Author: Dennis M. Larsen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781893061095
Category : Oregon National Historic Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An ailing Edward Jay Allen joined a wagon train en route to Oregon in 1852. Despite exhaustion from weeks of strenuous travel, he guided a raft down the Snake River. A foot injury compelled him to risk a harrowing "float" over falls and rapids. Lucky to be alive, he reached Fort Boise and operated a ferry before returning to the trail. Walking with difficulty and short of food and water, he struggled on to Portland. Based on newly discovered diaries and letters replete with keen observations, poetry, and humor, Allen's delightfully literate, entertaining accounts bring the emigrant trail experience to life.
Our Faces are Westward
Author: Dennis M. Larsen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781893061095
Category : Oregon National Historic Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An ailing Edward Jay Allen joined a wagon train en route to Oregon in 1852. Despite exhaustion from weeks of strenuous travel, he guided a raft down the Snake River. A foot injury compelled him to risk a harrowing "float" over falls and rapids. Lucky to be alive, he reached Fort Boise and operated a ferry before returning to the trail. Walking with difficulty and short of food and water, he struggled on to Portland. Based on newly discovered diaries and letters replete with keen observations, poetry, and humor, Allen's delightfully literate, entertaining accounts bring the emigrant trail experience to life.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781893061095
Category : Oregon National Historic Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An ailing Edward Jay Allen joined a wagon train en route to Oregon in 1852. Despite exhaustion from weeks of strenuous travel, he guided a raft down the Snake River. A foot injury compelled him to risk a harrowing "float" over falls and rapids. Lucky to be alive, he reached Fort Boise and operated a ferry before returning to the trail. Walking with difficulty and short of food and water, he struggled on to Portland. Based on newly discovered diaries and letters replete with keen observations, poetry, and humor, Allen's delightfully literate, entertaining accounts bring the emigrant trail experience to life.
Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852
Author: Weldon Willis Rau
Publisher: Washington State University Press
ISBN: 1636820646
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
With numbers swelled by Oregon-bound settlers as well as hordes of gold-seekers destined for California, the 1852 overland migration was the largest on record in a year taking a terrible toll in lives mainly due to deadly cholera. Included here are firsthand accounts of this fateful year, including the words and thoughts of a young married couple, Mary Ann and Willis Boatman, released for the first time in book-length form. In its immediacy, Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 opens a window to the travails of the overland journeyers--their stark camps, treacherous river fordings, and dishonest countrymen; the shimmering plains and mountain vastnesses; trepidation at crossing ancient Indian lands; and the dark angel of death hovering over the wagon columns. But also found here are acts of valor, compassion, and kindness, and the hope for a new life in a new land at the end of the trail.
Publisher: Washington State University Press
ISBN: 1636820646
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
With numbers swelled by Oregon-bound settlers as well as hordes of gold-seekers destined for California, the 1852 overland migration was the largest on record in a year taking a terrible toll in lives mainly due to deadly cholera. Included here are firsthand accounts of this fateful year, including the words and thoughts of a young married couple, Mary Ann and Willis Boatman, released for the first time in book-length form. In its immediacy, Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 opens a window to the travails of the overland journeyers--their stark camps, treacherous river fordings, and dishonest countrymen; the shimmering plains and mountain vastnesses; trepidation at crossing ancient Indian lands; and the dark angel of death hovering over the wagon columns. But also found here are acts of valor, compassion, and kindness, and the hope for a new life in a new land at the end of the trail.
Edward Harold Browne, D.D.
Author: George William Kitchin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
From Benguella to the Territory of Yacca
Author: Hermenegildo Capelo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
How I found Livingstone
Author: Henry Morton Stanley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
How I Found Livingstone
Author: Henry M. Stanley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa, Including Four Months' Residence with Dr. Livingstone
Author: Henry M. Stanley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
How I Found Livingstone
Author: Henry Morton Stanley
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775417549
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
Livingstone's 1840s expedition into Africa, the "Dark Continent", caught the public's imagination. In 1864 he returned to Africa and all but disappeared. Public interest ran so high, that in 1869 the publisher of the New York Herald commissioned reporter Henry Stanley to go and find him. This book is Stanley's account of his adventure, and the moment he found Livingstone, in which he uttered the famous words: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775417549
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
Livingstone's 1840s expedition into Africa, the "Dark Continent", caught the public's imagination. In 1864 he returned to Africa and all but disappeared. Public interest ran so high, that in 1869 the publisher of the New York Herald commissioned reporter Henry Stanley to go and find him. This book is Stanley's account of his adventure, and the moment he found Livingstone, in which he uttered the famous words: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
The Forest Exiles; Or, The Perils of a Peruvian Family Amid the Wilds of the Amazon
Author: Mayne Reid
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The War of the Wenuses
Author: Charles Larcom Graves
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415192965
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415192965
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.