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Author : Dean Knudsen
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Painting
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Dean Knudsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Oregon National Historic Trail
ISBN : MINN:31951D01915661H
Author : Tim McNeese
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781493064748
William Henry Jackson was an explorer, photographer, and artist. He is also one of those most often overlooked figures of the American West. His larger claim to fame involves his repeated forays into the western lands of nineteenth-century America as a photographer. Jackson’s life spanned multiple incarnations of the American West. In a sense, he played a singular role in revealing the West to eastern Americans. While others opened the frontier with the axe and the rifle, Jackson did so with his collection of cameras. He dispelled the geological myths through a lens no one could deny or match. His wet plate collodion prints not only helped to reframe the nation’s image of the West, but they also enticed businessmen, investors, scientists, and even tourists to venture into the western regions of the United States. Prior to Jackson’s widely circulated photographs, the American West was little understood and unmapped—mysterious lands that required a camera and a cameraman to reveal their secrets and, ultimately, provide the first photographic record of such exotic destinations as Yellowstone, Mesa Verde, and the Rocky Mountains. Jackson’s story was long and his life full, as he lived to the enviable age of 99. This biography presents the good, bad, and ugly of Jackson’s life, both personal and professional, through the use primary source materials, including Jackson’s autobiographies, letters, and government reports on the Hayden Surveys.
Author : Dean Knudsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0756737168
The Oregon Trail Museum is located at Scotts Bluff National Monument in Gering, NE. The monument consists of 3,000 acres of prairie and scenic sandstone bluffs, and is dedicated to preserving the legacy of America1s westward movement. This book includes color reproductions of paintings by William Henry Jackson in the museum1s collection. Jackson was a Union soldier in the Civil War, bullwhacker on the Oregon Trial, explorer, photographer and artist for the famous Hayden Surveys of the Territories in the 1870s, author, publisher, world traveler, and businessman. After retiring in 1920, he spent over 20 years in the scenes of his young manhood in the West, sketching, photographing, writing, identifying historic sites, writing and illustrating books, and more.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Government information
ISBN : PURD:32754075461347
Author : David Dary
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307429117
A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West. Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the whole sweeping story of those who came to explore, to exploit, and, finally, to settle there. Using diaries, journals, company and expedition reports, and newspaper accounts, David Dary takes us inside the experience of the continuing waves of people who traveled the Oregon Trail or took its cutoffs to Utah, Nevada, Montana, Idaho, and California. He introduces us to the fur traders who set up the first “forts” as centers to ply their trade; the missionaries bent on converting the Indians to Christianity; the mountain men and voyageurs who settled down at last in the fertile Willamette Valley; the farmers and their families propelled west by economic bad times in the East; and, of course, the gold-seekers, Pony Express riders, journalists, artists, and entrepreneurs who all added their unique presence to the land they traversed. We meet well-known figures–John Jacob Astor, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, John Frémont, the Donners, and Red Cloud, among others–as well as dozens of little-known men, women, and children who jotted down what they were seeing and feeling in journals, letters, or perhaps even on a rock or a gravestone. Throughout, Dary keeps us informed of developments in the East and their influence on events in the West, among them the building of the transcontinental railroad and the efforts of the far western settlements to become U.S. territories and eventually states. Above all, The Oregon Trail offers a panoramic look at the romance, colorful stories, hardships, and joys of the pioneers who made up this tremendous and historic migration.
Author : Rinker Buck
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451659184
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • #1 Indie Next Pick • Winner of the PEN New England Award “Enchanting…A book filled with so much love…Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon.” —The Wall Street Journal “Amazing…A real nonfiction thriller.” —Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books “Absorbing…Winning…The many layers in The Oregon Trail are linked by Mr. Buck’s voice, which is alert and unpretentious in a manner that put me in mind of Bill Bryson’s comic tone in A Walk in the Woods.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times A major bestseller that has been hailed as a “quintessential American story” (Christian Science Monitor), Rinker Buck’s The Oregon Trail is an epic account of traveling the 2,000-mile length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way—in a covered wagon with a team of mules—that has captivated readers, critics, and booksellers from coast to coast. Simultaneously a majestic journey across the West, a significant work of history, and a moving personal saga, Buck’s chronicle is a “laugh-out-loud masterpiece” (Willamette Week) that “so ensnares the emotions it becomes a tear-jerker at its close” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) and “will leave you daydreaming and hungry to see this land” (The Boston Globe).
Author : Michael L. Tate
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806166995
Between 1841 and 1866, more than a half-million people followed trails to Oregon, California, and Utah in one of the largest mass migrations in American history. The Great Medicine Road, Part 4 collects the letters, diaries, and reminiscences of some of the emigrants who made this journey between 1856 and 1869, as a second generation of miners, farmers, town builders, and religious believers turned their adventurous eyes westward in search of new beginnings. Here, in their own words, are the experiences of young men hoping to make their fortunes in mining operations that had sprung up as the gold rush wore down, in California but also now in the silver mines of Nevada’s Comstock Lode and the recently discovered gold mines of Colorado’s Denver and Pike’s Peak regions. Here also are families and farmers looking for land in the fertile Willamette Valley of Oregon, or joining the Mormon community in Utah. And here are the stories of intrepid sojourners traveling with—or without—military escorts as the Civil War, conflicts with Indians, and the Mormon stand against the U.S. government altered the circumstances of westward traffic. These documents, with an introduction and editorial notes written by historian Michael L. Tate to provide context and commentary, comprise the fourth and final installment in a documentary history of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails. They give a living voice to the history of the American experience at a time of westward expansion and profound, unprecedented change.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Children
ISBN : UOM:39015082959753
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UCR:31210024881672
Big Bend This compact handbook, which is a part of the official National Park Handbook series is divided into 3 sections. Part 1 provides a brief introduction and history of Big Bend Big Bend National Park, including such major attractions a the Rio Grande River, the Chihuahuan Desert, and the Chisos Mountains; part 2 concentrates on the area's natural beauty and history; and part 3 presents an authoritative travel guide and reference materials.
Author : William Henry Jackson,Clarence S. Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : West (U.S.)
ISBN : OCLC:27040226
Author : William Henry Jackson,Howard Roscoe Driggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015063265899
A delightfully accessible trail-guide approach to the traditional uses of wild plants in the Pueblo world.
Author : Beaumont Newhall,Diana Edkins
Publisher : Morgan & Morgan, Incorporated
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015016803069
Author : Glenn Brown
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : MINN:31951D02399807H
Plastics, discusses plastic as a material, the different manufacturing and processing techniques, historical uses, current uses, an explanation of the harmful effects on the environment, and how to reuse and recycle plastics. Additionally, this title features a table of contents, glossary, index, color photographs, diagrams, recycling sidebars, statistics, and recommended websites for further exploration.
Author : Westerners. Wyoming Posse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : WISC:89072995566