Author: George Stringer RowePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
A pioneer, a memoir of J. Thomas
Author: George Stringer RowePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Reluctant Pioneer
Author: Thomas OsbornePublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459702387
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Thomas Osborne delivers a gripping account of 1870s Ontario pioneer life. The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale. For the next five years Thomas endured starvation, falling through the ice and freezing, accidents with axes and boats, and narrow escapes from wolves and bears. Many years later, after returning to the United States, Osborne wrote down all his adventures in a graphic memoir that has become, in the words of author and journalist Roy MacGregor, "an undiscovered Canadian classic." Reluctant Pioneer provides a brooding sense of adventure and un- sentimental realism to deliver a powerful account of pioneer life where tragedies arrive as naturally as rain and where humour resides in irony.
The Primitive Methodist Magazine
Author: Tiny Stitches
Author: Gwendolyn HooksPublisher: Lee & Low Books
ISBN: 9781620141564
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The life story of Vivien Thomas, an African American surgical technician who developed the first procedure used to perform open-heart surgery on children.
Annual Report and Collections
Author: State Historical Society of WisconsinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
V.29 entitled The Attainment of statehood; v.31 entitled California letters of Lucuis Fairchild.
Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown
Author: James S. BrownPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
This work is an autobiography of an early Mormon Pioneer, James Stephens Brown, who was a notable writer and speaker, was a prominent participant in the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in California. This significant work provides a window into the past. Brown's relationship with historical events of the moment contains the time when the territorial area of the great Republic was almost doubled by the addition of the Pacific slope and the Rocky Mountain region and when the great gold in California was discovered. The narrative of this book is presented in the simple and straightforward language of the people, with a clarity and power of expression that will be pleasing and impressive to every reader. The aim of the writer was to tell the story of his life for the advantage and amusement of his children and friends and of all others who may read it. Brown describes several compelling and startling incidents of his life with ease in this autobiography.
Narrative of Spoon Decorah
Author: Chrysostom VerwystPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Belgians
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Can You Help Me?
Author: Thomas D. BirdPublisher:
ISBN: 0190684224
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Can You Help Me?: Living in the Turbulent World of Huntington Disease shares the surprising, insightful, challenging, and even encouraging stories of patients and their families who live with Huntington Disease. Having seen patients for more than 40 years, Dr Thomas Bird, a pioneer neurogeneticist, adds a human touch to this genetic brain disease that devastates persons during mid-life when they can least afford it. With a brief history of Huntington Disease and the occasional scientific detail, the true heart of the book is the human experience of the disorder: � The man who cannot stay out of prison because he is addicted to being a burglar. � Another man shoots and kills his roommate while watching television and cannot explain why he did it. � The woman with Huntington Disease copes with her depression by using Texas line dancing. � A twelve year old girl with juvenile Huntington Disease who can barely walk and talk, but her classmates rally around with touching and heartfelt support. � And the 72 year old man with late onset Huntington Disease and severe depression is made worse by ECT, but improved (for a while) with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. These are just some of the compelling stories of people of all ages and in all walks of life who feel trapped by a progressive degenerative brain disease from which there is no escape.
Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Author: State Historical Society of WisconsinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
After 1855 the society's annual reports were included in its Proceedings.
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
Author: Elizabeth BlackwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Elizabeth Blackwell, though born in England, was reared in the United States and was the first woman to receive a medical degree here, obtaining it from the Geneva Medical College, Geneva, New York, in 1849. A pioneer in opening the medical profession to women, she founded hospitals and medical schools for women in both the United States and England. She was a lecturer and writer as well as an able physician and organizer. -- H.W. Orr.