Second Book of Stories of the Trade River Valley

Second Book of Stories of the Trade River Valley

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Publisher: Russell B. Hanson

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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"This collection of local history stories were collected and printed in the Inter-County Leader newspaper column River Road Ramblings. It is the second collection of stories from the St. Croix Valley centered around Trade River, a tributary of the St. Croix that follows the Polk and Burnett County borders near the St. Croix River"--Page [1].


Stories of the Trade River Valley

Stories of the Trade River Valley

Author: Stanley Selin

Publisher:

Published: 2007-03-01

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9781468116076

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Volume 1 of the history of the Trade River Valley in NW Wisconsin. Trade River runs into the St. Croix River. Covers both Polk and Burnett County and especially the Trade Lake area. Atlas, Trade Lake, Alabama are some of the local communities.


St Croix River Road Ramblings

St Croix River Road Ramblings

Author: Russell B. Hanson

Publisher: Russell B. Hanson

Published: 2010-12

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13:

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Stories from the backwoods by a 4th generation St Croix River Valley resident. Farm, hunting, local history, nostalgia laced with subtle humor and wit.


Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest

Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest

Author: Susan Sleeper-Smith

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2018-05-11

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1469640597

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Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonquian-speaking Indians living in a crescent of towns along the Wabash tributary of the Ohio were able to evade and survive the Iroquois onslaught of the seventeenth century, to absorb French traders and Indigenous refugees, to export peltry, and to harvest riparian, wetland, and terrestrial resources of every description and breathtaking richness. These prosperous Native communities frustrated French and British imperial designs, controlled the Ohio Valley, and confederated when faced with the challenge of American invasion. By the late eighteenth century, Montreal silversmiths were sending their best work to Wabash Indian villages, Ohio Indian women were setting the fashions for Indigenous clothing, and European visitors were marveling at the sturdy homes and generous hospitality of trading entrepots such as Miamitown. Confederacy, agrarian abundance, and nascent urbanity were, however, both too much and not enough. Kentucky settlers and American leaders—like George Washington and Henry Knox—coveted Indian lands and targeted the Indian women who worked them. Americans took women and children hostage to coerce male warriors to come to the treaty table to cede their homelands. Appalachian squatters, aspiring land barons, and ambitious generals invaded this settled agrarian world, burned crops, looted towns, and erased evidence of Ohio Indian achievement. This book restores the Ohio River valley as Native space.


Cattle Kingdom in the Ohio Valley 1783–1860

Cattle Kingdom in the Ohio Valley 1783–1860

Author: Paul C. Henlein

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 081316303X

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The great beef-cattle industry of the American West was not born full grown beyond the Mississippi. It had its antecedents in the upper South, the Midwest, and the Ohio Valley, where many Texas cattlemen learned their trade. In this book Mr. Henlein tells the story of the cattle kingdom of the Ohio Valley—a kingdom which encompassed the Bluegrass region in Kentucky and the valleys of the Scioto, Miami, Wabash, and Sangamon in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The book begins with the settlement of the Ohio Valley, by emigration from the South and East, in the latter part of the eighteenth century; it ends with the westward movement of the cattlemen, this time to Missouri and the plains, toward the end of the nineteenth century. Mr. Henlein describes the intricate pattern of agricultural activities which grew into a successful system of producing and marketing cattle; the energetic upbreeding and extensive importations which created the great blooded herds of the Ohio Valley; and the relations of the cattlemen with the major cattle markets. An interesting part of this story is the chapter which tells how the cattlemen of the Ohio Valley, between 1805 and 1855, drove their fat cattle over the mountains to the eastern markets, and how these long drives, like the more famous Texas drives of a later day, disappeared with the advent of the railroads. This well-documented study is an important contribution to the history of American agriculture.


Spirited Women

Spirited Women

Author: Joanne C. Watkins

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780231102155

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A study examining the nature of gender relations among Nyeshangte, an ethnic Tibetan Buddhist group from north central Nepal. Watkins takes a historical perspective, demonstrating how gender relations are constituted by social arrangements, ideologies, division of labor, and by new forms of economic production. Additionally, she considers gender roles in relation to international trade and Buddhism. Her research was done in Tibet and is based in primary source interviews, supplemented with scholarly readings. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


National Geographic Almanac of World History

National Geographic Almanac of World History

Author: Patricia Daniels

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1426208901

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Maps, illustrations, time lines, essays, articles, and sidebars chronicle major milestones, events, and figures in world history.