Author: Karen WindheimPublisher:
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Category : Deschutes County (Or.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Index of Probate Records, Vol. I & II, Jan. 1917-May 1962, for Deschutes County, Oregon
Author: Karen WindheimPublisher:
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Category : Deschutes County (Or.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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List of Cartographic Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Author: United States. National Archives and Records ServicePublisher:
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Category : Indian reservations
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Pieces of Grace
Author: Karen GibsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781736826706
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Grace believed she went from losing it all to having it all. In a desperate attempt to put her life back together, Grace, divorced and jobless, leaves Tucson to return to Chicago-a place she never planned to call home again. She also never planned to fall for Benjamin Hayward. Drawn into the fairytale existence of his power and wealth, Grace is unable to see what her family and friends see, and ignores the warning signs of Dr. Benjamin Hayward's dark side. Benjamin's secrets-the death of his mentally ill wife and the disappearance of his daughter-push Grace into an abyss deeper than the one that brought her home in the first place, and she risks losing even more. Pieces of Grace is a complicated story of relationships confused by undercurrents of mental illness. Readers find themselves hoping family and friends can carry Grace through her most difficult moments.
Genealogy of the Dart Family in America
Author: Thaddeus Lincoln BoltonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Bedwell Beaux and Belles
Author: Carolyn Reeves EricsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Robert Bedwell (d.1686), probably an English immigant about 1660, received a land grand in 1661 in Old Rappahannock County, Virginia, and married twice (the second time to a widow). The family moved to Kent County, Delaware in 1680. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Delaware, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Tennessee, Texas and elsewhere.
Sweet Freedom's Plains
Author: Shirley Ann Wilson MoorePublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806156856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The westward migration of nearly half a million Americans in the mid-nineteenth century looms large in U.S. history. Classic images of rugged Euro-Americans traversing the plains in their prairie schooners still stir the popular imagination. But this traditional narrative, no matter how alluring, falls short of the actual—and far more complex—reality of the overland trails. Among the diverse peoples who converged on the western frontier were African American pioneers—men, women, and children. Whether enslaved or free, they too were involved in this transformative movement. Sweet Freedom’s Plains is a powerful retelling of the migration story from their perspective. Tracing the journeys of black overlanders who traveled the Mormon, California, Oregon, and other trails, Shirley Ann Wilson Moore describes in vivid detail what they left behind, what they encountered along the way, and what they expected to find in their new, western homes. She argues that African Americans understood advancement and prosperity in ways unique to their situation as an enslaved and racially persecuted people, even as they shared many of the same hopes and dreams held by their white contemporaries. For African Americans, the journey westward marked the beginning of liberation and transformation. At the same time, black emigrants’ aspirations often came into sharp conflict with real-world conditions in the West. Although many scholars have focused on African Americans who settled in the urban West, their early trailblazing voyages into the Oregon Country, Utah Territory, New Mexico Territory, and California deserve greater attention. Having combed censuses, maps, government documents, and white overlanders’ diaries, along with the few accounts written by black overlanders or passed down orally to their living descendants, Moore gives voice to the countless, mostly anonymous black men and women who trekked the plains and mountains. Sweet Freedom’s Plains places African American overlanders where they belong—at the center of the western migration narrative. Their experiences and perspectives enhance our understanding of this formative period in American history.
The Story of Oregon
Author: Julian HawthornePublisher:
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Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Author: Leona Alig