Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scottish periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Dumfries Monthly Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scottish periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Dumfries Book of Days
Author: David CarrollPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750955414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Taking you through the year day by day, The Dumfries Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from different periods in the history of the town. Ideal for dipping into, this addictive little book will keep you entertained and informed.Featuring hundreds of snippets of information gleaned from the vaults of Dumfries’s archives and covering the social, criminal, political, religious, industrial, military and sporting history of the town, it will delight residents and visitors alike.
History of the Burgh of Dumfries
Author: William M'DowallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dumfries (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
History of the burgh of Dumfries, with notices of Nithsdale, Annandale, and the western border
Author: William McDowallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dumfries (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest
Author: William HeathPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806151471
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Born to Anglo-American parents on the Appalachian frontier, captured by the Miami Indians at the age of thirteen, and adopted into the tribe, William Wells (1770–1812) moved between two cultures all his life but was comfortable in neither. Vilified by some historians for his divided loyalties, he remains relatively unknown even though he is worthy of comparison with such famous frontiersmen as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. William Heath’s thoroughly researched book is the first biography of this man-in-the-middle. A servant of empire with deep sympathies for the people his country sought to dispossess, Wells married Chief Little Turtle’s daughter and distinguished himself as a Miami warrior, as an American spy, and as an Indian agent whose multilingual skills made him a valuable interpreter. Heath examines pioneer life in the Ohio Valley from both white and Indian perspectives, yielding rich insights into Wells’s career as well as broader events on the post-revolutionary American frontier, where Anglo-Americans pushing westward competed with the Indian nations of the Old Northwest for control of territory. Wells’s unusual career, Heath emphasizes, earned him a great deal of ill will. Because he warned the U.S. government against Tecumseh’s confederacy and the Tenskwatawa’s “religiously mad” followers, he was hated by those who supported the Shawnee leaders. Because he came to question treaties he had helped bring about, and cautioned the Indians about their harmful effects, he was distrusted by Americans. Wells is a complicated hero, and his conflicted position reflects the decline of coexistence and cooperation between two cultures.
Public Bills
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Catalogue: Subjects
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
The English dialect dictionary
Author: Joseph WrightPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5518930976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The English dialect dictionary, being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years. Volume 6. Supplement, A-Y.
Directory of Educational and Training Opportunities in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Author: Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251033579
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Author: British Library