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The Walker War Reconsidered, Ryan Elwood Wimmer
The Walker War Reconsidered, Ryan Elwood Wimmer
Theses and Dissertations
In July of 1853, Chief Wakara's band of Utes clashed in a series of violent confrontations with the Mormon settlers. This conflict is known as the Walker War. Many complex factors contributed to this war. After some earlier violence between Mormons and different bands of Utes between 1847 and 1851, the Mormons continued their quick expansion settling on Ute lands. From 1851 to 1853 Mormon and Ute relations continued to decline as Mormons expanded their settlements occupying Ute hunting grounds. In addition to these land encroachments, new laws were enacted regulating trade between the Spanish and Utes by Brigham Young. …
Garden Grove, Iowa: From Mormon Way Station To Permanent Settlement, 1846-1852, Jill N. Crandell
Garden Grove, Iowa: From Mormon Way Station To Permanent Settlement, 1846-1852, Jill N. Crandell
Theses and Dissertations
When the Mormon people began evacuating Nauvoo, Illinois, in February 1846, they intended to leave the United States and build a home for themselves in the West, where they could practice their religion without persecution. However, as Brigham Young led thousands through severe rain and mud that spring, he soon decided that too many of the Saints were unprepared for the long journey to the mountains. Mormons built way stations across Iowa, places where they planted crops, raised log cabins, and obtained the necessary food and supplies. After the Saints moved on to Utah in following years, many of these …
Off To Carolina- No News From There, Konrad Basler
Off To Carolina- No News From There, Konrad Basler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
"In January 1743 the whole family emigrated to Carolina.
Thereafter no more news came to Dorlikon." With this footnote the
entries to Rudolf Eprecht's line in the Epprecht family chronicle
end. It touched me when, three decades ago, I received Reverend
Robert Epprecht's research work on the Epprecht family as a gift.
According to Reverend Epprecht's findings, other villagers from
Dorlikon had also left for Carolina, among whom a certain Conrad
Basler with his family. Did they ever reach the other side of the
Ocean? If so, where did they settle? And do these families still exist
today?
Epprecht's Crossing, Konrad Basler
Epprecht's Crossing, Konrad Basler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
At Leo Schelbert's house in Evanston, Illinois, we looked through
those sources available at Leo's university library in which traces of the
Epprechts were most likely to be found. In the course of this process I
came across another Dorlikon ancestor, Ulrich Singer, a descendant of a
family doubly represented in the village's heraldic church window from
1685.
Off To Pennsylvania, Konrad Basler
Off To Pennsylvania, Konrad Basler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
After New York, my wife and I traveled on to Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania. We had long been invited to visit John and Nelda Fisher
there, old university friends of ours, and it was now that we finally complied.
'It looks greener and cleaner', was our first response to the town that
had become our second home and our daughter Susan's birthplace. The
fortunate change in the town's appearance seemed due to the 'Bethlehem
Steel Company', which had shrunk to a mere tenth of its original jobs.
Lehigh University, on the other hand, had grown in size-in particular its
research department for …
Julia Beringer Huber, Konrad Basler
Julia Beringer Huber, Konrad Basler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
At the time of the Dorlikon pioneers only Indian paths led west,
and yet, the traffic connections to the Midwest hold a core position in
the history of North America. My wife and I went to one of the most
important centers in this context, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, coming
from Newark, New Jersey. As a member of a delegation of experts
I had been to Newark twenty years before, when, for the first time
worldwide , a novel way of building runways was being tested there.
On our visit in 1992, on the other hand, I was more interested in the …
Columbus Day, Konrad Basler
Columbus Day, Konrad Basler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
On October 12 I drove out to the magnificent autumn forests
by Pennsylvania. I chose highway 22, a route I had been familiar
with since the days at Lehigh University. Once more I was struck
by the speed and the distances mastered nowadays. Unlike us, the
Dorlikon emigrants had measured the distances they covered by the
hour. Carolina, for example, was '2200 hours on sea' from Rotterdam.
