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Book A Pennsylvania Mennonite and the California Gold Rush

Download or read book A Pennsylvania Mennonite and the California Gold Rush written by Lawrence Knorr and published by Sunbury Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-08-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Baer Hackman (1827-1896) a Mennonite from Millport, Lancaster County, PA, traveled west to California in 1850, seeking his fortune during the great Gold Rush. David wrote many letters home concerning his crossing of the plains by wagon and his many detailed experiences in and around the gold fields of California. A vivid writer for such a young man, David captures images of the mining communities, the boom towns of Sacramento, Hangtown, Mokelumne Hill, Columbia and Sonora and the lawlessness found there. He writes of early San Francisco, the local Indians, trouble with bears, and the great trees of Calaveras County. His journal then captures his return trip in 1854 by steam ship to Panama, across the Isthmus and then to New York City. Lawrence Knorr presents the journal and letters in sequence along with their historical context, providing corroborating accounts where available. In all, an excellent primary source and piece of social history from one of the most exciting times in American history.

Book History of California

Download or read book History of California written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book MFH Back Issue Index

Download or read book MFH Back Issue Index written by Lemar and Lois Ann Mast and published by Masthof Press & Bookstore. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Index to the articles published by Mennonite Family History

Book Mennonite Family History Index 2010

Download or read book Mennonite Family History Index 2010 written by Lois Ann Mast and published by Masthof Press & Bookstore. This book was released on with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This index to the 2010 Mennonite Family History lists authors of articles, subjects with such prominence that they merit entry in the index, and every name mentioned in the articles. The numerals refer to page numbers in the MFH issues as follows: January 2010, pp. 1-44 April 2010, pp. 45-100 July 2010, pp. 101-148 October 2010, pp. 149-204 You can subscribe or purchase copies online at www.masthof.com

Book The Pennsylvania Relations of Dwight D  Eisenhower

Download or read book The Pennsylvania Relations of Dwight D Eisenhower written by Lawrence Knorr and published by Sunbury Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dwight David Eisenhower was born in 1890 in Denison, Texas. His parents were David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, Kansas and Colorado.

