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Book Grave on the Prairie

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maureen J. Chicoine RSCJ
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2018-07-31
  • ISBN : 1532052227
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Grave on the Prairie written by Maureen J. Chicoine RSCJ and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint Philippine Duchesne and four religious companions of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus came from France to Louisiana in 1818 with the express desire of working among Native Americans to bring them knowledge of the love of Jesus Christ for them. After many years of educating the children of European settlers, Philippine finally realized her dream when she was sent to an encampment of the Potawatomi at Sugar Creek, Kansas. Her time among them was limited to one year; however, her sisters, the Religious of the Sacred Heart, continued to work among the Potawatomi for thirty-eight more years. This book is a carefully researched account of the life and work of these sisters among the Native Americans, the difficulties of adaptation of European women to frontier conditions, and the movement across Kansas with their people as the Potawatomi were pushed westward. Although the life of Saint Philippine has been studied extensively, until Maureen Chicoine undertook the research for this book, no complete account of the mission of the Society of the Sacred Heart to the Potawatomi existed. The book will shed light on a little known apostolic ministry of the Society in America in the nineteenth century.

Book From the Grave  A Roadside Guide to Colorado  39 s Pioneer Cemeteries

Download or read book From the Grave A Roadside Guide to Colorado 39 s Pioneer Cemeteries written by and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Grave on the Prairie

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maureen J. Chicoine
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-07-31
  • ISBN : 9781532052217
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Grave on the Prairie written by Maureen J. Chicoine and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint Philippine Duchesne and four religious companions of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus came from France to Louisiana in 1818 with the express desire of working among Native Americans to bring them knowledge of the love of Jesus Christ for them. After many years of educating the children of European settlers, Philippine finally realized her dream when she was sent to an encampment of the Potawatomi at Sugar Creek, Kansas. Her time among them was limited to one year; however, her sisters, the Religious of the Sacred Heart, continued to work among the Potawatomi for thirty-eight more years. This book is a carefully researched account of the life and work of these sisters among the Native Americans, the difficulties of adaptation of European women to frontier conditions, and the movement across Kansas with their people as the Potawatomi were pushed westward. Although the life of Saint Philippine has been studied extensively, until Maureen Chicoine undertook the research for this book, no complete account of the mission of the Society of the Sacred Heart to the Potawatomi existed. The book will shed light on a little known apostolic ministry of the Society in America in the nineteenth century.

Book Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies

Download or read book Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies written by Natalie Kononenko and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Canada is home to one of the largest Ukrainian diasporas in the world, little is known about the life and culture of Ukrainians living in the country’s rural areas and their impact on Canadian traditions. Drawing on more than ten years of interviews and fieldwork, Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies describes the culture of Ukrainian Canadians living in the prairie provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Despite powerful pressure to assimilate, these Ukrainians have managed both to preserve their sense of themselves as Ukrainian and to develop a culture sensitive to the realities of prairie life, creating their own uniquely Ukrainian Canadian traditions. The Ukrainian church, an iconic though now rapidly disappearing feature of the prairie landscape, takes centre stage as an instrument for the retention of Ukrainian identity and the development of a new culture. Natalie Kononenko explores the cultural elements of Ukrainian Canadian ritual practice, with an emphasis on family traditions surrounding marriage, birth, death, and religious holidays. Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies gives voice to a group of everyday people who are too often overlooked, highlighting their accomplishments and their contributions to Canadian life.

Book Mysterious Chicago

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adam Selzer
  • Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Release : 2016-10-25
  • ISBN : 151071345X
  • Pages : 365 pages

Download or read book Mysterious Chicago written by Adam Selzer and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Chicago historian Adam Selzer, expert on all of the Windy City’s quirks and oddities, comes a compelling heavily researched anthology of the stories behind its most fascinating unsolved mysteries. To create this unique volume, Selzer has collected forty unsolved mysteries from the 1800s to modern day. He has poured through all newspaper, magazine, and book references to them, and consulted expert historians. Topics covered include who really started the great Chicago fire, who was the first “automobile murderer,” and even if there was actually a vampire slaying at Rose Hill cemetery. The result is both a colorful read to get lost in, a window to a world of curiosity and wonder, as well as a volume that separates fact from fiction—true crime from urban legend. Complementing the gripping stories Selzer presents are original images of the crime and its suspects as developed by its original investigators. Readers will marvel at how each character and crime were presented, and happily journey with Selzer as he presents all facts and theories presented at the time of the “crime” and uses modern hindsight to assemble the pieces.

Book Cowboy Songs  and Other Frontier Ballads

Download or read book Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads written by Various and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads" by Various. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book Prairie Kaddish

    Book Details:
  • Author : Isa Milman
  • Publisher : Coteau Books
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781550503883
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Prairie Kaddish written by Isa Milman and published by Coteau Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isa Milman uses historical and personal awakening, and archival sleuthing, to create a "kaddish" - a Jewish prayer of mourning and commemoration - for a prairie community that now exists only through remembrance. Prairie Kaddish begins with the author's serendipitous discovery of the Jewish graveyard at Lipton, Saskatchewan, a community whose existence she'd previously been unaware of. The incident triggers an exploration both archival and personal, for information about these people, and what their lives must have been like, and the resulting work of remembrance, which makes up this book. Kaddish is the Jewish prayer for the dead, recited at the burial, during the seven days of mourning, and every year on the anniversary of the death. Every Jew knows Kaddish, it is the universal prayer. There are no more Jewish colonies, no more Jewish farmers on the prairies. Prairie Kaddish is an elegy for all that no longer exists, except through remembrance.

