Download or read book Two Families West written by Stephen S. Pickering and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Omaha to Oakland, from Coffeyville to Contra Costa County, two immigrant families act out the American dream. This true story of two Midwestern families begins in England and Prussia, and hopscotches across the U.S. to chronicle the lives of the Foltzes and Pickerings. Settled in Omaha and small-town Kansas respectively, they seek advancement – through jobs, romance, higher education, lower humidity. And advancement, for most, leads west. Their narrative is the story of America writ small, in sharply rendered profi les: of Clarence Foltz, Omaha physician and thrower of dinner-table bones; Ruth, his wife, diffi dent but weary of hot summers and capable of hurling dishes when the subject is his philandering; their four daughters, who form a string quartet and build their own couture. Th e youngest becomes a stewardess in the pioneer days of commercial aviation. The Pickerings have their own quirks. Th omas, scion of a prosperous English farming family, chucks it all and joins the 1851 gold rush in Australia. His brother John, a newly minted lawyer, goes to Kansas to be a farmer. Divorce scatters Thomas’s family; a son invests (unwisely) in California orange groves. The two clans connect in Depression-era Seattle when George Pickering meets Ethel Foltz. Th ey marry, and World War II prods an ingathering of the family to California, where Clarence and Ruth now reside, escaping Omaha’s weather. Some serve in the Pacifi c Th eater. In postwar Oakland Ethel indulges her love of music, studies voice and makes prominent friends. As the years begin to claim family members, some branches will die out. If there is a moral, it is the importance and comfort of memory.
Download or read book Bulletin written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The City Record written by Cleveland (Ohio) and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genealogies of West Virginia Families written by West Virginia Historical Magazine Quarte and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wise's Eastern Shore of Virginia is a history of the counties of Accomack and Northampton; however, genealogists will be drawn to the book's numerous references to families prominent on the Eastern Shore and to the extensive lists of early settlers and patentees of land.
Download or read book Documents of the Senate of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Culture and Political Economy in Western Sicily written by Jane Schneider and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and Political Economy in Western Sicily presents the relationship between the early colonial period, a time when Sicily exported wheat and animal products, and a later neocolonial period, during which manpower is the principal energy loss. The book discusses the rise and development of the Mafia; cultural codes that are important to contemporary social Sicilian organization; and the origins of these codes in early adaptations of the Sicilian people to externally generated political and economic forces. The text will be of value to sociologists, economists, historians, and people who want a deeper understanding of the Mafia.
Download or read book On the Move a Black Family s Western Saga written by S R Martin, Jr and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In distinctive, engaging prose, S. R. Martin Jr. crafts the story of his forebears and their westward journey, begun even before the great black migration that occurred around the two world wars. By narrating the struggles and triumphs of his family--both paternal and maternal--during their move west, he illuminates an under-studied facet of African American history. As Martin explains it, he and his brother "arrived on the scene at the confluence of these family streams in time to catch a ride to the shining sea." Students, scholars, and interested general readers of modern African American history and sociology will be greatly rewarded by reading this warm and vivid personal and family memoir.
Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roane County West Virginia Families written by William H. Bishop and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bishop's "History of Roane County" is the standard work on its subject, but its chief appeal to the genealogist can be found in the hundreds of genealogical and historical essays of pioneer families of Roane County that comprise the second half of the work. Those essays, which, in most cases, are based upon interviews conducted by the author with a surviving family member, generally go back to the early nineteenth century and pertain to migrants from Virginia and the middle states possessing British, Irish, or Scotch-Irish stock.
Download or read book Western Gunslingers in Fact and on Film written by Buck Rainey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1998-01-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickok, Belle Starr, Wyatt Earp, the Younger Gang, the Dalton-Doolin Gang and Bat Masterson--these real-life lawmen and lawbreakers have been the basis of so many Hollywood Westerns that it has become difficult to discover where the truth ends and the legend begins. All actually became larger-than-life characters during their lifetimes, as contemporary newspapers and books embellished their deeds for their own purposes. But it was in Hollywood that the line between reality and myth was completely blurred. Each chapter-length entry here first focuses on the known facts of the people's lives and how each became truly legendary during their lifetimes. The reality is then compared to how they have been portrayed in the movies.
