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Author: Merrill J. Mattes Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803281530 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 646
Book Description
The Great Platte River Road through Nebraska and Wyoming was the grand corridor of America's westward expansion. A number of famous trails converged in the broad valley of the Platte, forming a kind of primitive superhighway for the great covered wagon migration from 1841 to 1866. From jumping-off places along the Missouri River?notably the Omaha-Council Bluffs, St. Joseph, and Kansas City areas?the emigrant throngs came together at Fort Kearny, Nebraska. Although they continued on to South Pass, Wyoming, and beyond, this book focuses on the feeder mutes and the more than three hundred miles between Fort Kearny and Fort Laramie. The Great Platte River Road looks at border towns, trail routes, river crossings, stage stations, military posts, and such landmarks as Chimney Rock and Scott's Bluff. It goes far beyond geography and Indian encounters in revealing cultural aspects of the great migration: food, dress, equipment, organization, camping, traffic patterns, sex ratios, morals, manners, religion, crime, accidents, disease, death, and burial customs.
Author: Thomas Probert Publisher: ISBN: Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 624
Book Description
This large, easy-to-use volume lists the works of more than eleven hundred different authors, covering thousands of stories of lost mines and buried treasures supposedly located in fifteen Western and Southwestern states and in Mexico. In addition to being a boon to those adventurers who are tempted to search for lost mines and buried treasures, it will be an important basic research tool for historians, geologists, geographers, anthropologists, archaeologists, and folklorists, and it will be useful in identifying the man treasure hoards and mining claims all the way from the Lost Adams Diggings in Arizona to the Stagecoach in Wyoming. The information given in this important bibliography was acquired through perusal of an unusually large number of books, newspapers, magazines, unpublished manuscripts, deposits in private and public libraries, holdings of various historical foundations, and governmental records and archives. The task took Mr. Probert three full years of steady, patient work. Many of these stories of lost mines and buried treasures have resulted in the discovery of some that are rarely acknowledged, largely because, as Mr. Probert points out, "those who have been so fortunate as to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow have deemed it wiser and much safer to keep their own counsel" -- Book jacket.
Author: W. C. Jameson Publisher: Promontory Press ISBN: 9780883940846 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
Collects legends and lore of buried treasure in the southern Appalachian Mountain area and Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, with maps showing locations.
Author: W. C. Jameson
Author: W. C. Jameson
Author: Merrill J. Mattes
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee ...
Author: Thomas Probert
Author: David Haward Bain
Author: W. C. Jameson
Author: Jennie Hall
Author: Thomas Moore Kenny
Author: Frances Joan Mathien
Author: Nebraska State Historical Society