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Author : Pat Alderman
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780932807168
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Overmountain Men written by Pat Alderman and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published 1970 without index.
Author : Cameron Judd
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497630886
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book The Overmountain Men written by Cameron Judd and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a trilogy set in the untamed colonial American wilderness, from “a keen observer of the human heart as well as a fine action writer” (Publishers Weekly). Joshua Colter was born of the wild frontier. As a young boy living with his family on the edges of civilization during the French and Indian War, he witnessed firsthand the bloodshed and brutality men were capable of—from the deception and depredations of whites like his own vile father to the merciless vengeance of the native tribes. Forced by cruel fate to set out on his own, he was adopted by an honorable hunter who taught him to fight and survive while remaining true to his own heart. But as much as the solitary Joshua loves living rough and free in the forests and mountains, the troubles of the civilized world are encroaching, as the once-pristine wilderness is being carved up between the all-powerful British crown, settlers searching for a land to call their own, and the native Indians who desperately defy them both to protect their ancestral home. Now, in a burgeoning land of hope and hardship, Joshua will have to decide what he is willing to fight and die for as the birth of a new nation breaks on the horizon.
Author : Cameron Judd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Overmountain Men written by Cameron Judd and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pat Alderman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Overmountain Men written by Pat Alderman and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Randell Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976914952
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (149 download)
Download or read book A Guide to the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail written by Randell Jones and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide leads heritage tourists along the 330-mile Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail from southwest Virginia into East Tennessee over the Appalachian Mountains into the Piedmont of North Carolina and then on to Kings Mountain National Military Park in South Carolina. The Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail was the first national historic trail established in the eastern U.S.
Author : Lawrence E. Babits
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807887668
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book A Devil of a Whipping written by Lawrence E. Babits and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle of Cowpens was a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War in the South and stands as perhaps the finest American tactical demonstration of the entire war. On 17 January 1781, Daniel Morgan's force of Continental troops and militia routed British regulars and Loyalists under the command of Banastre Tarleton. The victory at Cowpens helped put the British army on the road to the Yorktown surrender and, ultimately, cleared the way for American independence. Here, Lawrence Babits provides a brand-new interpretation of this pivotal South Carolina battle. Whereas previous accounts relied on often inaccurate histories and a small sampling of participant narratives, Babits uses veterans' sworn pension statements, long-forgotten published accounts, and a thorough knowledge of weaponry, tactics, and the art of moving men across the landscape. He identifies where individuals were on the battlefield, when they were there, and what they saw--creating an absorbing common soldier's version of the conflict. His minute-by-minute account of the fighting explains what happened and why and, in the process, refutes much of the mythology that has clouded our picture of the battle. Babits put the events at Cowpens into a sequence that makes sense given the landscape, the drill manual, the time frame, and participants' accounts. He presents an accurate accounting of the numbers involved and the battle's length. Using veterans' statements and an analysis of wounds, he shows how actions by North Carolina militia and American cavalry affected the battle at critical times. And, by fitting together clues from a number of incomplete and disparate narratives, he answers questions the participants themselves could not, such as why South Carolina militiamen ran toward dragoons they feared and what caused the "mistaken order" on the Continental right flank.
Author : Swan Moses Burnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Over-mountain Men written by Swan Moses Burnett and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sharyn McCrumb
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 125001140X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book King's Mountain written by Sharyn McCrumb and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the New York Times bestselling author--the first Ballad novel to feature the epic, and gorgeously-portrayed, American Revolution John Sevier had not taken much interest in the American Revolution, he was too busy fighting Indians in the Carolinas and taming the wilderness. But when an arrogant British officer threatened his settlement--promising to burn the farms and kill families--the war became personal. That arrogant officer is Patrick Ferguson of the British Army--who is both charmingly antagonistic and surprisingly endearing. Inventor of the Ferguson rifle, and the devoted lover to his mistress, Virginia Sal, Patrick becomes a delightful anti-hero under McCrumb's watchful eye. Through varying perspectives, King's Mountain is an elegant saga of the Carolina Overmountain Men--the militia organized by Sevier (who would later become the first governor of Tennessee) and their victory in 1780 against the Tories in a battle that Thomas Jefferson later called, "The turning point of the American Revolution." Peppered with lore and the authentic heart of the people in McCrumb's classic Ballads, this is an epic book that will build on the success of The Ballad of Tom Dooley and her recent return to the New York Times bestseller list. Featuring the American Revolution, this a huge draw to readers old and new, and special to McCrumb who can trace her lineage to the character John Sevier"--
Author : Lyman Copeland Draper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book King's Mountain and Its Heroes written by Lyman Copeland Draper and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Randell Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976914938
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (149 download)
Download or read book Before They Were Heroes at King's Mountain (Virginia Edition) written by Randell Jones and published by . This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the campaign, fighting, and aftermath connected to the Battle of King's Mountain and the British Southern Campaign during the American Revolution.
Author : Clint Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1596986166
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)
Download or read book The Politically Incorrect Guide to The South written by Clint Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-01-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest installment in the New York Times bestselling Politically Incorrect Guide series expands on the pro-South slant of the hugely successful Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. Author Clint Johnson shows why the South, with its emphasis on traditional values, family, faith, military service, good manners, small government, and independent-minded people, should certainly rise again!
