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An award-winning historian portrays America's most famous frontier
hero. From Boone's extraordinary accomplishments and from the
conflicting accounts of his life and character, Faragher depicts
not only the hero but the uniquely American hero-making process.
Photos.
Eternity Street tells the story of a violent place in a violent
time: the rise of Los Angeles from its origins as a small Mexican
pueblo. In a masterful narrative, John Mack Faragher relates a
dramatic history of conquest and ethnic suppression, of collective
disorder and interpersonal conflict. Eternity Street recounts the
struggle to achieve justice amid the turmoil of a loosely governed
frontier, and it delivers a piercing look at the birth of this
quintessentially American city. In the 1850s, the City of Angels
was infamous as one of the most murderous societies in America.
Saloons teemed with rowdy crowds of Indians and Californios,
Mexicans and Americans. Men ambled down dusty streets, armed with
Colt revolvers and Bowie knives. A closer look reveals characters
acting in unexpected ways: a newspaper editor advocating lynch law
in the name of racial justice; hundreds of Latinos massing to
attack the county jail, determined to lynch a hooligan from Texas.
Murder and mayhem in Edenic southern California. "There is no
brighter sun...no country where nature is more lavish of her
exuberant fullness," an Angeleno wrote in 1853. "And yet, with all
our natural beauties and advantages, there is no country where
human life is of so little account. Men hack one another to pieces
with pistols and other cutlery as if God's image were of no more
worth than the life of one of the two or three thousand ownerless
dogs that prowl about our streets and make night hideous." This is
L.A. noir in the act of becoming.
A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural
state in the nation  “A masterful history.â€â€”Kirkus
Reviews (starred review)  “Faragher takes the reader on a
captivating journey through myriad twists and turns of
California’s multicultural history, enlivened by stories of
people who rarely penetrate our traditional state
chronicles.â€â€”Carlos E. Cortés, University of California,
Riverside  California is the most multicultural state in
America. As John Mack Faragher explains in this new history,
California’s natural variety has always supported such diversity,
including Native peoples speaking dozens of distinct languages,
Spanish and Mexican colonists, gold seekers from all corners of the
globe, and successive migrant waves from the eastern United States
and from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific Islands.
 Faragher tells the stories of a colorful cast of
characters—some famous, others mostly unknown—including African
American Archy Lee, who sued for his freedom; Sinkyone Indian woman
Sally Bell, who survived genocide; and Jewish schoolgirl Marilyn
Greene, who spoke up for her Japanese friends after the attack on
Pearl Harbor. California’s diversity has often led to conflict,
turmoil, and violence but also to invention, improvisation, and a
struggle to achieve multicultural democracy.
In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme"
to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French")
from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable
families, and driving many into forests where they waged a
desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in
peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England; had
been one of the founding values of Acadia; its settlers traded and
intermarried freely with native Mikmaq Indians and English
Protestants alike. But the Acadians' refusal to swear unconditional
allegiance to the British Crown in the mid-eighteenth century gave
New Englanders, who had long coveted Nova Scotia's fertile
farmland, pretense enough to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing
on a massive scale. John Mack Faragher draws on original research
to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the
civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it."
"Offers students insight into how diverse communities and different
regions have shaped America's past." For the two-semester U.S.
history survey course.
Out of Many, brief edition, reveals the ethnic, geographical and
economic diversity of the United States by examining the
individual, the community and the state and placing a special focus
on the country's regions, particularly the West. Each chapter helps
students understand the textured and varied history that has
produced the increasing complexity of America. This book is the
abridged version of Out of Many, seventh edition.
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thinking questions help students use visual culture to make sense
of the past.
"Engage Students"- Each chapter begins with an American
Communities feature that shows how the events discussed in the
chapter affected particular communities for a well-rounded
understanding of American history.
