Author: Richardson (Major, John)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Hardscrabble, Or, The Fall of Chicago
Author: Richardson (Major, John)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Hardscrabble: or, the fall of Chicago; A tale of Indian warfare
Author: Major RichardsonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368340115
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Hardscrabble
Author: Richardson (Major, John)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Hardscrabble, Or, the Fall of Chicago. a Tale of Indian Warfare
Author: John RichardsonPublisher: Tredition Classics
ISBN: 9783842428027
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.
Hardscrabble, Or, The Fall of Chicago
Author: Hardscrabble; the Fall of Chicago
Author: Major John RichardsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337496838
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Hardscrabble; or, the fall of Chicago: a tale of Indian warfare
Author: Major RichardsonPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Hardscrabble is an adventurous historical fiction about the Indian attack on Fort Dearborn in 1812. It was a battle between United States troops and Potawatomi Native Americans that lasted about 15 minutes and resulted in a victory for the Native Americans. The story is full of amusing characters and descriptions that excellently portray the tensions of the battle.
Hardscrabble; Or, the Fall of Chicago
Author: RichardsonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530122523
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
John Richardson was a British Army officer and the first Canadian-born novelist to achieve international recognition.
Hardscrabble; Or, the Fall of Chicago
Author: John RichardsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781409930952
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
John Richardson (1796-1852) was a British Army officer and the first Canadian-born novelist to achieve international recognition. At the age of 16 he enlisted as a gentleman volunteer with the British 41st Foot. This is when he met Tecumseh and General Isaac Brock, whose personalities marked his imagination and whom he would later immortalize in his novel The Canadian Brothers (1840) and in other writings. During the War of 1812, he was imprisoned for a year in the United States after his capture during the battle of Moraviantown. He began his fiction-writing career with novels about the British and French societies of his time. In his third and most successful novel, Wacousta (1832), he turned to the North American frontier for his setting and to its recent history for its historical framework.
Hardscrabble Or the Fall of Chicago
Author: Richardson RichardsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331373650
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Excerpt from Hardscrabble or the Fall of Chicago: A Tale of Indian Warfare It was on a beautiful day in the early part of the month of April, 1812, that four persons were met in a rude farm-house, situated on the Southern Branch of the Chicago river, and about four miles distant from the fort of that name. They had just risen from their humble mid-day meal, and three of them were now lingering near the fire-place, filled with blazing logs, which, at that early season, diffused a warmth by no means disagreeable, and gave an air of cheerfulness to the interior of the smoke-discolored building. He who appeared to be master of the establishment was a tall, good looking man of about forty-five, who had, evidently, been long a denizen of the forest, for his bronzed countenance bore traces of care and toil, while his rugged, yet well-formed hands conveyed the impression of the unceasing war he had waged against the gigantic trees of this Western land. He was habited in a hunting-frock of grey homespun, reaching about half way down to his knee, and trimmed with a full fringe of a somewhat darker hue. His trowsers were of the same material, and both were girt around his loins by a common belt of black leather, fastened by a plain white buckle, into which was thrust a sheath of black leather also, containing a large knife peculiar to the backwoodsmen of that day. His feet were encased in moccasins, and on his head, covered with strong dark hair, was carelessly donned a slouched hat of common black felt, with several plaited folds of the sweet grass of the adjoining prairie for a band. Ho was seemingly a man of strong muscular power, while his stern dark eye denoted firmness and daring. The elder of the two men, to whom this individual stood, evidently, in the character of a superior, was a short thick-set person of about fifty, with huge whiskers that, originally black, had been slightly grizzled by time. His eyebrows were bushy and overhanging, and almost concealed the small, and twinkling eyes, which it required the beholder to encounter more than once before he could decide their true color to be a dark gray. 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.