Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Eldorado
Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Works of Dean Swift
Author: Jonathan SwiftElDorado
Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382308126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
The Voices that Are Gone
Author: Jon W. FinsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019535432X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
In this unique and readable study, Jon Finson views the mores and values of nineteenth-century Americans as they appear in their popular songs. The author sets forth lyricists' and composers' notions of courtship, technology, death, African Americans, Native Americans, and European ethnicity by grouping songs topically. He goes on to explore the interaction between musical style and lyrics within each topic. The lyrics and changing musical styles present a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century America. The composers discussed in the book range from Henry Russell ("Woodman, Spare That Tree"), Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna"), and Dan Emmett ("I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land"), to George M. Cohan and Maude Nugent ("Sweet Rosie O'Grady"), and Gussie Lord Davis ("In the Baggage Coach Ahead"). Readers will recognize songs like "Pop Goes the Weasel," "The Yellow Rose of Texas," "The Fountain in the Park," "After the Ball," "A Bicycle Built for Two," and many others which gain significance by being placed in the larger context of American history.
Eldorado, Or, Adventures in the Path of the Empire
Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Eldorado; Or, Adventure In The Path Of Empire
Author: Bayard TaylorEldorado, Or Adventures in the Path of Empire
Author: Bayard TaylorEldorado, Or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to California, Via Panama, ...
Author: Bayard TaylorCatalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1862
Book Description
Wicked Sacramento
Author: William BurgPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467140597
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In the early 1900s, Sacramento became a battleground in a statewide struggle. On one side were Progressive political reformers and suffragettes. Opposing them were bars, dance halls, brothels and powerful business interests. Caught in the middle was the city's West End, a place where Grant "Skewball" Cross hosted jazz dances that often attracted police attention and Charmion performed her infamous trapeze striptease act before becoming a movie star. It was home to the "Queen of the Sacramento Tenderloin," Cherry de Saint Maurice, who met her untimely end at the peak of her success, and Ancil Hoffman, who ingeniously got around the city's dancing laws by renting riverboats for his soirées. Historian William Burg shares the long-hidden stories of criminals and crusaders from Sacramento's past.