Download or read book Party Families in Western Europe written by Peter Egge Langsæther and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and comparative book makes clear what party families are and, in doing so, helps categorise and make sense of parties in different countries. It describes the ideology of the families in Western Europe as well as classifying political parties accordingly. Furthermore, the book examines who the party families’ supporters are in terms of their social background and political values. What role do class, education, and religion play in the 21st century? Finally, the book provides a discussion of the degree to which the concept of party families is still meaningful in the 21st century and how it needs to be studied comparatively and comprehensively. Is party family still valid as a conceptual device to classify and compare parties across countries in Western Europe? This text will be of key interest to scholars, students, and practitioners working in the field of political behaviour, political parties and party politics, policy studies, and more broadly comparative and European politics.
Download or read book The Amboseli Elephants written by Cynthia J. Moss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elephants have fascinated humans for millennia. Aristotle wrote of them with awe and Hannibal used them in warfare. This book is the summation of what's been learned from the Amboseli Elephant Research Project (AERP) - the longest continuously running elephant research project in the world.
Download or read book The Golden Bough pt 1 2 The magic art and the evolution of kings 1911 written by James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meet the Chief written by Joel King and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the men who have been chosen for the responsibility and honor of being United States presidents? What did they accomplish? What happened during their presidencies? Inside Meet the Chiefs: A Fun Look at the U.S. Presidents, your family will learn fascinating facts about the life and times of these extraordinary Americans. Could there be a better time to explore the last 225 years of America's presidents? Inspire your family to become great leaders with this important study of history. This 108-page resource offers a quick glance of each president's tenure. Historical highlights, great quotes, and full color pictures make this a book your family will want to refer to for decades! Your children will enjoy challenging themselves and each other with the trivia sections located throughout the book! This trivia game makes the learning process fun and memorable. Questions include: Who was president during the Civil War? Who was the first African American president? Which president was assassinated in Dallas, Texas? Who was elected president a record four times? As you and your family review history, you are doing so much more than learning fun facts for future conversations. Knowing our history allows us to: develop a better understanding of the world understand ourselves better understand other people better understand how changes are made gain insight on how to be better citizens become better decision makers Meet the Chief is easy and fun to read. It is a great addition to the upper elementary America’s Story series and a great addition to your morning basket.
Download or read book Federal Role in Urban Affairs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 2052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hotchkin s History of Western New York written by and published by Between the Lakes Group LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hotchkin's "History of Western New York" is, first and foremost, a compendium of local histories of Western New York State -- meaning anything West of Utica, NY. If there was at any time in or before 1848 a Presbyterian or a Congregational church in a particular community in this geographical area, there is very likely to be material about both the community (and its people), as well as the church, in this 600+ page volume.
Download or read book No More Kin written by Anne R. Roschelle and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1997-04-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black and Latino families are in fact highly family-oriented and want to be involved in exchange networks but, because they are economically disenfranchised, they are prevented from participation. The vitriolic debate on welfare reform currently sweeping the nation assumes that if institutional mechanisms of social support are eliminated, impoverished families will simply rely on an extensive web of kinship networks for their survival. The political discourse surrounding poverty and welfare reform has an increasingly racial undertone. Implementation of social policy that presupposes the availability of family safety nets in minority communities could have disastrous consequences for many without extended kin networks. Many scholars and political analysts assume that thriving kin and non-kin social support networks continue to characterize minority family life. Policy recommendations based on these underlying assumptions may lead to the implementation of harmful social policy. No More Kin examines extended kinship networks among African American, Chicano, Puerto-Rican, and non-Hispanic white families in contemporary America and seeks to provide an integrated theoretical framework for examining how the simultaneity of gender, race, and class oppression affects minority family organization. Breaking new ground in a variety of fields, No More Kin is sure to become a valuable resource for students and professionals in family studies, gender studies, and race/ethnic studies.
