Books with author Lewis. Garrard

Everything you need to become a real rock hound!The world of rocks and minerals is massive, amazing, and full of cool new things to discover! A true identification guide for young geologists, My Awesome Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals helps you learn the skills you need to collect, identify, and catalogue your own treasures.Not only does this book teach you all about rocks and minerals, but it also gives you step-by-step guidelines for testing and determining what kind of rock or mineral you’ve found. My Awesome Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals even comes with a special notebook section to help you record data in the field. So get out there, gather cool looking samples, and figure out what they are!My Awesome Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals includes:Treasure all around―Amaze your friends and family and show them how you can pick up almost any rock or mineral and figure out what it is.Rocking fact sheets―Learn about 150 awesome rocks and minerals with handy fact sheets that are conveniently organized to help with identification.Your own field notebook―Record all your rock-hunting sample data on 50 “Field Notebook” pages that include cut-out numbers for numbering and cataloging!“What’s this rock or mineral?” Now you’ll know with My Awesome Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals!

Everything you need to become a real rock hound!The world of rocks and minerals is massive, amazing, and full of cool new things to discover! A true identification guide for young geologists, My Awesome Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals helps you learn the skills you need to collect, identify, and catalogue your own treasures.Not only does this book teach you all about rocks and minerals, but it also gives you step-by-step guidelines for testing and determining what kind of rock or mineral you’ve found. My Awesome Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals even comes with a special notebook section to help you record data in the field. So get out there, gather cool looking samples, and figure out what they are!My Awesome Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals includes:Treasure all around—Amaze your friends and family and show them how you can pick up almost any rock or mineral and figure out what it is.Rocking fact sheets—Learn about 150 awesome rocks and minerals with handy fact sheets that are conveniently organized to help with identification.Your own field notebook—Record all your rock-hunting sample data on 50 “Field Notebook” pages that include cut-out numbers for numbering and cataloging!“What’s this rock or mineral?” Now you’ll know with My Awesome Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals!

“the book is a minor classic of great charm, which has never had anything like the currency or critical recognition it deserves” The New York Review of BooksOn September 1, 1846, seventeen-year-old Lewis Garrard, set off on the journey of a lifetime into the Far West.Beginning in what is now Kansas City he joined a caravan headed for Bent’s Fort in southeastern Colorado near the Spanish Peaks, which was known to the Native Americans as Wah-to-Yah.Just before Garrard had arrived in the southwest Charles Bent, who was the recently appointed Governor of the newly acquired New Mexico Territory, was scalped and killed by Pueblo warriors during the Taos Revolt.Garrard’s account is therefore a vivid first-hand account of the Taos Revolt and its aftermath.Through the course of Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail Garrard explains how he came into contact with some of the most famous figures of western history, including Kit Carson, Jim Beckwourth, Ceran St. Vrain, George F. Ruxton, William Bent, and others.Scholars like Robert Gale have highlighted how the book provides “anthropologically accurate” descriptions of the Cheyenne Indians and other Native American tribes in the southwest of America.This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the old west, for as the Pulitzer Prize winning author A. B. Guthrie Jr. stated, it is “the genuine article” and brilliantly depicts “the Indian, the trader, the mountain man, their dress, and behavior and speech and the country and climate they lived in.”Lewis Hector Garrard was the son of a prominent family from Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1846 he set out for a ten-month trip to the southwestern United States. While in Taos, Garrard attended the trial of some of the Mexicans and Pueblos who had revolted against U.S. rule of New Mexico, newly captured in the Mexican-American War. Garrard wrote the only eye witness account of the trial and hanging of six convicted men. His book Wah-to-Yah was first published in 1850 and he passed away in 1887.

Wah-to-Yah is the only well-known book written by Garrard. It has won a secure place in the literature of the AmericanWest.On 1 Sept 1846, Garrard, 17 years old, joined a caravan in Westport Landing, Missouri to travel along the Santa Fe Trail toNew Mexico. He stopped off at Bent's Fort for two months and continued on to Taos with a company of Mountain Men to avengethe death of Charles Bent in the Taos Revolt. While in Taos, Garrard attended the trial of some of the Mexicans and Puebloswho had revolted against U.S. rule of New Mexico, newly captured in the Mexican–American War. Garrard wrote the only eyewitness account of the trial and hanging of six convicted men.Garrard returned home after his 10-month trip and apparently never visited the West again.The book is "fresh and vigorous" and contains in its pages authentic descriptions of "the Indian, the trader, the mountainman, their dress, and behavior and speech and the country and climate they lived in." The pages of the book contain awealth of characters, including Kit Carson, Jim Beckwourth, Ceran St. Vrain, George F. Ruxton, William Bent, and others andan "anthropologically accurate" description of the Cheyenne Indians. Garrard condemns the U.S. war against Mexico andhanging of the rebels in Taos as unjust.

