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Wagon Tracks. Volume 28, Issue 1 (November, 2013), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

Awards and Symposium . 1
President’s Message. 2
Joanne’s Jottings . 3
News .4 - 6
Symposium Photos . 9, 27, 28
Hall of Fame . 7, 15, 24
Chapter Reports . 24
Membership Renewal . 27
Events . 28

Articles
Plan to Rob Wethered and Brevort Foiled . 7
An Estranjero’s Proposal: Tórrez . 8
Surviving Disease on the Plains: Chambers . 10
Low-Level Aerial Photography: Aber. 16

Columns
Cyber Ruts: Maps: Olsen . 14
Book: Comanche Empire: Sears . 23

Wagon Tracks. Volume 28, Issue 3 (May, 2014), Santa Fe Trail Association

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1 Point of Rocks Preserved
2 President’s Message
3 Joanne’s Jottings
4 News
6 PNTS Report
6 Mapping Workshop
7 Concert
7 Committee Restructure
8 Rendezvous
9 Chapter Presidents Meetings
13 Independence Tour and Meeting Photos
18 Hall of Fame: Sumner
24 Chapter Reports
27 Membership Renewal
28 Events

10 Junior Wagon Master: Clark
12 Archives and Collections: Olsen and Peters
19 A. H. Boyd: Clapsaddle
14 Wagon Bed Spring: French

23 Book: Warrior Nations: Stafford

Wagon Tracks. Volume 29, Issue 4 (August, 2015), Santa Fe Trail Association

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2 On the Cover: Fur Trader at Bent’s Fort
4 President’s Corner
5 Joanne’s Jottings
6 Southern Fur Trade Symposium
7 Three Trails Conference
8 Photo of Ceran St. Vrain
9 Surveyor Joseph C. Brown Monument
10 The Pepperbox Revolving Pistol and Its Use in the West by Michael Schaubs
11 Becknell Desendants Photo
12 Bent, St. Vrain & Company, and Bent’s Fort by John Carson
15 The Mexican Connection by Dr. James A. Hanson
23 Military Impotent Against Indian Tribes
24 Books: Revisiting Four Classic Accounts of the Western Fur Trade and the Santa Fe Trail by Mike Olsen …

Wagon Tracks. Volume 29, Issue 2 (February, 2015), Santa Fe Trail Association

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10 The Kanza in the Civil War
15 Three Trails Conference Schedule and Registration
19 Documenting the Santa Fe Trail in Kansas
23 The American Invasion of New Mexico and Mexican Merchants

Mexican Money/American Commerce, David Clapsaddle

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No abstract provided.

Mosquitos And Buffalo Gnats On The Santa Fe Trail, Phyllis Morgan

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No abstract provided.

Without A Trace: The Becknell Five, Craig Crease

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Wagon Tracks. Volume 28, Issue 4 (August, 2014), Santa Fe Trail Association

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2 On the Cover: Ranch at Cimarron Crossing
4 President’s Corner
5 Joanne’s Jottings
6 Rendezvous 2014
8 News Along the Trail
10 Seen on the SFTA Facebook Page
15 Not Yet, But Plan Now: Membership
25 Pilgrim on the Santa Fe Trail
26 Books: Merchants of Independence by William Patrick O'Brien, reviewed by Dr. Leo Oliva
27 Books: That Broad and Beckoning Highway, by Michael L. Olsen, reviewed by Steve Schmidt; Citizen Explorer: The Life of Zebulon Pike by Jared Orsi, reviewed by Tom Pelikan
28 Activities Along the Trail
28 Chapter Reports

Wagon Tracks. Volume 30, Issue 3 (May, 2016), Santa Fe Trail Association

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2 On the Cover: On the Cimarron Route
4 President’s Corner
5 Joanne’s Jottings
7-8 Trail News
9 PNTS Report and Workshop
17 Annotated SFT Bibliography
25 Books: Over the Santa Fe Trail to Mexico: The Travel Diaries and Autobiography of Dr. Rowland Willard, Joy L. Poole, reviewed by Timothy Zwink Battles and Massacres on the Southwestern Frontier: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives, Ed. Ronald Wetherington and Frances Levine, reviewed by Larry L. JusticeMary Donoho: New First Lady of the Santa Fe Trail, 25th Anniversary Edition, Marian Meyer, updated by Joni Stodt and George Donoho Bayless.
28 Chapter Reports