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Manual, MyTest and PowerPoints. Note: MyHistoryLab does not come
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A concise edition of the authors' definitive history of the
American West, updated and rewritten for a popular audience "From
the Caribbean to Canada and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, this
marvelous survey spotlights the unexpected twists and turns that
occurred when peoples met and mingled and how from these cultural
encounters emerged today's American West. Hine and Faragher find in
our frontier history the key to 'our common past' and a 'blueprint
for our common future.'"-Stephen Aron, Department of History, UCLA
Published in 2000 to critical acclaim, The American West: A New
Interpretive History quickly became the standard in college history
classrooms. Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher here offer a
concise edition of their classic text, freshly updated. Lauded for
their lively and elegant writing, the authors provide a grand
survey of the colorful history of the American West, from the first
contacts between Native Americans and Europeans to the beginning of
the twenty-first century. Frontiers introduces the diverse peoples
and cultures of the American West and explores how men and women of
different ethnic groups were affected when they met, mingled, and
often clashed. Hine and Faragher present the complexities of the
American West-as frontier and region, real and imagined, old and
new. Showcasing the distinctive voices and experiences of frontier
characters, they explore topics ranging from early exploration to
modern environmentalism, drawing expansively from a wide range of
sources. With four galleries of fascinating illustrations drawn
from Yale University's premier Collection of Western Americana,
some published here for the first time, this book will be treasured
by every reader with an interest in the unique saga of the American
West.
During the last half of the nineteenth century, thousands of men
went west in search of gold, land, or adventure - leaving their
wives to handle family, farm, and business affairs on their own.
The experiences of these westering men have long been a part of the
lore of the American frontier, but the stories of their wives have
rarely been told. Ten years of research into public and private
documents - including letters of couples separated during the
westward movement - has enabled Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith to
tell the forgotten stories of "women in waiting." Though these
wives were left more or less in limbo by the departure of their
adventuring husbands, they were hardly women in waiting in any
other sense. Children had to be fed, clothed, housed, and educated;
farms and businesses had to be managed; creditors had to be paid or
pacified - and, in some cases, hard-earned butter-and-egg money had
to be sent west in response to letters from broke and disillusioned
husbands. This raises some unsettling questions: How does the idea
of an "allowance" from home square with our long-standing image of
the frontiersman as rugged individualist? To what extent was the
westward movement supported by the paid and unpaid labor of women
back east? And how do we measure the heroics of husbands out west
against the heroics of wives back home? Based on the experiences of
more than fifty women - from Abiah Hiller, whose business sense
equaled or excelled her husband's, to Emma Christie, who knew
virtually nothing about the matters she was called upon to manage -
Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement offers a rare glimpse
into life on the home frontier and provides new insights into
fairly common, though poorly documented, aspect of the history of
the settling of the American West.
A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of
western America The newly revised second edition of this concise,
engaging, and unorthodox history of America's West has been updated
to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native
American lives and cultures. An ideal text for course work, it
presents the West as both frontier and region, examining the
clashing of different cultures and ethnic groups that occurred in
the western territories from the first Columbian contacts between
Native Americans and Europeans up to the end of the twentieth
century.
Shawnee legend tells of a herd of huge bison rampaging through
the Ohio Valley, laying waste to all in their path. To protect the
tribe, a deity slew these great beasts with lightning bolts,
finally chasing the last giant buffalo into exile across the Wabash
River, never to trouble the Shawnee again. The source of this
legend was a peculiar salt lick in present-day northern Kentucky,
where giant fossilized skeletons had for centuries lain undisturbed
by the Shawnee and other natives of the region. In 1739, the first
Europeans encountered this fossil site, which eventually came to be
known as Big Bone Lick. The site drew the attention of all who
heard of it, including George Washington, Daniel Boone, Benjamin
Franklin, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, and especially Thomas
Jefferson. The giant bones immediately cast many scientific and
philosophical assumptions of the day into doubt, and they
eventually gave rise to the study of fossils for biological and
historical purposes. Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American
Paleontology recounts the rich history of the fossil site that gave
the world the first evidence of the extinction of several mammalian
species, including the American mastodon. Big Bone Lick has played
many roles: nutrient source, hallowed ground, salt mine, health
spa, and a rich trove of archaeological and paleontological
wonders. Natural historian Stanley Hedeen presents a comprehensive
narrative of Big Bone Lick from its geological formation forward,
explaining why the site attracted animals, regional tribespeople,
European explorers and scientists, and eventually American pioneers
and presidents. Big Bone Lick is the history of both a place and a
scientific discipline: it explores the infancy and adolescence of
paleontology from its humble and sometimes humorous beginnings.
