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Author: Brian Howell Publisher: Cherry Lake ISBN: 1610802195 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 34
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This book follows a student who is helping set up a museum exhibit about the Civil War. The student uses primary sources and artifacts to learn about the causes of the war, the hardships of the war, and how the war concluded.
Author: Deborah Kogan Ray Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780374318383 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 60
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Chronicles the experiences of John Wesley Powell, who led the first scientific expedition down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon.
Author: Don Lago Publisher: University of Nevada Press ISBN: 0874175992 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 406
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"The Powell Expedition is a thought-provoking, nuanced work that reads at times like a detective story, and it should offer much fodder for historians." —The Wall Street Journal John Wesley Powell’s 1869 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon continues to be one of the most celebrated adventures in American history, ranking with the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Apollo landings on the moon. For nearly twenty years Lago has researched the Powell expedition from new angles, traveled to thirteen states, and looked into archives and other sources no one else has searched. He has come up with many important new documents that change and expand our basic understanding of the expedition by looking into Powell’s crewmembers, some of whom have been almost entirely ignored by Powell historians. Historians tended to assume that Powell was the whole story and that his crewmembers were irrelevant. More seriously, because several crew members made critical comments about Powell and his leadership, historians who admired Powell were eager to ignore and discredit them. Lago offers a feast of new and important material about the river trip, and it will significantly rewrite the story of Powell’s famous expedition. This book is not only a major work on the Powell expedition, but on the history of American exploration of the West.
Author: Edward Dolnick Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 006176034X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 386
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Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition. On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. The Grand Canyon, not explored before, was as mysterious as Atlantis—and as perilous. The ten men set out from Green River Station, Wyoming Territory down the Colorado in four wooden rowboats. Ninety-nine days later, six half-starved wretches came ashore near Callville, Arizona. Lewis and Clark opened the West in 1803, six decades later Powell and his scruffy band aimed to resolve the West’s last mystery. A brilliant narrative, a thrilling journey, a cast of memorable heroes—all these mark Down the Great Unknown, the true story of the last epic adventure on American soil.
Author: Brian Howell Publisher: Cherry Lake ISBN: 1610802195 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 34
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This book follows a student who is helping set up a museum exhibit about the Civil War. The student uses primary sources and artifacts to learn about the causes of the war, the hardships of the war, and how the war concluded.
Author: Miles Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press ISBN: 9781558537705 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 512
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From Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, to Washington, the capital of the Union, Virginia was the site of many of the most significant battles of the Civil War. Civil War Explorer: Virginia, 1861-1862 contains a lively, informative text that places all battles in their proper context. Not simply armchair history, the book also contains extensive driving tours from Hampton Roads in southeastern Virginia to Harpers Ferry in West Virginia. Included are tours of the First Manassas Campaign, Hampton Roads, the Peninsula Campaign, Civil War Richmond, the Seven Days Battle, the Second Manassas Campaign, Antietam, and Harpers Ferry. Civil War Explorer: Virginia 1861-1862 is the first of four volumes in The Civil War Campaigns Series to cover the war in the East. Five previous books (all selections of the History Book Club) have coveted the war in the West: Fields of Glory, Paths to Victory, To The Sea, Piercing the Heartland, and A River Unvexed.
Author: Jim Miles Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing ISBN: 9781630263393 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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Part of the Civil War Explorer Series, this illustrated volume serves as both a history lesson and tour guide of the battles in Virginia in the first 15 months of the war from 1861 to 1862. From First Manassas to Antietam, this guide describes the battles, battlefields, and leaders involved. Maps.
Author: Archie P. McDonald Publisher: Enslow Publishing ISBN: 9781598450002 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 132
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This compelling resource looks at the causes of the Civil War, military, and life on the homefront. Letters, diaries, and other documents that offer firsthand accounts of life during the American Civil War are the focus of this book. By viewing events through the eyes of those who lived through it, readers will be more engaged with this topic.
Author: Donald Worster Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199843708 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 688
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If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American maps and revealed the Grand Canyon to the world. Now comes the first biography of this towering figure in almost fifty years--a book that captures his life in all its heroism, idealism, and ambivalent, ambiguous humanity. In A River Running West, Donald Worster, one of our leading Western historians, tells the story of Powell's great adventures and describes his historical significance with compelling clarity and skill. Worster paints a vivid portrait of how this man emerged from the early nineteenth-century world of immigrants, fervent religion, and rough-and-tumble rural culture, and barely survived the Civil War battle at Shiloh. The heart of Worster's biography is Powell's epic journey down the Colorado in 1869, a tale of harrowing experiences, lethal accidents, and breathtaking discoveries. After years in the region collecting rocks and fossils and learning to speak the local Native American languages, Powell returned to Washington as an eloquent advocate for the West, one of America's first and most influential conservationists. But in the end, he fell victim to a clique of Western politicians who pushed for unfettered economic development, relegating the aging explorer to a quiet life of anthropological contemplation. John Wesley Powell embodied the energy, optimism, and westward impulse of the young United States. A River Running West is a gorgeously written, magisterial account of this great American explorer and environmental pioneer, a true story of undaunted courage in the American West.
Author: Adam Goodheart Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 1400032199 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 498
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A gripping and original account of how the Civil War began and a second American revolution unfolded, setting Abraham Lincoln on the path to greatness and millions of slaves on the road to freedom. An epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields, 1861 introduces us to a heretofore little-known cast of Civil War heroes—among them an acrobatic militia colonel, an explorer’s wife, an idealistic band of German immigrants, a regiment of New York City firemen, a community of Virginia slaves, and a young college professor who would one day become president. Their stories take us from the corridors of the White House to the slums of Manhattan, from the waters of the Chesapeake to the deserts of Nevada, from Boston Common to Alcatraz Island, vividly evoking the Union at its moment of ultimate crisis and decision. Hailed as “exhilarating….Inspiring…Irresistible…” by The New York Times Book Review, Adam Goodheart’s bestseller 1861 is an important addition to the Civil War canon. Includes black-and-white photos and illustrations.
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