The Far West Free

FREE THE FAR WEST PDF

Founding the Far West is an ambitious and vividly written narrative of the early years of statehood and statesmanship The Far West three pivotal western territories. Johnson offers a model example of a new approach to history that is transforming our ideas of how America moved west, one that breaks the mold of "regional" and "frontier" histories to show why Western history The Far West also American history. Johnson explores the conquest, immigration, and settlement of the first three states of the western region. He also investigates the building of local political customs, habits, and institutions, as well as the socioeconomic development of the region. While momentous changes marked the Far West in the later nineteenth century, distinctive local political cultures persisted. These were a legacy of the pre-Civil War conquest and settlement of the regions The Far West no less a reflection of the struggles for political definition that took place during constitutional conventions in each of the three states. At the center of the book are the men who wrote the original constitutions of these states and shaped distinctive political cultures out of the common materials The Far West antebellum American culture. Founding the Far West maintains a focus on the individual experience of the constitution writers—on their motives and ambitions as pioneers, their ideological intentions as authors of constitutions, and the successes and failures, after statehood, of their attempts to give meaning The Far West the constitutions they had produced. Books Journals. Disciplines History United States History. About the Book The Far West the Far West is an ambitious and vividly written narrative of the early years of statehood and statesmanship in three pivotal western territories. Related Books. The Far West Culture

Far West was a shallow draft sternwheel steamboat or riverboat plying the upper Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers in the Dakota and The Far West Territories, in the years from to By being involved in historic events in the Indian Wars of the western frontier, the Far West became an iconic symbol of the shallow draft steamboat plying the upper Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers in the era before railroads dominated transport in these areas. The Far West was light, strong and speedy. The Far West was used in this capacity, along with its sister riverboat the Josephine. The Far West was often piloted by the famous river boat captain and pilot, Grant Marsh. The Far West was known as a fast boat because she had powerful engines, a hull with limited water resistance, and a low profile that reduced wind resistance. She set a number of speed records for both upstream and downstream travel on the Missouri and the Yellowstone. By virtue of her shallow draft and her ability to "grasshopper" over sand bars using spars and steam capstans on the front of the boat to lift the boat and swing it forward a few feet at a time she was famous for being able to get through shallow channels and low water conditions on the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers that turned back other steamboats. Far West gained a place in military and steamboat history during the Great Sioux War of Colonel George Armstrong Custer. The column was advancing up the Yellowstone, seeking a large Sioux and Cheyenne encampment which was moving along the river drainages to the south. The Far West brought supplies to the column, and it was used by Terry as a headquarters and also to ferry and move troops on the river. On June 21, the Far West was moored on the Yellowstone at the mouth of Rosebud Creek and was the site of the fateful meeting of officers after which Custer and the 7th Cavalry The Far West dispatched south up the Rosebud seeking the Indian encampment. Five of The Far West companies of the 7th were annihilated along with Custer, and the remaining companies suffering significant numbers of dead and wounded. Far West made her way from the Yellowstone up the Bighorn River to the mouth of the Little Bighorn where she was loaded with the wounded from the battle. She continued to work on the Yellowstone and the Missouri Rivers for other owners until when she struck a snag and sank, near St. Charles, Missouri. The engines were powered by steam from three boilers that consumed as many as 30 cords of wood a day. The Far West also had two steam capstans, one on each side of the bow, being the first boat built with more than one. The steamboat rested in the water on its hull. The hull of the boat was hollow and was used to store cargo. Cargo was often contained The Far West casks or barrels. This storage could only be reached through hatches on The Far West deck, and men working in the hull to store or move cargo could not stand up, but had to work while hunched over or crawling through The Far West hull space. The platform that closed the top of the hull was the main deck, and The Far West name The Far West not The Far West to the floor of this space, but also the space between the main deck and the cabin deck, just above the main deck. The main deck had the boilers and the two steam engines which powered The Far West paddle wheel at the rear of the boat. Wood for the boilers was stacked on the main deck. Freight was carried on the main deck. The cheapest passenger accommodations were on the main deck, but the passengers had to find their own space. Above the main deck on the Far West was the cabin deck. Each side of