Rocky Mountain Life, Or, Startling Scenes and Perilous Adventures in the Far West During an Expedition of Three Years
Author: Rufus B. Sage
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Published: 1858
Total Pages: 360
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Author: Rufus B. Sage
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Published: 1858
Total Pages: 360
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Published: 1857
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 495
ISBN-13: 0393340023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor all of fur's contentious position in American culture today, historian Eric Jay Dolin shows its centrality in our nation's ever-surprising history. He argues that the trade in animal skins turned colonial America into a tumultuous frontier where global powers battled for control. From the seventeenth century right on up to the Gilded Age, the developed world's appetite for fur made the new continent, with its wealth of fur-bearing wildlife, a seemingly inexhaustible resource. The result was a major boost in the evolution of the colonies into a powerful new player on the world stage. Dolin sheds insight on the ways the fur trade created international tensions--in New England, the Great Lakes, and in the expanding West. Fur traders were often the first white men to map major rivers, forests, and mountains, then soon pushed Native Americans off their lands as John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company attempted to monopolize the West.--From publisher description.
Author: Kira Gale
Publisher: River Junction Press LLC
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 0964931524
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gary Ferguson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780393050721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than any other American landscape, the Rocky Mountains have prompted a remarkable medley of fierce, poetic dreams. For some 150 years this region served as a landscape of freedom for the black sheep of our culture: from the rebellious sons of wealthy industrialists to African American trappers; from affluent young women struggling for suffrage to the hippies of the 1960s, determined to turn their backs on the establishment. Gary Ferguson spins magnificent tales about these vivid charactersblazing a trail that leads us finally to modern adventure travelers bedecked in high-tech outerwear and toting satellite phones into the wild. From this spot on the crest of the continent comes a fresh look at how the nation's wild lands inspired some of our most cherished notions of freedom, as well as how much we stand to lose should our connections to those lands drift out of reach. 25 black & white photos, index.
Author: Robert Lee Munkres
Publisher: Equine Graphics Publishing Group
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781887932905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Bidwell-Bartleson party may have been generally forgotten, but the group was the first true emigrant train to cross South Pass. If the memories of these men has dimmed, the road they followed has not, for the route is one of the most famous in the history of human migration-the Oregon Trail. Saleratus & Sagebrush chronicles the journeys of these and many other emigrants on the trails west. Robert Munkres relates the stories about the famous and indispensable Fort Bridger and Fort Laramie, the fork in the road at Soda Springs, women's lives on the trail, the family dog, and tales of Indians, friendly and not-so-friendly are richly enhanced by photographs and several reproductions of works by William Henry Jackson.
Author: Charles Wesley Smith
Publisher: New York : H.W. Wilson
Published: 1921
Total Pages: 352
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