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Book Synopsis Little River Pioneers by : Miles Kenan Womack
Download or read book Little River Pioneers written by Miles Kenan Womack and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes early allied families of Douglas, Lewis, Rogers, Little, Scott, Browning, Shelfer, Long, Emanuel, Barnes; also includes links to Dilworth, Bostick, Smith and Wilcox families.
Book Synopsis Little River Pioneers by : Thomas Ray Knox
Download or read book Little River Pioneers written by Thomas Ray Knox and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Womack was born 22 April 1742 in Virginia. He married Martha Mitchell 3 March 1763 in Granville, North Carolina. They had nine children. He died in Hancock County, Georgia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Georgia and Florida.
Book Synopsis The Potomac Pioneers Enter the Virginia Piedmont by : David Smarr
Download or read book The Potomac Pioneers Enter the Virginia Piedmont written by David Smarr and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicled on these pages are the names and stories of a closely-knit group of intrepid pioneers of English and Scotch-Irish ancestry, who in the early 1740's left the relative safety of the Potomac Path and traveled the Ox Road into the forested foothills of the Virginia Piedmont. Settling near the crossroads of Indian paths later known as the Colchester and Carolina Roads, today Gilbert's Corner, and along Little River of Goose Creek, including Owsley's Branch, this group began to clear and till the land to establish their homesteads. Their ancestors had been among the first settlers along the banks of the Potomac River between Dogue Creek and the Occoquan River. The network of families included Hall, West, Owsley, Smarr, Stephens, Pearl, Owens and Murray. Other Potomac Path English families who acquired land in the Little River neighborhood included Carter, Mercer, Washington, Fairfax, Cocke, Green, Marshall, Wade, and Bayley.An in-depth study of the origin and development of Robert Carter III's Goose Creek Tract details the owners of land grants near the south half of the 1727 Goose Creek Tract grant, and secondly the rise of tenancy on Goose Creek Tract beginning in 1755 is explored based on Robert Carter III's personal papers and from other original documents. The individual leases are mapped to provide a visualization of their location, and are organized by general location; the southeast quarter later owned by William Carr Sr.'s estate, the southwest quarter later owned by Joseph Jones and President James Monroe, and the north quarters later owned by Robert Carter III's sons George and John Tasker Carter beginning in 1798. An analysis of Loudoun County Land Tax lists is used to identify and track the ownership of the leases from 1782 to 1830.This volume is the second of an American history series that chronicles the passage of a group of English and Scotch-Irish pioneers through a series of frontiers, beginning at Jamestown, Virginia, then up the Potomac River, later inward to the Virginia Piedmont, next westward to Kentucky and finally into the heartland of Missouri.
Download or read book The Pioneers written by David McCullough and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country. As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler’s son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent pioneer in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as floods, fires, wolves and bears, no roads or bridges, no guarantees of any sort, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough’s subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments. This is a revelatory and quintessentially American story, written with David McCullough’s signature narrative energy.
Book Synopsis Planters, Paupers, and Pioneers by : Lucille H. Campey
Download or read book Planters, Paupers, and Pioneers written by Lucille H. Campey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a series of three titles on The English in Canada, this book focuses on factors that brought the English to Canada, tracing the English arrivals to the various settlements. Drawing on wide-raging documentary resources, this book is essential reading for individuals wishing to trace English and Canadian family links.
Book Synopsis The Pioneer of Little River by : Gordon H. Pritham
Download or read book The Pioneer of Little River written by Gordon H. Pritham and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pioneer Women by : Joanna L. Stratton
Download or read book Pioneer Women written by Joanna L. Stratton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as “uncommonly interesting” and “a remarkable distillation of primary sources.” Never before has there been such a detailed record of women’s courage, such a living portrait of the women who civilized the American frontier. Here are their stories: wilderness mothers, schoolmarms, Indian squaws, immigrants, homesteaders, and circuit riders. Their personal recollections of prairie fires, locust plagues, cowboy shootouts, Indian raids, and blizzards on the plains vividly reveal the drama, danger and excitement of the pioneer experience. These were women of relentless determination, whose tenacity helped them to conquer loneliness and privation. Their work was the work of survival, it demanded as much from them as from their men—and at last that partnership has been recognized. “These voices are haunting” (The New York Times Book Review), and they reveal the special heroism and industriousness of pioneer women as never before.
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 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the fascinating true stories of one family through the Mormon pioneer era—stories that follow four generations and several of the author’s family lines as they and their fellow pioneers help shape the early history of the Mormon Church, the American West, and even Mexico. This memorable journey is the culmination of fifteen years of painstaking research as the author carefully reconstructs the pioneer struggles from before 1830 to 1918 using information from family journals, memoirs, histories and letters. Volume II (Pioneering the West/Defending Zion, 1847-1880) continues the history by recounting the family’s involvement in the opening and colonization of the Great Basin. It recounts in detail the dangerous crossing of the plains in covered wagons, with handcarts, and on foot. It tells of explorations, of planting tiny settlements in remote regions, eating roots and rawhide to survive, and fighting insect hordes and hostile Indians. Volume II also tells how the Mormons faced off the U.S. Army, and how they helped build the railroad across the plains. My Own Pioneers is an important work illuminating the legacy of the Mormon pioneers. It is a compilation of true chronological accounts through which their lives, their sacrifices, and their considerable accomplishments, despite terrible hardship, may be honored. With its extensive index, this book provides an excellent research tool for academics as well as history enthusiasts; and it uplifts every reader by showcasing the enduring strength and mighty faith of these pioneers.
