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Author : Randolph Barnes Marcy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Prairie Traveler written by Randolph Barnes Marcy and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Randolph Barnes Marcy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8N/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Prairie Traveler written by Randolph Barnes Marcy and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was the indispensable handbook for American pioneers traveling west in the mid 19th century. Commissioned and published by the U.S. government and written in a straightforward and helpful voice by U.S. Army officer Randolph Barnes Marcy (1812-1887), it offers all the useful and necessary advice overland travelers to the far West needed to ensure a safe journey: . the different routes to California and Oregon . how to pack a wagon for the journey . finding and purifying water . repairing broken wagons . weathering storms . how to handle saddle wounds . the best way to make a fire on the prairie . interacting with Indians . hints on the best methods of hunting . and much more. Complete with all the original maps and illustrations, this replica edition is a remarkable artifact of one of the most exciting and dangerous eras in American history.
Author : Randolph Barnes Marcy
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Prairie Traveller, a Hand-book for Overland Expeditions written by Randolph Barnes Marcy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was published at the time of the great western trek across America of the early pioneers. It was essentially the only real handbook available to help those people to deal with the problems they encountered on their travels, besides also giving them maps.
Author : Randolph Barnes Marcy
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions written by Randolph Barnes Marcy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Prairie Traveler' is a travel guidebook to the western trails, written by Randolph Barnes Marcy. He was an officer in the United States Army. This book became a key handbook for the thousands of Americans wanting to cross the continent. It was written based on his own extensive experience of "more than thirty years of service in the United States Army, a large portion of the time on the frontiers" and in the mountains, deserts, and prairies, the book provided authoritative advice about reconnaissance, fieldcraft, provisions, and healthcare, that would save many lives on these perilous routes. It covered key topics like hunting and tracking, food and water supply, as well as specialist advice about the selection of horses, the avoiding of quicksands, the interpreting of smoke signals and sign language, and numerous other issues. 'The Prairie Traveler' was one of the best-selling books in the U.S. in the 19th century.
Author : Randolph B. Marcy
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 9781628736663
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Prairie Traveler written by Randolph B. Marcy and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and finest handbook for travelers of the Old American West. First published in 1859, The Prairie Traveler was the indispensable book for looking to follow the American dream, pull up stakes, head into the wilderness of the frontier, and build a new life out West. With the official blessing of the US War Department, Randolph Marcy, a captain in the US Army, published The Prairie Traveler as the ultimate guide for these pioneers, covering everything from the best way to move wagons over hostile terrain and what to pack, to describing over thirty-four different trails to be taken and the dangers one may face on the way. Captain Marcy also passes on the knowledge he gained from local Indian tribes, from how to cook and wage war to their subtle tribal differences and customs. The Prairie Traveler stands as an important piece of early American literature, and as a fascinating presentation of the now-lost Wild West: its perils, its rewards, and ultimately, the achievements of those who worked hard to survive. Captain Marcy’s guide remains the essential guide for those who wish to discover the trials and tribulations of the early pioneers of America, and it is an indispensable addition to any historical collection. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : Emmanuel Altham
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1557094632
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book Three Visitors to Early Plymouth written by Emmanuel Altham and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters from three visitors to the Plymouth Settlement from England, Virginia, and New Amsterdam. Each wrote letters home about what he saw, observing the people, the natural setting, and the community. A fascinating objective view of colonial Plymouth.
Author : Douglas Bauer
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781587296819
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prairie City, Iowa written by Douglas Bauer and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weary from the journalistic treadmill of "going from one assignment to the next, like an itinerant fieldworker moving to his harvests" and healing from a divorce, Douglas Bauer decided it was time to return to his hometown. Back in Prairie City, he helped on his father's farm, scooped grains at the Co-op, and tended bar at the Cardinal. The resultant memoir is a classic picture of an adult experiencing one's childhood roots as a grown-up and testing whether one can ever truly go home again. Bauer grew up "awkward with soil and with machines" in a small town east of Des Moines, As a teenager, he left the farm for college life twenty miles away and, after graduation, took a job with Better Homes and Gardens in Des Moines, writing in the junk-mail fictional persona of "Barbara Joyce,"asking millions of people to subscribe. After a few years he moved to Chicago to work as an editor and writer for Playboy and eventually as a freelance journalist. In the summer of 1975, he returned home to attend his grandmother's funeral and by autumn he moved back to Prairie City, where he stayed for the next three seasons. Bauer's book is neither a wistful nostalgia about returning to a simpler time and place nor a patronizing look at those who never leave the town in which they were born. What emerges is an unsentimental yet loving account of life in the Midwest. Not just a portrait of Prairie City, Iowa, but of everyone's small town, everywhere.
Author : Randolph Barnes Marcy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Prairie Traveler ; a Hand-book for Overland Expeditions written by Randolph Barnes Marcy and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Randolph B. Marcy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752435712
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Prairie Traveler written by Randolph B. Marcy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Prairie Traveler by Randolph B. Marcy
Author : Randolph Barnes Marcy
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Prairie Traveler written by Randolph Barnes Marcy and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1863 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
