Author: United States. Work Projects Administration. Washington (State)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Told by the Pioneers ...
Author: United States. Work Projects Administration. Washington (State)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Told by the Pioneers ...
Author: United States. Work Projects Administration. State of WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
To preserve stories of pioneers, which had not already found their way into published histories and reminiscences of the State of Washington, a project was begun in the early part of 1936 as part of a Friendly Visiting Program to elderly persons receiving old age assistance from the Washington State Dept. of Public Welfare. Consequently, these elderly persons were interviewed and their early stories, which might otherwise have been lost, have been preserved as part of the pioneer lore of the State of Washington. Selected interviews and excerpts were chosen by the editors based on the most picturesque background and popular appeal for publication as Told by the Pioneers. The book states, "The originals [interviews] are on file at the State Library where they can be consulted for statistics and other data." However, WSL does not and has not had the complete collection of original interviews. The manuscript collection titled, Washington Pioneer Project Records and Interviews 1936-1937, consists of the original interviews that WSL does have that correspond with the book.
The Pioneers
Author: David McCulloughPublisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501168681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country. As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler’s son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent pioneer in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as floods, fires, wolves and bears, no roads or bridges, no guarantees of any sort, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough’s subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments. This is a revelatory and quintessentially American story, written with David McCullough’s signature narrative energy.
Told by the Pioneers
Author: Washington pioneer projectPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Told by the Pioneers
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Told by the Pioneers ...
Author: United States. Work Projects Administration. State of WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Told by the Pioneers...
Author: United States. Work Projects Administration. Washington (State)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
To preserve stories of pioneers, which had not already found their way into published histories and reminiscences of the State of Washington, a project was begun in the early part of 1936 as part of a Friendly Visiting Program to elderly persons receiving old age assistance from the Washington State Dept. of Public Welfare. Consequently, these elderly persons were interviewed and their early stories, which might otherwise have been lost, have been preserved as part of the pioneer lore of the State of Washington. Selected interviews and excerpts were chosen by the editors based on the most picturesque background and popular appeal for publication as Told by the Pioneers. The book states, "The originals [interviews] are on file at the State Library where they can be consulted for statistics and other data." However, WSL does not and has not had the complete collection of original interviews. The manuscript collection titled, Washington Pioneer Project Records and Interviews 1936-1937, consists of the original interviews that WSL does have that correspond with the book.
Words West
Author: Ginger WadsworthPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618234752
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Here are the moving stories of these young pioneers, told in their own words through letters home, diaries, and memoirs.
Told by the Pioneers
Author: Washington Pioneer ProjectPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pioneers
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Copies of handwritten interview notes and typed transcriptions, including a history of Grant County and one photograph of the Grand Coulee Dam area.
American Pioneers and Patriots
Author: Caroline EmersonPublisher: Christian Liberty Press
ISBN: 9781932971514
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
American Pioneers & Patriots will allow your 3rd and 4th grade students to explore America's past through the fictional accounts of typical pioneer families. Young patriots of today will gain an appreciation of the courage it took to build this great nation of ours!