Across the Plains

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Publisher : Cosimo Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Across the Plains by : Robert Louis Stevenson

Download or read book Across the Plains written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 1892 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "America was to me a sort of promised land; 'westward the march of empire holds its way'; the race is for the moment to the young; what has been and what is we imperfectly and obscurely know; what is to be yet lies beyond the flight of our imaginations. . . " Robert Louis Stevenson, The Amateur Emigrant Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays (1892) by Robert Louis Stevenson is the second book in a trilogy that began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters and in which the author described his travels in the United States. Each of the 12 chapters is a self-contained essay that discusses a particular aspect of what Stevenson observed as he traveled by train from New York to California. They give a fascinating view of what travel was in the late Victorian period from the perspective of a Scottish visitor.

Sacagawea's Nickname

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Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590170991
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (79 download)

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Book Synopsis Sacagawea's Nickname by : Larry McMurtry

Download or read book Sacagawea's Nickname written by Larry McMurtry and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these 11 essays, all originally published in "The New York Review of Books," McMurtry brings his unique narrative gift and dry humor to a variety of western topics.

Across the Plains In 1844

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ISBN 13 : 9781409979128
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (791 download)

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Book Synopsis Across the Plains In 1844 by : Catherine Sager Pringle

Download or read book Across the Plains In 1844 written by Catherine Sager Pringle and published by . This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sager orphans (sometimes referred to as Sager children) were the children of Naomi and Henry Sager. In April 1844 Henry Sager and his family took part in the great westward migration and started their journey along the Oregon Trail. During their journey both Naomi and Henry Sager lost their lives and left their seven children orphaned. Later adopted by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, missionaries in what is now Washington, the children were orphaned a second time, when both their new parents were killed during the Whitman massacre in November 1847. Catherine (1835-1910), the eldest of the Sager girls, married Clark Pringle, a Methodist minister and bore him 8 children. They lived in Spokane, Washington. About 1860, ten years after her arrival in Oregon, she wrote a first-hand account of their journey across the plains and their life with the Whitmans. This account today is regarded as one of the most authentic accounts of the American westward migration. She hoped to earn enough money to set up an orphanage in the memory of Narcissa Whitman. She never found a publisher. Catherine died on August 10, 1910, at the age of seventy-five.

Great Plains

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466828889
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Great Plains by : Ian Frazier

Download or read book Great Plains written by Ian Frazier and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2001-05-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller Most travelers only fly over the Great Plains--but Ian Frazier, ever the intrepid and wide-eyed wanderer, is not your average traveler. A hilarious and fascinating look at the great middle of our nation. With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bull's cabin, to an abandoned house once terrorized by Bonnie and Clyde, to the scene of the murders chronicled in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It is an expedition that reveals the heart of the American West.

Across the Plains

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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816527261
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Across the Plains by : Sarah Royce

Download or read book Across the Plains written by Sarah Royce and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2009-06-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 30, 1849, Sarah Bayliss Royce, along with her husband, Josiah, and their daughter, Mary, left her home in Tipton, Iowa, and headed for California in a covered wagon. Along the way, she kept a diary which, nearly thirty years later, served as the basis for a memoir she titled Across the Plains. That book has been freshly transcribed by Jennifer Dawes Adkison from RoyceÕs original handwritten document, and this new edition is faithful to the original, restoring several passages that were omitted from the previous edition. In a new introduction Adkison reveals Across the Plains to be far more than a simple narrative of one pioneer womanÕs journey west. She explains that Royce wrote the book at the request of her son, Josiah Royce, a well-known professor of philosophy at Harvard University with motives of his own. She crafted the narrative that her son wanted: an argument for spiritual faith and fortitude as foundational to CaliforniaÕs history. Yet the narrative itself, in addition to offering a window into a world that has long lacked close documentation, gives us the opportunity to study the ways in which nineteenth-century western women asserted this primacy of faith and crafted their experience into stories with larger cultural and social resonance. Scholars have long used Across the Plains to mold and support an iconic image of the resolute pioneer woman. However, until now no one has considered RoyceÕs own self-conscious creation of this persona. Readers will discover that in many ways, Sarah RoyceÕs careful construction of this cultural portrait deepens our respect for her and our delight in her travels, travails, and triumphs.

