Frontier Village

Author : Bob Johnson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738596655
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontier Village written by Bob Johnson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1950s, businessman Joe Zukin Jr. had a dream of building an amusement park with a Wild West theme in Santa Clara County. His dream was realized with the 1961 opening of Frontier Village on the former grounds of the Hayes Mansion in south San Jose. Among the trees rose a fantasy frontier town complete with a Main Street, where hourly gunfights always ended with the bad guys being carted off to Boot Hill. Visitors could relax in the town square or ride the train around the park. Guests could paddle an Indian war canoe, ride in a stagecoach, or venture into the interior of a haunted mine. Frontier Village was a safe and clean place that welcomed children and their families. Encroaching subdivisions and changing economic conditions forced the park to close in 1980, but to this day, fond memories of the park continue to live on in everyone who ever visited or worked in Frontier Village.

Author : Alan Taylor
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525566996
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Cooper's Town written by Alan Taylor and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper, a father and son who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic, are brought to life in this Pulitzer Prize-winning book. William Cooper rose from humble origins to become a wealthy land speculator and U.S. congressman in what had until lately been the wilderness of upstate New York, but his high-handed style of governing resulted in his fall from power and political disgrace. His son James Fenimore Cooper became one of this country’s first popular novelists with a book, The Pioneers, that tried to come to terms with his father’s failure and imaginatively reclaim the estate he had lost. In William Cooper’s Town, Alan Taylor dramatizes the class between gentility and democracy that was one of the principal consequences of the American Revolution, a struggle that was waged both at the polls and on the pages of our national literature. Taylor shows how Americans resolved their revolution through the creation of new social reforms and new stories that evolved with the expansion of our frontier.

Author : Catherine E. Chambers
Publisher : Troll Communications
ISBN 13 : 9780816750405
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontier Village written by Catherine E. Chambers and published by Troll Communications. This book was released on 1999-03-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the growth of the town of Nesbitt's Crossing from the time the first settlers, the Nesbitt family, came to that area of Wisconsin in 1848.

Author : Edmund Vincent Gillon
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486237362
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cut and Assemble a Western Frontier Town written by Edmund Vincent Gillon and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1978-08-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreate the stirring days of the Old West with this authentically detailed replica of a 19th-century western town. The architectural details (false fronts, overhanging balconies, wooden ornamentation, etc.) are all charactersistic of western wood-frame buildings circa 1860-1880. A few of the models are in fact accurate copies of specific documented structures.

Author : Janny Venema
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791485013
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beverwijck written by Janny Venema and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2004 Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Research Using the Holdings of the New York State Archives presented by the Board of Regents and the New State York Archives Beverwijck explores the rich history and Dutch heritage of one of North America's oldest cities—Albany, New York. Drawing on documents translated from the colonial Dutch as well as maps, architectural drawings, and English-language sources, Janny Venema paints a lively picture of everyday life in colonial America. In 1652, Petrus Stuyvesant, director general of New Netherland, established a court at Fort Orange, on the west side of New York State's upper Hudson River. The area within three thousand feet of the fort became the village of Beverwijck. From the time of its establishment until 1664, when the English conquered New Netherland and changed the name of the settlement to Albany, Beverwijck underwent rapid development as newly wealthy traders, craftsmen, and other workers built houses, roads, bridges, and a school, as well as a number of inns. A well-organized system of poor relief also helped less wealthy settlers survive in the harsh colonial conditions. Venema's careful research shows that although Beverwijck resembled villages in the Dutch Republic in many ways, it quickly took on features of the new, "American" society that was already coming into being.

Author : Susan M. Goltsman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontier Village PLAE Score written by Susan M. Goltsman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Dwight Chidsey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Frontier Village written by Andrew Dwight Chidsey and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick George Bailey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caste and the Economic Frontier written by Frederick George Bailey and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Alton Turnbo
Publisher : Robertson Plantation LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780971743915
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salado, Texas written by Charles Alton Turnbo and published by Robertson Plantation LLC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoroughly researched book about Salado, Texas. Charlie Turnbo researched and interviewed countless books and people to tell the history of Salado.

Author : Jennifer Renee ST.Pierre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692347430
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontier Town Abandoned Theme Park Then and Now written by Jennifer Renee ST.Pierre and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontier Town Abandoned Theme Park Then and Now is a coffee table style book that documents the conception, life, and closing of the beloved Adirondack Mountain's historically based theme park called "Frontier Town." With America being romanced by Western movies on the big screen and television, the country was ready for a western themed amusement park. Arthur Bensen, Edward Ovensen and Magnus Anderson, three Long Island Norwegian-American friends came together to open America's first western themed amusement park located in North Hudson, NY yet it was set to the traditions of the 1800's old west while offering local trade crafts and wares. The first year it drew over 40,000 visitors with little advertising. Over the next 45 years the park continued to host millions of visitors, and averaged over 300 employees and volunteers per season. The park included a collection of genuine log buildings which formed a traditional frontier town, a professional rodeo arena, a historical industrial section that included a grist mill, saw mill, forge, and ice house. It also included a traditional Native American village, animals, stage coach rides, and a fort with a full cavalry. This book documents the history of Frontier Town through professional photography as well as visitor's snapshots that are combined with historical storytelling that give the reader a feel of what Frontier Town was all about! Tammy Whitty-Brown's gift of gab and historical connections combined with her storytelling abilities and Jennifer Renee ST.Pierre's equestrian background and photography are showcased with their love of Adirondack history