Download or read book South Pass written by Will Bagley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace Stegner called South Pass “one of the most deceptive and impressive places in the West.” Nowhere can travelers cross the Rockies so easily as through this high, treeless valley in Wyoming immediately south of the Wind River Mountains. South Pass has received much attention in lore and memory but attracted no serious book-length study—until now. In this narrative, award-winning author Will Bagley explains the significance of South Pass to the nation’s history and to the development of the American West. Fur traders first saw South Pass in 1812. From the early 1840s until the completion of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads almost forty years later, emigrants on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails used South Pass in transforming the American West in a single generation. Bagley traces the peopling of the region by the earliest inhabitants and adventurers, including Indian peoples, trappers and fur traders, missionaries, and government-commissioned explorers. Later, California gold rushers, Latter-day Saints, and families seeking new lives went through this singular gap in the Rockies. Without South Pass, overland wagons beginning their journey far to the east along the Missouri River could not have reached their destinations in a single season, and western settlement might have been delayed for decades. The story of South Pass offers a rich history. The Overland Stage, Pony Express, and first transcontinental telegraph all came through the region. Nearly a century later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower designated South Pass as one of America’s first National Historic Landmarks. An American place so rich in historical significance, Bagley argues, deserves the best of historical preservation efforts.
Download or read book South Pass and Its Tales written by James L. Sherlock and published by Wolverine Distributing, Incorporated. This book was released on 1988-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South Pass written by Richard Braden and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the entire Rocky Mountain intermountain region there is no place that was more traveled in the nineteenth century than the famed 'South Pass', a fortuitous spot along the American continental divide in west-central Wyoming. There people and animals could scurry like ants across the crest of the foreboding Rocky Mountains, and live to tell about it. It was as if the Creator, having surveyed His work in this part of the world, pressed a thumb into the landscape to provide a place for simple farmers, immigrants, and some ne'er-do-wells to pass through on their way to the promised land in the far west. It was on the west side of the South Pass that the Oregon Trail and the Mormon Trail, having existed side-by-side for over 1100 miles, now diverged. The Mormons and the California Forty-niners headed southwest as soon as they cleared the pass; the people bound for Oregon and Washington headed northwest at the same juncture.It was at this pass that a rockhound named Charley Grissom met the Cecil McGowan family, and all of their lives were changed forever.
Download or read book South Pass City and the Sweetwater Mines written by Jon Lane and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1868, the Sweetwater Mines gold rush swept civilization into wilderness. Prospectors and miners swarmed gulches and hilltops in hopes of locating a new El Dorado. South Pass City, Atlantic City, and Miners Delight became local centers of commerce, governance, and social life. Thousands of new residents bolstered the political push to create Wyoming Territory. Soon, many proclaimed the district a humbug and moved on. Those who remained established a fresh existence where potential abounded in every experience. Their efforts ensured that the mines would boom again. ?For the first time, a history of the Sweetwater Mines, from their establishment to the present, is told through photographs from both private and public collections. Many of these images have never been published before. Here, historical records are mingled with accurate oral tradition in a blend of images and information that provides a broad view of South Pass City and the Sweetwater Mines. Jon Lane and Susan Layman are employed at South Pass City State Historic Site, and are members of the Friends of South Pass. Along with their coworkers, neighbors, and boosters of local history, they work to preserve and interpret the story of the Sweetwater Mines for others to learn from and enjoy.
Download or read book South Pass The Gateway to the West written by Murphy Booth and published by Spc Books. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in the 1800's it was impossible to get from Missouri over to California. Explorers tried for many years but it wasn't until they discovered South Pass that it became possible. South Pass was the only way to get from east to west in the mid 1800's. The pass contributed to other important historical developments such as the Oregon Trail, the California Trail, the Mormon Handcart Trail, and the United States was able to expand west. With the discovery of gold, South Pass City became the largest town in Wyoming for a short period of time and made history when Esther Hobart Morris became the United States' first female Justice of the Peace. In South Pass: The Gateway to the West we learn history can be made from such unexpected places.
Download or read book South Pass written by Arthur Cobery and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South Pass City written by Marcel Kornfeld and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Across the Great Divide written by Laton McCartney and published by Free Press. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resurrecting a pivotal moment in American history, Across the Great Divide tells the triumphant never-before-told story of the young Scottish fur trader and explorer who discovered the way West, changing the face of the country forever. In the heroic tradition of Stephen Ambrose's Undaunted Courage comes the story of Robert Stuart and his trailblazing discovery of the Oregon Trail. Lewis and Clark had struggled across the high Rockies in present-day Montana and Idaho, but their route had been too perilous for wagon trains to follow. Then, six years after the Corps of Discovery returned from the Pacific, Stuart found the route that would make westward migration possible. Setting out in 1812 on the return trip from establishing John Jacob Astor's fur trading post at Astoria on the Oregon Coast, Stuart and six companions traveled from west to east for more than 3,000 grueling miles by canoe, horseback, and ultimately by foot, following the mountains south until they came upon the one gap in the 3,000-mile-long Rocky Mountain chain that was passable by wagon. Situated in southwest Wyoming between the southern extremes of the Wind River Range and the Antelope Hills, South Pass was a direct route with access to water leading from the Missouri River to the Rockies. Stuart and his traveling party were the first white men to traverse what would become the gateway to the Far West and the Oregon Trail. In the decades to come, an estimated 300,000 emigrants followed the corridor Stuart blazed on their way to the fertile farmlands of the Willamette Valley and the goldfields of California. Across the Great Divide brings to life Stuart's ten-month journey and the remarkable courage, perseverance, and resourcefulness these seven men displayed in overcoming unimaginable hardships. Stuart had come to the Pacific Northwest to make his fortune in the fur trade, but during his stay in the wilderness he emerged as a pioneering western naturalist of the first rank, a perceptive student of Native American cultures, and one of America's most important, if least-known, explorers. Today Stuart's expedition has largely been forgotten, but it ranks as one of the great adventure odysseys of the nineteenth century. A direct descendant of Stuart, award-winning journalist Laton McCartney has obtained unique access to Stuart's letters and diaries from the expedition, lending depth and unparalleled insight to a story that is at once an important account of a pivotal time in American history and a gripping, page-turning adventure.
Download or read book Oil and Gas Field Code Master List written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Light List Including Fog Signals Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States written by United States. Bureau of Light-Houses and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The South Pass Story written by Robert West Howard and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes South Pass, a strategic location in the Continental Divide, and relates many of the events that took place there important to the building of the West.
Download or read book South Pass City written by Tom Lindmier and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report written by United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South Pass Since 1812 written by Virginia J. Scharff and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South Pass 1868 James Chisholm s Journal of the Wyoming Gold Rush written by James Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Chisholm's journal exudes the smell of sagebrush and scenic panoramas, of torrential rain storms and night packing, of being small in a big land, and of honest, earthy people who, in business-like fashion, went about the task of risking life, limb, health, and what small fortunes they had, to hit the big one.
Download or read book Report on the construction of a military road from Fort Walla Walla to Fort Benton written by John Mullan and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Chief of Engineers U S Army written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 1822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 .
