Author: Kathleen McGill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781519640536
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Henry Frank McGill, a man of vision, overcame great odds to become a prominent rancher in South Texas in the early 1900's. His story, and the legacy he left to his descendants, contains numerous pictures of ranch and family life.In spite of hardship and lack of opportunity, he set out to earn his fortune by trading horses and cattle in the most dangerous area of Texas known as the Nueces Strip, which is also the home of the famous King Ranch.J. Frank Dobie, legendary Texas author, dedicated a chapter of his book, "The Longhorns", "to my good friend, Frank McGill, as good a man as he is a cow man."He was admired and respected by his peers, not only for his success in the cattle business, but perhaps even more importantly, for his integrity and generosity. Frank McGill "hitched his wagon to a star", and his life story will inspire others to do the same.
The Mcgill Family
Author: Kathleen McGill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781519640536
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Henry Frank McGill, a man of vision, overcame great odds to become a prominent rancher in South Texas in the early 1900's. His story, and the legacy he left to his descendants, contains numerous pictures of ranch and family life.In spite of hardship and lack of opportunity, he set out to earn his fortune by trading horses and cattle in the most dangerous area of Texas known as the Nueces Strip, which is also the home of the famous King Ranch.J. Frank Dobie, legendary Texas author, dedicated a chapter of his book, "The Longhorns", "to my good friend, Frank McGill, as good a man as he is a cow man."He was admired and respected by his peers, not only for his success in the cattle business, but perhaps even more importantly, for his integrity and generosity. Frank McGill "hitched his wagon to a star", and his life story will inspire others to do the same.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781519640536
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Henry Frank McGill, a man of vision, overcame great odds to become a prominent rancher in South Texas in the early 1900's. His story, and the legacy he left to his descendants, contains numerous pictures of ranch and family life.In spite of hardship and lack of opportunity, he set out to earn his fortune by trading horses and cattle in the most dangerous area of Texas known as the Nueces Strip, which is also the home of the famous King Ranch.J. Frank Dobie, legendary Texas author, dedicated a chapter of his book, "The Longhorns", "to my good friend, Frank McGill, as good a man as he is a cow man."He was admired and respected by his peers, not only for his success in the cattle business, but perhaps even more importantly, for his integrity and generosity. Frank McGill "hitched his wagon to a star", and his life story will inspire others to do the same.
Dear Marcus
Author: Jerry McGill
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812983165
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The idea to write to you was not an easy one. The scar from where the bullet entered my back is still there. Jerry McGill was thirteen years old, walking home through the projects of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, when he was shot in the back by a stranger. Jerry survived, wheelchair-bound for life; his assailant was never caught. Thirty years later, Jerry wants to say something to the man who shot him. I have decided to give you a name. I am going to call you Marcus. With profound grace, brutal honesty, and devastating humor, Jerry McGill takes us on a dramatic and inspiring journey—from the streets of 1980s New York, where poverty and violence were part of growing up, to the challenges of living with a disability and learning to help and inspire others, to the long, difficult road to acceptance, forgiveness, and, ultimately, triumph. I didn’t write this book for you, Marcus. I wrote this for those who endure. Those who manage. Those who are determined to move on.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812983165
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The idea to write to you was not an easy one. The scar from where the bullet entered my back is still there. Jerry McGill was thirteen years old, walking home through the projects of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, when he was shot in the back by a stranger. Jerry survived, wheelchair-bound for life; his assailant was never caught. Thirty years later, Jerry wants to say something to the man who shot him. I have decided to give you a name. I am going to call you Marcus. With profound grace, brutal honesty, and devastating humor, Jerry McGill takes us on a dramatic and inspiring journey—from the streets of 1980s New York, where poverty and violence were part of growing up, to the challenges of living with a disability and learning to help and inspire others, to the long, difficult road to acceptance, forgiveness, and, ultimately, triumph. I didn’t write this book for you, Marcus. I wrote this for those who endure. Those who manage. Those who are determined to move on.
Hostage in Taipei
Author: McGill Alexander
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780967038629
Category : Diplomats
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A South African diplomat family taken hostage by a ruthless killer in Taiwan 1997, and thrown into media frenzy and gun battles with police, later witnessed to their faith before TV news media in a non-Christian nation eager to hear how anyone could show forgiveness toward a killer who had mercilessly harmed them and terrorized the entire island.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780967038629
Category : Diplomats
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A South African diplomat family taken hostage by a ruthless killer in Taiwan 1997, and thrown into media frenzy and gun battles with police, later witnessed to their faith before TV news media in a non-Christian nation eager to hear how anyone could show forgiveness toward a killer who had mercilessly harmed them and terrorized the entire island.
Architecture in the Family Way
Author: Annmarie Adams
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773522398
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Architecture in the Family Way explores the relationship between domestic architecture, health reform, and feminism in late nineteenth-century England. Annmarie Adams examines the changing perceptions about the English middle-class house from 1870 to 1900, highlighting how attitudes toward health, women, home life, and even politics were played out in architecture.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773522398
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Architecture in the Family Way explores the relationship between domestic architecture, health reform, and feminism in late nineteenth-century England. Annmarie Adams examines the changing perceptions about the English middle-class house from 1870 to 1900, highlighting how attitudes toward health, women, home life, and even politics were played out in architecture.
Molly Bannaky
Author: Alice McGill
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395722879
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Relates how Benjamin Banneker's grandmother journeyed from England to Maryland in the late seventeenth century, worked as an indentured servant, began a farm of her own, and married a freed slave.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395722879
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Relates how Benjamin Banneker's grandmother journeyed from England to Maryland in the late seventeenth century, worked as an indentured servant, began a farm of her own, and married a freed slave.
McGill & Its Story, 1821-1891
Author: Cyrus MacMillan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
McGill and Its Story, 1821-1921
Author: Cyrus MacMillan
Publisher: London : John Lane ; Toronto : Canadian Branch, Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher: London : John Lane ; Toronto : Canadian Branch, Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The Butterfly Cabinet
Author: Bernie McGill
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451611609
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Originally published: London: Headline Review, 2010.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451611609
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Originally published: London: Headline Review, 2010.
Families in Transition
Author: Peter Gossage
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773518476
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Using a family-reconstruction method, Gossage (history, U. de Sherbrooke) explores how the rise of industrial capitalism transformed the lives of the Quebec town's French-speaking, Catholic families. He draws on local registers and manuscript census schedules to focus on marriage, household organization, and family size in the context of the social and economic change. Among his findings are a growing divergence between bourgeois and proletarian families in regard to marriage and fertility patterns. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773518476
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Using a family-reconstruction method, Gossage (history, U. de Sherbrooke) explores how the rise of industrial capitalism transformed the lives of the Quebec town's French-speaking, Catholic families. He draws on local registers and manuscript census schedules to focus on marriage, household organization, and family size in the context of the social and economic change. Among his findings are a growing divergence between bourgeois and proletarian families in regard to marriage and fertility patterns. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Way Up and Over Everything
Author: Alice McGill
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618387960
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
In this retelling of a folktale, five Africans escape the horrors of slavery by simply disappearing into thin air.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618387960
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
In this retelling of a folktale, five Africans escape the horrors of slavery by simply disappearing into thin air.