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Author : James W. Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Rachel Plummer Narrative written by James W. Parker and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James W. Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781519039187
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)
Download or read book 21 Months a Captive: Rachel Plummer and the Fort Parker Massacre (Annotated) written by James W. Parker and published by . This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 19, 1836, Fort Parker in Texas was overwhelmed by a band of Comanche Indians. Some residents were brutally murdered, others taken prisoner.Among those captured was eleven year old Cynthia Parker, who would remain with the Comanche for 24 years and give birth to famed Chief Quanah.Another captive was 17-year-old Rachel Plummer, mother of one, pregnant with her second child. She would soon have her first-born ripped from her arms, never to be seen again, and later watched as her second-born was killed before her eyes.After twenty-one months of captivity that destroyed her health, she was purchased and returned to her family. In this extraordinary account, her father tells of that horrible day when the fort was attacked, and his desperate efforts to find and retrieve the captives. Rachel details her terrible enslavement and how she eventually fought back.
Author : Rachel Plummer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (733 download)
Download or read book The Rachel Plummer Narrative written by Rachel Plummer and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jo Ella Powell Exley
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781603441094
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Frontier Blood written by Jo Ella Powell Exley and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must read for anyone with an interest in the far Southwest or Native American history.
Author : Garlyn Webb Wilburn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781612960876
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Father Forgive Them written by Garlyn Webb Wilburn and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a warm, clear day in the spring of 1836 seventeen-year-old Rachel Parker Plummer and her eighteen-month-old baby boy were abducted from their home in central Texas by a raiding party of Comanche and Kiowa Indians. She was, at that time, three months pregnant. Separated from her son and three other prisoners, Rachel was taken to the far reaches of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and Wyoming where she was held in the bondage of slavery for thirteen months.
Author : Rachel Plummer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781387945207
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (452 download)
Download or read book Narrative of the Capture and Subsequent Sufferings of Mrs. Rachel Plummer During a Captivity of Twentyone Months Among the Comanche Indians written by Rachel Plummer and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating a sensation in Texas, the U.S., and even abroad, Rachel Plummer's narrative was the first narrative published in the Republic of Texas on Indian captivity by Texas Indians. The stories of those who have survived captivity by the Comanche Indians of the Texas frontier are full of harrowing interest. One such story is the captivity of Rachel Plummer, a cousin to the mother of famous Comanche Chief Quanah Parker. The capture of Rachel Plummer by Comanches and her eventual ransom is a famous episode in Texas history, and one of her fellow captives, Cynthia Ann Parker, was adopted into the tribe and became the mother of legendary Comanche chief Quanah Parker. On May 19, 1836, a large party of Native Americans, including Comanches, Kiowas, Caddos, and Wichitas attacked the inhabitants of Fort Parker where Rachel Plummer resided. Rachel Plummer (1819 -1839), the 17-year-old wife of Luther Plummer, daughter of James Parker, and cousin to Cynthia Parker, was held captive by the Comanche for two years before being ransomed by her father. Her book on her captivity, "Narrative of the Capture and Subsequent Sufferings of Mrs. Rachel Plummer in 1838," was published in 1839. During her captivity, the Indians wandered over the country, crossed the plains and, as Plummer says, went as far as the headwaters of the Arkansas, where a number of tribes of Indians in March, 1837, held a big council to get up a combined war against the Texans. She talks of being on the headwaters of the Columbia and even in Sonora. In describing a contentious run-in with one of her female captor, Plummer writes: "An enraged tiger could not have screamed with more terrific violence than she did. She got hold of a club and hit me a time or two. I took it from her, and knocked her down with it. So we had a regular fight. During the fight, we broken down one side of the house, and had got fully out into the street. I discovered the same diffidence on the part of the Indians as in the other fight. The whole of them were around us, screaming as before, and no one touched us ...." Finally, a Mexican trader ransomed her west of the Rocky Mountains and in seventeen days she arrived in Santa Fe, where she was delivered to Col. William Donoho, an American trader, who finally took her to Independence about the beginning of 1838.
Author : James Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781726473484
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (734 download)
Download or read book The Rachel Plummer Narrative written by James Parker and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rachel Plummer Narrative
Author : S. C. Gwynne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416597158
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Empire of the Summer Moon written by S. C. Gwynne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing short of a revelation…will leave dust and blood on your jeans” (The New York Times Book Review). Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled backward by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. Gwynne’s exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads, and the amazing story of Cynthia Ann Parker and her son Quanah—a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being. Hailed by critics, S. C. Gwynne’s account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told. Empire of the Summer Moon announces him as a major new writer of American history.
Author : James W 1797-1865 Parker
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019350072
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Rachel Plummer Narrative written by James W 1797-1865 Parker and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful autobiography of Rachel Parker, a Texan woman who was abducted during a Comanche raid in 1836 and spent nearly two years of her life in captivity while pregnant. Her story is one of courage and resilience in the face of unimaginable hardship. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Fanny Kelly
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians written by Fanny Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Glenn Frankel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608191052
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Searchers written by Glenn Frankel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the making of the influential 1950s film inspired by the story of Cynthia Ann Parker, sharing details of Parker's 1836 abduction by the Comanche and her return to white culture twenty-four years later.
