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Book Synopsis Across the Plains (Abridged, Annotated) by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Across the Plains (Abridged, Annotated) written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 1937-01-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famed Scottish writer and traveler, Robert Louis Stevenson not only journeyed across the American Great Plains, he married an American and saw a good deal of of the broad continent. In this volume, Stevenson turns his wonderful prose and biting wit on such topics as Americans, race relations, the illness that had plagued him his entire life, self-examination, the perils of life as an artist, dreams and more. He sees an America that Americans don't see and relates it in the most charming and entertaining of ways. It's not all about America. He also writes of his love of the artist communities of Southern France and the Fife area of his native Scotland. This is the author of Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Kidnapped as you've never read him before. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample.
Book Synopsis Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays (Annotated) by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays (Annotated) written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-This book contains a historical context, where past events or the study and narration of these events are examined. The historical context refers to the circumstances and incidents surrounding an event. This context is formed by everything that, in some way, influences the event when it happens. A fact is always tied to its time: that is, to its characteristics. Therefore, when analyzing events that took place tens, hundreds or thousands of years ago, it is essential to know the historical context to understand them. Otherwise, we would be analyzing and judging what happened in a totally different era with a current perspective.Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson.it is a story by Robert Louis Stevenson. He reviews his 1879 trip to California, very costly for his health. First published as a series of articles in Longman's Magazine in July and August 1883, the story appears in the volume in Chatto & Windus in 1892. .Having completed the Atlantic crossing from Glasgow, under the conditions described in The Amateur Emigrant, Stevenson arrived in New York, traversing the United States from east to west to reach San Francisco, California, after a twelve-day train journey .
Book Synopsis Across the Plains by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Across the Plains written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "America was to me a sort of promised land; 'westward the march of empire holds its way'; the race is for the moment to the young; what has been and what is we imperfectly and obscurely know; what is to be yet lies beyond the flight of our imaginations. . . " Robert Louis Stevenson, The Amateur Emigrant Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays (1892) by Robert Louis Stevenson is the second book in a trilogy that began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters and in which the author described his travels in the United States. Each of the 12 chapters is a self-contained essay that discusses a particular aspect of what Stevenson observed as he traveled by train from New York to California. They give a fascinating view of what travel was in the late Victorian period from the perspective of a Scottish visitor.
Book Synopsis Life and Letters of Brigadier General Alexander Hayes (Abridged, Annotated) by : George Thornton Fleming
Download or read book Life and Letters of Brigadier General Alexander Hayes (Abridged, Annotated) written by George Thornton Fleming and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a campaign stop when he was running for president, Ulysses S. Grant asked to stop by the grave of his friend and fellow West Point cadet, Alexander Hays, who had fallen at the Battle of the Wilderness. Newsmen reported that Grant openly wept at the graveside. After having played a pivotal role commanding the forces that turned back Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, and having exposed himself on other open battlefields, the dense Wilderness was not the place to have expected Hays to fall. At Gettysburg, it was later written: "We cannot summarize here what Hays' Division did on the third day when the final blow, embodied in Pickett's and Pettigrew's charge, fell directly upon their front. When the fight ended that afternoon fifteen colors and over two thousand prisoners fell into their hands. Magnificently were they led by their division commander [Hays]." On hearing of his death in battle, Grant quietly remarked as he sat beneath a tree, "He was a man who would never follow, but would always lead in battle." Here is the definitive biography of Major General Alexander Hays, from childhood to West Point to the Mexican War and on to the American Civil War. Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Book Synopsis Across the Plains by : Robert Stevenson
Download or read book Across the Plains written by Robert Stevenson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins." -wikipedia
Book Synopsis Across the Plains by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Across the Plains written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Western Women (Abridged, Annotated) by : Mary Osborne Douthit
Download or read book Western Women (Abridged, Annotated) written by Mary Osborne Douthit and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this book is to record woman’s part in working out the plan of our Western civilization; no other civilization, perhaps, bearing so conspicuously the imprint of her hand and her brain." So wrote Mary Douthit, herself a pioneer woman. She continued: "In patience, courage, and endurance, woman proved man’s equal. In her ability to cope with strenuous conditions, she was again his recognized peer. In property rights woman enjoys far greater privileges here than in the older portions of our country. These Northwestern States are among the few in the nation that make the mother a legal custodian of her children, and entrust her with the property of minor heirs." Seldom will you find a book that brings so many personal stories of early western pioneers together in one volume. For less than you'd spend on gas going to the library, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Book Synopsis Pioneer Days in California: (Abridged, Annotated) by : John Carr
Download or read book Pioneer Days in California: (Abridged, Annotated) written by John Carr and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Carr published this book in 1891, he had already been a Californian for over forty years. His true tales of gold prospecting, gun fights, encounters with Indians, rough characters of the West, and politicos are amusing and highly entertaining. He knew many of the early big players in the state and provides an interesting view of the west during the American Civil War. Among his other employments, he sat as a police judge in Eureka, California and spent time in Tombstone, Arizona, during its wild west period. At the end of the book he provides short biographies of notables he knew. Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the movement that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Book Synopsis Across the Plains by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Across the Plains written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Across the Plains by : Dr Robert Stevenson
Download or read book Across the Plains written by Dr Robert Stevenson and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of a young man who looked for his brother's executioner. The novel is set in the backdrop of Stevenson's experience of traveling from New York City to California. The vivid description of landscape and scenic beauty makes the novel interesting and enjoyable. Moreover the character portrayal is life-like and gripping....
