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"From historian and critically acclaimed author of The Three-Cornered War comes the propulsive and vividly told story of how Yellowstone became the world's first national park amid the nationwide turmoil and racial violence of the Reconstruction era. Each year nearly four million people visit Yellowstone National Park--one of the most popular of all national parks--but few know the fascinating and complex historical context in which it was established....
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Includes George Allen and Albert Peale's journals and these appendices: Biographies of the 1871 Hayden survey members ; Peale's journal: May 21 to July 3, 1871 ; George Allen's report to Cyrus Thomas ; and, Hayden's Yellowstone report to the committee on the public lands and the Yellowstone Park Bill.
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"William Henry Jackson was an explorer, photographer, and artist. He is also one of those most often overlooked figures of the American West. His larger claim to fame involves his repeated forays into the western lands of nineteenth-century America as a photographer. Jackson's life spanned multiple incarnations of the American West. Jackson's story was long and his life full, as he lived to the enviable age of 99. This biography presents the good,...
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"Boner has re-photographed William Henry Jackson's images from the 1871 Hayden Survey, the first government-funded expedition to explore the region that is today Yellowstone National Park and represents the first complete, published collection of Jackson's official photographs from the survey with contemporary comparisons"--Provided by publisher.
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A native of Vermont, Joseph Savage was one of the early settlers in the Kansas Territory. He is known historically as one of the founders of the city of Lawrence, an active supporter of the newly formed State University, a well recognized horticulturist, and the proprietor of a successful nursery business. However, many of his scientific accomplishments have been overlooked or are simply lost in history. In the 1860's, Savage became associated as...
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Jubilee Walker volume 2
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For decades, mountain men told tales of the exotic geography surrounding the source of the Yellowstone River, and Jubilee Walker, to the dismay of his fiancée, Nelly Boswell, can't resist the opportunity to see it for himself. When Jubil joins an expedition to explore the region, he and his companions brave an unforgiving wilderness to find that the truth is even stranger than the legends. But a year later, when Jubil returns with a survey crew,...
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Jubilee Walker volume 3
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The thrilling newest installment in award winning Jubilee Walker series In 1872, six hundred miles between Bismarck and Bozeman remain to be surveyed for the Northern Pacific Railroad. But Sitting Bull is gathering strength to resist this incursion into the tribes' hunting grounds. Citizens and politicians question the need for the rail line and doubt that it can ever be guaranteed safe from Indian raids. But financier Jay Cooke is willing to risk...
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United States. Congress. House. Report volume 43d cong., 1st sess. no. 612
Western Americana volume reel 559, no. 5708
Western Americana volume reel 559, no. 5708

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