Author: Gwen Moffat
Publisher: David & Charles Publishers
ISBN: 9780575030497
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
A small wagon train - twenty-eight people, six of them children, and eleven wagons - set out more than 130 years ago on a journey covering half a continent to reach their promised land, California. Along the way, calamities of all kinds strike them: one of their party dies of cholera, another is killed by a wounded buffalo, a third is scalped by Indians. There are tensions and dissensions: murder for possession of a hoard of gold coins, and rivalry for young and attractive Helen Weir, who gradually emerges as the strongest and most self-reliant of them all. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The Buckskin Girl
Author: Gwen Moffat
Publisher: David & Charles Publishers
ISBN: 9780575030497
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
A small wagon train - twenty-eight people, six of them children, and eleven wagons - set out more than 130 years ago on a journey covering half a continent to reach their promised land, California. Along the way, calamities of all kinds strike them: one of their party dies of cholera, another is killed by a wounded buffalo, a third is scalped by Indians. There are tensions and dissensions: murder for possession of a hoard of gold coins, and rivalry for young and attractive Helen Weir, who gradually emerges as the strongest and most self-reliant of them all. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Publisher: David & Charles Publishers
ISBN: 9780575030497
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
A small wagon train - twenty-eight people, six of them children, and eleven wagons - set out more than 130 years ago on a journey covering half a continent to reach their promised land, California. Along the way, calamities of all kinds strike them: one of their party dies of cholera, another is killed by a wounded buffalo, a third is scalped by Indians. There are tensions and dissensions: murder for possession of a hoard of gold coins, and rivalry for young and attractive Helen Weir, who gradually emerges as the strongest and most self-reliant of them all. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Cassette Books
Author: Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Talking books
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Talking books
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Pioneer and Frontier Stories
Author: Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Talking Book Topics
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Talking books
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Talking books
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
New Books on Women and Feminism
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1904
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1904
Book Description
The Great Medicine Road, Part 4
Author: Michael L. Tate
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806166991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Between 1841 and 1866, more than a half-million people followed trails to Oregon, California, and Utah in one of the largest mass migrations in American history. The Great Medicine Road, Part 4 collects the letters, diaries, and reminiscences of some of the emigrants who made this journey between 1856 and 1869, as a second generation of miners, farmers, town builders, and religious believers turned their adventurous eyes westward in search of new beginnings. Here, in their own words, are the experiences of young men hoping to make their fortunes in mining operations that had sprung up as the gold rush wore down, in California but also now in the silver mines of Nevada’s Comstock Lode and the recently discovered gold mines of Colorado’s Denver and Pike’s Peak regions. Here also are families and farmers looking for land in the fertile Willamette Valley of Oregon, or joining the Mormon community in Utah. And here are the stories of intrepid sojourners traveling with—or without—military escorts as the Civil War, conflicts with Indians, and the Mormon stand against the U.S. government altered the circumstances of westward traffic. These documents, with an introduction and editorial notes written by historian Michael L. Tate to provide context and commentary, comprise the fourth and final installment in a documentary history of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails. They give a living voice to the history of the American experience at a time of westward expansion and profound, unprecedented change.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806166991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Between 1841 and 1866, more than a half-million people followed trails to Oregon, California, and Utah in one of the largest mass migrations in American history. The Great Medicine Road, Part 4 collects the letters, diaries, and reminiscences of some of the emigrants who made this journey between 1856 and 1869, as a second generation of miners, farmers, town builders, and religious believers turned their adventurous eyes westward in search of new beginnings. Here, in their own words, are the experiences of young men hoping to make their fortunes in mining operations that had sprung up as the gold rush wore down, in California but also now in the silver mines of Nevada’s Comstock Lode and the recently discovered gold mines of Colorado’s Denver and Pike’s Peak regions. Here also are families and farmers looking for land in the fertile Willamette Valley of Oregon, or joining the Mormon community in Utah. And here are the stories of intrepid sojourners traveling with—or without—military escorts as the Civil War, conflicts with Indians, and the Mormon stand against the U.S. government altered the circumstances of westward traffic. These documents, with an introduction and editorial notes written by historian Michael L. Tate to provide context and commentary, comprise the fourth and final installment in a documentary history of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails. They give a living voice to the history of the American experience at a time of westward expansion and profound, unprecedented change.
American Stories
Author: Helene Barbara Weinberg
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393364
Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
They also consider the artists' responses to foreign prototypes, travel and training, changing exhibition venues, and audience expectations. The persistence of certain themes--childhood, marriage, the family, and the community; the attainment and reinforcement of citizenship; attitudes toward race; the frontier as reality and myth; and the process and meaning of making art--underscores evolving styles and standards of storytelling. Divided into four chronological sections, the book begins with the years surrounding the American Revolution and the birth of the new republic, when painters such as Copley, Peale, and Samuel F. B. Morse incorporated stories within the expressive bounds of portraiture. During the Jacksonian and pre-Civil War decades from about 1830 to 1860, Mount, Bingham, Lilly Martin Spencer, and others painted genre scenes featuring lighthearted narratives that growing audiences for art could easily read and understand.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393364
Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
They also consider the artists' responses to foreign prototypes, travel and training, changing exhibition venues, and audience expectations. The persistence of certain themes--childhood, marriage, the family, and the community; the attainment and reinforcement of citizenship; attitudes toward race; the frontier as reality and myth; and the process and meaning of making art--underscores evolving styles and standards of storytelling. Divided into four chronological sections, the book begins with the years surrounding the American Revolution and the birth of the new republic, when painters such as Copley, Peale, and Samuel F. B. Morse incorporated stories within the expressive bounds of portraiture. During the Jacksonian and pre-Civil War decades from about 1830 to 1860, Mount, Bingham, Lilly Martin Spencer, and others painted genre scenes featuring lighthearted narratives that growing audiences for art could easily read and understand.
The House of Beadle and Adams and Its Dime and Nickel Novels
Author: Albert Johannsen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Twentieth-century Western Writers
Author: Geoff Sadler
Publisher: Chicago : St. James Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about nearly five hundred twentieth-century writers of Western fiction, each featuring a biography, a bibliography, a signed critical essay, and, in some cases, comments from the author. Includes a title index.
Publisher: Chicago : St. James Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about nearly five hundred twentieth-century writers of Western fiction, each featuring a biography, a bibliography, a signed critical essay, and, in some cases, comments from the author. Includes a title index.