Author: Oregon State ArchivesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Records of the Oregon Military Department, 1847-1968
Author: Oregon State ArchivesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Legal Executions in the Western Territories, 1847-1911
Author: R. Michael WilsonPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786456337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This reference work contains details of all the crimes resulting in executions in the fifteen western American territories. For each territory, entries are arranged chronologically and entered under the name of the condemned. Each entry provides the date, location, background and actions of the crime; details of the trial and execution of sentence; and references to the crime and execution in contemporary newspapers.
Oregon Military
Author: Warren W. AneyPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439658137
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Oregon's military heritage goes back thousands of years, including native people's warrior traditions. Most of the cultures in this region were relatively peaceful, even welcoming visiting strangers, such as the Lewis and Clark overland Army expedition in 1805-1806. Then, overwhelming numbers of fur trappers, merchants, settlers, and miners began taking over traditional native grounds. From 1847 to 1880, native peoples experienced eight major conflicts with Army and volunteer forces. Army units built several forts from Oregon's coast to the Great Basin. Oregonians adopted militia laws, served in volunteer units, and organized the Oregon State Militia, which became the Oregon National Guard in 1887. The Guard benefited the state in many civil-support actions and served the nation in major overseas conflicts from the Spanish-American War to the current Operation Enduring Freedom.
Oregon Military Records
Author: Oregon Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
The Dying Grass
Author: William T. VollmannPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143109405
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
Book Description
From the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central – a dazzling fictional account of the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians In this fifth installment in his acclaimed Seven Dreams series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn the previous year, as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border. Vollmann’s main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil War veteran. In this novel, we see him as commander, father, son, husband, friend, and killer. Teeming with many vivid characters on both sides of the conflict, and written in an original style in which the printed page works as a stage with multiple layers of foreground and background, The Dying Grass is another mesmerizing achievement from one of the most ambitious writers of our time.
National Genealogical Society Quarterly
Author: Rogue Digger
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Periodical Source Index, 1847-1985: Places
Author: Guide to Records in the National Archives of the United States Relating to American Indians
Author: National Archives (U.S.)Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1981 [i.e. 1982]
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Author: