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Mexico (Mexico) (search for this): chapter 1
e new republic's western limits were where the Texan pleased to place them, quite regardless of Mexican contention, for the Colonel draws the western boundary at the Nueces River exactly where the M described glowingly in Fremont's report. Brigham thought of founding a separate state in this Mexican territory, but the events of the Mexican war moved so rapidly that, ever while he planned, the by Wilkes. But this 1843-44 expedition did not halt in Oregon. It headed southward into Mexican territory along the eastern edge of the Sierras, hunting for a mythical Buenaventura River that woulunder the direction of Major W. H. Emory, who made an excellent Report on the United States and Mexican boundary Survey (1857) in two fine volumes, the first two chapters of volume I containing a verbin Book (Das Cajutenbuch) has for its historical setting the Texan war of independence against Mexican misrule. Morton oder die grosse tour presents a view of Stephen Girard's money-power and perso
Japan (Japan) (search for this): chapter 1
dship with the American ministers to China and Japan, and made a great scoop by interviewing a grouing in Asiatic waters: Commodore Perry visited Japan and negotiated the first treaty between a West of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854. hich journey came A visit to India, China, and Japan in 1853 (1855). The interesting experiencesfollowed with enthusiasm. Lafcadio Hearn made Japan his own. His Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan (189Japan (1894), leaves from the diary of an Impressionist (1911), out of the East (1895), in Ghostly Japan (189Japan (1899), and others are too well known to require comment. A contribution of much interest to this liteis Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore's Jinrikisha days in Japan (1891). She declares that Japan six times reviilliam Knox, for fifteen years a missionary in Japan and afterward Professor of the Philosophy and avelled with sympathetic interest in India and Japan. No mischief, he thought, can begin to equal t[1 more...]
Salt Lake (Utah, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
e had met. With W. F. Cody, the last of the Buffalo Bills, he wrote The great Salt Lake Trail (1898), the trail being the one from Omaha up the Platte and to Salt LaSalt Lake by way of Echo Canyon. The Santa Fe Trail has also been perpetuated in poetry, by Sharlot M. Hall with a vivid poem of that title in Out West (1903), and the modold regions, and scenes by the way (1849). The gold seekers got as far as Salt Lake over the Oregon Trail by Bear River; or from Ft. Bridger by the new way Hastihad found a little farther south, and more direct, through Echo Canyon. From Salt Lake the chief trail west led down the Humboldt River to the Sierra and over that ss. Gunnison was killed by Indians at Sevier Lake. He had been stationed at Salt Lake when assisting Stansbury, and while there made a study of Mormonism, The Mormons, or the latter day Saints in the Valley of the great Salt Lake (1852). Mrs. Gunnison believed that the Mormons had instigated the murder of her husband, and Judg
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
with loyalty to American institutions. By his birth at Florida, Missouri, 30 November, 1835, he was a Middle-Westerner; but by his inheritaMaster of Arts in 1888; in 1901 Yale and in 1902 the University of Missouri conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Letters; but the crowni, and vanity, and had made him leader of a group of average little Missouri rascals running loose in an ordinary small river town and displayily marriage, he served his apprenticeship to journalism on several Missouri papers. From The Denver [Colorado] Tribune his first humorous ski 1857, in Kansas in 1875, in Nebraska in 1878, and in Illinois and Missouri in 1899. Besides these state societies were several important priestlichen Staaten Nordamerikas undeinen mehrjahrigen Aufenthalt am Missouri, 1824–;27, started the great mass of German settlements on both baneke, the ardent woman suffragist; Langer als ein Menschenleben in Missouri, by Gert Gobel; and similarly autobiographical writings of Friedri
Austria (Austria) (search for this): chapter 1
a lion in Boston and New York as he had been in Carson City and San Francisco. At various times he made extended sojourns in England, Italy, France, Germany, and Austria, particularly in his later years in seasons of pecuniary retrenchment. He reaped a fortune by contracting for the publication of Grant's Memoirs and his royaltiehas been rendered obsolete by later investigations, it was worthy to rank with the books by Robertson, Prescott, and Motley which had already made the Burgundian-Austrian cycle a famous period in historiography. Vividness and colour were its notable qualities. The great expectations it raised were doomed to disappointment; for y Germans in the United States, some of which have already been mentioned, we should not forget the reminiscences of Hans Kudlich, the emancipator of the serfs in Austria, and a secretary in the provisional revolutionary government of 1849 in the Palatinate. Others of interest are Aus zwei Weltteilen, by Marie Hansen-Taylor (wife