Book Synopsis Across the Plains by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Across the Plains written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-23 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]
Book Synopsis Across the Plains by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Across the Plains written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - MONDAY. - It was, if I remember rightly, five o'clock when we were all signalled to be present at the Ferry Depot of the railroad. An emigrant ship had arrived at New York on the Saturday night, another on the Sunday morning, our own on Sunday afternoon, a fourth early on Monday; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part of the passengers from these four ships was concentrated on the train by which I was to travel. There was a babel of bewildered men, women, and children. The wretched little booking-office, and the baggage-room, which was not much larger, were crowded thick with emigrants, and were heavy and rank with the atmosphere of dripping clothes. Open carts full of bedding stood by the half-hour in the rain. The officials loaded each other with recriminations. A bearded, mildewed little man, whom I take to have been an emigrant agent, was all over the place, his mouth full of brimstone, blustering and interfering. It was plain that the whole system, if system there was, had utterly broken down under the strain of so many passengers.
Book Synopsis Western Gold Adventures 1849-1854 (Abridged, Annotated) by : Kimball Webster
Download or read book Western Gold Adventures 1849-1854 (Abridged, Annotated) written by Kimball Webster and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 2016-01-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April, 1849, a little over six months before he was twenty-one, Kimball Webster caught the gold fever. Characteristic of his methodical ways, he kept a journal of his journey across the country and of his experiences as a miner in California and land surveyor in Oregon. His experiences in the Land of Gold is told in his own vivid language in these pages, and forms one of the most interesting narratives of the days of the gold-seekers of the Pacific Slope. Under trying circumstances that we can't fully appreciate today, the hardy men and women of the Gold Rush, the '49ers, faced danger from disease, accident, Native Americans, other miners, and most likely, poverty. Yet nearly 300,000 came to California to seek their fortune and tempt fate. Kimball Webster didn't strike it rich but went on to make a good life for himself. And he made us richer by leaving his account of those tumultuous years of the 1849 Gold Rush. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample.
Book Synopsis ACROSS THE PLAINS by : ROBERT LOUIS. STEVENSON
Download or read book ACROSS THE PLAINS written by ROBERT LOUIS. STEVENSON and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearny Massacre (Abridged, Annotated) by : Frances Courtney Carrington
Download or read book My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearny Massacre (Abridged, Annotated) written by Frances Courtney Carrington and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the two most important books about life at the frontier post of Fort Phil Kearny. At 21 in 1866, Fannie Grummond was the witness to and victim of the famous Fetterman Fight. Forces commanded by Red Cloud and Crazy Horse took the offensive against the encroachment on their lands of the Bozeman Trail. On December 21, 1866, 81 soldiers from Fort Phil Kearny were killed in a short battle, including Fannie's husband. This is a very personal and poignant account of life on the frontier for a woman from the east. She was tenderly cared for by Margaret Carrington, wife of the post commander, who wrote "AB-SA-RA-KA: Home of the Crows" about her life at Kearny. When Margaret Carrington died in 1870, correspondence began between Fannie and the widowed husband, Henry B. Carrington. They later married. Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the movement that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Book Synopsis Across the Plains by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Across the Plains written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River (Abridged, Annotated) by : Hiram Martin Chittenden
Download or read book Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River (Abridged, Annotated) written by Hiram Martin Chittenden and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 2016-01-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No less authority than Hiram Chittenden wrote this marvelous history of the early days of one of America's most important waterways. A West Point engineer, namesake of the Hiram Chittenden locks in Seattle, Chittenden was a respected historian of early western America. There was no railroad system in the United States whose importance to its tributary country was relatively greater than was that of the Missouri River to the trans-Mississippi territory in the first seventy-five years of the nineteenth century. Through the earliest days of navigation on the great Missouri, through its use in the Civil War, the Indian Wars, Custer's Last Stand, and its eventual demise as a major highway due to the development of the railroads, this history tells of an America that depended on rivers for expansion. Though Grant Marsh captained the steamer Far West, which took the wounded Little Bighorn survivors to Ft. Lincoln, La Barge also saw service as a captain on Custer's Yellowstone Expedition. The life of Joseph La Barge exemplifies the 19th century life of the river. The author met La Barge shortly before his death and found him to be an extraordinary wealth of information about early steamboat travel, as La Barge had owned and operated boats on the river for many years. He was on the first boat that went to the far upper river, and he made the last through voyage from St. Louis to Fort Benton. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
