Author: Reuben Gold ThwaitesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Gregg's commerce of the prairies...pt.2
Author: Reuben Gold ThwaitesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies
Author: Josiah GreggPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429002492
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Josiah Gregg's Commerce of the Prairie, published in 1844, is based largely upon entries made into his own journal over the nine years that he lived in Northern Mexico and traversed the Prairie as a proprietor in the Santa F Trade. In utilizing his entries to create this work, Gregg's aim is to provide readers with an account of the history and the ""present"" condition of trade in the new west and the people of the Prairies. As an amateur naturalist, Gregg's work describes the plant, animal, and mineral resources of the area, while also providing unique information on the Native American tribes of the region. The maps he included were prepared largely by himself, with ""portions of the country which I have not been able to observe myself, chiefly been laid down from manuscript maps kindly furnished me by experienced and reliable traders and trappers, and also from the maps prepared under the supervision of United States surveyors."" Gregg's love of the area is evident in his work, drawing readers in and giving them an unprecedented insight into the area and people around Santa F in the mid-nineteenth century.
Commerce of the Prairies
Author: Josiah GreggPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806110592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Written as a scrupulously accurate guidebook to the prairies and as an authoritative account of the early Santa Fe trade, Commerce of the Prairies has been a favorite of historians, ethnologists, naturalists, and collectors of Western Americana for generations. But Gregg’s masterpiece is not for specialists alone: its vivid descriptions of desert mirages, wagon caravans, Indian alarms and attacks, buffalo hunts, and other early Western phenomena will delight all who wish to know the country as it was before the great herds of buffalo were slaughtered and the roving Indians confined to reservations, before the landscape was transformed by barbed wire, domestic cattle, plowed fields, and modern highways. Josiah Gregg, a man of rare sensitivity and passionate science interest, joined a caravan of traders bound for Santa Fé in 1831 and almost immediately developed a fascination for the adventure-packed life of Santa Fé trader. And during the ten years that he engaged in the San Fé trade, Gregg took copious notes on the life and landscape of the American prairies and the Mexican plateau, later utilizing them in Commerce of the Prairies. This new edition faithfully follows the rare first edition, to and including the maps and illustrations. It will be welcomed both by readers familiar with the importance and interest of Gregg’s work and by readers who have yet to discover its attraction.
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: Gregg, J. Commerce of the prairies. 1905
Author: Reuben Gold ThwaitesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: Part II of Gregg's Commerce of the prairies, 1831-1839
Author: Reuben Gold ThwaitesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Commerce of the Prairies
Author: Josiah GreggGregg's Commerce of the Prairies, Or, the Journal of a Sante Fe Trader, 1831-1839
Author: Josiah GreggPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429002484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Josiah Gregg's 1844 Commerce of the Prairies, based largely upon his own journal entries, describes the plant, animal, and mineral resources of the area, while also providing unique information on the Native American tribes of the region.
Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 2; and De Smet's Letters and Sketches, 1841-1842
Author: Edmund FlaggPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040832028
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States: pt. I. The foreign trade of the United States since 1789, by G. G. Huebner. pt. II. The fisheries, by T. W. Van Metre. pt. III. Government aid and commercial policy, by D. S. Hanchett
Author: Emory Richard JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description