the boat had a row of small cabins with doors that opened to the outside where there was a covered walkway. Inside the two rows of cabins and between them there was a central cabin — like a long wide hallway running from the front of the boat to the back. Here there was a long table where the cabin passengers and the ships officers were fed, and where they could spend leisure time. Above the main deck was its roof, known as the hurricane deck, because it was unprotected from the elements. The Far West had no structures on this deck, other than the pilot house. On the Far West the hurricane deck had no cabins, and no " Texas deck " structures. The pilot house was a cupola like box, with glass-paned windows on all four sides, that perched on the hurricane deck. From this vantage point the river pilot who has often the captain, in a smaller steamship like the "Far West" guided the boat, while also regulating the power applied to the paddle wheel. The pilot guided the boat using a large spoked wheel, which was connected by a series of ropes or chains to the rudders at the rear of the boat. The pilot also regulated the power applied to the stern paddle wheel, using a voice tube to talk to the engineer, telling him when and in what amount to provide steam to power the stern wheel, and when to stop or reverse the paddle wheel. Two tall smoke stacks towered above the forward part of the hurricane deck and the 'scape pipes were in the rear, venting steam from the engines. The Far West was neither graceful nor grand in appearance, but she was strong, powerful, fast, durable and had an enormous capacity for hard work. She had limited accommodation for passengers on her second deck, and consequently The Far West did not have a large central cabin. The absence of these features meant that she had a lower profile, and no "Texas" deck, which resulted in her having less wind resistance and therefore being both faster and more manageable in the high winds that prevailed in Montana and North Dakota during the summer The Far West. She possessed ample freight carrying capacity, and she had a shallow draft. Her powerful engines and three boilers combined with her other features to make her not only a speedy boat, but also a boat that was able to traverse shallow channels, The Far West sand bars, breast strong currents and go up through The Far West. A unique feature of light river steamboats like the Far West was their ability to "grasshopper" to get across shallow sand bars to reach a deeper river channel beyond the sand bar. In this "grasshopper" maneuver, the boat used spars and steam capstans on the front of the boat to lift and swing the front of the boat onto the sand bar, moving forward a few feet at a time. Once the front of the boat was on the sandbar, when the boat was lifted the current would help dislodge loose sediment under the boat, and often the paddle wheel would be accelerated to generate a current in the water under the boat that would also pull the loose sandbar sediment from under the boat. This process was intended to create enough draft or flotation in the water, so the steamboat could then move forward into the deeper channel beyond the The Far West bar. The boat was later sold to Capt. Henry M. Dodds and Victor Bonnet. In the Far West made trips to and from Fort Benton, Montanawhich was the upper terminus of river travel on the Missouri. The Far West was used to ferry supplies from the rail head at Bismarck up the Missouri The Far West the Montana Territory, and then up the Yellowstone River where the military column was seeking the villages of the Sioux. General Terry then used the Far West as the expedition's headquarters. Far West was ordered to proceed up the Yellowstone to the Big Horn and then The Far West the Big Horn to the mouth of the Little Big Horn River so that supplies would be close to the The Far West of expected troop activities. While tied along the bank, Curley a Crow scout The Far West had been with Custer, emerged from the willows on the riverbank and came on board and by drawings and signs indicated that Custer had been "wiped out". On June 29 set about preparing the Far West to become a hospital ship. On June 30,52 wounded were on board. The Far West spent the next two days ferrying troops across the Yellowstone and taking on a heavy load of wood to power the two engines. Sheets of boiler iron were placed around the pilot house. Piloted by Grant Marsh and under a full head of steam the "Far West" proceeded down the Yellowstone and then down the Missouri. With only brief stops the Far West arrived at Bismarck in at 11 p. Along the way only one trooper died, Private William George and the "Far West" stopped briefly at 4 a. George's remains was hastily put ashore, to be buried by the detachment located there while the "Far West" proceeded on down-river. Only 9 days later, Captain Marsh and the Far West steamed back up river with horses and The Far West for the Terry column. The Far West continued to carry freight and passengers on the upper Missouri and Yellowstone, and she continued to set records. Inthe Missouri River was so high that the arrival of river boats coming up river The Far West delayed. The Far West was the first boat to reach Fort Benton that year. However, due to the high water it did not arrive until May Charles, Missouriand was lost. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Chicago: A. The Far West XXXI, p. The Last Stand. Retrieved 28 February University of Mary. Archived from the original on 28 February Retrieved 22 February History of Montana Western Trips. Retrieved 14 June Billings The Far West. George's burial site may be visited today on a large empty flat at the mouth of the Powder River. The flat was the bustling Terry's landing where supplies for the The Far West column were stacked. The single grave is surrounded by an old- fashioned iron fence, and marked with a standard U. Army marble headstone, like those on Last Stand Hill. Corbin, Allalies. Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in Hidden categories: Coordinates on Wikidata. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. California and the Far West |

