Author: Jesse StuartPublisher:
ISBN: 9781931672245
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
A Jesse Stuart Reader
Author: Jesse StuartPublisher:
ISBN: 9781931672245
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Thread that Runs So True
Author: Jesse StuartPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684719045
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A personal narrative of the author's experiences as a teacher in the mountain region of Kentucky. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Old Ben
Author: Jesse StuartPublisher:
ISBN: 9780945084228
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When young Shan befriends a bull black snake, his Kentucky mountain family decides that perhaps the only good snake isn't a dead snake after all.
A Penny's Worth of Character
Author: Jesse StuartPublisher:
ISBN: 9780945084327
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shan is dishonest with the storekeeper in his rural Kentucky community, but he feels better about himself after his mother forces him to put things right.
Clearing in the Sky and Other Stories
Author: Jesse StuartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Sketches of the lives of southern mountaineers.
Daughter of the Legend
Author: Jesse StuartPublisher: Jesse Stuart Foundation
ISBN: 9780945084426
Category : Appalachian Region, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A regional love story set in the hills of Tennessee against a backdrop of mystery and racial misunderstanding. Dave, a young lumberjack, falls in love with Deutsia, a Melungeon girl. Her people are shunned by the valley people and the relationship splits the lifetime friendship of Dave and his best friend, Ben.
The Beatinest Boy
Author: Jesse StuartPublisher:
ISBN: 9780945084136
Category : Appalachian Region, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Relates the adventures of an orphan named David who lives with his grandmother in the mountains of Kentucky.
Trees of Heaven
Author: Jesse StuartPublisher: New York : Dutton
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Dawn of Remembered Spring
Author: Jesse StuartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND POEMS FROM THE 40'S AND 60'S CELEBRATING THE SNAKE.
The Frontiersmen
Author: Allen W. EckertPublisher: Jesse Stuart Foundation
ISBN: 1931672814
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description
The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America from crimes committed back east. In the beautiful but deadly country which would one day come to be known as West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, more often than not they left their bones to bleach beside forest paths or on the banks of the Ohio River, victims of Indians who claimed the vast virgin territory and strove to turn back the growing tide of whites. These frontiersmen are the subjects of Allan W. Eckert's dramatic history. Against the background of such names as George Rogers Clark, Daniel Boone, Arthur St. Clair, Anthony Wayne, Simon Girty and William Henry Harrison, Eckert has recreated the life of one of America's most outstanding heroes, Simon Kenton. Kenton's role in opening the Northwest Territory to settlement more than rivaled that of his friend Daniel Boone. By his eighteenth birthday, Kenton had already won frontier renown as woodsman, fighter and scout. His incredible physical strength and endurance, his great dignity and innate kindness made him the ideal prototype of the frontier hero. Yet there is another story to The Frontiersmen. It is equally the story of one of history's greatest leaders, whose misfortune was to be born to a doomed cause and a dying race. Tecumseh, the brilliant Shawnee chief, welded together by the sheer force of his intellect and charisma an incredible Indian confederacy that came desperately close to breaking the thrust of the white man's westward expansion. Like Kenton, Tecumseh was the paragon of his people's virtues, and the story of his life, in Allan Eckert's hands, reveals most profoundly the grandeur and the tragedy of the American Indian. No less importantly, The Frontiersmen is the story of wilderness America itself, its penetration and settlement, and it is Eckert's particular grace to be able to evoke life and meaning from the raw facts of this story. In The Frontiersmen not only do we care about our long-forgotten fathers, we live again with them.