Download or read book New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier written by Virginia E. McCormick and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the founding and development of Worthington, Ohio to show how it reflects New England culture transplanted and reshaped by the Western frontier. It provides a perspective from which historians can better understand the process of westward migration and frontier settlement.
Download or read book American Grit written by Emily Foster and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio. Along the way, Anna sent back home the first of scores of letters she wrote her mother and sisters over the next fifty years as she strove to keep herself and her children in their memories. With Anna's natural talent for storytelling and her unique, female perspective, the letters provide a sustained and vivid account of everyday domestic life on the Ohio frontier. She writes of carving a farm out of the forest, bearing many children, darning and patching the family clothes, standing her ground in religious controversy, nursing wounds and fevers, and burying beloved family and friends. Emily Foster presents these revealing letters of a pioneer woman in a framework of insightful commentary and historical context, with genealogical appendices.
Download or read book Planting the Wilderness written by James Dabney McCabe and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philip Seymour written by James Franklin M'Gaw and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a fictionalized account of life in Richland County, Ohio during the 1800s. It is based on the experiences of the author's family, who were early settlers in the area. Through vivid descriptions and colorful characters, the author paints a picture of what life was like for pioneers on the American frontier. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Border Life written by Elizabeth A. Perkins and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and sensitive ethnography of frontier life, Elizabeth Perkins recovers the rhythms of warfare, subsistence, and cultural encounter that governed existence on the margins of British America. Richly detailed, Border Life captures the intimate perceptive universe of the men and women who colonized Kentucky and southern Ohio during the Revolutionary era. In reconstructing the mental world of border inhabitants, Perkins draws on a pioneering source in oral history. In the 1840s, the Reverend John Dabney Shane conducted hundreds of interviews with surviving western settlers, gathering their recollections on topics ranging from food preparation to encounters with Native Americans. Although Shane's interviews have long been hailed as a rich, if complicated, source for western history, Perkins is the first scholar to consider them critically, as texts for cultural analysis. Border Life also deepens our understanding of how ordinary people struggled to make sense of their own lives within the stream of history. Discovering a significant disjuncture between recorded memory and written history in accounts of the early frontier, Perkins shows how historians and popular authors reshaped the messy complexities of remembered experience into heroic--and radically simplified--conquest narratives.
Download or read book On the Frontier with St Clair written by Charles Seely Wood and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life on the Ohio Frontier written by Mary Lott and published by International Forum. This book was released on 1994 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Phillips Lott (1782-1846) was probably born in Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Francis and Demis Aylesworth Phillips. Mary married Henry Lott (1773-1844) and they settled in Kingston, Delaware County, Ohio.
Download or read book American Grit written by Emily Foster and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio. Along the way, Anna sent back home the first of scores of letters she wrote her mother and sisters over the next fifty years as she strove to keep herself and her children in their memories. With Anna's natural talent for storytelling and her unique, female perspective, the letters provide a sustained and vivid account of everyday domestic life on the Ohio frontier. She writes of carving a farm out of the forest, bearing many children, darning and patching the family clothes, standing her ground in religious controversy, nursing wounds and fevers, and burying beloved family and friends. Emily Foster presents these revealing letters of a pioneer woman in a framework of insightful commentary and historical context, with genealogical appendices.
