Rebels In The Rockies

Author : Walter Earl Pittman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476614380

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Rebels in the Rockies by Walter Earl Pittman Pdf

The Civil War in 1861 found Southerners a minority throughout the West. Early efforts to create military forces were quickly suppressed. Many returned to the South to fight while others remained where they were, forming a potentially disloyal population. Underground movements existed throughout the war in Colorado, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and even Idaho. Repeatedly betrayed and overwhelmed by Union forces and without communications with the South, these groups were ineffective. In southern New Mexico, Southerners, who were the majority, aligned themselves with the Confederacy. Four small companies of irregulars, one Hispanic, fought (effectively) as part of the abortive Confederate invasion force of 1861-2. The most famous of these, the "Brigands," were close in function to a modern special forces unit. In 1862 the Brigands were sent into Colorado to join up with a secret army of 600-1,000 men massing there, but were betrayed. Returning to Texas, the Brigands and the other irregulars were used for special operations in the West throughout the War; they also fought in the Louisiana-Arkansas campaigns of 1863-4.

Author : Walter Earl Pittman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786478200

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Rebels in the Rockies by Walter Earl Pittman Pdf

The Civil War in 1861 found Southerners a minority throughout the West. Early efforts to create military forces were quickly suppressed. Many returned to the South to fight while others remained where they were, forming a potentially disloyal population. Underground movements existed throughout the war in Colorado, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and even Idaho. Repeatedly betrayed and overwhelmed by Union forces and without communications with the South, these groups were ineffective. In southern New Mexico, Southerners, who were the majority, aligned themselves with the Confederacy. Four small companies of irregulars, one Hispanic, fought (effectively) as part of the abortive Confederate invasion force of 1861-2. The most famous of these, the "Brigands," were close in function to a modern special forces unit. In 1862 the Brigands were sent into Colorado to join up with a secret army of 600-1,000 men massing there, but were betrayed. Returning to Texas, the Brigands and the other irregulars were used for special operations in the West throughout the War; they also fought in the Louisiana-Arkansas campaigns of 1863-4.

Author : Robert G. Athearn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:473971962

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Rebel of the Rockies by Robert G. Athearn Pdf

Author : Neil P. Chatelain
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476693811

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Treasure and Empire in the Civil War by Neil P. Chatelain Pdf

Across North America's periphery, unknown and overlooked Civil War campaigns were waged over whether the United States or Confederacy would dominate lands, mines, and seaborne transportation networks of North America's mineral wealth. The U.S. needed this wealth to stabilize their wartime economy while the Confederacy sought to expand their own treasury. Confederate armies advanced to seize the West and its gold and silver reserves, while warships steamed to intercept Panama route ships transporting bullion from California to Panama to New York. United States forces responded by expelling Confederate incursions and solidified territorial control by combating Indigenous populations and enacting laws encouraging frontier settlement. The U.S. Navy patrolled key ports, convoyed treasure ships, and integrated continent-wide intelligence networks in the ultimate game of cat and mouse. This book examines the campaigns to control North America's mineral wealth, linking the Civil War's military, naval, political, diplomatic and economic elements. Included are the hemispheric land and sea adventures involving tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, admiral and explorer Charles Wilkes, renowned sea captain Raphael Semmes, General Henry Sibley, cowboy and mountain man Kit Carson, Indigenous leaders Mangas Coloradas and Geronimo, writer and miner Mark Twain, and Mormon leader Brigham Young.

Author : Gene C. Armistead,Robert D. Arconti
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476674612

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"An Arch Rebel Like Myself" by Gene C. Armistead,Robert D. Arconti Pdf

Dan Showalter was Speaker Pro Tem of the California State Assembly at the outbreak of the Civil War and the exemplar of treason in the Far West among the pro-Union press. He gained notoriety as the survivor of California's last political (and actual, fatal) duel, for his role in the display of a Confederate flag in Sacramento, and for his imprisonment after an armed confrontation with Union troops. Escaping to Texas, he distinguished himself in the Confederate service in naval battles and in pursuit of Comanche raiders. As commander of the 4th Arizona Cavalry, he helped recapture the Rio Grande Valley from the Union and defended Brownsville against a combined Union and Mexican force. Refusing to surrender at war's end, he fled to Mexico, where he died of a wound sustained in a drunken bar fight at age 35.

