Author: David P. SappPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boone's Lick Road (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Mapping the Boone's Lick Road
Author: David P. SappPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boone's Lick Road (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Boone's Lick Road
Author: Hal JacksonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780985909802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Boone's Lick Road (BLR) was opened in 1816 and was the principal route west from St. Charles for the next century. This book gives a brief history of the BLR and a detailed guide to finding the BLR today
Along the Boone's Lick Road
Author: Dan A. RothwellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780967318707
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
2013 Journey Over the Boone's Lick Road
Author: Linda DunbarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boone's Lick Road (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Photographs of the markers provided by the Daughters of the American Revolution marking the Trail from St. Charles County to Howard County, Missouri.
The 1820 Route of the Boone's Lick Trail Across Boone County, Missouri
Author: David P. SappPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boone County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
A History of Travel in America
Author: Seymour DunbarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Boone's Lick
Author: Larry McMurtryPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439140936
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Boone's Lick is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry's return to the kind of story that made him famous -- an enthralling tale of the nineteenth-century west. Like his bestsellers Lonesome Dove, Streets of Laredo, Comanche Moon, and Dead Man's Walk, Boone's Lick transports the reader to the era about which McMurtry writes better and more shrewdly than anyone else. Told with McMurtry's unique blend of historical fact and sheer storytelling genius, the novel follows the Cecil family's arduous journey by riverboat and wagon from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming. Fifteen-year-old Shay narrates, describing the journey that begins when his Ma, Mary Margaret, decides to hunt down her elusive husband, Dick, to tell him she's leaving him. Without knowing precisely where he is, they set out across the plains in search of him, encountering grizzly bears, stormy weather, and hostile Indians as they go. With them are Shay's siblings, G.T., Neva, and baby Marcy; Shay's uncle, Seth; his Granpa Crackenthorpe; and Mary Margaret's beautiful half-sister, Rose. During their journey they pick up a barefooted priest named Father Villy, and a Snake Indian named Charlie Seven Days, and persuade them to join in their travels. At the heart of the novel, and the adventure, is Mary Margaret, whom we first meet shooting a sheriff's horse out from underneath him in order to feed her family. Forceful, interesting, and determined, she is written with McMurtry's trademark deftness and sympathy for women, and is in every way a match for the worst the west can muster. Boone's Lick abounds with the incidents, the excitements, and the dangers of life on the plains. Its huge cast of characters includes such historical figures as Wild Bill Hickok and the unfortunate Colonel Fetterman (whose arrogance and ineptitude led to one of the U.S. Army's worst and bloodiest defeats at the hands of the Cheyenne and Sioux) as well as the Cecil family (itself based on a real family of nineteenth-century traders and haulers). The story of their trek in pursuit of Dick, and the discovery of his second and third families, is told with brilliance, humor, and overwhelming joie de vivre in a novel that is at once high adventure, a perfect western tale, and a moving love story -- it is, in short, vintage McMurtry, combining his brilliant character portraits, his unerring sense of the west, and his unrivaled eye for the telling detail. Boone's Lick is one of McMurtry's richest works of fiction to date.
The American Monthly Magazine
Author: Our Public Lands
Author: The Homestead Trail
Author: Roberta Seiwert LampePublisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1615663479
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
'Heavy footsteps stomped up the wooden step and onto the back porch. The screen door banged behind him. Bright blue eyes sparkled with excitement. In a booming voice, he asked, 'Does anyone here want to move to Kansas?'' Ephraim Von Horne felt the longing to search for new lands, much as his own grandfather had done some years previous when he left Europe with his family to find a new home in America. On a trip to Kansas in 1869, Ephraim found the perfect spot northwest of the small village of Wichita. Proudly, he planted his sign: 'Homestead.' After returning home full of hope, he, his wife, and his family put their departure plans in motion. Inspired by the journey of an actual family, The Homestead Trail takes the reader on an exciting and enlightening trip across the United States. Learn of the Golden Spike era of the railroads; an adventuresome riverboat trip up the Missouri River; the excitement of the Pony Express; the heart-stopping nearness of the Longhorn cattle drives; the glamour of the 'wind wagons, ' and the stark reality of the Santa Fe Trail.