Settlers Of The American West

Author : Dee Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147110933X
Total Pages : 815 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American West written by Dee Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the railroads opened up the American West to settlers in the last half of the 19th Century, the Plains Indians made their final stand and cattle ranches spread from Texas to Montana. Eminent Western author Dee Brown here illuminates the struggle between these three groups as they fought for a place in this new landscape. The result is both a spirited national saga and an authoritative historical account of the drive for order in an uncharted wilderness, illustrated throughout with maps, photographs and ephemera from the period.

Author : Page Stegner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winning the Wild West written by Page Stegner and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of the American frontier from 1800 to 1899, discussing how the expansion into the lands west of the Mississippi influenced the nation's formation.

Author : Dean L. May
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521585750
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Frontiers written by Dean L. May and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-28 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies how, in the Far West, Americans moved from communal values to individualistic and exploitative ones.

Author : Christine Hatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780237518677
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American West written by Christine Hatt and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using excerpts from diaries, and letters to songs, speeches and legal documents for the study of Indians, pioneers and settlers this book is intended to serve as a resource for the learning of interpretive and investigative historical skills. It is also suitable for the Scottish Curriculum P7-S4.

Author : Winifred Gallagher
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735223270
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Women in the Old West written by Winifred Gallagher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting and previously untold history of the American West, as seen by the pioneering women who advocated for their rights amidst challenges of migration and settlement, and transformed the country in the process Between 1840 and 1910, hundreds of thousands of men and women traveled deep into the underdeveloped American West, lured by adventure, opportunity, and the spirit of Manifest Destiny. These settlers soon realized that survival in a new society required women to compromise eastern sensibilities and take on some of their husbands’ responsibilities. At a time when women had very few legal or economic--much less political--rights, these women soon proved just as essential as men to westward expansion. During the mid-nineteenth century, the traditional domestic model of womanhood shifted to include public service, with the women of the West becoming town mothers who established schools, churches, and philanthropies, while also coproviding for their families. They claimed their own homesteads and graduated from new, free coeducational colleges that provided career alternatives to marriage. In 1869, the men of the Wyoming Territory gave women the right to vote--partly to persuade more of them to move west--but with this victory in hand, western suffragists fought relentlessly until the rest of the region followed suit. By 1914 western women became the first American women to vote--a right still denied to women in every eastern state. In New Women in the Old West, Winifred Gallagher brings to life the riveting history of the little-known women--the White, Black, and Asian settlers, and the Native Americans and Hispanics they displaced--who played monumental roles in one of America's most transformative periods. Drawing on an extraordinary collection of research, Gallagher weaves together the striking legacy of the persistent individuals who not only created homes on weather-wracked prairies, but also played a vital, unrecognized role in the women's rights movement and forever redefined the "American woman."

Author : Bobbie Kalman
Publisher : New York ; Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9780778700753
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Settled the West? written by Bobbie Kalman and published by New York ; Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1800s, people in many countries were poor, starving, persecuted, or without land. The unsettled North American west offered the opportunity for a new life. Who Settled the West? looks at the people who made the west their new home as well as the people who already lived there.

Author : David G. McCullough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781982131661
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pioneers written by David G. McCullough and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler's son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent figure in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as trees of a size never imagined, floods, fires, wolves, bears, even an earthquake, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough's subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments."--Dust jacket.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
ISBN 13 : 1454954582
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book O Pioneers! written by Willa Cather and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Bergson family leave their home in Sweden to travel to the United States in search of a better life, they, like many immigrants, are awed by the beautiful harshness of their new life in Nebraska. When their father, John Bergson, grows sick and dies, he leaves the farm in the hands of his eldest daughter Alexandra Bergson. Resourceful and determined, Alexandra devotes her life to her family's farm, determined to prosper even as her neighbors are overwhelmed by the unremitting demands of pioneer life. But when she falls in love with her childhood friend, Carl Linstrum, Alexandra must choose between her duty to the land, and to her heart. A spirited celebration of the immigrants who have shaped the United States, O Pioneers! is a masterpiece by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

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Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Settling the West written by and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the period of westward expansion from 1860 to 1900 including the search for gold via the Oregon Trail, outlaws and lawmen, the Chisholm Trail, and a railroad that would span the country.

Author : Margaret Killingray
Publisher : B T Batsford Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780713458398
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Settlers in the American West written by Margaret Killingray and published by B T Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1988 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the westward migration of immigrants to the United States, the settlement of the prairies and woodlands, and the displacement of Native Americans in the process.