Kenneth Wiggins Porter
Biographic Data
| ID | 698474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Wiggins Porter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth Wiggins |
| FAMILY NAME | Porter |
| SIGNATURE | PORTER K W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 89 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 89 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1931 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Black Seminoles
The Black Seminoles
The story of the Black Seminoles and their leader, Chief John Horse, which chronicles their struggle for freedom. Beginning in the early 1800s, when groups of fugitive slaves in Florida joined the Seminole Indians, the story traces their fortunes and exploits as they move across country
The Black Seminoles
Journal Article The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People. By Kenneth W. Porter. Ed. by Alcione M. Amos and Thomas P. Senter. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996. xii, 284 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8130-1451-4.) Get access Kevin Mulroy Kevin Mulroy Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, S…
The Editor's Corner
The Fellow may begin the twelve-months' residence on either July 1 or September 1, 1984
Red Over Black
Journal Article Red Over Black: Black Slavery among the Cherokee Indians. By R. Halliburton, Jr. (Westport: Greenwood, 1977. x + 218 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $15.95.) Get access Kenneth Wiggins Porter Kenneth Wiggins Porter Univerity of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 4, March 1978, Pages 1105–1106, htt…
Slaves of the White God
Journal Article Slaves of the White God: Blacks in Mexico, 1570–1650 Get access Slaves of the White God: Blacks in Mexico, 1570–1650. By Palmer Colin A.. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1976. viii, 234 p. Maps, tables, appendix, bibliography, index. $13.50.) Kenneth Wiggins Porter Kenneth Wiggins Porter University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, …
The Slave Community
The Negro on the American Frontier
The Negro on the American Frontier Get access The Negro on the American Frontier. By Porter Kenneth Wiggins. (New York: Arno Press, 1971. xvi, 529 p. Photograph, bibliography. $15.00.) Earl Spangler Earl Spangler Carthage College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 4, Issue 1, January 1973, Pages 76–78, https://doi.org/10.2307/967074 Published: 01 January 1973
The Negro on the American Frontier
William H. Leckie; The Negro on the American Frontier. By Kenneth Wiggins Porter. (New York: Arno, 1971. xvi + 529 pp. Illustration, notes, and further reading.
Medicine Lodge
Western Words
Excerpt from Western Words: A Dictionary of the Range, Cow Camp and Trail They say a good range cook never misses a rock when herding his teams across the country. I hope that, like him, I have not missed many words from the cowman's vocabulary in compiling this lexicon My greatest pleasure in collecting the material has been in associating with the cowboy in his native haunts. Never loquacious around strangers, he has attained the reputation of …
Irish Wake Amusements
Negro labor in the western cattle industry, 1866–1900
(1969). Negro labor in the western cattle industry, 1866–1900. Labor History: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 346-374
Massacre
The Buffalo Soldiers
The Creek Frontiers, 1540-1783
Journal Article The Creek Frontier, 1540–1783. By David H. Corkran. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. xv + 343 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $5.95.) Get access Kenneth Wiggins Porter Kenneth Wiggins Porter University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 54, Issue 3, December 1967, Pages 634–635, https://doi.org/10.2307/2937426 P…
More and Still More Ethnic and Place Names as Derisive and Jocular Adjectives
Still More Ethnic and Place Names as Derisive Adjectives
Racism in Children's Rhymes and Sayings, Central Kansas, 1910-1918
Negroes and the Seminole War, 1835-1842
The Negro in the American Revolution
Wendell Phillips, Brahmin Radical
Goose-Grey Eyes' in Great Britain and in a Corner of the United States
History of Humble Oil and Refining Company
History of Humble Oil and Refining Company
Journal Article History of Humble Oil and Refining Company: A Study in Industrial Growth. By Henrietta M. Larson and Kenneth Wiggins Porter. (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959. xxvi + 769 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, diagrams, notes, appendixes, and index. $7.50.) Get access Paul H. Giddens Paul H. Giddens Hamline University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 47, Issu…
The Slave Community
Negroes and Indians on the Texas Frontier, 1831-1876
Florida Slaves and Free Negroes in the Seminole War, 1835-1842
"Notes Supplementary to "Relations between Negroes and Indians
Negroes on the Southern Frontier, 1670-1763
Western Words
Excerpt from Western Words: A Dictionary of the Range, Cow Camp and Trail They say a good range cook never misses a rock when herding his teams across the country. I hope that, like him, I have not missed many words from the cowman's vocabulary in compiling this lexicon My greatest pleasure in collecting the material has been in associating with the cowboy in his native haunts. Never loquacious around strangers, he has attained the reputation of …
Negroes and the Seminole War, 1817-1818
The Black Seminoles
The Black Seminoles
Journal Article The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People. By Kenneth W. Porter. Ed. by Alcione M. Amos and Thomas P. Senter. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996. xii, 284 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8130-1451-4.) Get access Kevin Mulroy Kevin Mulroy Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, S…
Racism in Children's Rhymes and Sayings, Central Kansas, 1910-1918
Negroes and the Seminole War, 1835-1842
The 'Possum in Midwestern Folklore
Negroes and the East Florida Annexation Plot, 1811-1813
Three Fighters for Freedom
Davy Crockett and John Horse
Notes on Negroes in Early Hawaii
Chapter IV
Harvard Studies in Business History 1
Harvard Studies in Business History 1
John Jacob Astor, Business Man
John Jacob Astor
Journal Article John Jacob Astor: Business Mam. By Kenneth Wiggins Porter. 2 volumes. Harvard Studies in Business History, I. Edited by N. S. B. Gras. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931. Vol. I, xxvii + 585 pp. Vol. II, xiii + 755 pp. Illustrations, documents, and bibliographical note.) Get access O. G. Libby O. G. Libby University of North Dakota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American…
Chapter II
Chapter V
Chapter I
Chapter III
Chapter VI
Chapter IV
"Notes Supplementary to "Relations between Negroes and Indians
Samuell Gorton
Notes on Negroes in Early Hawaii
Myths After Astor
It is natural to wish to account for success of any kind hy ascribing it to some freak of fortune, to the chance discovery of some magic formula. This attitude of mind would place success potentially within the grasp of almost anyone, even without the possession of unusual mental or physical endowments, and without the necessity of exerting oneself to cultivate the endowments one actually may possess. Since economic success is one of the most wid…
Harvard Studies in Business History 3
The Jacksons and the Lees
The Jacksons and the Lees
The Jacksons and the Lees. Two Generations of Massachusetts Merchants-1765- 1844
In Time of Mistrust
The Oxford-Cap War at Harvard
Political Self-Portrait, 1919-1939
Children's Songs and Rhymes of the Porter Family
Kenneth Wiggins Porter, Children's Songs and Rhymes of the Porter Family: Robert Porter, 1828-1910; Ellis K. Porter, 1860-1936, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 54, No. 213/214 (Jul. - Dec., 1941), pp. 167-175
Bangum the Boar-Slayer and His Weapon
Death at the Purple Rim
There Will Be Bread and Love
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