Across the Continent
Title | Across the Continent PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Bowles |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 488 |
Release | 1865 |
Genre | Latter Day Saints |
ISBN |
Across the continent: a summer's journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax
Title | Across the continent: a summer's journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Bowles |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 498 |
Release | 1866 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Across the Continent
Title | Across the Continent PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey L. Hantman |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780813925950 |
Arriving as the country commemorates the expedition's bicentennial, Across the Continent is an examination of the explorers' world and the complicated ways in which it relates to our own. The essays collected here look at the global geopolitics that provided the context for the expedition. Finally, the discussion considers the various legacies of the expedition, in particular its impact on Native Americans, and the current struggle over who will control the narrative of the expansion of the American Empire. --from publisher description.
Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway
Title | Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway PDF eBook |
Author | Effie Price Gladding |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Automobile travel |
ISBN |
First Across the Continent
Title | First Across the Continent PDF eBook |
Author | Barry M. Gough |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | 260 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780806130026 |
Chronicles the perils and triumphs of the intrepid Scotsman who explored Canada's northwestern wilderness
A Tramp Across the Continent
Title | A Tramp Across the Continent PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Fletcher Lummis |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | Overland journeys to the Pacific |
ISBN |
Lummis' foot journey from Ohio to Los Angeles. Very descriptive of the Southwest.
The Lost Continent
Title | The Lost Continent PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Bryson |
Publisher | VNR AG |
Total Pages | 326 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780060161583 |
"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.