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Confederacy of Ambition
William Winlock Miller and the Making of Washington Territory
E-bok, 2014
512 kr
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The promise of opportunity drew twenty-seven-year-old Illinois schoolteacher William Winlock Miller west to the future Washington Territory in 1850. Like so many other Oregon Trail emigrants Miller arrived cash-poor and ambitious, but unlike most he fulfilled his grandest ambitions. By the time of …
Montana
A History of Two Centuries
Av Michael P. Malone, Richard B. Roeder m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
548 kr
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Montana: A History of Two Centuries first appeared in 1976 and immediately became the standard work in its field. In this thoroughgoing revision, William L. Lang has joined Michael P. Malone and Richard B. Roeder in carrying forward the narrative to the 1990s. Fully twenty percent of the text is …
Confederacy of Ambition
William Winlock Miller and the Making of Washington Territory
Häftad, 2014
471 kr
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The promise of opportunity drew twenty-seven-year-old Illinois schoolteacher William Winlock Miller west to the future Washington Territory in 1850. Like so many other Oregon Trail emigrants Miller arrived cash-poor and ambitious, but unlike most he fulfilled his grandest ambitions. By the time of …
Country for Me
Joel Palmer and the Shaping of Oregon
Inbunden, 2026
964 kr
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The Country for Me is the first full biography of Joel Palmer (1810–81), born in Canada to American parents, who played a central role in the political and economic shaping of Oregon. Having traveled on the Oregon Trail three times, he wrote a popular trail guidebook used by later emigrants. …
Great River of the West
Essays on the Columbia River
Av William L. Lang, Robert Carriker
Häftad, 2000
471 kr
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In the Pacific Northwest, the river of dominance is the Columbia, and in ways both profound and mundane its history is the history of the region. In Great River of the West historians and anthropologists consider a range of topics about the river, from Indian rock art, Chinook Jargon, and …
Two Centuries of Lewis and Clark
Reflections on the Voyage of Discovery
Av William L. Lang, Carl Abbott
Häftad, 2004
294 kr
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The landscape encountered by the Corps of Discovery during their multi-year, cross- country trek to the Pacific was dramatically different from the one that greeted visitors attending Portland’s Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in 1905 or the one that exists in the Pacific Northwest today. On …
