Taming the West
Author: Darren Sechrist
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Published: 2008-09
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780778741886
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An introduction to westward expansion in the United States in graphic form.
Author: Darren Sechrist
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Published: 2008-09
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780778741886
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An introduction to westward expansion in the United States in graphic form.
Author: Christian Tyler
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780813535333
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Closed to the world for half a century, like a black hole in the Asian landmass, the wilderness of Xinjiang in northwest China is returning to the light. The picture it presents is both fascinating and disturbing. Despite a savage landscape and climate, Xinjiang has a rich past: sand-buried cities, painted cave shrines, rare creatures, and wonderfully preserved mummies of European appearance. Their descendants, the Uighurs, still farm the tranquil oases that ring the dreaded Taklamakan, the world's second largest sand desert, and the Kazakh and Kirghiz herdsmen still roam the mountains. The region's history, however, has been punctuated by violence, usually provoked by ambitious outsiders--nomad chieftains from the north, Muslim emirs from Central Asia, Russian generals, or warlords from inner China. The Chinese regard the far west as a barbarian land. Only in the 1760s did they subdue it, and even then their rule was repeatedly broken. Compared with the Russians' conquest of Siberia, or the Americans' trek west, China's colonization of Xinjiang has been late and difficult. The Communists have done most to develop it, as a penal colony, as a buffer against invasion, and as a supplier of raw materials and living space for an overpopulated country. But what China sees as its property, the Uighurs regard as theft by an alien occupier. Tension has led to violence and savage reprisals. This portrait of Xinjiang should be essential reading for travelers and for anyone interested in today's China and the fate of minority peoples.
Author: Joseph G. Rosa
Publisher: Smithmark Pub
Published: 1993-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780861016457
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Text and photographs chronicle the rise of the gunfighter in the history of the American West.
Author: Francis Lynde
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-11-29
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The Taming of Red Butte Western" by Francis Lynde is a story about courage and love and how uneasily civilization rested upon places where neither the people nor the land wanted very much to change. Taking place in the American west and using the United States railway system as its centerpiece, this book shows the persistent strife of people versus the elements, and how, no matter how much you try, you can't fully dominate the elements.
Author: James M. McPherson
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Read about the Old West and its people.
Author: Marilynn S. Johnson
Publisher: Waveland Press
Published: 2014-06-05
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1478623047
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Generations of Americans have developed an image of violence in the “Wild West” through books and films. But what conditions really resulted in violence on the American frontier between the 1880s and 1910s? How frequently did violence occur, and what forms did it take? Johnson explores these questions through the lens of the mining and range wars that plagued the region during this period. The author opens with an introductory essay that situates violence within social, political, and economic circumstances of the time, considering smaller cases of interpersonal violence and larger conflicts. Documents are then presented to illuminate two case studies of collective violence—the Johnson County range war in northern Wyoming and the 1913–1914 coal strike in southern Colorado resulting in the Ludlow Massacre. The closing epilogue examines the role both incidents played in shaping the collective memory and cultural history of the American West. The book’s format provides readers with both a general understanding of the history of western violence and the context of specific historical cases that allow for more in-depth study and comparison.
Author: David R. Phillips
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780809284023
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Publisher: WW Norton
Published: 2016-11-08
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 0789260662
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Interact with the story of America’s frontier through the detailed paintings of America’s foremost historical artist, Mort Künstler Künstler’s paintings bring history to life with striking portrayals of the events of America’s Wild West, starting in 1804, when Lewis and Clark made their first expeditions, to 1890, when the American frontier was declared “vanished.” The epic artworks faithfully capture the incredible landscapes, explorations, and battles of this important period, and ask children to look again and again for special details, such as the feathers in an American Indian chief’s headdress to the type of horse a cattleman rides. Together with text by award-winning historian James I. Robertson, Jr., these brilliantly explicit paintings engage a young reader’s attention and introduce him or her to American history through the visual arts. Lauded by both historians and curators, Künstler presents beautifully rendered works chronicling America’s expansion to the West in a historically accurate and appealing way—transporting the reader right into each scene.