Download or read book To Red River and Beyond Classic Reprint written by Manton Marble and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from To Red River and Beyond Our first day's journey was a very short one. Horses and mules had to be weaned from the quotidian oats of civilization, and taught to rec oncile themselves to grass and water. The fa, tigues of the journey had to be begun ndaga'a, and then crescendo. A s/brzando movement at the start would have knocked them up in a week. We, too, had to be weaned. We found this out at the first camping-ground. Instead of ringing for coals and ordering a chop, we had to chop our wood and build our fires and fry our own pork. The streams, which are the Crotons and Cochituates of the prairies, had to make con nection with our temporary houses by wooden pails instead of iron pipes, and we to learn how much easier it is to reach a bell-rope and turn a faucet than to be hewers of wood and drawers of water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Rebellion written by Frederick Douglas Reville and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Rebellion: A Story of the Red River Uprising At the period of the Red River Rebellion there was not a line of railway beyond Thunder Bay, near which the two thriving cities of Fort William and Port Arthur now stand. Beyond that it was a case of boat and portage in summer, and dog trains and snowshoes in winter. For instance, it took Wolseley's troops, with their heavy equipment, a number of weeks to traverse from Thunder Bay to Fort Garry, a distance now accomplished in a little over twelve hours by rail. And of Winnipeg itself what shall be said? The little Selkirk settlement has become a great and an abounding city, with all the airs of a metropolis, and an illimitable future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Red Man s Revenge written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of the Red River Flood All the details, as well as the leading incidents of the flood, are, I believe, in strict accordance with fact. The tale itself is fiction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End written by Gary D. Joiner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking its title from General William Tecumseh Sherman's blunt description, this book is a fresh inspection of what was the Civil War's largest operation between the Union Army and Navy west of the Mississippi River. Maps & photos.
Download or read book Red River written by Borden Chase and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
Download or read book To Red River and Beyond written by Manton] [Marble and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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 The Red River Colony Classic Reprint written by Augustus L. Chetlain and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Red River Colony The exhaustion of material forces by the Napoleonic wars, which at their close at Water loo had enfeebled almost to the last gasp all the powers that had been engaged in them, had effects equally powerful upon the social conditions of Europe. In this last phase, indeed, the most deplorable results are seen. The populations which had been reduced by losses in battle and by disease were disheart ened disorganized, impoverished. Successful business enterprises, public and private, which alone can restore confidence and happiness in such a conjuncture, were impossible and unat tempted. Manufacturing industries at first lan guished, then ceased to exist. To crown all these miseries, the untimely and excessive rains in the summer of 1816 had so damaged the crops that a general famine was apprehended. The expense and difficulty of transportationenhanced the cost of all necessaries of life. The price of grain rose to an unprecedented height. And the poorer classes suffered for the want of bread. Ln Switzerland the distress was greater than in any other part of Central Europe, and the people, wearied of struggles which resulted in their own impoverishment, listened eagerly to the story of a peaceful and more prosperous country beyond the sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Beyond Red River written by Terrence Kardong and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the River written by Ann Hagedorn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-02-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the story of John Rankin and the heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad, identifying the pre-Civil War conflicts between abolitionists and slave chasers along the Ohio River banks.
Download or read book All Along the River written by M. E. BRADDON and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from All Along the River: A Novel IT had been raining all the morning, and it was raining still, in that feeble and desultory manner which presages a change of some kind, when the postman came with the long expected Indian letter. He was later than usual. It was nearly two o'clock, and Isola had been watching for him since one. She had been sitting by the open window, with an unread book in her lap, looking out at the wet landscape, the glistening hedgerow and dull gray river, with the great green hill beyond, a. Steep slope Of meadow land, dotted with red cattle, and so divided by hedgerows as to look like a Titanic chessboard. At last she heard the familiar tread of the postman's heavy boots, and saw his shining Oilskin hat moving above the edge of the hollies, and heard the click Of the iron latch as he came into the little garden. She called to him from the window, and he came tramp ing across the sodden grass and put her letters into her outstretched hand. One from her married sister in Hans Place. That would keep. One from an old schoolfellow. That would keep. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Civil War in Books written by David J. Eicher and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the assistance of several scholars, including James M. McPherson and Gary Gallagher, and a long-time specialist in Civil War books, Ralph Newman, David Eicher has selected for inclusion in The Civil War in Books the 1,100 most important books on the war. These are organized into categories as wide-ranging as "Battles and Campaigns," "Biographies, Memoirs, and Letters," "Unit Histories," and "General Works." The last of these includes volumes on black Americans and the war, battlefields, fiction, pictorial works, politics, prisons, railroads, and a host of other topics. Annotations are included for all entries in the work, which is presented in an oversized 8 1/2 x 11 inch volume in two-column format. Appendixes list "prolific" Civil War publishers and other Civil War bibliographies, and the works included in Eicher's mammoth undertaking are indexed by author or editor and by title. Gary Gallagher's foreword traces the development of Civil War bibliographies and declares that Eicher's annotation exceeds that of any previous comprehensive volume. The Civil War in Books, Gallagher believes, is "precisely the type of guide" that has been needed. The first full-scale, fully-annotated bibliography on the Civil War to appear in more than thirty years, Eicher's The Civil War in Books is a remarkable compendium of the best reading available about the worst conflict ever to strike the United States. The bibliography, the most valuable reference book on the subject since The Civil War Day by Day, will be essential for college and university libraries, dealers in rare and secondhand books, and Civil War buffs.
