter of William and Anna Loomes Setchfield, in 1827 at St. Andrew's in Whittlesey. They spent the first forty-three years of their life in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England. In 1848 William Holmes and his 20-year old son, William Francis, left England for America. The rest of his family followed in 1850. They settled in Oceola Township, Livingston Co., Michigan. Carlos Emory Hait (1828-1893) was born at Clyde, Wayne Co. N.Y. He lived in Michigan, Iowa, Tennessee and died in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. He married (1) Jerusha Tuttle (1833-1857), born in Wysox, Pa.; (2) Elizabeth Bennett (Elizabeth Bennett Richardson), a widow, in 1868.

Download or read book Long Vistas written by Katherine Harris and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Long Vistas describes an era before and after the turn of the century when women and families homesteaded the grasslands of northeastern Colorado. With Congress's passage of the Homestead Act in 1862, women as well as men were entitled to claim 160 acres of the nation's hinterlands. What the act's supporters had not anticipated, however, was the effect homesteading would have on women. For the first time, in a nation whose founders linked land with wealth and political power, large numbers of women had access to landownership and to a taste of the empowerment that it could bring." "Long Vistas presents the stories of women who claimed land, and of other women who helped earn patents on land claimed by their husbands and fathers. Regardless of whose name appeared on a land claim, homesteading required the cooperation of family and neighbors. Women, men, and children worked, prayed, and played together. Mingling freely, homesteaders lowered barriers of age and gender, undermining time-honored hierarchies governing family and community life. The presence of landowning women reinforced this easy sociability by demonstrating a fuller range of options for what women and girls could do and be." "Drawing on reminiscences and never-before published oral histories, personal papers, and land records, historian Katherine Harris takes a fresh, sometimes controversial, look at the impact of homesteading on gender roles and the distribution of economic power between women and men."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book Man land Adjustment Processes in Weld County Colorado written by Olaf F. Larson and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Colorado Heritage written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Fruited Plain written by Connie E. Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Homesteading the Plains written by Richard Edwards and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity between the public's perception of homesteading as a cherished part of our national narrative and most scholars' harshly negative and dismissive treatment. Homesteading the Plains reexamines old data and draws from newly available digitized records to reassess the current interpretation's four principal tenets: homesteading was a minor factor in farm formation, with most Western farmers purchasing their land; most homesteaders failed to prove up their claims; the homesteading process was rife with corruption and fraud; and homesteading caused Indian land dispossession. Using data instead of anecdotes and focusing mainly on the nineteenth century, Homesteading the Plainsdemonstrates that the first three tenets are wrong and the fourth only partially true. In short, the public's perception of homesteading is perhaps more accurate than the one scholars have constructed. Homesteading the Plainsprovides the basis for an understanding of homesteading that is startlingly different from current scholarly orthodoxy. "--

Download or read book Under Ten Flags written by Mary L. Geffs and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Colorado rev 823 p written by Wilbur Fiske Stone and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Colorado written by Wilbur Fiske Stone and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Weld County Towns written by Nancy Lourine Lynch and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetical listings with histories and photographs of numerous living and extinct towns in Weld County, Colorado.

Download or read book Centennial written by James A. Michener and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 1105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER Written to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener’s magnificent saga of the West is an enthralling celebration of the frontier. Brimming with the glory of America’s past, the story of Colorado—the Centennial State—is manifested through its people: Lame Beaver, the Arapaho chieftain and warrior, and his Comanche and Pawnee enemies; Levi Zendt, fleeing with his child bride from the Amish country; the cowboy, Jim Lloyd, who falls in love with a wealthy and cultured Englishwoman, Charlotte Seccombe. In Centennial, trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, and hunters are brought together in the dramatic conflicts that shape the destiny of the legendary West—and the entire country. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii. Praise for Centennial “A hell of a book . . . While he fascinates and engrosses, Michener also educates.”—Los Angeles Times “An engrossing book . . . imaginative and intricate . . . teeming with people and giving a marvelous sense of the land.”—The Plain Dealer “Michener is America’s best writer, and he proves it once again in Centennial. . . . If you’re a Michener fan, this book is a must. And if you’re not a Michener fan, Centennial will make you one.”—The Pittsburgh Press “An absorbing work . . . Michener is a superb storyteller.”—BusinessWeek

Download or read book Newspaperdom written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: