Diary of William H. Hampton, 1852
Title | Diary of William H. Hampton, 1852 PDF eBook |
Author | William Perry Hampton |
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Pages | |
Release | 1852 |
Genre | Diaries |
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Diary of William H. Hampton, 1852
Title | Diary of William H. Hampton, 1852 PDF eBook |
Author | William Perry Hampton |
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Pages | |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | California |
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Title | The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF eBook |
Author | Library of Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 714 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Catalogs, Union |
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Cataloged Manuscripts and Diaries of the California Section
Title | Cataloged Manuscripts and Diaries of the California Section PDF eBook |
Author | California State Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | California |
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The Great Platte River Road
Title | The Great Platte River Road PDF eBook |
Author | Merrill J. Mattes |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 646 |
Release | 1987-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780803281530 |
The Great Platte River Road through Nebraska and Wyoming was the grand corridor of America's westward expansion. A number of famous trails converged in the broad valley of the Platte, forming a kind of primitive superhighway for the great covered wagon migration from 1841 to 1866. From jumping-off places along the Missouri River?notably the Omaha-Council Bluffs, St. Joseph, and Kansas City areas?the emigrant throngs came together at Fort Kearny, Nebraska. Although they continued on to South Pass, Wyoming, and beyond, this book focuses on the feeder mutes and the more than three hundred miles between Fort Kearny and Fort Laramie. The Great Platte River Road looks at border towns, trail routes, river crossings, stage stations, military posts, and such landmarks as Chimney Rock and Scott's Bluff. It goes far beyond geography and Indian encounters in revealing cultural aspects of the great migration: food, dress, equipment, organization, camping, traffic patterns, sex ratios, morals, manners, religion, crime, accidents, disease, death, and burial customs.
And So to Bed
Title | And So to Bed PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Pate Havlice |
Publisher | Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 720 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
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This book updates and expands on the bibliographies published by William Matthews: American Diaries (1959), British Diaries (1950), and Canadian Diaries and Autobiographies(1950). His cutoff date for American works was 1861 and for British ones, 1942. Havlice annotates diaries by more than 2,500 people published in books and periodicals.
Law for the Elephant
Title | Law for the Elephant PDF eBook |
Author | John Phillip Reid |
Publisher | |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Law |
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This book studies life on the overland trail from the point of view of the legal historian, utilizing letters, diaries, and memoirs. The greatest emphasis is placed on property and property rights, but other aspects of social behavior are also examined.