The Pike S Peakers And The Rocky Mountain Rangers

Author : Kenneth E. Draper
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477102336

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The Pike's Peakers and the Rocky Mountain Rangers by Kenneth E. Draper Pdf

Having been born and raised on the Missouri River at Atchison, Kansas, and having the ghosts of the Civil War about me constantly, I have been passionately interested in the Civil War as long as I can remember. The Victorian and antebellum homes with servant quarters still behind them, the wooded bluffs and caves where escaped slaves were hidden, and the mystique of the Missouri River area itself have maintained this feeling of the war for me. My mothers immediate family was from the Missouri River bottoms on the Missouri side and my fathers immediate family was from rural Atchison on the Kansas side. From my incomplete and somewhat misinformed family and formal history education, I assumed for most of my life that my mothers family was Confederate in its leanings and that my fathers family was Union. I was unaware that the town and countys namesake, Sen. David Rice Atchison, was from Missouri and had much Pro-Slavery activity. No effort has ever been made to change the towns name since the war. No Confederate tie to him was taught in any of my classes in school.

Author : Kenneth Draper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1477104771

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The Pike's Peakers and the Rocky Mountain Rangers by Kenneth Draper Pdf

Author : Christopher M. Rein
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Gordon E. Tolton
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781926936611

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The Cowboy Cavalry by Gordon E. Tolton Pdf

When Native and Métis unrest escalated into the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, settlers in southern Alberta's cattle country were terrified. Three major First Nations bordered their range, and war seemed certain. In anticipation, 114 men mustered to form the Rocky Mountain Rangers, a volunteer militia charged with ensuring the safety of the open range between the Rocky Mountains and the Cypress Hills. The Rangers were a motley crew, from ex-Mounties and ex-cons to retired, high-ranking military officials and working, ranch-hand cowpokes. Membership qualifications were scant: ability to ride a horse, knowledge of the prairies, and preparedness to die. This is their story, inextricably linked to the dissensions of the day, rife with skirmishes, corruption, jealousies, rumour, innuendo and gross media sensationalizing . . . all bound together with what author Gordon Tolton terms “a generous helping of gunpowder.” Tolton’s meticulous research reveals unexplored perspectives and little-known details. Be prepared for surprises!

Author : Jack C. Moomaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1231769303

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Recollections of a Rocky Mountain Ranger by Jack C. Moomaw Pdf

Author : Vincent Bezeau,Wendy McKenzie,Rocky Mountain Rangers Museum and Archives. Regimental Museum Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0981059104

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The Rocky Mountain Rangers by Vincent Bezeau,Wendy McKenzie,Rocky Mountain Rangers Museum and Archives. Regimental Museum Committee Pdf

Author : Robert W. Audretsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1457555204

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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Colorado by Robert W. Audretsch Pdf

The world was without hope for many of Colorado's young men in 1933. Youth unemployment was 25 percent and another 29 percent were working only part-time. Many quit school before graduation to work odd jobs to support their families. Others took to hitching rides on railroad cars desperate for a new opportunity. Even young men who finished their schooling were without work as they had no job experience or training. Then, in 1933, with the beginning of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) young men could go to work in Colorado's national parks, state parks, national forests and other public lands. They no longer worried where their next meal would come from. Now they could learn new job skills. In Colorado CCC boys planted trees, erected fences and telephone lines and put out forest fires. Today we still use the roads and trails they built. CCC work was made to last. At the program's end in 1942 over 30,000 Colorado men served at over one hundred twenty camps. And work was completed in nearly every county in the state. Robert W. "Bob" Audretsch retired as a National Park Service ranger at Grand Canyon in 2009 after nearly 20 years of service. Since then, he has devoted himself full time to research and writing about the Civilian Conservations Corps (CCC). Bob grew up in Detroit, Michigan, and attended Wayne State University where he received a BA in history and a MS in library science. Prior to his work as a ranger, he was a librarian in Michigan, Ohio, and Colorado. Bob has a lifelong interest in history, nature, books, and art and has written numerous publications in the fields of library science, sports, and history. Bob is the author of Grand Canyon's Phantom Ranch (Arcadia Publishing, 2012), Shaping the Park and Saving the Boys: The Civilian Conservation Corps at Grand Canyon, 1933-1942 (Dog Ear Publishing, 2011), We Still Walk in Their Footprint: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Northern Arizona, 1933-1942 (Dog Ear Publishing, 2013), Selected Grand Canyon Area Hiking Routes, Including the Little Colorado River and Great Thumb (Dog Ear Publishing, June, 2014) and, with Sharon Hunt, The Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona (Images of America) (Arcadia Publishing). He resides in Lakewood, Colorado.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : California
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211466409

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Pony Express Courier by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : California
ISBN : CUB:U183020137306

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Pony Express by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015081921424

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The American Booksellers Guide by Anonim Pdf

Author : Howard Roberts Lamar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1328 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015002857390

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The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West by Howard Roberts Lamar Pdf

The American West is an evocative term that conjures up images of cowboys and Indians, covered wagons, sheriffs and outlaws, and endless prairies as well as contemporary images ranging from national parks to the oil, aerospace, and film industries. In addition, the West encompasses not only the past and present of the area west of the Mississippi but also the frontier as it moved across each of the fifty American states, offering the promise of freedom and a better life to pioneers and settlers in every era. This authoritative, comprehensive encyclopedia is a rich source of information about these many characteristics of the American West, real and imaginary, old and new, stretching from coast to coast and throughout the country's history and culture.

Author : Manitoba. Manitoba Conservation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111177866

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Geographical Names of Manitoba by Manitoba. Manitoba Conservation Pdf

This volume contains approximately twelve thousand entries with information on the history & origin of Manitoba geographical names, for both populated areas and natural features. Entries include a National Topographic System map reference to indicate the approximate location.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : CHI:33106817

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Prairie Farmer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007381572

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Supplement to Who's who in America by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Kansas
ISBN : UCAL:C2861587

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The United States Biographical Dictionary by Anonim Pdf