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The Bible and Global Tourism

Author : James S. Bielo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567681424
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book The Bible and Global Tourism written by James S. Bielo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the ways in which biblical tourism is enmeshed within the production and management of heritage, global contexts of marketing and publicity, accessibility of sacred sites and routes for multiple audiences, and the forging of connections between travel and social identity. By exploring issues such as devotional piety, religious pedagogy, and entertainment, an interdisciplinary collection of scholars traces how biblical tourism experiences are choreographed and consumed, and how these practices shape embodied and narrative performances of scripture. Contributors focus on four major questions: How have people used tourism to develop new, or renewed, relationships with the Bible? Historically, what role has the Bible played in the development of modern tourism? In the context of the tourist encounter, how have people mobilized the Bible as a social and expressive resource? And what forms of social exchange shape acts of biblical tourism, such as among pilgrims, or between people and landscapes? These questions are centered not only around authorized shrines and “Holy Places,” but also festivals, museums, theme parks, and heritage sites. This book aims to create a comparative and interdisciplinary dialogue around the dynamic relationship between biblical heritage claims and the practices and infrastructures of modern tourism.

So Rugged and Mountainous

Author : Will Bagley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806184019
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book So Rugged and Mountainous written by Will Bagley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of America’s westward migration is a powerful blend of fact and fable. Over the course of three decades, almost a million eager fortune-hunters, pioneers, and visionaries transformed the face of a continent—and displaced its previous inhabitants. The people who made the long and perilous journey over the Oregon and California trails drove this swift and astonishing change. In this magisterial volume, Will Bagley tells why and how this massive emigration began. While many previous authors have told parts of this story, Bagley has recast it in its entirety for modern readers. Drawing on research he conducted for the National Park Service’s Long Distance Trails Office, he has woven a wealth of primary sources—personal letters and journals, government documents, newspaper reports, and folk accounts—into a compelling narrative that reinterprets the first years of overland migration. Illustrated with photographs and historical maps, So Rugged and Mountainous is the first of a projected four-volume history, Overland West: The Story of the Oregon and California Trails. This sweeping series describes how the “Road across the Plains” transformed the American West and became an enduring part of its legacy. And by showing that overland emigration would not have been possible without the cooperation of Native peoples and tribes, it places American Indians at the center of trail history, not on its margins.

Seeker

Author : Jim Crawford
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1642144479
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Seeker written by Jim Crawford and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small boy is abandoned into great peril under a great city. The 7aEUR"yearaEUR"old feral boy is captured by a criminal childaEUR"seller. He is involved in a traffic accident where he is misidentified as a privileged person and is given expensive medical care. When it is discovered that he does not deserve the treatment, he is "Debt Bonded" into an international military antiaEUR"terrorist force. He matures and becomes a famous warrior. The warrior goes into a violent combat assignment and is injured by a land mine which amputates both of his legs. The protagonist is used in the lunar orbit construction of the first spaceship ever launched from Earth. His great skill and luck causes him to be kidnapped and to be included in the chemicalaEUR"preserved crew of the spaceship. Many years later the spaceship Seeker is attracted to an unaEUR"named planet. The protagonist is awakened and manages to safely land the spaceship which was never meant to land by highlyaEUR"improbable means. The protagonist wakes the crew and defends the ship's invasion by huge insects. The protagonist is altered by the bugs, his missing legs are replaced and his immortal body is greatly modified. The protagonist is confronted by a planetary computer which had remained hidden in fear. The MegaComputer relates a history of the races killed on the planet. The computer controls the entire planet and gives a ring of preserved orbiting spaceships to the Seeker crew. The preserved spaceships in orbit are used in two separate fleets of 1440 connected ships, one to resettle the vacant planets of the dead sentients and the second to rescue the population of Earth for resettlement on new planets. The protagonist and all Seekers are cloned to 3500 clones by the computer to man the 2880 spaceships. The protagonist and the computer discovers the computer data representing 32 species of sentient beings and the method of their revival of each of them. The oldest race recorded the physical and mental computer data before a fatal ray killed all sentient life on the planet. The protagonist and the computer awake a percentage of the "dead" sentients for spaceship crews. After a long return flight, the protagonist finds that the glacial Earth is poisoned by radiation and all the few remaining people must be cloned to safely leave Earth. The protagonist has succeeded in the revival of the murdered species and the resettlement of the known Universe and great explorations. The protagonist has rescued the glacial and radioactive Earth. The protagonist has conquered death, distance, time and the future. The book pauses before the following books concerning the details and adventures of particular selected subjects. If you believe that one picture is worth a thousand words, you must also believe that it takes a thousand words to make a picture!

