Download or read book The Swiss Emigration to the Red River Settlement in 1821 and its Subsequent Exodus to the United States written by Antoine de Courten and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything went wrong. Having crossed the Atlantic for about 3 months and getting stuck in the ice of Hudson's Strait for another three weeks, the band of Swiss emigrants had to row with great hardship up the Hayes River over some 6o portages, and cross Lake Winnipeg in its full length. Arriving starved, exhausted, and deprived of their belongings at the Red River Settlement just before the snows, they were told that nothing had been prepared for them. Lodging and food was there none due to a plague of grasshoppers and floods that had destroyed the harvests of the previous four years. The so-called Promised Land was bare of any prospect. Thoroughly embittered and disgusted, one family after the other headed south between 1821 and 1826, some alone, others in groups, hoping to reach present day Minnesota as their first refuge. But to get there they had to cross over some 350 miles of prairie, a veritable desert of uncharted trails and water holes, peopled by roving Sioux looking out for victims to scalp. How did they survive? That's what the reader will find out by reading this dramatic document, which is illustrated by Peter Rindisbacher, the young artist who participated in this extraordinary venture.
Download or read book The Swiss Emigration to the Red River Settlement in 1821 and Its Subsequent Exodus to the United States written by ANTOINE de COURTEN and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything went wrong. Having crossed the Atlantic for about 3 months and getting stuck in the ice of Hudsons Strait for another three weeks, the band of Swiss emigrants had to row with great hardship up the Hayes River over some 6o portages, and cross Lake Winnipeg in its full length. Arriving starved, exhausted, and deprived of their belongings at the Red River Settlement just before the snows, they were told that nothing had been prepared for them. Lodging and food was there none due to a plague of grasshoppers and floods that had destroyed the harvests of the previous four years. The so-called Promised Land was bare of any prospect. Thoroughly embittered and disgusted, one family after the other headed south between 1821 and 1826, some alone, others in groups, hoping to reach present day Minnesota as their first refuge. But to get there they had to cross over some 350 miles of prairie, a veritable desert of uncharted trails and water holes, peopled by roving Sioux looking out for victims to scalp. How did they survive? Thats what the reader will find out by reading this dramatic document, which is illustrated by Peter Rindisbacher, the young artist who participated in this extraordinary venture.
Download or read book Indigenous War Painting of the Plains written by Arni Brownstone and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains practiced an archival art—narrating war exploits in large-scale paintings executed on animal hide robes, shirts, tipi covers, and tipi liners. Essentially autobiographical, the paintings were worn and lived in by the men whose war exploits they portrayed, and were made to be “read” by the public at large. Executed in a pictorial narrative style and documenting actual events, these paintings blend visual art and history. Indigenous War Painting of the Plains is the first comprehensive look at this important North American art form, covering the full corpus of war paintings from fourteen tribes across the plains. Two impediments have previously made such a book impractical: photography alone falls short of rendering war paintings for the printed page, and only about half of the surviving works have reliable documentation on their cultural origins. Arni Brownstone surmounts these difficulties by producing precise electronic redrawings and by using well-documented paintings to inform poorly documented examples, bolstered by a careful examination of collection histories. Featuring some 300 photographs and electronic redrawings, the book focuses on 83 paintings organized into four chapters covering the paintings of tribes associated with a specific geographical sphere of artistic influence. Four appendixes feature paintings combined with “translations” by Indigenous collaborators who had intimate knowledge of the depicted events. Offering vivid access to the key works of war painting preserved in 37 museums throughout North America and Europe, Indigenous War Painting of the Plains illuminates distinctions between painting styles of different tribes, reveals how they influenced one another and changed over time, and conveys a deep understanding of how war painting developed in relation to profound social changes in Plains Indian cultures.
