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Book The Big Idea Book of Heritage Memories

Download or read book The Big Idea Book of Heritage Memories written by Jesse Lee Young and published by Primedia Scrapbooking. This book was released on 2001 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Heritage Treasures

Download or read book Heritage Treasures written by Susan Evans Shaw and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The region's finest heritage homes come to life in glorious colour in the pages of this authoritative new book. Within the communities of Hamilton and Burlington are many fine heritage homes built in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Together, Hamiltonians Susan Evans Shaw and Jean Crankshaw combed the streets and reviewed archive files to choose a selection that represents the many hundreds of heritage homes in the Hamilton/Burlington area. Author Susan Evans Shaw researched the history of each home and the people who have lived in it. Jean Crankshaw photographed each one on the day and time that would show it at its best. This book offers a selection of sixty of these homes, ranging from modest one-storey cottages to the very grand mansions. This architectural heritage is a cultural treasure that Heritage Treasures recognizes and celebrates.

Book The Firelands Pioneer

Download or read book The Firelands Pioneer written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eye of the Blackbird

Download or read book Eye of the Blackbird written by Holly L. Skinner and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From California to the Klondike, prospector Holly Skinner follows a trail of gold across the nineteenth -century American West. Living in a ghost town on Wyoming's South Pass, she steps back into a world where gold ruled the passions of those who pursued it and changed the shape of the nation that found it. In a style reminiscent of John McPhee, Skinner weaves the story of her own solitudinous search for the precious metal into her accounts of the gold rushes that so dramatically accelerated the westward movement.

Book Indians and Emigrants

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael L. Tate
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2014-08-04
  • ISBN : 0806182040
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Indians and Emigrants written by Michael L. Tate and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book to focus on relations between Indians and emigrants on the overland trails, Michael L. Tate shows that such encounters were far more often characterized by cooperation than by conflict. Having combed hundreds of unpublished sources and Indian oral traditions, Tate finds Indians and Anglo-Americans continuously trading goods and news with each other, and Indians providing various forms of assistance to overlanders. Tate admits that both sides normally followed their own best interests and ethical standards, which sometimes created distrust. But many acts of kindness by emigrants and by Indians can be attributed to simple human compassion. Not until the mid-1850s did Plains tribes begin to see their independence and cultural traditions threatened by the flood of white travelers. As buffalo herds dwindled and more Indians died from diseases brought by emigrants, violent clashes between wagon trains and Indians became more frequent, and the first Anglo-Indian wars erupted on the plains. Yet, even in the 1860s, Tate finds, friendly encounters were still the rule. Despite thousands of mutually beneficial exchanges between whites and Indians between 1840 and 1870, the image of Plains Indians as the overland pioneers’ worst enemies prevailed in American popular culture. In explaining the persistence of that stereotype, Tate seeks to dispel one of the West’s oldest cultural misunderstandings.

Book Our Pioneer Heritage

Download or read book Our Pioneer Heritage written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 20-volume series tells the story of Utah pioneers and their accomplishments through biographies, diaries, special stories about pioneer life, and other documents.

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 1921 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mormon Handcart Migration

Download or read book The Mormon Handcart Migration written by Candy Moulton and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1856 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints employed a new means of getting converts to Great Salt Lake City who could not afford the journey otherwise. They began using handcarts, thus initiating a five-year experiment that has become a legend in the annals of Mormon and North American migration. Only one in ten Mormon emigrants used handcarts, but of those 3,000 who did between 1856 and 1860, most survived the harrowing journey to settle Utah and become members of a remarkable pioneer generation. Others were not so lucky. More than 200 died along the way, victims of exhaustion, accident, and, for a few, starvation and exposure to late-season Wyoming blizzards. Now, Candy Moulton tells of their successes, travails, and tragedies in an epic retelling of a legendary story. The Mormon Handcart Migration traces each stage of the journey, from the transatlantic voyage of newly converted church members to the gathering of the faithful in the eastern Nebraska encampment known as Winter Quarters. She then traces their trek from the western Great Plains, across modern-day Wyoming, to their final destination at Great Salt Lake. The handcart experiment was the brainchild of Mormon leader Brigham Young, who decreed that the saints could haul their own possessions, pushing or pulling two-wheeled carts across 1,100 miles of rough terrain, much of it roadless and some of it untrodden. The LDS church now embraces the saga of the handcart emigrants—including even the disaster that befell the Martin and Willie handcart companies in central Wyoming in 1856—as an educational, faith-inspiring experience for thousands of youth each year. Moulton skillfully weaves together scores of firsthand accounts from the journals, letters, diaries, reminiscences, and autobiographies the handcart pioneers left behind. Depth of research and unprecedented detail make this volume an essential history of the Mormon handcart migration.

