Author: Everett DickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Dixie Fronter
Author: Everett DickThe Dixie frontier, a social history of the southern frontier from the first transmontane beginnings to the Civil War
Author: Everett Newfon DickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Dixie Frontier
Author: Everett DickPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806123851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Dixie frontier was one of the most romantic and heroic of the entire North American continent. This engaging social history of the everyday life of the first settlers and pioneers has earned readers' praise over two generations.
The Dixie Frontier
Author: Everett DickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Dixie Frontier
Author: Everett Newfon DickPublisher: Octagon Press, Limited
ISBN: 9780374921576
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Dixie Frontier: A Social History of the Southern Frontier from the First Transmontane Beginnings to the Civil War
Author: Everett DickThe Dixie Frontier, a Social History of the Southern Frontier from the First Transmontane Beggings to the Civil War
Author: Everett Newfon DickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Old South Frontier
Author: Donald P. McneillyPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610757041
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In this deeply researched and well-written study, Donald P. McNeilly examines how moderately wealthy planters and sons of planters immigrated into the virtually empty lands of Arkansas, seeking their fortune and to establish themselves as the leaders of a new planter aristocracy west of the Mississippi River. These men, sometimes alone, sometimes with family, and usually with slaves, sought the best land possible, cleared it, planted their crops, and erected crude houses and other buildings. Life was difficult for these would-be leaders of society and their families, and especially hard for the slaves who toiled to create fields in which they labored to produce a crop. McNeilly argues that by the time of Arkansas's statehood in 1836, planters and large farmers had secured a hold over their frontier home, and that between 1840 and the Civil War, planters solidified their hold on politics, economics, and society in Arkansas. The author takes a topical approach to the subject, with chapters on migration, slavery, non-planter whites, politics, and the secession crisis of 1860–1861. McNeilly offers a first-rate analysis of the creation of a white, cotton-based society in Arkansas, shedding light not only on the southern frontier, but also on the established Old South before the Civil War.
The Frontier Mind
Author: Arthur K. MoorePublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813163803
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
In Kentucky, the first frontier beyond the Appalachians, Arthur K. Moore finds a unique ground for examining some of the basic elements in America's cultural development. There the frontier mind acquired definite form, and there emerged the forces that largely shaped the American West. Moore reveals the Kentucky frontiersman as a colorful, exciting figure about whom there gathered a golden haze of myth from which historians have never been able to free him. He finds that "noble savage" did not possess those high qualities of mind and spirit which both his contemporaries and present-day writers have attributed him. He especially questions the wide and uncritical acceptance of Frederick Jackson Turner's theory that the illiterate emigrants had vast creative powers and made worthwhile contributions to government, education, religion, and literature. The author, professor of English at the University of Kentucky, has shown how unlikely it was that the uncouth frontiersmen, subjected as they were to brutalizing influences and separated from the main stream of Western civilization, could find in themselves the intellectual and spiritual resources to create a distinctive culture. Far from displaying the benevolence and rationality imputed to men living close to nature, the frontiersmen proved themselves addicted to demagogism, narrow sectarianism, materialism, and anti-intellectualism. The Frontier Mind is an uncompromising book. It may not win your assent, but it will force you to reexamine the grounds of your beliefs about the settlement and development of the American West.
Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier
Author: Bill NealPublisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896725799
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Winner of the 2008 Rupert N. Richardson AwardBook of the Year by the National Association for Outlaw and Lawmen History