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Author | : James Avery Pritchard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
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Author | : Robert Rogers Hubach |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780814328095 |
Download Early Midwestern Travel Narratives Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First published in 1961, Early Midwestern Travel Narratives records and describes first-person records of journeys in the frontier and early settlement periods which survive in both manuscript and print. Geographically, it deals with the states once part of the Old Northwest Territory-Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota-and with Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. Robert Hubach arranged the narratives in chronological order and makes the distinction among diaries (private records, with contemporaneously dated entries), journals (non-private records with contemporaneously dated entries), and "accounts," which are of more literary, descriptive nature. Early Midwestern Travel Narratives remains to this day a unique comprehensive work that fills a long existing need for a bibliography, summary, and interpretation of these early Midwestern travel narratives.
Author | : James Avery Pritchard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Overland journeys to the Pacific |
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Author | : Thomas D. Clark |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2021-11-21 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0813188253 |
Download Gold Rush Diary Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Among the hundreds captivated by the vision of quick riches in the gold fields of California was Elisha Douglass Perkins, a tall handsome youth from Marietta, Ohio, who has here left a remarkable first-hand account of the great trek westward in 1849. Perkins' diary is an unusually full and intimate record of crossing the plains and mountains of the Great West. Extensive notes supplement the text, associating it with numerous other published and unpublished accounts, while an appendix of reports and letters from the Marietta newspaper reveals the involvement of those at home with the Gold Rush. An annotated map shows Perkins' progress along the Overland Trail.
Author | : J. S. Holliday |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2015-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806183527 |
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When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment, and the book has gained recognition as a classic. As the San Francisco Examiner noted, “It is not often that a work of history can be said to supplant every book on the same subject that has gone before it.” Through the diary and letters of William Swain--augmented by interpolations from more than five hundred other gold seekers and by letters sent to Swain from his wife and brother back home--the complete cycle of the gold rush is recreated: the overland migration of over thirty thousand men, the struggle to “strike it rich” in the mining camps of the Sierra Nevadas, and the return home through the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama. In a new preface, the author reappraises our continuing fascination with the “gold rush experience” as a defining epoch in western--indeed, American--history.
Author | : Michael L. Tate |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2015-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806153180 |
Download The Great Medicine Road, Part 2 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
During the early weeks of 1848, as U.S. congressmen debated the territorial status of California, a Swiss immigrant and an itinerant millwright forever altered the future state’s fate. Building a sawmill for Johann August Sutter, James Wilson Marshall struck gold. The rest may be history, but much of the story of what happened in the following year is told not in history books but in the letters, diaries, journals, and other written recollections of those whom the California gold rush drew west. In this second installment in the projected four-part collection The Great Medicine Road: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, the hardy souls who made the arduous trip tell their stories in their own words. Seven individuals’ tales bring to life a long-ago year that enriched some, impoverished others, and forever changed the face of North America. Responding to often misleading promotional literature, adventurers made their way west via different routes. Following the Carson River through the Sierra Nevada, or taking the Lassen Route to the Sacramento Valley, they passed through the Mormon Zion of Great Salt Lake City and traded with and often displaced Native Americans long familiar with the trails. Their accounts detail these encounters, as well as the gritty realities of everyday life on the overland trails. They narrate events, describe the vast and diverse landscapes they pass through, and document a journey as strange and new to them as it is to many readers today. Through these travelers’ diaries and memoirs, readers can relive a critical moment in the remaking of the West—and appreciate what a difference one year can make in the life of a nation.
Author | : James Avery PRITCHARD |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 1959 |
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Download The Overland Diary of James A. Pritchard from Kentucky to California in 1849. With a Biography of Captain James A. Pritchard by Hugh Pritchard Williamson. Edited by Dale L. Morgan. With an Introduction, Bibliography, and a Chart of Travel by All Known Diarists West Across South Pass in 1849 and Illustrated with a Portrait, and Two Unpublished Maps of 1849 Drawn by J. Goldsborough Bruff Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Brian W. Blouet |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1975-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803208391 |
Download Images of the Plains Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Sixteen papers by foremost American, Canadian, and English historical geographers examine the sources of Imagery of the American and Canadian Great Plains, the processes of image formation, and the behavioral implications of various kinds of images. The papers deal with exploratory images of the Plains, resource evaluation in the prefrontier West, governmental appraisal of the western frontier, real and imagined climatic hazards, the desert and garden myths, and adaptations to reality.
Author | : Samuel A. Lane |
Publisher | : Summit County Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Gold Rush: The Overland Diary of Samuel A. Lane, 1850 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Overland diary of Samuel A. Lane from Summit County, Ohio to the gold fields of California in 1850.
Author | : Thomas D. Clark |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 081316527X |
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Among the hundreds captivated by the vision of quick riches in the gold fields of California was Elisha Douglass Perkins, a tall handsome youth from Marietta, Ohio, who has here left a remarkable first-hand account of the great trek westward in 1849. Perkins' diary is an unusually full and intimate record of crossing the plains and mountains of the Great West. Extensive notes supplement the text, associating it with numerous other published and unpublished accounts, while an appendix of reports and letters from the Marietta newspaper reveals the involvement of those at home with the Gold Rush. An annotated map shows Perkins' progress along the Overland Trail.