Author: Caroline Nichols Churchill Publisher: ISBN: 9781519055446 Category : Languages : en Pages : 172
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She was a woman alone in the Wild West with a son to raise and care for. But Caroline Nichols Churchill was not about to let her sex or "voters in pantaloons" stop her from living life her way.She was a travel writer, a suffragist, a feminist, and a mother with a wicked sense of humor and a fearlessness about speaking out. She never hesitated to criticize or applaud the words and actions of others, whether they be men of power or feminists with views that differed from hers.In this book, one of two that brought her to public attention, she turns her wonderful wit and powers of observation on the American West of the early 1880s. Even today's travelers or residents in California will find a rich store of stories about San Francisco, Los Angeles, Reno, Salt Lake City, and more. The section on Yosemite alone is worth more than the price of the book.Today, Churchill is celebrated by western historians as a key figure in the western suffrage movement and a pioneer as a female journalist. It's a shame she is not remembered more widely but this book is a great introduction.Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the movement that changed the country forever.
Author: Caroline Nichols Churchill Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 133
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A woman way ahead of her time, she was an outspoken feminist, suffragist, and advocate for the rights of minorities. Writer and newspaper publisher, Caroline Nichols Churchill, never hesitated to say what she felt about an issue, no matter whose feathers it might ruffle. Today, Churchill is celebrated by western historians as a key figure in the western suffrage movement and a pioneer as a female journalist. This is the wide-ranging autobiography that she published in the early twentieth century. Wry, satirical, entertaining, and always opinionated, Caroline Churchill keeps you flipping pages from beginning to end. Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the movement that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Author: Helen Herron Taft Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 360
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As ambitious as her husband, William Howard Taft, Helen Herron may be the most underrated of all our First Ladies. She encouraged Taft in all his political accomplishments and he may not have become president without her. He preferred the judiciary and eventually became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Helen (Nellie) Taft was the first wife of a president to ride down Pennsylvania Avenue with her husband on inauguration day and the only woman who was wife of both a president and a chief justice. She is best known for working with the wife of the Japanese Ambassador to import and plant more than 3,000 cherry trees around the Washington Tidal Basin. Witty, intelligent, open-minded, and curious about the world, she is even today beloved in the Philippines, where her husband served as head of the civil government in 1900. She and her husband courted criticism for including Filipinos in social affairs. In this volume, she recounts her full life as partner to U.S. President William Howard Taft.
Author: Joseph Henry Taylor Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 144
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Joseph Taylor's classic memoir of pioneer life in Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas has long been cited in other books. He knew many of the soldiers and Indians of the 1870s and 1880s and newspaperman Taylor writes of them in witty and affectionate prose. Here is Custer, Chief Gall, General Stanley, and many others. Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the westward expansion that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Author: Helen Hunt Jackson Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS ISBN: Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 256
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Famed poet, traveler, and advocate for the rights of Native Americans, Helen Hunt (later Helen Hunt Jackson) penned this lively and interesting tale of her trip to Europe in the late 1860s. Rome, Venice, and Munich, among others, are on her itinerary and she takes you along. Helen Maria Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) was a childhood friend of Emily Dickinson and was a national figure during her lifetime. Ralph Waldo Emerson admired Jackson's poetry and she was supported by prominent newspaper editors by the publication of her works advocating for Native Americans. But that was in the future. During this trip to Europe, she was attempting to heal from the loss of her husband and two sons to disease and accident. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Author: L.H. Sigourney Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 182
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One of Victorian America's most beloved novels by one of its most famous writers—Mrs. Sigourney. Lydia Huntley Sigourney was a poet and novelist famous in America and England. In this fictional journal of Lucy Howard, Sigourney deftly captured the emotional life of a young girl coming into womanhood and marriage. Lyrical, humorous, and similar to Lydia Sigourney herself, you'll be captivated by Lucy's description of a life of happiness and sorrow in early 19th century America. “This journal is a transcript of the inner life of a pure heart, from girlhood to womanhood, through wifehood and maturity, even unto death. The journal, commenced as a task, was continued partly from habit and partly from love, and presents a beautiful picture of the thoughts, emotions, principles, and trials of a pure woman in the ordinary circumstances of everyday life. The story is full of real, living, human interest, and most charmingly written. The tone is unexceptionable and we can commend it to our readers without reservation. It is brought out in the best style of Harper [& Brothers] establishment.” — Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
Author: Rev. J.D. Bloodgood Ph.D. Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 172
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One of the most interesting and compelling descriptions of the battles of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville is found in J.D. Bloodgoods long-forgotten 1893 memoir. Bloodgood was an enlisted private of Company I, of the One Hundred and Forty-first Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry, promoted to a sergeant, wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863, and mustered out of the service at the close of the war with a record as a good and efficient soldier. An educated man, his observations and descriptions go beyond battlefield chaos and give you the feeling of what the line soldier and officer experienced. After the war, he revisited Gettysburg and his return is a story in itself. For less than you'd spend on gas going to the library, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Author: Horace Elisha Scudder Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 673
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Witty, bittingly satirical, erudite, and passionate, James Russell Lowell was one of the great literary and intellectual, giants of the 19th century. Though his name today is less well-known than Hawthorne, Poe, Longfellow, and Emerson, he was their contemporary, peer, and friend. He was the editor of "The Atlantic Monthly" who set the early tone and style for that magazine. A Harvard graduate and prolific essayist and poet, he was later a U.S. diplomat to Spain and England. This two volume, long out-of-print set will keep you entertained from beginning to end. Lowell's wonderful intelligence and wit are on display throughout. You will see why "The Atlantic" became the important magazine that it still is. His friend and biographer, Horace Scudder was also editor of "The Atlantic." For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
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