Author: Joshua CoffinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian captivities
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, from 1635 to 1845
Author: Joshua CoffinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian captivities
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, from 1635 to 1845
Author: Joshua CoffinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian captivities
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Citizen Explorer
Author: Jared OrsiPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199314551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly turned back. But Zebulon Pike had not been defeated. His name remained on the unclimbed peak-and new adventures lay ahead of him and his republic. In Citizen Explorer, historian Jared Orsi provides the first modern biography of this soldier and explorer, who rivaled contemporaries Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Born in 1779, Pike joined the army and served in frontier posts in the Ohio River valley before embarking on a series of astonishing expeditions. He sought the headwaters of the Mississippi and later the sources of the Arkansas and Red Rivers, which led him to Pike's Peak and capture by Spanish forces. Along the way, he met Aaron Burr and General James Wilkinson; Auguste and Pierre Couteau, patriarchs of St. Louis's most powerful fur-trading family, who sought to make themselves indispensible to Jefferson's administration; as well as British fur-traders, Native Americans, and officers of the Spanish empire, all of whom resisted the expansion of the United States. Through Pike's life, Orsi examines how American nationalism thinned as it stretched west, from the Jeffersonian idealism on the Atlantic to a practical, materialist sensibility on the frontier. Surveying and gathering data, Pike sought to incorporate these distant territories into the republic, to overlay the west with the American map grid; yet he became increasingly dependent for survival on people who had no attachment to the nation he served. He eventually died in that service, in a victorious battle in the War of 1812. Written from an environmental perspective, rich in cultural and political context, Citizen Explorer is a state-of-the-art biography of a remarkable man.
Newbury, Massachusetts, 1635-1685
Author: Robert Lord GoodmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Newbury (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: Documents of the Senate of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Entertaining Satan
Author: John Putnam DemosPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199726310
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new preface that puts forth a broader overview of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world--from ancient times right up to the present.
A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, from 1635 to 1845 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Joshua CoffinPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528189286
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Excerpt from A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, From 1635 to 1845 The town of Newbury was originally one of the largest towns in the county. It was about thirteen miles long, and about six miles broad in the widest place, and contained about thirty thousand acres, of which nearly two thousand are covered with water. In 1764, it was divided into two towns, Newbury and Newburyport. In 1771, a province valuation was taken, and in 1781, a valuation was taken by the state, in which Newbury and Newburyport stood thus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, from 1635 to 1845
Author: Joshua CoffinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Newbury (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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