David Sievert Lavender

David Lavender

In magnificent detail, Lavender explores the discovery and settlement of Northwestern America, the violent labor conflicts of the 1920s, the rise of the fishing and lumber industries, the fierce struggles of conservationists to slow down the ravages on natural resources and wildlife, and the bounding growth of cities in this lush corner of the nation.

The Drive to the Pacific Northwest, 1750-1950

Land of Giants

An American Heritage(R) Book The Great West is a sweeping history of the commissioned expeditions, failed settlements, and land speculation that conquered the American West. A noted historian of the region and a dramatic storyteller, Lavender portrays the moments and movements that shaped the growing United States, from the founding of provisional governments to the laying of the railroads.

The Great West

Originally published: New York: Harper & Row, c1988.

Lewis and Clark Across the Continent

The Way to the Western Sea

Larry L. Meyer

Claudia K. Jurmain

Ever Changing, Always the Same

Rancho Los Alamitos

Recounts the desperate attempt of Chief Joseph and his Nez Perce Indians of Idaho to elude annihilation by the U.S. Cavalry by escaping to Canada.

The Nez Perce Tragedy

Let Me Be Free

Settlers to Oregon, California, and Utah

The Overland Migrations

The Great Persuader is the biography of a robber baron, the greatest railroad mogul of them all-Collis P. Huntington, the Sacramento, California, storekeeper who, along with Leland Stanford and Mark Hopkins, parlayed $1,500 into America's first continental railroad. It is an almost unbelievable story of a high dream of fortune realized through highhanded practices-an adventure which left the national treasury poorer by millions of swindled dollars, and America itself richer by a national railroad system which contributed greatly to the country's westward expansion. How did Huntington operate? What were his methods? Was he corrupt? These are questions that were previously unanswered but thanks to the cooperation of the Huntington family who supplied Mr. Lavender with material that had never before been made public, Lavender shows just how Collis P. Huntington operated-and it was defintely outside the law, although well inside the prevailing morality of his time. It shows his complicated dealings with Sanford Hopkins, how he bested such tycoons as Thomas A. Scott, John C. Durrant, Oliver Ames and Jay Gould, how Huntington accumulated the great fortune which was the legacy to his family, and how his great railroad network was to prove an unparalleled legacy to all Americans. The Great Persuader is a powerful story of a remarkable man whose singleness of purpose and ruthless manipulation of men and money propelled the great enterprise forward against all odds.

The Great Persuader

An account of the early fur traders and their exploration of Canada's inland waterways. Includes index.

The Trans-Canada Canoe Trail

Winner Take All

An oft-told story from different perspectives, the history of the American fur trade is here placed within the overall rivalry for empire between Britain and the United States. David Lavender focuses on men such as John Jacob Astor and Ramsay Crooks who learned to exploit the needs and wants of Indian tribes to gain a superior economic position over the British and made fur trading an integral economic activity in early U.S. history. Maps.

David Sievert Lavender

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