Download or read book O Pioneers! written by Willa Cather and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Bergson family leave their home in Sweden to travel to the United States in search of a better life, they, like many immigrants, are awed by the beautiful harshness of their new life in Nebraska. When their father, John Bergson, grows sick and dies, he leaves the farm in the hands of his eldest daughter Alexandra Bergson. Resourceful and determined, Alexandra devotes her life to her family's farm, determined to prosper even as her neighbors are overwhelmed by the unremitting demands of pioneer life. But when she falls in love with her childhood friend, Carl Linstrum, Alexandra must choose between her duty to the land, and to her heart. A spirited celebration of the immigrants who have shaped the United States, O Pioneers! is a masterpiece by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
Book Synopsis Biographical and Genealogical History of the State of Delaware by :
Download or read book Biographical and Genealogical History of the State of Delaware written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Texas Baptists by : James Milton Carroll
Download or read book A History of Texas Baptists written by James Milton Carroll and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Settlers of the American West by : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Download or read book Settlers of the American West written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depictions of the American west in literature, art and film perpetuate romantic stereotypes of the pioneers--the gold-crazed '49er, the intrepid sodbuster. While ennobling the woodsman, the farmwife and the lawman, this tunnel vision of American history has shortchanged the whaler, the assayer, the innkeeper and the inventor. The westward advance of the trailblazers created demand for a gamut of unsung adventurers--surveyors, financiers, politicians, surgeons, entertainers, grocers and midwives--who built communities and businesses in the wilderness amid clashes with Indians, epidemics, floods, droughts and outlawry. Chronicling the worthy deeds, ethnicities, languages and lifestyles of ordinary people who survived a stirring period in American history, this book provides biographical information for hundreds of individual pioneers on the North American frontier, from the Mississippi River Valley as far west as Alaska. Appendices list pioneers by state or country of departure, destination, ethnicity, religion and occupation. A chronology of pioneer achievements places them in perspective.
Book Synopsis Palmetto-leaves by : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Download or read book Palmetto-leaves written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1867, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin settled in a small cottage in Mandarin, Florida, overlooking the St. Johns River. She had promised her Boston publisher another novel, but was so taken with northeast Florida that she produced instead this book-a series of sketches of the land and the people, which she submitted in 1872."
Book Synopsis Pioneer Laymen of North America by : Thomas Joseph Campbell
Download or read book Pioneer Laymen of North America written by Thomas Joseph Campbell and published by New York: The America Press. This book was released on 1915 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pioneers of Second Fork by : James P. Burke
Download or read book Pioneers of Second Fork written by James P. Burke and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the undocumented mysteries of the past is similar to analyzing the remains of an old campfire pit. Only black, charded ashes remain of what once was a blazing fire. The smoke from the old campfire has long since disappeared into the atmosphere. the cracking sounds of hot flames dancing through the burning longs have long since vanished into memories of the past. The author's quest for information on the early pioneers of Second Fork has taken him from the State Museum in Augusta Maine to the Civil War prison in Andersonville, Georgia, visiting historical societies, libraries, museums, battlefields, cemeteries and other points of historical significance in between. He has interviewed numerous pioneer descendants and historians. The family profiles of these pioneers takes the reader on an adventure from the Court of Queen Catherine in England to the shores of Plymouth Harbor and on to Los Angles, California, founded by a son of a pioneer born and educated in the backwoods of Second Fork. Emerging from the bits and pieces of information, the author has rekindled the old campfire into an illuminating history of the Pioneers of Second Fork. James Burke is President of the Mt. Zion Historical Society. The Mt. Zion Historical Society has developed and currently is expanding a historical park dedicated to acknowledging and preserving the history and heritage of the Bennett's Branch.
Book Synopsis Stories of Pioneer Life by : Florence Bass
Download or read book Stories of Pioneer Life written by Florence Bass and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Land of Little Rivers by : Austin M. Francis
Download or read book Land of Little Rivers written by Austin M. Francis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beaverkill, Willowemoc, Neversink, Esopus, Schoharie, and Delaware—the rivers of angling pioneers Thaddeus Norris, Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, Theodore Gordon, and many others—are celebrated in this gorgeous book of photographs and text. In three major sections, Land of Little Rivers presents historical and physical profiles of the rivers; classic rods, reels, and flies; and engaging stories of the people, events, and developments that constitute the Catskill fly-fishing tradition. Complementing its photographic beauty, Land of Little Rivers is a book of substance, filled with fascinating stories, anecdotes, and nuggety captions. Land of Little Rivers is the product of author Francis’s twenty-five years of research and writing about Catskill fly fishing, and of photographer Ferorelli’s more than thirteen thousand images, from which has been selected the most evocative portfolio of photos ever made of these historic rivers. Together they have produced an exquisite, museum-quality work, one that captures magnificently the beauty and passion so central to the sport Izaak Walton called “the gentle art.”
