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Book Synopsis Addresses, Memorials and Sketches Published by the Maumee Valley Pioneer Association by : Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association
Download or read book Addresses, Memorials and Sketches Published by the Maumee Valley Pioneer Association written by Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Missouri Railroad Pioneer by : Joel P. Rhodes
Download or read book A Missouri Railroad Pioneer written by Joel P. Rhodes and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawyer and journalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Louis Houck is often called the “Father of Southeast Missouri” because he brought the railroad to the region and opened this backwater area to industrialization and modernization. Although Houck’s name is little known today outside Missouri, Joel Rhodes shows how his story has relevance for both the state and the nation. Rhodes presents a more complete picture of Houck than has ever been available: reviewing his life from his German immigrant roots, considering his career from both social and political perspectives, and grounding the story in both state and national history. He especially tells how, from 1880 to the 1920s, this self-taught railroader constructed a network of five hundred miles of track through the wilderness of wetlands known as “Swampeast Missouri”—and how these “Houck Roads” provided a boost for population, agriculture, lumbering, and commerce that transformed Cape Girardeau and the surrounding area. Rhodes discusses how Houck fits into the era of economic individualism—a time when men with little formal training shaped modern industry—and also gives voice to Houck’s critics and shows that he was not always an easy man to work with. In telling the story of his railroading enterprise, Rhodes chronicles Houck’s battle with the Jay Gould railroad empire and offers key insight into the development of America’s railway system, from the cutthroat practices of ruthless entrepreneurs to the often-comic ineptness of start-up rail lines. More than simply a biography of a business entrepreneur, the book tells how Houck not only developed the region economically but also followed the lead of Andrew Carnegie by making art, culture, and formal education available to all social classes. Houck also served for thirty-six years as president of the Board of Regents of Southeast Missouri State Teacher’s College, and as a self-taught historian he wrote the first comprehensive accounts of Missouri’s territorial period. A Missouri Railroad Pioneer chronicles a multifaceted career that transformed a region. Solidly researched, this lively narrative also offers an entertaining read for anyone interested in Missouri history.
Book Synopsis Missionary Pioneers by : William Moister
Download or read book Missionary Pioneers written by William Moister and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pioneer Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pioneers of the Ozarks by : Lennis Leonard Broadfoot
Download or read book Pioneers of the Ozarks written by Lennis Leonard Broadfoot and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oil and charcoal portraits with explanatory stories in Ozark dialect.
Book Synopsis ... History of Licking County, O., Its Past and Present Containing a Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest by :
Download or read book ... History of Licking County, O., Its Past and Present Containing a Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Polymer Pioneers by : Peter J. Morris
Download or read book Polymer Pioneers written by Peter J. Morris and published by Chemical Heritage Foundation. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanied by an introductory overview of the history of polymer science, this book contains biographical sketches of 12 pioneers, from Marcellin Berthollet and John Wesley Hyatt to Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta. It also includes time charts before each chapter that summarise significant events.
Download or read book Historical Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Index to the Reports and Collections of the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society by :
Download or read book Index to the Reports and Collections of the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sketches of Tennessee's Pioneer Baptist Preachers by : James Jehu Burnett
Download or read book Sketches of Tennessee's Pioneer Baptist Preachers written by James Jehu Burnett and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described as “a history of Baptist beginnings in the several associations in the state,” this rare old volume was widely acclaimed when first published in 1919. No less timely today, this reprint has added value with an index of more than 1600 names. Those interested in the genealogical value of this volume will find Burnett has done an excellent job detailing ancestry, dates and places. There are more than 200 sketches with around sixty photographs. Accepting 1775 as the first recorded date of Baptist entry and effort in the state, this volume covers a period of one hundred very eventful years. There is much data of general historical interest and numerous “firsts.” Of interest to all denominations, it is the perfect gift for a church library as well as a personal gift.
Book Synopsis Historical Collections: Collections and Researches Made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society by : Anonymous
Download or read book Historical Collections: Collections and Researches Made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Book Synopsis Collections and Researches Made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society by :
Download or read book Collections and Researches Made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pioneer Cemeteries by : Annette Stott
Download or read book Pioneer Cemeteries written by Annette Stott and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As pioneers attempted to settle and civilize the ?Wild West,? cemeteries became important cultural centers. Filled with carved wooden headboards, inscribed local stones, and Italian marble statues, cemeteries functioned as symbols of stability and progress toward a European-inspired vision of Manifest Destiny. As repositories of art and history, these pioneer cemeteries tell the story of communities and visual culture emerging together within the developing landscape of the Old West. Annette Stott traces this story through Rocky Mountain towns on the western frontier, from the unkempt ?boot hills? of the early mining camps and cattle settlements to the more refined ?fair mounts.? She shows how people from Asia, Europe, and the Americas contributed to the visual character of the mountain cemeteries, and how the sepulchral garden functioned as an open-air gallery of public sculpture, at once a site for relaxation, learning, and social ritual. Here, widespread participation in a variety of ceremonies brought mountain communities together with a frequency almost unimaginable today. Illustrated with eighty-three striking photographs, this book shows how the pioneer cemetery emerged as a site of public sculpture and cultural transmission in which each carved or molded monument played dual (and sometimes conflicting) public and private roles, recording the community?s history and values while memorializing individuals and events.
Book Synopsis Pioneer Mother Monuments by : Cynthia Culver Prescott
Download or read book Pioneer Mother Monuments written by Cynthia Culver Prescott and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, American communities erected monuments to western pioneers. Although many of these statues receive little attention today, the images they depict—sturdy white men, saintly mothers, and wholesome pioneer families—enshrine prevailing notions of American exceptionalism, race relations, and gender identity. Pioneer Mother Monuments is the first book to delve into the long and complex history of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering pioneer monuments. In this book, historian Cynthia Culver Prescott combines visual analysis with a close reading of primary-source documents. Examining some two hundred monuments erected in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present, Prescott begins her survey by focusing on the earliest pioneer statues, which celebrated the strong white men who settled—and conquered—the West. By the 1930s, she explains, when gender roles began shifting, new monuments came forth to honor the Pioneer Mother. The angelic woman in a sunbonnet, armed with a rifle or a Bible as she carried civilization forward—an iconic figure—resonated particularly with Mormon audiences. While interest in these traditional monuments began to wane in the postwar period, according to Prescott, a new wave of pioneer monuments emerged in smaller communities during the late twentieth century. Inspired by rural nostalgia, these statues helped promote heritage tourism. In recent years, Americans have engaged in heated debates about Confederate Civil War monuments and their implicit racism. Should these statues be removed or reinterpreted? Far less attention, however, has been paid to pioneer monuments, which, Prescott argues, also enshrine white cultural superiority—as well as gender stereotypes. Only a few western communities have reexamined these values and erected statues with more inclusive imagery. Blending western history, visual culture, and memory studies, Prescott’s pathbreaking analysis is enhanced by a rich selection of color and black-and-white photographs depicting the statues along with detailed maps that chronologically chart the emergence of pioneer monuments.
Book Synopsis Pioneer History of Milwaukee by : James Smith Buck
Download or read book Pioneer History of Milwaukee written by James Smith Buck and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1886.
Book Synopsis Michigan Historical Collections by :
Download or read book Michigan Historical Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Michigan Historical Collections by : Michigan Historical Commission
Download or read book Michigan Historical Collections written by Michigan Historical Commission and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
