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Author: Bertha Mabel Dunham Publisher: ISBN: 9781849024990 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 206
Book Description
An historically accurate novel about the journey of Mennonites from Pennsylvania to Canada, and their settlement in Kitchener County, Ontario.
Author: Bertha Mabel Dunham Publisher: ISBN: 9781849024990 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 206
Book Description
An historically accurate novel about the journey of Mennonites from Pennsylvania to Canada, and their settlement in Kitchener County, Ontario.
Author: John H. Brubaker Publisher: True Crime ISBN: 9781609490614 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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Chronicles the massacre of the Conestoga tribe in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania by the Paxton Boys in 1763 and the subsequent treatment of the perpetrators and the memory of the crime.
Author: Jack Sheriff Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd ISBN: 0719823854 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 97
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Texas Rangers Jack Carson and Eddie Brand have been hunting outlaw Lope Gamboa for some time without success, but when they ride into Yuma it seems their luck has changed. An assignment of US gold is to be transported along the Oxbow route by Conestoga wagon and the Rangers are convinced that Gamboa will attempt to steal the gold. As all factions close in on the lumbering Conestoga wagon, the trail leads inexorably to a bloody climax in the Gila desert...
Author: David Dary Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 0307429113 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 432
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A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West. Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the whole sweeping story of those who came to explore, to exploit, and, finally, to settle there. Using diaries, journals, company and expedition reports, and newspaper accounts, David Dary takes us inside the experience of the continuing waves of people who traveled the Oregon Trail or took its cutoffs to Utah, Nevada, Montana, Idaho, and California. He introduces us to the fur traders who set up the first “forts” as centers to ply their trade; the missionaries bent on converting the Indians to Christianity; the mountain men and voyageurs who settled down at last in the fertile Willamette Valley; the farmers and their families propelled west by economic bad times in the East; and, of course, the gold-seekers, Pony Express riders, journalists, artists, and entrepreneurs who all added their unique presence to the land they traversed. We meet well-known figures–John Jacob Astor, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, John Frémont, the Donners, and Red Cloud, among others–as well as dozens of little-known men, women, and children who jotted down what they were seeing and feeling in journals, letters, or perhaps even on a rock or a gravestone. Throughout, Dary keeps us informed of developments in the East and their influence on events in the West, among them the building of the transcontinental railroad and the efforts of the far western settlements to become U.S. territories and eventually states. Above all, The Oregon Trail offers a panoramic look at the romance, colorful stories, hardships, and joys of the pioneers who made up this tremendous and historic migration.
Author: W.V. (Ben) Uttley Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press ISBN: 0889200246 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 467
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William V. Uttley's outline of Kitchener's growth from the 1840's into 20th century [is] shot through with a reassuring consistency and integration of purpose .... The complex of life as we still know it--social freedom and social restraint, economy and ecology--has its genesis here in the account compiled by William Uttley. His work comes as close to a personal anecdotal history of the city as we can hope to retrieve, a spotted chronicle of a community that can never exist again, and one in which almost every reader will find a point where past confronts present as nostalgia tugs against progress.
Author: Bertha Mabel Dunham
Author: Bertha Mabel Dunham
Author: John H. Brubaker
Author: Charles Augustus Hanna
Author: B. MABEL. DUNHAM
Author: Rinker Buck
Author: Jack Sheriff
Author: David Dary
Author: Mabel Dunham
Author: W.V. (Ben) Uttley
Author: John Thomson Faris