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Buckskin and blanket days : memoirs of a friend of the Indians

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Description: These are the reminiscences a man who spent his life involved in numerous causes and eventually gained recognition as an activist for Indian reform and, later, as a candidate for Vice President of the United States. His stories show the complex situations between the various factions in the Plains States just before and for several decades after the Civil War.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1985.
Call number: 489025
Creator: Tibbles, Thomas Henry (1840-1928)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Martin Ridge, April 1989.
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Sir Francis Henry Evans letter to Isaac Sherman

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This letter concerns the American presidential election of 1876 and the implications for the United States in the international bond market of Samuel J. Tilden's presumed victory in that election. Evans writes, "I trust Mr. Tilden will feel advisability of still further reducing the interest on the govt loans there is no reason why more than 4% should be paid - if the proper means were taken to please the public and meet this requirement." Although Democratic Party candidate Tilden eventually lost the Electoral College vote to his Republican opponent, Rutherford B. Hayes, that decision had not yet been made at the time of this letter. Also referenced is the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway: "...high dividends in time of bad trade are generally ominous and the P + R seem fairly to have rushed to destruction."

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Memoir of the life and public services of John Charles Frémont

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This book examines the life of John Charles Frémont, American explorer, politician, and soldier who, in 1856, became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States.

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Danforth H. Medbery memoir

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Medbery wrote this memoir of his time in California in 1919 at the age of 80. It begins with his voyage to California on the "Northern Star." He arrives in San Francisco 24 days later. He talks about his work in a mill, the machinery he uses there, looking for gold and the equipment he builds; he also talks about his other jobs selling fruit and vegetables and copper mining in Copperopolis, California. He also talks about politics, violence, attending church and teaching Sunday school, and social life in general. While in California, his wife, Mary, was often in California too, but she would eventually move back East before him.

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Wildfire

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"In the American west during the last 35 years, the number of fires increased by a factor of four; the average fire went from lasting a week to lasting five; the total area burned increased by six and a half times; and the average fire season increased by 78 days. All of which is to say, as Bill McKibben points out in his introduction to Wildfire, we really shouldn't be calling them wildfires any more. Sasha Bezzubov has gained wide recognition for his photographs of natural disasters in his ongoing project 'Things Fall Apart.' Wildfire, the artist’s first monograph, is comprised of 32 large-scale photographs of the aftermath of forest fires in California. Using the genre of landscape photography, a tradition born with and used to celebrate industrial expansion, these photographs evidence the fragility of the man-made as it is transformed into dreamscapes of apocalyptic proportions"--Publisher's description.

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Papago Indians

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The Peabody Collection consists of 672 glass plate negatives in various sizes, 1054 film negatives in various sizes, 24 photograph albums, 887 loose photographs in a variety of formats, published works, and manuscript material, created and collected by Henry G. Peabody, 1859-1993 (bulk 1890s-1900s). The materials collectively describe Peabody's long career as a commercial landscape photographer working on both the east and west coasts of the United States. The photographs and negatives depict Peabody and his family; landscape views in New England, Canada, the western United States, California, and Mexico; Native Americans; city and landscape views in Great Britain, France, and Switzerland; portraits; architectural renderings; plants and animals; unidentified landscapes; and miscellaneous images. Additional photographers and photographic firms represented in the collection include Alexander Hesler, Charles F. Lummis, and Spence Air Photos. The published works contain photographs by Peabody. The manuscript material provides information about Peabody's negatives; contains catalogs of Peabody's works for sale; describes Peabody's commercial dealings as both a photographer and seller of photographic equipment; and contains ephemeral material collected by Peabody throughout his life.

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Hopi Indians

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