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Broken Hand: The Life of Thomas Fitzpatrick: Mountain Man, Guide and Indian Agent
ISBN: 9780803272088 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Known by the Indians as "Broken Hand," Thomas Fitzpatrick was a trapper and a trailblazer who became the head of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. With Jedediah Smith he led the trapper band that discovered South Pass; he then shepherded the first two emigrant wagon trains to Oregon, was official guide to Fremont on his longest expedition, and guided Colonel Phil Kearny and his Dragoons along the westward trails to impress the Indians with howitzers and swords. Fitzpatrick negotiated the Fort Laramie treaty of 1851 at the largest council of Plains Indians ever assembled. Among the most colorful...
Known by the Indians as "Broken Hand," Thomas Fitzpatrick was a trapper and a trailblazer who became the head of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. With ...
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104,09 zł |
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Handcarts to Zion: The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856-1860
ISBN: 9780803272552 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. It is unparalleled in history, the procession of Latter-Day Saints pushing handcarts from Iowa City and Florence (Omaha) to their promised Zion by the Great Salt Lake. Many of the three thousand hardy souls who trudged across thirteen hundred miles of prairie, desert, and mountain from 1856 to 1860 were European converts to the Mormon faith. Without funds for wagons and oxen, they carried their possessions in two-wheeled carts powered and aided by their own muscle and blood. Some of the weary travelers would finally be welcomed by their brethren in Salt Lake City; others would go to wayside...
It is unparalleled in history, the procession of Latter-Day Saints pushing handcarts from Iowa City and Florence (Omaha) to their promised Zion by the...
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78,06 zł |
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The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West, Volume 7: Biographical Sketches of the Participants
ISBN: 9780806193007 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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169,12 zł |
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The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West: Biographical Sketches of the Participants by Scholars of the Subjects and with Introductions by th
ISBN: 9780870620256 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 407 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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.
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 publis...
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338,59 zł |
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Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West: Eighteen Biographical Sketches
ISBN: 9780803272101 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 401 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The legendary mountain men the fur traders and trappers who penetrated the Rocky Mountains and explored the Far West in the first half on the nineteenth century formed the vanguard of the American empire and became the heroes of American adventure. This volume brings to the general reader brief biographies of eighteen representative mountain men, selected from among the essay assembled by LeRoy R. Hafen in The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West (ten volumes, 1965-72).
The subjects and authors are: Manuel Lisa (Richard E. Oglesby); Pierre Chouteau Jr. (Janet Lecompte);... The legendary mountain men the fur traders and trappers who penetrated the Rocky Mountains and explored the Far West in the first half on the nineteen...
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88,46 zł |
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Mormon Resistance: A Documentary Account of the Utah Expedition, 1857-1858
ISBN: 9780803273573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1857 President Buchanan quietly sent new officials to rule the Utah Territory and replace Brigham Young as the territorial governor. With no official announcement, the new leaders were accompanied by a twenty-five-hundred-member troop under the leadership of Col. Albert Sidney Johnston. The secrecy, the size of the military force, and past experiences caused the Mormons to mistakenly believe they were about to be invaded by the federal government. Utah s territorial militia, the Nauvoo Legion, readied itself against the impending invasion until disagreement and disapproval in... In 1857 President Buchanan quietly sent new officials to rule the Utah Territory and replace Brigham Young as the territorial governor. ... |
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124,92 zł |
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The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West, Volume 8: Biographical Sketches of the Participants by Scholars of the Subjects and with Introduct
ISBN: 9780806194837 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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187,25 zł |
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The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West: Biographical Sketches of the Participants by Scholars of the Subjects and with Introductions by th
ISBN: 9780870620249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 401 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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.
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 publis...
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338,59 zł |
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The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West: Biographical Sketches of the Participants by Scholars of the Subjects and with Introductions by th
ISBN: 9780870620997 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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.
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 publis...
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338,59 zł |
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Trappers of the Far West: Sixteen Biographical Sketches
ISBN: 9780803272187 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the early 1800s vast fortunes were made in the international fur trade, an enterprise founded upon the effort of a few hundred trappers scattered across the American West. From their ranks came men who still command respect for their daring, skill, and resourcefulness. This volume brings together brief biographies of seventeen leaders of the western fur trade, selected from essays assembled by LeRoy R. Hafen in The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West (ten volumes, 1965-72). The subjects and authors are: Etienne Provost (LeRoy R. Hafen); James Ohio Pattie (Ann W. Hafen); Louis...