Wagon Tracks. Volume 30, Issue 2 (February, 2016), Santa Fe Trail Association

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2 On the Cover: Oh, Give Me a Home
4 President's Corner
5 Joanne's Jottings
6 Trail News
9 PNTS Report, SFTA Memebership
10 Entangled Transactions: General Kearny's Mill Site
14 Exhibits Preserve SFT Mural
17 High Tech Converges with Trail History
18 The Secret of the Gage d'Amour
22 Cimarron Heritage Center: Dust Bowl Exhibit
23 Bet's Old Fort: The Fur Press-Essential Tool fo the Fur Trade
26 Books
28 In Memoriam: James Bohart, Emery Murray
29 Chapter Reports
32 Calendar

Wagon Tracks. Volume 30, Issue 1 (November, 2015), Santa Fe Trail Association

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2 On the Cover: Swales in New Mexico
4 President's Corner
5 Joanne's Jottings
5-8 Trail News
9 SFTA Awards, Hall of Fame
14 Crossing the Ocean: Conservation on the Santa Fe Trail
16 Three Trails Conference Report
18 William Becknell, "Mr M'Laughlin," and an Unexpected Road to Santa Fe
21 Colorado DAR Markers Located
22 Crossroad at the Edge of Empire: Economy and Livelihood in Santa Fe during the Spanish Colonial Period
25 Planned Giving: Josiah Gregg Society
26 Books: Youth on the Santa Fe Trail, Camilla Kattell, reviewed by Rachel C. Penner, and The Santa Fe Trail: A …

Design Plan For The Sawmill Town History Wing At The Texas Forestry Museum, Kendall D. Gay

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Texas Forestry Museum in Lufkin, Texas is the only forestry museum in the state. It preserves artifacts and educates visitors about Texas’ forest industry history. The museum has a Sawmill Town History Wing that is outdated and in need of a refreshing exhibit design based on current best practices. Using a previous museum audit as a guide, the new exhibit will have better flow, panel aesthetics, content, and interactive elements. By creating a new exhibit, the museum is better able to educate and entertain the visitors about Texas’ forest industry history.

Wagon Tracks. Volume 31, Issue 2 (February, 2017), Santa Fe Trail Association

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2 On the Cover: Winter at Bent's Old Fort
4 President: As I See It
5 Joanne's Jottings
7 Trail News
9 How the DAR Marked the Santa Fe Trail
12 Santa Fe Trail Hall of Fame
15 PNTS Report
16 Francisca Lopez Kimball: Across the Santa Fe Trail to Missouri
20 Book Reviews
23 Research Grant Report
24 Padilla Monument May Be Ancient Indian Landmark
28 Chapter Reports
32 Calendar

Music And Race In The American West, William Steven Schneider

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis explores the complexities of race relations in the nineteenth century American West. The groups considered here are African Americans, Anglo Americans, Chinese, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans. In recent decades historians of the West have begun to tell the narratives of racial minorities. This study adopts the aims of these scholars through a new lens--music. Ultimately, this thesis argues that historians can use music, both individual songs and broader conceptions about music, to understand the complex and contradictory race relations of the nineteenth century west.

