Clay Tobacco Pipes and the Fur Trade of the Pacific Northwest and Northern Plains
Clay Tobacco Pipes and the Fur Trade of the Pacific Northwest and Northern Plains

Author: Michael A. Pfeiffer

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2006-12

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0978908317

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Clay tobacco pipes are a unique form of artifact that has been recovered from the earliest colonial period sites to those of the early twentieth century. Archaeologists have found this artifact category useful for interpretive purposes due to their rapid technological and typological change, decoration, and maker's marks. Lack of adequate reporting in older site reports precludes a wide range of interpretive values intrinsic to this artifact category. A detailed study of tobacco pipe assemblages from the Pacific Northwest and Northern Plains, in an 1800 to 1890s time frame, demonstrates the interpretive value of this category on an intrasite, regional, and interregional basis. The detailed analysis given the pipes and pipe assemblages provides a historical background that encompasses the artifacts, the manufacturers, the sites, the relationships of the sites, and their place in the development of these regions. These tobacco pipes reflect the marketing and trade histories of these regions as well as many of the cultural subgroups.

Here You Have My Story
Here You Have My Story

Author: Richard E. Jensen

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 080322687X

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Here You Have My Story vividly describes life on the early Plains in the words of those who came to settle in the rugged region. Originally published by the Nebraska State Historical Society between 1885 and 1919, these stories provide surprisingly accurate recollections of events and life on the Great Plains, with a focus on Nebraska. Many are filled with interactions with Native Americans, from Samuel Allis’s experiences as a missionary to the Pawnees, to Henry Fontenelle’s history of the Omaha Indians, to an account of the Powder River Expedition. Early freighters and cattle drovers share their personal experiences, including the dangers and difficulties of travel, and Nebraska’s state-builders describe the early days of Omaha and the construction of the first state capitol building in Lincoln. Here You Have My Story, edited by Richard E. Jensen, brings to life the struggles and triumphs of early Plains settlement and a time when Nebraska was young.

Karl Bodmer's Studio Art
Karl Bodmer's Studio Art

Author: W. Raymond Wood

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780252027567

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"During the expedition, twenty-three-year-old Bodmer sketched and painted a wealth of landscapes and Native American portraits that would be immortalized as engravings in Maximilian's published journals and accompanying atlas. Now considered the most vivid and instructive depiction of the nineteenth-century American West and its people prior to the decimation of many Plains tribes by disease, Bodmer's artwork continues to intrigue historians, scholars, and collectors.".

Upstream Metropolis
Upstream Metropolis

Author: Lawrence Harold Larsen

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 080320602X

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"Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn," Aaron Raz Link remarks. Few would know this better than the coauthor of What Becomes You , who began life as a girl named Sarah and twenty-nine years later began life anew as a gay man.

Big Sky Rivers
Big Sky Rivers

Author: Robert Kelley Schneiders

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13:

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To frame his story, Schneiders goes back to the nineteenth-century journals of fur traders and settlers and in the record of flora, fauna, floods, and human activity he finds evidence of rapid and disruptive change. Bison once had the greatest influence on the land, and Schneiders depicts an original bison and Indian trail networks on which were overlaid the first torts and towns and then the railroads, highways, and reservoirs that reconfigured the region forever.