Book The Relations of Milton Snavely Hershey

Download or read book The Relations of Milton Snavely Hershey written by Lawrence Knorr and published by Sunbury Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2003 marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of Hershey, PA. This book details over five thousand relations of Milton Hershey - most of them from the Central Pennsylvania region. This volume is 563 pages - INDEXED. Add $4.50 for S & H via media mail. Title: The Relations of Milton Snavely Hershey. Format - softcover - perfect binding with black and white photos. 8 1/2 by 11 Author: Lawrence Berger-Knorr, MBA, CCP Publisher: Sunbury Press Contents: Ancestry of Milton Hershey - (1857 - 1945) including numerous Swiss ancestors from the 1500''s and 1600''s. Photos of Milton Hershey and relations. The Strange Death of David Ober in the B & O Train Wreck at Republic, Ohio, Jan. 4 1887. Photos of Hackman family members, including Andrew Baer Hackman. Descendents of Hans Stouffer (circa 1500) which includes family pages of the Stauffer, Hershey, Ober, Shank, Hackman, Hostetter & allied families. (1734 listings) Descendents of Georg Weber (circa 1578) which includes family pages of the Weber, Herr, Baumann, Kendig, Barr, Meyer, Mumma, Brubaker, Snavely & allied families. (577 listings) Kinship Report of Milton Hershey, including over 5000 relations. Family Names mentioned at least 5 times: Adams, Agnew, Aguirre, Allen, Alter, Amidon, Annett, Arnold, Arthur, Augsburger, Baer, Baker, Ball, Balsbaugh, Bar, Barkey, Barner, Barnett, Barr, Barth, Bassler, Bateman, Bauman, Baumgartner, Beachy, Bear, Begg, Bender, Betzner, Bitner, Bolender, Bollinger, Bomberger, Borton, Bowers, Bowman, Brackbill, Brechbill, Breneman, Brenneman, Briggs, Bright, Brooks, Brown, Brubacher, Brubaker, Brunk, Bucher, Buckwalter, Burkholder, Burns, Byers, Campbell, Cartier, Choflet, Collard, Collingsworth, Cook, Cooley, Cooper, Coughen, Crouthamel, Cruce, Dafoe, Daman, Damiant, Davis, Deihl, Delgado, Denlinger, DePalmo. Devlin, Diehl, Duncan, Dunham, Dupuy, Eberly, Ebersole, Eby, Eicher, Eagle, Erb, Erisman, Ernst, Eshelman, Evans, Everett, Eyer, Farner, Fink, Forsythe, Fox, Frantz, Freshley, Frost, Gardner, Gates, Gearhart, Gehman, George, Gingrich, Glancey, Glick, Good, Goodhart, Gordley, Goring, Grace, Graeff, Groff, Grove, Gruen, Guthrie, Hackman, Hahn, Hall, Hamilton, Hardgrove, Hardy, Harmon, Harnish, Harrington, Harter, Hartigan, Hawk, Haynes, Heestand, Heimbach, Hendrix, Herr, Hershey, Hertzler, Hess, Hewes, High, Higley, Hinton, Hippensteel, Hofer, Hoffman, Hoffstetter, Hollinger, Hoover, Horning, Horst, Hostetter, Huber, Hubert, Hursh, Hurst, Imler, Isaacs, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Kauffman, Kendig, Kettering, Kibler, Kilmer, Kinzer, Kitchen, Knupp, Krause, Kreider, Kundig, Kurtz, Landis, Lane, Langsdale, Lapp, Lefever, LeFevre, LeGron, Lehman, Lesher, Level, Lichty, Light, Line, Livengod, Long, Longenecker, Loose, Martig, Martin, Mayer, McCarrin, McDowell, McLeod, Mercer, Metzler, Meyer, Miller, Mitten, Mohler, Mohr, Moore, Mornhengwieg, Morris, Mosemann, Mountz, Moyer, Mumma, Mummah, Murison, Murphy, Murray, Musser, Myers, Neff, Newcomer, Newswanger, Mickey, Nigh, Nissley, Nolt, Ober, Oberholtzer, Oliver, Orsbirn, Osborn, Pancake, Patterson, Peachey, Pearsol, Penner, Pennock, Peters, Pfaltzgraff, Pifer, Pike, Planchock, Porter, Powell, Ranck, Randall, Ray, Raymer, Reese, Reiff, Reist, Reiter, Rhoads, Richardson, Risser, Ritter, Robertson, Rockwell, Rodgers, Rohrer, Royer, Rudy, Schell, Schenk, Schnebele, Schuyler, Scott, Seibert, Sensenig, Sharick, Sharpe, Sheaffer, Shelly, Shenk, Sherk, Shirk, Shore, Shultz, Skiles, Smith, Snavely, Sneltzer, Snyder, Stambaugh, Stauffer, Stevens, Stoffer, Stouffer, Strickler, Stroup, Stuart, Stutt, Summers, Summy, Swartzendruber, Sweigart, Thomas, Tritt, Trump, Tyner, Wall, Walsh, Wanner, Ward, Weaver, Webb, Weber, Wenger, Westover, White, Wiancko, Wideman, Williams, Wissler, Witmer, Witwer, Wolf, Woods, Wyss, Yoder, Zeiset & Zimmerman. All told - over 5,000 relations are mentioned - including a substantial Kinship Report and complete Index. Many of the prominent Mennonite families of Lancaster, Lebanon & Dauphin Counties are represented. This is a wonderful Pennsylvania Dutch genealogy.

Book Mennonite Family History July 2018 Back Issues

Download or read book Mennonite Family History July 2018 Back Issues written by Lemar and Lois Ann Mast and published by Masthof Press & Bookstore. This book was released on with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California Mennonites

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Froese
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2015-02-19
  • ISBN : 1421415135
  • Pages : 365 pages

Download or read book California Mennonites written by Brian Froese and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did California Mennonites confront the challenges and promises of modernity? Books about Mennonites have centered primarily on the East Coast and the Midwest, where the majority of Mennonite communities in the United States are located. But these narratives neglect the unique history of the multitude of Mennonites living on the West Coast. In California Mennonites, Brian Froese relies on archival church records to examine the Mennonite experience in the Golden State, from the nineteenth-century migrants who came in search of sunshine and fertile soil to the traditionally agrarian community that struggled with issues of urbanization, race, gender, education, and labor in the twentieth century to the evangelically oriented, partially assimilated Mennonites of today. Froese places Mennonite experiences against a backdrop of major historical events, including World War II and Vietnam, and social issues, from labor disputes to the evolution of mental health care. California Mennonites include people who embrace a range of ideologies: many are historically rooted in the sixteenth-century Reformation ideals of the early Anabaptists (pacifism, congregationalism, discipleship); some embrace twentieth-century American evangelicalism (missions, Billy Graham); and others are committed to a type of social justice that involves forging practical ties to secular government programs while maintaining a quiet connection to religion. Through their experiences of religious diversity, changing demographics, and war, California Mennonites have wrestled with complicated questions of what it means to be American, Mennonite, and modern. This book—the first of its kind—will appeal to historians and religious studies scholars alike.

Book The California Gold Rush

Download or read book The California Gold Rush written by Judy Monroe and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the development of the gold rush in California starting in the 1840's. Examines its effects on the economic, social, and political development of the area from early times through statehood and into the modern day.