Download or read book Beyond the Mountain Classic Reprint written by Sarah Stokes Halkett and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Beyond the Mountain Of the verses in this volume the following have been set to music by Charles Harvey, and are published as songs for children by Carl Fischer, 48 Cooper Square, New York: Wake-robin, The Junco and the Hawkweed, Bunchberries, Blue-bells, The Elf King's Honeysuckle, The Thimble-weed, Ragged Robin the Cuckoo Flower, The Fairies' Butter-and-eggs, Five Other Names for Clematis, The Stupid Old Bachelor, The Seaweed Fairy, Storm-man's Toy, The Seafoam Sprite and the Jellyfish Flowers, The Shad-plum Tree, The Sunbeam, The Snowdrops, When the Man in the Moon Took a Holiday, Jack-in-the-pulpit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Red River Valley written by Patrick G. Williams and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Lyndon Johnson developed a reputation as a rough-hewn, arm-twisting deal-maker with a drawl, at a crucial moment in history he delivered an address to Congress that moved Martin Luther King Jr. to tears and earned praise from the media as the best presidential speech in American history. Even today, his voting rights address of 1965 ranks high not only in political significance, but also as an example of leadership through oratory.
Download or read book Print the Legend written by Scott Eyman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." This line comes from director John Ford's film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, but it also serves as an epigram for the life of the legendary filmmaker. Through a career that spanned decades and included work on dozens of films -- among them such American masterpieces as The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man, Stagecoach, and How Green Was My Valley -- John Ford managed to leave as his legacy a body of work that few filmmakers will ever equal. Yet as bold as the stamp of his personality was on each film, there was at the same time a marked reticence when it came to revealing anything personal. Basically shy, and intensely private, he was known to enjoy making up stories about himself, some of them based loosely on fact but many of them pure fabrications. Ford preferred instead to let his films speak for him, and the message was always masculine, determined, romantic, yes, but never soft -- and always, always totally "American." If there were other aspects to his personality, moods and subtleties that weren't reflected on the screen, then no one really needed to know. Indeed, what mattered to Ford was always what was up there on the screen. And if it varied from reality, what did it matter? When you are creating legend, fact becomes a secondary matter. Now, in this definitive look at the life and career of one of America's true cinematic giants, noted biographer and critic Scott Eyman, working with the full participation of the Ford estate, has managed to document and delineate both aspects of John Ford's life -- the human being and the legend. Going well beyond the legend, Eyman has explored the many influences that were brought to play on this remarkable and complex man, and the result is a rich and involving story of a great film director and of the world in which he lived, as well as the world of Hollywood legend that he helped to shape. Drawing on more than a hundred interviews and research on three continents, Scott Eyman explains how a saloon-keeper's son from Maine helped to shape America's vision of itself, and how a man with only a high school education came to create a monumental body of work, including films that earned him six Academy Awards -- more than any filmmaker before or since. He also reveals the truth of Ford's turbulent relationship with actress Katharine Hepburn, recounts his stand for freedom of speech during the McCarthy witch-hunt -- including a confrontation with archconservative Cecil B. DeMille -- and discusses his disfiguring alcoholism as well as the heroism he displayed during World War II. Brilliant, stubborn, witty, rebellious, irascible, and contradictory, John Ford remains one of the enduring giants in what is arguably America's greatest contribution to art -- the Hollywood movie. In Print the Legend, Scott Eyman has managed at last to separate fact from legend in writing about this remarkable man, producing what will remain the definitive biography of this film giant.
