Download or read book Up Came a Squatter written by Maggie Black and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niel Black, a Scot from Argyllshire, arrived in Melbourne in September intending to make his fortune. Ambitious and determined, Black became one of the most successful and energetic squatters in the Western District of Victoria – a livestock breeder and a Member of the Legislative Council. He was also a correspondent extraordinaire, and his letters to family, fellow pastoralists, colonial officials, and his chief UK business partner, Thomas Steuart Gladstone (and first cousin of the British prime minister), offer a unique insight into the time. Black’s letters and journals, now held at the State Library Victoria, are the inspiration for this revelatory book written by his great-granddaughter. Battles with local Aboriginal people, other settlers, Commissioners of Crown Lands and bush-fires, along with droughts, family feuds, multiple trips back to Scotland to find a wife and Black’s rise to gentrified excess are all vividly brought to life. ‘In this vivid, fast-moving book Niel Black comes to life’ – Geoffrey Blainey
Download or read book Tom Hurstbourne Or a Squatter s Life written by John Clavering Wood and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-lost manuscript becomes a Queensland First after 145 years. Faced with losing his centuries old family estate to debt, Tom Hurstbourne headed to colonial Australia to make his fortune. He had no idea that the Shrewsbury lawyer he left in charge of his affairs would snatch this chance to exact the ultimate revenge on Tom, the last of the Hurstbourne dynasty... Brisbane Editors, Gloria Grant and Gerard Benjamin, transcribed the manuscript and wrote its introduction and contextual notes.
Download or read book The Squatter s Daughter written by Hilda Bridges and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Squatter s Dream written by Rolf Boldrewood and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Squatter’s Dream (1875) is a novel by Rolf Boldrewood, the pseudonym of Australian novelist Thomas Browne. A squatter himself for nearly twenty-five years, he came to know the ways of life on the outskirts of civilization, which allowed him to lead a peaceful, uncomplicated, and inexpensive existence. Originally serialized in Australian weekly magazines, Browne’s work as Rolf Bolfrewood is an incomparable record of colonial Australia, where outlaws and speculators lived side by side on land stolen from the continent’s Aboriginal peoples. “The climate in which his abode was situated was temperate, from latitude and proximity to the coast. It was cold in the winter, but many a ton of she-oak and box had burned away in the great stone chimney, before which Jack used to toast himself in the cold nights, after a long day’s riding after cattle.” Jack Redgrave leads the kind of existence most men would dream of: a comfortable home, plenty of food, a beautiful property, and enough books to keep him curious about the world beyond the wilderness. Despite this, he begins to grow dissatisfied, dreaming of ways to increase his wealth and forgetting the reasons that first drew him to the squatting lifestyle. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Rolf Boldrewood’s The Squatter’s Dream is a classic work of Australian literature reimagined for modern readers.
Download or read book The Squatter and the Don written by MarÕa Amparo Ruiz de Burton and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Squatter and the Don, originally published in San Francisco in 1885, is the first fictional narrative written and published in English from the perspective of the conquered Mexican population that, despite being granted the full rights of citizenship under the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848, was, by 1860, a subordinated and marginalized national minority.
Download or read book Tallangetta the Squatter s Home written by William Howitt and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lippincott s Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prairie Bride or the Squatter s Triumph written by Chris Enss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fight breaks out over a claim in this action-filled homesteading story. The hardships of covered wagon life, the danger of the prairie fire, and the romance of the young bride's new home made this a best-seller in 1869. One of the things that made dime novels so popular was the lurid cover art. These scandalous imaged caught the attention of readers and, indeed, the ellicit nature of the stories was most appealing. Publishers capitalized on the interests of young female readers, especially, bringing tales of strong, willful heroines to life between the cheap paper covers of these books.
Download or read book Confederate Gold written by Cameron Judd and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was looking for a woman. What he found was gold, greed...and murder. Enoch Brand never met a fight he couldn't resist. His wife Minnie had the same problem with men. Then Minnie finally ran off from Enoch, while the two were headed home to Tennessee. Now Enoch has gone charging after her-running straight into a gun battle, a one-handed ex Confederate soldier, and a storm of lies, betrayal and greed that all comes down to one thing: a treasure of gold that may or may not exist. Somewhere in the dark Ozark hills Enoch is sure there's a fortune waiting to be claimed. The only trouble is, it's killing those who want it most. . .
Download or read book The Squatter and the Don written by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Squatter and the Don (1885) is a novel by Mexican American author María Amparo Ruiz de Burton. The novel, Ruiz de Burton’s second, explores the consequences of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo for the Californios whose land was taken following the Mexican American War. Central to its focus are the ways in which Californios were forced to provide proof of ownership while squatters, with the support of the US government, settled on their land. Following the conquest of California, the Alamar family struggles to assimilate into American culture while maintaining their cultural heritage. Faced with immense prejudice, the Alamars, who like many Californios consider themselves to be racially white, embrace the capitalist culture introduced by American settlers and accelerated by the introduction of the railroad. Against this sociopolitical backdrop, the Alamars become increasingly entwined with the Darrells, a settler family, turning a story of political and economic circumstances into tale of romance between Clarence and Mercedes, whose love becomes representative of a new United States. Both personal and political, historical and fictional, The Squatter and the Don is a novel that captures a complex moment in American history without losing sight of the humanity at its heart. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don is a classic of Mexican American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Download or read book Ours to Lose written by Amy Starecheski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The fascinating and little-known tale of the Lower East Side squatters of the Eighties . . . a radical, European-inspired housing movement” (The Village Voice). Though New York’s Lower East Side today is home to high-end condos and hip restaurants, it was for decades an infamous site of blight, open-air drug dealing, and class conflict—an emblematic example of the tattered state of 1970s and ’80s Manhattan. Those decades of strife, however, also gave the Lower East Side something unusual: a radical movement that blended urban homesteading and European-style squatting in a way never before seen in the United States. Ours to Lose tells the oral history of that movement through a close look at a diverse group of Lower East Side squatters who occupied abandoned city-owned buildings in the 1980s, fought to keep them for decades, and eventually began a long, complicated process to turn their illegal occupancy into legal cooperative ownership. Amy Starecheski here not only tells a little-known New York story, she also shows how property shapes our sense of ourselves as social beings and explores the ethics of homeownership and debt in post-recession America. “There are many books about the Lower East Side and its recent transformation, yet none has included engagement or oral history with primary organizers in the way Starecheski has. Ours to Lose is a unique and substantive contribution to our understanding of a most distinct practice in the shaping of urban space.” —Metropolitiques “What is significant is that the author demonstrates how some New Yorkers addressed the housing crisis in an unconventional manner. Recommended.” —Choice
Download or read book Household Journal of Popular Information Amusement and Domestic Economy written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Squatter and the Don Illustrated written by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-04 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton was the first female Mexican-American author to write in English. In her career she published two books: Who Would Have Thought It? and The Squatter and the Don and one play: Don Quixote de la Mancha: A Comedy in Five Acts: Taken From Cervantes' Novel of That Name.
Download or read book The Squatter and the Don written by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Problems of the land, squatter, and railroad interests in Alameda County, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego"--Baird & Greenwood.
Download or read book The Squatter and the Don written by Mariá Amparo Ruiz de Burton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Squatter and the Don by Mariá Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Download or read book The Squatter s Dream written by Thomas Alexander Browne and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Squatter's Dream" (A Story of Australian Life) by Thomas Alexander Browne. 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.
Download or read book The Squatter s Dream written by Rolf Boldrewood and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1892 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
