In "By Ox Team to California," Lavinia Honeyman Porter offers a vivid and meticulously detailed account of her journey westward during the California Gold Rush. Written with a keen eye for the intri……続きを見る
"...we had youth in our favor, and an indomitable will to succeed, and I have since learned by experience that a kind providence watches over fools and children."
So begins Lavinia Honeyman Porter i……続きを見る
Mahoney examines how members of the middle class from small cities across the great West were transformed by boom and bust, years of recession, and civil war. He argues that in their encounters with……続きを見る
The purpose of this collection is to bring together representative examples of the most recent work that is taking an understanding of children and childhood in new directions. The two key overarchi……続きを見る
“We then determined to use the small remnant of our fortune to provide a suitable outfit for a lengthy journey toward the setting sun.”
Like so many others Lavinia Honeyman Porter and her husband de……続きを見る
Porter’s By Ox Team to California is a moving piece of social history which documents the struggles and hopes of ordinary Americans in the mid-nineteenth century.
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The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field. New developme……続きを見る
