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Author : Darren Sechrist
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778741885
An introduction to westward expansion in the United States in graphic form.
Author : Zeke Castro
Publisher : E-Booktime, LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1608628485
Taming the Wild West is a collection of historical events that happened during the settlement of the west. Things were happening fast and furious at that time, with the United States expanding into the territory too fast to tame. During the Civil War, in New Mexico volunteers helped stop the Confederacy in the 1860's from expanding in the west with their defeat at Rowe Mesa in northern New Mexico. In the 1870's a lady named Catherine McCarty and her two sons came to New Mexico. The sons' names were Joseph or Joe McCarty and William E. McCarty, aka Billy the Kid. I was able to track them down, and their birthplaces, through U.S. Census records. Billy became involved in the Lincoln County war when the cattle business was king. Billy became an infamous outlaw after he killed two deputies and escaped while waiting to be hanged. Wyatt Earp and the OK Corral became legends in a few seconds of gunfire in a shoot-out there. This book includes a diagram showing the encounter. Victorio and Geronimo wreaked havoc on both sides of the U.S. and Mexico border until a lead bullet ended Victorio's life and the sub-chief Geronimo surrendered at Skeleton Canyon. Pancho Villa and General John Pershing were a lot more friends than enemies, especially around WWI.
Author : Uta G. Poiger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN : IND:30000053922146
Author : Christian Tyler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0813535336
Closed to the world for half a century, like a black hole in the Asian landmass, the wilderness of Xinjiang in northwest China is returning to the light. The picture it presents is both fascinating and disturbing. Despite a savage landscape and climate, Xinjiang has a rich past: sand-buried cities, painted cave shrines, rare creatures, and wonderfully preserved mummies of European appearance. Their descendants, the Uighurs, still farm the tranquil oases that ring the dreaded Taklamakan, the world's second largest sand desert, and the Kazakh and Kirghiz herdsmen still roam the mountains. The region's history, however, has been punctuated by violence, usually provoked by ambitious outsiders--nomad chieftains from the north, Muslim emirs from Central Asia, Russian generals, or warlords from inner China. The Chinese regard the far west as a barbarian land. Only in the 1760s did they subdue it, and even then their rule was repeatedly broken. Compared with the Russians' conquest of Siberia, or the Americans' trek west, China's colonization of Xinjiang has been late and difficult. The Communists have done most to develop it, as a penal colony, as a buffer against invasion, and as a supplier of raw materials and living space for an overpopulated country. But what China sees as its property, the Uighurs regard as theft by an alien occupier. Tension has led to violence and savage reprisals. This portrait of Xinjiang should be essential reading for travelers and for anyone interested in today's China and the fate of minority peoples.
Author : Allison Lassieur
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9781429623421
"Describes the people and events of the age of the Wild West in the year 1876. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of an outlaw, a lawman, and a fortune-seeker in Deadwood, Dakota Territory"--Provided by publisher.
Author : John Richard Stephens
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493024445
By and about the greatest celebrities of frontier America, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, personal letters, and court testimony. These glimpses into the worlds of these legendary figures as they describe their own personal experiences, impressions, what life in the frontier West was like, reveal the roles they played in notable events in American history.
Author : Wade Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:221550237
Author : Kelly Wilson
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9780143773924
Wild Kaimanawas set her on a journey of self-discovery, teaching her not only the language of horses, but the powerful impact they can have on our lives. In Taming the Wild, Kelly Wilson shares her training philosophies for creating happy horses that love their lives among humans. From learning how to read a horse’s body language to taming a horse and starting it under saddle, this book is the ultimate how-to guide for everyday people training their own horse, whether wild or domestic. It is also the personal, uplifting story of the 24 wild horses Kelly helped save from slaughter during the 2018 Kaimanawa muster, and the experience of mentoring 10 riders as they tamed their very first horses. Full of breathtaking photography, Taming the Wild will educate and inspire novice and experienced riders alike, or anyone who wants to better understand the wild ways of these exquisite creatures.
