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ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Carson-Bent-Boggs Genealogy
Author: Writing Kit Carson
Author: Susan Lee JohnsonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469658844
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
In this critical biography, Susan Lee Johnson braids together lives over time and space, telling tales of two white women who, in the 1960s, wrote books about the fabled frontiersman Christopher "Kit" Carson: Quantrille McClung, a Denver librarian who compiled the Carson-Bent-Boggs Genealogy, and Kansas-born but Washington, D.C.- and Chicago-based Bernice Blackwelder, a singer on stage and radio, a CIA employee, and the author of Great Westerner: The Story of Kit Carson. In the 1970s, as once-celebrated figures like Carson were falling headlong from grace, these two amateur historians kept weaving stories of western white men, including those who married American Indian and Spanish Mexican women, just as Carson had wed Singing Grass, Making Out Road, and Josefa Jaramillo. Johnson's multilayered biography reveals the nature of relationships between women historians and male historical subjects and between history buffs and professional historians. It explores the practice of history in the context of everyday life, the seductions of gender in the context of racialized power, and the strange contours of twentieth-century relationships predicated on nineteenth-century pasts. On the surface, it tells a story of lives tangled across generation and geography. Underneath run probing questions about how we know about the past and how that knowledge is shaped by the conditions of our knowing.
Portraits of Early Sonoma County Settlers
Author: Sonoma County Genealogical SocietyPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365131262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Portraits of Early Sonoma County Settlers is the narrative history of sixteen early settlers in the area which is now Sonoma County, California. A number of these persons arrived before California became a state in 1850. A number of them were lured here by the Gold Rush of 1849. They engaged in wide and diverse activities. Several were directly or indirectly involved in the settlement and development of new towns in the area. Others contributed to the development of agriculture, schools, and religion. Some of them had to deal with the Mexican Government and the ranchos in early Alta California. Overall it gives a good picture of what the area was like as it moved towards and became a part of the United States of America.
Kit Carson & His Three Wives
Author: Marc SimmonsPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826332967
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
In this family centered biography, independent scholar Simmons describes the lives of the three women who were married to frontiersman Kit Carson. They include Arapaho woman Waa-Nibe, who died three years after their marriage; Cheyenne woman Making Out Road, who divorced Carson after 14 months; and Josefa Jaramillo, the fourteen year old daughter of a prominent Taos family and mother of Carson's seven children.
Revolutionary Soldier, Samuel Brown, and Some of His Family
Author: Faye Marie Brown LightburnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colusa County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
James Brown and Elizabeth Baldwin married in 1705 and settled in Middlesex County, Virginia. Descendants moved to Kentucky about 1790, to western Missouri about 1810, and then to California in 1849.
The Contested Plains
Author: Elliott WestPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Deftly retracing a pivotal chapter in one of America's most dramatic stories, Elliott West chronicles the struggles, triumphs and defeats of both Indians and whites as they pursued their clashing dreams of greatness in the heart of the continent.
Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Marion J. KaminkowPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316666
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This "Supplement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress" lists all genealogies in the Library of Congress that were catalogued between 1972 and 1976, showing acquisitions made by the Library in the five years since publication of the original two-volume Bibliography. Arranged alphabetically by family name, it adds several thousand works to the canon, clinching the Bibliography's position as the premier finding-aid in genealogy.
The Genealogical Helper
Author: Catalog of Printed Books. Supplement
Author: Bancroft LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.