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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : UOM:39076001876817
Recounts the settlement of the West from the first pioneers who crossed the Appalachians to the eventual disappearance of the frontier.
Author : Kenneth W. Rendell
Publisher : Whitman Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Americana
ISBN : 0794833594
The American Dream is fundamentally about hope -- the hope that a better life awaits your initiative, your cleverness, your hard work. It's about making your own future. In The Great American West, we see the American Dream as it used to be: in ancient maps and colorful broadside posters, in letters sent home by lonesome gold miners, in newspaper clippings about famous outlaws, in drawings and photographs and diaries from the frontier. Immersed in this unique collection of Western artifacts, we can answer the question: "Is the American Dream still alive today?" -- book jacket.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : OCLC:608891258
Recounts the settlement of the West from the first pioneers who crossed the Appalachians to the eventual disappearance of the frontier.
Author : Dee Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781471109331
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 : Terese Svoboda
Publisher : Mad Creek Books
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0814255205
Stories from prehistoric times to the future, about land, our abuse of the land, and the impact on the people who come after
Author : David E. Miller
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787204102
First published in 1962, David E. Miller’s award-winning work on the Hole-in-the-Rock episode was arguably his greatest achievement as a historian. One of the great set-pieces of Mormon history, the San Juan Mission had become clouded by myth and hagiography when Miller first became attracted to its study in the 1950s, and few reliable sources were at that time available. Not content with exhausting archival material, Miller contacted all locatable descendants of the members of the original party, and thereby brought to light a great number of previously unexploited sources. The Hole-in-the-Rock study achieved additional depth from his intimate knowledge of the actual trail acquired on repeated traverses by Jeep and on foot. A member of the LDS Church, Miller wrote of the Mormons with sympathy and understanding, but with a commitment as well to the critical standards of the historical profession. A must-read for anyone interested in American History.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Stoecklein Publishing(ID)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1933192240
David R. Stoecklein's latest book of photography celebrates the long-standing traditions of cattle and cattle ranching in the United States as well as all the changes that have occurred in the industry. The images depict the beautiful and often harsh environments where these operations exist and the noble animals that helped to settle the American West.
Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0826340334
This new historical overview tells the dramatic story of the American West from its prehistory to the present. A narrative history, it covers the region from the North Dakota-to-Texas states to the Pacific Coast and includes experiences and contributions of American Indians, Hispanics, and African Americans.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Irwin Silber
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486287041
Presents ninety-two songs of the American West, each with lyrics, a vocal score, simple piano arrangements, and chord symbols, and includes historical notes and commentaries, and over one hundred period illustrations.
Author : Donald Worster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195078063
The American West, blessed with an abundance of earth and sky but cursed with a scarcity of life's most fundamental need, has long dreamed of harnessing all its rivers to produce unlimited wealth and power. In Rivers of Empire, award-winning historian Donald Worster tells the story of this dream and its outcome. He shows how, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Mormons were the first attempting to make that dream a reality, damming and diverting rivers to irrigate their land. He follows this intriguing history through the 1930s, when the federal government built hundreds of dams on every major western river, thereby laying the foundation for the cities and farms, money and power of today's West. Yet while these cities have become paradigms of modern American urban centers, and the farms successful high-tech enterprises, Worster reminds us that the costs have been extremely high. Along with the wealth has come massive ecological damage, a redistribution of power to bureaucratic and economic elites, and a class conflict still on the upswing. As a result, the future of this "hydraulic West" is increasingly uncertain, as water continues to be a scarce resource, inadequate to the demand, and declining in quality.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041320295
Covers the period of westward expansion from 1860 to 1900 including the search for gold via the Oregon Trail, outlaws and lawmen, the Chisholm Trail, and a railroad that would span the country.
Author : Wallace Stegner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0472063758
A passionate work about the fragile and arid West that Stegner loves
Author : Lamar Underwood
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493029648
Fifteen gripping tales of determination, strength of mind, perseverance, and fortitude. Although survival is often taken for granted - something every human strives to achieve on a daily basis - it is just this everyday imperative that makes for the most exciting stories. When something goes wrong, when survival is threatened, often by something as simple and sudden as a boat overturning or a traveler losing his way, this is when the necessity of survival is no longer just another daily chore. This is when something as intrinsic as breathing or swallowing becomes the most essential need and the most sought-after desire.
Author : Peter Cozzens
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307958051
Bringing together Custer, Sherman, Grant, and other fascinating military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Geronimo, this “sweeping work of narrative history” (San Francisco Chronicle) is the fullest account to date of how the West was won—and lost. After the Civil War the Indian Wars would last more than three decades, permanently altering the physical and political landscape of America. Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the intertribal strife over whether to fight or make peace; explores the dreary, squalid lives of frontier soldiers and the imperatives of the Indian warrior culture; and describes the ethical quandaries faced by generals who often sympathized with their native enemies. In dramatically relating bloody and tragic events as varied as Wounded Knee, the Nez Perce War, the Sierra Madre campaign, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, we encounter a pageant of fascinating characters, including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of officers, soldiers, and Indian agents, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud and the warriors they led. The Earth Is Weeping is a sweeping, definitive history of the battles and negotiations that destroyed the Indian way of life even as they paved the way for the emergence of the United States we know today.