Author : Christopher M. Rein
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806166681

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The Second Colorado Cavalry by Christopher M. Rein Pdf

During the Civil War, the Second Colorado Volunteer Regiment played a vital and often decisive role in the fight for the Union on the Great Plains—and in the westward expansion of the American empire. Christopher M. Rein’s The Second Colorado Cavalry is the first in-depth history of this regiment operating at the nexus of the Civil War and the settlement of the American West. Composed largely of footloose ’59ers who raced west to participate in the gold rush in Colorado, the troopers of the Second Colorado repelled Confederate invasions in New Mexico and Indian Territory before wading into the Burned District along the Kansas border, the bloodiest region of the guerilla war in Missouri. In 1865, the regiment moved back out onto the plains, applying what it had learned to peacekeeping operations along the Santa Fe Trail, thus definitively linking the Civil War and the military conquest of the American West in a single act of continental expansion. Emphasizing the cavalry units, whose mobility proved critical in suppressing both Confederate bushwhackers and Indian raiders, Rein tells the neglected tale of the “fire brigade” of the Trans-Mississippi Theater—a group of men, and a few women, who enabled the most significant environmental shift in the Great Plains’ history: the displacement of Native Americans by Euro-American settlers, the swapping of bison herds for fenced cattle ranges, and the substitution of iron horses for those of flesh and bone. The Second Colorado Cavalry offers us a much-needed history of the “guerilla hunters” who helped suppress violence and keep the peace in contested border regions; it adds nuance and complexity to our understanding of the unlikely “agents of empire” who successfully transformed the Central Plains.

Author : James Bailey Blackshear,Glen Sample Ely
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806177274

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Confederates and Comancheros by James Bailey Blackshear,Glen Sample Ely Pdf

A vast and desolate region, the Texas–New Mexico borderlands have long been an ideal setting for intrigue and illegal dealings—never more so than in the lawless early days of cattle trafficking and trade among the Plains tribes and Comancheros. This book takes us to the borderlands in the 1860s and 1870s for an in-depth look at Union-Confederate skullduggery amid the infamous Comanche-Comanchero trade in stolen Texas livestock. In 1862, the Confederates abandoned New Mexico Territory and Texas west of the Pecos River, fully expecting to return someday. Meanwhile, administered by Union troops under martial law, the region became a hotbed of Rebel exiles and spies, who gathered intelligence, disrupted federal supply lines, and plotted to retake the Southwest. Using a treasure trove of previously unexplored documents, authors James Bailey Blackshear and Glen Sample Ely trace the complicated network of relationships that drew both Texas cattlemen and Comancheros into these borderlands, revealing the urban elite who were heavily involved in both the legal and illegal transactions that fueled the region’s economy. Confederates and Comancheros deftly weaves a complex tale of Texan overreach and New Mexican resistance, explores cattle drives and cattle rustling, and details shady government contracts and bloody frontier justice. Peopled with Rebels and bluecoats, Comanches and Comancheros, Texas cattlemen and New Mexican merchants, opportunistic Indian agents and Anglo arms dealers, this book illustrates how central these contested borderlands were to the history of the American West.

Author : Michael Kazin,Rebecca Edwards,Adam Rothman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400839469

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The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History by Michael Kazin,Rebecca Edwards,Adam Rothman Pdf

An essential guide to U.S. politics, from the founding to today With 150 accessible articles written by more than 130 leading experts, this essential reference provides authoritative introductions to some of the most important and talked-about topics in American history and politics, from the founding to today. Abridged from the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History, this is the only single-volume encyclopedia that provides comprehensive coverage of both the traditional topics of U.S. political history and the broader forces that shape American politics--including economics, religion, social movements, race, class, and gender. Fully indexed and cross-referenced, each entry provides crucial context, expert analysis, informed perspectives, and suggestions for further reading. Contributors include Dean Baker, Lewis Gould, Alex Keyssar, James Kloppenberg, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Lisa McGirr, Jack Rakove, Nick Salvatore, Stephen Skowronek, Jeremi Suri, Julian Zelizer, and many more. Entries cover: Key political periods, from the founding to today Political institutions, major parties, and founding documents The broader forces that shape U.S. politics, from economics, religion, and social movements to race, class, and gender Ideas, philosophies, and movements The political history and influence of geographic regions

Author : Anna Marie Hager
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 0520030354

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The Pacific Historical Review by Anna Marie Hager Pdf