Paradise Lust

Author : Brook Wilensky-Lanford
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802195636
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Paradise Lust written by Brook Wilensky-Lanford and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “certainly weird . . . strangely wonderful . . . [and] often irresistible” search to find the real Garden of Eden (The New York Times Book Review). Where, precisely, was God’s Paradise? St. Augustine had a theory. So did medieval monks, John Calvin and Christopher Columbus. But when Darwin’s theory of evolution changed our understanding of human origins, shouldn’t the desire to put a literal Eden on the map have faded away? Not so fast. This “gloriously researched, pluckily written historical and anecdotal assay of humankind’s age-old quixotic quest for the exact location of the Biblical garden” (Elle) explores an obsession that has consumed scientists and theologians alike for centuries. To this day, the search continues, taken up by amateur explorers, clergymen, scholars, engineers and educators—romantic seekers all who started with the same simple-sounding Bible verses, only to end up at a different spot on the globe: Sri Lanka, the Seychelles, the North Pole, Mesopotamia, China, Iraq—and Ohio. Inspired by an Eden seeker in her own family, “Wilensky-Lanford approaches her subjects with respect, enthusiasm and conscientious research” (San Francisco Chronicle) as she traverses a century-spanning history provoking surprising insights into where we came from, what we did wrong, and where we go from here. And it all makes for “a lively journey” (Kirkus Reviews).

Breakaway Americas

Author : Thomas Richards Jr.
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421437147
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Breakaway Americas written by Thomas Richards Jr. and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reinterpretation of a key moment in the political history of the United States—and of the Americans who sought to decouple American ideals from US territory. Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University Most Americans know that the state of Texas was once the Republic of Texas—an independent sovereign state that existed from 1836 until its annexation by the United States in 1846. But few are aware that thousands of Americans, inspired by Texas, tried to establish additional sovereign states outside the borders of the early American republic. In Breakaway Americas, Thomas Richards, Jr., examines six such attempts and the groups that supported them: "patriots" who attempted to overthrow British rule in Canada; post-removal Cherokees in Indian Territory; Mormons first in Illinois and then the Salt Lake Valley; Anglo-American overland immigrants in both Mexican California and Oregon; and, of course, Anglo-Americans in Texas. Though their goals and methods varied, Richards argues that these groups had a common mindset: they were not expansionists. Instead, they hoped to form new, independent republics based on the "American values" that they felt were no longer recognized in the United States: land ownership, a strict racial hierarchy, and masculinity. Exposing nineteenth-century Americans' lack of allegiance to their country, which at the time was plagued with economic depression, social disorder, and increasing sectional tension, Richards points us toward a new understanding of American identity and Americans as a people untethered from the United States as a country. Through its wide focus on a diverse array of American political practices and ideologies, Breakaway Americas will appeal to anyone interested in the Jacksonian United States, US politics, American identity, and the unpredictable nature of history.

Founding the Far West

Author : David Alan Johnson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520910982
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Founding the Far West written by David Alan Johnson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founding the Far West is an ambitious and vividly written narrative of the early years of statehood and statesmanship in three pivotal western territories. Johnson offers a model example of a new approach to history that is transforming our ideas of how America moved west, one that breaks the mold of "regional" and "frontier" histories to show why Western history is also American history. Johnson explores the conquest, immigration, and settlement of the first three states of the western region. He also investigates the building of local political customs, habits, and institutions, as well as the socioeconomic development of the region. While momentous changes marked the Far West in the later nineteenth century, distinctive local political cultures persisted. These were a legacy of the pre-Civil War conquest and settlement of the regions but no less a reflection of the struggles for political definition that took place during constitutional conventions in each of the three states. At the center of the book are the men who wrote the original constitutions of these states and shaped distinctive political cultures out of the common materials of antebellum American culture. Founding the Far West maintains a focus on the individual experience of the constitution writers—on their motives and ambitions as pioneers, their ideological intentions as authors of constitutions, and the successes and failures, after statehood, of their attempts to give meaning to the constitutions they had produced.

Rural Democracy

Author : Marilyn P. Watkins
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501744909
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Rural Democracy written by Marilyn P. Watkins and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to social movements in rural settings when they do not face the divisive issues of race and class? Marilyn Watkins examines the stable political climate built by successive waves of Populism, socialism, the farmer-labor movement, and the Grange, in turn-of-the-century western Washington. She shows how all of these movements drew upon the same community base, empowered farmers, and encouraged them in the belief that democracy, independence, and prosperity were realizable goals. Indeed they were—in a setting where agriculture was diversified, farmers were debt-free, and, critically, women enjoyed equal status as activists in social movements. Rural Democracy illuminates the problems that undermined Populism and other forms of rural radicalism in the South and the Midwest by demonstrating the political success of those movements where such problems were notably absent: in Lewis County, Washington. By so doing, Watkins convincingly demonstrates the continuing value of local community studies in understanding the large-scale transformations that continue to sweep over rural America.

