Download or read book The Reluctant pioneer written by Pearl Packard and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reluctant Pioneer written by Janet Lenora Wing and published by Cedar Fort. This book was released on 1999 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reluctant Pioneer written by Pearl McIntyre Packard and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reluctant Pioneer written by Thomas Osborne and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-05-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Osborne delivers a gripping account of 1870s Ontario pioneer life. The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale. For the next five years Thomas endured starvation, falling through the ice and freezing, accidents with axes and boats, and narrow escapes from wolves and bears. Many years later, after returning to the United States, Osborne wrote down all his adventures in a graphic memoir that has become, in the words of author and journalist Roy MacGregor, "an undiscovered Canadian classic." Reluctant Pioneer provides a brooding sense of adventure and un- sentimental realism to deliver a powerful account of pioneer life where tragedies arrive as naturally as rain and where humour resides in irony.
Download or read book The Reluctant Pioneer written by Thomas M. Jacobsen and published by . This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reluctant Pioneer written by Cecile Betts and published by . This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reluctant Pioneer written by Julie McDonald Zander and published by St. Helens Press. This book was released on 2024-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matilda Koontz cherishes her life as a wife and mother on a Missouri farm, but her hardworking husband wants to claim free farmland in the Pacific Northwest. When he suggests selling the farm to trek two thousand miles across the Oregon Trail, she balks. But in the spring of 1847, Matilda and Nicholas Koontz and their sons embark on a grueling journey westward. Fresh graves testify to dangers of disease, accidents, starvation, and a multitude of hazards threatening her family and her beloved's dream. With new struggles at every turn, Matilda wonders how she can protect her sons on such a perilous journey. Will they reach the trail's end? Will the babe growing inside her womb survive? When tragedy strikes, the question changes: How can she possibly continue? This pioneer woman's journey is inspired by a true story. Praise for The Reluctant Pioneer: "The Reluctant Pioneer by Julie McDonald Zander is a gripping debut novel about the westward journey of historical figure Matilda Koontz and her family. Julie's meticulous research recreates the harrowing and heart-stopping trip. She transported me back to 1847 and put me on the trail with Matilda as she overcame heartbreaking trials to reach Oregon City. Julie is an incredible storyteller! I couldn't put The Reluctant Pioneer down until the very last word." Leslie Gould, #1 bestselling and award-winning author of A Brighter Dawn and more than three dozen other novels "I've been fascinated by the Oregon Trail pioneers since I was a girl, and their courage continues to intrigue and inspire me. Julie McDonald Zander's debut novel captures the tumultuous journey of these pioneers through the heartbreaking trials and unwavering hope of one woman who began the walk to Oregon Territory in 1847 with her husband and four boys. The Reluctant Pioneer invites readers to join Matilda Koontz on the trail and experience her joy and sorrow as she perseveres in her husband's search for a new home. If you enjoy reading Jane Kirkpatrick's fiction or other historical novels about women who overcome tremendous hardship for the sake of their family, you'll love The Reluctant Pioneer! Melanie Dobson, award-winning author of Where the Trail Ends, Catching the Wind, and more than two dozen other novels "The Reluctant Pioneer is a heart-grabbing read about a courageous woman with incredible faith and fortitude. Based on a true story, walking alongside this woman on her journey from Missouri to the Oregon Territory grips your emotions. You find yourself cheering for her and grieving with her. I couldn't put it down. It encouraged me to keep trusting in our powerful God. He alone brings us through our trials." Marilyn Rhoads, Oregon Christian Writers past-president "Julie Zander is a lover of history, and it shows in this intriguing book. This fictionalized version of the true story of Oregon Trail pioneer Matilda Glover Koontz is replete with authentic detail and historical accuracy and draws a vivid picture of the difficulties those early travelers experienced on the trail to a new life. A must-read for fans of historical fiction and of strong women who will go to the ends of the earth for their families." Dawn Shipman, award-winning author of the Lost Stones of Argonia series
Download or read book Reluctant Pioneer written by Thomas Osborne and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1870s in Ontario's Muskoka, teenager Thomas Osborne endured starvation, freezing, accidents with axes and boats, and narrow escapes from wolves and bears. Decades later, after moving to the United States, Osborne wrote down all his adventures in a graphic memoir four years before his death in 1938.
Download or read book Reluctant Pioneer written by Muriel Kooi and published by . This book was released on 2000* with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reluctant Pioneers written by James Reardon-Anderson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reluctant Pioneers describes the migration of Chinese to Manchuria, their settlement there, and the incorporation of Manchuria into an expanding China, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. The expansion of Chinese state and society from the agrarian and urban core of China proper to the territories north and west of the Great Wall doubled the size of the empire, forming the "China" now so prominent on the map of Asia. The movement and settlement of people, clearing and cultivation of land, invasions of soldiers, circulation of merchants, and establishment of government offices extended the boundaries of China at the same time that the American expansion westward and the Russian expansion eastward created the other great landed empires that dominated the twentieth century and persist today. The chief purpose of this book is to describe the Chinese experience and what it tells us about the expansion of states and societies, drawing comparisons with Russia and America, and reflecting on the nature of what scholars since Frederick Jackson Turner have called "frontiers" and what Turner's critics now call "borderlands" or "middle ground." In addition, the book touches on several other issues central to our understanding of modern China, such as the development of the Chinese economy and the nature of Chinese migration.
Download or read book Reluctant Pioneer written by Beatrice L. Bliss and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Relunctant i e Reluctant Pioneer written by Christine Aitken Henesy and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Will Go No Farther written by Ann Spotswood Jagoe and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book You Wouldn t Want to be an American Pioneer written by Jacqueline Morley and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humorous look at American pioneers, and their nineteenth century journey across the western United States
Download or read book A Reluctant Pioneer written by Joellen Collins and published by Citiofbooks, Incorporated. This book was released on 2023-06-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leah Brown, a wife and mother from San Francisco, decides to spend time at a small cabin built in Idaho territory in the late 1860's by her great, great grandparents, Linnea and Thaddeus Milton. She debates further debilitating treatments for her illness, something that has precluded her being able to spend time with her husband Ned and two sons, away in summer camp. Her memories of childhood and the tragic loss of her father stir her mind, especially when she discovers Linnea's long-hidden diary. As she reads and rereads it and begins to explore the world around her, she gains perspective on the challenges women have always faced. She honors the pioneer's words and imagines Linnea's unwritten thoughts. Leah experiences a surprisingly different time in the old cabin than she expected.
Download or read book Sky Pioneer written by Corinne Szabo and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At an early age, Amelia Earhart showed herself to be adventurous and daring, but her interest in flying did not develop until she worked as a nurse in Toronto. She had a number of firsts, including being the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Download or read book Pioneer Muskoka written by Ray Love and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Ontario's premier cottage destination, Muskoka, was not commonplace or uneventful. Beginning in the 1860's, emigrants from the British Isles and Europe were lured to this desolate region with the promise of free land grants for farming. What they found were mature forests, swamp, and never ending rock. Their heroic attempts to make a living farming on the Precambrian Shield did not come without considerable discomfort. Pioneer Muskoka documents the struggles faced by these early homesteaders and their response to hardship, isolation, disease and poverty. This is the tale of a community banding together to overcome fear with courage and determination. Readers will be astounded by the lengths these settlers went in their quest to make a home for themselves and future generations in Muskoka. The eventual shift from farming to more profitable industries such as lumber and tourism brought a shift in attitude towards this now highly sought after locale. The first families, through their enormous efforts, were able to create this positive and enduring change.
