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Author : Margaret Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Automobile travel
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041492989
Author : Margaret Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Automobile travel
ISBN : UOM:39015067896624
Author : Mark Falcon
Publisher : Robert Hale
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780709098928
Eighteen-year old Jed Stone was a trouble young man. His family's home and land would be repossessed by the Denver Bank unless they made their next mortgage repayment. But there was no way the money could be found, unless by unlawful means. His neighbours, the four McIver brothers, were in the same position and, against his will, Jed found himself planning a robbery with them. The McIvers got away with the strongbox but Jed was wounded and sentenced under an assumed name to five years in the Kansas Penitentiary. On his release, two women came into his life as he returned home to get his share of the hold-up money. That was where the trouble would really begin!
Author : Wayne C. Lee,Howard C. Raynesford
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : 0870042769
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press First it was Coronado in 1540; then came Vilasur, Bourgmont, Pike an Fremont. All of these explorers found the Smoky Hill valley to be among the riches buffalo pastures on the continent. When gold was found in Cherry Creek and the miners and settlers soon learned that the Smoky Hill River and the trails that ran along it provided the shortest path to Denver and thus the gold in the Rockies the resulting conflict between native peoples wanting to protect their hunting grounds and the encroaching white men became the stuff of legend.
Author : Margaret Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Automobile travel
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041495255
Author : Margaret W. Moody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : American poetry
ISBN : IOWA:31858006794303
Author : Carla Paton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692332472
Come explore the Great Plains and Smoky Hill Trail, and learn the ways an archetypal coherence can powerfully link us to our individual and collective depths. Step into this quiet, unhurried open sky to discover the historical, natural, and cultural environment of the Great Plains area of the United States, and specifically the Smoky Hill Trail as depicted through its land, myth, and history.
Author : Sherah J. Collins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0738548243
Aurora began as the town of Fletcher, named after the Denver businessman who had staked out the original four square miles for resale along with associates Samuel and Francis Perry. In 1907, burdened with debt from their founder and seeking a fresh start, the inhabitants of Fletcher petitioned to have the town renamed, and in April, it was officially dubbed the Town of Aurora. These first settlers overcame many obstacles on the bare, dry land that Maj. Stephen Long, an early explorer, called "the Great American Desert." The outbreak of World War I brought revenue to the area's farmers as food prices soared, and Fitzsimons Army Hospital was established in 1918. Over the years, the scarcity of water has been a persistent problem, but Aurora has nonetheless grown from a quiet farming community to a sprawling city covering over 144 square miles.
Author : James E. Sherow
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806162942
One hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, they saw a bustling outlet for hundreds of thousands of Texas Longhorns coming up the Chisholm Trail—and the youngest brother, Joseph, saw how a middleman could become wealthy in the process. This is the story of how that gamble paid off, transforming the cattle trade and, with it, the American landscape and diet. The Chisholm Trail follows McCoy’s vision and the effects of the Chisholm Trail from post–Civil War Texas and Kansas to the multimillion-dollar beef industry that remade the Great Plains, the American diet, and the national and international beef trade. At every step, both nature and humanity put roadblocks in McCoy’s way. Texas cattle fever had dampened the appetite for longhorns, while prairie fires, thunderstorms, blizzards, droughts, and floods roiled the land. Unscrupulous railroad managers, stiff competition from other brokers, Indians who resented the usurping of their grasslands, and farmers who preferred growing wheat to raising cattle all threatened to impede the McCoys’ vision for the trail. As author James E. Sherow shows, by confronting these obstacles, McCoy put his own stamp upon the land, and on eating habits as far away as New York City and London. Joseph McCoy’s enterprise forged links between cattlemen, entrepreneurs, and restaurateurs; between ecology, disease, and technology; and between local, national, and international markets. Tracing these connections, The Chisholm Trail shows in vivid terms how a gamble made in the face of uncontrollable natural factors indelibly changed the environment, reshaped the Kansas prairie into the nation’s stockyard, and transformed Plains Indian hunting grounds into the hub of a domestic farm culture.
Author : Robert L. Brown
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0870044125
Colorado's Pikes Peak Gold Rush was an event of enormous social and cultural significance, changing the basic economy and lifestyle of the entire region. Pikes Peak became synonymous with the wild westward rush that ensued.
Author : Leo E. Oliva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0877260486
Author : Fitzsimons Army Medical Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCR:31210011014618
Author : James A. Crutchfield,Candy Moutlon,Terry Del Bene
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317454618
First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031042252
Author : James Whiteside
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781607323273
Finalist for the Colorado Book Award (History) In Old Blue’s Road, historian James Whiteside shares accounts of his motorcycle adventures across the American West. He details the places he has seen, the people he has met, and the personal musings those encounters prompted on his unique journeys of discovery. In 2005, Whiteside bought a Harley Davidson Heritage Softail, christened it “Old Blue,” and set off on a series of far-reaching motorcycle adventures. Over six years he traveled more than 15,000 miles. Part travelogue and part historical tour, this book takes the reader along for the ride. Whiteside’s travels to the Pacific Northwest, Yellowstone, Dodge City, Santa Fe, Wounded Knee, and many other locales prompt consideration of myriad topics—the ongoing struggle between Indian and mainstream American culture, the meaning of community, the sustainability of the West's hydraulic society, the creation of the national parks system, the Mormon experience in Utah, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and more. Delightfully funny and insightful, Old Blue’s Road links the colorful history and vibrant present from Whiteside’s unique vantage point, recognizing and reflecting on the processes of change that made the West what it is today. The book will interest the general reader and western historian alike, leading to new appreciation for the complex ways in which the American West's past and present come together.