Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta James P. Ronda
yhteensä 12 hakutulosta
The West the Railroads Made
Named an "Outstanding Title" in University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2009America's Railroad Age was little more than a decade old when Ralph Waldo …
Astoria and Empire
In his 1836 account Washington Irving immortalized Astoria, but it has been a footnote to the history of western expansion—a doleful reminder of John Jacob Astor's failed attempt …
Prologue to Lewis and Clark
To follow the journeys made by Mackay and Evans up the Missouri and across the plains in 1795-97 is to begin to appreciate the kind of world Lewis and Clark found when they voyaged …
The Chisholm Trail
One hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of …
Race and the Early Republic
By 1840, American politics was a paradox—unprecedented freedom and equality for men of European descent, and the simultaneous isolation and degradation of people of African and …
Lewis and Clark among the Indians
"Particularly valuable for Ronda's inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An appendix also places the Sacagawea …
The American Fur Trade of the Far West, Volume 1
Epic in sweep and reach, strongly written and superbly researched, The American Fur Trade of the Far West is a classic if there ever was one. Its publication in 1902 made clear how …
Painters and the American West
In 2010, the Anschutz Collection became the American Museum of Western Art--The Anschutz Collection, a public museum. Painters and the American West, Volume II is a companion and …
The Winning of the West, Volume 4
After political defeats and the loss of half his capital in a ranching venture in North Dakota, Theodore Roosevelt began writing his ambitious history of the conquest of the …
Thomas Jefferson and the Rocky Mountains
Recounts Thomas Jefferson's role in advocating and shaping the exploration, settlement and development of the trans-Mississippi West. Jackson argues that although he did not travel …
Finding the West
One of the foremost historians of Lewis and Clark, Ronda grounds ""Finding the West"" in the insights and reflections he has gleaned from some twenty years of research and writing …
Visions of the Tallgrass
In centuries long past, a vast swath of grassland swept down the center of North America, from Canada's Prairie Provinces to central Texas. This once-plentiful prairie has now all …