The Making of the Great West
The Making of the Great West

Author: Samuel Adams Drake

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2018-08-30

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 8026897188

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"This history is intended to meet the want for brief, compact, and handy manuals of the beginnings of our country. In this volume, I have followed up to its legitimate ending the work done by the three great rival powers of modern times in civilizing our continent. I have tried to make it the worthy, if modest, exponent of a great theme. The story grows to absorbing interest, as the great achievement of the age." Contents: Three Rival Civilizations The Spaniards An Historic Era De Soto's Discovery of the Mississippi Death and Burial of De Soto The Indians of Florida How New Mexico Came to Be Explored "the Marvellous Country" Folk Lore of the Pueblos Last Days of Charles V. And Philip Ii. Sword and Gown in California The French Westward by the Great Inland Waterways The Situation in a.d. 1672 Count Frontenac Joliet and Marquette The Man La Salle La Salle, Prince of Explorers Discovery of the Upper Mississippi The Lost Colony: St. Louis of Texas Iberville Founds Louisiana France Wins the Prize Louis Xiv. The English The Bleak North-west Coast Hudson's Bay to the South Sea The Russians in Alaska England on the Pacific Queen Elizabeth What Jonathan Carver Aimed to Do in 1766 John Ledyard's Idea A Yankee Ship Discovers the Columbia River The West at the Opening of the Century Birth of the American Idea. America for Americans. Acquisition of Louisiana A Glance at Our Purchase The Pathfinders Lewis and Clarke Ascend the Missouri They Cross the Continent Pike Explores the Arkansas Valley New Mexico in 1807 Gold in Colorado.—a Trapper's Story The Flag in Oregon Louisiana Admitted 1812 The Oregon Trail The Trapper, Backwoodsman, and Emigrant Long Explores the Platte Valley Missouri and the Compromise of 1821 Arkansas Admitted 1836 Thomas H. Benton's Idea With the Vanguard to Oregon Texas Admitted New Political Ideas Iowa Admitted The War With Mexico …

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

Author: William Cronon

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2009-11-02

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 0393072452

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A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe

Making of the American West
Making of the American West

Author: Benjamin H. Johnson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2007-05-15

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1851097686

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A richly researched, evocative account of the individuals and institutions involved in the settling of the non-Indian West—and of the impact of the development of the West on the nation as a whole. Making of the American West surveys the experiences of major social groups in the lands from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from the United States' penetration of the region in the early 19th century to its incorporation into national political, economic, and cultural fabric by the early 20th century. This revealing volume offers fascinating portraits of the people and institutions that drove the Western conquest (traders and trappers, ranchers and settlers, corporations, the federal government), as well as of those who resisted conquest or hoped for the emergence of a different society (Indian peoples, Latinos, Asians, wage laborers). Throughout, expert contributors continually return to the growing myth of the West and the impact of its promise of freedom and opportunity on those who sought to "Americanize" it.

The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West
The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West

Author: Laura Lee Hope

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Published: 1920

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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When the two girls reached the place where they had left the two boys, Bert was beginning to make a snow house and Freddie was rolling a snowball as the start of a snow man. You know how they are made; a small snowball for the man's head, and a larger one for his body, with legs underneath. Freddie hoped Bert would help him when it came to the big snowball part of it.

The Wild West
The Wild West

Author: Frederick Nolan

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing

Published: 2003-08-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1848585101

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On 14 May 1804, one Captain Meriwether Lewis and his companion William Clark led a thirty-three-man expedition to the new lands of Louisiana. 8,000 miles and two years later, after rafting up the Missouri and crossing the Rocky Mountains, they reached the far side of the world, the Pacific Ocean. Fredrick Nolan explores the first US settlers of the American West, including the remarkable stories of unsung heroes and heroines, the bloody battles between settlers and the native American inhabitants, the crimes committed by corrupt Sheriffs, and the occasions when citizens had to take the law into their own hands. This is the story of the men and women who answered the call of the West.

West Slide Story
West Slide Story

Author: Doug Peterson

Publisher: Zonderkidz

Published: 2012-07-03

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0310719577

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Junior Asparagus and Laura Carrot teach their friends that a little cooperation means more fun for everyone.

Making the White Man's West
Making the White Man's West

Author: Jason E. Pierce

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2016-01-15

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1607323966

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The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he examines why and how Anglo-Americans dominated the region for a 120-year period. In the early nineteenth century, critics like Zebulon Pike and Washington Irving viewed the West as a “dumping ground” for free blacks and Native Americans, a place where they could be segregated from the white communities east of the Mississippi River. But as immigrant populations and industrialization took hold in the East, white Americans began to view the West as a “refuge for real whites.” The West had the most diverse population in the nation with substantial numbers of American Indians, Hispanics, and Asians, but Anglo-Americans could control these mostly disenfranchised peoples and enjoy the privileges of power while celebrating their presence as providing a unique regional character. From this came the belief in a White Man’s West, a place ideally suited for “real” Americans in the face of changing world. The first comprehensive study to examine the construction of white racial identity in the West, Making the White Man’s West shows how these two visions of the West—as a racially diverse holding cell and a white refuge—shaped the history of the region and influenced a variety of contemporary social issues in the West today.

Yellowstone and the Great West
Yellowstone and the Great West

Author: Marlene Deahl Merrill

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2003-09-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780803282896

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Here, for the first time in paperback, is a fascinating daily record of Ferdinand Hayden?s historic 1871 scientific expedition through Utah, Idaho, and Montana Territories to the Yellowstone Basin. The expedition?s findings quickly led Congress to establish Yellowstone as the world?s first national park. In addition to its scientific discoveries, the expedition is famous for producing the earliest on-site images of Yellowstone, by its photographer, William Henry Jackson, and its guest artist, Thomas Moran. ø Marlene Deahl Merrill has woven together a compelling daily narrative from the field writings of three expedition members: unpublished journals kept by mineralogist Albert Peale and geologist George Allen, periodic reports by Peale to his hometown newspaper, and letters from Hayden to his friend and mentor Spencer Baird at the Smithsonian Institution. Enriching this narrative are Jackson?s photographs of camp scenes and landscapes; rare panoramic drawings by the party?s topographical artist, Henry Elliott; maps; an introduction; and extensive annotations.

West Side Story
West Side Story

Author: Richard Barrios

Publisher: Running Press Adult

Published: 2020-06-30

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 0762469463

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A captivating, richly illustrated full account of the making of the ground-breaking movie classic West Side Story (1961). A major hit on Broadway, on film West Side Story became immortal-a movie different from anything that had come before, but this cinematic victory came at a price. In this engrossing volume, film historian Richard Barrios recounts how the drama and rivalries seen onscreen played out to equal intensity behind-the-scenes, while still achieving extraordinary artistic feats. The making and impact of West Side Story has so far been recounted only in vestiges. In the pages of this book, the backstage tale comes to life along with insight on what has made the film a favorite across six decades: its brilliant use of dance as staged by erstwhile co-director Jerome Robbins; a meaningful story, as set to Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's soundtrack; the performances of a youthful ensemble cast featuring Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, and more; a film with Shakespearean roots (Romeo and Juliet) that is simultaneously timeless and current. West Side Story was a triumph that appeared to be very much of its time; over the years it has shown itself to be eternal.