The Explorers And Settlers

Author : Donald E. Chipman,Harriett Denise Joseph
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780292793156

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Explorers and Settlers of Spanish Texas by Donald E. Chipman,Harriett Denise Joseph Pdf

In Notable Men and Women of Spanish Texas, Donald Chipman and Harriett Joseph combined dramatic, real-life incidents, biographical sketches, and historical background to reveal the real human beings behind the legendary figures who discovered, explored, and settled Spanish Texas from 1528 to 1821. Drawing from their earlier book and adapting the language and subject matter to the reading level and interests of middle and high school students, the authors here present the men and women of Spanish Texas for young adult readers and their teachers. These biographies demonstrate how much we have in common with our early forebears. Profiled in this book are: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: Ragged Castaway Francisco Vázquez de Coronado: Golden Conquistador María de Agreda: Lady in Blue Alonso de León: Texas Pathfinder Domingo Terán de los Ríos / Francisco Hidalgo: Angry Governor and Man with a Mission Louis St. Denis / Manuela Sánchez: Cavalier and His Bride Antonio Margil de Jesús: God's Donkey Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo: Chicken War Redeemer Felipe de Rábago y Terán: Sinful Captain José de Escandón y Elguera: Father of South Texas Athanase de Mézières: Troubled Indian Agent Domingo Cabello: Comanche Peacemaker Marqués de Rubí / Antonio Gil Ibarvo: Harsh Inspector and Father of East Texas Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara / Joaquín de Arredondo: Rebel Captain and Vengeful Royalist Women in Colonial Texas: Pioneer Settlers Women and the Law: Rights and Responsibilities

Author : Wayne Franklin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1989-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226260723

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Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers by Wayne Franklin Pdf

"Send those on land that will show themselves diligent writers." So urged the "sailing instructions" prepared for explorer Henry Hudson. With distinctive command of the primary texts created by such "diligent writers" as Columbus, William Bradford, and Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin describes how the New World was created from their new words. The long verbal discovery of America, he asserts, entailed both advance and retreat, sudden insights and blind insistence on old ways of seeing. The discoverers, explorers, and settlers depicted America in words—or via maps, tables, and landscape views—as a complex spatial and political entity, a place where ancient formula and current fact were inevitably at odds.

Author : C. Carter Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 156294035X

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The Explorers and Settlers by C. Carter Smith Pdf

Describes and illustrates the first discoveries and settlements in North America through a variety of images produced at that time.

Author : E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780553392395

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What Your First Grader Needs to Know (Revised and Updated) by E.D. Hirsch, Jr. Pdf

Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated What Your First Grader Needs to Know What will your child be expected to learn in the first grade? How can you help him or her at home? How can teachers foster active, successful learning in the classroom? This book answers these all-important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that hundreds of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American first graders. Featuring a new Introduction, filled with opportunities for reading aloud and fostering discussion, this first-grade volume of the acclaimed Core Knowledge Series presents the sort of knowledge and skills that should be at the core of a challenging first-grade education. Inside you’ll discover • Favorite poems—old and new, such as “The Owl and the Pussycat,” “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,” and “Thirty Days Hath September” • Beloved stories—from many times and lands, including a selection of Aesop’s fables, “Hansel and Gretel,” “All Stories Are Anansi’s,” “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” and more • Familiar sayings and phrases—such as “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” and “Practice makes perfect” • World and American history and geography—take a trip down the Nile with King Tut and learn about the early days of our country, including the story of Jamestown, the Pilgrims, and the American Revolution • Visual arts—fun activities plus reproductions of masterworks by Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Georgia O’Keeffe, and others • Music—engaging introductions to great composers and music, including classical music, opera, and jazz, as well as a selection of favorite children’s songs • Math—a variety of activities to help your child learn to count, add and subtract, solve problems, recognize geometrical shapes and patterns, and learn about telling time • Science—interesting discussions of living things and their habitats, the human body, the states of matter, electricity, our solar system, and what’s inside the earth, plus stories of famous scientists such as Thomas Edison and Louis Pasteur

Author : Glyndwr Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000938425

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Buccaneers, Explorers and Settlers by Glyndwr Williams Pdf

Buccaneers, Explorers and Settlers studies how during 'the long 18th century' British incursions into the Pacific transformed Europe's knowledge of that great ocean. Buccaneers devastated Spanish settlements and shipping in the South Sea, and the accounts by Dampier and his companions of their exploits became best-sellers. Anson's circumnavigation carried on the tradition of commerce-raiding, but it represented the beginnings of a more official interest in the Pacific and its resources. Later in the 18th century the hopes of speculative geographers that unknown continents and sea-passages existed in the Pacific prompted a series of expeditions by Cook and his contemporaries. New peoples were discovered as well as new lands, and the voyages led to changing perceptions of their lifestyles. Exploration was followed by trade and settlement in which Cook's associates such as Banks played a leading part. Before the end of the century there were British settlements in New South Wales, Nootka Sound had become a centre of international dispute, and across the Pacific traders, whalers and missionaries were following the tracks of the explorers.

