Author: Robert Dykstra
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307830853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
The mountain-top volleys from any scholarly set-to among social historians concerning the elusive roots of American democracy do reach our ears from time to time, and this rather formidable cannonade just may strike off some sparks, although it is hardly leisure reading. The author's efforts seem to have been spurred on by academics past and present (including historians Elkins and McKitrick) who have examined frontier communities and others more current and have concluded that democracy is a process of peaceful decision-making in a self-contained, homogeneous community. Dr. Dykstra, taking umbrage, has moved through the years 1867-1885 in five ""frankly ambitious frontier settlements,"" and has plowed up enough evidence in the social, political, economic, etc. areas to state with confidence that instead of the traditional view of conflict hindering progress, one should brace conflict with cooperation on an equal basis. Conflict, Dykstra insists was ""normal . . . inevitable . . . a format for community decision . . . change."" A shift in focus that just might--in an undoubtedly popular interpretation--cheer our chaotic days. A thorny, difficult book but worthy.
Cattle Towns
Discover a Cattle Town
Author: Vickey Herold
Publisher: Benchmark Education Company
ISBN: 1410864308
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Read about the cattle town of Fort Worth and why cattle towns were important.
Publisher: Benchmark Education Company
ISBN: 1410864308
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Read about the cattle town of Fort Worth and why cattle towns were important.
A Cattle Town
Author: Vickey Herold
Publisher: Benchmark Education Company
ISBN: 1410864278
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Read about the cattle town of Fort Worth and what Fort Worth is like today.
Publisher: Benchmark Education Company
ISBN: 1410864278
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Read about the cattle town of Fort Worth and what Fort Worth is like today.
The Cattle Towns
Author: Robert R. Dykstra
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle trade
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle trade
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Cattle Town Experience
Author: Robert R. Dykstra
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
A CATTLE TOWN: FORT WORTH(CD1장포함)(English Explorers 시리즈 Level 3-5)(Paperback)(전2권)
Author: VICKEY HEROLD
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788953915282
Category :
Languages : ko
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788953915282
Category :
Languages : ko
Pages : 32
Book Description
A Cattle Town: Fort Worth(CD1장, Workbook1권포함)(English Explorers 시리즈 Level 1-14)(Paperback)(전
Author: Vickey Herold
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788953915053
Category :
Languages : ko
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788953915053
Category :
Languages : ko
Pages : 32
Book Description
Cow Towns
Author: Raymond Bial
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN: 9780516237060
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Travel to the sites where colonial villages, longhouses, missions and presidios, frontier settlements, and cow towns once thrived. Bial's photography captures the amazing spirit of the many different people who carved communities from our rugged land. Discover how they built homes and started businesses, made and traded goods,m and worked incredibly hard to realize their dreams.
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN: 9780516237060
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Travel to the sites where colonial villages, longhouses, missions and presidios, frontier settlements, and cow towns once thrived. Bial's photography captures the amazing spirit of the many different people who carved communities from our rugged land. Discover how they built homes and started businesses, made and traded goods,m and worked incredibly hard to realize their dreams.
Cattle Kingdom
Author: Christopher Knowlton
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0544369971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
“The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!” — Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America The open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed. Cattle Kingdom reveals how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today. The tale takes us from dust-choked cattle drives to the unlikely splendors of boomtowns like Abilene, Kansas, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. We meet a diverse cast, from cowboy Teddy Blue to failed rancher and future president Teddy Roosevelt. This is a revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made. “Knowlton writes well about all the fun stuff: trail drives, rambunctious cow towns, gunfights and range wars . . . [He] enlists all of these tropes in support of an intriguing thesis: that the romance of the Old West arose upon the swelling surface of a giant economic bubble . . . Cattle Kingdom is The Great Plains by way of The Big Short.” — Wall Street Journal “Knowlton deftly balances close-ups and bird’s-eye views. We learn countless details . . . More important, we learn why the story played out as it did.” — New York Times Book Review “The best one-volume history of the legendary era of the cowboy and cattle empires in thirty years.” — True West
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0544369971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
“The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!” — Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America The open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed. Cattle Kingdom reveals how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today. The tale takes us from dust-choked cattle drives to the unlikely splendors of boomtowns like Abilene, Kansas, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. We meet a diverse cast, from cowboy Teddy Blue to failed rancher and future president Teddy Roosevelt. This is a revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made. “Knowlton writes well about all the fun stuff: trail drives, rambunctious cow towns, gunfights and range wars . . . [He] enlists all of these tropes in support of an intriguing thesis: that the romance of the Old West arose upon the swelling surface of a giant economic bubble . . . Cattle Kingdom is The Great Plains by way of The Big Short.” — Wall Street Journal “Knowlton deftly balances close-ups and bird’s-eye views. We learn countless details . . . More important, we learn why the story played out as it did.” — New York Times Book Review “The best one-volume history of the legendary era of the cowboy and cattle empires in thirty years.” — True West
Old Magdalena Cow Town
Author: Langford Ryan Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cowboys
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cowboys
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description