Author: Walter ColtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Deck and Port
Author: Walter ColtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
DECK AND PORT; OR INCIDENTS OF A CRUISE IN THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE CONGRESS TO CALIFORNIA
Author: REV. WALTER COLTONDeck and Port; Or, Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate Congress to California
Author: Walter ColtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Deck and Port; Or, Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate Congress to California, with Sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Etc. [With Plates.]
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Author: Walter COLTONDeck and Port;
Author: Walter ColtonPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337628338
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Deck and Port
Author: Walter ColtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Around the Horn to the Sandwich Islands and California, 1845-1850
Author: Chester Smith LymanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Kit Carson Days, 1809-1868
Author: Edwin Legrand SabinPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803292383
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Volume 1 of Kit Carson Days shows Carson running away from his Missouri home at age fifteen in 1826. He joins a caravan headed toward Santa Fe and in the coming years shuttles between poverty and prosperity as a wrangler, teamster, and trapper. He lives all over the unplotted West, helping to open trails, harvesting fur, befriending mountain men, and fighting and trading with Indians. Carson’s reputation grows after John C. Frémont engages him as guide in 1842. He proves indispensable to the Pathfinder in three expeditions and plays a part in the Bear Flag Rebellion. The first volume is an encyclopedia of activity in the West during the first part of the nineteenth century, bringing into play such figures as Ewing Young, William Ashley, Jim Bridger, Jedediah Smith, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Hugh Glass, John Colter, William Sublette, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, William Bent, Stephen Kearny, President James K. Polk, John Sutter, and Nathaniel Wyeth. This revised edition includes vivid chapters on the mountain man, his character, habits, clothing, and equipment. Volume 2 begins with Carson carrying the news of the conquest of California across the country to Washington, D.C., stopping en route to see his wife in Taos, New Mexico. The older Carson consolidates his fame as a courier, scout, soldier, and Indian agent. Americans, avid for newfound gold, turn to him as an authority on trail lore, and the government recognizes his usefulness in dealing with “the Indian problem.” Carson is seen against the larger background of incessant warfare in the Southwest after midcentury. He fights the Kiowas at Adobe Walls, chases the Apaches, and forces the Navajos into the Bosque Redondo. He fights in the Civil War and retires at fifty-eight—but dies two years later in 1868.
The Constitutions of the Several States of the Union and the United States, Including the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation, Etc
Author: United StatesA Life Wild and Perilous
Author: Robert M. UtleyPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1627798838
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
“[This] richly documented book is the definitive study of the decisive role mountain men played in the exploration and expansion of the Western frontier.” —Jay P. Dolan, The New York Times Book Review Early in the nineteenth century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the trans-Mississippi West extended the national consciousness to continental dimensions. Though Lewis and Clark blazed a narrow corridor of geographical reality, the West remained largely terra incognita until trappers and traders—such as Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Tom Fitzpatrick, and Jedediah Smith—opened paths through the snow-choked mountain wilderness. These and other Mountain Men opened the way west to Fremont and played a major role in the pivotal years of 1845–1848 when Texas was annexed, the Oregon question was decided, and the Mexican War ended with the Southwest and California in American hands—thus making the Pacific Ocean America’s western boundary.