In order really to appreciate our modern standards of living, one has
to visualize what since then pioneers have achieved in America- not
only the independence from the British Crown, but also the …
Second Harvest: The State Of Research 2007- An Update, Konrad Basler
Second Harvest: The State Of Research 2007- An Update, Konrad Basler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The author of this personal report did not stop research on his
native Dorlikon with the present volume, reedited unchanged. Questions
of local conditions and family relationships, economic limitations in the
17th and everyday life in the 18th century filled three more volumes (see
the concluding essay by Leo Schelbert). Additional light was shed on
the causes for emigration, and a second research trip to the USA in 1996
yielded many a missing puzzle stone towards the picture of the Dorlikon
emigrants. These new facts have been assembled here under the headings
of the emigrant families. Reference is made to …
Postscript, Leo Schelbert
Postscript, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Trans-Atlantic Crossings- Past And Present, Konrad Basler
Trans-Atlantic Crossings- Past And Present, Konrad Basler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
On September 24, 1992, my wife and I were waiting at one of the
finger docks at Zurich airport. As the president of the airport's former
building commission, I had come to know its plans intimately. But now I
was more interested in the feelings of those waiting for the transatlantic
flight. Or might 'feelings' be too strong a word for passengers leisurely
sprawling in their seats, reading or dozing as if they were riding to work
on one of Zurich's commuter trains?
Second Harvest, Konrad Basler
Second Harvest, Konrad Basler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
We both felt that in order to compare our findings we ought to get together. Unfortunately, Mrs. Ebright's husband was in New York for two days, but she agreed to meet me the following day, at Lancaster's Historical Archives. Working there, we discovered that Jacob had opened an inn. The next day we went over to the Lebanon County Historical Society Archives, for it was in that area that "Jacob Epprieht of Bethel Township in the Country of Lancaster" had acquired land for his inn (at that time the lay-out of the lots looked different from today). At these archives …
Contested Space: Mormons, Navajos, And Hopis In The Colonization Of Tuba City, Corey Smallcanyon
Contested Space: Mormons, Navajos, And Hopis In The Colonization Of Tuba City, Corey Smallcanyon
Theses and Dissertations
When Mormons arrived in northern Arizona among the Navajo and Hopi Indians in the late 1850s, Mormon-Indian relations were initially friendly. It was not too long, however, before trouble began in conflicts over water use and land rights. Federal agents would soon consider Mormons a threat to the peaceful Hopis because both the Navajo and Mormons were expanding their land claims. Indian agents relentlessly pleaded with Washington to establish a separate Indian reservation. They anticipated this reservation would satisfy all three parties, but its creation in 1882 only created more problems, climaxing in the 1892 death of Lot Smith at …
Making The Desert Blossom: Public Works In Washington County, Utah, Michael Lyle Shamo
Making The Desert Blossom: Public Works In Washington County, Utah, Michael Lyle Shamo
Theses and Dissertations
The following thesis is a study of how communities of Washington County, Utah developed within one of the most inhospitable deserts of the American West. A trend of reliance on public works programs during economic depressions, not only put people to work, but also provided an influx of outside aid to develop an infrastructure for future economic stability and growth. Each of these public works was carefully planned by leaders who not only saw the immediate impact these projects would have, but also future benefits they would confer. These communities also became dependent on acquiring outside investment capital from the …
The Tercentenary Of New Bern, H. Dwight Page
The Tercentenary Of New Bern, H. Dwight Page
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The present year 2010 marks the tercentenary of the City of New Bern, North Carolina, and yet this celebration signifies much more than that, for, although Sir Walter Raleigh did establish a temporary English colony on Roanoke Island in 1587 and although a number of English plantations were established along Albemarle Sound and Pamlico Sound during the second half of the seventeenth century, the European urbanization of North Carolina did not begin in earnest until the foundation of New Bern by Baron Christoph deGraffenried in 1710, and for North Carolinians it is New Bern which represents the first permanent major …
From Dream To Reality: The Swiss Center Of North America, Duane Freitag
From Dream To Reality: The Swiss Center Of North America, Duane Freitag
Swiss American Historical Society Review
It was ten years in the making, but the dream has been fulfilled-SwissAmericans in North America finally have a national cultural center and they can be proud of it!
