Polk County Pioneer Sketches
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Daughters of the American Revolution. Sarah Childress Polk Chapter No. 6. (Dallas, Or.)
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Published: 1927
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Published: 1927
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mrs. Nettie Sanford
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Published: 1874
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Barrett
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-12-18
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 900465612X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael L. Tate
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2014-10-22
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 0806147482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1841 and 1866, more than 500,000 people followed trails to Oregon, California, and the Salt Lake Valley in one of the greatest mass migrations in American history. This collection of travelers’ accounts of their journeys in the 1840s, the first volume in a new series of trail narratives, comprises excerpts from pioneer and missionary letters, diaries, journals, and memoirs—many previously unpublished—accompanied by biographical information and historical background. Beginning with Father Pierre-Jean de Smet’s letters relating his encounters with Plains Indians, and ending with an account of a Mormon gold miner’s journey from California to Salt Lake City, these narratives tell varied and vivid stories. Some travelers fled hard times: religious persecution, the collapse of the agricultural economy, illness, or unpredictable weather. Others looked ahead, attracted by California gold, the verdant Willamette Valley of Oregon, or the prospect of converting Native people to Christianity. Although many welcomed the adventure and adjusted to the rigors of trail life, others complained in their accounts of difficulty adapting. Remembrances of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails have yielded some of the most iconic images in American history. This and forthcoming volumes in The Great Medicine Road series present the pioneer spirit of the original overlanders supported by the rich scholarship of the past century and a half.
Author: Cynthia Culver Prescott
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2022-05-10
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0816549451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs her family traveled the Oregon Trail in 1852, Mary Ellen Todd taught herself to crack the ox whip. Though gender roles often blurred on the trail, families quickly tried to re-establish separate roles for men and women once they had staked their claims. For Mary Ellen Todd, who found a “secret joy in having the power to set things moving,” this meant trading in the ox whip for the more feminine butter churn. In Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier, Cynthia Culver Prescott expertly explores the shifting gender roles and ideologies that countless Anglo-American settlers struggled with in Oregon’s Willamette Valley between 1845 and 1900. Drawing on traditional social history sources as well as divorce records, married women’s property records, period photographs, and material culture, Prescott reveals that Oregon settlers pursued a moving target of middle-class identity in the second half of the nineteenth century. Prescott traces long-term ideological changes, arguing that favorable farming conditions enabled Oregon families to progress from accepting flexible frontier roles to participating in a national consumer culture in only one generation. As settlers’ children came of age, participation in this new culture of consumption and refined leisure became the marker of the middle class. Middle-class culture shifted from the first generation’s emphasis on genteel behavior to a newer genteel consumption. This absorbing volume reveals the shifting boundaries of traditional women’s spheres, the complicated relationships between fathers and sons, and the second generation’s struggle to balance their parents’ ideology with a changing national sense of class consciousness.
Author: Sadie Smathers Patton
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Will Bagley
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0806147490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1841 and 1866, more than 500,000 people followed trails to Oregon, California, and the Salt Lake Valley in one of the greatest mass migrations in American history. This collection of travelers' accounts of their journeys in the 1840s, the first volume in a new series of trail narratives, comprises excerpts from pioneer and missionary letters, diaries, journals, and memoirs-many previously unpublished-accompanied by biographical information and historical background.