Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Revolutionary PensionsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Daniel Story. (To Accompany Bill H.R. No. 151.) February 9, 1842
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Revolutionary PensionsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Reports of Committees
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1400
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Daniel Story. (To Accompany Bill H.R. No. 542.) December 22, 1840
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Revolutionary PensionsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
The Huntington Family in America
Author: Huntington Family AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
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The Money Game in Old New York
Author: Clifford BrowderPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813162246
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"I got to be a millionaire afore I know'd it hardly," remarked the Wall Street financier Daniel Drew (1797-1879). An uneducated farm boy from Putnam County, New York, he became in turn a successful cattle drover, a circus clown, tavern keeper, a shrewd Hudson River steamboat operator, and an unscrupulous speculator. As the colorful "Uncle Daniel" of Wall Street-his whiskered face seamed with wrinkles and twinkling with steel-gray eyes -- time and again he disrupted the financial markets with manipulations whereby he either won or lost millions of dollars. Having "got religion" upon hearing a scary hell-fire sermon at the age of fourteen, Drew was also a fervent Methodist. Rumors of his financial operations--epic struggles that pitted him against Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, and Jim Fisk, and that subjected him to threats of arrest and even kidnapping, and on one occasion to a most undignified flight from the state-baffled and disturbed the Methodists, who admittedly had little grasp of Wall Street but knew firsthand Brother Drew's tearful repentance at prayer meetings and his generosity in founding churches and seminaries. With its dual commitment to religion and rascality, Drew's career is a rich study in contradictions, an exciting chronicle of high drama and low comedy capped by bankruptcy. To understand Drew in his complexity, the author argues, is to get a grip on the heady and exploitative age that produced him -- the yesterday of "smartness" and "go ahead" that helped engender the America of today. Based on primary sources, this is the first full-fledged biography of Drew, who hitherto has been known chiefly through a fictionalized and fraudulent account of 1910.
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Prices of Clothing
Author: John M. CurranPublisher:
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Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1789-1878
Author: Robert W. CoakleyPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780788128189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Describes the essential elements of the incidents from the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 to the Reconstruction that followed the Civil War and the ways in which federal military force was applied in each case. Includes: the Fries Rebellion, the Burr Conspiracy, Slave Rebellions, the Nullification Crisis, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Riots, the 3Buckshot War2, the Patriot War, the Dorr Rebellion, the Army as Posse Comitatus, San Francisco Vigilantes, the Utah Expedition, the Civil War, etc. Extensive bibliography. Index. Full-color and b&w photos and maps.
Yellowstone National Park, Its Exploration and Establishment, 1974
Author: Aubrey L. HainesPublisher:
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Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Hoosiers and the American Story
Author: Madison, James H.Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
ISBN: 0871953633
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.