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Land grants. --- Monuments. --- Memorials. --- Trading posts. --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Fort Hall. --- Oregon Trail Memorial Association.
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Land grants. --- Monuments. --- Memorials. --- Trading posts. --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Fort Hall. --- Oregon Trail Memorial Association.
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Frontier and pioneer life --- Indians of North America --- Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765 --- Vie des pionniers --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Pontiac, Conspiration de, 1763-1765 --- California Trail --- Oregon Trail --- West (U.S.) --- Etats-Unis (Ouest) --- Description and travel --- Descriptions et voyages --- Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765. --- Indiens d'Amérique --- California National Historic Trail. --- Oregon National Historic Trail.
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Adventure and adventurers --- Oglala Indians --- History --- Social life and customs --- Oregon National Historic Trail --- Rocky Mountains --- Rocheuses, Montagnes --- Description and travel --- Descritptions et voyages --- Social life and customs. --- Oregon Trail (États-Unis) --- Indiens --- Oglala (Indiens) --- Vie des pionniers --- États-Unis (ouest) --- Descriptions et voyages --- 19e siècle --- Jusqu'à 1848
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In popular mythology, the Overland Trail is typically a triumphant tale, with plucky easterners crossing the Plains in caravans of covered wagons. But not everyone reached Oregon and California. Some 6,600 migrants perished along the way and were buried where they fell, often on Indigenous land. As historian Sarah Keyes illuminates, their graves ultimately became the seeds of U.S. expansion.By the 1850s, cholera epidemics, ordinary diseases, and violence had remade the Trail into an American burial ground that imbued migrant deaths with symbolic power. In subsequent decades, U.S. officials and citizens leveraged Trail graves to claim Native ground. Meanwhile, Indigenous peoples pointed to their own sacred burial grounds to dispute these same claims and maintain their land. These efforts built on anti-removal campaigns of the 1820s and 30s, which had established the link between death and territorial claims on which the significance of the Overland Trail came to rest.In placing death at the center of the history of the Overland Trail, American Burial Ground offers a sweeping and long overdue reinterpretation of this historic touchstone. In this telling, westward migration was a harrowing journey weighed down by the demands of caring for the sick and dying. From a tale of triumph comes one of struggle, defined as much by Indigenous peoples' actions as it was by white expansion. And, finally, from a migration to the Pacific emerges instead one of a trail of graves. Graves that ultimately undergirded Native dispossession.
Overland journeys to the Pacific --- History. --- American West. --- California Trail. --- Cherokee. --- Cheyenne. --- Chickasaw. --- Death. --- Donner Party. --- Great Plains. --- Indian Country. --- Indian removal. --- Lakota. --- Manifest Destiny. --- Native Americans. --- Oregon Trail. --- Overland Trail. --- Pawnee. --- Pioneers. --- Seminole. --- Trail of Tears. --- Westward Expansion. --- activism. --- burial practices grounds. --- burials. --- cholera outbreaks. --- covered wagons. --- farmers. --- landmarks. --- maps. --- memorials. --- myth mythology. --- nineteenth century. --- place making. --- settler colonialism. --- territorial claims. --- territory. --- westward migration.
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Set in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, the stories are a loosely tied string of old timer's yarns with a continuing cast of engaging characters, whom Kiskaddon avoids reducing to cowboy stereotypes. They include, as Siems describes them, ""Kiskaddon himself as the character Shorty. As a common waddy with a small man's feistiness and a young man's mischief, Shorty encounters the wicked world with a succession of companions: Bill, high-headed and a bit of an outlaw; Rildy Briggs, untamable and unstoppable young cowgirl; and Ike, an old-fashioned dandy and 'a very fortunate person.' More
Cowboys. --- Ranch life. --- West (U.S.). --- Ranch life --- Cowboys --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- West (U.S.) --- Bronco busters --- Broncobusters --- Buckaroos --- Buckeroos --- Stockmen (Animal industry) --- Vaqueiros --- Vaqueros --- Cattle herders --- Horsemen and horsewomen --- Gauchos --- Farm life --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Overland journeys to the Pacific. --- Mormon Church --- Shoshoni Indians --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Government relations. --- United States. --- California National Historic Trail. --- Oregon National Historic Trail. --- Transcontinental journeys (United States) --- Travels --- Voyages and travels --- Shoshone Indians --- Snake Indians --- Indians of North America --- Numic Indians --- Shoshonean Indians --- Utah Superintendency (United States. Office of Indian Affairs) --- California Trail --- Saint Joe Road --- Oregon Trail --- Overland Trails
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This compilation of Dale Morgan's historical work on Indians in the Intermountain West focuses primarily on the Shoshone who lived near the Oregon and California trails. Three connected works by Morgan are included: First is his classic article on the history of the Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs. This is followed by a previously unpublished history of early relations among the Western Shoshoni, emigrants, and the government along the California Trail. The book concludes with an important set of government reports and correspondence from the National Archives concerning the Eastern Shoshone and their leader Washakie. Morgan heavily annotated these for serial publication in the Annals of Wyoming. He also wrote a previously unpublished history of early relations among the Western Shoshone, emigrants, and the government along the California Trail. Morgan biographer Richard L. Saunders introduces, edits, and further annotates this collection. His introduction includes an intellectual biography of Morgan that focuses on the place of the anthologized pieces in Morgan's corpus. Gregory E. Smoak, a leading historian of the Shoshone, contributes an ethnohistorical essay as additional context for Morgan's work.
