One side by himself : the life and times of Lewis Barney, 1808-1894 /
""What an astonishing life and what a remarkable biography. Lewis Barney's sojourn on the hard edge of the American frontier is a forgotten epic. Not only does this book tell of an amazing personal odyssey from his birth in upstate New York in 1808 to his death in Mancos, Colorado, in...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Logan :
Utah State University Press,
©2001.
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Colección: | Western experience.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Barneys on America's frontier: the Holland Land Purchase, 1800-1811
- The silhouette of Ohio: Barneys in America's interior, 1811-1826
- These fertile prairies: Yankees on the Illinois frontier, 1826-1832
- On my farm: Lewis Barney comes of age, 1833-1839
- An honest, industrious people: conversion to Mormonism, 1839-1840
- Unaccustomed to city life: Nauvoo and the Hancock Prairie, 1841-1844
- A gloom over the country: the final years in Hancock County, 1844-1846
- Midst sighs and lamentations: Iowa-prelude to the West, 1846
- A story makes a people: the exodus to Zion, 1847
- A band of brethren: the return to winter quarters, 1847
- Barney's grove: Iowa and the last trek to Zion, 1847-1852
- We managed to live: the Palmyra Plain, 1852-1856
- He would not forsake his people: Spanish Fork and the Utah War, 1856-1858
- We left them crying: Spanish Fork and Springville, 1858-1861
- Busted up: Utah's Sanpete and Sevier Valleys, 1861-1865
- Beginning to Be old: the Indian war and the railway, 1865-1869
- A frontier village: Monroe, Utah, 1871-1874
- A division with the people: the Monroe United Order of Enoch, 1874-1878
- The salvation of thy relatives and friends: the last years in Sevier Valley, 1877-1882
- Better situated: farther into the frontier, 1882-1886
- If it takes the rest of my life: the quixotical family kingdom,
- Barney family relationships.