Author: Julia F. Snow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Early Recollection of Buffalo
Author: Julia F. Snow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Early Recollections of Buffalo
Author: Julia F. Miller Snow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Early Recollections of Buffalo
Author: Julia F. Snow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781429735964
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781429735964
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Buffalo Memories
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597255776
Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
"A collection of historic Buffalo photos from 1890 through 1939" -- from page [1] book dust jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597255776
Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
"A collection of historic Buffalo photos from 1890 through 1939" -- from page [1] book dust jacket.
Recollections Of The Early Republic
Author: Joyce Appleby
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555533014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Colorful memoirs from a wide range of Americans just after the nation's birth.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555533014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Colorful memoirs from a wide range of Americans just after the nation's birth.
Recollections of Early Texas
Author: John Holmes Jenkins
Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN: 0292749376
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
“[A] firsthand account by one who measured up to the demands of danger and hardships and lived to write about it . . . Invaluable . . . Well documented.” —Library Journal As a teenager in the 1950s, John Holmes Jenkins set to work on collecting and editing his great-great-grandfather’s writings about his experiences on the Texas frontier. John Holland Jenkins joined General Sam Houston’s army at age thirteen after losing his stepfather at the Alamo. In addition to fighting the Mexicans, he faced peril from Indian warriors as well as the everyday difficulties of pioneer life. His reports on the events of the time were included in newspapers with very small readerships—and, his descendant would discover, were sometimes used word-for-word in respected history textbooks without any credit given to the source. This volume includes these memoirs of the Texas Republic and early statehood, along with illustrations, notes, biographical sketches, a bibliography, and an index. “Fascinating . . . A commendable job.” —The New York Times “[These reminiscences] light up for whoever will read the earliest days of early English-speaking Texas.” —J. Frank Dobie, from the foreword
Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN: 0292749376
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
“[A] firsthand account by one who measured up to the demands of danger and hardships and lived to write about it . . . Invaluable . . . Well documented.” —Library Journal As a teenager in the 1950s, John Holmes Jenkins set to work on collecting and editing his great-great-grandfather’s writings about his experiences on the Texas frontier. John Holland Jenkins joined General Sam Houston’s army at age thirteen after losing his stepfather at the Alamo. In addition to fighting the Mexicans, he faced peril from Indian warriors as well as the everyday difficulties of pioneer life. His reports on the events of the time were included in newspapers with very small readerships—and, his descendant would discover, were sometimes used word-for-word in respected history textbooks without any credit given to the source. This volume includes these memoirs of the Texas Republic and early statehood, along with illustrations, notes, biographical sketches, a bibliography, and an index. “Fascinating . . . A commendable job.” —The New York Times “[These reminiscences] light up for whoever will read the earliest days of early English-speaking Texas.” —J. Frank Dobie, from the foreword
Our Dumb Animals
Author: George Thorndike Angell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Men of New York
Author:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Hunter-trader-trapper
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States
Author: William A. Kretzschmar
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226452838
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Who uses "skeeter hawk," "snake doctor," and "dragonfly" to refer to the same insect? Who says "gum band" instead of "rubber band"? The answers can be found in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS), the largest single survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. It covers the region from New York state to northern Florida and from the coastline to the borders of Ohio and Kentucky. Through interviews with nearly twelve hundred people conducted during the 1930s and 1940s, the LAMSAS mapped regional variations in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation at a time when population movements were more limited than they are today, thus providing a unique look at the correspondence of language and settlement patterns. This handbook is an essential guide to the LAMSAS project, laying out its history and describing its scope and methodology. In addition, the handbook reveals biographical information about the informants and social histories of the communities in which they lived, including primary settlement areas of the original colonies. Dialectologists will rely on it for understanding the LAMSAS, and historians will find it valuable for its original historical research. Since much of the LAMSAS questionnaire concerns rural terms, the data collected from the interviews can pinpoint such language differences as those between areas of plantation and small-farm agriculture. For example, LAMSAS reveals that two waves of settlement through the Appalachians created two distinct speech types. Settlers coming into Georgia and other parts of the Upper South through the Shenandoah Valley and on to the western side of the mountain range had a Pennsylvania-influenced dialect, and were typically small farmers. Those who settled the Deep South in the rich lowlands and plateaus tended to be plantation farmers from Virginia and the Carolinas who retained the vocabulary and speech patterns of coastal areas. With these revealing findings, the LAMSAS represents a benchmark study of the English language, and this handbook is an indispensable guide to its riches.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226452838
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Who uses "skeeter hawk," "snake doctor," and "dragonfly" to refer to the same insect? Who says "gum band" instead of "rubber band"? The answers can be found in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS), the largest single survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. It covers the region from New York state to northern Florida and from the coastline to the borders of Ohio and Kentucky. Through interviews with nearly twelve hundred people conducted during the 1930s and 1940s, the LAMSAS mapped regional variations in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation at a time when population movements were more limited than they are today, thus providing a unique look at the correspondence of language and settlement patterns. This handbook is an essential guide to the LAMSAS project, laying out its history and describing its scope and methodology. In addition, the handbook reveals biographical information about the informants and social histories of the communities in which they lived, including primary settlement areas of the original colonies. Dialectologists will rely on it for understanding the LAMSAS, and historians will find it valuable for its original historical research. Since much of the LAMSAS questionnaire concerns rural terms, the data collected from the interviews can pinpoint such language differences as those between areas of plantation and small-farm agriculture. For example, LAMSAS reveals that two waves of settlement through the Appalachians created two distinct speech types. Settlers coming into Georgia and other parts of the Upper South through the Shenandoah Valley and on to the western side of the mountain range had a Pennsylvania-influenced dialect, and were typically small farmers. Those who settled the Deep South in the rich lowlands and plateaus tended to be plantation farmers from Virginia and the Carolinas who retained the vocabulary and speech patterns of coastal areas. With these revealing findings, the LAMSAS represents a benchmark study of the English language, and this handbook is an indispensable guide to its riches.