Author: Joseph Warren Revere
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Keel and Saddle
Author: Joseph Warren Revere
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429021608
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872. Excerpt: ... THE MAJOR'S STORY. FROM my childhood, my friends, I have been a soldier, and my earliest recollections are of the barrack and the camp; while my youth was accustomed to the field and the bivouac. In fact, I have been that much-maligned personage, a soldier of fortune; which means, in most cases, a soldier of no fortune at all. Once in my life I resolved to relinquish the profession of arms, and to adopt some peaceful calling; but inexorable fate drove me back to the career which I began, as I have said, almost in childhood. After having given my sword to several European powers, and also lent it to the Turk, without finding myself any better off than when I began, I determined to visit the land of promise to all adventurers like myself, and came to this country to seek a home and a family. I had always been a dreamer, and to acquire these blessings was the dearest wish of my heart; while the hope of its realization had been my only solace in many a dreary bivouac, as I lay on the ground covered with my cloak, gazing upward at the stars, with oftentimes many a poor fellow stark and stiff in his gore.around me. The expenses of the voyage had absorbed all the little ready money I possessed; and I landed in New York penniless, having nothing but a stout heart and strong limbs, that had so often stood me in good stead. It was the autumnal season; and I strolled all day through the busy streets of the great metropolis of the Western World, studying the new scenes that met my eye; and, as the shades of evening fell, I stretched myself on a bench in Washington Square to rest. I did not fear observation; for I was utterly unknown. I was pale and careworn after my voyage: and my clothes were by no means new, --" my beaver gone to seed; " my shoes, like those of Juli...
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429021608
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872. Excerpt: ... THE MAJOR'S STORY. FROM my childhood, my friends, I have been a soldier, and my earliest recollections are of the barrack and the camp; while my youth was accustomed to the field and the bivouac. In fact, I have been that much-maligned personage, a soldier of fortune; which means, in most cases, a soldier of no fortune at all. Once in my life I resolved to relinquish the profession of arms, and to adopt some peaceful calling; but inexorable fate drove me back to the career which I began, as I have said, almost in childhood. After having given my sword to several European powers, and also lent it to the Turk, without finding myself any better off than when I began, I determined to visit the land of promise to all adventurers like myself, and came to this country to seek a home and a family. I had always been a dreamer, and to acquire these blessings was the dearest wish of my heart; while the hope of its realization had been my only solace in many a dreary bivouac, as I lay on the ground covered with my cloak, gazing upward at the stars, with oftentimes many a poor fellow stark and stiff in his gore.around me. The expenses of the voyage had absorbed all the little ready money I possessed; and I landed in New York penniless, having nothing but a stout heart and strong limbs, that had so often stood me in good stead. It was the autumnal season; and I strolled all day through the busy streets of the great metropolis of the Western World, studying the new scenes that met my eye; and, as the shades of evening fell, I stretched myself on a bench in Washington Square to rest. I did not fear observation; for I was utterly unknown. I was pale and careworn after my voyage: and my clothes were by no means new, --" my beaver gone to seed; " my shoes, like those of Juli...
Keel and Saddle
Author: Joseph Warren Revere
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Bibliotheca Americana, 1878
Author: Clarke, firm, booksellers, Cincinnati
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Bibliotheca Americana Catalogue of a valuable collection of books and pamphlets relating to America
Author: Clarke Robert and co
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Bibliotheca americana, 1878
Author: Robert Clarke & Co
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Bloody Bay
Author: Darren A. Raspa
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496217535
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Bloody Bay follows the history of policing in nineteenth-century San Francisco, exploring the city’s culture of popular justice, its multi-ethnic environment, and how the unique relationships formed between informal and formal policing created a more progressive policing environment than anywhere else in the nation.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496217535
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Bloody Bay follows the history of policing in nineteenth-century San Francisco, exploring the city’s culture of popular justice, its multi-ethnic environment, and how the unique relationships formed between informal and formal policing created a more progressive policing environment than anywhere else in the nation.
Bibliotheca Americana. Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books and Pamphlets Relating to America ... With a Descriptive List of the Ohio Valley Historical Series. For Sale by Robert Clarke & Co
Author: Clarke, Robert and Co
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Ranching on the Point Reyes Peninsula
Author: Douglas Livingston
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Category : Dairy farms
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Category : Dairy farms
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Chile, Peru, and the California Gold Rush of 1849
Author: Jay Monaghan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520333993
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520333993
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
The Atlantic Monthly
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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