Author: J. W. ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Map of and Guide to the Kansas Gold Region
Author: J. W. ReedHandbook to Kansas Territory and the Rocky Mountains Gold Region ... Maps
Author: James REDPATH (Abolitionist and HINTON (Richard J.))Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Map of and Guide to the Kansas Gold Region
Author: J. W. ReedHand Book to the Gold Fields of Nebraska and Kansas
Author: William Newton ByersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Collected Books
Author: Allen AhearnPublisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1883060141
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
An introduction to and advice on book collecting with a glossary of terms and tips on how to identify first editions and estimated values for over 20,000 collectible books published in English (including translations) over the last three centuries-about half are literary titles in the broadest sense (novels, poetry, plays, mysteries, science fiction, and children's books); and the other half are non-fiction (Americana, travel and exploration, finance, cookbooks, color plate, medicine, science, photography, Mormonism, sports, et al).
A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana
Author: Colton StormPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
The Contested Plains
Author: Elliott WestPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700610294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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. The Contested Plains recounts the rise of the Native American horse culture, white Americans' discovery and pursuit of gold in the Rocky Mountains, and the wrenching changes and bitter conflicts that ensued. After centuries of many peoples fashioning many cultures on the plains, the Cheyennes and other tribes found in the horse the power to create a heroic way of life that dominated one of the world's great grasslands. Then the discovery of gold challenged that way of life and led finally to the infamous massacre at Sand Creek and the Indian Wars of the late 1860s. Illuminating both the ancient and more recent history of the plains and eastern Rocky Mountains, West weaves together a brilliant tapestry interlaced with environmental, social, and military history. He treats the "frontier" not as a morally loaded term-either in the traditional celebratory sense or the more recent critical sense-but as a powerfully unsettling process that shattered an old world. He shows how Indians, goldseekers, haulers, merchants, ranchers, and farmers all contributed to and in turn were consumed by this process, even as the plains themselves were utterly transformed by the clash of cultures and competing visions. Exciting and enormously engaging, The Contested Plains is the first book to examine the Colorado gold rush as the key event in the modern transformation of the central great plains. It also exemplifies a kind of history that respects more fully our rich and ambiguous past--a past in which there are many actors but no simple lessons.
Mapping the Nation
Author: Susan SchultenPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226740684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
All of these experiments involved the realization that maps were not just illustrations of data, but visual tools that were uniquely equipped to convey complex ideas and information. In Mapping the Nation, Susan Schulten charts how maps of epidemic disease, slavery, census statistics, the environment, and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography, and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map.
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases
The Plains and the Rockies
Author: Henry Raup WagnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description