Author : Willard Sunderland
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501703249
Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild field," a region inhabited by nomadic Turko-Mongolic peoples who repeatedly threatened the fragile Slavic settlements to the north. For the emperors and empresses of imperial Russia, it was a land of boundless economic promise and a marker of national cultural prowess. By the mid-nineteenth century the steppe, once so alien and threatening, had emerged as an essential, if complicated, symbol of Russia itself.Traversing a thousand years of the region's history, Willard Sunderland recounts the complex process of Russian expansion and colonization, stressing the way outsider settlement at once created the steppe as a region of empire and was itself constantly changing. The story is populated by a colorful array of administrators, Cossack adventurers, Orthodox missionaries, geographers, foreign entrepreneurs, peasants, and (by the late nineteenth century) tourists and conservationists. Sunderland's approach to history is comparative throughout, and his comparisons of the steppe with the North American case are especially telling.Taming the Wild Field eloquently expresses concern with the fate of the world's great grasslands, and the book ends at the beginning of the twentieth century with the initiation of a conservation movement in Russia by those appalled at the high environmental cost of expansion.
Author : Robert K. DeArment
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806158105
Settlers in the frontier West were often easy prey for criminals. Policing efforts were scattered at best and often amounted to vigilante retaliation. To create a semblance of order, freelance enforcers of the law known as man-hunters undertook the search for fugitives. These pursuers have often been portrayed as ruthless bounty hunters, no better than the felons they pursued. Robert K. DeArment’s detailed account of their careers redeems their reputations and reveals the truth behind their fascinating legends. As DeArment shows, man-hunters were far more likely to capture felons alive than their popular image suggests. Although “Wanted: Dead or Alive” reward notices were posted during this period, they were reserved for the most murderous desperadoes. Man-hunters also came from a variety of backgrounds in the East and the West: of the eight men whose stories DeArment tells, one began as an officer for an express company, and another was the head of an organization of local lawmen. Others included a railroad detective, a Texas Ranger, a Pinkerton operative, and a shotgun messenger for a stagecoach line. All were tough survivors, living through gunshot wounds, snakebites, disease, buffalo stampedes, and every other hazard of life in the Wild West. They also crossed paths with famous criminals and sheriffs, from John Wesley Hardin and Sam Bass to Wyatt Earp, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid. Telling the true stories of famous men who risked their lives to bring western outlaws to justice, Man-Hunters of the Old West dispels long-held myths of their cold-blooded vigilantism and brings fresh nuance to the lives and legends that made the West wild.
Author : Kathryn Hovey
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0826334466
The story of Madrid, New Mexico's, multiple identities and struggles for survival as a tourist attraction in the last three decades.
Author : Cleveland Deeds
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781257964109
Author : Anonim
Publisher : WW Norton
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780789260666
Interact with the story of America’s frontier through the detailed paintings of America’s foremost historical artist, Mort Künstler Künstler’s paintings bring history to life with striking portrayals of the events of America’s Wild West, starting in 1804, when Lewis and Clark made their first expeditions, to 1890, when the American frontier was declared “vanished.” The epic artworks faithfully capture the incredible landscapes, explorations, and battles of this important period, and ask children to look again and again for special details, such as the feathers in an American Indian chief’s headdress to the type of horse a cattleman rides. Together with text by award-winning historian James I. Robertson, Jr., these brilliantly explicit paintings engage a young reader’s attention and introduce him or her to American history through the visual arts. Lauded by both historians and curators, Künstler presents beautifully rendered works chronicling America’s expansion to the West in a historically accurate and appealing way—transporting the reader right into each scene.
Author : Billy St. John
Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Children's plays
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Victor Carl Friesen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786477791
This is a literary discussion of one-half of Zane Grey's Westerns, selected to best show the broad scope of this popular author's interests in the West. The text explains how these novels "work," while pointing out Grey's ecological concern for the natural world--its vastness, color and beauty. Wild nature provides a powerful setting but is a determinant of action and of character too. The range of subjects encompasses not only cowboys but also prospectors, foresters and other frontiersmen, from the end of the Revolutionary War to the flapper era of the 1920s. World War I veterans, including an American Indian, are portrayed in several books, and women are colorful main protagonists in others, all uniquely characterized. Grey's sure ear for dialogue is key to his vivid presentation of the ideals of the Old West.