Life, Letters and Travels of Father Pierre-Jean de Smet, S.J., 1801-1873
Author | : Pierre-Jean de Smet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Pierre-Jean de Smet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Pierre-Jean de Smet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 850 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Pierre-Jean de Smet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Pierre-Jean de Smet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : I.S. MacLaren |
Publisher | : University of Alberta |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2012-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0888645708 |
Adults need playgrounds. In 1907, the Canadian government designated a vast section of the Rocky Mountains as Jasper Forest Park. Tourists now play where Native peoples once lived, fur traders toiled, and Métis families homesteaded. In Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park, I.S. MacLaren and eight other writers unearth the largely unrecorded past of the upper Athabasca River watershed, and bring to light two centuries' worth of human history, tracing the evolution of trading routes into the Rockies' largest park. Serious history enthusiasts and those with an interest in Canada's national parks will find a sense of connection in this long overdue study of Jasper.
Author | : Detroit Public Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 874 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Dictionary catalogs |
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Author | : Barton H. Barbour |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2002-09-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806134987 |
In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri River fur trading post. Barbour explores the economic, social, legal, cultural, and political significance of the fort which was the brainchild of Kenneth McKenzie and Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and a part of John Jacob Astor's fur trade empire. From 1830 to 1867, Fort Union symbolized the power of New York and St. Louis, and later, St. Paul merchants' capital in the West. The most lucrative post on the northern plains, Fort Union affected national relations with a number of native tribes, such as the Assiniboine, Cree, Crow, Sioux, and Blackfeet. It also influenced American interactions with Great Britain, whose powerful Hudson's Bay Company competed for Upper Missouri furs. Barbour shows how Indians, mixed-bloods, Hispanic-, African-, Anglo-, and other Euro-Americans living at Fort Union created a system of community law that helped maintain their unique frontier society. Many visiting artists and scientists produced a magnificent graphic and verbal record of events and people at the post, but the old-time world of fur traders and Indians collapsed during the Civil War when political winds shifted in favor of Lincoln's Republican Party. In 1865 Chouteau lost his trade license and sold Fort Union to new operators, who had little interest in maintaining the post's former culture. Barton H. Barbour is Professor of History at Boise State University and author of Jedidiah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
Author | : Edwin S. Gaustad |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 2018-07-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1467450480 |
Up-to-date one-volume edition of a standard text For decades students and scholars have turned to the two-volume Documentary History of Religion in America for access to the most significant primary sources relating to American religious history from the sixteenth century to the present. This fourth edition—published in a single volume for the first time—has been updated and condensed, allowing instructors to more easily cover the material in a single semester. With more than a hundred illustrations and a rich array of primary documents ranging from the letters and accounts of early colonists to tweets and transcripts from the 2016 presidential election, this volume remains an essential text for readers who want to encounter firsthand the astonishing scope of religious belief and practice in American history.
Author | : Michael L. Tate |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2014-10-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806147482 |
Between 1841 and 1866, more than 500,000 people followed trails to Oregon, California, and the Salt Lake Valley in one of the greatest mass migrations in American history. This collection of travelers’ accounts of their journeys in the 1840s, the first volume in a new series of trail narratives, comprises excerpts from pioneer and missionary letters, diaries, journals, and memoirs—many previously unpublished—accompanied by biographical information and historical background. Beginning with Father Pierre-Jean de Smet’s letters relating his encounters with Plains Indians, and ending with an account of a Mormon gold miner’s journey from California to Salt Lake City, these narratives tell varied and vivid stories. Some travelers fled hard times: religious persecution, the collapse of the agricultural economy, illness, or unpredictable weather. Others looked ahead, attracted by California gold, the verdant Willamette Valley of Oregon, or the prospect of converting Native people to Christianity. Although many welcomed the adventure and adjusted to the rigors of trail life, others complained in their accounts of difficulty adapting. Remembrances of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails have yielded some of the most iconic images in American history. This and forthcoming volumes in The Great Medicine Road series present the pioneer spirit of the original overlanders supported by the rich scholarship of the past century and a half.
Author | : Mark Herbert Brown |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803260696 |
In the centuries of war between Indians and whites one episode is surely epical: the flight of the Nez Perce. Provoked by bad treaties and bitter memories, in 1877 a few Nez Perce raided homesteads in Idaho and killed their inhabitants. The raid quickly escalated into a series of skirmishes, and at last involved Chief Joseph and the ablest Nez Perce warriors in a prolonged chase by the army for over a thousand miles through Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. The band of Nez Perce astonished military experts by their tactical ingenuity, swift maneuvers, daring, and endurance. By the time the chase concluded, barely forty miles from the Canadian border, the Nez Perce had left behind a record of heroic sacrifices, spectacular escapes, and incredible courage.