Author : William Perry Pendley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781621571810

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Sagebrush Rebel by William Perry Pendley Pdf

The fascinating story of how Ronald Reagan, self-proclaimed "sagebrush rebel," took his revolutionary energy policies to Washington and revitalized the American economy. Governor Reagan, with his unbridled faith in American ingenuity, creativity, and know-how and his confidence in the free-enterprise system, believed the United States would “transcend” the Soviet Union. To do so, however, President Reagan had to revive and revitalize an American economy reeling from a double-digit trifecta (unemployment, inflation, and interest rates), and he knew the economy could not grow without reliable sources of energy that America had in abundance. The environmental movement was in its ascendancy and had persuaded Congress to enact a series of well-intentioned laws that posed threats of great mischief in the hands of covetous bureaucrats, radical groups, and activist judges. A conservationist and an environmentalist, Ronald Reagan believed in being a good steward. More than anything else, however, he believed in people; specifically, for him, people were part of the ecology as well. That was where the split developed. William Perry Pendley, a former member of the Reagan administration and author of some of Reagan's most sensible energy and environmental policies, tells the gripping story of how Reagan fought the new wave of anti-human environmentalists and managed to enact laws that protected nature while promoting the prosperity and freedom of man—saving the American economy in the process.

Author : Karen Magill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1847285198

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Let Us Play by Karen Magill Pdf

In an uncertain time in the future, rock and roll music has been banned. Kaya More uses second sight to lead a group of rebels to bring it back. Their quest leads them from the streets of New York City to the peaks of the Canadian Rockies to the beaches of California. The pursuit heats up as combatants switch sides and the world joins forces as the rebels find adventure, music and love.

Author : Ross of Kilahara
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781890785031

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Magic in the Rockies by Ross of Kilahara Pdf

Author : Gabriel A. Lopez
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781438952529

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From Sugar to Diamonds by Gabriel A. Lopez Pdf

Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2258 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:49015003053999

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American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977: Title index by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography Pdf

Author : Insight Guides
Publisher : Apa Publications (UK) Limited
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781839053542

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Insight Guide to USA The Rockies (Travel Guide eBook) by Insight Guides Pdf

This Insight Guide is a lavishly illustrated inspirational travel guide to USA The Rockies and a beautiful souvenir of your trip. Perfect for travellers looking for a deeper dive into the destination's history and culture, it's ideal to inspire and help you plan your travels. With its great selection of places to see and colourful magazine-style layout, this USA The Rockies guidebook is just the tool you need to accompany you before or during your trip. Whether it's deciding when to go, choosing what to see or creating a travel plan to cover key places like Jackson, Taos, Bozeman, Vail, it will answer all the questions you might have along the way. It will also help guide you when you'll be exploring Denver or discovering Rocky Mountain National Parks on the ground. Our USA The Rockies travel guide was fully-updated post-COVID-19. The Insight Guide USA The Rockies covers: Denver and the Front Range, Rocky Mountain National Park, Central Colorado, Western Colorado, Northern Utah, Salt Lake City, Southern Wyoming, Jackson Hole and Grand Teton, Yellowstone National Park, Northern Wyoming, The Black Hills, Eastern Montana, Glacier National Park, Western Montana and Idaho. In this guide book to USA The Rockies you will find: IN-DEPTH CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL FEATURES Created to explore the culture and the history of the USA to get a greater understanding of its modern-day life, people and politics. BEST OF The top attractions and Editor's Choice featured in this USA The Rockies guide book highlighting the most special places to visit. TIPS AND FACTS Up-to-date historical timeline and in-depth cultural background to the USA as well as an introduction to the USA's food and drink and fun destination-specific features. PRACTICAL TRAVEL INFORMATION A-Z of useful advice on everything from when to go to the USA, how to get there and how to get around, as well as the USA's climate, advice on tipping, etiquette and more. COLOUR-CODED CHAPTERS Every part of the USA, from South Carolina to Seattle has its own colour assigned for easy navigation of this USA The Rockies travel guide. CURATED PLACES, HIGH-QUALITY MAPS Geographically organised text cross-referenced against full-colour, high-quality travel maps for quick orientation in Boston, Buffalo and many more locations in the USA. STRIKING PICTURES This guide book to USA The Rockies features inspirational colour photography, including the stunning Yellowstone National Park and the spectacular Niagara Falls.