Author: Henry Marie BrackenridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Recollections of Persons and Places in the West
Author: Henry Marie BrackenridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Recollections of Persons and Places in the West
Author: Henry Marie BrackenridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
History of Pittsburgh and Environs
Author: George Thornton FlemingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana
Author: Colton StormPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
John McMillan
Author: Dwight Ray GuthriePublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822975335
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The first comprehensive biography of John McMillan, who "blew the Gospel trumpet", and spread Presbyterianism west of the Alleghenies. McMillan was a missionary, minister, politician, patriarch, and a founder of Washington and Jefferson College. The book also offers a colorful history of the Scotch-Irish pioneers who tamed a rugged and hostile region of early America.
The American Catalogue of Books: 1866-1871 ... with Supplement containing names of learned societies and ... their publications, 1866-1871
Author: The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier
Author: Ralph Leslie RuskPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Mentelles
Author: Randolph Paul RunyonPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813175402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Though they were not, as Charlotte claimed, refugees from the French Revolution, Augustus Waldemar and Charlotte Victoire Mentelle undoubtedly felt like exiles in their adopted hometown of Lexington, Kentucky -- a settlement that was still a frontier town when they arrived in 1798. Through the years, the cultured Parisian couple often reinvented themselves out of necessity, but their most famous venture was Mentelle's for Young Ladies, an intellectually rigorous school that attracted students from around the region and greatly influenced its most well-known pupil, Mary Todd Lincoln. Drawing on newly translated materials and previously overlooked primary sources, Randolph Paul Runyon explores the life and times of the important but understudied pair in this intriguing dual biography. He illustrates how the Mentelles' origins and education gave them access to the higher strata of Bluegrass society even as their views on religion, politics, and culture kept them from feeling at home in America. They were intimates of statesman Henry Clay, and one of their daughters married into the Clay family, but like other immigrant families in the region, they struggled to survive. Throughout, Runyon reveals the Mentelles as eloquent chroniclers of crucial moments in Ohio and Kentucky history, from the turn of the nineteenth century to the eve of the Civil War. They rankled at the baleful influence of conservative religion on the local college, the influence of whiskey on the local population, and the scandal of slavery in the land of liberty. This study sheds new light on the lives of a remarkable pair who not only bore witness to key events in early American history, but also had a singular impact on the lives of their friends, their students, and their community.