Bibliotheca Americana

Bibliotheca Americana
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Total Pages : 596
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HB9RPC
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Rating : 4/5 (PC Downloads)

Synopsis Bibliotheca Americana by : Joseph Sabin

Kit Carson Days, 1809-1868

Kit Carson Days, 1809-1868
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 524
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ISBN-10 : 0803292384
ISBN-13 : 9780803292383
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Kit Carson Days, 1809-1868 by : Edwin Legrand Sabin

Volume 1 of Kit Carson Days shows Carson running away from his Missouri home at age fifteen in 1826. He joins a caravan headed toward Santa Fe and in the coming years shuttles between poverty and prosperity as a wrangler, teamster, and trapper. He lives all over the unplotted West, helping to open trails, harvesting fur, befriending mountain men, and fighting and trading with Indians. Carson’s reputation grows after John C. Frémont engages him as guide in 1842. He proves indispensable to the Pathfinder in three expeditions and plays a part in the Bear Flag Rebellion. The first volume is an encyclopedia of activity in the West during the first part of the nineteenth century, bringing into play such figures as Ewing Young, William Ashley, Jim Bridger, Jedediah Smith, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Hugh Glass, John Colter, William Sublette, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, William Bent, Stephen Kearny, President James K. Polk, John Sutter, and Nathaniel Wyeth. This revised edition includes vivid chapters on the mountain man, his character, habits, clothing, and equipment. Volume 2 begins with Carson carrying the news of the conquest of California across the country to Washington, D.C., stopping en route to see his wife in Taos, New Mexico. The older Carson consolidates his fame as a courier, scout, soldier, and Indian agent. Americans, avid for newfound gold, turn to him as an authority on trail lore, and the government recognizes his usefulness in dealing with “the Indian problem.” Carson is seen against the larger background of incessant warfare in the Southwest after midcentury. He fights the Kiowas at Adobe Walls, chases the Apaches, and forces the Navajos into the Bosque Redondo. He fights in the Civil War and retires at fifty-eight—but dies two years later in 1868.

Captives and Cousins

Captives and Cousins
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 432
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ISBN-10 : 9780807899885
ISBN-13 : 0807899887
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Captives and Cousins by : James F. Brooks

This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among native American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century. Indigenous and colonial traditions of capture, servitude, and kinship met and meshed in the borderlands, forming a "slave system" in which victims symbolized social wealth, performed services for their masters, and produced material goods under the threat of violence. Slave and livestock raiding and trading among Apaches, Comanches, Kiowas, Navajos, Utes, and Spaniards provided labor resources, redistributed wealth, and fostered kin connections that integrated disparate and antagonistic groups even as these practices renewed cycles of violence and warfare. Always attentive to the corrosive effects of the "slave trade" on Indian and colonial societies, the book also explores slavery's centrality in intercultural trade, alliances, and "communities of interest" among groups often antagonistic to Spanish, Mexican, and American modernizing strategies. The extension of the moral and military campaigns of the American Civil War to the Southwest in a regional "war against slavery" brought differing forms of social stability but cost local communities much of their economic vitality and cultural flexibility.

The United States

The United States
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Total Pages : 408
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044086217437
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Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis The United States by : Arthur H. Clark Company

Guns on the Early Frontiers

Guns on the Early Frontiers
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 418
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ISBN-10 : 9780486140230
ISBN-13 : 0486140237
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Guns on the Early Frontiers by : Carl P. Russell

DIVThoroughly documented reference identifies guns used in America during eastern settlement and westward expansion. The highly readable survey describes those who used and sold weapons as well as those who made them. 58 rare illustrations. /div