Author: John Wesley Monette
Publisher: Arno Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
History of the Discovery and Settlement of the Valley of the Mississippi, by the Three Great European Powers, Spain, France, and Great Britain
Author: John Wesley Monette
Publisher: Arno Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Publisher: Arno Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Robertson
Author: James Alexander Robertson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Harper & Brothers' Book-list
Author: Harper & Brothers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Let the River be
Author: Dwight T. Pitcaithley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buffalo National River (Ark.)
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buffalo National River (Ark.)
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
A Bibliography of the State of Ohio: Being a Catalogue of the Books and ...
Author: Peter Gibson Thomson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368626434
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368626434
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
A bibliography of the state of Ohio
Author: Peter Gibson Thomson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Life of Andrew Jackson
Author: James Parton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
A Bibliography of Alabama
Author: Thomas McAdory Owen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
William Dunbar
Author: Arthur H. DeRosierJr.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081318973X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Scottish-born William Dunbar (1750–1810) is recognized by Mississippi and Southwest historians as one of the most successful planters, agricultural innovators, explorers, and scientists to emerge from the Mississippi Territory. Despite his successes, however, history books abridge his contributions to America's early national years to a few passing sentences or footnotes. William Dunbar: Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest rectifies past neglect, paying tribute to a man whose life was driven by the need to know and the willingness to suffer in pursuit of knowledge. From the beginning, research, contemplation, and scholarship formed the template by which Dunbar would structure his life. His mother's insistence on education motivated him throughout his youth, and in 1771, he sailed to America, prepared to seize any and all opportunities. Settling in the Mississippi territory, Dunbar embarked on the endeavors that would soon gain him renown. He surveyed the boundary between Spanish West Florida and the United States and contributed heavily to the rise of cotton culture through his inventions and innovations in agricultural technology. In 1804, at the same time that Lewis and Clark were making their way up the Missouri River, President Thomas Jefferson appointed Dunbar—now a fellow member of the prestigious American Philosophical Society—to lead a similar exploration of the southern Louisiana Purchase territory. The 103-day expedition captured the imagination of Americans looking to move westward and yielded the first information about the geographical, geological, and meteorological characteristics of the old Southwest. Arthur H. DeRosier Jr. traces Dunbar's life from his ambition as a youth to his development into a man recognized by his contemporaries as a leader in many scientific fields. Drawing upon the private journal of Dunbar's granddaughter Virginia Dunbar McQueen and neglected historical annals, William Dunbar examines Dunbar's public and private life, the scope of his interests, and the lasting contributions he left to a country and people he loved.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081318973X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Scottish-born William Dunbar (1750–1810) is recognized by Mississippi and Southwest historians as one of the most successful planters, agricultural innovators, explorers, and scientists to emerge from the Mississippi Territory. Despite his successes, however, history books abridge his contributions to America's early national years to a few passing sentences or footnotes. William Dunbar: Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest rectifies past neglect, paying tribute to a man whose life was driven by the need to know and the willingness to suffer in pursuit of knowledge. From the beginning, research, contemplation, and scholarship formed the template by which Dunbar would structure his life. His mother's insistence on education motivated him throughout his youth, and in 1771, he sailed to America, prepared to seize any and all opportunities. Settling in the Mississippi territory, Dunbar embarked on the endeavors that would soon gain him renown. He surveyed the boundary between Spanish West Florida and the United States and contributed heavily to the rise of cotton culture through his inventions and innovations in agricultural technology. In 1804, at the same time that Lewis and Clark were making their way up the Missouri River, President Thomas Jefferson appointed Dunbar—now a fellow member of the prestigious American Philosophical Society—to lead a similar exploration of the southern Louisiana Purchase territory. The 103-day expedition captured the imagination of Americans looking to move westward and yielded the first information about the geographical, geological, and meteorological characteristics of the old Southwest. Arthur H. DeRosier Jr. traces Dunbar's life from his ambition as a youth to his development into a man recognized by his contemporaries as a leader in many scientific fields. Drawing upon the private journal of Dunbar's granddaughter Virginia Dunbar McQueen and neglected historical annals, William Dunbar examines Dunbar's public and private life, the scope of his interests, and the lasting contributions he left to a country and people he loved.