Book Gold Rush Saints

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenneth N. Owens
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780806136813
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Gold Rush Saints written by Kenneth N. Owens and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines narrative history and firsthand Mormon accounts that cast light on the presence of Latter-day Saints in California during the Gold Rush in the middle 1840s. Reprint.

Book The Native South

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  • Author : Tim Alan Garrison
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2017-07
  • ISBN : 1496201426
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book The Native South written by Tim Alan Garrison and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Native South, Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O'Brien assemble contributions from leading ethnohistorians of the American South in a state-of-the-field volume of Native American history from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Spanning such subjects as Seminole-African American kinship systems, Cherokee notions of guilt and innocence in evolving tribal jurisprudence, Indian captives and American empire, and second-wave feminist activism among Cherokee women in the 1970s, The Native South offers a dynamic examination of ethnohistorical methodology and evolving research subjects in southern Native American history. Theda Perdue and Michael Green, pioneers in the modern historiography of the Native South who developed it into a major field of scholarly inquiry today, speak in interviews with the editors about how that field evolved in the late twentieth century after the foundational work of James Mooney, John Swanton, Angie Debo, and Charles Hudson. For scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates in this field of American history, this collection offers original essays by Mika�la Adams, James Taylor Carson, Tim Alan Garrison, Izumi Ishii, Malinda Maynor Lowery, Rowena McClinton, David A. Nichols, Greg O'Brien, Meg Devlin O'Sullivan, Julie L. Reed, Christina Snyder, and Rose Stremlau.

Book Exterminate Them

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clifford E. Trafzer
  • Publisher : MSU Press
  • Release : 1999-01-31
  • ISBN : 0870139614
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Exterminate Them written by Clifford E. Trafzer and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 1999-01-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular media depict miners as a rough-and-tumble lot who diligently worked the placers along scenic rushing rivers while living in roaring mining camps in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Trafzer and Hyer destroy this mythic image by offering a collection of original newspaper articles that describe in detail the murder, rape, and enslavement perpetrated by those who participated in the infamous gold rush. "It is a mercy to the Red Devils," wrote an editor of the Chico Courier, "to exterminate them." Newspaper accounts of the era depict both the barbarity and the nobility in human nature, but while some protested the inhumane treatment of Native Americans, they were not able to end the violence. Native Americans fought back, resisting the invasion, but they could not stop the tide of white miners and settlers. They became "strangers in a stolen land."

Book The California Gold Rush in American History

Download or read book The California Gold Rush in American History written by Linda Jacobs Altman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the adventures and disasters in the lives of the people who dropped everything to seek their fortunes when pioneers discovered gold in 1848. It explains how, despite the attitudes of greed and revenge in the mining towns, the gold rush helped spark the development of the state of California.

Book Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Download or read book Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Dutch Country written by Richard Varr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Travel's full-color guidebooks to hundreds of destinations around the world truly show you what others only tell you. They have become renowned for their visual excellence, which includes unparalleled photography, 3-D mapping, and specially commissioned cutaway illustrations. DK Eyewitness Travel Guides are the only guides that work equally well for inspiration, as a planning tool, a practical resource while traveling, and a keepsake following any trip. Each guide is packed with the up-to-date, reliable destination information every traveler needs, including extensive hotel and restaurant listings, themed itineraries, lush photography, and numerous maps.

Book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide  Philadelphia   The Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Philadelphia The Pennsylvania Dutch Country written by Richard Varr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Travel: Philadelphia & The Pennsylvania Dutch Country will lead you straight to the best attractions this region has to offer. Packed with detailed maps this guide explores every facet of this historic area. Also included are beautiful cutaways and floor plans of all the major sites and suggestions for the best places to visit, from the Old City known as "America's most historic square mile," encompassing Independence Hall and the iconic Liberty Bell, to the outstanding museums, including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. This DK Eyewitness Travel Guide provides all the insider tips every visitor to needs, with dozens of reviews of hotels, recommendations for restaurants, tips for shopping and all the best places for entertainment in Philadelphia & the Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Don't miss a thing on your vacation with the DK Eyewitness Guide to Philadelphia & the Pennsylvania Dutch Country.

Book Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas

Download or read book Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas written by Pamela Walker and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As more and more people seek locally grown food, independent, family owned and operated agriculture has expanded, creating local networks for selling and buying produce, meat, and dairy products and reviving local agricultural economies throughout the United States. In Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas, author Pamela Walker and photographer Linda Walsh portray eleven farming and ranching families who are part of this food revival in Texas. With biographical essays and photographs, Walker and Walsh illuminate the work these food producers do, why they do it, and the difference it makes in their lives and in their communities.