Proceeding thematically, the first chapter explores the ways Anglo Americans used music to …

Bloody Bay: Grassroots Policeways, Community Control, And Power In San Francisco And Its Hinterlands, 1846-1915, Darren A. Raspa

History ETDs

“Bloody Bay: Grassroots Policeways, Community Control, and Power in San Francisco and its Hinterlands, 1846–1915” follows the history of San Francisco’s spectrum of formal and informal policing from the American takeover of California in 1846 during the U.S.–Mexico War to Police Commissioner Jesse B. Cook’s nationwide law enforcement advisory team tour in 1912 and San Francisco’s debut as the Jewel of a new American Pacific world during the Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915. These six decades functioned as a unique period wherein a culture of popular justice and grassroots community peacekeeping were fostered. This policing environment was forged in …

Local History Collection, Brooklyn College Library And Academic It

Finding Aids

The Local History Collection contains documents that are related to the borough of Brooklyn, ranging from the 1600s through the 2000s. The collection is divided into two series: miscellaneous subject files and oversized files. Both series are organized alphabetically by subject, and a full list of the subjects present in this collection is provided in the Collection Outline.

Book Review: Forrest: On The Way To Fort Pillow

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Book Review

Forrest: On the Way to Fort Pillow

Marvin Downing

Does Quilting Matter?

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Does Quilting Matter?

Bobbie Smith Bryant

The Earliest American Map Of The Northwest Coast: John Hoskins's A Chart Of The Northwest Coast Of America Sketched On Board The Ship Columbia Rediviva ... 1791 & 1792, James V. Walker, William L. Lang

History Faculty Publications and Presentations

Between 1790 and 1793, John Hoskins created a map of the Northwest Coast of North America that included ninety-one place names documenting Native communities. The map is the earliest example of such detailed documentation by an American and was rediscovered in 1852 at the Cartographic Archives Division of the National Archives and Records Administration. In this research article, James Walker and William Lang provide a historical context for the map, including comparative charts that break down the Native names that Hoskins documented into seven cultural groups. According to Walker and Lang, the map “opens a window to what American traders …

Settlement In The Old Northwest Frontier And The Merging Of Culture, 1750 -1790, Sandra K. Ellefsen

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

SETTLEMENT IN THE OLD NORTHWEST FRONTIER

AND THE MERGING OF CULTURE, 1750 -1790

An Abstract of the Thesis by Sandra Ellefsen

During the late 1700s, the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountain Chain became the main corridor that precipitated settlement into Kentucky. Along this frontier line, settlers had to contend with various Native American tribes, and settlement on the frontier from the beginning of colonization irrevocably altered the Native American way of life. Warfare, encroachment, and disease caused the Native American population to decline drastically in the process of contact; often as a result, Native tribes chose to adopt many …

A Case Study Analysis Of The “Letter From Birmingham Jail”: Conceptualizing The Conscience Of King Through The Lens Of Paulo Freire, Tremaine T. Sails-Dunbar

Pursuit - The Journal of Undergraduate Research at The University of Tennessee

The pedagogical qualities of Martin King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” can be observed through the lens of Paulo Freire as his illustration of thematic universe’s can be used as a framework to contextualize the conscience of King. King encountered obstacles, in his contemporary context, to his self-actualization that once cognitively subjugated were transformative to his being. Three questions are explored: What manifestations led to the writing of the “Letter from Birmingham Jail”? What were King’s transformative actions? Will an answer to the first help make sense of the second? I endeavor to briefly examine the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” through …

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The 21st Century, Peter R. Bales

Open Educational Resources

A humorous but entirely factual account of American history from the beginning up to the present.

Féminisme Oblige: Katharine Susan Anthony And The Birth Of Modern Feminist Biography, 1877-1929, Anna C. Simonson

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Féminisme Oblige examines the life and work of Katharine Susan Anthony (1877-1965), a feminist, socialist, and pacifist whose early publications on working mothers (Mothers Who Must Earn [1914]) and women’s movements in Europe (Feminism in Germany and Scandinavia [1915]) presaged her final chosen vocation as a feminist biographer. Between 1920 and 1958, Anthony published nine biographies of women, all of which in some way challenged the assumptions behind established gender norms and the status quo. Perhaps most importantly, Anthony’s biographies, grounded in the exciting new theories of Sigmund Freud, challenged women themselves to think differently about their prescribed …

"The World Of Our Children": Jews, Puerto Ricans, And The Politics Of Place And Race On The Lower East Side, 1963-1993, Barry Goldberg

