The Exploration of Western America, 1800-1850
Title | The Exploration of Western America, 1800-1850 PDF eBook |
Author | E. W. Gilbert |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2013-10-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107683696 |
This book, first published in 1933, discusses the exploration of the western area of what became the United States.
Exploration of the American West, 1800-1850
Title | Exploration of the American West, 1800-1850 PDF eBook |
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Pages | 160 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | West (U.S.) |
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The Exploration of Western America
Title | The Exploration of Western America PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund William Gilbert |
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Pages | |
Release | 1933 |
Genre | Discoveries in geography |
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The Exploration of Western America, 1800-1850... by E. W. Gilbert,...
Title | The Exploration of Western America, 1800-1850... by E. W. Gilbert,... PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund William Gilbert |
Publisher | |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 1933 |
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The Exploration of Western America. 1800-1850
Title | The Exploration of Western America. 1800-1850 PDF eBook |
Author | E. V. Gilbert |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1933 |
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The American West
Title | The American West PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Hatt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 70 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
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Surveys the settling of the American West, using excerpts from contemporary sources to highlight the original Native American inhabitants, the arrival of fur traders, the Gold Rush, Mormon migrations, the growth of cattle-ranching, and more.
Three Frontiers
Title | Three Frontiers PDF eBook |
Author | Dean L. May |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 1994-08-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521434997 |
This book explores the values and aspirations of settlers in the Far West. It compares rural people who settled in the Willamette Valley in the 1840s, the Utah Valley in the 1850s, and the Boise Valley in the 1860s. The Oregon and Utah settlers tried with differing degrees of success to resist the modernizing trends represented by Idaho, but ultimately adopted the individualistic, commercial, and acquisitive values that prevailed in the New West. How did Americans move away from a culture centering on family and kin and from attitudes that valued and protected the land, not for its commercial worth, but as the base of support for future generations? What led to our present tendency to pursue individual pleasure and material well-being at the expense of communal and broader societal well-being? These are questions central to this comparative study of three peoples who pioneered the American frontiers.