Re-imagining the Modern American West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Re-imagining the Modern American West write by Richard W. Etulain. This book was released on 1996-09. Re-imagining the Modern American West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes changes in how the West has been seen, from a male-dominated frontier, to a region with a powerful sense of place, to a modern center of both genders, ethnic groups, and environmental interests
Major Problems in the History of the American West
Major Problems in the History of the American West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Major Problems in the History of the American West write by Clyde A. Milner. This book was released on 1997. Major Problems in the History of the American West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This unique collection of essays and documents brings to life the major topics in American western and frontier history from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own
It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own write by Stephen A. Bly. This book was released on 2016-03-24. It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Pepper Paige is sick and tired of her life. Sick of fighting and emptiness that surround her as a dance-hall girl - and tired of fearing Jordan Beckett, a violent patron who has turned his attentions on her. Pepper gets her chance to escape when a woman injured in a stagecoach wreck dies in her room. Before she dies, the stranger - a refined, educated Christian - informs Pepper that she was on her way west to marry a rancher she knew only through his letters. Pepper decides to assume Suzanne's identity and get a fresh start on life. But unknown to Pepper, her fiancé is not really Zach, the Christian man who'd been corresponding with Suzanne. Zach has been killed by Indians, and a prison escapee named Tap Andrews has decided to pass himself off as the rancher. What happens when the pair meet? Will they end their charade and embrace the truth about each other's past, as well as the truth of God's love for them? Who will be left standing when Jordan tracks down Tap and finds out that he is about to marry Pepper?"--Back cover.
Dreams of El Dorado
Dreams of El Dorado - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dreams of El Dorado write by H. W. Brands. This book was released on 2019-10-22. Dreams of El Dorado available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope" (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the California Gold Rush and beyond. In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants' dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay-at-home cousins to shame-and how those same dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of violence against indigenous peoples and one another. The West was where riches would reward the miner's persistence, the cattleman's courage, the railroad man's enterprise; but El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East. Balanced, authoritative, and masterfully told, Dreams of El Dorado sets a new standard for histories of the American West.
Empires, Nations, and Families
Empires, Nations, and Families - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empires, Nations, and Families write by Anne Farrar Hyde. This book was released on 2011-07-01. Empires, Nations, and Families available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipulated. This was not, as Empires, Nations, and Families makes clear, virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather, the United States was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires. This book documents the broad family associations that crossed national and ethnic lines and that, along with the river systems of the trans-Mississippi West, formed the basis for a global trade in furs that had operated for hundreds of years before the land became part of the United States. ø Empires, Nations, and Families shows how the world of river and maritime trade effectively shifted political power away from military and diplomatic circles into the hands of local people. Tracing family stories from the Canadian North to the Spanish and Mexican borderlands and from the Pacific Coast to the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, Anne F. Hyde?s narrative moves from the earliest years of the Indian trade to the Mexican War and the gold rush era. Her work reveals how, in the 1850s, immigrants to these newest regions of the United States violently wrested control from Native and other powers, and how conquest and competing demands for land and resources brought about a volatile frontier culture?not at all the peace and prosperity that the new power had promised.