The Patient Quest

Author : Harry C Copeland
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595197000
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Patient Quest written by Harry C Copeland and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-09-17 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six errant patients become restless and manipulate an escape from the mental health hospital where they are confined to go in search of the Garden of Eden in a place called Torreya State Park. This decision gets them into trouble with drug pushers, a bank robber, prejudice, a runaway skateboard and rampaging dog, barge-jumping, kidnapping, shoot-outs, graphic therapy sessions, and dramatic rescues. Graphic flashbacks reveal how each patient ended up at the mental institution. The story titllates, provokes, amuses,excites,and shocks one in turn.

PENNY FOR GOVERNOR (cl)

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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295803265
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book PENNY FOR GOVERNOR (cl) written by and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1932, 60 percent of Washington State voters approved a state income tax. Within less than a year, the measure was struck down as unconstitutional by the state supreme court. Over half a century later, Washington remains one of only eight states without a state income tax. Yet Washington's conflicts and solutions were by no means unique. Through an examination of how Washingtonians reacted to federal tax policy, responded to national debates over tax issues, and opted for particular forms of taxation for themselves and their property, Phil Roberts elucidates the larger patterns of evolving tax policy in the United States.A Penny for the Governor, a Dollar for Uncle Samexplores the complex mix of factors underlying tax decisions and demonstrates how taxation politics influenced (and were influenced by) broader economic and cultural forces from the days of Lincoln to the New Deal. Tax systems are shaped by assumptions about economic development, social responsibility, and government influence, as well as cultural outlooks and political philosophies. This inquiry into the connections between politics and tax policy in the Pacific Northwest contributes to an understanding of the priorities that society holds about the place of government in relation to other institutions, the role government should play in the economic lives of its citizens, and t he relative influence of interest groups on the political process over time.A Penny for the Governor, a Dollar for Uncle Samdemonstrates the roles of governors, legislatures, courts, and average citizens in determining how income taxes were applied or resisted in the Northwest, and the important factors of class and geography in influencing taxation politics. The public debates on the subject are revealing of the role played by urban-rural conflicts in that most fundamental of political issues: taxes -- who decides, who pays, and how much. "A well-written and impressively documented case study of an important and timely topic -- the debate over income taxes, both federal and state, in the Pacific Northwest." -- Michael Allen, University of Washington, Tacoma Phil Robertsis a professor of history at the University of Wyoming.

Trading Beyond the Mountains

Author : Richard S. Mackie
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774842466
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Trading Beyond the Mountains written by Richard S. Mackie and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the North West and Hudson�s Bay companies extended their operations beyond the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. There they encountered a mild and forgiving climate and abundant natural resources and, with the aid of Native traders, branched out into farming, fishing, logging, and mining. Following its merger with the North West Company in 1821, the Hudson�s Bay Company set up its headquarters at Fort Vancouver on the lower Columbia River. From there, the company dominated much of the non-Native economy, sending out goods to markets in Hawaii, Sitka, and San Francisco. Trading Beyond the Mountains looks at the years of exploration between 1793 and 1843 leading to the commercial development of the Pacific coast and the Cordilleran interior of western North America. Mackie examines the first stages of economic diversification in this fur trade region and its transformation into a dynamic and distinctive regional economy. He also documents the Hudson�s Bay Company�s employment of Native slaves and labourers in the North West coast region.

Reading Portland

Author : John Trombold
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295997605
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Reading Portland written by John Trombold and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Portland is a literary exploration of the city's past and present. In over eighty selections, Portland is revealed through histories, memoirs, autobiographies, short stories, novels, and news reports. This single volume gives voice to women and men; the colonizers and the colonized; white, Hispanic, African American, Asian American, and Indian storytellers; and lower, middle, and upper classes. In his introduction, John Trombold considers the history of writing about a place that has nourished a provocative and errant literary tradition for over 150 years. In the preface, Peter Donahue considers the influence of region--particularly Portland's urbanity and its hybrid population--on literature. Included here are the voices of Carl Abbott, Kathryn Hall Bogle, Beverly Cleary, Robin Cody, Lawson Fusao Inada, Rudyard Kipling, Ursula K. Le Guin, Joaquin Miller, Sandy Polishuk, Gary Snyder, Kim Stafford, Elizabeth Woody, and many more.

