The Swiss Emigration To The Red River Settlement In 1821 And Its Subsequent Exodus To The United States

Author : Antoine de Courten
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490716440
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Swiss Emigration to the Red River Settlement in 1821 and its Subsequent Exodus to the United States written by Antoine de Courten and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything went wrong. Having crossed the Atlantic for about 3 months and getting stuck in the ice of Hudson's Strait for another three weeks, the band of Swiss emigrants had to row with great hardship up the Hayes River over some 6o portages, and cross Lake Winnipeg in its full length. Arriving starved, exhausted, and deprived of their belongings at the Red River Settlement just before the snows, they were told that nothing had been prepared for them. Lodging and food was there none due to a plague of grasshoppers and floods that had destroyed the harvests of the previous four years. The so-called Promised Land was bare of any prospect. Thoroughly embittered and disgusted, one family after the other headed south between 1821 and 1826, some alone, others in groups, hoping to reach present day Minnesota as their first refuge. But to get there they had to cross over some 350 miles of prairie, a veritable desert of uncharted trails and water holes, peopled by roving Sioux looking out for victims to scalp. How did they survive? That's what the reader will find out by reading this dramatic document, which is illustrated by Peter Rindisbacher, the young artist who participated in this extraordinary venture.

Author : ANTOINE de COURTEN
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490716432
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Swiss Emigration to the Red River Settlement in 1821 and Its Subsequent Exodus to the United States written by ANTOINE de COURTEN and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything went wrong. Having crossed the Atlantic for about 3 months and getting stuck in the ice of Hudsons Strait for another three weeks, the band of Swiss emigrants had to row with great hardship up the Hayes River over some 6o portages, and cross Lake Winnipeg in its full length. Arriving starved, exhausted, and deprived of their belongings at the Red River Settlement just before the snows, they were told that nothing had been prepared for them. Lodging and food was there none due to a plague of grasshoppers and floods that had destroyed the harvests of the previous four years. The so-called Promised Land was bare of any prospect. Thoroughly embittered and disgusted, one family after the other headed south between 1821 and 1826, some alone, others in groups, hoping to reach present day Minnesota as their first refuge. But to get there they had to cross over some 350 miles of prairie, a veritable desert of uncharted trails and water holes, peopled by roving Sioux looking out for victims to scalp. How did they survive? Thats what the reader will find out by reading this dramatic document, which is illustrated by Peter Rindisbacher, the young artist who participated in this extraordinary venture.

Author : Arni Brownstone
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806194278
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indigenous War Painting of the Plains written by Arni Brownstone and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains practiced an archival art—narrating war exploits in large-scale paintings executed on animal hide robes, shirts, tipi covers, and tipi liners. Essentially autobiographical, the paintings were worn and lived in by the men whose war exploits they portrayed, and were made to be “read” by the public at large. Executed in a pictorial narrative style and documenting actual events, these paintings blend visual art and history. Indigenous War Painting of the Plains is the first comprehensive look at this important North American art form, covering the full corpus of war paintings from fourteen tribes across the plains. Two impediments have previously made such a book impractical: photography alone falls short of rendering war paintings for the printed page, and only about half of the surviving works have reliable documentation on their cultural origins. Arni Brownstone surmounts these difficulties by producing precise electronic redrawings and by using well-documented paintings to inform poorly documented examples, bolstered by a careful examination of collection histories. Featuring some 300 photographs and electronic redrawings, the book focuses on 83 paintings organized into four chapters covering the paintings of tribes associated with a specific geographical sphere of artistic influence. Four appendixes feature paintings combined with “translations” by Indigenous collaborators who had intimate knowledge of the depicted events. Offering vivid access to the key works of war painting preserved in 37 museums throughout North America and Europe, Indigenous War Painting of the Plains illuminates distinctions between painting styles of different tribes, reveals how they influenced one another and changed over time, and conveys a deep understanding of how war painting developed in relation to profound social changes in Plains Indian cultures.

Author : Alexander ROSS (of the “Pacific Fur Company.”.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red River Settlement; Its Rise, Progress, and Present State. With Some Account of the Native Races and Its General History written by Alexander ROSS (of the “Pacific Fur Company.”.) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Ross
Publisher : London, Smith
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red River Settlement: its rise, progress, and present state written by Alexander Ross and published by London, Smith. This book was released on 1856 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albert Bernhardt Faust
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies written by Albert Bernhardt Faust and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the authoritative work on Swiss emigration to the Carolinas and Pennsylvania in the 18th century. Volume I identifies approximately 2,000 emigrants from the Canton of Zurich during the period 1734-1744, most references comprising such useful data as age, date of birth or baptism, trade, name of wife, names of children, and place of origin and destination. Volume II extends the scope of investigation to Bern (1706-1795) and Basel (1734-1794) and surpasses Volume I in the quantity and variety of assembled data.

Author : Frances Helen Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781490594606
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Swiss Colony at Gruetli written by Frances Helen Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1869 to the early years of the 20th century, over fifty families of Swiss immigrants came to Grundy County, Tennessee with the express purpose of creating a Swiss Colony, a community composed almost entirely of German-speaking Swiss that would preserve their culture in a new land. They gave to the area the inspiring name of Gruetli, the meadow where legend says representatives of three cantons met in 1291 and formed the league which grew, over centuries, into the Swiss confederation. The settlers came for economic reasons, not as political or religious fugitives. They came with high hopes, definite support of their home government, and fervent loyalty to their native land. This book tells their story.They were good record keepers, and we have detailed notes on their meetings, their agricultural endeavors, and church issues. All of these, as well as directly gathered oral history have gone into this volume. Originally written in 1933, it has been expanded in the present edition by newly collected family memories, letters recently found and a more systematic use of county records of land transactions.Although the first winter was dreadfully hard, the Swiss farmers were soon on their feet and boasting of yields on thin mountain soil well in excess of state averages. They understood well the key to their success: a combination of dairying and crop raising with manuring. Today, most physical evidence of the Colony has vanished. Only a few houses, a cemetery and a stone bridge built with community labor in the early days of the Colony survive. In some sense, the demise of the Colony was the result of its success. The colonists educated their children well, and after finishing college, most of those children chose careers that took them away from the farm and into mainstream America. The Colony thus met its economic objectives even as it physically disappeared. The children who had grown up in the Colony carried with them a deep gratitude for their upbringing and their Swiss heritage. This gratitude has been passed onto the younger generations who today form the Grundy County Swiss Historical Society and keep alive and enjoy the memory and traditions of the Colony.

Author : Alexander Ross (Fur Trader.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red River Settlement; Its Rise, Progress, and Present State ... written by Alexander Ross (Fur Trader.) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
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Download or read book The Red River Settlement written by Alexander Ross and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Princeton University. Office of Population Research
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 870 pages
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Download or read book Population Index Bibliography, Cumulated 1935-1968 by Authors and Geographical Areas written by Princeton University. Office of Population Research and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: