Author: Samuel Merwin Publisher: ISBN: 9781332414345 Category : Languages : en Pages : 398
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Author: Samuel Merwin Publisher: ISBN: 9789353423803 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 148
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Author: Samuel Merwin & Henry Kitchell Webster Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781717075284 Category : Languages : en Pages : 176
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This 1901 novel is the story of one man's ingenuity, perseverance and struggle in the construction of a grain elevator, and of his exhilarating triumph. Ayn Rand declared it her favorite novel, and it served inspiration for the heroes of her novel Atlas Shrugged. "Calumet 'K'" is the name of a two-million bushel grain elevator being constructed by Charlie Bannon. Farmers and commodity markets are depending on Bannon to build it on time. In opposition are several tycoons wagering on it not getting built. Bannon must heroically overcome incompetance, scheming, and sabotage, in addition to the daunting task of building the massive grain elevator. This is the story of competence - of single-minded effort, unstoppable determination, unflagging certainty and unbeatable ability. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author: Samuel Merwin Publisher: Nabu Press ISBN: 9781294362142 Category : Languages : en Pages : 396
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Author: Samuel Merwin Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781098735807 Category : Languages : en Pages : 354
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Samuel Merwin (1874-1936), who also wrote as Merwin-Webster, was an American writer of historical fiction. He went to Northwestern University but he didn't graduate. He began his literary career by publishing two popular novels in collaboration with his boyhood friend Henry Kitchell Webster; The Short Line War (1899) and Calumet "K" (1901). Following the separation of this ...more
Author: Samuel Merwin Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 9360469637 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 166
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"Calumet K" is a collaborative novel written by means of Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster. Set towards the backdrop of the American Midwest throughout the early 20th century, the story unfolds in the fictional city of Calumet, in which the K in the identify stands for "Kickapoo," a Native American tribe. The novel explores the complex dynamics of small-city existence, encompassing themes of industrialization, social alternate, and private relationships. At its center, "Calumet K" delves into the demanding situations confronted by using a community grappling with the intrusion of industrialization and the conflict between traditional values and modernity. The narrative weaves collectively the lives of diverse characters, each representing distinct aspects of the converting times. The critical battle revolves across the warfare for manipulate over the treasured assets in the area, especially the Kickapoo oilfields. Merwin and Webster skillfully intertwine factors of drama, romance, and social remark, growing a compelling tapestry of the human enjoy in the face of development and transferring cultural landscapes. "Calumet K" stands as a snapshot of a bygone technology, capturing the tensions and changes that marked the early twentieth century within the American heartland.
Author: Tracy Neal Leavelle Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812207041 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 266
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In 1730 a delegation of Illinois Indians arrived in the French colonial capital of New Orleans. An Illinois leader presented two ceremonial pipes, or calumets, to the governor. One calumet represented the diplomatic alliance between the two men and the other symbolized their shared attachment to Catholicism. The priest who documented this exchange also reported with excitement how the Illinois recited prayers and sang hymns in their Native language, a display that astonished the residents of New Orleans. The "Catholic" calumet and the Native-language prayers and hymns were the product of long encounters between the Illinois and Jesuit missionaries, men who were themselves transformed by these sometimes intense spiritual experiences. The conversions of people, communities, and cultural practices that led to this dramatic episode all occurred in a rapidly evolving and always contested colonial context. In The Catholic Calumet, historian Tracy Neal Leavelle examines interactions between Jesuits and Algonquian-speaking peoples of the upper Great Lakes and Illinois country, including the Illinois and Ottawas, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Leavelle abandons singular definitions of conversion that depend on the idealized elevation of colonial subjects from "savages" to "Christians" for more dynamic concepts that explain the changes that all participants experienced. A series of thematic chapters on topics such as myth and historical memory, understandings of human nature, the creation of colonial landscapes, translation of religious texts into Native languages, and the influence of gender and generational differences demonstrates that these encounters resulted in the emergence of complicated and unstable cross-cultural religious practices that opened new spaces for cultural creativity and mutual adaptation.
Author: Robin Sloan Publisher: MCD ISBN: 0374716439 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 273
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From Robin Sloan, the New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, comes Sourdough, "a perfect parable for our times" (San Francisco Magazine): a delicious and funny novel about an overworked and under-socialized software engineer discovering a calling and a community as a baker. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Southern Living Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers quickly close up shop. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her—feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she’s providing loaves to the General Dexterity cafeteria every day. Then the company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market—and a whole new world opens up.
Author: Samuel Merwin
Author: Samuel Merwin
Author: Samuel Merwin & Henry Kitchell Webster
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Author: Samuel Merwin
Author: Merwin WEBSTER
Author: Samuel Merwin
Author: Samuel Merwin
Author: Tracy Neal Leavelle
Author: Robin Sloan