“the book is a minor classic of great charm, which has never had anything like the currency or critical recognition it deserves” The New York Review of Books On September 1, 1846, seventeen-year-old Lewis Garrard, set off on the journey of a lifetime into the Far West. Beginning in what is now Kansas City he joined a caravan headed for Bent’s Fort in southeastern Colorado near the Spanish Peaks, which was known to the Native Americans as Wah-to-Yah. Just before Garrard had arrived in the southwest Charles Bent, who was the recently appointed Governor of the newly acquired New Mexico Territory, was scalped and killed by Pueblo warriors during the Taos Revolt. Garrard’s account is therefore a vivid first-hand account of the Taos Revolt and its aftermath. Through the course of Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail Garrard explains how he came into contact with some of the most famous figures of western history, including Kit Carson, Jim Beckwourth, Ceran St. Vrain, George F. Ruxton, William Bent, and others. Scholars like Robert Gale have highlighted how the book provides “anthropologically accurate” descriptions of the Cheyenne Indians and other Native American tribes in the southwest of America. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the old west, for as the Pulitzer Prize winning author A. B. Guthrie Jr. stated, it is “the genuine article” and brilliantly depicts “the Indian, the trader, the mountain man, their dress, and behavior and speech and the country and climate they lived in.” Lewis Hector Garrard was the son of a prominent family from Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1846 he set out for a ten-month trip to the southwestern United States. While in Taos, Garrard attended the trial of some of the Mexicans and Pueblos who had revolted against U.S. rule of New Mexico, newly captured in the Mexican-American War. Garrard wrote the only eye witness account of the trial and hanging of six convicted men. His book Wah-to-Yah was first published in 1850 and he passed away in 1887.

In the bright morning of his youth Lewis H. Garrard traveled into the wild and free Rocky Mountain West and left us this fresh and vigorous account, which, says A. B. Guthrie, Jr., contains in its pages "the genuine article-the Indian, the trader, the mountain man, their dress, and behavior and speech and the country and climate they lived in."On September 1, 1846, Garrard, then only seventeen years old, left Westport Landing (now Kansas City) with a caravan, under command of the famous trader Céran St. Vrain, bound for Bent's Fort (Fort William) in the southeastern part of present-day Colorado. After a lengthy visit at the fort and in a camp of the Cheyenne Indians, early in 1847 he joined the little band of volunteers recruited by William Bent to avenge the death of his brother, Governor Charles Bent of Taos, killed in a bloody but brief Mexican and Indian uprising in that New Mexican pueblo. In fact, Garrard's is the only eyewitness account we have of the trial and hanging of the "revolutionaries" at Taos.Many notable figures of the plains and mountains dot his pages: traders St. Vrain and the Bents; mountain men John L. Hatcher, Jim Beckwourth, Lucien B. Maxwell, Kit Carson, and others; various soldiery traveling to and from the outposts of the Mexican War; and explorer and writer George F. Ruxton.

Excerpt from Wah-to-Yah, and the Taos Trail, or Prairie Travel and Scalp Dances: With a Look at Los Rancheros From Muleback and the Rocky Mountain CampfireIn February, 1846, being then in my seventeenth year, I tossed away schoolbooks, and glided down the Missis sippi River, and along the Mexican Gulf, to Texas; and, shortly after, back to the Louisiana coast, where I stayed until the middle of May, visiting friends, riding horses, and shooting alligators, duck, and rail, from the bow of a long canoe in the cypress swamps.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Wah-to-Yah is the only well-known book written by Garrard. It has won a secure place in the literature of the American West.On 1 Sept 1846, Garrard, 17 years old, joined a caravan in Westport Landing, Missouri to travel along the Santa Fe Trail to New Mexico. He stopped off at Bent's Fort for two months and continued on to Taos with a company of Mountain Men to avenge the death of Charles Bent in the Taos Revolt. While in Taos, Garrard attended the trial of some of the Mexicans and Pueblos who had revolted against U.S. rule of New Mexico, newly captured in the Mexican–American War. Garrard wrote the only eye witness account of the trial and hanging of six convicted men.Garrard returned home after his 10-month trip and apparently never visited the West again.The book is "fresh and vigorous" and contains in its pages authentic descriptions of "the Indian, the trader, the mountain man, their dress, and behavior and speech and the country and climate they lived in." The pages of the book contain a wealth of characters, including Kit Carson, Jim Beckwourth, Ceran St. Vrain, George F. Ruxton, William Bent, and others and an "anthropologically accurate" description of the Cheyenne Indians. Garrard condemns the U.S. war against Mexico and hanging of the rebels in Taos as unjust.

Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored." Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books.There are now 65,000 titles available (that's an incredible 25 million pages) of material ranging from works by famous names such as Dickens, Trollope and Hardy as well as many forgotten literary gems , all of which can now be printed on demand and purchased right here on Amazon.Further information on The British Library and its digitisation programme can be found on The British Library website.

In the bright morning of his youth Lewis H. Garrard traveled into the wild and free Rocky Mountain West and left us this fresh and vigorous account, which, says A. B. Guthrie, Jr., contains in its pages "the genuine article-the Indian, the trader, the mountain man, their dress, and behavior and speech and the country and climate they lived in."On September 1, 1846, Garrard, then only seventeen years old, left Westport Landing (now Kansas City) with a caravan, under command of the famous trader Céran St. Vrain, bound for Bent's Fort (Fort William) in the southeastern part of present-day Colorado. After a lengthy visit at the fort and in a camp of the Cheyenne Indians, early in 1847 he joined the little band of volunteers recruited by William Bent to avenge the death of his brother, Governor Charles Bent of Taos, killed in a bloody but brief Mexican and Indian uprising in that New Mexican pueblo. In fact, Garrard's is the only eyewitness account we have of the trial and hanging of the "revolutionaries" at Taos.Many notable figures of the plains and mountains dot his pages: traders St. Vrain and the Bents; mountain men John L. Hatcher, Jim Beckwourth, Lucien B. Maxwell, Kit Carson, and others; various soldiery traveling to and from the outposts of the Mexican War; and explorer and writer George F. Ruxton.