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Download or read book Boone's Lick Road written by Hal Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boone's Lick Road (BLR) was opened in 1816 and was the principal route west from St. Charles for the next century. This book gives a brief history of the BLR and a detailed guide to finding the BLR today
Book Synopsis A History of Travel in America by : Seymour Dunbar
Download or read book A History of Travel in America written by Seymour Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boone's Lick written by Larry McMurtry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boone's Lick is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry's return to the kind of story that made him famous -- an enthralling tale of the nineteenth-century west. Like his bestsellers Lonesome Dove, Streets of Laredo, Comanche Moon, and Dead Man's Walk, Boone's Lick transports the reader to the era about which McMurtry writes better and more shrewdly than anyone else. Told with McMurtry's unique blend of historical fact and sheer storytelling genius, the novel follows the Cecil family's arduous journey by riverboat and wagon from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming. Fifteen-year-old Shay narrates, describing the journey that begins when his Ma, Mary Margaret, decides to hunt down her elusive husband, Dick, to tell him she's leaving him. Without knowing precisely where he is, they set out across the plains in search of him, encountering grizzly bears, stormy weather, and hostile Indians as they go. With them are Shay's siblings, G.T., Neva, and baby Marcy; Shay's uncle, Seth; his Granpa Crackenthorpe; and Mary Margaret's beautiful half-sister, Rose. During their journey they pick up a barefooted priest named Father Villy, and a Snake Indian named Charlie Seven Days, and persuade them to join in their travels. At the heart of the novel, and the adventure, is Mary Margaret, whom we first meet shooting a sheriff's horse out from underneath him in order to feed her family. Forceful, interesting, and determined, she is written with McMurtry's trademark deftness and sympathy for women, and is in every way a match for the worst the west can muster. Boone's Lick abounds with the incidents, the excitements, and the dangers of life on the plains. Its huge cast of characters includes such historical figures as Wild Bill Hickok and the unfortunate Colonel Fetterman (whose arrogance and ineptitude led to one of the U.S. Army's worst and bloodiest defeats at the hands of the Cheyenne and Sioux) as well as the Cecil family (itself based on a real family of nineteenth-century traders and haulers). The story of their trek in pursuit of Dick, and the discovery of his second and third families, is told with brilliance, humor, and overwhelming joie de vivre in a novel that is at once high adventure, a perfect western tale, and a moving love story -- it is, in short, vintage McMurtry, combining his brilliant character portraits, his unerring sense of the west, and his unrivaled eye for the telling detail. Boone's Lick is one of McMurtry's richest works of fiction to date.
Book Synopsis Report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution by : Daughters of the American Revolution
Download or read book Report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution written by Daughters of the American Revolution and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis A History of Travel in America by : Seymour Dunbar
Download or read book A History of Travel in America written by Seymour Dunbar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 4 of 4. Being an Outline of the Development in Modes of Travel from Archaic Vehicles of Colonial Times to the Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad: the Influence of the Indians on the Free Movement and Territorial Unity of the White Race: the Part Played by Travel Methods in the Economic Conquest of the Continent: and those Related Human Experiences, Changing Social Conditions and Governmental Attitudes which Accompanied the Growth of a National Travel System.
Book Synopsis My Own Pioneers 1830-1918 by : Kathryn J. Kappler
Download or read book My Own Pioneers 1830-1918 written by Kathryn J. Kappler and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volumes of My Own Pioneers together tell a remarkable story of the desperate pioneer struggles of four generations of the author’s family. Although the memorable historical journey begins seven generations ago, these three volumes of stories focus on four important pioneer generation. They are the culmination of fifteen years of painstaking research as the author carefully reconstructs her family’s pioneer struggles from before 1830 to 1918 using information from family records, journals, memoirs, histories and letters, supplemented by accounts from their pioneer companions, and by Church and other official records. Volume I tells about the author’s once prosperous pioneer families survived the French and Indian War and the War of 1812, then eventually relocated to join the newly founded Mormon Church. The stories tell how the pressure of mobs and mob wars eventually forced these families to abandon everything as they were driven from place to place, until they found themselves exiled on the western-most border of the United States—at the Missouri River—looking toward the wild and hostile West as their only refuge. Stories describe how dozens of family members were among the Mormon refugees who died by the hundreds at the Missouri River, of illness, starvation and exposure. Yet family members had managed to journey among Indians on the frontier to preach, and had sailed through nearly catastrophic ocean storms to preach in England. And despite much sorrow and hardship, this volume relates how five family members left their loved ones behind at the sickly Missouri River in order to march down the Old Santa Fe Trail in the U.S. Army’s Mormon Battalion to prove their loyalty to the government by helping to fight a war with Mexico.