Download or read book The Swiss in the United States written by Swiss-American Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Swiss Colony at Gruetli written by Frances Helen Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1869 to the early years of the 20th century, over fifty families of Swiss immigrants came to Grundy County, Tennessee with the express purpose of creating a Swiss Colony, a community composed almost entirely of German-speaking Swiss that would preserve their culture in a new land. They gave to the area the inspiring name of Gruetli, the meadow where legend says representatives of three cantons met in 1291 and formed the league which grew, over centuries, into the Swiss confederation. The settlers came for economic reasons, not as political or religious fugitives. They came with high hopes, definite support of their home government, and fervent loyalty to their native land. This book tells their story.They were good record keepers, and we have detailed notes on their meetings, their agricultural endeavors, and church issues. All of these, as well as directly gathered oral history have gone into this volume. Originally written in 1933, it has been expanded in the present edition by newly collected family memories, letters recently found and a more systematic use of county records of land transactions.Although the first winter was dreadfully hard, the Swiss farmers were soon on their feet and boasting of yields on thin mountain soil well in excess of state averages. They understood well the key to their success: a combination of dairying and crop raising with manuring. Today, most physical evidence of the Colony has vanished. Only a few houses, a cemetery and a stone bridge built with community labor in the early days of the Colony survive. In some sense, the demise of the Colony was the result of its success. The colonists educated their children well, and after finishing college, most of those children chose careers that took them away from the farm and into mainstream America. The Colony thus met its economic objectives even as it physically disappeared. The children who had grown up in the Colony carried with them a deep gratitude for their upbringing and their Swiss heritage. This gratitude has been passed onto the younger generations who today form the Grundy County Swiss Historical Society and keep alive and enjoy the memory and traditions of the Colony.
Download or read book The German and Swiss Settlements of Colonial Pennsylvania written by Oscar Kuhns and published by New York Holt 1901.. This book was released on 1900 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Population Index Bibliography Cumulated 1935 1968 by Authors and Geographical Areas written by Princeton University. Office of Population Research and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Germans and Swiss Settlements of Colonial Pennsylvania written by Oscar Kuhns and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Red River Valley 1811 1849 written by John Perry Pritchett and published by New Haven : Yale University Press ; Toronto : Ryerson Press. This book was released on 1942 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Covers the colonization of the Red River Valley, the early years when it attracted the attention of French, English, Canadians, and Americans, and features the part played by Thomas Douglas, fifth Earl of Selkirk, chief and indispensable promoter of settlement, and, for a time, a powerful influence in Western Canadian fur trading. The book is almost wholly devoted to the years from 1811 to the middle of the century, and particularly to the vital decade from 1811 to 1821, when the future control of the Red River country was largely decided." Dust jacket.
Download or read book Peck a ton oka written by Erwin Wetzel-Richli and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies written by Albert Bernhardt Faust and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Auswanderung.
Download or read book The Swiss Settlement of Switzerland County Indiana written by Perret Dufour and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Swiss Colony on the Ohio River at Vevay, in what is now Switzerland County, Indiana, was founded by French-speaking Swiss citizens from the commune of Chateland, district of Vevay, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland, in the early 1800s. The founder of the settlement was John James Dufour who had first come to America in 1796 in search of lands for vineyards. He first purchased lands near Lexington, Kentucky, and subsequently in Indiana. The Kentucky settlement failed after a few years, but the Indiana vineyard flourished and became a major factor in the development of Switzerland County. This volume contains a history of this interesting chapter in American history as written by Perret Dufour. He was born in 1807 at the Kentucky vineyard, the son of John Francis Dufour who was the brother of John James Dufour, founder of these settlements. Perret removed to the Indiana community with his family at the age of two and remained there until his death in 1884. Perret's history is of special value because he was an eye-witness and/or participant to much of what he records. This volume is not limited to the Swiss families, but contains extensive mentions of other settlers, and provides a substantial history of the entire county.
Download or read book Papers from the Second Conference on German Americana in the Eastern United States written by Steven M. Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies Two Volumes in One written by Albert Bernhardt Faust and published by . This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which has been out of print for some time and is a reprint of the original two volumes, is considered the definitive work on 18th century Swiss emigration to Pennsylvania and the Carolinas. Volume I, which was originally published in 1920, identifies emigrants during the period 1734-1744 from the Canton of Zurich, while Volume II, originally published in 1925, addresses emigrants from Basel (1734-1794) and Bern (1706-1795). The information contained includes ages, birth or baptism dates, trade or profession, names of family members, copies and transcriptions of letters, diaries, memoranda, and various other historical and personal documents. Paperbackr, (1920-1925), 2003, 2011, Illus., Index, 434 pages.
Download or read book Social and Cultural Aspects of Swiss Immigration Into the United States in the Nineteenth Century written by Guy S. Métraux and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies written by Albert Bernhardt Faust and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Swiss Emigration Book written by and published by Masthof Press & Bookstore. This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given by Eugene Edge III.