Download or read book Life On the Ohio Frontier written by Jacqueline Bachar and published by Rowhouse Press. This book was released on 1994-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Once more, I lift my pen to let you know that through the mercy of Him that never sleeps nor slumbers, we are all alive and in common health." --Mary Lott These letters tell the story of Mary Phillips Lott and describe the sadness and tribulations of life on the Ohio frontier. Since Mary Lott's grave is unknown and documentation of her life almost non-existent, the book marks her memory and place in history. Readers will be struck by her courage and inner strength in a time of hardship and adversity, the strong religious faith she expressed, her expressions of family longing, and the ultimate fact of facing her future alone. After Mary's husband died, an inventory of possessions was taken and included, incongruously, one red fan. A memento from a happier time and place perhaps, it evokes a vision of a woman filled with hopes and dreams moving forward into the future. Mary Lott's life should be considered a proud tribute to all the women who went before and came after clutching and cherishing their own red fans. Life On the Ohio Frontier includes illustrations, maps, ancestral charts, and many references to family and friends in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. The book received an Honorable Mention Award in the Anna Ford Family Book Contest (Heart of America Genealogical Society & Library, Kansas City, Missouri). "For the genealogist, Mary's letters show clearly the 'chain' migration of many nineteenth-century pioneer families, portraying the rhythms of frontier life, the vulnerability to the elements, the often unrelenting loneliness, the importance of a helping hand from the community in times of need, and ultimately our ancestors' faith in God to see them through." --Ralph J. Crandall "These letters from Mary Lott of Delaware County, Ohio to her long separated older brother in Pennsylvania tell of daily life on the frontier--the poverty, the hardship, the poor health that prevailed and the longing of Mary to visit her family in Pennsylvania, always prevented by lack of money, suitable traveling companions, and poor transportation. Although some genealogical information and many clues are included this is not intended to be a family history. The letters of Mary Lott will be of interest to students of pioneer Ohio and women's studies." --Ohio Genealogical Society Report Jacqueline Bachar is the editor of Poetry in The Garden, an anthology of California women poets. In 1995, she spoke about her relative Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the United Nations during their 50th anniversary celebration in New York and, in 1998, received the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Appreciation Award from the National Council of Women. At the Woman of Distinction in the Arts Luncheon in 2010, Bachar was awarded a Certificate of Congressional Recognition from the National League of PEN Women, Palm Springs.
Download or read book The Pioneers written by David McCullough and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country. As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler’s son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent pioneer in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as floods, fires, wolves and bears, no roads or bridges, no guarantees of any sort, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough’s subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments. This is a revelatory and quintessentially American story, written with David McCullough’s signature narrative energy.
Download or read book The Ohio Frontier written by R. Douglas Hurt and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-22 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the arrival in Ohio of Iroquois-speaking Indians, the entry of white fur traders and missionaries, the slaughter and expulsion of the Indians, and settlement by New Englanders and others.
Download or read book Philip Seymour written by James Franklin M'Gaw and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover reprint of the original 1858 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: M'Gaw, James Franklin. Philip Seymour: Or, Pioneer Life In Richland County, Ohio; Founded On Facts. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: M'Gaw, James Franklin. Philip Seymour: Or, Pioneer Life In Richland County, Ohio; Founded On Facts, . Mansfield Ohio: R. Brickerhoff, 1858. Subject: Frontier And Pioneer Life
Download or read book The Squirrel Hunters of Ohio written by Nelson Edward Jones and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pioneer Life in the West written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frontier Ohio 1788 1803 written by Randolph Chandler Downes and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pioneer Boys of the Ohio written by St. George Rathborne and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Pioneer Boys of the Ohio' by St. George Rathborne, readers are taken on a thrilling adventure set in the untamed frontier of Ohio. The book follows three brave young boys as they navigate the dangers and challenges of pioneer life, showcasing Rathborne's vivid descriptions and engaging storytelling. Written in a style that captures the essence of the American frontier literature, this book serves as an important contribution to the genre, depicting the spirit of exploration and courage that defined the early settlers of Ohio. The narrative is filled with excitement, suspense, and moments of camaraderie, appealing to readers who enjoy historical fiction with a strong sense of place and time. Rathborne's attention to detail paints a vivid picture of life on the frontier, immersing readers in the struggles and triumphs of the pioneer experience. St. George Rathborne's background as a prolific writer of adventure stories for young readers shines through in 'The Pioneer Boys of the Ohio,' making it a must-read for anyone interested in the American frontier and the spirit of adventure.
Download or read book Pioneer Women of the West written by Elizabeth Fries Ellet and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