Book Synopsis Miscellaneous Bills and Other Matters by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Download or read book Miscellaneous Bills and Other Matters written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book L. A. W. Bulletin and Good Roads written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cottleville: Where History Never Grows Old by : Sheryl Kay Guffey
Download or read book Cottleville: Where History Never Grows Old written by Sheryl Kay Guffey and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written for all the pioneering spirits of younder year and today. Cottleville: Where History Never Grows Old, contains the stories of American pioneers, who traveled west to settle on Spanish land grants within French and Indian territories in the late 1700s. This book focuses on the Cottle family, the authors direct descendants, and the impact on the community of Cottleville.
Book Synopsis Congressional Record by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Download or read book Good Roads written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Over the Santa Fe Trail to Mexico by : Rowland Willard
Download or read book Over the Santa Fe Trail to Mexico written by Rowland Willard and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first Anglo-Americans to record their travels to New Mexico, Dr. Rowland Willard (1794–1884) journeyed west on the Santa Fe Trail in 1825 and then down the Camino Real into Mexico, taking notes along the way. This edition of the young physician’s travel diaries and subsequent autobiography, annotated by New Mexico Deputy State Librarian Joy L. Poole, is a rich historical source on the two trails and the practice of medicine in the 1820s. Few Americans knew much about New Mexico when Willard set out on his journey from St. Charles, Missouri, where he had recently completed a medical apprenticeship. The growing commerce with the Southwest presented opportunities for the ambitious doctor. On his first day travelling the plains of the Santa Fe Trail, he met the mountain man Hugh Glass, who regaled Willard with stories of his wilderness experiences. Conducting a physical examination of Glass, Dr. Willard provided the only eye witness medical account of Glass’s deformities resulting from a grizzly bear attack. Willard referred to the mountain man as Father Glass, a testimony to his age. He visited Santa Fe, practiced medicine in Taos, then traveled south to Chihuahua, arriving during a measles epidemic. Willard treated patients in Mexico for two years before returning to Missouri in 1828. Willard’s narrative challenges long-accepted assumptions about the exact routes taken by pack trains on the Santa Fe Trail. It also provides thrilling glimpses of a landscape densely populated with wildlife. The doctor describes “a great theater of nature,” with droves of elk and buffalo, and “wolf and antelope skipping in every direction.” With his traveling companions he hunted buffalo by crawling after them on all fours, afterward making jerky out of bison meat and boats out of their hides. Willard also details his medical practice, offering a revealing view of physicians’ operating practices in a time when sanitation and anesthesia were rare. The Santa Fe Trail and Camino Real took Willard on the journey of a lifetime. This account recalls the early days of the Santa Fe Trail trade and westward American migration, when a doctor from Missouri could cross paths with mountain men, traders, Mexican clergymen, and government officials on their way to new opportunities.
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Book Synopsis Daughters of the American revolution by : Mrs. Rose Moss Scott
Download or read book Daughters of the American revolution written by Mrs. Rose Moss Scott and published by Illinois Printing Company. This book was released on 1929 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daughters of the American revolution
Book Synopsis Report of Mescellaneous Orders, Authorities, Accidents, Inspections, and Conference Rulings by : Missouri Public Service Commission
Download or read book Report of Mescellaneous Orders, Authorities, Accidents, Inspections, and Conference Rulings written by Missouri Public Service Commission and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of Miscellaneous Orders, Authorities, Accidents, Inspections, and Conference Rulings by : Missouri Public Service Commission
Download or read book Report of Miscellaneous Orders, Authorities, Accidents, Inspections, and Conference Rulings written by Missouri Public Service Commission and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
