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Book Synopsis Under the Redwoods and Other Stories by : Bret Harte
Download or read book Under the Redwoods and Other Stories written by Bret Harte and published by Aegypan. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Harte moved to California in 1853, and worked there in a number of capacities -- as a miner, a teacher, a messenger, and a journalist. His story, "The Luck of Roaring Camp," appearing in "The Overland Monthly" magazine, propelled Harte to nationwide fame. "Under the Redwoods and Other Stories" brings Harte's eleven tales generally published as "Under the Redwoods" into a single volume with his famous tale, "A Drift from Redwood Camp." The opening tale, "Jimmy's Big Brother from California," is set among the miners. Robert Falloner has struck a rich vein and become a wealthy man. Dick Lasham is in a sickbed dying. Daddy Folsom, trying to minister to Dick, reads letters from Dick's younger brother and from the man in charge of him and his sister, Cissy. The latter wants money for the children's support, or they must find a new home. The former just wants a letter and a photo of his older brother, to prove to the other kids he has one. The miners take up a collection for Dick and write a letter supposedly by him, and Robert decides to deliver it. He arrives to be mistaken for Dick, and forced to play an unexpected part.
Book Synopsis Under the Redwoods & Other Stories by : Bret Harte
Download or read book Under the Redwoods & Other Stories written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Bret Harte was born on August 25, 1836 in Albany New York. As a young boy Harte developed an early love of books and reading. He first published at the tender age of 11; a satirical poem titled "Autumn Musings." Expecting praise he encountered anything but and was later to write "Such a shock was their ridicule to me that I wonder that I ever wrote another line of verse." By age 13 his formal education was at an end and four years later, in 1853, the family moved to California. Here the young man worked in a variety of capacities; miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist. But it was also here on the West coast that he found the stories and inspiration for the works that would endure his fame across the literary world. He championed the early writings of Mark Twain. He was instrumental in propelling the short story genre forward and brought tales of the Old West and the Gold Rush to a greater audience. At the height of his fame we would entertain staggering monetary offers to write for monthly magazines. His talents extended to poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches. As he moved location initially further east to New York and then through Consular appointments to Europe and finally to settle in England his audience diminished but he continued to experiment, to write and to publish. Bret Harte died of throat cancer on May 5th 1902 and is buried in St Peter's Church in Frimley, Surrey, England. Here we publish another very fine collection of his short stories; "Under the Redwoods & Other Stories".
Book Synopsis The Forest in the Trees by : Connie McLennan
Download or read book The Forest in the Trees written by Connie McLennan and published by Arbordale Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's common knowledge that coast redwoods are tall, tall trees. In fact, they are the tallest trees in the world. What most people don't know is that there is a whole other forest growing high in the canopy of a redwood forest. This adaptation of The House That Jack Built climbs into this secret, hidden habitat full of all kinds of plants and animals that call this forest home."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Under the Redwoods written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of Bret Harte by : Bret Harte
Download or read book The Works of Bret Harte written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Redwoods and Other Stories by : Lavinia Tiffany Bentley
Download or read book The Redwoods and Other Stories written by Lavinia Tiffany Bentley and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grand Canyon written by Jason Chin and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rivers wind through earth, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep known as the Grand Canyon. Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls for millennia, the Grand Canyon is much more than just a hole in the ground. Follow a father and daughter as they make their way through the cavernous wonder, discovering life both present and past. Weave in and out of time as perfectly placed die cuts show you that a fossil today was a creature much long ago, perhaps in a completely different environment. Complete with a spectacular double gatefold, an intricate map and extensive back matter.