Author : Jeff Broadwater
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469651211
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book North Carolina's Revolutionary Founders written by Jeff Broadwater and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays profiles a diverse array of North Carolinians, all of whom had a hand in the founding of the state and the United States of America. It includes stories of how men who stood together to fight the British soon chose opposing sides in political debates over the ratification of the supreme law of the land, the Constitution. It also includes accounts of women, freedmen, and Native Americans, whose narratives shed light on the important roles of marginalized peoples in the Revolutionary South. Together, the essays reveal the philosophical views and ideology of North Carolina's revolutionaries. Contributors: Jeff Broadwater, Jennifer Davis-Doyle, Lloyd Johnson, Benjamin R. Justesen, Troy L. Kickler, Scott King-Owen, James MacDonald, Maggie Hartley Mitchell, Karl Rodabaugh, Kyle Scott, Jason Stroud, Michael Toomey, and Willis P. Whichard.
Author : Robert M. Dunkerly
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625844255
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book The Battle of Kings Mountain written by Robert M. Dunkerly and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 7, 1780, American Patriot and Loyalist soldiers battled each other at Kings Mountain, near the border of North and South Carolina. With over one hundred eyewitness accounts, this collection of participant statements from men of both sides includes letters and statements in their original form—the soldiers’ own words—unedited and unabridged. Rife with previously unpublished details of this historic turning point in the American Revolution, these accounts expose the dramatic happenings of the battle, including new perspectives on the debate over Patriot Colonel William Campbell’s bravery during the fight. Robert M. Dunkerley’s work is an invaluable resource to historians studying the flow of combat, genealogists tracing their ancestors and anyone interested in Kings Mountain and the Southern Campaign.
Author : Danny L. Welch
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1477253084
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)
Download or read book Unruffled Courage written by Danny L. Welch and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNRUFFLED COURAGE, THE ADVENTURES OF AMERICAN PATRIOT BENJAMIN HAMILTON AND A CHEROKEE MAIDEN NAMED MOONGLOW, is a passionate story set in the untamed western expanse of colonial America. Benjamin's deeply rooted love of country propels him headlong into a fierce battle of wills, pitting his newly formed regiment of experienced over mountain men and Indian fighters against a larger force of British loyalists and regulars on a low-lying ridge in York County, South Carolina, known as Kings Mountain. Then, when Benjamin is sent on a spying mission against a renegade band of Cherokees, his life is forever changed when he happens upon an Indian maiden named Moonglow bathing in the chilly mountain waters of Spring Creek. The historical yet freely embellished character driven tale soon takes a sudden turn when Moonglow is threatened by a pack of ferocious timber wolves. Thinking only of her safety, Benjamin saves the defenseless maiden but then has to flee for his life just moments after learning her name when braves in her village hear gunshots and come looking for him. Using a most unconventional tactic, he escapes capture. Now separated from Moonglow by distance and time, the brave patriot finds love in the arms of Mary Rankin, only to lose her and their unborn baby when she suddenly dies. He is left heartbroken. But fate steps in and reunites the patriot with the Indian maiden. Benjamin passionately expresses his long repressed feelings for the Cherokee, and Moonglow, now hopelessly in love with the handsome, blue-eyed patriot, makes a decision that will cause her to be revered as a true American heroine.
Author : Max Dixon
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780932807472
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Wataugans written by Max Dixon and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as part of a series for the Tennessee American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, this well-written volume gives necessary background information and details the early activities in that area in the 1760s. It thoroughly covers the settlement during its vanguard role in the 1770s and chronicles the various events that brought a change from that of a holding action to one of aggressive expansion in the 1780s.
Author : Swan Moses Burnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332529834
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (298 download)
Download or read book The Over-Mountain Men written by Swan Moses Burnett and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Over-Mountain Men: Some Passages From a Page of Neglected History To judge of what a people are of their possibilities and potentialities, we must take account not only of their past history, but also of the ethnic constituents that has gone into their composition. The enduringness and strength, alike of a building and a people, depend upon the quality of its separate materials and the firmness and harmony of its construction. Estimated in this way the people of East Tennessee, and their antecedents in western North Carolina, are entitled to a high consideration and a front rank in the esteem of the patriotic American. No section of this country can of right lay a better claim to the title of pure American than that secluded region, and to none is the debt of gratitude of the nation greater. The one fierce blow they struck for American Independence was sharp and swift, but it was decisive. Cornwallis having carried all before him in South Carolina was bent on making a junction with Howe in Virginia, and, by their conjoined forces, they hoped to bear down the army of Washington, then weakened and dispirited with defeat. The intrepid Ferguson was sent forward to open up the way by enlisting all the Tories in the king's army, capturing or putting to death all the Whigs, and laying waste the country. We all know now, from a few pages of history, how well he was performing his mission when it was suddenly and effectually brought to an end at Kings Mountain. The men that met him there were mostly the mountain men from what was then West Carolina and Southwest Virginia, who were hastily assembled at the call of those who had led them in their warrings against the Aborigines. It was no organized army; it was simply a band of freemen whom duty called together for the accomplishment of a certain work which it seemed to them was necessary to be done. In all the wars on our continent this episode has no parallel. Of the 700 men who marched on foot and horseback across the smoky mountains to meet the advancing enemy, every man was an army within himself, and on many a trying time before had been his own high private, captain and general. Danger had been his constant companion; to live meant to fight, and to shoot his Dechard rifle with an unerring certainty was the one fine art he had assiduously cultivated. It is this individuality I wish to emphasize. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Clint Johnson
Publisher : ASDavis Media Group
ISBN 13 : 097660132X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Colonial America and the American Revolution written by Clint Johnson and published by ASDavis Media Group. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the casual traveler or dedicated history enthusiast, this definitive guide gives an illuminating glimpse into the nation's early days and struggle for independence. Relive the colonial days through a trip to Williamsburg, Virginia. Explore Washington Crossing State Park, where one of George Washington's pivotal victories took place on Christmas night in 1776.