Hedeen combines elements of history, geology, politics, and biology
to make Big Bone Lick a valuable historical resource as well as the
compelling tale of how a collection of fossilized bones captivated
a young nation.
Shawnee legend tells of a herd of huge bison rampaging through
the Ohio Valley, laying waste to all in their path. To protect the
tribe, a deity slew these great beasts with lightning bolts,
finally chasing the last giant buffalo into exile across the Wabash
River, never to trouble the Shawnee again. The source of this
legend was a peculiar salt lick in present-day northern Kentucky,
where giant fossilized skeletons had for centuries lain undisturbed
by the Shawnee and other natives of the region. In 1739, the first
Europeans encountered this fossil site, which eventually came to be
known as Big Bone Lick. The site drew the attention of all who
heard of it, including George Washington, Daniel Boone, Benjamin
Franklin, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, and especially Thomas
Jefferson. The giant bones immediately cast many scientific and
philosophical assumptions of the day into doubt, and they
eventually gave rise to the study of fossils for biological and
historical purposes. Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American
Paleontology recounts the rich history of the fossil site that gave
the world the first evidence of the extinction of several mammalian
species, including the American mastodon. Big Bone Lick has played
many roles: nutrient source, hallowed ground, salt mine, health
spa, and a rich trove of archaeological and paleontological
wonders. Natural historian Stanley Hedeen presents a comprehensive
narrative of Big Bone Lick from its geological formation forward,
explaining why the site attracted animals, regional tribespeople,
European explorers and scientists, and eventually American pioneers
and presidents. Big Bone Lick is the history of both a place and a
scientific discipline: it explores the infancy and adolescence of
paleontology from its humble and sometimes humorous beginnings.
Hedeen combines elements of history, geology, politics, and biology
to make Big Bone Lick a valuable historical resource as well as the
compelling tale of how a collection of fossilized bones captivated
a young nation.
"The best assembly of Turner's essays now available. Faragher's
introductory and concluding commentaries add considerably to the
import of the book."-Stephen Aron, University of California, Los
Angeles "Still ranks as the most influential piece of writing on
American history."-Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer, A Notable
Book of 1994 "Faragher's invaluable afterword . . . provides a
judicious introduction to the issues that divide the revisionist
New Western Historians from Turner and his disciples."-Michael
Kammen, FanFare Frederick Jackson Turner is often considered to be
the most influential American historian of the century, and his
views continue to shape the controversial field of Western American
history. In this book, John Mack Faragher introduces and comments
on ten of Turner's most significant essays, concluding with a
comment on the recent debate over Turner's legacy and his effect on
Americans' understanding of their national character.
Before this book first appeared in 1963, most historians wrote as
if the continental expansion of the United States were inevitable.
"What is most impressive," Henry Steele Commager and Richard Morris
declared in 1956, "is the ease, the simplicity, and seeming
inevitability of the whole process." The notion of inevitability,
however, is perhaps only a secular variation on the theme of the
expansionist editor John L. O'Sullivan, who in 1845 coined one of
the most famous phrases in American history when he wrote of "our
manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence
for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions."
Frederick Merk rejected inevitability in favor of a more contingent
interpretation of American expansionism in the 1840s. As his
student Henry May later recalled, Merk "loved to get the facts
straight." -From the Foreword by John Mack Faragher
This package contains the following components:
-0136060226: MyHistoryLab with Pearson eText -- for US History,
2-semester
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Edition, Combined Volume
Los Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo
teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with
Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous
locales in the Californian frontier. In Eternity Street: Violence
and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, "a vivid, disturbing portrait
of early Los Angeles" (Publishers Weekly), John Mack Faragher
weaves a riveting narrative of murder and mayhem, featuring a cast
of colorful characters vying for their piece of the city. These
include a newspaper editor advocating for lynch laws to enact a
crude manner of racial justice and a mob of Latinos preparing to
ransack a county jail and murder a Texan outlaw. In this
"groundbreaking" (True West) look at American history, Faragher
shows us how the City of Angels went from a lawless outpost to the
sprawling metropolis it is today.
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