Fremont Perspectives
Author | : David B. Madsen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Fremont culture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David B. Madsen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Fremont culture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard E. Hughes |
Publisher | : University of Utah Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2012-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1607812002 |
This volume investigates the circumstances and conditions under which trade/exchange, direct access, and/or mobility best account for material conveyance across varying distances at different times in the past.
Author | : Steve Inskeep |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2021-01-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0735224374 |
Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple John C. Frémont, one of the United States’s leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in 1842, when he commanded the first of his expeditions to the uncharted West. But in only a few years, he was one of the most acclaimed people of the age – known as a wilderness explorer, bestselling writer, gallant army officer, and latter-day conquistador, who in 1846 began the United States’s takeover of California from Mexico. He was not even 40 years old when Americans began naming mountains and towns after him. He had perfect timing, exploring the West just as it captured the nation’s attention. But the most important factor in his fame may have been the person who made it all possible: his wife, Jessie Benton Frémont. Jessie, the daughter of a United States senator who was deeply involved in the West, provided her husband with entrée to the highest levels of government and media, and his career reached new heights only a few months after their elopement. During a time when women were allowed to make few choices for themselves, Jessie – who herself aspired to roles in exploration and politics – threw her skill and passion into promoting her husband. She worked to carefully edit and publicize his accounts of his travels, attracted talented young men to his circle, and lashed out at his enemies. She became her husband’s political adviser, as well as a power player in her own right. In 1856, the famous couple strategized as John became the first-ever presidential nominee of the newly established Republican Party. With rare detail and in consummate style, Steve Inskeep tells the story of a couple whose joint ambitions and talents intertwined with those of the nascent United States itself. Taking advantage of expanding news media, aided by an increasingly literate public, the two linked their names to the three great national movements of the time—westward settlement, women’s rights, and opposition to slavery. Together, John and Jessie Frémont took parts in events that defined the country and gave rise to a new, more global America. Theirs is a surprisingly modern tale of ambition and fame; they lived in a time of social and technological disruption and divisive politics that foreshadowed our own. In Imperfect Union, as Inskeep navigates these deeply transformative years through Jessie and John’s own union, he reveals how the Frémonts’ adventures amount to nothing less than a tour of the early American soul.
Author | : Donald Grayson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2011-04-18 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0520948718 |
Covering a large swath of the American West, the Great Basin, centered in Nevada and including parts of California, Utah, and Oregon, is named for the unusual fact that none of its rivers or streams flow into the sea. This fascinating illustrated journey through deep time is the definitive environmental and human history of this beautiful and little traveled region, home to Death Valley, the Great Salt Lake, Lake Tahoe, and the Bonneville Salt Flats. Donald K. Grayson synthesizes what we now know about the past 25,000 years in the Great Basin—its climate, lakes, glaciers, plants, animals, and peoples—based on information gleaned from the region’s exquisite natural archives in such repositories as lake cores, packrat middens, tree rings, and archaeological sites. A perfect guide for students, scholars, travelers, and general readers alike, the book weaves together history, archaeology, botany, geology, biogeography, and other disciplines into one compelling panorama across a truly unique American landscape.
Author | : Susan M. Young |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Clear Creek Canyon (Utah) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Guy E. Gibbon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1020 |
Release | : 2022-01-26 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1136801790 |
First published in 1998. Did prehistoric humans walk to North America from Siberia? Who were the inhabitants of the spectacular Anasazi cliff dwellings in the Southwest and why did they disappear? Native Americans used acorns as a major food source, but how did they get rid of the tannic acid which is toxic to humans? How does radiocarbon dating work and how accurate is it? Written for the informed lay person, college-level student, and professional, Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia is an important resource for the study of the earliest North Americans; including facts, theories, descriptions, and speculations on the ancient nomads and hunter-gathers that populated continental North America.
Author | : Jeanne K. Swartout |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Cultural property |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anthony Roso |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Carbon County (Wyo.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John William Reps |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 0826204163 |
Union list catalog of the lithographic views of cities and towns made during the 19th century.
Author | : Wm Jack Hranicky RPA |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2011-06-09 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1456750003 |
This book provides a single-source for projectile points in the literature of American archeology. Its purpose is to provide a quick lookup for point types; the user then utilizes the basic references that are provided for more research information, point comparisons, data, distributions, etc.