Samuel Bowles (2) (1826–1878)
Autore di Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax.
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Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Journalist Samuel Bowles, 1826-1878: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-39653)
Opere di Samuel Bowles
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Bowles, Samuel, III
- Data di nascita
- 1826-02-09
- Data di morte
- 1878-01-16
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
- Attività lavorative
- publisher
editor - Relazioni
- Dickinson, Emily (friend)
Dickinson, Austin (friend)
Dickinson, Susan (friend)
Holland, Josiah Gilbert (friend) - Organizzazioni
- Springfield Republican (owner/editor)
Utenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 8
- Utenti
- 43
- Popolarità
- #352,016
- Voto
- 3.0
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 82
- Lingue
- 3
Publisher: Samuel Bowles & Company, Springfield, Mass. Hurd & Houghton, N.Y. Brown cloth boards, 7.62” x 5.25” with a blind stamped border and gilt lettering with decoration on spine. 452 pp, xx, ending with 6 pages of publisher's catalogue. Front advertisement verso bottom is ink stamped, “Arizona Historical Society #28262.
Following front advertisement is a large 15.5" X 18.5" hand colored fold-out map of the United States west of Illinois, dated 1865. It's engraved by J.H. Goldthwait, printed in New York by G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co, and notes the subject travel route, the Oregon Trail, the proposed path for the Pacific Railroad, primary stage coach routes, and the Sante Fe Trail to name a few. Mining towns and frontier fortifications are labeled. Any Native American reference is conspicuously absent. An enlarged scale blowup of northern California is illustrated in lower right corner.
This is a narrative journey across the Western United States in the summer of 1865 during reconstruction, shortly after the Civil War. Bowels, editor of the Springfield Republican (a popular newspaper in New England) was joined by Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House of Representatives, soon to be Vice President under Ulysses Grant, and included a contingent of American politicians. The 452 pages comprise 32 separate letters of correspondence plus 7 supplementary papers from various authors covering topics ranging from the Mormons to the Yosemite (by Whitney), gold & silver mining, the Chinese, cost of goods, and social life of every location.
Letter VII page 70 “The Indian Question” is bloody arrogance compelling extermination:
“The red man of reality is not the red man of poetry, romance, or philanthropy. He is false and barbaric, cunning, and cowardly, attacking only when all advantage is with him, horrible in cruelty, the terror of women and children, impenetrable to nearly every motive but fear, impossible to regenerate and civilize…”… (altro)