Voices from the Platte River Road
Title | Voices from the Platte River Road PDF eBook |
Author | Bonnie K. Brennan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Pioneers |
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Children's Voices from the Trail
Title | Children's Voices from the Trail PDF eBook |
Author | Rosemary Gudmundson Palmer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
Voices from the Trail
Title | Voices from the Trail PDF eBook |
Author | Rosemary Gudmundson Palmer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 586 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Autobiographical memory |
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Voices of the American West
Title | Voices of the American West PDF eBook |
Author | Eli Seavey Ricker |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 080323967X |
In this second volume of interviews conducted by Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker, he focuses on white eyewitnesses and participants in the occupying and settling of the American West in the nineteenth century. In the first decade of the twentieth century, as the Old West became increasingly distant and romanticized in popular consciousness, Eli S. Ricker (1842–1926) began interviewing those who had experienced it firsthand, hoping to write a multivolume series about its last days, centering on the conflicts between Natives and outsiders. For years Ricker traveled across the northern Plains, gathering information on and off reservations, in winter and in summer. Judge Ricker never wrote his book, but his interviews are priceless sources of information about that time and place, and they offer more balanced perspectives on events than were accepted at the time. Richard E. Jensen brings together all of Ricker’s interviews with those men and women who came to the American West from elsewhere—settlers, homesteaders, and veterans. These interviews shed light on such key events as the massacre at Wounded Knee, the Little Bighorn battle, Beecher Island, Lightning Creek, the Mormon cow incident, and the Washita massacre. Also of interest are glimpses of everyday life at different agencies, including Pine Ridge, Yellow Medicine, and Fort Sill School; brief though revealing memoirs; and snapshots of cattle drives, conflicts with Natives, and the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Eagle Voice Remembers
Title | Eagle Voice Remembers PDF eBook |
Author | John G. Neihardt |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2021-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0803283989 |
“[Eagle Voice Remembers] is John Neihardt’s mature and reflective interpretation of the old Sioux way of life. He served as a translator of the Sioux past, whose audience has proved not to be limited by space or time. Through Neihardt’s writings Black Elk, Eagle Elk, and other old men who were of that last generation of Sioux to have participated in the old buffalo-hunting life and the disorienting period of strife with the U.S. Army found a literary voice. What they say chronicles a dramatic transition in the life of the Plains Indians; the record of their thoughts, interpreted by Neihardt, is a legacy preserved for the future. It transcends the specifics of this one tragic case of cultural misunderstanding and conflict and speaks to universal human concerns. It is a story worth contemplating both for itself and for the lessons it teaches all humanity.”—from the introduction by Raymond J. DeMallie In her foreword Coralie Hughes discusses John G. Neihardt’s intention that this book, formerly titled When the Tree Flowered, be understood as a prequel to his classic Black Elk Speaks. In this new edition David C. Posthumus adds clarity through his annotations, introducing Eagle Voice Remembers to a new generation of readers and presenting a fresh understanding for fans of the original.
The Great Medicine Road, Part 2
Title | The Great Medicine Road, Part 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Will Bagley |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2015-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0806153199 |
During the early weeks of 1848, as U.S. congressmen debated the territorial status of California, a Swiss immigrant and an itinerant millwright forever altered the future state’s fate. Building a sawmill for Johann August Sutter, James Wilson Marshall struck gold. The rest may be history, but much of the story of what happened in the following year is told not in history books but in the letters, diaries, journals, and other written recollections of those whom the California gold rush drew west. In this second installment in the projected four-part collection The Great Medicine Road: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, the hardy souls who made the arduous trip tell their stories in their own words. Seven individuals’ tales bring to life a long-ago year that enriched some, impoverished others, and forever changed the face of North America. Responding to often misleading promotional literature, adventurers made their way west via different routes. Following the Carson River through the Sierra Nevada, or taking the Lassen Route to the Sacramento Valley, they passed through the Mormon Zion of Great Salt Lake City and traded with and often displaced Native Americans long familiar with the trails. Their accounts detail these encounters, as well as the gritty realities of everyday life on the overland trails. They narrate events, describe the vast and diverse landscapes they pass through, and document a journey as strange and new to them as it is to many readers today. Through these travelers’ diaries and memoirs, readers can relive a critical moment in the remaking of the West—and appreciate what a difference one year can make in the life of a nation.
A Voice of the Old West
Title | A Voice of the Old West PDF eBook |
Author | James McGee |
Publisher | Author House |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2005-02-22 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1463478453 |
An extraordinary picture of life in the Old West of 19th century Colorado mining towns as seen through the poetry of a talented woman. The poems touch universal human concerns: The laments of lost youth and of getting older, poems of love and of grief, of nature and of maternal experiences. In addition, there are stories of the times: the suicide of a local prostitute, a “Hiawatha”-like Indian story, a humorous story of a cowboy whose demise resulted because “he ate his pie with a fork” and mining stories from Leadville, Cripple Creek and other places. Some of the writings are almost unbearably poignant and others will bring out-loud laughter.