Ham, Eggs, and Corn Cake: A Nebraska Territory Diary
Autor Erastus F. Beadle Introducere de Ronald C. Naugleen Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2001
Three years after the Kansas-Nebraska Act embroiled the plains states in a struggle that presaged the war to come, the irrepressible Erastus F. Beadle left his home in Buffalo, New York, and set out for the territories to see about some land. Specifically, Beadle had a stake in the Sulphur Springs Land Company, an enterprise that proposed to build the community of Saratoga just north of Omaha for prospective settlers, who were arriving by the boatload. In diary pages and letters home, Beadle noted his impressions—the details, anecdotes, and characters that filled his days—and in doing so, left a remarkable record of a bygone way of life in the American West.
Beginning with his three-month journey westward, Beadle takes us from the hardships and amusements of travel on the "Big Muddy" to the magnificent sight of a prairie fire at night, from the political propaganda abroad in the "slavery stronghold" of Kansas to the realities of doing business on the Nebraska frontier. Whether describing roads or water routes, mishaps or accommodations, finances, politics, or daily life, Beadle writes with an immediacy and character that make his diary as entertaining as it is informative—a living, intimate chapter of American history.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780803261877
ISBN-10: 080326187X
Pagini: 130
Ilustrații: Illus., map
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Bison Original
Colecția Bison Books
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 080326187X
Pagini: 130
Ilustrații: Illus., map
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Bison Original
Colecția Bison Books
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
Erastus F. Beadle was born in New York State in 1821. In 1857 he went west to Omaha, where he failed to make his fortune. In 1858 he returned to New York, where he prospered as senior partner of Beadle and Adams, publisher of the popular Beadle's Dime Novels.
Ronald C. Naugle is Huge-Kinne Professor of History at Nebraska Wesleyan University. He is coeditor of Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers (Nebraska 1991) and coauthor of History of Nebraska (Nebraska 1997).
Recenzii
"A remarkable peek into a way of life in the American West that is rich in history and myth. . . . This is a wonderful first person account that provides an intimate record of a period of American history."—Tulsa World