Frontiers: A Short History of the American West by Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher

Frontiers: A Short History of the American West



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Page: 288
ISBN: 9780300136203
Publisher: Yale University Press
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€�Primal Frontier is a Weird West alternate history setting in the 1860′s and 1870′s on a massive continent that is populated by all sorts of exotic creatures from our past, the most prominent being dinosaurs. Who they were, or information regarding their family histories, will never be known, but there can be little doubt but that this party of wild frontier miners was completely wiped out by the Sioux, at the first draw north of the present Northern Pacific Railway Mandan-Bismarck bridge in the fall of 1864. May 5, 2014 - The Santa Fe event turned out to be a watershed for the practice of American history in that it formally recognized and to some extent ratified crucial arguments that had been advanced by historians who were actively wrestling with the Turnerian model—namely, the environmental historian William Cronon, whose After that conference, future historians of the American West were no longer obliged to play by Turnerian rules, and that has been liberating all by itself. In between were two wells, the location of one now covered by pavement. Oct 9, 2012 - This article details the founding fathers' expansionist drive west that “dispossessed or murdered everyone in its way.” By MARK SCHILLER. Mar 15, 2013 - Recall that the first leg of the tour left us at the intersection of Congress Avenue and Eighth (Hickory) Street, where in 1838 Mirabeau Lamar shot one ginormous buffalo. Dec 10, 2013 - Dust worth several millions of dollars was taken out of this short gulch placer mining district, and the history of the rough times there is wonderfully told in “The Vigilantes. The refreshment room stood due west of the main building on the other side of Colorado. Surrounding the entire complex was a short palisade of upright logs added by President Lamar as protection against Indian attack. May 8, 2014 - Short but dense and fast paced.