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Author : Preston Holder
Release : 1970
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Book Synopsis The hoe and the horse on the Plains by : Preston Holder
Download or read book The hoe and the horse on the Plains written by Preston Holder. This book was released on 1970. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Preston Holder
Release : 1974-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Hoe and the Horse on the Plains by : Preston Holder
Download or read book The Hoe and the Horse on the Plains written by Preston Holder. This book was released on 1974-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the agricultural and hunter societies affected relations with the coming of the white man.
Author : Walter Nugent
Release : 1999-10-22
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The American West by : Walter Nugent
Download or read book The American West written by Walter Nugent. This book was released on 1999-10-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American West has generated exceptional attention in the past few years, and new scholarship and interpretations have enriched and enlivened the study of its history. Each of the seventeen exciting and provocative essays chosen for this book illuminates an important topic in Western history. Three opening essays by the editors define the West as frontier and region, and place American frontiers in comparative context. Then follow essays that consider women's property rights in Spanish-Mexican California; the mountain men and national identity; Indians and bison on the Great Plains in the early nineteenth century; the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848; the Latter-day Saints from 1830 to 1890; the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 as a case of Indian-white conflict; cowboys as wage workers in the 1880s; homesteading and the homesteading ideal; miners and ethnic conflict in early-twentieth-century Arizona; the Great Depression in Idaho; how World War II changed Los Angeles; Japanese-American women in World War II; African Americans in the West; and the Pacific Northwest since 1945. The editors also provide a general introduction to the study of Western history and a time line of important events.
Author : David J. Wishart
Release : 1995-06-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis An Unspeakable Sadness by : David J. Wishart
Download or read book An Unspeakable Sadness written by David J. Wishart. This book was released on 1995-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the interactions between American Indians and Euro-Americans, none was as fundamental as the acquisition of the indigenous peoples’ lands. To Euro-Americans this takeover of lands was seen as a natural right, an evolution to a higher use; to American Indians the loss of homelands was a tragedy involving also a loss of subsistence, a loss of history, and a loss of identity. Historical geographer David J. Wishart tells the story of the dispossession process as it affected the Nebraska Indians—Otoe-Missouria, Ponca, Omaha, and Pawnee—over the course of the nineteenth century. Working from primary documents, and including American Indian voices, Wishart analyzes the spatial and ecological repercussions of dispossession. Maps give the spatial context of dispossession, showing how Indian societies were restricted to ever smaller territories where American policies of social control were applied with increasing intensity. Graphs of population loss serve as reference lines for the narrative, charting the declining standards of living over the century of dispossession. Care is taken to support conclusions with empirical evidence, including, for example, specific details of how much the Indians were paid for their lands. The story is told in a language that is free from jargon and is accessible to a general audience.
Author : Andrew C. Isenberg
Release : 2020-03-26
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Destruction of the Bison by : Andrew C. Isenberg
Download or read book The Destruction of the Bison written by Andrew C. Isenberg. This book was released on 2020-03-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise environmental history of the near-extinction of the bison from the mid-eighteenth century to the present.
