John Alleman (1808-1883) was born in Pennsylvania. He married Christean Stentz (d.1886) in 1832. They joined the Mormon Church in 1838 and traveled to Missouri where they participated in the Mormon Exodus from Missouri in late 1838 and early 1839. They lived in Nauvoo and again took part in the great Mormon Exodus to Utah. They did not, however, arrive in Utah until 1852 because they had been assigned to stay in Iowa and farm so that food would be available for migrating Mormons. They eventually settled in Springville, Utah where they raised a family of nine children. Descendants live in Utah and other western states.
2014 Reprint of 1894 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. The "Frontier Thesis" or "Turner Thesis," is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1894 that American democracy was formed by the American Frontier. He stressed the process-the moving frontier line-and the impact it had on pioneers going through the process. He also stressed consequences of a ostensibly limitless frontier and that American democracy and egalitarianism were the principle results. In Turner's thesis the American frontier established liberty by releasing Americans from European mindsets and eroding old, dysfunctional customs. The frontier had no need for standing armies, established churches, aristocrats or nobles, nor for landed gentry who controlled most of the land and charged heavy rents. Frontier land was free for the taking. Turner first announced his thesis in a paper entitled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," delivered to the American Historical Association in 1893 in Chicago. He won very wide acclaim among historians and intellectuals. Turner's emphasis on the importance of the frontier in shaping American character influenced the interpretation found in thousands of scholarly histories. By the time Turner died in 1932, 60% of the leading history departments in the U.S. were teaching courses in frontier history along Turnerian lines.
THE ESSENTIAL GLOBAL HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS MAJOR HISTORICAL EVENTS AND RELIGIOUS CONCEPTS THAT LANDSCAPED GLOBAL CULTURES, TRADITIONS, RELIGIONS, AND COMMUNITIES BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER THE ENLIGHTENMENT ERA THE NEWLY INNOVATIVE GENRE HISTOJECTORY Introducing the new literary word definitions, histojectory, histojectic, histojectical, histojectivity, and histojectorically. Thusly, providing the functionality of constructing, examining, formulating, authenticating, and ultimately validating objective and/or subjective published subject matter. The Essential: Global Historical Reflections, presents major historical events, and religious concepts that landscaped global cultures, and traditions that modernized global civilizations; However, through the innovative analysis and interpretation of the following: Armaldo Momiglianos Classical Foundation of Historiography ; The Conservation of Energy and its Development; Piracy Evolution; The Similarity of Taoism and Christianity; An Examination and Innovative Interpretation of The First and Second Industrial Revolutions ; The enhancers of The Nigeria Biafra War (1967-1970 ; Chinas Taoist Philosophy/Religion ; The Removal of the Five Civilized Native American Ethnic Groups : (The Trail of Tears); The Revolutionary History of Wine, Coffee, and Artifacts effects on Global Civilizations ; An Analysis of the Spirit of Evilness ; Examining Franz Fanons Wretched of the Earth ;An Analysis of Americas Primary Crime Data Systems; A Brief Examination of Americas Plea Bargaining Histories Constitutionality for Felony Offenders , and more innovative interpretive Essentially critiqued: Global Historical Reflections, that Landscaped Global Civilizations. Wm. F. Williams
"Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard White The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendents mean business today.
This valuable collection of essays makes a scholarly contribution to our knowledge of Central and Eastern European history. With ground-breaking contributions from international scholars such as Philip Longworth and Piotr Gorecki, this volume is an essential text for anyone studying or generally interested in understanding the development of the post-Communist world.
Documents not only the stories that Lewis and Clark offered about their "road across the continent," but also the large and important stories by and about the Native peoples whose trails they followed and whose lands they described in their journals.
The Filth of Progress explores the untold side of a well-known American story. For more than a century, accounts of progress in the West foregrounded the technological feats performed while canals and railroads were built and lionized the capitalists who financed the projects. This book salvages stories often omitted from the triumphant narrative of progress by focusing on the suffering and survival of the workers who were treated as outsiders. Ryan Dearinger examines the moving frontiers of canal and railroad construction workers in the tumultuous years of American expansion, from the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 to the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads in 1869. He tells the story of the immigrants and Americans—the Irish, Chinese, Mormons, and native-born citizens—whose labor created the West’s infrastructure and turned the nation’s dreams of a continental empire into a reality. Dearinger reveals that canals and railroads were not static monuments to progress but moving spaces of conflict and contestation.
Founding the Far West is an ambitious and vividly written narrative of the early years of statehood and statesmanship in three pivotal western territories. Johnson offers a model example of a new approach to history that is transforming our ideas of how America moved west, one that breaks the mold of "regional" and "frontier" histories to show why Western history is also American history. Johnson explores the conquest, immigration, and settlement of the first three states of the western region. He also investigates the building of local political customs, habits, and institutions, as well as the socioeconomic development of the region. While momentous changes marked the Far West in the later nineteenth century, distinctive local political cultures persisted. These were a legacy of the pre-Civil War conquest and settlement of the regions but no less a reflection of the struggles for political definition that took place during constitutional conventions in each of the three states. At the center of the book are the men who wrote the original constitutions of these states and shaped distinctive political cultures out of the common materials of antebellum American culture. Founding the Far West maintains a focus on the individual experience of the constitution writers—on their motives and ambitions as pioneers, their ideological intentions as authors of constitutions, and the successes and failures, after statehood, of their attempts to give meaning to the constitutions they had produced.
