Author: Frederic G. YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Memorials
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
For an Oregon Pioneers Centennial Memorial
Author: Frederic G. YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Memorials
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Commonwealth Review
Author: The Commonwealth Review of the University of Oregon
Author: University of OregonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Olympic Coin Act of 1981
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commemorative coins
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Oregon Trail
Author: David DaryPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307429113
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West. Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the whole sweeping story of those who came to explore, to exploit, and, finally, to settle there. Using diaries, journals, company and expedition reports, and newspaper accounts, David Dary takes us inside the experience of the continuing waves of people who traveled the Oregon Trail or took its cutoffs to Utah, Nevada, Montana, Idaho, and California. He introduces us to the fur traders who set up the first “forts” as centers to ply their trade; the missionaries bent on converting the Indians to Christianity; the mountain men and voyageurs who settled down at last in the fertile Willamette Valley; the farmers and their families propelled west by economic bad times in the East; and, of course, the gold-seekers, Pony Express riders, journalists, artists, and entrepreneurs who all added their unique presence to the land they traversed. We meet well-known figures–John Jacob Astor, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, John Frémont, the Donners, and Red Cloud, among others–as well as dozens of little-known men, women, and children who jotted down what they were seeing and feeling in journals, letters, or perhaps even on a rock or a gravestone. Throughout, Dary keeps us informed of developments in the East and their influence on events in the West, among them the building of the transcontinental railroad and the efforts of the far western settlements to become U.S. territories and eventually states. Above all, The Oregon Trail offers a panoramic look at the romance, colorful stories, hardships, and joys of the pioneers who made up this tremendous and historic migration.
Commonwealth Review of the University of Oregon
Author: Oregon Historical Quarterly
Author: Oregon Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest, Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Olympic Coin Legislation
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs and CoinagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commemorative coins
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The Commonwealth Review of the University of Oregon
Author: The American Historical Review
Author: John Franklin JamesonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.