Author: C. W. DanaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Great West, Or The Garden of the World
Author: C. W. DanaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Garden of the World
Author: C. W. DanaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest, Old
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Great West
Author: The Oregon Trail
Author: Francis ParkmanPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192839121
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
The Oregon Trail
Author: Francis Parkman, Jr.Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0199553920
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. His detailed description of the journey, set against the vast majesty of the Great Plains, has emerged through the generations as a classic narrative of one man's exploration of the American Wilderness.
Michigan Bibliography: Books, pamphlets, etc
Author: The States and Territories of the Great West ...
Author: Jacob FerrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West
Author: Jeffrey S. AdlerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521522359
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
How conflict sparked by the debate over the future of slavery remade the urban West.
Pilgrimage to the National Parks
Author: Lynn Ross-BryantPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415893801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
National Parks - 'America's Best Idea' - were from the first seen as sacred sites embodying the God-given specialness of American people and American land, and from the first they were also marked as tourist attractions. The inherent tensions between these two realities ensured the parks would be stages where the country's conflicting values would be performed and contested. As pilgrimage sites embody the values and beliefs of those who are drawn to them, so Americans could travel to these sacred places to honor, experience, and be restored by the powers that had created the American land and the American enterprise. This book explores the importance of the discourse of nature in American culture, arguing that the attributes and symbolic power that had first been associated with the 'new world' and then the 'frontier' were embodied in the National Parks. Author Ross-Bryant focuses on National Parks as pilgrimage sites around which a discourse of nature developed and argues the centrality of religion in understanding the dynamics of both the language and the ritual manifestations related to National Parks. Beyond the specific contribution to a richer analysis of the National Parks and their role in understanding nature and religion in the U.S., this volume contributes to the emerging field of 'religion and the environment,' larger issues in the study of religion (e.g. cultural events and the spatial element in meaning-making), and the study of non-institutional religion.
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Author: William CrononPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393072452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe