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Road to War, Volume 36: The 1871 Yellowstone Surveys
ISBN: 9780870624292 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) By 1870, only one group of American Indians in the 300,000 square miles of the Dakota and Montana Territories still held firm against being placed on reservations: a few thousand Teton Sioux and Northern Cheyennes, all followers of the charismatic Sitting Bull. It was then that Philadelphia's Jay Cooke, "the financier of the Civil War," a man who believed that he was "God's chosen instrument," funded a second transcontinental railroad. This line, the Northern Pacific, would follow the Yellowstone River through Montana, separating the last buffalo herds from Sitting Bull's people... By 1870, only one group of American Indians in the 300,000 square miles of the Dakota and Montana Territories still held firm against being pla... |
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Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey: A Documentary History
ISBN: 9780806192154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Gathers firsthand accounts from the correspondents, diarists, and reporters who accompanied the expedition to survey the Northern Pacific railroad. The book will fascinate Custer fans and anyone interested in the history of the American West.
Gathers firsthand accounts from the correspondents, diarists, and reporters who accompanied the expedition to survey the Northern Pacific railroad. Th...
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97,50 |
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A Million Dollars an Ounce
ISBN: 9781983417139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Before Custer, Volume 33: Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872
ISBN: 9780870624315 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Hoping to complete its transcontinental route, the Northern Pacific Railroad set out in 1872 to survey the Yellowstone Valley. An emissary from the Lakota chief Sitting Bull had warned the two surveying expeditions (eastern and western) not to enter the valley. But no one--certainly no Northern Pacific investor--was worried about taking the Indian threat seriously. As it turned out, the Indians were deadly serious--and successful. The firsthand accounts compiled here by M. John Lubetkin document the survey's three-month struggle with the Lakotas and other Plains Indian... Hoping to complete its transcontinental route, the Northern Pacific Railroad set out in 1872 to survey the Yellowstone Valley. An emissary from... |
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141,40 |
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Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873
ISBN: 9780806144689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In 1869, Jay Cooke, the brilliant but idiosyncratic American banker, decided to finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned from Duluth, Minnesota, to Seattle. M. John Lubetkin tells how Cooke's gamble reignited war with the Sioux, rescued George Armstrong Custer from obscurity, created Yellowstone Park, pushed frontier settlement four hundred miles westward, and triggered the Panic of 1873. In 1869, Jay Cooke, the brilliant but idiosyncratic American banker, decided to finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned f... |
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