Author: Wilfred Harold MunroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bristol (R.I. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Some Legends of "Mount Hope"
Author: Wilfred Harold MunroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bristol (R.I. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Some Legends of Mount Hope
Author: Wilfred Harold MunroPublisher:
ISBN: 9781934400517
Category : Bristol (R.I. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Bristol, Rhode Island (Mount Hope) boasts a history unlike that of any other place in America. Home of the great Wampanoag sachem Massasoit and later his son, Philip, after King Philip¿s War Mount Hope belonged to the Pilgrims of Plymouth, then to the Puritans of Massachusetts, and finally, in 1747, became part of Rhode Island.The ¿legends¿ in this remarkable book are not legends at all, but historical fact, every word of which is true:Vikings who visited in the year 1000; a mysterious rock and its enigmatic engravings; the friendship between the Pilgrim Edward Winslow and the Wampanoag sachem Massasoit; the battle in which King Philip was killed by an Indian soldier serving under Benjamin Church; the squaw-sachem Awashonks, who sided first with Philip, then with the English;American patriots who burned the British ship Gaspee in 1772 (the first hostile act of the Revolution); the bombardment by the British in 1775 and the wanton burning of Bristol three years later; the friendship between George Washington and Senator William Bradford;extraordinary characters such as Jabez Howland, a lieutenant under Benjamin Church; John Crowne, Harvard¿s first playwright, who laid claim to the land at Mount Hope; housewife Smith who gave such a tongue-lashing to two British soldiers that they let her keep her silver teapot; and a shipwrecked sailor who so reeked of tobacco that the cannibals who ate his companions refused to eat him.Printed for private circulation in 1915, Some Legends of ¿Mount Hope¿ is now extremely rare, with only a handful of copies in existence. This Rock Village Publishing edition is an expansion of the original, with an introduction and addenda by Edward Lodi.with illustrations
Beyond These Gates
Author: Marilyn NoltePublisher:
ISBN: 9781532375958
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Collecting Native America, 1870-1960
Author: Shepard Krech IIIPublisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588344142
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Between the 1870s and 1950s collectors vigorously pursued the artifacts of Native American groups. Setting out to preserve what they thought was a vanishing culture, they amassed ethnographic and archaeological collections amounting to well over one million objects and founded museums throughout North America that were meant to educate the public about American Indian skills, practices, and beliefs. In Collecting Native America contributors examine the motivations, intentions, and actions of eleven collectors who devoted substantial parts of their lives and fortunes to acquiring American Indian objects and founding museums. They describe obsessive hobbyists such as George Heye, who, beginning with the purchase of a lice-ridden shirt, built a collection that—still unsurpassed in richness, diversity, and size—today forms the core of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Sheldon Jackson, a Presbyterian missionary in Alaska, collected and displayed artifacts as a means of converting Native peoples to Christianity. Clara Endicott Sears used sometimes invented displays and ceremonies at her Indian Museum near Boston to emphasize Native American spirituality. The contributors chart the collectors' diverse attitudes towards Native peoples, showing how their limited contact with American Indian groups resulted in museums that revealed more about assumptions of the wider society than about the cultures being described.
Mount Hope
Author: Collections
Author: Rhode Island Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Collections
Author: Dighton Rock
Author: Edmund Burke DelabarrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Rhode Island Historical Society Collections
Author: Rhode Island Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
True Life Stories: The Greatest Native American Memoirs & Biographies
Author: GeronimoPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026888952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
This collection presents the incredible life stories of the legendary Native Americans such as: Geronimo, Charles Eastman, Black Hawk, King Philip, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse. Contents: Charles Eastman: Indian Boyhood & From the Deep Woods to Civilization King Philip: War Chief of the Wampanoag People Geronimo's Story of His Life Autobiography of the Sauk Leader Black Hawk and the History of the Black Hawk War of 1832 Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains