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Author | : Myrna Kostash |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Fur trade |
ISBN | : 9781926455532 |
Period accounts and journals, histories, memoirs, songs and fictional retellings are used to provide a history of the Fur Trade Wars, with a focus on the Battle of Seven Oaks in 1816.
Author | : Lawrence J. Barkwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2010-01 |
Genre | : Seven Oaks, Battle of, Man., 1816 |
ISBN | : 9780980991291 |
Author | : Gustavus Woodson Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Fair Oaks, Battle of, Va., 1862 |
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Author | : George Colpitts |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107044901 |
Pemmican Empire explores the fascinating and little-known environmental history of the role of pemmican (bison fat) in the opening of the British-American West.
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Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Fur trade |
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Author | : Marc R. Matrana |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1604736399 |
Along the fertile banks of the Mississippi River across from New Orleans, planter Camille Zeringue transformed a mediocre colonial plantation into a thriving gem of antebellum sugar production, complete with a columned mansion known as Seven Oaks. Under the moss-strewn oaks, the privileged master nurtured his own family, but enslaved many others. Excelling at agriculture, business, an ambitious canal enterprise, and local politics, Zeringue ascended to the very pinnacle of southern society. But his empire soon came crashing down. After the ravages of the Civil War and a nasty battle with a railroad company the family eventually lost the great estate. Seven Oaks ultimately ended up in the hands of distant railroad executives whose only desire was to rid themselves of this heap of history. Lost Plantation: The Rise and Fall of Seven Oaks tells both of Zeringue's climb to the top and of his legacy's eventual ruin. Preservationists and community members abhorred the railroad's indifferent attitude, and the question of the plantation mansion's fate fueled years of fiery, political battles. These hard-fought confrontations ended in 1977 when the exasperated railroad executives sent bulldozers through the decaying house. By analyzing one failed effort, Lost Plantation provides insight into the complex workings of American historical preservation efforts as a whole, while illustrating how southerners deal with their multifaceted past. The rise and fall of Seven Oaks is much more than just a local tragedy-it is a glaring example of how any community can be robbed of its history. Now, as parishes around New Orleans recognize the great aesthetic and monetary value of restoring plantation homes and attracting tourism, Jefferson Parish mourns a manor lost. Marc R. Matrana, Westwego, Louisiana, is a local historian and preservationist. See the author's site.
Author | : Katherena Vermette |
Publisher | : Portage & Main Press |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2017-12-05 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1553797353 |
Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee’s history class turns extraordinary, and Echo’s life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee’s lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place—a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie—and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and forth in time. She visits a Métis camp, travels the old fur-trade routes, and experiences the perilous and bygone era of the Pemmican Wars. Pemmican Wars is the first graphic novel in a new series, A Girl Called Echo, by Governor General Award–winning writer, and author of Highwater Press’ The Seven Teaching Stories, Katherena Vermette.
Author | : Robert P. Broadwater |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786485434 |
In the spring of 1862, Union Major General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac launched a bloody offensive up the Virginia Peninsula in an effort to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond. This study chronicles the pivotal but often overlooked turning point of the Peninsula Campaign--the Battle of Fair Oaks, also known as Seven Pines. At Fair Oaks, Confederate troops succeeded in driving back Union forces from the edge of Richmond before the Union troops stabilized their position. Though both sides claimed victory, the battle marked the end of the Union offensive. Robert E. Lee, J.E.B. Stuart, and Winfield Scott Hancock all rose to national prominence for their roles at Fair Oaks, while McClellan saw his reputation ruined. In the end, the legacy of Fair Oaks is one of missed chances and faulty execution, ensuring the war would continue for nearly three more years.
Author | : James Longstreet |
Publisher | : Philadelphia : Lippincott |
Total Pages | : 852 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Jim Stempel |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786485604 |
It is commonly accepted that the South could never have won the Civil War. By chronicling perhaps the best of the South's limited opportunities to turn the tide, this provocative study argues that Confederate victory was indeed possible. On June 30, 1862, at a small Virginia crossroads known as Glendale, Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee sliced the retreating Army of the Potomac in two and came remarkably close to destroying their Federal foe. Only a string of command miscues on the part of the Confederates--and a stunning command failure by Stonewall Jackson--enabled the Union army to escape a defeat that day, one that may well have vaulted the South to its independence. Never before or after would the Confederacy come as close to transforming American history as it did at the Battle of Glendale.