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Category : Northwestern States
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Our Great West
Author: Julian RalphPublisher:
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Overview of America, from Chicago to the Pacific Coast.
The Great West
Author: Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Author: William CrononPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393072452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe
The Great West
Author: Henry HowePublisher:
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Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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The Great West, Or, The Garden of the World
Author: C. W. DanaPublisher:
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Category : Northwest, Old
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Yellowstone and the Great West
Author: Marlene Deahl MerrillPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803282896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Here, for the first time in paperback, is a fascinating daily record of Ferdinand Hayden?s historic 1871 scientific expedition through Utah, Idaho, and Montana Territories to the Yellowstone Basin. The expedition?s findings quickly led Congress to establish Yellowstone as the world?s first national park. In addition to its scientific discoveries, the expedition is famous for producing the earliest on-site images of Yellowstone, by its photographer, William Henry Jackson, and its guest artist, Thomas Moran. ø Marlene Deahl Merrill has woven together a compelling daily narrative from the field writings of three expedition members: unpublished journals kept by mineralogist Albert Peale and geologist George Allen, periodic reports by Peale to his hometown newspaper, and letters from Hayden to his friend and mentor Spencer Baird at the Smithsonian Institution. Enriching this narrative are Jackson?s photographs of camp scenes and landscapes; rare panoramic drawings by the party?s topographical artist, Henry Elliott; maps; an introduction; and extensive annotations.
Historical Collections of the Great West
Author: Henry HowePublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Americanism:The Fourth Great Western Religion
Author: David GelernterPublisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 0385522959
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
What does it mean to “believe” in America? Why do we always speak of our country as having a mission or purpose that is higher than other nations? Modern liberals have invested a great deal in the notion that America was founded as a secular state, with religion relegated to the private sphere. David Gelernter argues that America is not secular at all, but a powerful religious idea—indeed, a religion in its own right. Gelernter argues that what we have come to call “Americanism” is in fact a secular version of Zionism. Not the Zionism of the ancient Hebrews, but that of the Puritan founders who saw themselves as the new children of Israel, creating a new Jerusalem in a new world. Their faith-based ideals of liberty, equality, and democratic governance had a greater influence on the nation’s founders than the Enlightenment. Gelernter traces the development of the American religion from its roots in the Puritan Zionism of seventeenth-century New England to the idealistic fighting faith it has become, a militant creed dedicated to spreading freedom around the world. The central figures in this process were Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson, who presided over the secularization of the American Zionist idea into the form we now know as Americanism. If America is a religion, it is a religion without a god, and it is a global religion. People who believe in America live all over the world. Its adherents have included oppressed and freedom-loving peoples everywhere—from the patriots of the Greek and Hungarian revolutions to the martyred Chinese dissidents of Tiananmen Square. Gelernter also shows that anti-Americanism, particularly the virulent kind that is found today in Europe, is a reaction against this religious conception of America on the part of those who adhere to a rival religion of pacifism and appeasement. A startlingly original argument about the religious meaning of America and why it is loved—and hated—with so much passion at home and abroad.
The Great West: Travellers', Miners', and Emigrants' Guide and Hand-Book to the Western, North-Western, and Pacific States and Territories. With a Map, Etc
Author: Edward Hepple HallHistorical Collections of the Great West
Author: Henry HowePublisher:
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Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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