An Update On The Tercentennial Meeting Of The Sahs At New Bern Saturday, December 11, 2010, Dwight Page
An Update On The Tercentennial Meeting Of The Sahs At New Bern Saturday, December 11, 2010, Dwight Page
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
English Tourists In The Georgian Period: A Cultural And Leisure Pursuit, Whitney Metcalf, Amanda Jeffs, Karina Jackson, Susan Rugh
English Tourists In The Georgian Period: A Cultural And Leisure Pursuit, Whitney Metcalf, Amanda Jeffs, Karina Jackson, Susan Rugh
FHSS Mentored Research Conference
During the Georgian period (1714-1830), the upper-middle class joined the aristocracy in the world of travel and vacation. The wealthy merchant class began vacationing to new fashionable resort towns such as Bath. The authors of the time popularized the English countryside in their writings for England’s new vacationers as well. Furthermore, the aristocracy began reaching outside of England to the Continent for trips of art, culture, and intellectual stimulation. The Georgian period, in essence, introduced the upper-middle class to leisure vacations, made the English countryside fashionable for tourists, and broadened the reach of the aristocratic vacation to continental Europe’s rich …
Marketing To The Middle Class: Tourism In The 20th Century, Abby Wheatley, Emily Melear, Candace Workman, Brynn Riley
Marketing To The Middle Class: Tourism In The 20th Century, Abby Wheatley, Emily Melear, Candace Workman, Brynn Riley
FHSS Mentored Research Conference
Advertisements and promotional material from the 1950s to the present give unique historical insight into American middle class travel patterns. We researched how advertising of Route 66, State Slogans, Colorado Ski towns, and the Walt Disney Company focused on marketing experiences to families as opposed to marketing the site location itself. We aim to discover how advertising portrays a certain image and whether that portrayal is accurate with the experience in reality.
International Travel: Economic Effects Of Government Intervention, Adam Brady, Whitney Thomas, Jenna Wilkin, Patty Eliason
International Travel: Economic Effects Of Government Intervention, Adam Brady, Whitney Thomas, Jenna Wilkin, Patty Eliason
FHSS Mentored Research Conference
Because tourism affects many aspects of a countries economy, governments play an important role in promoting and preparing their countries for tourism. Using Haiti and China, as well as the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the epidemic outbreaks of SARS and the Swine Flu, we can see the role each government takes in regards to tourism and the economy of each country. In Haiti, we see the role America plays in rebuilding the country, both physically, after the earthquake in January 2010, and politically, by offering support to the Haitian government and stopping military coups. Tourism would bring money to …
Symbols Of The French Revolution, Bill Cichoski, Angela Rice, Philip Greenan, Elisa Visick
Symbols Of The French Revolution, Bill Cichoski, Angela Rice, Philip Greenan, Elisa Visick
FHSS Mentored Research Conference
During the French Revolution, France as a nation did not exist yet. There were many different ethnic and linguistic groups that had to be united in order to form the France that we know today. To bridge the divide between the different regions of France and the different classes involved in the Revolution, symbols were used to convey certain ideals. The liberty cap, the tricolor flag, Marianne, and other symbols became important in the spread of Revolutionary ideas. Our research aims to show that these symbols served an important role in creating a national identity in France.
Important Travelers In The Civil Rights Movement, Mark D. Lowe, Sharon Jensen, Mark Fitu, Susan Rugh
Important Travelers In The Civil Rights Movement, Mark D. Lowe, Sharon Jensen, Mark Fitu, Susan Rugh
FHSS Mentored Research Conference
For African Americans, much of the twentieth-century was a long and grueling battle for civil rights. Racial violence and inequality were everywhere, and traveling was no exception. After World War II, and continuing through the following decades, black travelers were often denied service at restaurants, bathrooms, motels, and even amusement parks and beaches. This made it hard for blacks, regardless of status, to travel and to enjoy may forms of recreation. However, these difficult travel experiences allowed many African Americans to make a difference in the fight for equality.