Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849, Paperback - Kenneth L. Holmes

Reducere. The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and yo...

Reducere. The wagon trains to California greatly decreased in 1851 as reports of deadly cholera on the trail the year before and strikeouts in gold prospecti...

Reducere. The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and yo...

Reducere. Abigail Jane Scott was seventeen when she left Illinois with her family in the spring of 1852. Her record of the journey west is full of expressive...

Reducere. In their simplicity is their poignancy. On August 7, 1865, Mary Louisa Black noted in her journal that they were "nooning on a nice stream in a val...

Reducere. "We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made, " wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon trai...

Reducere. The diaries and letters of women on the overland trails in the mid- to late nineteenth century are treasured documents. These eleven selections dra...

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In 1853, a wagon train camped in the Eastern Oregon desert 130 miles from the Oregon Trail. Uncertain of their whereabouts and in desperate need of...

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Reducere. The profiles and life stories of 160 patriotic women who were committed to the American Revolution and to the settling of the American frontier. Th...

Reducere. Continue to act thus, my dear Lucilius - set yourself free for your own sake; gather and save your time, which till lately has been forced from you...

Politics, religion, culture, travel, science and technology, family life: nothing escaped the eye and pen of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known...

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Reducere. Travel along the Oregon Trail with the pioneers who dared to "face the elephant" as they moved west in search of a new life. Compiled from the trai...

Reducere. Debut chapbook, Equilibrium is an intricate culmination of spoken word typically conveyed through performance art infused into written text by arti...

During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers - men, women, and children - followed the 'road across the plains' to gold rush...

The Christmas Truce of 1914 remains a moment of enduring fascination more than a century after the day the First World War guns fell silent. Now fo...

Reducere. Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878-1918) was born the youngest son of Tsar Alexander III, ruler of the mightiest empire on earth. Upo...

Reducere. Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878-1918) was born the youngest son of Tsar Alexander III, ruler of the mightiest empire on earth. Upo...

DescriptionOliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., has been called the greatest jurist and legal scholar in the history of the English-speaking world. In this ...

Popular author and veteran novelist combine their talents to help readers discover firsthand what it was like to encounter Jesus and his life-chang...

Reducere. Travel back in time and witness both everyday life and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages. Bringi...

Publisher: North Atlantic Books, U.S.Number of pages: 344Collection: Io SeriesPublication date: 1996Dimensions: 156 x 228 x 19Cover type: Paperback...

Publisher: Persephone Books LtdAuthor(s): Etty HillesumIllustration(s): 1 port.Number of pages: 430Publication date: 1999Dimensions: 193 x 142 x 36...

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This volume presents a selection of new articles examining the state of Irish philosophy during the lifetime of Ireland's most famous philosopher, ...

Reducere. DescriptionIllustrated with color photographs and narrated by authors Kenneth and Norman Turnbull of the Borders Turnbull clan, Borders Tales and T...

Reducere. Spur AwardsDuring the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers--men, women, and children--followed the "road across the plains" to ...

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"Wynn is my son. No little boy could be more loved by his parents. Inquisitive, fiercely affectionate, staunchly opinionated, he sees the world thr...

Reducere. Engages a careful lexical, exegetical and theological examination of the Bible on the question of the Christian use of alcoholic beverages. It demo...

Reducere. Continuing the pattern set by American Lathe Builders and American Planer, Shaper and Slotter Builders, this is the first book to identify American...

Publisher: Bqb PublishingAuthor(s): Kenneth L. CappsNumber of pages: 238Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 229 x 170 x 14Cover type: Paperback / sof...

In 1939, Christopher Isherwood and W H Auden emigrated together to the United States. This title describes Isherwood's search for a new life in Cal...

Reducere. Something monstrous has been found in the magic world of Wonderland and it wants to get out. Lewis Carroll created a curious and fantastical world ...

DescriptionA rich mosaic of diary entries and letters from Marilyn Monroe, Cesar Chavez, Susan Sontag, Albert Einstein, and many more, this is the ...

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Reducere. "We pray the God of mercy to deliver us from our present Calamity, " wrote Patrick Breen on the first day of 1847 as he and others in the Donner pa...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...