James Pierson Beckwourth, 1856-1866, an Enigmatic Figure of the 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 James Pierson Beckwourth, 1856-1866, an Enigmatic Figure of the West write by Nolie Mumey. This book was released on 1957. James Pierson Beckwourth, 1856-1866, an Enigmatic Figure of the West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Explorers of the American West
Explorers 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 Explorers of the American West write by Jay H. Buckley. This book was released on 2016-03-28. Explorers of the American West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With original primary source documents, this anthology brings readers into the vast unknown 19th-century American West—through the eyes of the explorers who saw it for the first time. This volume brings together book excerpts, maps, and illustrations from 12 explorers from the 19th century, highlighting their lives and contributions. Arranged chronologically, the 10 chapters focus on individual explorers, with biographies and background information about and document excerpts from each person. The chapters offer analyses of each document's relevance to the historical period, geographic knowledge, and cultural perspective. This guide shares the important contributions from explorers like Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike, Jedediah Smith, James P. Beckwourth, John C. Fremont, Susan Magoffin, and John Wesley Powell. It also nurtures readers' historical literacy by modeling historians' methods of analyzing primary sources. Readers will see new and familiar events from different perspectives, including that of a woman traveling along the Santa Fe Trail, one of the most famous African American mountain men, and a Civil War veteran, among many others.
James Beckwourth
James Beckwourth - 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 James Beckwourth write by Ann S. Manheimer. This book was released on 2005-09-01. James Beckwourth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A biography of the African American pioneer.
Blacks in the American West and Beyond--America, Canada, and Mexico
Blacks in the American West and Beyond--America, Canada, and Mexico - 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 Blacks in the American West and Beyond--America, Canada, and Mexico write by George H. Junne. This book was released on 2000-05-30. Blacks in the American West and Beyond--America, Canada, and Mexico available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Almost a century before their arrival in the English New World, Blacks appeared alongside the Spanish in what is now the American West. Through their families, communities, and institutions, these Western Blacks left behind a long history, which is just now beginning to receive systematic scholarly treatment. Comprehensively indexing a variety of research materials on Blacks in the North American West, Junne offers an invaluable navigational tool for students of American and African-American history. Entries are organized both geographically and topically, and cover a broad range of subjects including cross-cultural interaction, health, art, and law. Contains a complete compilation of African-American newspapers.
Jim Bridger
Jim Bridger - 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 Jim Bridger write by Jerry Enzler. This book was released on 2021-04-29. Jim Bridger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. His adventures are fit for remaking into the tall tales Bridger himself liked to tell. Here, in a biography that finally gives this outsize character his due, Jerry Enzler takes this frontiersman’s full measure for the first time—and tells a story that would do Jim Bridger proud. Born in 1804 and orphaned at thirteen, Bridger made his first western foray in 1822, traveling up the Missouri River with Mike Fink and a hundred enterprising young men to trap beaver. At twenty he “discovered” the Great Salt Lake. At twenty-one he was the first to paddle the Bighorn River’s Bad Pass. At twenty-two he explored the wonders of Yellowstone. In the following years, he led trapping brigades into Blackfeet territory; guided expeditions of Smithsonian scientists, topographical engineers, and army leaders; and, though he could neither read nor write, mapped the tribal boundaries for the Great Indian Treaty of 1851. Enzler charts Bridger’s path from the fort he built on the Oregon Trail to the route he blazed for Montana gold miners to avert war with Red Cloud and his Lakota coalition. Along the way he married into the Flathead, Ute, and Shoshone tribes and produced seven children. Tapping sources uncovered in the six decades since the last documented Bridger biography, Enzler’s book fully conveys the drama and details of the larger-than-life history of the “King of the Mountain Men.” This is the definitive story of an extraordinary life.