Book Folk Songs of the South

Download or read book Folk Songs of the South written by John Harrington Cox and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1925 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dallas Fort Worth National Cemetery

Download or read book Dallas Fort Worth National Cemetery written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chasing Me to My Grave

Download or read book Chasing Me to My Grave written by Winfred Rembert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE "A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear." -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative Chasing Me to My Grave presents the late artist Winfred Rembert's breathtaking body of work alongside his story, as told to Tufts Philosopher Erin I. Kelly. Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers, joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager, survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent seven years on chain gangs. There he learned the leather tooling skills that became the bedrock of his autobiographical paintings. Years later, encouraged by his wife, Patsy, Rembert brought his past to vibrant life in scenes of joy and terror, from the promise of southern Black commerce to the brutality of chain gang labor. Vivid, confrontational, revelatory, and complex, Chasing Me to My Grave is a searing memoir in prose and painted leather that celebrates Black life and summons readers to confront painful and urgent realities at the heart of American society. Booklist #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year * African American Literary Book Club (AALBC) #1 Nonfiction Bestseller * Named a Best Book of the Year by: NPR, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, Barnes & Noble, Hudson Booksellers, ARTnews, and more * Amazon Editors' Pick * Carnegie Medal of Excellence Longlist

Book The Literary Digest

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 892 pages

Download or read book The Literary Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Life on the Range

Download or read book My Life on the Range written by John Clay and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Song Companion of a Lone Star Cowboy

Download or read book The Song Companion of a Lone Star Cowboy written by Charles A. Siringo and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gathering Strays

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jim Hoy
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 2023-02-21
  • ISBN : 070063410X
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book Gathering Strays written by Jim Hoy and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated folklorist and author Jim Hoy has spent most of his life living in the heart of the famed Flint Hills of Kansas and documenting and celebrating his fellow Kansans and plains folk. Like rounding up stray cattle in a rolling pasture, Hoy has gathered over a hundred stray stories, tales without a single theme or unified narrative, and corraled them up here for the very first time. Branding these stories in sections like Cattle Towns, Outlaws, and Cowboy Music, Hoy’s vignettes teach, excite, charm, and instill a deep pride in anyone fortunate enough to have lived on the Great Plains. In Gathering Strays, Hoy gives us a collection of stories about Kansas, the Great Plains, and Western life that reflect his life-long love of the land, experience, and history of the region. Hoy introduces us to folks like Elmer McCurdy, a failed train robber whose arsenic-embalmed body went on tour and made money for the undertaker, and Ame Cole, who scolded Russian Grand Duke Alexis on his table manners. Writing as an easygoing storyteller, Hoy covers familiar areas like rodeos and cattle drives, takes us from Dodge City to Beer City and everywhere in between, explains why Kansas has the best state song in the nation, and expands our picture of cowboys with stories of Australian drovers, Black cowboys, and Mexican vaqueros. Throughout, his easy-to-read yet authoritative style describes the people, places, and events that make the region so distinctive and celebrated. Gathering Strays will be hailed by anyone interested in the heroes and villains, towns and ranges, and myths and legends of the West.

Book A Guide to Burlington  Iowa

Download or read book A Guide to Burlington Iowa written by Federal Writers' Project (Iowa) and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In a Narrow Grave  Essays on Texas

Download or read book In a Narrow Grave Essays on Texas written by Larry McMurtry and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark collection, brimming with his signature wit and incomparable sensibility, is Larry McMurtry’s classic tribute to his home and his people. Before embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American literature, spanning decades and indelibly shaping the nation’s perception of the West, Larry McMurtry knew what it meant to come from Texas. Originally published in 1968, In a Narrow Grave is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s homage to the past and present of the Lone Star State, where he grew up a precociously observant hand on his father’s ranch. From literature to rodeos, small-town folk to big city intellectuals, McMurtry explores all the singular elements that define his land and community, revealing the surprising and particular challenges in the “dying . . . rural, pastoral way of life.” “The gold standard for understanding Houston’s brash rootlessness and civic insecurities” (Douglas Brinkley, New York Times Book Review), In a Narrow Grave offers a timeless portrait of the vividly human, complex, full-blooded Texan.

Book Jumbo Easy Guitar Songbook

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hal Leonard Corp.
  • Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
  • Release : 2001-08-01
  • ISBN : 1495034151
  • Pages : 791 pages

Download or read book Jumbo Easy Guitar Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Easy Guitar). Beginners will love this immense collection of more than 240 super songs that they can actually play! Includes easy arrangements in notes and tab for gems in various genres, including: After You've Gone * Amazing Grace * Anchors Aweigh * Auld Lang Syne * Avalon * Baby, Won't You Please Come Home * The Banana Boat Song (Day Oh) * Beale Street Blues * Blue Danube Waltz * Canon in D * Cielito Lindo * Clementine * Cockles and Mussels * Down by the Old Mill Stream * Eine Kleine Nachtmusik * The Entertainer * Give Me That Old Time Religion * Give My Regards to Broadway * The Glow Worm * Greensleeves * Hail to the Chief * Hava Nagila * House of the Rising Sun * I Ain't Got Nobody * Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring * La Golondrina * Little Brown Jug * Loch Lomond * Marine's Hymn * Memories * 'O Sole Mio * Ode to Joy * Paper Doll * Peg O' My Heart * Scarborough Fair * Sidewalks of New York * St. Louis Blues * Swing Low, Sweet Chariot * Toreador Song * Wedding March * and more!