Claiming Crimea

Author : Kelly O'Neill
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300231504
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Claiming Crimea written by Kelly O'Neill and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive, archive-based history of Russia’s original annexation of Crimea and its predominantly Muslim population more than two hundred years ago Russia’s long-standing claims to Crimea date back to the eighteenth-century reign of Catherine II. Historian Kelly O’Neill has written the first archive-based, multi-dimensional study of the initial “quiet conquest” of a region that has once again moved to the forefront of international affairs. O’Neill traces the impact of Russian rule on the diverse population of the former khanate, which included Muslim, Christian, and Jewish residents. She discusses the arduous process of establishing the empire’s social, administrative, and cultural institutions in a region that had been governed according to a dramatically different logic for centuries. With careful attention to how officials and subjects thought about the spaces they inhabited, O’Neill’s work reveals the lasting influence of Crimea and its people on the Russian imperial system, and sheds new light on the precarious contemporary relationship between Russia and the famous Black Sea peninsula.

The Oregon Companion

Author : Richard H. Engeman
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604691476
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Oregon Companion written by Richard H. Engeman and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's the connection between Ken Kesey and Nancy's Yogurt? How about the difference between a hoedad and a webfoot? What became of the Pixie Kitchen and the vanished Lambert Gardens? The Oregon Companion is an A–Z handbook of over 1000 people, places, and things. From Abernethy and beaver money to houseboats, railroads, and the Zigzag River, an intrepid public historian separates fact from fiction — with his sense of humor intact. Entries include towns and cities, counties, rivers, lakes, and mountains; people who have left a mark on Oregon; industries, products, crops, and natural resources. Includes more than 160 historical black and white photos. This entertaining and delightfully meticulous compendium is an essential reference for anyone curious about Oregon.

South Pass

Author : Will Bagley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806145110
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book South Pass written by Will Bagley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace Stegner called South Pass “one of the most deceptive and impressive places in the West.” Nowhere can travelers cross the Rockies so easily as through this high, treeless valley in Wyoming immediately south of the Wind River Mountains. South Pass has received much attention in lore and memory but attracted no serious book-length study—until now. In this narrative, award-winning author Will Bagley explains the significance of South Pass to the nation’s history and to the development of the American West. Fur traders first saw South Pass in 1812. From the early 1840s until the completion of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads almost forty years later, emigrants on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails used South Pass in transforming the American West in a single generation. Bagley traces the peopling of the region by the earliest inhabitants and adventurers, including Indian peoples, trappers and fur traders, missionaries, and government-commissioned explorers. Later, California gold rushers, Latter-day Saints, and families seeking new lives went through this singular gap in the Rockies. Without South Pass, overland wagons beginning their journey far to the east along the Missouri River could not have reached their destinations in a single season, and western settlement might have been delayed for decades. The story of South Pass offers a rich history. The Overland Stage, Pony Express, and first transcontinental telegraph all came through the region. Nearly a century later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower designated South Pass as one of America’s first National Historic Landmarks. An American place so rich in historical significance, Bagley argues, deserves the best of historical preservation efforts.

Chronology of the American West

Author : Scott C. Zeman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576077608
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Chronology of the American West written by Scott C. Zeman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-part chronology presents the unfolding of the American West from 23,000 B.C.E. to A.D. 2001 Not long ago, the story of the American West was an uncomplicated tale. Its theme was "The Winning of the West," and its plot simply followed Euro-Americans as they galloped across the continent. But throughout the last two decades, historians like Scott C. Zeman have begun to examine the story and separate the myths from the facts. Today the history of the American West is about the land itself; about conquest and colonization; about migration and social change. Its heroes are not only white men, but also women and children, and peoples of African, Asian, Native American, and European descent. In this up to date chronology, readers can explore hundreds of political, social, and cultural plot points, from the arrival of the continent's first migrants more than 20,000 years ago to the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890, and from the completion of the trans-Alaska pipeline in 1977 to the shootings at Columbine High School in 2000.

Race to the Frontier

Author : John Van Houten Dippel
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0875864244
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Race to the Frontier written by John Van Houten Dippel and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents available via the World Wide Web.

Whither Thou Goest

Author : Patrick Simpson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595175058
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Whither Thou Goest written by Patrick Simpson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-05-29 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whither Thou Goest is the first nonfiction book to focus on this little-known period in American history of 1878, when the world was in the depths of depression like none before. In two parallel journeys that take place in the past and the present, Whither Thou Goest attempts to make people long gone to come back alive. It examines who we are, where we've been, and has everything to do with where we are going. The first journey started in 1878. The author's great-grandaunt and uncle pioneers Mary Jane and Theo Beardsley left their small-town home in upstate New York with their two young daughters, Eva and Frankie, and followed their dream of a new life in the American West. Swallowed up by time, they became forgotten by all they knew back East. All that is but one. The second journey started in 1996. By chance, the author learned that Frankie's family home was now an Oregon museum. He discovered a small diary kept by Eva a bare-boned chronicle of their journey west. The inspired author and his wife decided to follow their trail across America and learn all they could about 1878 America and his relatives, living and dead.