Papers by Johnny Faragher
Michigan Historical Review, 1979
The American Historical Review, Oct 1, 1999
Reviewer Michael Foret is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens P... more Reviewer Michael Foret is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. His research and writing have focused on the French and Indians in the Mississippi valley during the colonial era. Carl Ekberg has done it again. French Roots in the Illinois Country, like his earlier study of Ste. Geneviève, Colonial Ste. Geneviève: An Adventure on the Mississippi Frontier ('1985), is a model of social history that masterfully illuminates the French experience in the upper Mississippi valley. Few if any historians have looked at this region as closely or as well as Ekberg. That the French were the first Europeans to settle in the region is an essential part of the warp and woof of "American" history. Carl Ekberg has done a great service by explaining how they did so. Frenchmen first visited the middle Mississippi vaUey during the last third of the seventeenth century, and they began to establish a permanent presence toward the end of the century. As interesting and colorful as the stories of La Salle and Tonti may be, however, Ekberg tells here the more prosaic story of the communities settled after 1700 by men and women who came here to make their lives as most ]3eople did in those days, by farming the land. Despite similarities to Quebec and Louisiana, the Illinois country evolved in a unique pattern of land use, settlement, and agriculture based on traditional French rural practices. According to the author, the urüque configuration of land use in the region had important implications not orüy for the organization of society, but also the mentalité of the inhabitants. Ekberg's six chapters revolve around French longlots; Illinois country settlements; open-field agriculture; settlers, servants, and slaves; agricultural practices; and agricultural commerce in the Mississippi vaUey. Ekberg clearly knows the extant priniary sources-French, Spanish, and American-with the intimacy bom of decades of study, and he knows how to wring everything he can from them. Ride through the Illinois and Missouri countryside with him, and you know he has learned the land not only as an ideal from the docimients, but on many a sweaty or chilly walk over the settlements and farms he writes about. That makes a difference, because he sometimes finds that the reality did not always conform to what the documents described. He also knows the rural France from which these settlers came, which allows him to explain this unique country as no one else can.
Gold rush Sojourners in Great Salt Lake City, 1849 an 1850
The Journal of American History, Mar 1, 1985
Western Historical Quarterly, 1996
Western Historical Quarterly, 2001
Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
The Journal of American History, Dec 1, 1993
... Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously publish... more ... Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: "Boone" by Susan Mitchell from New American Poets of the 80s, Jack Myers and Roger Weingarten, eds. ... ISBN 0-8050-3007-7 1. Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820. ...
History from the Inside-out: Writing the History of Women in Rural America
De Gruyter eBooks, Dec 31, 1993
Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement
The Journal of American History, Sep 1, 2001
Page 1. Bound Away VIRGINIA AND THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly &#... more Page 1. Bound Away VIRGINIA AND THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly ' Page 2. Page 3. Bound Away VIRGINIA AND THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT This One CD17-RDS-HJ2R Page 4. V^X * Page 5. ...
Sterling Evans, editor.The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-Ninth Parallel.:The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty‐Ninth Parallel
The American Historical Review, Apr 1, 2008
Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West
Western Historical Quarterly, Feb 1, 2008
ReviewSeizing Destiny: The Relentless Expansion of American Territory.(New York: Vintage Books, 2008. xviii + 649 pp. Maps, appendix, bibliographical notes, index. $17.95, paper.) Richard Kluger
Western Historical Quarterly, Oct 1, 2010
A Scattered People: An American Family Moves West
Western Historical Quarterly, Oct 1, 1987
Yale University Press eBooks, Dec 6, 2017
Women and Higher Education in American History: Essays from the Mount Holyoke College Sesquicentennial Symposia
History of Education Quarterly, 1989
Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon Thought
The American Historical Review, Jun 1, 1988
This volume of fourteen essays by fourteen authors under the able editorship of Roger L. Nichols ... more This volume of fourteen essays by fourteen authors under the able editorship of Roger L. Nichols brings together the latest strands of scholarship in the fields of the American frontier and the American West. The distinction is an important one. For more than a generation now, professionals have increasingly confused the two. The clear sense this book conveys of both fields gives this study a decidedly forward-looking vision in comparison to the recently published series of essays edited by Ivlichael Malone (1985). Nichols opens the volume with an insightful introduction in which he lays out the distinction between the two overlapping fields. He places considerable emphasis on the uncertain past of the American frontier/West, especially in the decades of the 1950s and 1960s, when studies and scholarly articles showed the field's methodological confusion and declining status in colleges and universities. He notes of this period that scholars seemed to feel "as if they were at the fringes of the profession" (1), and goes on to say that such negative feelings seem to have been largely overcome in the last decade and a half through the infusion of a new group of enterprising scholars and the emergence of a range of new subjects for analysis. The fields seem resurgent, and in his view, this series of essays is a bench mark of where we have come from and where we are going. His comments make good sense, especially since they are backed up by several insightful presentations that do much to support his arguments on behalf of new scholars and new topics of scholarly interest. Of the essays that follow, those on the environment (John Opie), social history (Anne M. Butler), frontier urbanization (Lawrence H. Larsen), frontier women (Glenda Riley), and the frontier army (Paul A. Hutton) reflect some of the new directions. Ethnic groups (Carlton C. Qualey), foreign affairs and expansion (Robert D. Schulzinger), economic development in the American West (John D. Haeger), and
National Cowboy Hall of Fame Thundering Hooves
The Journal of American History, 1994
... Cody astride a rearing steed; Midnight, a legendary rodeo bronc that was never ridden; Veryl ... more ... Cody astride a rearing steed; Midnight, a legendary rodeo bronc that was never ridden; Veryl Goodnight's Paint Mare & Filly; and a life-size reproduction of Remington's Coming through the Rye. ... John Mack Faragher JC Mutchler Yale University New Haven, Connecticut
History from the Inside-Out: Writing the History of Women in Rural America
American Quarterly, 1981
IN THE PAST DECADE HISTORIANS HAVE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO CALLS for a new history of the&amp... more IN THE PAST DECADE HISTORIANS HAVE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO CALLS for a new history of the" inarticulate." Certainly American rural farm women, who until well into the twentieth century constituted a majority of the female population, are among the most ...
Western Historical Quarterly, Jul 1, 1984
History from the Inside-Out: Writing the History of Women in Rural America
American Quarterly, 1981
IN THE PAST DECADE HISTORIANS HAVE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO CALLS for a new history of the&amp... more IN THE PAST DECADE HISTORIANS HAVE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO CALLS for a new history of the" inarticulate." Certainly American rural farm women, who until well into the twentieth century constituted a majority of the female population, are among the most ...
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