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Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :
Covers the period of westward expansion from 1860 to 1900 including the search for gold via the Oregon Trail, outlaws and lawmen, the Chisholm Trail, and a railroad that would span the country.
Author : Quintard Taylor
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 1999-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0393318893
The American West is mistakenly known as a region with few African Americans and virtually no black history. This work challenges that view in a chronicle that begins in 1528 and carries through to the present-day black success in politics and the surging interest in multiculturalism.
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 2024-07-15
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ISBN : 9181080794
When the young Swedish-descended Alexandra Bergson inherits her father's farm in Nebraska, she must transform the land from a wind-swept prairie landscape into a thriving enterprise. She dedicates herself completely to the land—at the cost of great sacrifices. O Pioneers! [1913] is Willa Cather's great masterpiece about American pioneers, where the land is as important a character as the people who cultivate it. WILLA CATHER [1873-1947] was an American author. After studying at the University of Nebraska, she worked as a teacher and journalist. Cather's novels often focus on settlers in the USA with a particular emphasis on female pioneers. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours, and in 1943, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Author : Dee Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 2012-12-25
Category : History
ISBN : 147110933X
As the railroads opened up the American West to settlers in the last half of the 19th Century, the Plains Indians made their final stand and cattle ranches spread from Texas to Montana. Eminent Western author Dee Brown here illuminates the struggle between these three groups as they fought for a place in this new landscape. The result is both a spirited national saga and an authoritative historical account of the drive for order in an uncharted wilderness, illustrated throughout with maps, photographs and ephemera from the period.
Author : Joanne Barkan
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 145090775X
Find out about why Americans journeyed west, the hardships they faced and the effect of westward expansion on Native Americans.
Author : Bobbie Kalman
Publisher : New York ; Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,27 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780778700753
In the 1800s, people in many countries were poor, starving, persecuted, or without land. The unsettled North American west offered the opportunity for a new life. Who Settled the West? looks at the people who made the west their new home as well as the people who already lived there.
Author : Irene Harris
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 2016-07-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 149942244X
In the 19th century, thousands of Americans left their homes behind and set out for a life on the western frontier. This period of westward expansion had a huge hand in shaping the culture and identity of the United States. This title explores the push and pull factors that encouraged settlers to migrate, including the Homestead Act and similar policies. The text uses historical context and primary sources to provide a comprehensive look at westward expansion. Written to support elementary social studies curricula, readers will walk away with an understanding of the 19th century American West and the legacy settling it left behind.
Author : Benjamin H. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 2007-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1851097686
A richly researched, evocative account of the individuals and institutions involved in the settling of the non-Indian West—and of the impact of the development of the West on the nation as a whole. Making of the American West surveys the experiences of major social groups in the lands from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from the United States' penetration of the region in the early 19th century to its incorporation into national political, economic, and cultural fabric by the early 20th century. This revealing volume offers fascinating portraits of the people and institutions that drove the Western conquest (traders and trappers, ranchers and settlers, corporations, the federal government), as well as of those who resisted conquest or hoped for the emergence of a different society (Indian peoples, Latinos, Asians, wage laborers). Throughout, expert contributors continually return to the growing myth of the West and the impact of its promise of freedom and opportunity on those who sought to "Americanize" it.
Author : Dean L. May
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 1997-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521585750
This book studies how, in the Far West, Americans moved from communal values to individualistic and exploitative ones.
Author : James L. Collins
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 21,50 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Land settlement
ISBN : 9780531200704
Recounts how miners, ranchers, farmers, and railroaders helped to settle the American West from 1865 to 1900.