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Site for the proposed Fort Hall monument. January 18, 1927. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
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Year: 1927 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : [U.S. Government Printing Office],

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Site for the proposed Fort Hall monument. January 18, 1927. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.
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Year: 1927 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : [U.S. Government Printing Office],

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The Oregon trail, the conspiracy of Pontiac
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ISBN: 0940450542 Year: 1991 Volume: 53 Publisher: New York Library of America


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La Piste de l'Oregon : à travers la Prairie et les Rocheuses (1846-1847)
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ISBN: 2228886793 Year: 1993 Volume: 153 Publisher: Paris : Editions Payot & Rivages,


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American Burial Ground : A New History of the Overland Trail.
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ISBN: 1512824526 Year: 2023 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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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.

Shorty's yarns : western stories and poems of Bruce Kiskaddon
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ISBN: 0874215803 9786613283443 1283283441 0874215293 9780874215298 087421579X 9780874215793 9780874215809 0874214971 9780874214970 Year: 2004 Publisher: Utah State University, University Libraries

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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

Shoshonean Peoples and the Overland Trail : Frontiers of the Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1849–1869
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ISBN: 0874216516 9786613283535 0874216672 1283283530 9780874216677 9780874216516 9781283283533 6613283533 Year: 2007 Publisher: Utah State University, University Libraries

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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.

The frontier in American culture : an exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994 - January 7, 1995
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ISBN: 1283382121 9786613382122 0520915321 0585115508 9780520915329 9780585115504 9780520088436 0520088433 9780520088443 0520088441 0520088433 0520088441 9781283382120 6613382124 Year: 1994 Publisher: Chicago : Berkeley : Library ; University of California Press,

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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.

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