Author: C. C. Andrews
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368337122
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Reproduction of the original.

Author: Christopher Columbus Andrews
Publisher: Washington : R. Farnham
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Christopher Columbus Andrews (1829-1922), future Civil War general, diplomat, and state official, wrote these twenty-six letters on a trip to the Minnesota and Dakota [Dacotah] territory during the fall of 1856. He traveled by rail as far as Chicago and Dunleith (Jo Daviess County, Illinois), continuing by steamship to St. Paul, and making his way by stagecoach to Crow Wing and St. Cloud before returning east. Each letter describes the trip or discusses the territory's economic and institutional development, governance, and opportunities for pioneers, land speculators, and entrepreneurs. Andrews devotes considerable attention to the Minnesota bar and also takes an interest in such topics as farming, lumbering, railroads, waterways, the potential of Lake Superior and the Red River valley, and efforts to induce the Chippewa [Ojibwe] to adopt a way of life rooted in European cultural traditions. The letters anticipate the establishment of Dakota as a separate territory and review current proposals for demarcating its boundaries. Andrews also comments on slavery and the era's racial attitudes.

Author: Roger G. Kennedy
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809065819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Author: Solon Justus Buck
Publisher:
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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Author: Canada. Library of Parliament
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 854

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Author: Canada. Parlement. Bibliothèque
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Languages : en
Pages : 856

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Author: Gregory P. Marchildon
Publisher: University of Regina Press
ISBN: 088977238X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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This fourth volume of the History of the Prairie West Series contains fifteen articles examining the rich history of business and early industry in Canada's Prairie Provinces prior to the Great Depression. Without denying the central importance of agriculture in the development and growth of the early Prairie West, the essays in Business and Inudstry explore the lesser known history of some of the earliest businesses in the region. As we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, a time when the three Prairie Provinces comprise the fastest-growing, and perhaps the most dynamic, economic regions in Canada, it may be worthwhile to cast our gaze back to an earlier and simpler era. In these essays, we can glimpse the origins of the entrepreneurial spirit and business ehtos that have come to define the business culture of the Prairie West.

Author: C.C. Andrews
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734065348
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Reproduction of the original: Minnesota and Dacotah by C.C. Andrews

Author: Christopher Columbus Andrews
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781522208600
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Hardcover reprint of the original 1857 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Andrews, C. C. (Christopher Columbus). Minnesota And Dacotah: In Letters Descriptive Of A Tour Through The North-West, In The Autumn Of 1856: With Information Relative To Public Lands, And A Table Of Statistics. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Andrews, C. C. (Christopher Columbus). Minnesota And Dacotah: In Letters Descriptive Of A Tour Through The North-West, In The Autumn Of 1856: With Information Relative To Public Lands, And A Table Of Statistics, . Washington: R. Farnham, 1857. Subject: Dakota Territory Description And Travel

Author: Julie Courtwright
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700635130
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Prairie fires have always been a spectacular and dangerous part of the Great Plains. Nineteenth-century settlers sometimes lost their lives to uncontrolled blazes, and today ranchers such as those in the Flint Hills of Kansas manage the grasslands through controlled burning. Even small fires, overlooked by history, changed lives-destroyed someone's property, threatened someone's safety, or simply made someone's breath catch because of their astounding beauty. Julie Courtwright, who was born and raised in the tallgrass prairie of Butler County, Kansas, knows prairie fires well. In this first comprehensive environmental history of her subject, Courtwright vividly recounts how fire-setting it, fighting it, watching it, fearing it-has bound Plains people to each other and to the prairies themselves for centuries. She traces the history of both natural and intentional fires from Native American practices to the current use of controlled burns as an effective land management tool, along the way sharing the personal accounts of people whose lives have been touched by fire. The book ranges from Texas to the Dakotas and from the 1500s to modern times. It tells how Native Americans learned how to replicate the effects of natural lightning fires, thus maintaining the prairie ecosystem. Native peoples fired the prairie to aid in the hunt, and also as a weapon in war. White settlers learned from them that burns renewed the grasslands for grazing; but as more towns developed, settlers began to suppress fires-now viewed as a threat to their property and safety. Fire suppression had as dramatic an environmental impact as fire application. Suppression allowed the growth of water-wasting trees and caused a thick growth of old grass to build up over time, creating a dangerous environment for accidental fires. Courtwright calls on a wide range of sources: diary entries and oral histories from survivors, colorful newspaper accounts, military weather records, and artifacts of popular culture from Gene Autry stories to country song lyrics to Little House on the Prairie. Through this multiplicity of voices, she shows us how prairie fires have always been a significant part of the Great Plains experience-and how each fire that burned across the prairies over hundreds of years is part of someone's life story. By unfolding these personal narratives while looking at the bigger environmental picture, Courtwright blends poetic prose with careful scholarship to fashion a thoughtful paean to prairie fire. It will enlighten environmental and Western historians and renew a sense of wonder in the people of the Plains.