Book Synopsis Who Saved the Redwoods by : Laura and James Wasserman
Download or read book Who Saved the Redwoods written by Laura and James Wasserman and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful lumber interests stood in the way of the first campaigns to save the redwood trees of Humboldt County, California, but they were boldly opposed and pushed back. This history of the early 1900s recalls the Progressive Era crusades of women and men who prevailed against great odds, protecting the best of California’s northern redwood forests. This book tells the forgotten, dramatic story of early 20th-century Californians and other Americans who were the first group to preserve an important span of California’s northern redwood forests, a story never told before in one place. Numerous books have been published about battles to save the redwoods, particularly during the California redwood wars of the 1960s, 1970s and 1990s. But no book exclusively details the first fights during the 1920s and 1930s and portrays the significant role of women. By successfully fending off the logging industry, they paved the way for the modern environmental movement. The book, incorporating archived material that highlights for the first time the prominent role of women, covers the most formative period of early efforts to save the redwoods, the 21 years from 1913 through 1934. The story recounts a colorful moment in time when a paradigm firmly shifted toward preservation and a new generation of native Californians successfully faced down Eastern lumber interests over destruction of their beautiful, ancient forests. The storyline follows a trajectory of initial failure and ridicule, then limited successes, and the determination that overcame the entrenched intransigence of lumber interests. Finally, a historic rush of stunning preservation victories established Humboldt Redwoods State Park as the largest expanse of surviving old-growth redwoods on earth. This book offers a definitive account of a pivotal moment in environmentalism and a new explanation of how forceful, determined people a century ago preserved the great California redwood forests that are now enjoyed by millions of visitors from every corner of earth. This book tells the forgotten, dramatic story of early 20th-century Californians and other Americans who were the first group to preserve an important span of California’s northern redwood forests, a story never told before in one place. By successfully fending off the logging industry, they paved the way for the modern environmental movement. The book, incorporating archived material that highlights for the first time the prominent role of women, covers the most formative period of early efforts to save the redwoods, the 21 years from 1913 through 1934. The story recounts a colorful moment in time when a paradigm firmly shifted toward preservation and a new generation of native Californians successfully faced down Eastern lumber interests over destruction of their beautiful, ancient forests. The storyline follows a trajectory of initial failure and ridicule, then limited successes, and the determination that overcame the entrenched intransigence of lumber interests. Finally, a historic rush of stunning preservation victories established Humboldt Redwoods State Park as the largest expanse of surviving old-growth redwoods on earth. This book offers a definitive account of a pivotal moment in environmentalism and a new explanation of how forceful, determined people a century ago preserved the great California redwood forests that are now enjoyed by millions of visitors from every corner of earth.
Book Synopsis A treasure of the redwoods and other tales by : Bret Harte
Download or read book A treasure of the redwoods and other tales written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Deal in Wheat; And Other Stories of the New and Old West by : Frank Norris
Download or read book A Deal in Wheat; And Other Stories of the New and Old West written by Frank Norris and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book Under the Redwoods written by Bret Harte and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-08 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the Redwoods by Bret Harte Excerpt JIMMY'S BIG BROTHER FROM CALIFORNIA As night crept up from the valley that stormy afternoon, Sawyer's Ledge was at first quite blotted out by wind and rain, but presently reappeared in little nebulous star-like points along the mountain side, as the straggling cabins of the settlement were one by one lit up by the miners returning from tunnel and claim. These stars were of varying brilliancy that evening, two notably so-one that eventually resolved itself into a many-candled illumination of a cabin of evident festivity; the other into a glimmering taper in the window of a silent one. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Download or read book Redwood and Ponytail written by K.A. Holt and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate and Tam meet, and both of their worlds tip sideways. At first, Tam figures Kate is your stereotypical cheerleader; Kate sees Tam as another tall jock. And the more they keep running into each other, the more they surprise each other. Beneath Kate's sleek ponytail and perfect façade, Tam sees a goofy, sensitive, lonely girl. And Tam's so much more than a volleyball player, Kate realizes: She's everything Kate wishes she could be. It's complicated. Except it's not. When Kate and Tam meet, they fall in like. It's as simple as that. But not everybody sees it that way. This novel in verse about two girls discovering their feelings for each other is a universal story of finding a way to be comfortable in your own skin.
Book Synopsis Discovered Alive by : William Gittlen
Download or read book Discovered Alive written by William Gittlen and published by Pierside Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Deal in Wheat And Other Stories by : A Deal in Wheat And Other Stories
Download or read book A Deal in Wheat And Other Stories written by A Deal in Wheat And Other Stories and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories by A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories is a captivating collection of short stories that explores the intricacies of human nature, societal issues, and the complexities of everyday life. Prepare to be enthralled by a diverse range of narratives that will leave a lasting impact. In this thought-provoking anthology, the author presents a rich tapestry of stories that delve into the depths of the human condition. From tales of love and loss to examinations of morality and social commentary, each story offers a unique perspective on the world we inhabit. A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories showcases the author's skillful storytelling, sharp observation, and ability to capture the essence of human emotions and experiences in concise narratives. This collection is a testament to the power of short fiction to illuminate the complexities of our existence. If you're a fan of thought-provoking literature, nuanced character studies, and engaging storytelling, A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories is a must-read. Order your copy today and immerse yourself in a captivating collection that showcases the beauty and depth of short fiction.
Download or read book Coral Reefs written by Jason Chin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl gets quite a surprise when the text of a library book she is reading transforms her surroundings into those of a teeming-with-life coral reef!
Book Synopsis An Unshared Secret, and Other Stories by : Florence Montgomery
Download or read book An Unshared Secret, and Other Stories written by Florence Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Redwoods written by Philip Hyde and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
