Download or read book Across America on an Emigrant Train written by Jim Murphy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1993 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Robert Louis Stevenson's twelve day journey from New York to California in 1879, interwoven with a history of the building of the transcontinental railroad and the settling of the West.
Download or read book Across America on an Emigrant Train written by J. Murphy and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. An illustrated history of the building of the transcontinental railroad, including Robert Louis Stevenson's account of his 12-day journey to California on six trains in 1879.
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Download or read book The Amateur Emigrant with Some First Impressions of America written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Emigrant Train written by Hai McCammon and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join us to discover the journey of young European men and those who came to the promised land-America. On the emigrant train from new york to San Francisco. This book is the middle section of the author's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters.
Download or read book Nothing Like It In the World written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Download or read book Migration Journey written by Edgardo Konowal and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join us to discover the journey of young European men and those who came to the promised land-America. On the emigrant train from new york to San Francisco. This book is the middle section of the author's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters.
Download or read book The Amateur Emigrant written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 1895 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For in emigration the young men enter direct by the shipload on their heritage of work; empty continents swarm, as at the bosun's whistle, with industrious hands, and whole hew empires are domesticated to the service of man." -Robert Louis Stevenson, The Amateur Emigrant The Amateur Emigrant from the Clyde to Sandy Hook (1895), by Robert Louis Stevenson is the first book (followed by Across the Plains and the Silverado Squatters) in a trilogy the author wrote about his journey from Scotland to California in 1879-1880. In this volume, he describes the first leg of his trip, made by ship from Europe to New York City. Stevenson depicts the crowded conditions he experienced in steerage with others who, like him, were poor and sick. At the conclusion, the author also offers his usual sharp-eyed observations, which, in this case are of New York and New Yorkers.
Download or read book The Emigrant s Guide to Oregon and California written by Lansford Warren Hastings and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1845, this guidebook for pioneers is a reproduction of one of the most collectible books about California and the Western movement. It was the guidebook used by the Donner Party on their fateful journey. In addition, because Hastings' shortcut route through the Rockies produced such tragedy, the War Department commissioned The Prairie Traveler.
Download or read book An Emigrant s Five Years in the Free States of America written by William Hancock (emigrant.) and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Diverging Tracks written by Trevor K. Snowdon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of mass railroad travel in the 1800s saw the extension of a system of global transport that developed various national styles of construction, operation, administration, and passenger experiences. Drawing on travel narratives and a broad range of other contemporary sources, this history contrasts the railroad cultures of 19th century England and America, with a focus on the differing social structures and value systems of each nation, and how the railroad fit into the wider industrial landscape.
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