Author : Rachel Plummer
Publisher : Emma Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781910139479
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Wain written by Rachel Plummer and published by Emma Press Limited. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wain is a collection of LGBT themed poetry for teens based on retellings of Scottish myths. The collection contains stories about kelpies, selkies, and the Loch Ness Monster, alongside perhaps lesser-known mythical people and creatures, such as wulvers, Ghillie Dhu, and the Cat Sìth. These poems immerse readers in an enriching, diverse and enchanting vision of contemporary life. The poems in this collection are fun, surprising, and full of a magical mix of myth and contemporary LGBT themes - it is a perfect read for teens who are learning more about themselves, other people, and the world around them. Wain is fully illustrated in colour by Helene Boppert, and aimed at teenagers. Rachel Plummer was commissioned by LGBT Youth Scotland to write the collection, and the commission was funded by Creative Scotland. The book is accessible to all readers, Scottish and not - it comes with a glossary, which explains more about the myths in the poems. There is also a section of writing exercises to encourage young readers to write their own poems, inspired by the book.
Author : Ma-Nee Chacaby
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887555039
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)
Download or read book A Two-Spirit Journey written by Ma-Nee Chacaby and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling, harrowing, but ultimately uplifting story of resilience and self-discovery. "A Two-Spirit Journey" is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby’s story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism. As a child, Chacaby learned spiritual and cultural traditions from her Cree grandmother and trapping, hunting, and bush survival skills from her Ojibwa stepfather. She also suffered physical and sexual abuse by different adults, and in her teen years became alcoholic herself. At twenty, Chacaby moved to Thunder Bay with her children to escape an abusive marriage. Abuse, compounded by racism, continued, but Chacaby found supports to help herself and others. Over the following decades, she achieved sobriety; trained and worked as an alcoholism counsellor; raised her children and fostered many others; learned to live with visual impairment; and came out as a lesbian. In 2013, Chacaby led the first gay pride parade in Thunder Bay. Ma-Nee Chacaby has emerged from hardship grounded in faith, compassion, humour, and resilience. Her memoir provides unprecedented insights into the challenges still faced by many Indigenous people.
Author : Kate Morton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439152810
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Secret Keeper written by Kate Morton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Withdrawing from a family party to the solitude of her tree house, 16-year-old Laurel Nicolson witnesses a shocking murder that throughout a subsequent half century shapes her beliefs, her acting career and the lives of three strangers from vastly different cultures. By the best-selling author of The Distant Hours. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.
Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811221040
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic) written by Muriel Spark and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1998-04-17 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."
Author : Jeanette Winterson
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547541481
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Lighthousekeeping written by Jeanette Winterson and published by HMH. This book was released on 2006-04-03 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An orphaned girl is held spellbound by the tales of a lighthouse keeper on the Scottish coast, in a novel by the Costa Award-winning author of The Passion. After her mother is literally swept away by the savage winds off the Atlantic coast of Salts, Scotland, never to be seen again, the orphaned Silver is feeling particularly unmoored. Taken in by the mysterious keeper of a lighthouse on Cape Wrath, Silver finds an anchor in Mr. Pew—blind, as old and legendary as a unicorn, and a yarn spinner of persuasive power. The tale he has to tell Silver is that of a nineteenth-century clergyman named Babel Dark, whose life was divided between a loving light and a mask of deceit. Peopled with such luminaries as Charles Darwin and Robert Louis Stevenson, Mr. Pew’s story within a story within a story soon unfolds like a map. It’s one that Silver must follow if she’s to be led through her own darkness, and to find her own meaning in life, in this novel by a winner of the Costa, Lambda, and E.M. Forster Awards, the author of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit; Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? and other acclaimed works. “In her sea-soaked and hypnotic eighth novel, Winterson turns the tale of an orphaned young girl and a blind old man into a fable about love and the power of storytelling…Atmospheric and elusive, Winterson's high-modernist excursion is an inspired meditation on myth and language.”—The New Yorker
Author : Christopher Plummer
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307373126
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book In Spite of Myself written by Christopher Plummer and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada’s most celebrated and acclaimed actor lets loose in a magnificent memoir that will delight and enchant readers across the country. A rollicking, rich self-portrait written by one of today’s greatest living actors. The story of a “young wastrel, incurably romantic, spoiled rotten” – his privileged Montreal background, rich in Victorian gentility, included steam yachts, rare orchid farms, music lessons in Paris and Berlin – “who tore himself away from the ski slopes to break into the big, bad world of theater not from the streets up but from an Edwardian living room down.” Plummer writes of his early acting days – on radio and stage with William Shatner and other fellow Canadians; of the early days of the Stratford Festival in southern Ontario; of his Broadway debut at twenty-four in The Starcross Story, starring Eva Le Gallienne (“It opened and closed in one night, but what a night!”); of joining Peter Hall’s Royal Shakespeare Company (its other members included Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave and Peter O’Toole); of his first picture, Stage Struck, directed by Sidney Lumet; and of The Sound of Music, which he affectionately dubbed “S&M.” He writes about his legendary colleagues: Dame Judith Anderson (“the Tasmanian devil from Down Under”); Sir Tyrone Guthrie; Sir Laurence Olivier; Elia Kazan (“this chameleon of chameleons might change into you, wear your skin, steal your soul”); and “that reprobate” Jason Robards, among many others. A revelation of the wild and exuberant ride that is the actor’s – at least this actor’s – life.
