Author: John Filson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Author: Albert Lee Tyree
Publisher: Alive Books
ISBN: 9781631320002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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William Pleasant Tyree is the most interesting of all the Tyrees. His accomplishments were extraordinary given the conditions he faced during the time he lived (1821-1874). He was many things during his life: pioneer, soldier, prospector, carpenter, innkeeper, businessman, farmer, politician, and the father of eight children. Throughout his life, he was motivated to serve his neighbors and his community. He was the very definition of public service. William Pleasant Tyree was a patriot whose story deserves to be told.

Author: George Hodges
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781436654142
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author: Graeme K. Tyree
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473536626
Category : Men
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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"This work is half autobiographical, one quarter historical (with details of early New Zealand photography and goldmining), and one quarter is a well documented family genealogy. Fifteen members of the Tyree family are featured, across five generations. These include: William Tyree, founder of "Tyree Photographic Studio" in Nelson, his brother Fred Tyree (the brilliant landscape photographic artist) of Takaka and Collingwood, and Sir Alfred William "Bill" Tyree O.B.E., the noted electrical engineer and leading Australian philanthropist. The Author relates his life story, and associated political events; of the Cold War arms race, the Vietnam War, the race to the moon, New Zealand's Nuclear Free stance, and his own political activities from 1990 to 2001. New Zealand's economic reforms on the 1980s are referred to, and the associated upheaval in many employment and personal circumstances. A sub-plot refers to the effects of suffering an illness, and how the Author adapted his life with years of casual and part-time work"--Back cover.

Author: Josiah Stoddard Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Author: Neal O. Hammon
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813143993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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One of the most famous figures of the American frontier, Daniel Boone clashed with the Shawnee and sought to exploit the riches of a newly settled region. Despite Boone's fame, his life remains wrapped in mystery.The Boone legend, which began with the publication of John Filson's The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boone and continued through modern times with Fess Parker's Daniel Boone television series, has become a hopeless mix of fact and fiction. Born in 1819, archivist Lyman Draper was a tireless collector of oral history and is responsible for much of what we do know about Boone. Particularly interested in frontier history, Draper conducted interviews with the famous and the obscure and collected thousands of manuscripts (he walked hundreds of miles through the South to save historical materials during the Civil War). In an 1851 visit with Boone's youngest son, Nathan, and Nathan's wife, Olive, Draper produced over three hundred pages of notes that became the most important source of information about Daniel. The interviews provide a wealth of accurate, first-hand information about Boone's years in Kentucky, his capture by Indians, his defense of Fort Boonesboro, his lengthy hunting expeditions, and his final years in Missouri. My Father, Daniel Boone is an engaging account of one of America's great pioneers, in which Nathan makes a point of separating fact from fiction. From explaining the methods his father used to track game to detailing how land speculation and legal problems from title claims caused Boone to leave Kentucky and take up residence farther west, Nathan Boone's portrait of his father brings a crucial period in frontier history to life.

Author: Chester Raymond Young
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813149266
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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In his youth Daniel Trabue (1760–1840) served as a Virginia soldier in the Revolutionary War. After three years of service on the Kentucky frontier, he returned home to participate as a sutler in the Yorktown campaign. Following the war he settled in the Piedmont, but by 1785 his yearning to return westward led him to take his family to Kentucky, where they settled for a few years in the upper Green River country. He recorded his narrative in 1827, in the town of Columbia, of which he was a founder. A keen observer of people and events, Trabue captures experiences of everyday life in both the Piedmont and frontier Kentucky. His notes on the settling of Kentucky touch on many important moments in the opening of the Bluegrass region.

Author: Lyman Copeland Draper
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811709798
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Draper, the first secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, collected more than 500 volumes of material on the famed frontiersman Daniel Boone. His biography of Boone remained unfinished for 100 years until Ted Franklin Belue, a widely read scholar of early Americana, added his authoritative editing. This long-awaited work is filled with little-known information on Boone and his family, long hunters, the Shawnee, the fur trade, and frontier life in general.

Author: Reuben Gold Thwaites
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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An index of sources, illustrations, etc used in the Early western travels, 1748-1846 series.

Author: Mary Beth Pudup
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807888966
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Appalachia first entered the American consciousness as a distinct region in the decades following the Civil War. The place and its people have long been seen as backwards and 'other' because of their perceived geographical, social, and economic isolation. These essays, by fourteen eminent historians and social scientists, illuminate important dimensions of early social life in diverse sections of the Appalachian mountains. The contributors seek to place the study of Appalachia within the context of comparative regional studies of the United States, maintaining that processes and patterns thought to make the region exceptional were not necessarily unique to the mountain South. The contributors are Mary K. Anglin, Alan Banks, Dwight B. Billings, Kathleen M. Blee, Wilma A. Dunaway, John R. Finger, John C. Inscoe, Ronald L. Lewis, Ralph Mann, Gordon B. McKinney, Mary Beth Pudup, Paul Salstrom, Altina L. Waller, and John Alexander Williams