Author: Peter McCurtinPublisher: Banner of Truth
ISBN: 9780843926897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Marauders and Day of the Halfbreed
Author: Peter McCurtinPublisher: Banner of Truth
ISBN: 9780843926897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star
Author: A King of Tyre: A Tale of the Times of Ezra and Nehemiah
Author: James Meeker LudlowPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465598138
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The island city of Tyre lay close to the Syrian coast. It seemed to float among the waves that fretted themselves into foam as they rolled in between the jagged rocks, and spread over the flats, retiring again to rest in the deep bosom of the Mediterranean. The wall that encircled the island rose in places a hundred cubits, and seemed from a distance to be an enormous monolith. It was therefore called Tsur, or Tyre, which means The Rock. At the time of our narrative, about the middle of the fifth century B.C., the sea-girt city contained a dense mass of inhabitants, who lived in tall wooden houses of many stories; for the ground space within the walls could not lodge the multitude who pursued the various arts and commerce for which the Tyrians were, of all the world, the most noted. The streets were narrow, often entirely closed to the sky by projecting balconies and arcades—mere veins and arteries for the circulation of the city's throbbing life. For recreation from their dyeing-vats, looms, and foundries, the artisan people climbed to the broad spaces on the top of the walls, where they could breathe the sweet sea air, except when the easterly wind was hot and gritty with dust from the mainland, a few bow-shots distant. The men of commerce thronged the quay of the Sidonian harbor at the north end of the island, or that of the Egyptian harbor on the south side—two artificial basins which were at all times crowded with ships; for the Tyrian merchantmen scoured all the coast of the Great Sea, even venturing through the straits of Gades, and northward to the coasts of Britain, and southward along the African shore; giving in barter for the crude commodities they found, not only the products of their own workshops, but the freight of their caravans that climbed the Lebanons and wearily tracked across the deserts to Arabia and Babylon. The people of fashion paraded their pride on the Great Square, in the heart of the city—called by the Greeks the Eurychorus—where they displayed their rich garments in competition with the flowers that grew, almost as artificially, in gay parterres amid the marble blocks of the pavement.
The Half-breed Indians of North America
Author: William BarrowsThe Marauders of Frontiers
Author: Antoine CrosbyPublisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456640208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Today the forests have fallen; its gloomy inhabitants, gradually rejected by the civilization that persecutes them without truce or rest, have fled step by step before it; they have gone in search of safer retreats in the distance, taking their parents' bones with them lest they be unearthed and desecrated by the ruthless share of the white plow, which carves its long and productive furrow over their former homelands. hunt. Is this continuous, incessant clearing of the American continent an evil? Not by the way; on the contrary, progress, which marches by leaps and bounds and tends to transform the soil of the New World within a century, deserves all our sympathies. Nevertheless, we cannot help feeling a feeling of painful sympathy for this unfortunate race brutally outlawed, pitilessly hemmed in on all sides, diminishing day by day and fatally doomed to disappear very soon from that land, whose immense territory, four centuries ago at the most, covered with its innumerable masses.
The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star. Volume XII.
Author: The Andover Review
Author: A King of Tyre
Author: James M. LudlowPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434464407
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
James M. Ludlow (1886-1928) was an American Presbyterian clergyman and author. "A King of Tyre" is a historical novel of the times of Ezra and Nehemiah.
A King of Tyre
Author: James Meeker LudlowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Great Sioux Campaign of 1876, Day-by-Day
Author: Frederic C. Wagner IIIPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476645272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Drawing on more than 22 years' research, this book presents an exhaustive chronology of the Great Sioux Campaign in three parts: the U.S. Seventh Cavalry's communications, decisions and movements October 15, 1875-June 21, 1876, are traced day-by-day; the three-day prelude to the Battle of Little Bighorn hour-by-hour; and the battle itself minute-by-minute. The separate actions of the several military commands and the Indians involved are narrated in coherent sequence. Archival intelligence summaries offer the reader fresh perspective on the events leading to the decisive Indian victory known as Custer's Last Stand.