Download or read book The Country Beyond written by James Oliver Curwood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Country Beyond: A Romance of the Wilderness That was what the girl had called it once upon a time, when sobbing out the shame and the agony Of it to herself. That was before Peter had come to leaven the drab Of her life. But the hell was still there. One would not have guessed its existence, standing at the bald top Of Cragg's Ridge this wonderful thirtieth day Of May. In the whiteness Of winter one could look Off over a hundred square miles Of freezing forest and swamp and river country, with the gleam Of ice-covered lakes here and there, fringed by their black spruce and cedar and balsam - a country Of storm, Of deep snows, Of men and women whose blood ran red with the thrill and the hardship and the never-ending adventure Of the wild. But this was spring. And such a spring as had not come to the Canadian north country in many years. Until three days ago there had been a deluge Of warm rains, and since then the sun had inundated the land with the golden warmth Of summer. The last chill was gone from the air, and the last bit Of frozen earth and muck from the deepest and blackest swamps. North, South, east and west the wilderness world was a glory Of bursting life, of springtime mellowing into summer. Ridge upon ridge Of yellows and greens and blacks swept away into the unknown distances like the billows Of a vast sea; and between them lay the valleys and swamps, the lakes and waterways, glad with the rippling song of running waters, the sweet scents Of early flowering time, and the joyous voice of all mating creatures. Just under Cragg's Ridge lay the paradise, a meadow-like sweep Of plain that reached down to the edge Of Clearwater Lake, with clumps Of poplars and white birch and darker tapestries Of spruce and ba1 sams dotting it like islets in a sea Of verdant green. The flowers were two weeks ahead of their time and the sweet perfumes Of late June, instead of May, rose up out Of the plain, and already there was nesting in the velvety splashes of timber. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Laura Ingersoll Secord Monument at Lundy s Lane Queenston in Early Years Diary of a Prisoner in Red River Rebellion Classic Reprint written by Niagara Historical Society and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Laura Ingersoll Secord; Monument at Lundy's Lane; Queenston in Early Years; Diary of a Prisoner in Red River Rebellion As very little is known of Laura Secord beyond her walk to warn Lieut Fitzgibbon, I have tried to gather the various stories told of her at different times. She was born at Great Barrington, Mass, on Sept. -13, 1775, the daughter of Col. Thomas Ingersoll and Elizabeth Dewey. There is no written record of her birth at the town of Great Barrington. Col. Ingersoll had four sons; and seven daughters. His first wife was Elizabeth Dewey, his last wife Sarah Whitney. Laura was the eldest of the family. Col. Ingersoll was not a United Empire Loyalist, as he served with the American forces during the Revolutionary War and after peace had been declared came to Canada at the invitation of Governor Simcoe (who had known him during his former residence in Amer ica). After remaining at Niagara for a short time he bought' land in 'what is now Oxford county, and the town of Ingersoll is named from him. So far I have not found the record of Laura Ingersoll's marriage to James Secord but in an address before the Pioneer and Historical Association of Ontario (page 17, annual report P.& h.a., 1895) in June, 1895, Mrs. S. A. Curzon says I can not close without quoting from a 'directory for the County of Peel, ' which I found in our (toronto) Public Library - I found among numerous items of settlement, County Court records and other matters, what I have long been looking for, how the heroic Laura Secord became acquainted, or rather, as I ought to put it, had the Opportunity of becoming acquainted with her husband. She was an Ingersoll, a daughter of Mr Thomas Ingersoll, who came thither from Massachusetts at the request of Gov. Simcoe. In the records of the Sessions commencing 14th July, 1812, is to be found the following. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Beyond the Black River written by Robert E. Howard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-29 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Black River: Large Print By Robert Ervin Howard Howard's most famous character, Conan the Cimmerian, was a barbarian-turned-King during the Hyborian Age, a mythical period of some 12,000 years ago. Conan featured in seventeen Weird Tales stories between 1933 and 1936 which is why Howard is now regarded as having spawned the 'sword and sorcery' genre. The Conan stories have since been adapted many times, most famously in the series of films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. 'Beyond the Black River' is a story in the Conan series in which he battles the Hyborian Picts in the unsettled lands beyond the Black River. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