In the early 1800s vast fortunes were made in the international fur trade, an enterprise founded upon the effort of a few hundred trappers scattered a...
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124,92 zł |
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The Overland Mail, 1849-1869: Promoter of Settlement Precursor of Railroads
ISBN: 9780806136004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 361 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the development of the American West, no two decades were so full of romance and change as the years from the California gold rush of 1849 to the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869. In two decades, the West was conquered and the secession movement rose and fell. From slow ox-team and prairie schooner to the dashing Pony Express, the overland mail service mirrored these monumental strides. Originally published in 1926, "The Overland Mail" was the first scholarly work to examine the impact of the postal service on the expansion of the West as the service evolved... In the development of the American West, no two decades were so full of romance and change as the years from the California gold rush of 1849 to th... |
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138,92 zł |
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French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West
ISBN: 9780803273023 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Frenchmen were far ahead of Englishmen in the early Far West, not only prior in time but greater in numbers and in historical importance," writes Janet Lecompte in her introduction to French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West. They were the first to navigate the Mississippi and its tributaries, and they founded St. Louis and New Orleans. Though France lost her North American possessions in 1763, thousands of her natives remained on the continent. Many of them were voyageurs for Hudson's Bay Company, whose descendants would join American fur trade companies plying the...
"Frenchmen were far ahead of Englishmen in the early Far West, not only prior in time but greater in numbers and in historical importance," writes Jan...
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124,92 zł |
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Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834-1890
ISBN: 9780803272231 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 427 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. To weary travelers on the Oregon Trail during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Fort Laramie was a welcome sight. Its walls and flag-decked towers rose from the high plains, their solidity suggesting that the white man was gaining a toehold in the wilderness. Hafen and Young present the colorful history of Fort Laramie from its establishment as Fort John in 1834 to its abandonment in 1890. Early on, the fort was controlled by the American Fur Company and patronized by trappers like Jim Bridger and Kit Carson. Then it was a vital supply center and rest stop for a tide of... To weary travelers on the Oregon Trail during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Fort Laramie was a welcome sight. Its walls and flag-de... |
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72,85 zł |
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Old Spanish Trail: Santa Fe to Los Angeles
ISBN: 9780803272613 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This classic history is filled with colorful pathmarkers like Jedediah Smith, John C. Fremont, and Kit Carson; with packers, home seekers, and mail couriers; and with horse thieves and enslavers of Indian women and children."
This classic history is filled with colorful pathmarkers like Jedediah Smith, John C. Fremont, and Kit Carson; with packers, home seekers, and mail co...
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124,92 zł |
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Fur Traders, Trappers, and Mountain Men of the Upper Missouri
ISBN: 9780803272699 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. John Jacob Astor s dream of empire took shape as the American Fur Company. At Astor s retirement in 1834, this corporate monopoly reached westward from a depot on Mackinac Island to subposts beyond the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers.Fur Traders, Trappers, and Mountain Men of the Upper Missouri focuses on eighteen men who represented the American Fur Company and its successors in the Upper Missouri trade. Their biographies have been compiled from the classic ten-volume Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West, edited by LeRoy R. Hafen.These...
John Jacob Astor s dream of empire took shape as the American Fur Company. At Astor s retirement in 1834, this corporate monopoly reached westward fro...
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57,23 zł |
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To the Pike's Peak Gold Fields, 1859
ISBN: 9780803273412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Danger, hardship, and isolation could not turn back the tide of men and women who thirsted for yellow metal. The Pike's Peak gold rush of 1859 attracted as many gold seekers as the more famous California gold rush of the previous decade. In this volume, noted western historian LeRoy R. Hafen has collected invaluable Pike's Peak gold rush diaries chronicling the struggles, dreams, and heartaches of those who traveled the overland routes to untold riches. The diarists who came along the Arkansas and Platte Rivers and along trails from Texas, Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois created records of the...
Danger, hardship, and isolation could not turn back the tide of men and women who thirsted for yellow metal. The Pike's Peak gold rush of 1859 attract...
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83,25 zł |
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