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Old Spanish Trail

By: Leroy R. Hafen,Ann W. Hafen

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This classic history is filled with colorful pathmarkers like Jedediah Smith, John C. Främont, and Kit Carson; with packers, home seekers, and mail couriers; and with horse thieves and enslavers of Indian women and children.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803272618

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9780803272613

Broken Hand

The Life of Thomas Fitzpatrick, Mountain Man, Guide and Indian Agent

By: LeRoy R. Hafen

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Broken Hand

The Life of Thomas Fitzpatrick, Mountain Man, Guide and Indian Agent

By: LeRoy R. Hafen

Known by the Indians as "Broken Hand," Thomas Fitzpatrick was a trapper and a trailblazer who became the head of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. With Jedediah Smith he led the trapper band that discovered South Pass; he then shepherded the first two emigrant wagon trains to Oregon, was official guide to Fremont on his longest expedition, and guided Colonel Phil Kearny and his Dragoons along the westward trails to impress the Indians with howitzers and swords. Fitzpatrick negotiated the Fort Laramie treaty of 1851 at the largest council of Plains Indians ever assembled. Among the most colorful of mountain men, Fitzpatrick was also party to many of the most important events in the opening of the West.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803272081

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9780803272088

The Overland Mail, 1849-1869

Promoter of Settlement Precursor of Railroads

By: LeRoy Reuben Hafen

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The Overland Mail, 1849-1869

Promoter of Settlement Precursor of Railroads

By: LeRoy Reuben Hafen

In the development of the American West, no two decades were so full of romance and change as the years from the California gold rush of 1849 to the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869. In two decades, the West was conquered and the secession movement rose and fell. From slow ox-team and prairie schooner to the dashing Pony Express, the overland mail service mirrored these monumental strides. Originally published in 1926, The Overland Mail was the first scholarly work to examine the impact of the postal service on the expansion of the West as the service evolved from a private endeavor to a government-contracted business. LeRoy R. Hafen details how the mail service tied West to East, influenced politics and economics, promoted use of the overland trails, aided in settlement, and helped usher in the railroads. This classic work is here available in paperback for the first time. In a new foreword, David Dary assesses Hafen’s contributions as a writer and historian.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806136006

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9780806136004

Handcarts to Zion

The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856-1860

By: LeRoy Reuben Hafen

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Handcarts to Zion

The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856-1860

By: LeRoy Reuben Hafen

It is unparalleled in history, the procession of Latter-Day Saints pushing handcarts from Iowa City and Florence (Omaha) to their promised Zion by the Great Salt Lake. Many of the three thousand hardy souls who trudged across thirteen hundred miles of prairie, desert, and mountain from 1856 to 1860 were European converts to the Mormon faith. Without funds for wagons and oxen, they carried their possessions in two-wheeled carts powered and aided by their own muscle and blood. Some of the weary travelers would finally be welcomed by their brethren in Salt Lake City; others would go to wayside graves or get caught in early winter storms in the Rockies and hope to be rescued by the parties sent out by Brigham Young. The migration is described in Handcarts to Zion, which draws on diaries and reports of the participants, rosters of the ten companies, and a collection of the songs sung on the trail and at "The Gathering." LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen dedicated the book to his mother, Mary Ann Hafen, who wrote about the long journey in Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: A Woman’s Life on the Mormon Frontier, also a Bison Book.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803272553

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9780803272552

Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834-1890

By: LeRoy Reuben Hafen,Francis Marion Young

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Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834-1890

By: LeRoy Reuben Hafen,Francis Marion Young

To weary travelers on the Oregon Trail during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Fort Laramie was a welcome sight. Its walls and flag-decked towers rose from the high plains, their solidity suggesting that the white man was gaining a toehold in the wilderness. Hafen and Young present the colorful history of Fort Laramie from its establishment as Fort John in 1834 to its abandonment in 1890. Early on, the fort was controlled by the American Fur Company and patronized by trappers like Jim Bridger and Kit Carson. Then it was a vital supply center and rest stop for a tide of emigrants--missionaries, Mormons, forty-niners, and homeseekers. As more wagons rolled west and the Pony Express came through, the need for protection increased; in 1849, Fort Laramie was converted from a trapper's post into a military fort. Down through the years there were skirmishes with the Plains Indians, who sometimes came to the fort to barter and to treat. The peace council of 1851--one of the largest gatherings of tribes ever seen in the Old West--is here described in fascinating detail. The cast of characters in this great historical pageant reads like a who's who of the American West.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496205243

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9781496205247

Old Spanish Trail

By: Leroy R. Hafen,Ann W. Hafen

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Broken Hand

The Life of Thomas Fitzpatrick, Mountain Man, Guide and Indian Agent

By: LeRoy R. Hafen

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The Life of Thomas Fitzpatrick, Mountain Man, Guide and Indian Agent

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Handcarts to Zion

The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856-1860

By: LeRoy Reuben Hafen

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The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856-1860

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The Overland Mail, 1849-1869

Promoter of Settlement Precursor of Railroads

By: LeRoy Reuben Hafen

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Promoter of Settlement Precursor of Railroads

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Old Spanish Trail

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Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834-1890

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