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Author | : Barbara L. Skipper Edd |
Publisher | : Outskirts Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2010-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781432763909 |
Amasa Clark's Journey: The Road from New York to Texas In 1847, at the age of 21, Amasa Clark answered the call to arms and joined the United States Army near Troy, New York. Little did he know that he was beginning an odyssey that would take him to fight in the Mexican War and ultimately leave him in Texas to become one of that state's most important pioneers. Amasa Clark became a freighter, a shingle-maker, and a successful farmer. He showed that fruit trees, particularly pear trees, would grow in the Central Texas climate and soil. He worked at the Alamo and hunted with the Indians before trading a yoke of oxen and a six-shooter for a farm near Bandera, Texas. This book chronicles his life in he 1800's including the War in Mexico, an attack by robbers near San Antonio, friendly and unfriendly Indians, working with the camels at Camp Verde, the difficult years of the Civil War, three marriages and nineteen children. This Texana book endeavors to give color and dimension to Amasa Clark's life by weaving his story with the history and culture of early New York and Texas.
Author | : Amasa Gleason Clark |
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Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : Bandera (Tex.) |
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Author | : Kevin J. Hayes |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2012-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199862079 |
A spirited and lively introduction to American literature, this book acquaints readers with the key authors, works, and events in the nation's rich and ecclectic literary tradition.
Author | : John C. Pinheiro |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2014-03-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199948682 |
Winner of the Fr. Paul J. Foik Award from the Texas Catholic Historical Society The term "Manifest Destiny" has traditionally been linked to U.S. westward expansion in the nineteenth century, the desire to spread republican government, and racialist theories like Anglo-Saxonism. Yet few people realize the degree to which Manifest Destiny and American republicanism relied on a deeply anti-Catholic civil-religious discourse. John C. Pinheiro traces the rise to prominence of this discourse, beginning in the 1820s and culminating in the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. Pinheiro begins with social reformer and Protestant evangelist Lyman Beecher, who was largely responsible for synthesizing seemingly unrelated strands of religious, patriotic, expansionist, and political sentiment into one universally understood argument about the future of the United States. When the overwhelmingly Protestant United States went to war with Catholic Mexico, this "Beecherite Synthesis" provided Americans with the most important means of defining their own identity, understanding Mexicans, and interpreting the larger meaning of the war. Anti-Catholic rhetoric constituted an integral piece of nearly every major argument for or against the war and was so universally accepted that recruiters, politicians, diplomats, journalists, soldiers, evangelical activists, abolitionists, and pacifists used it. It was also, Pinheiro shows, the primary tool used by American soldiers to interpret Mexico's culture. All this activity in turn reshaped the anti-Catholic movement. Preachers could now use caricatures of Mexicans to illustrate Roman Catholic depravity and nativists could point to Mexico as a warning about what America would be like if dominated by Catholics. Missionaries of Republicanism provides a critical new perspective on Manifest Destiny, American republicanism, anti-Catholicism, and Mexican-American relations in the nineteenth century.
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Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Military engineering |
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"Directory of members, constitution and by-laws of the Society of American Military Engineers, 1935" inserted in v. 27.
Author | : Jacqueline Morley |
Publisher | : Franklin Watts |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780531259429 |
This best-selling series engages readers of all levels by making them part of the story. Readers will become the main character and can revel in the gory and dark sides of life throughout important moments in history. Key Features:Perfect resource for reluctant readers with: humor and history tied to curriculum entertaining sidebars to pique reader's curiosity comprehensive glossary to support content index to make navigating subject matter easier
Author | : Randolph (Mass.) |
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Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1852 |
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Author | : Edward Leo Lyman |
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Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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"Historian Edward Leo Lyman has provided the first history of the complete Southern Route, and of the people who developed and used it. Based on extensive research in primary sources - including many early travelers accounts - and on Lyman's own investigation of the route and its branches, the book discusses the exploration and development of the Old Spanish Trail. Its horse thieves and traders, including Jedediah Smith and Kit Carson, along with government explorer John C. Fremont. Developing the old pack mule trail as a wagon road between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, miners heading for the California gold fields first used the route extensively.
Author | : Jules Remy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : California |
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Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1990 |
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