Author: Stephen Harriman LongPublisher: St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Describes voyages through northern U.S. and southwestern Canada.
The Northern Expeditions of Stephen H. Long
Author: Stephen Harriman LongPublisher: St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Describes voyages through northern U.S. and southwestern Canada.
Stephen H. Long
Author: Steve WalshPublisher:
ISBN: 9780865412507
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Most famous for leading 20 men in an expedition in 1820 from St. Louis to the Rocky Mountains when the area was uncharted and largely unknown territory. Long led his men through dire conditions on the trail, sometimes without fresh water and with little food, to map and explore what he called `the Great American desert.¿ He was also a brilliant railroad engineer and an inventor. His long life was full of adventure and accomplishments.
Account Of An Expedition From Pittsburgh To The Rocky Mountains, Performed In The Years 1819 And '20
Author: Edwin JamesAccount of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains Under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long
Author: Stephen Harriman LongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
Stephen Long and American Frontier Exploration
Author: Roger L. NicholsPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806127248
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Major Stephen H. Long of the United States Army was the most important government-sponsored explorer in the decade after the War of 1812. He led three major and several minor expeditions up the Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas rivers and the Red River of the north, as well as exploring the central and southern Plains, the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, and the Great Lakes. His campanions included engineers, cartographers, Naturalists, ethnologists, and artists, and they gathered a wealth of scientific, military, and artistic data about the interior of North America. For years Long’s expeditions have been overlooked or misunderstood; here for the first time they are placed in the context of American scientific development.
Hebrews
Author: D. Stephen LongPublisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 0664232515
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This volume in the Belief series provides a new and interesting theological interpretation of Genesis through the themes of liberation and the concerns of the poor and marginalized. De La Torre wrestles with Genesis texts, remembering Jacob's wrestling at Peniel (Gen. 32:24-32), and finds that "there are consequences when we truly wrestle with the biblical text, struggling to see the face of God." This commentary provides theological and ethical insights that enables the book of Genesis to speak powerfully today.
Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long, from the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Exploring Party
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Narrative of an Expedition to the Sources of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, Etc
Author: Stephen Harriman LongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Chapter 5 was written by Major Long, and points out significant hydrographical and topographical features of the country the expedition traversed. Long also evaluates Native Americans' complex relations with the United States and its settlers. The book includes several appendices on natural history. Thomas Say classifies zoological materials and observations, and Lewis de Schweinitz contributes a catalogue of the plant specimens Say collected along the way. James Colhoun presents astronomical data, and Joseph Lovell, the U.S. Surgeon-General, compares climate readings at several American military outposts. The volume concludes with a comparative list of Native American vocabularies.
A History of the Ancient Southwest
Author: Stephen H. LeksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
According to archaeologist Stephen H. Lekson, much of what we think we know about the Southwest has been compressed into conventions and classifications and orthodoxies. This book challenges and reconfigures these accepted notions by telling two parallel stories, one about the development, personalities, and institutions of Southwestern archaeology and the other about interpretations of what actually happened in the ancient past. While many works would have us believe that nothing much ever happened in the ancient Southwest, this book argues that the region experienced rises and falls, kings and commoners, war and peace, triumphs and failures. In this view, Chaco Canyon was a geopolitical reaction to the "Colonial Period" Hohokam expansion and the Hohokam "Classic Period" was the product of refugee Chacoan nobles, chased off the Colorado Plateau by angry farmers. Far to the south, Casas Grandes was a failed attempt to create a Mesoamerican state, and modern Pueblo people--with societies so different from those at Chaco and Casas Grandes--deliberately rejected these monumental, hierarchical episodes of their past. From the publisher: The second printing of A History of the Ancient Southwest has corrected the errors noted below. SAR Press regrets an error on Page 72, paragraph 4 (also Page 275, note 2) regarding "absolute dates." "50,000 dates" was incorrectly published as "half a million dates." Also P. 125, lines 13-14: "Between 21,000 and 27,000 people lived there" should read "Between 2,100 and 2,700 people lived there."
Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c
Author: William Hypolitus KeatingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dakota Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description