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation examines how Jewish political leaders on the Lower East Side responded to neighborhood change, particularly the influx of Puerto Rican migrants, from the 1960s through the 1990s. Utilizing untapped archival material, including congressional records, municipal papers, legal files, articles from the ethnic press, and quantitative voting data, I demonstrate that the Lower East Side remained home to an influential network of Jewish political leaders, institutions, and voters long after the early twentieth-century. Residing on Grand Street, largely Orthodox, and often descended from Lower East Side Jewish immigrants, this political base created, shaped, and implemented antipoverty, education, housing, and …

I. M. Pei, William Zeckendorf, And The Architecture Of Urban Renewal, Marci M. Clark

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation reevaluates the practice of design and real estate in the United States through an insufficiently understood case study of the architect-developer team of I. M. Pei and William Zeckendorf and their twelve-year partnership in urban renewal. William Zeckendorf (1905-1976) was the most ambitious real estate developer in the United States in the 1950s, with an outsize personality and larger-than-life plans. Unlike most developers of the era, Zeckendorf believed that quality design and visionary planning were critical to remaking city cores through urban renewal. To accomplish this, he hired I. M. Pei (b. 1917), a talented, young designer out …

D.I.S.: Vol 49, No. 1, Calvin College

d.i.s. Magazine

05 — Editor’s Note
06 — Beter Nederlands: Asjemenou ....!
10 — Alfred H. Peet [1920-2007] Coffee Pioneer
12 — TaalVoutjes.nl
13 — The Atjeh Oorlog: The Longest Dutch War
17 — Book Reviews
19 — Pannenkoeken - ouderwets lekker
21 — News in Brief
23 — Upcoming Events

Mental Health Memories: A Web-Based Archive For Mental Health Stories, Amanda E. Castro

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

The Mental Health Memories project is an online archive created in order to display and preserve the personal histories of those with mental health experiences. The project aims to fill a void in available material culture related to the history of mental health and its preservation. Participants’ contributions include: oral histories, personal items, documents, and audio. Bringing together multimedia sources, the MHMemories website allows for the preservation of these items and stories through the digitization of contributions. This method allows for participants’ items to stay in their possession while also becoming part of the archive. In order to recruit participants, …

Special Education As Both History And Theory: Disability And The Possibility Of Interdisciplinary Friendship: A Multilogue Response To Ellis, Osgood, And Warren, Benjamin Kelsey Kearl

Education's Histories

In his multilogue response to Ellis, Osgood, and Warren, Kearl argues that "history theorizes and theory historicizes."

Bill Owens: A Us Craft Beer Pioneer, 1982-2001, Patrick Walls

Theses

Bill Owens is a pioneer in the United States craft brewing industry through his efforts as an advocate, writer, publisher, brewer, and entrepreneur who created a lasting legacy by influencing generations of brewers and beer fans. Owens wrote the first book on homebrewing equipment (How to Build a Small Brewery: Draft Beer in Ten Days in 1982). He opened the third brewpub in the country (Buffalo Bill's Brewery in Hayward, California in 1983) where, in 1985, he introduced the first commercial pumpkin beer among other beer style firsts. Owens published numerous brewery-focused magazines that featured many illustrious beer writers. …

Mestiza, Métis, American: How Intermixture On United States Borders Shaped Local, Regional, And National Identities, Carla L. Mendiola

History Theses and Dissertations

This project compares mestizaje in Mexican American communities of the Texas-Mexico border and métissage in Franco American communities of the Maine-Canada border, from the pre-contact period to the 20th-century. Exploring the central themes of intermixing, borders, and identity, the paper shows the long-standing presence of mixed-ancestry groups in the U.S. and investigates how social and geopolitical borders have been used to racialize and exclude these groups from U.S. history, and, ultimately from acceptance as part of U.S. identity. The comparison of Texas’s Lower Rio Grande Valley and Maine’s St. John River Valley follows the development of these communities and recognizes …