Book Second Supplement to the Catalogue  issued in 1884   of the Circulating and a Portion of the Intermediate Departments

Download or read book Second Supplement to the Catalogue issued in 1884 of the Circulating and a Portion of the Intermediate Departments written by Worcester Free Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Convict Pioneer

    Book Details:
  • Author : B.G & P.C. Smith
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2015-01-21
  • ISBN : 1312989327
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book A Convict Pioneer written by B.G & P.C. Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and times of Cooper Smith, A Convict Pioneer who lived from 1827 to 1871. He was a convict transported from England to Van Diemen's Land in 1845, to serve 12 years hard labour in the British Penal Colony which is now Tasmania, Australia. The untold story of our great great grandfather a convict pioneer. He spent time in Avoca, Buckland, Butler Point near Bicheno, Cascades, Castle Forbes Bay, Fingal, Franklin, Hobart, Hobart Prison Barracks or Tench, Victoria Huon, Lenah Valley, Lucaston, Rokeby, Impression Bay, Long Point Maria Island, New Town, Lagoon Bay and Launceston in Tasmania, clearing the land and building the infrastructure for future generations of Australians to enjoy.

Book Family Treasures

Download or read book Family Treasures written by John Defrain and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Families are one of society's oldest and most resilient institutions. From the beginning of human life, people have grouped themselves into families to find emotional, physical and collective support. Although in recent years social commentators have predicted the demise of both marriage and the family, they not only survive but continue to change and evolve. Family Treasures is a tool for all different types of individuals and families to better understand the qualities of strong families: appreciation and affection, commitment, positive communication, successful management of stress and crisis, spiritual well-being and enjoyable time together. Written in conversational style, Family Treasures empowers families to assess their own strengths and to develop a plan for building upon their successes. Within each chapter are family inventories and a variety of family-tested activities that can be used to enhance the quality of the family. "Family Treasures is one of those great resources that has strong research at its base and can be used by a variety of disciplines. The assessment tools and activities can be readily used by professionals and families to strengthen family relationships." Linda Skogrand, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Extension Specialist Utah State University

Book Treasures of the CNE

Download or read book Treasures of the CNE written by Lee Shimano and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the leading collectors of memorabilia from the Canadian National Exhibition tells the stories of 'The Ex.' Photos of the author's extensive collection of cherished memorabilia from the CNE bring to life a bygone era, and anecdotes from fellow fans of Canada's great fair evoke a simpler time when CNE treats cost just pennies. Treasures of the CNE will give readers a chance to reminisce and enjoy tales of the fair's music, sports, events and amusements from days gone by."--

Book The Great Medicine Road  Part 1

Download or read book The Great Medicine Road Part 1 written by Will Bagley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1841 and 1866, more than 500,000 people followed trails to Oregon, California, and the Salt Lake Valley in one of the greatest mass migrations in American history. This collection of travelers' accounts of their journeys in the 1840s, the first volume in a new series of trail narratives, comprises excerpts from pioneer and missionary letters, diaries, journals, and memoirs-many previously unpublished-accompanied by biographical information and historical background.

Book Hyrum Smith

Download or read book Hyrum Smith written by Jeffrey S. O'Driscoll and published by Shadow Mountain. This book was released on 2003 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Uses of Heritage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laurajane Smith
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2006-11-22
  • ISBN : 1134368038
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Uses of Heritage written by Laurajane Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, this book identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the world. Challenging the idea that heritage value is self-evident, and that things must be preserved, it demonstrates how it gives tangibility to the values that underpin different communities.