Author: Robert J. Shade
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615781273
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This is the second book in the Wend Eckert/Forbes Road series. Insurrection sweeps the border settlements! Young sharpshooter and gunsmith Wend Eckert returns to the Pennsylvania border settlements from his service as a scout during Pontiac's Rebellion. He is determined to take revenge against wealthy Indian trader Richard Grenough and his henchmen---the men who were responsible for the death of his family. But Eckert finds that the Ulster-Scot settlers of Sherman Valley and Paxton are infuriated by the refusal of the pacifist government in Philadelphia to help defend the border country from rampaging war parties. In frustration, rogue militiamen from Paxton attack the the peaceful Conestoga Indians of Lancaster in the belief that they have been providing assistance to the hostiles. Wend suddenly finds himself at odds with friends and neighbors as he tries to save his former school friend, Charlie Sawak of the Conestoga tribe. Over the long winter, Wend travels the Cumberland Valley to uncover the long tentacles of Grenough's conspiracy and finds the trader helped incite the attack on the Conestogas in order to distract attention from his treasonous operations. Wend realizes that he must resort to violence to bring justice to the outlaw trader. Then, in the midst of his private war, the young man finds himself romantically entangled with a woman who is the lover of his greatest enemy. Finally, on a winding, mountainous stretch of Forbes Road, Wend Eckert and his enemies meet in a climactic battle to the finish.
Conestoga Winter
Author: Robert J. Shade
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615781273
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This is the second book in the Wend Eckert/Forbes Road series. Insurrection sweeps the border settlements! Young sharpshooter and gunsmith Wend Eckert returns to the Pennsylvania border settlements from his service as a scout during Pontiac's Rebellion. He is determined to take revenge against wealthy Indian trader Richard Grenough and his henchmen---the men who were responsible for the death of his family. But Eckert finds that the Ulster-Scot settlers of Sherman Valley and Paxton are infuriated by the refusal of the pacifist government in Philadelphia to help defend the border country from rampaging war parties. In frustration, rogue militiamen from Paxton attack the the peaceful Conestoga Indians of Lancaster in the belief that they have been providing assistance to the hostiles. Wend suddenly finds himself at odds with friends and neighbors as he tries to save his former school friend, Charlie Sawak of the Conestoga tribe. Over the long winter, Wend travels the Cumberland Valley to uncover the long tentacles of Grenough's conspiracy and finds the trader helped incite the attack on the Conestogas in order to distract attention from his treasonous operations. Wend realizes that he must resort to violence to bring justice to the outlaw trader. Then, in the midst of his private war, the young man finds himself romantically entangled with a woman who is the lover of his greatest enemy. Finally, on a winding, mountainous stretch of Forbes Road, Wend Eckert and his enemies meet in a climactic battle to the finish.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615781273
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This is the second book in the Wend Eckert/Forbes Road series. Insurrection sweeps the border settlements! Young sharpshooter and gunsmith Wend Eckert returns to the Pennsylvania border settlements from his service as a scout during Pontiac's Rebellion. He is determined to take revenge against wealthy Indian trader Richard Grenough and his henchmen---the men who were responsible for the death of his family. But Eckert finds that the Ulster-Scot settlers of Sherman Valley and Paxton are infuriated by the refusal of the pacifist government in Philadelphia to help defend the border country from rampaging war parties. In frustration, rogue militiamen from Paxton attack the the peaceful Conestoga Indians of Lancaster in the belief that they have been providing assistance to the hostiles. Wend suddenly finds himself at odds with friends and neighbors as he tries to save his former school friend, Charlie Sawak of the Conestoga tribe. Over the long winter, Wend travels the Cumberland Valley to uncover the long tentacles of Grenough's conspiracy and finds the trader helped incite the attack on the Conestogas in order to distract attention from his treasonous operations. Wend realizes that he must resort to violence to bring justice to the outlaw trader. Then, in the midst of his private war, the young man finds himself romantically entangled with a woman who is the lover of his greatest enemy. Finally, on a winding, mountainous stretch of Forbes Road, Wend Eckert and his enemies meet in a climactic battle to the finish.
The Long Road to Change
Author: Eric Guest Nellis
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9781551111100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"By extending his analysis to 1820, Nellis challenges both students and scholars to re-examine their assumptions about the American Revolution." - Elizabeth Mancke, University of Akron
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9781551111100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"By extending his analysis to 1820, Nellis challenges both students and scholars to re-examine their assumptions about the American Revolution." - Elizabeth Mancke, University of Akron
Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lancaster County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lancaster County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
The Trail of the Conestoga
Author: Bertha Mabel Dunham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781849024990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
An historically accurate novel about the journey of Mennonites from Pennsylvania to Canada, and their settlement in Kitchener County, Ontario.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781849024990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
An historically accurate novel about the journey of Mennonites from Pennsylvania to Canada, and their settlement in Kitchener County, Ontario.
