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"Between the 1840s and 1860s, thousands of emigrants crossed the Great Plains to California, Oregon, and Utah. They learned how to deal with many new situations, including how to work with the animals they brought with them on the journey. Although many emigrants knew how to take care of the livestock on their family farms, travel on the overland trails forced them to look at their animals in a different light as their lives now depended on their livestock in an unprecedented way. Many of the emigrants had never ridden a horse before, let alone hitched an ox to a wagon filled with the family's possessions, or relied upon a mule to get them through the deserts and over the mountains. The travelers also encountered wild animals new to them, such as buffalo and prairie dogs. The emigrants sometimes even attributed human characteristics to the animals. Prior to leaving their homes, the travelers had been told by the philosophers that animals were little more than beasts of burden and some ministers said that caring for the animals took time away from God. Despite that, the sentimental literature of the era encouraged the overlanders to treat their animals well and the humans would be repaid by how the animals helped the emigrants achieve their goals. Unexpectedly, many emigrants often befriended the domestic, as well as the wild animals, along the way and by the end of the trail, humans and animals alike had become overlanders"--Provided by publisher.
Animals --- Livestock --- Human-animal relationships --- Pioneers --- Frontier and pioneer life --- History --- West (U.S.) --- Overland journeys to the Pacific. --- Overland Trails --- History.
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Pioneers --- Overland journeys to the Pacific. --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Transcontinental journeys (United States) --- Travels --- Voyages and travels --- History --- Overland Trails --- West (U.S.) --- Overland Route --- Overland Trail --- Oregon National Historic Trail --- Saint Joe Road --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel
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Set in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, the stories are a loosely tied string of old timer's yarns with a continuing cast of engaging characters, whom Kiskaddon avoids reducing to cowboy stereotypes. They include, as Siems describes them, ""Kiskaddon himself as the character Shorty. As a common waddy with a small man's feistiness and a young man's mischief, Shorty encounters the wicked world with a succession of companions: Bill, high-headed and a bit of an outlaw; Rildy Briggs, untamable and unstoppable young cowgirl; and Ike, an old-fashioned dandy and 'a very fortunate person.' More
Cowboys. --- Ranch life. --- West (U.S.). --- Ranch life --- Cowboys --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- West (U.S.) --- Bronco busters --- Broncobusters --- Buckaroos --- Buckeroos --- Stockmen (Animal industry) --- Vaqueiros --- Vaqueros --- Cattle herders --- Horsemen and horsewomen --- Gauchos --- Farm life --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Overland journeys to the Pacific. --- Mormon Church --- Shoshoni Indians --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Government relations. --- United States. --- California National Historic Trail. --- Oregon National Historic Trail. --- Transcontinental journeys (United States) --- Travels --- Voyages and travels --- Shoshone Indians --- Snake Indians --- Indians of North America --- Numic Indians --- Shoshonean Indians --- Utah Superintendency (United States. Office of Indian Affairs) --- California Trail --- Saint Joe Road --- Oregon Trail --- Overland Trails
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This compilation of Dale Morgan's historical work on Indians in the Intermountain West focuses primarily on the Shoshone who lived near the Oregon and California trails. Three connected works by Morgan are included: First is his classic article on the history of the Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs. This is followed by a previously unpublished history of early relations among the Western Shoshoni, emigrants, and the government along the California Trail. The book concludes with an important set of government reports and correspondence from the National Archives concerning the Eastern Shoshone and their leader Washakie. Morgan heavily annotated these for serial publication in the Annals of Wyoming. He also wrote a previously unpublished history of early relations among the Western Shoshone, emigrants, and the government along the California Trail. Morgan biographer Richard L. Saunders introduces, edits, and further annotates this collection. His introduction includes an intellectual biography of Morgan that focuses on the place of the anthologized pieces in Morgan's corpus. Gregory E. Smoak, a leading historian of the Shoshone, contributes an ethnohistorical essay as additional context for Morgan's work.
California National Historic Trail. --- Mormon Church - History. --- Mormon Church -- History. --- Oregon National Historic Trail. --- Overland journeys to the Pacific. --- Shoshoni Indians - Government relations. --- Shoshoni Indians -- Government relations. --- Shoshoni Indians - History. --- Shoshoni Indians -- History. --- Shoshoni Indians - Social conditions. --- Shoshoni Indians -- Social conditions. --- United States - History. --- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Utah Superintendency -- History. --- Shoshoni Indians --- Mormon Church --- Overland journeys to the Pacific --- Transcontinental journeys (United States) --- Shoshone Indians --- Snake Indians --- Utah Superintendency (United States. Office of Indian Affairs) --- California Trail --- Oregon Trail --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Government relations. --- United States. --- Travels --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Voyages and travels --- Indians of North America --- Numic Indians --- Shoshonean Indians --- Saint Joe Road --- Overland Trails --- Latter Day Saint churches --- Mormonism --- Christian sects
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