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Book Early Western Travels  1748 1846

Download or read book Early Western Travels 1748 1846 written by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of the Everett D  Graff Collection of Western Americana

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Everett D Graff Collection of Western Americana written by Newberry Library and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1968-11 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which about half are described in the present catalogue. The Graff Collection displays the remarkable breadth of interest, knowledge, and taste of a great bibliophile and student of Western American history. From this rich collection, now in The Newberry Library, Chicago, its former Curator, Colton Storm, has compiled a discriminating and representative Catalogue of the rarer and more unusual materials. Collectors, bibliographers, librarians, historians, and book dealers specializing in Americana will find the Graff Catalogue an interesting and essential tool. Detailed collations and binding descriptions are cited, and many of the more important works have been annotated by Mr. Graff and Mr. Storm. An extensive index of persons and subjects makes the book useful to the scholar as well as to the collector and dealer. The book is not a bibliography but rather a guide to rare or unique source materials now enriching The Newberry Library's outstanding holdings in American history.

Book The Way to the West

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elliott West
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780826316530
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book The Way to the West written by Elliott West and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegantly assembles the environmental, social, cultural, political, and economic history of the Great Plains in the 19th century.

Book Bibliotheca Americana

Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Contested Plains

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elliott West
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 1998-04-24
  • ISBN : 0700610294
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book The Contested Plains written by Elliott West and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1998-04-24 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deftly retracing a pivotal chapter in one of America's most dramatic stories, Elliott West chronicles the struggles, triumphs, and defeats of both Indians and whites as they pursued their clashing dreams of greatness in the heart of the continent. The Contested Plains recounts the rise of the Native American horse culture, white Americans' discovery and pursuit of gold in the Rocky Mountains, and the wrenching changes and bitter conflicts that ensued. After centuries of many peoples fashioning many cultures on the plains, the Cheyennes and other tribes found in the horse the power to create a heroic way of life that dominated one of the world's great grasslands. Then the discovery of gold challenged that way of life and led finally to the infamous massacre at Sand Creek and the Indian Wars of the late 1860s. Illuminating both the ancient and more recent history of the plains and eastern Rocky Mountains, West weaves together a brilliant tapestry interlaced with environmental, social, and military history. He treats the "frontier" not as a morally loaded term-either in the traditional celebratory sense or the more recent critical sense-but as a powerfully unsettling process that shattered an old world. He shows how Indians, goldseekers, haulers, merchants, ranchers, and farmers all contributed to and in turn were consumed by this process, even as the plains themselves were utterly transformed by the clash of cultures and competing visions. Exciting and enormously engaging, The Contested Plains is the first book to examine the Colorado gold rush as the key event in the modern transformation of the central great plains. It also exemplifies a kind of history that respects more fully our rich and ambiguous past--a past in which there are many actors but no simple lessons.

Book Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas written by New York Public Library. Reference Department and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The United States

Download or read book The United States written by Arthur H. Clark Company and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Exploration of Western America  1800 1850

Download or read book The Exploration of Western America 1800 1850 written by E. W. Gilbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1933, discusses the exploration of the western area of what became the United States.

Book American Book Prices Current

Download or read book American Book Prices Current written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.

Book An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography  Being a Catalogue Relating to the History  Antiquities  Languages  Customs  Religion  Wars  Literature and Origin of the American Indians

Download or read book An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography Being a Catalogue Relating to the History Antiquities Languages Customs Religion Wars Literature and Origin of the American Indians written by Th. W. Field and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography

Download or read book An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography written by Thomas Warren Field and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography

Download or read book An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lifeline of the Oregon Country

Download or read book The Lifeline of the Oregon Country written by James R. Gibson and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Lifeline of the Oregon Country, James Gibson compellingly immerses the reader in one of the most intractable problems faced by the Hudson's Bay Company: how to realize wealth from such a remote and formidable land. The personalities, places, obstacles, and operations involved in the brigade system are all described in fascinating detail, stretch by stretch from Fort St. James, the depot of New Caledonia on the upper reaches of the Fraser River, to Fort Vancouver, the Columbia Department’s entrepôt on the lower Columbia River, and back. Never before has such a rich collection of primary information concerning the fur trade supply system and the constraining role of logistics been so meticulously assembled. The Lifeline of the Oregon Country will prove indispensable to historians, researchers, and fur trade enthusiasts alike, and is an important contribution to our understanding of the economic history of the Pacific Slope.

Book An essay towards an Indian bibliography  a catalogue of books  relating to the American Indians  in the library of T W  Field

Download or read book An essay towards an Indian bibliography a catalogue of books relating to the American Indians in the library of T W Field written by Thomas Warren Field and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Indian Bibliography

    Book Details:
  • Author : Warren Field Thomas Warren Field
  • Publisher : Applewood Books
  • Release : 2009-12
  • ISBN : 1429022620
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book An Indian Bibliography written by Warren Field Thomas Warren Field and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: