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Author: Linda S. Peavy
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780873512497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames went to the goldfields in Colorado and Montana and carried on correspondence with his wife, Pamelia in Little Falls, Minnesota.
Author: Linda S. Peavy
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780873512503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMoving personal account of frontier women left behind in Minnesota when their husbands went west to prospect for gold in Colorado and Montana in the mid-1800s.
Author: Kenneth N. Owens
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780803286177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn event of international significance, the California gold rush created a more diverse, metropolitan society than the world had ever known. In Riches for All, leading scholars reexamine the gold rush, evaluating its trajectory and legacy within a global context of religion and race, economics, technology, law, and culture. The opportunity for instant wealth directly influenced a dynamic range of peoples, including Mormon military veterans, California Indian workers, both slave and free African Americans, Chinese village farmers, skilled Mexican miners, and Chilean merchants. Riches for All gives attention to the varying motivations and experiences of these groups and to their struggles with both racial and religious bigotry. Emphasizing gold rush social history, some contributors examine the roles and influence of women, workers, law-breakers, and law-enforcers. Others consider the long-term impact of this episode on California and the American West and on subsequent gold rushes in Pacific Rim countries and the Klondike. With lively and incisive strokes, these historians sketch the most broadly contextualized and nuanced portrait of the California gold rush to date.
Author: Linda S. Peavy
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780806130545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the lives of women of various backgrounds as they traveled west, established homes, worked inside and outside the home, and helped to develop settled society
Author: Dick Kreck
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Published: 2016-03-23
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1555919529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOvernight settlements, better known as "Hell on Wheels," sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for gamblers, land speculators, prostitutes, and thugs. Dick Kreck tells their stories along with the heroic individuals who managed, finally, to create permanent towns in the interior West.
Author: Harry W. Fritz
Publisher: Montana Historical Society
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780917298905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rich and varied tapestry, Montana Legacy looks at the people, cultures, places, and events that shaped present-day Montana from Plentywood to Butte, Great Falls to Virginia City, and Billings to Browning. Designed to make you think about Montana history in a new way, this anthology features sixteen essays chosen for their relevance, readability, and scholarship. The volume's editors carefully selected topics that range across two centuries from the fur trade to power deregulation - and expose Montana's cultural and geographical diversity. Join them in this exploration of Montana's past and gain a better understanding of Montana's future. (6 x 9, 392 pages, b&w photos)
Author: Marlene Epp
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780802082688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of thousands of Mennonite women who, having lost their husbands and fathers, assumed altered gender roles in their adopted homeland and created a culture of women refugees with its own distinctive historical narrative.
Author: Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1997-12-22
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780253211330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining four centuries of Midwestern women's history, contributors discuss ways these women's lives both resemble and differ from those of women of other regions. Midwestern female experience is shown to be distinctive in terms of degrees of migration, which resulted in the Midwest becoming a cultural crossroads.
Author: Darlis A. Miller
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0826351905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJack Crawford (1847–1917) entertained a generation of Americans and introduced them to their frontier heritage. A master storyteller who presented the West as he experienced it, he was one of America’s most popular performers in the late nineteenth century. Dressed in buckskin with a wide-brimmed sombrero covering his flowing locks, Crawford delivered a “frontier monologue and medley” that, as one New York City journalist reported, “held his audience spell-bound for two hours by a simple narration of his life.” In this biography, Darlis Miller re-creates his experiences as a scout, rancher, miner, reformer, husband and father, and poet and entertainer to reinterpret the American Dream and the lure of getting rich pursued by many during the Gilded Age.
Author: William Deverell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 1405138483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to the American West is a rigorous, illuminating introduction to the history of the American West. Twenty-five essays by expert scholars synthesize the best and most provocative work in the field and provide a comprehensive overview of themes and historiography. Covers the culture, politics, and environment of the American West through periods of migration, settlement, and modernization Discusses Native Americans and their conflicts and integration with American settlers