California National Historic Trail. --- Mormon Church - History. --- Mormon Church -- History. --- Oregon National Historic Trail. --- Overland journeys to the Pacific. --- Shoshoni Indians - Government relations. --- Shoshoni Indians -- Government relations. --- Shoshoni Indians - History. --- Shoshoni Indians -- History. --- Shoshoni Indians - Social conditions. --- Shoshoni Indians -- Social conditions. --- United States - History. --- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Utah Superintendency -- History. --- Shoshoni Indians --- Mormon Church --- Overland journeys to the Pacific --- Transcontinental journeys (United States) --- Shoshone Indians --- Snake Indians --- Utah Superintendency (United States. Office of Indian Affairs) --- California Trail --- Oregon Trail --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Government relations. --- United States. --- Travels --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Voyages and travels --- Indians of North America --- Numic Indians --- Shoshonean Indians --- Saint Joe Road --- Overland Trails --- Latter Day Saint churches --- Mormonism --- Christian sects
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Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick join their inimitable talents to explore our national preoccupation with this uniquely American image. Richard White examines the two most enduring stories of the frontier, both told in Chicago in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition. One was Frederick Jackson Turner's remarkably influential lecture, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"; the other took place in William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's flamboyant extravaganza, "The Wild West." Turner recounted the peaceful settlement of an empty continent, a tale that placed Indians at the margins. Cody's story put Indians-and bloody battles-at center stage, and culminated with the Battle of the Little Bighorn, popularly known as "Custer's Last Stand." Seemingly contradictory, these two stories together reveal a complicated national identity.Patricia Limerick shows how the stories took on a life of their own in the twentieth century and were then reshaped by additional voices-those of Indians, Mexicans, African-Americans, and others, whose versions revisit the question of what it means to be an American.Generously illustrated, engagingly written, and peopled with such unforgettable characters as Sitting Bull, Captain Jack Crawford, and Annie Oakley, The Frontier in American Culture reminds us that despite the divisions and denials the western movement sparked, the image of the frontier unites us in surprising ways.
Frontier and pioneer life --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Pioneers --- History --- Turner, Frederick Jackson, --- Buffalo Bill, --- Cody, William Frederick, --- Cody, William F. --- Bill, --- Cody, W. F. --- Cody, Buffalo Bill, --- Cody, Bill, --- Tʻe-na, --- Tʻe-na, Fo-lei-te-li-kʻo Chieh-kʻo-hsün, --- Turner, F. J. --- F. J. T. --- T., F. J. --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Exhibitions --- Exhibitions. --- West (U. S.) --- History of North America --- anno 1800-1999 --- american culture. --- american hero. --- american history. --- american west. --- annie oakley. --- buffalo bill. --- columbian exposition. --- cowboys. --- custer. --- empty continent. --- folk tales. --- folklore. --- frontier. --- indians. --- indigenous peoples. --- jack crawford. --- land rights. --- little bighorn. --- log cabins. --- manifest destiny. --- military. --- national identity. --- native americans. --- nonfiction. --- oregon trail. --- pioneers. --- popular culture. --- settler colonialism. --- settlers. --- settling the west. --- sitting bull. --- wagon trains. --- western movement. --- western. --- wild west show. --- wild west.
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