The Desert States

The Desert States
Author: Michael Schelling Durham
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781556701054

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An exquisitely illustrated (color photos, chiefly) guide to Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. The best photos are of geological phenomena; but, since this is a guide to historic America, the text describes human interaction. Gives the desert area the "once- over-lightly" and lacks a bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Smithsonian guide to historic America

The Smithsonian guide to historic America
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1989
Genre: Historic sites
ISBN:

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The Desert States: New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah.

The Plains States

The Plains States
Author: Suzanne Winckler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 632
Release: 1998-03-15
Genre: Travel
ISBN:

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A comprehensive and illustrated guide to the historic places of America. There are descriptions of historic towns, cities, buildings and natural wonders. Also included are details of how common people lived, how fortunes were made, significant characters and America's art and literature. The books in the series are organized for easy reference, with entries arranged geographically and maps provided.

Desert Between the Mountains

Desert Between the Mountains
Author: Michael S. Durham
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806131863

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On July 24, 1847, a band of Mormon pioneers who had crossed the Great Plains and hauled their wagons over the Rocky Mountains descended into the Salt Lake valley. They settled alongside the Indians there in an immense, self-contained region covering more than 220,000 square miles aptly named the Great Basin because its lakes and rivers have no outlet to the sea. Within ten years of their arrival, the Mormons had established nineteen communities extending all the way to San Diego, California. But theirs was not a story of splendid isolation. The Mormon way of life was under a constant strain from interactions with miners, solders, explorers, mountain men, Indians, the Pony Express, railroad builders, federal officials, and an assortment of other "Gentiles." This is the definitive, dramatic, and multifaceted study of the Great Basin, unifying its history with its geography.

Indian War Sites

Indian War Sites
Author: Steve Rajtar
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2015-07-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1476610428

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From the Seminole Wars to the Little Big Horn, the history of America's native peoples and their contacts with those seeking to settle or claim a new land has often been marked by violence. The sites of these conflicts, unlike many sites related to the American Revolution and the War Between the States, are often difficult to locate, and information on these battles is frequently sketchy or unclear. This reference work provides essential information on these sites. The arrangement is by state, with sections for Canada and Mexico. Each entry has information about how to find the site, tours, museums, and resources for further study. In addition, there is a chronological list of battles and other encounters between Indians and non-Indians, including dates, location in the text, and the larger conflict of which each battle was a part. There is an index of battle locations and an index of prominent people involved. The bibliography and site listings are cross-referenced for further research.

The Brave New World

The Brave New World
Author: Peter Charles Hoffer
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2023-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1421445425

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"A history of early America that is continental in scope, inclusive in content, and intriguing in thematic argument, this course book describes the building of the nation and the daily lives of its people up to 1776. The author's main effort in revising the book for its third edition was to expand the geographical scope of the book"--