Author: Lloyd Philip Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781633932418
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
This true story is based on the recent finding of Scoutmaster Curtiss Gilbert's journal of an improbable Boy Scout trip of 10,000 miles in the back of a fruit truck post-WWII. It started in Yakima, Washington 70 years ago and now includes the memories of the seven surviving Scouts.
Where's Frank?
Author: Lloyd Philip Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781633932418
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
This true story is based on the recent finding of Scoutmaster Curtiss Gilbert's journal of an improbable Boy Scout trip of 10,000 miles in the back of a fruit truck post-WWII. It started in Yakima, Washington 70 years ago and now includes the memories of the seven surviving Scouts.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781633932418
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
This true story is based on the recent finding of Scoutmaster Curtiss Gilbert's journal of an improbable Boy Scout trip of 10,000 miles in the back of a fruit truck post-WWII. It started in Yakima, Washington 70 years ago and now includes the memories of the seven surviving Scouts.
Official Army Register
Author: United States. Adjutant-General's Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1438
Book Description
U.S. Army Register
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Free Frank
Author: Juliet E.K. Walker
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The story of Free Frank is not only a testament to human courage and resourcefulness but affords new insight into the American frontier. Born a slave in the South Carolina piedmont in 1777, Frank died a free man in 1854 in a town he had founded in western Illinois. His accomplishments, creditable for any frontiersman, were for a black man extraordinary. We first learn details of Frank's life when in 1795 his owner moved to Pulaski County, Kentucky. We know that he married Lucy, a slave on a neighboring farm, in 1799. Later he was allowed to hire out his time, and when his owner moved to Tennessee, Frank was left in charge of the Kentucky farm. During the War of 1812, he set up his own saltpeter works, an enterprise he maintained until he left Kentucky. In 1817 he purchased his wife's freedom for $800; two years later he bought his own liberty for the same price. Now free, he expanded his activities, purchasing land and dealing in livestock. With his wife and four of his children, Free Frank left Kentucky in 1830 to settle on a new frontier. In Pike County, Illinois, he purchased a farm and later, in 1836, platted and successfully promoted the town of New Philadelphia. The desire for freedom was an obvious spur to his commercial efforts. Through his lifetime of work he purchased the liberty of sixteen members of his family at a cost of nearly $14,000. Goods and services commanded a premium in the life of the frontier. Free Frank's career shows what an exceptional man, through working against great odds, could accomplish through industry, acumen, and aggressiveness. His story suggests a great deal about business activity and legal practices, as well as racial conditions, on the frontier. Juliet Walker has performed a task of historical detection in recreating the life of Free Frank from family traditions, limited personal papers, public documents, and secondary sources. In doing so, she has added a significant chapter to the history of African Americans.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The story of Free Frank is not only a testament to human courage and resourcefulness but affords new insight into the American frontier. Born a slave in the South Carolina piedmont in 1777, Frank died a free man in 1854 in a town he had founded in western Illinois. His accomplishments, creditable for any frontiersman, were for a black man extraordinary. We first learn details of Frank's life when in 1795 his owner moved to Pulaski County, Kentucky. We know that he married Lucy, a slave on a neighboring farm, in 1799. Later he was allowed to hire out his time, and when his owner moved to Tennessee, Frank was left in charge of the Kentucky farm. During the War of 1812, he set up his own saltpeter works, an enterprise he maintained until he left Kentucky. In 1817 he purchased his wife's freedom for $800; two years later he bought his own liberty for the same price. Now free, he expanded his activities, purchasing land and dealing in livestock. With his wife and four of his children, Free Frank left Kentucky in 1830 to settle on a new frontier. In Pike County, Illinois, he purchased a farm and later, in 1836, platted and successfully promoted the town of New Philadelphia. The desire for freedom was an obvious spur to his commercial efforts. Through his lifetime of work he purchased the liberty of sixteen members of his family at a cost of nearly $14,000. Goods and services commanded a premium in the life of the frontier. Free Frank's career shows what an exceptional man, through working against great odds, could accomplish through industry, acumen, and aggressiveness. His story suggests a great deal about business activity and legal practices, as well as racial conditions, on the frontier. Juliet Walker has performed a task of historical detection in recreating the life of Free Frank from family traditions, limited personal papers, public documents, and secondary sources. In doing so, she has added a significant chapter to the history of African Americans.
Counting on Frank
Author: Rod Clement
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 9780836803587
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A boy and his dog present amusing counting, size comparison, and mathematical facts.
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 9780836803587
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A boy and his dog present amusing counting, size comparison, and mathematical facts.
The Monthly Army List
Author: Great Britain. Army
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Retired military personnel
Languages : en
Pages : 2986
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Retired military personnel
Languages : en
Pages : 2986
Book Description
Annual Report of the Adjutant-General ... for the Year Ending ...
Author: Massachusetts. Adjutant General's Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
Reports of Civil War period contain also reports of other officers as follows: 1860, report of the acting Quarter-master General; 1861-64, 1866-67, reports of the Quarter-master General; 1861-64 reports of the Surgeon-general and Master of Ordnance.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
Reports of Civil War period contain also reports of other officers as follows: 1860, report of the acting Quarter-master General; 1861-64, 1866-67, reports of the Quarter-master General; 1861-64 reports of the Surgeon-general and Master of Ordnance.
Annual Report
Author: Maine. Adjutant-General's Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 1354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 1354
Book Description
Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Degrees from the 40 to 320 Inclusive, Under the Supreme Council 330 of the Ancient and Accepted Rite for England and Wales, and the Dependencies of the British Crown, Together with a List of Members. Corrected to June 30, 1901
Author: Freemasons. Great Britain. Scottish Rite. Supreme Council
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Baseball Hall of Fame Autographs
Author: Ron Keurajian
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476634181
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Richly illustrated with nearly 1,000 examples of both autographs and forgeries, this new and expanded edition includes signature studies of all Hall of Famers from the 19th century to the present. Collectors can compare signatures to the examples to determine the genuineness of autographs. Shoeless Joe and the rest of the Black Sox are explored in depth, along with Roger Maris, Gil Hodges and the top 50 non-Hall of Fame autographs. A new price guide examines values of various signed mediums. A market population grid lists rare and seldom seen signatures.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476634181
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Richly illustrated with nearly 1,000 examples of both autographs and forgeries, this new and expanded edition includes signature studies of all Hall of Famers from the 19th century to the present. Collectors can compare signatures to the examples to determine the genuineness of autographs. Shoeless Joe and the rest of the Black Sox are explored in depth, along with Roger Maris, Gil Hodges and the top 50 non-Hall of Fame autographs. A new price guide examines values of various signed mediums. A market population grid lists rare and seldom seen signatures.