The California, Great Basin and Plateau culture region encompasses the western The Far West and is surrounded by the NorthwestSubarcticPlains and Southwest cultures. California The California region boasts a wide variety of climates and geographical features, rivaling any other area of comparable dimensions. Nearly all but the eastern-edge California Native Americans lived where environmental conditions were favorable, making food relatively The Far West. Along the Pacific Coastthey hunted fish and sea mammals by boat. Included were such California tribes as the Chumash, Yurok and Pomo. The Maidu and Pomo principally ate acorns, which have a higher calorie rating than wheat. They pounded the hard The Far West with stones and washed out the bitter taste with water. The Pomo crafted what were arguably the finest baskets in all of indigenous America. They made baskets as small as a thimble and as big as a yard in width. They made watertight baskets for cooking acorn mush and The Far West gruel, as well as for carrying and storing food. They wove especially beautiful baskets for presents and as offerings to forebears. Some were bedecked with colorful bird feathers and shells. Their skill also was applied to trays, boats, headgear and baby carriers, such as a wickerwork cradleboard in which an infant spent his first year. The Far West mothers wore hats that resembled bowl-shape baskets. The California natives lived in communities numbering up to 2, with dwellings arrayed in groups. A house consisted of a round frame covered with grass. There was a skylight in the roof and the beds were made on skin-covered frames—each with a partition for privacy. In the center of the floor, they made a cook fire for seeds, nuts, fish and other foods. More than languages flourished in California before European contact; most are gone today. Great Basin Between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada mountain ranges of California lies an arid and sparsely populated land largely consisting of desert. The land also features valleys, some with oases, and large hills as many as 5, feet high. Water and food were hard to come by in most of the area. The area was generally too The Far West for farming and there were relatively few animals to hunt. Therefore, most of the natives subsisted on seeds and nuts, which they collected as they roamed about. Other natives gathered seeds from such plants as the pigweed and primose. When they could, these seed-gathering natives killed deer and antelope, and caught rabbits in the sagebrush. A few tribes ate boiled or roasted grasshoppers. Given that food was scarce, they had to stay on the move to find it. Most of these natives trekked over the countryside on a routine route every year, gathering seeds as they ripened. Because of this, their dwellings were temporary. Every family had up to three camps to visit in a year. The natives made a shelter by putting up a frame of poles in a round or beehive shape. They had no bark or skins to cover the shelter, so they tied bundles of grass or desert bushes to it. They heaped earth over the house in winter. The inhabitants of the California and Intermountain regions used shells as currency, which eased trade among their several societies. The Plateau In eastern Oregon and Washington, southern Alberta and British Columbia, northern Idaho and western Montana, mountains are draped with evergreen forests and the valleys are grassy. The summers are hot, and the winters are long and cold. A pattern of life similar to Great Basin peoples existed on the Plateau, but it was enhanced by annual runs of salmon up the Columbia River, other rivers and tributaries. The Plateau natives also had to move a lot; they traveled on foot while dogs pulled their goods. Where there were lakes, they found other The Far West, ducks and mud hens. In the meadows, they pulled up camas edible bulbs and other nutrient-rich tubers and roots. They dried salmon and The Far West for winter consumption. People lived in villages made of partly sunken circular dwellings in the cold months and camped in grass mat houses in the warm months. Market villages existed where trekkers from the Plains and the Pacific Coast congregated, purchased dried food and bartered The Far West other items. In approximatelythe Plateau natives began to trade with the Plains natives for horses, which brought significant change—they were then able to The Far West much faster in search of food. Most of them combined the customs of seed-gatherers with ways of life The Far West learned from their Plains The Far West. They also gathered seeds, nuts and roots, but most of them hunted bison by horseback. Many lived in tipis. Seed-gathering and trading were common among inhabitants of all three regions. Altogether some 85 major The Far West groups and numerous subgroups lived in these regions up to the s. See Indian Wars Time Table. About Quizzes.