The Overland Trail
Author: Agnes C. Laut
Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap
Published: 1929
Total Pages: 438
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Author: Agnes C. Laut
Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap
Published: 1929
Total Pages: 438
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Mack Faragher
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 0300153511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic book offers a lively and penetrating analysis of what the overland journey was really like for midwestern farm families in the mid-1800s. Through the subtle use of contemporary diaries, memoirs, and even folk songs, John Mack Faragher dispels the common stereotypes of male and female roles and reveals the dynamic of pioneer family relationships. This edition includes a new preface in which Faragher looks back on the social context in which he formulated his original thesis and provides a new supplemental bibliography. Praise for the earlier edition: "Faragher has made excellent use of the Overland Trail materials, using them to illuminate the society the emigrants left as well as the one they constructed en route. His study should be important to a wide range of readers, especially those interested in family history, migration and western history, and women's history."--Kathryn Kish Sklar "An enlightening study."--American West "A helpful study which not only illuminates the daily life of rural Americans but which also begins to compensate for the male orientation of so much of western history."--Journal of Social History
Author: Federal Writers' Project
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Published: 2013-10-31
Total Pages: 453
ISBN-13: 1595342354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to Oregon contains some quaint features, including a chapter entitled “Tall Tales and Legends” and a recipe for huckleberry cakes. The impact of the depression on the people of the Beaver State is discussed, and the beauty of the state is emphasized from the tips of the Cascadian Mountains to the agricultural region of Willamette Valley.
Author: Rinker Buck
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-06-30
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 1451659164
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Author: Nancy Capace
Publisher: Somerset Publishers, Inc.
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 0403098408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reference guide to Oregon that includes information about the state's history, geography, politics, state services, historic landmarks, and constitution.
Author: John D. Unruh
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 9780252063602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most honored book ever released by the University of Illinois Press, The Plains Across was the result of more than a decade's work by its author. Here, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Oregon Trail, is a paperback reissue that includes the notes, bibliography, and illustrations contained in the 1979 cloth edition.
Author: United States. Office of Education
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Published: 1930
Total Pages: 1500
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert H. Ruby
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780806137001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown tell the story of the Cayuse people, from their early years through the nineteenth century, when the tribe was forced to move to a reservation. First published in 1972, this expanded edition is published in 2005 in commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the treaty between the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla Confederated Tribes and the U.S. government on June 9, 1855, as well as the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark’s visit to the tribal homeland in 1805 and 1806. Volume 120 in The Civilization of the American Indian Series
Author: Los Angeles County Public Library
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 1364
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David M. Wrobel
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0826353711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers’ accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counter narrative to the nation’s romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention. Prior to the professionalization of academic disciplines, the reading public gained much of its knowledge about the world from travel writing. Travel writers found a wide and respectful audience for their reports on history, geography, and the natural world, in addition to reporting on aboriginal cultures before the advent of anthropology as a discipline. Although in recent decades western historians have paid little attention to travel writing, Wrobel demonstrates that this genre in fact offers an important and rich understanding of the American West—one that extends and complicates a simple reading of the West that promotes the notions of Manifest Destiny or American exceptionalism. Wrobel finds counterpoints to the mythic West of the nineteenth century in such varied accounts as George Catlin’s Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium (1852), Richard Francis Burton’s The City of the Saints (1861), and Mark Twain’s Following the Equator (1897), reminders of the messy and contradictory world that people navigated in the past much as they do in the present. His book is a testament to the instructive ways in which the best travel writers have represented the West.