Author : Michael F. Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123843281

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Living at the Edge by Michael F. Anderson Pdf

A comprehensive look at the pioneer history of the Grand Canyon region, from its earliest residents to the creation of the national park at the end of the pioneer era (circa 1920). Included are nearly 200 historical photographs, many never published before, and 12 custom maps of the region.

Author : Laurie D. Graham
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780771036873

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Settler Education by Laurie D. Graham Pdf

"A tone-perfect elegiac meditation on the impossibility of engaging with painful history and the necessity of doing so." – Margaret Atwood, Thomas Morton Memorial Prize for Poetry In the stunning poems of Settler Education, Laurie D. Graham vividly explores the Plains Cree uprising at Frog Lake -- the death of nine settlers, the hanging of six Cree warriors, the imprisonment of Big Bear, and the opening of the Prairies to unfettered settlement. In ways possible only with such an honest act of imagination, and with language at once terse and capacious, Settler Education reckons with how these pasts repeat and reconstitute themselves in the present.

Author : New Netherland Institute
Publisher : Mount Ida Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438430041

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Explorers, Fortunes and Love Letters by New Netherland Institute Pdf

Drawing on the latest research, leading scholars shed new light on the culture, society, and legacy of the New Netherland colony.

Author : Edward M. Lamont
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442236608

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The Forty Years that Created America by Edward M. Lamont Pdf

The names “Jamestown” and “Plymouth” have become synonymous for most students of American history with “founding,” and “birth”—both, of the American nation, and of freedom and democracy themselves. In this book, author Ted Lamont asks us to reconsider our country’s formative years, and explore the stories, lives, achievements, and failures of America’s earliest founding fathers: those who paved the way for the Colonial Era, and the American Revolution. They were explorers, investors, passionate religious leaders, and determined developers who struggled for generations to successfully plant the English flag in this strange new soil. Lamont deftly details the ways in which the stories and struggles of figures like Sir Walter Raleigh, Bartholomew Gosnold, Richard Hakluyt, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, and Captain John Smith were not just related, but connected in ways that help us better understand the colonies and culture born of their efforts. The infancy of America— from Roanoke’s founding in 1585 through the firm establishment of Jamestown and Plymouth in 1625—is where we first see planted the seeds of the rest of America’s colonial, economic, political, and cultural history, that was the immensely difficult, and often overlooked, first step toward the New World we are still working to perfect.

Author : South Australia. Department of Education. Social Studies Project Team
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0724356533

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Explorers and Settlers by South Australia. Department of Education. Social Studies Project Team Pdf

Author : Franklin Escher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : United States
ISBN : 0838816371

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The Story of the U.S.A.: Modern America by Franklin Escher Pdf

Author : Samuel Herbert Cox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Mines and mineral resources
ISBN : PRNC:32101055917544

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Prospecting for Minerals by Samuel Herbert Cox Pdf

Author : Michael Layland
Publisher : Touchwood Editions
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 177151177X

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A Perfect Eden by Michael Layland Pdf

In 1842, when famed world explorer James Douglas first encountered the rugged natural paradise that would become Vancouver Island, he described it as "A perfect Eden." He was just one among many European explorers to experience the intense beauty of the Pacific Northwest, most of whom have left fascinating accounts of their encounters with the terrain and the peoples they found, their exploration and settlement of the land there. Interspersed with maps, illustrations, paintings, and photographs, these first-hand accounts create a captivating tale of discovery and exploration. Starting from before the first known European arrivals, the stories feature Spanish and British naval officers, traders seeking sea otter pelts, colonial surveyors, "Indian” chiefs, soldiers, settlers and adventurers, and end in 1858, when Douglas, by then Sir James, retired as governor of the two colonies -- Vancouver Island and British Columbia. The companion book to Michael Layland’s prizewinning The Land of Heart’s Delight: Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island, which traces the cartographic history of this remarkable region, A Perfect Eden paints a vivid picture of what the explorers saw, the people they met, the hazards they faced, and some mysteries, as yet unsolved.

Author : Spencer Apollonio
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Greenland
ISBN : 9781552382400

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Lands that Hold One Spellbound by Spencer Apollonio Pdf

Offers an history of East Greenland. This book summarises indigenous settlements over four millennia and describes European explorations since the Norse. It recounts each of the European and American expeditions, relying on the explorers' original accounts, as well as on the author's narration.

Author : Tim Flannery
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781876485221

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The Explorers by Tim Flannery Pdf

The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest. This bestselling anthology, brilliantly edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, documents almost four centuries of exploration and takes us beyond the frontier into a world of danger, compassion, humour, brutality and death. The Explorersincludes the work of Wills, Giles, Leichhardt, Sturt, Eyre and Mitchell, and a host of other fascinating figures. Here, in one place, is the most remarkable body of non-fiction writing ever produced in Australia.