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Author : Martin Ferdinand Schmitt
Publisher : New York : Scribner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Settlers' West written by Martin Ferdinand Schmitt and published by New York : Scribner. This book was released on 1955 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786497351
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Settlers of the American West written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depictions of the American west in literature, art and film perpetuate romantic stereotypes of the pioneers--the gold-crazed '49er, the intrepid sodbuster. While ennobling the woodsman, the farmwife and the lawman, this tunnel vision of American history has shortchanged the whaler, the assayer, the innkeeper and the inventor. The westward advance of the trailblazers created demand for a gamut of unsung adventurers--surveyors, financiers, politicians, surgeons, entertainers, grocers and midwives--who built communities and businesses in the wilderness amid clashes with Indians, epidemics, floods, droughts and outlawry. Chronicling the worthy deeds, ethnicities, languages and lifestyles of ordinary people who survived a stirring period in American history, this book provides biographical information for hundreds of individual pioneers on the North American frontier, from the Mississippi River Valley as far west as Alaska. Appendices list pioneers by state or country of departure, destination, ethnicity, religion and occupation. A chronology of pioneer achievements places them in perspective.
Author : Martin Ferdinand Schmitt
Publisher : New York : Scribner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Settlers' West written by Martin Ferdinand Schmitt and published by New York : Scribner. This book was released on 1955 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Ferdinand Schmitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Settlers West written by Martin Ferdinand Schmitt and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David G. McCullough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781982131661
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
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 : Winifred Gallagher
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735223270
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
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 : Vilhelm Moberg
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873513210
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Settlers written by Vilhelm Moberg and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in Moberg's classic Emigrant Novels series.
Author : Wills De Hass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia written by Wills De Hass and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dee Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147110933X
Total Pages : 815 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
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 : Wes Seeliger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780915321001
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book Western Theology written by Wes Seeliger and published by . This book was released on 1985-08 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
