Anne A Hyde

The American Promise 2e, Volume 1 + West in the History of Nation Volume 1, a Reader

A New Significance: Re-Envisioning the History of the American West

The West in the History of the Nation: A Reader To 1877

The West in the History of the Nation: A Reader Since 1865

The West in the History of the Nation Volume 2 + Thomas Edison + Modern America + Scopes Trial

An American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture, 1820-1920

An American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture, 1820-1920

William Bent

…The historian Anne Hyde has dated the moment when the Cheyenne chief White Thunder realized a common interest with Bent. In November 1833, they talked together as a meteor shower lit up the sky over the plains. Many Cheyenne believed that the celestial event was a signal of the end of the wo...

Frémont's First Impressions: The Original Report of His Exploring Expeditions of 1842-1844

In 1842 John C. Frémont led a party of twenty-five men on a five-month journey from Saint Louis to the Wind River Range in the Rocky Mountains; his goal: to chart the best route to Oregon. In 1843 Frémont was commissioned for another expedition, to explore the Great Salt Lake, Washington, eastern Ca...

Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 (History of the American West)

To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipulated. This was not, as Empires, Nations, and Families makes clear, virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather, th...

Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860

“Ingenious. A magnificent scholarly achievement. A sweeping new narrative account of [western] history. A book to ponder and plunder.”—Virginia Scharff, Western Quarterly Review“Not only well researched and presented but instantly absorbing.”—Adrienne Caughfield, Journal of American HistoryPulitzer ...

Keeping the Garden in Bloom: Watering, Dead-Heading, and Other Summer Tasks (Seasonal Garden Workbook)

Summer can be the most colorful and rewarding season of the garden year. This guide provides invaluable advice on the vital tasks necessary to ensure a fabulous ongoing display. The book includes in-depth information on new introductions, propagation, pruning, routine care, and more. Over 100 color ...

A Year in the Garden: A Step-by-step Guide to Vital Gardening Projects Through the Year

Every gardener wants a garden that looks good throughout the year. This essential book shaws you how to achieve that aim, with comprehensive advice on all aspects of seasonal care and maintenance from introducing new plants and pruning to soil management, pond care, and lawn care. Garden writer and ...

Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War (1913-1916)

A fully annotated, bilingual edition, Calligrammes is a key work not only in Apollinaire's own development but in the evolution of modern French poetry. Apollinaire--Roman by birth, Polish by name (Wilhelm-Apollinaris de Kostrowitski), Parisian by choice--died at thirty-eight in 1918. Nevertheless, ...