Lovell's Pond (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
aining historical ballad composed in America of which texts are available is Lovewell's fight, recording a struggle with the Indians in Maine, 8 May, 1725. It was composed not long after the event, and was long popular in New England. A text reduced to print almost a century later begins: What time the noble Lovewell came, With fifty men from Dunstable, The cruel Pequa'tt tribe to tame With arms and bloodshed terrible. Longfellow chose the same subject for his early poem The battle of Lovell's Pond. Greater effort has been made toward collecting songs and ballads of the Revolution, though the work should be done again more exhaustively and more critically. Frank Moore printed in 1856 a collection of verse, brought together from newspapers, periodicals, broadsides, and from the memory of surviving soldiers. Most of these pieces are semi-literary in character, to be sung to familiar tunes imported from England. That oftenest quoted as having the best poetical quality is Nathan
Oakland (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
driven, in an open boat, from the Pacific shore, as the Indians of the Atlantic coast had been driven westward centuries earlier. More than anyone else, Joaquin Miller is the poet of our receding frontier. In narrative poetry he could use to the full his immense energy, which is his chief excellence. He was not a man of ideas; he reflected objectively less perhaps than Byron, and certainly was less fond of introspection, despite his later years as a sort of hermit on the heights above Oakland, where he built the cairn upon which his ashes rest. Primarily he was a man of action in an active society. If there was something of the theatrical about him, it became so habitual, as C. W. Stoddard testifies, as to be natural. Compared with Harte at least, who exploited the West, he is the unfeigned expression of the West. If he had not much culture, he fortunately did not pretend to have, but relied upon the force within him. His rough, broken gallop, as a London reviewer described
Arizona (Arizona, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
g, bicycling, and walking in this country and abroad, from Arizona to Greece. He was a vigorously sensuous, full-blooded, ruSamuel Cozzens in The marvellous country or three years in Arizona and New Mexico (1873) gives more of the story, with modernm New York to Texas and thence overland through Mexico and Arizona to the gold fields of California, which is recorded in Joh incidents of ten months travel through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, etc. This volume by John C. Reid was published in 1858 a John G. Bourke in The Snake dance of the Moquis [Hopi] of Arizona (1884). The Puebloans for many centuries have built villagexican States and Texas (vols. 15-16, 1884-89), History of Arizona and New Mexico (vol. 17, 1889), History of California (vt first wrote local dramas, like Alabama (April, 1891) and Arizona (Chicago, 12 June, 1899), which in content he never excellaho, reared in the neighbourhood of the Carrizo Mountains, Arizona, from which he later takes his name, Dislyi Neyani, Reared
Lucca (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
t and Joel Barlow See Book I, Chap. IX. but by 1850 thought of less as an epic which should enshrine the national past than as a great prose performance reflecting the national present In the eighties began the career of that later American writer who gave to the novel his most complete allegiance, undeterred by the vogue of briefer narratives or other forms of literature. Francis Marion Crawford, son of the sculptor Thomas Crawford and nephew of Julia Ward Howe, was born at Bagni di Lucca, Tuscany, in 1854. He prepared for college at St. Paul's School, New Hampshire, and entered Harvard, but soon left it to study in Europe, successively at Cambridge, Heidelberg, and Rome. Having become interested in Sanscrit, and having lost his expectations of a fortune, he went to India and there edited The Indian Herald at Allahabad. In 1881 he returned to America, spent another year upon Sanscrit with Professor Lanman of Harvard, and wrote his first novel, Mr. Isaacs (1882), on the ad
Omaha (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
ually followed, with more or less exactness, according to method of transportation, these roads of the natives. Colonel Henry Inman, who had early experience on the Plains, wrote The Old Santa Fe Trail (1897). Some of his historical data are not quite correct, but there is much of value derived from his own knowledge, and he gives accounts of the frontiersmen he had met. With W. F. Cody, the last of the Buffalo Bills, he wrote The great Salt Lake Trail (1898), the trail being the one from Omaha up the Platte and to Salt Lake by way of Echo Canyon. The Santa Fe Trail has also been perpetuated in poetry, by Sharlot M. Hall with a vivid poem of that title in Out West (1903), and the modern route for automobiles by Vachel Lindsay, with a more original poem, also of that title, in The Congo and other poems (1914). Many of the early travellers and explorers kept no records, and some who did refrained from publishing until long after their experiences, as in the case of Osborne Russe
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