The Long Walk Back Home A Quest For Freedom
Author: Douglas Davis
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1641917067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Become involved in Hunter's westward quest for freedom during the Civil War, when the forced "Long Walk" and tragic enslavement threatened the destruction of his proud people. This Navajo youth displays three loves of homeland, culture and tribe while struggling with daily survival issues, dangerous wildlife, and the greed of soldiers determined to eliminate this cherished freedom. Religious enlightenment develops for Hunter while "walking in beauty" with nature, and contending with convoluted cross roads of truth and irony. Freedom has never been free!
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1641917067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Become involved in Hunter's westward quest for freedom during the Civil War, when the forced "Long Walk" and tragic enslavement threatened the destruction of his proud people. This Navajo youth displays three loves of homeland, culture and tribe while struggling with daily survival issues, dangerous wildlife, and the greed of soldiers determined to eliminate this cherished freedom. Religious enlightenment develops for Hunter while "walking in beauty" with nature, and contending with convoluted cross roads of truth and irony. Freedom has never been free!
Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and of Their Remote Ancestors, from the Middle of the Dark Ages, Down to the Time of the Revolutionary War
Author: Henry Frank Eshleman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anabaptists
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
"An authentic history, from original sources, of their suffering during several centuries before and especially during the two centuries following the Protestant Reformation, and of their slow migration, moved by those causes, during the last mentioned two hundred years, westward in quest of religious freedom and their happy relief in the Susquehanna and Schuylkill valleys in the new world; with particular reference to the German-Swiss Mennonites or Anabaptists, the Amish and other non-resistant sects"--Title page.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anabaptists
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
"An authentic history, from original sources, of their suffering during several centuries before and especially during the two centuries following the Protestant Reformation, and of their slow migration, moved by those causes, during the last mentioned two hundred years, westward in quest of religious freedom and their happy relief in the Susquehanna and Schuylkill valleys in the new world; with particular reference to the German-Swiss Mennonites or Anabaptists, the Amish and other non-resistant sects"--Title page.
Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society
Author: Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lancaster County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Includes minutes of the Society's meetings.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lancaster County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Includes minutes of the Society's meetings.
Historic Shallow Ford in Yadkin Valley: Crossroads Between East and West
Author: Marcia D. Phillips
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467152900
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Shallow Ford, the natural rock path across the Yadkin River, served as the gateway for pioneers to the western North Carolina frontier and as a stage for history. The ford was the site of the Battle of Shallow Ford in the Revolutionary War and Stoneman's Raid during the Civil War. The eye of the needle for General Cornwallis in the Race to the Dan, it was also the silent witness to the Great Wagon Road and the trans-Appalachian migration led by local son Daniel Boone. Bypassed for the last hundred years, Shallow Ford faded from view but remains a landmark of another era. Local historian Marcia D. Phillips recounts the history of a time when safe passage across the river provided the way to reach the American future that lay beyond.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467152900
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Shallow Ford, the natural rock path across the Yadkin River, served as the gateway for pioneers to the western North Carolina frontier and as a stage for history. The ford was the site of the Battle of Shallow Ford in the Revolutionary War and Stoneman's Raid during the Civil War. The eye of the needle for General Cornwallis in the Race to the Dan, it was also the silent witness to the Great Wagon Road and the trans-Appalachian migration led by local son Daniel Boone. Bypassed for the last hundred years, Shallow Ford faded from view but remains a landmark of another era. Local historian Marcia D. Phillips recounts the history of a time when safe passage across the river provided the way to reach the American future that lay beyond.
The Long Haul West
Author: Madeline Sadler Waggoner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Trials of the Westward Trail
Author: Dale Janda
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595165907
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The Trials Of The Westward Trail is the first sequel to The Back-Up Girl. The story involves traveling the old California Trail. Dan Lindeen intends to take six freight wagons, each with six mules hitched, over the trail to California. Dan gets hurt physically and can’t travel. There is a misunderstanding between Dan and his bride. She goes on with the train, leaving him behind. The trials include dissention among the immigrants. Also Indians attack. And people get separated from the train.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595165907
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The Trials Of The Westward Trail is the first sequel to The Back-Up Girl. The story involves traveling the old California Trail. Dan Lindeen intends to take six freight wagons, each with six mules hitched, over the trail to California. Dan gets hurt physically and can’t travel. There is a misunderstanding between Dan and his bride. She goes on with the train, leaving him behind. The trials include dissention among the immigrants. Also Indians attack. And people get separated from the train.