Volunteer Forty Niners

Author : Walter T. Durham
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826512987
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Volunteer Forty-niners written by Walter T. Durham and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Volunteer Forty-Niners, Walter T. Durham provides the first comprehensive examination of the role Tennessee and Tennesseans played in creating a new state and a new society on the West Coast. Drawing from such archival sources as personal narratives in letters and diaries, public records, and newspaper reports, Durham has woven a wealth of information into his recounting of their adventures.

Author : Shirley Ann Wilson Moore
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806156864
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweet Freedom's Plains written by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The westward migration of nearly half a million Americans in the mid-nineteenth century looms large in U.S. history. Classic images of rugged Euro-Americans traversing the plains in their prairie schooners still stir the popular imagination. But this traditional narrative, no matter how alluring, falls short of the actual—and far more complex—reality of the overland trails. Among the diverse peoples who converged on the western frontier were African American pioneers—men, women, and children. Whether enslaved or free, they too were involved in this transformative movement. Sweet Freedom’s Plains is a powerful retelling of the migration story from their perspective. Tracing the journeys of black overlanders who traveled the Mormon, California, Oregon, and other trails, Shirley Ann Wilson Moore describes in vivid detail what they left behind, what they encountered along the way, and what they expected to find in their new, western homes. She argues that African Americans understood advancement and prosperity in ways unique to their situation as an enslaved and racially persecuted people, even as they shared many of the same hopes and dreams held by their white contemporaries. For African Americans, the journey westward marked the beginning of liberation and transformation. At the same time, black emigrants’ aspirations often came into sharp conflict with real-world conditions in the West. Although many scholars have focused on African Americans who settled in the urban West, their early trailblazing voyages into the Oregon Country, Utah Territory, New Mexico Territory, and California deserve greater attention. Having combed censuses, maps, government documents, and white overlanders’ diaries, along with the few accounts written by black overlanders or passed down orally to their living descendants, Moore gives voice to the countless, mostly anonymous black men and women who trekked the plains and mountains. Sweet Freedom’s Plains places African American overlanders where they belong—at the center of the western migration narrative. Their experiences and perspectives enhance our understanding of this formative period in American history.

Author : Dennis W. Belcher
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786486228
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 11th Missouri Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War written by Dennis W. Belcher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 11th Missouri Infantry distinguished itself as just the type of regiment the Union needed in the Civil War. Hard as nails and loyal to a fault, the men of the "Eagle Brigade" would follow their commanders "into hell if they ordered." They battled two Confederate regiments at Iuka, turned the tide at Battery Robinett at Corinth, assaulted the impossible Stockade Redan at Vicksburg as whole ranks of soldiers were cut down, and broke Hood's line at Nashville. Although the 11th Missouri ranks among the 300 top regiments of the Civil War, little of its history has been formally recorded. This study provides a detailed account of the regiment's four-and-a-half years of outstanding service and a roster.

Author : Henry T. Johns
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752591099
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life with the Forty-Ninth Massachusetts Volunteers written by Henry T. Johns and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1864.

Author : Larry Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 161673244X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Confederate General written by Larry Gordon and published by . This book was released on with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francis D. Clark
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385402867
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Regiment of New York Volunteers written by Francis D. Clark and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author : Darren L. Ivey
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574417010
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ranger Ideal Volume 1 written by Darren L. Ivey and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in Waco in 1968, the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum honors the iconic Texas Rangers, a service which has existed, in one form or another, since 1823. They have become legendary symbols of Texas and the American West. Thirty-one Rangers, with lives spanning more than two centuries, have been enshrined in the Hall of Fame. In The Ranger Ideal Volume 1: Texas Rangers in the Hall of Fame, 1823-1861, Darren L. Ivey presents capsule biographies of the seven inductees who served Texas before the Civil War. He begins with Stephen F. Austin, “the Father of Texas,” who laid the foundations of the Ranger service, and then covers John C. Hays, Ben McCulloch, Samuel H. Walker, William A. A. “Bigfoot” Wallace, John S. Ford, and Lawrence Sul Ross. Using primary records and reliable secondary sources, and rejecting apocryphal tales, The Ranger Ideal presents the true stories of these intrepid men who fought to tame a land with gallantry, grit, and guns. This Volume 1 is the first of a planned three-volume series covering all of the Texas Rangers inducted in the Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas.

Author : FREDERICK DAVID. BIDWELL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033325230
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book HISTORY OF THE FORTY-NINTH NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS written by FREDERICK DAVID. BIDWELL and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. S. Holliday
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520214021
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rush for Riches written by J. S. Holliday and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the California Gold Rush from 1849 through 1884 when a court decision forced the shut down of the hydraulic mining operations, bringing decades of careless freedom to an end.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Human Resources
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearing on the Reauthorization of the Older American Volunteers Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: