As Far As The Eye Could Reach
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Author | : Phyllis S. Morgan |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2015-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806153008 |
Travelers and traders taking the Santa Fe Trail’s routes from Missouri to New Mexico wrote vivid eyewitness accounts of the diverse and abundant wildlife encountered as they crossed arid plains, high desert, and rugged mountains. Most astonishing to these observers were the incredible numbers of animals, many they had not seen before—buffalo, antelope (pronghorn), prairie dogs, roadrunners, mustangs, grizzlies, and others. They also wrote about the domesticated animals they brought with them, including oxen, mules, horses, and dogs. Their letters, diaries, and memoirs open a window onto an animal world on the plains seen by few people other than the Plains Indians who had lived there for thousands of years. Phyllis S. Morgan has gleaned accounts from numerous primary sources and assembled them into a delightfully informative narrative. She has also explored the lives of the various species, and in this book tells about their behaviors and characteristics, the social relations within and between species, their relationships with humans, and their contributions to the environment and humankind. With skillful prose and a keen eye for a priceless tale, Morgan reanimates the story of life on the Santa Fe Trail’s well-worn routes, and its sometimes violent intersection with human life. She provides a stirring view of the land and of the animals visible “as far as the eye could reach,” as more than one memoirist described. She also champions the many contributions animals made to the Trail’s success and to the opening of the American West.
Author | : Robert Bausch |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2014-11-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1620402610 |
Bobby Hale is a Union veteran several times over. After the war, he sets his sights on California, but only makes it to Montana. As he stumbles around the West, from the Wyoming Territory to the Black Hills of the Dakotas, he finds meaning in the people he meets-settlers and native people-and the violent history he both participates in and witnesses. Far as the Eye Can See is the story of life in a place where every minute is an engagement in a kind of war of survival, and how two people-a white man and a mixed-race woman-in the midst of such majesty and violence can manage to find a pathway to their own humanity. Robert Bausch is the distinguished author of a body of work that is lively and varied, but linked by a thoughtfully complicated masculinity and an uncommon empathy. The unique voice of Bobby Hale manages to evoke both Cormac McCarthy and Mark Twain, guiding readers into Indian country and the Plains Wars in a manner both historically true and contemporarily relevant, as thoughts of race and war occupy the national psyche.
Author | : David W. Cartwright |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2024-05-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385253993 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
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Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Forests and forestry |
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Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Eliakim Littell |
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Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 1862 |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs |
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Total Pages | : 992 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Alaska |
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Author | : Richard Proctor |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2023-03-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3382156741 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
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Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1850 |
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Author | : Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne |
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Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 1885 |
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