Island of Bones

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803271441
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Island of Bones by : Joy Castro

Download or read book Island of Bones written by Joy Castro and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is “identity” when you’re a girl adopted as an infant by a Cuban American family of Jehovah’s Witnesses? The answer isn’t easy. You won’t find it in books. And you certainly won’t find it in the neighborhood. This is just the beginning of Joy Castro’s unmoored life of searching and striving that she’s turned to account with literary alchemy in Island of Bones. In personal essays that plumb the depths of not-belonging, Castro takes the all-too-raw materials of her adolescence and young adulthood and views them through the prism of time. The result is an exquisitely rendered, richly detailed perspective on a uniquely troubled young life that reflects on the larger questions each of us faces in a world where diversity and singularity are forever at odds. In the experiences of her past—hunger and abuse, flight as a fourteen-year-old runaway, single motherhood, the revelations of her “true” ethnic identity, the suicide of her father—Castro finds the “jagged, smashed place of edges and fragments” that she pieces together to create an island all her own. Hers is a complicated but very real depiction of what it is to “jump class,” to not belong but to find one’s voice in the interstices of identity.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Among Our Books

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis Among Our Books by : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of the Future

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ISBN 13 : 9781566894678
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (946 download)

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Essays I

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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748643850
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Book Synopsis Essays I by : R. L. Stevenson

Download or read book Essays I written by R. L. Stevenson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of novelistic explorations of modernism in mathematics and its cultural interrelations.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Classified Catalogue

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Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Classified Catalogue by : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Download or read book Classified Catalogue written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Way to the West

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Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826316530
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis The Way to the West by : Elliott West

Download or read book The Way to the West written by Elliott West and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegantly assembles the environmental, social, cultural, political, and economic history of the Great Plains in the 19th century.

The Complete Personal Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429602294
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Personal Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson written by Trenton B. Olsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all of Robert Louis Stevenson’s achievements in fiction, many of his contemporaries thought of him primarily as an essayist. His essays, known for their intellectual substance, emotional force, and stylistic vitality, were widely considered the best of their time. Despite the importance of Stevenson’s nonfiction, his personal essays—70 in total—have never been printed together in a single volume until now. Stevenson’s essays explore a range of topics from illness and evolution to marriage and dreams, and from literal and literary travel to the behavior of children and the character of dogs. Grappling with many of the cultural, ethical, and existential questions of his age, he resists dogma to draw fresh conclusions. Stevenson examines beggars and university students, immigrants and engineers, invalids and nurses, outlining his own colorful life story and unique approach to "the art of living" along the way. Whereas the most common and widely available versions of these texts were modified after Stevenson’s death, this volume gathers his personal essays, many of which have never appeared in any modern edition, in their authorized versions. These essays are still considered classic models of the form, and in this volume, the Editor presents them alongside an introduction and notes to assist in a rereading and reappreciation that is long overdue.

The Solace of Open Spaces

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504042883
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Solace of Open Spaces written by Gretel Ehrlich and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These transcendent, lyrical essays on the West announced Gretel Ehrlich as a major American writer—“Wyoming has found its Whitman” (Annie Dillard). Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she couldn’t leave. The Solace of Open Spaces is a chronicle of her first years on “the planet of Wyoming,” a personal journey into a place, a feeling, and a way of life. Ehrlich captures both the otherworldly beauty and cruelty of the natural forces—the harsh wind, bitter cold, and swiftly changing seasons—in the remote reaches of the American West. She brings depth, tenderness, and humor to her portraits of the peculiar souls who also call it home: hermits and ranchers, rodeo cowboys and schoolteachers, dreamers and realists. Together, these essays form an evocative and vibrant tribute to the life Ehrlich chose and the geography she loves. Originally written as journal entries addressed to a friend, The Solace of Open Spaces is raw, meditative, electrifying, and uncommonly wise. In prose “as expansive as a Wyoming vista, as charged as a bolt of prairie lightning,” Ehrlich explores the magical interplay between our interior lives and the world around us (Newsday).

The Review of Reviews

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Book Synopsis The Review of Reviews by : William Thomas Stead

Download or read book The Review of Reviews written by William Thomas Stead and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 1907-1911

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 1907-1911 written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: