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Book Synopsis The Arizona of Joseph Pratt Allyn by : Joseph Pratt Allyn
Download or read book The Arizona of Joseph Pratt Allyn written by Joseph Pratt Allyn and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Pratt Allyn was appointed associated judge of the newly established Territory of Arizona in 1863 and immediately set out for the Great Southwest. As he crossed the continent with the territorial party, he began a brilliant series of letters to the Hartford Evening Press. This collection of his correspondence provides a fascinating picture of pioneer Arizona. Editor Nicholson's extensive annotations and the biography of Allyn supply important background information. Enhanced by his quiet humor and talent for recording significant details, Allyn's letters are rich in valuable primary source material. They offer a personal view of such well-known figures as King Woolsey, Captain Joseph Reddeford Walker, and Bishop John Lamy. They also furnish vivid descriptions of the major settlements and outposts, including the now partially submerged boom town of La Paz. The Arizona of Joseph Pratt Allyn is a colorful and revealing panorama of the early territorial years.
Book Synopsis Pioneer Letters of Gershom Flagg by : Gershom Flagg
Download or read book Pioneer Letters of Gershom Flagg written by Gershom Flagg and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gay Is Good written by Michael G. Long and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to popular notions, today’s LGBT movement did not begin with the Stonewall riots in 1969. Long before Stonewall, there was Franklin Kameny (1925–2011), one of the most significant figures in the gay rights movement. Beginning in 1958, he encouraged gay people to embrace homosexuality as moral and healthy, publicly denounced the federal government for excluding homosexuals from federal employment, openly fought the military’s ban against gay men and women, debated psychiatrists who depicted homosexuality as a mental disorder, identified test cases to advance civil liberties through the federal courts, acted as counsel to countless homosexuals suffering state-sanctioned discrimination, and organized marches for gay rights at the White House and other public institutions. In Gay Is Good, Long collects Kameny’s historically rich letters, revealing some of the early stirrings of today’s politically powerful LGBT movement. These letters are lively and colorful because they are in Kameny’s inimitable voice—a voice that was consistently loud, echoing through such places as the Oval Office, the Pentagon, and the British Parliament, and often shrill, piercing to the federal agency heads, military generals, and media personalities who received his countless letters. This volume collects approximately 150 letters from 1958 to 1975, a critical period in Kameny’s life during which he evolved from a victim of the law to a vocal opponent of the law, to the voice of the law itself. Long situates these letters in context, giving historical and biographical data about the subjects and events involved. Gay Is Good pays tribute to an advocate whose tireless efforts created a massive shift in social attitudes and practices, leading the way toward equality for the LGBT community.
Book Synopsis Writing the Pioneer Woman by : Janet Floyd
Download or read book Writing the Pioneer Woman written by Janet Floyd and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on a series of autobiographical texts, published and private, well known and obscure, Writing the Pioneer Woman examines the writing of domestic life on the nineteenth-century North American frontier. In an attempt to determine the meanings found in the pioneer woman's everyday writings -- from records of recipes to descriptions of washing floors -- Janet Floyd explores domestic details in the autobiographical writing of British and Anglo-American female emigrants.
Author :Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery (Vic.) Publisher :Melbourne : Published for the Trustees of the Public Library by Robt. S. Brain ISBN 13 : Total Pages :356 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (5 download)
Book Synopsis Letters from Victorian Pioneers by : Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery (Vic.)
Download or read book Letters from Victorian Pioneers written by Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery (Vic.) and published by Melbourne : Published for the Trustees of the Public Library by Robt. S. Brain. This book was released on 1898 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressed by pioneers to His Excellency Charles Joseph La Trobe ... ; Each paper listed separately in this Bibliography.
Book Synopsis Last Letters from Attu by : Mary Breu
Download or read book Last Letters from Attu written by Mary Breu and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She was a school teacher whose life changed forever on that Sunday morning in June 1942 when the Japanese military invaded Attu Island and Etta became a prisoner of war. Etta and her sister moved to the Territory of Alaska in 1922. She planned to stay only one year as a vacation, but this 40 something year old nurse from back east met Foster Jones and fell in love. They married and for nearly twenty years they lived, worked and taught in remote Athabascan, Alutiiq, Yup’ik and Aleut villages where they were the only outsiders. Their last assignment was Attu. After the invasion, Etta became a prisoner of war and spent 39 months in Japanese POW sites located in Yokohama and Totsuka. She was the first female Caucasian taken prisoner by a foreign enemy on the North American Continent since the War of 1812, and she was the first American female released by the Japanese at the end of World War II. Using descriptive letters that she penned herself, her unpublished manuscript, historical documents and personal interviews with key people who were involved with events as they happened, her extraordinary story is told for the first time in this book.
Download or read book Pioneer Women written by Joanna Stratton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as “uncommonly interesting” and “a remarkable distillation of primary sources.” Never before has there been such a detailed record of women’s courage, such a living portrait of the women who civilized the American frontier. Here are their stories: wilderness mothers, schoolmarms, Indian squaws, immigrants, homesteaders, and circuit riders. Their personal recollections of prairie fires, locust plagues, cowboy shootouts, Indian raids, and blizzards on the plains vividly reveal the drama, danger and excitement of the pioneer experience. These were women of relentless determination, whose tenacity helped them to conquer loneliness and privation. Their work was the work of survival, it demanded as much from them as from their men—and at last that partnership has been recognized. “These voices are haunting” (The New York Times Book Review), and they reveal the special heroism and industriousness of pioneer women as never before.
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 The "America Letters" by : Theodore Christian Blegen
Download or read book The "America Letters" written by Theodore Christian Blegen and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pioneer History by : Samuel Prescott Hildreth
Download or read book Pioneer History written by Samuel Prescott Hildreth and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letter from Birmingham Jail by : Martin Luther King
Download or read book Letter from Birmingham Jail written by Martin Luther King and published by HarperOne. This book was released on 2025-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's essay "Letter from Birmingham Jail," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. With an afterword by Reginald Dwayne Betts On April 16, 1923, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., responded to an open letter written and published by eight white clergyman admonishing the civil rights demonstrations happening in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. King drafted his seminal response on scraps of paper smuggled into jail. King criticizes his detractors for caring more about order than justice, defends nonviolent protests, and argues for the moral responsibility to obey just laws while disobeying unjust ones. "Letter from Birmingham Jail" proclaims a message - confronting any injustice is an acceptable and righteous reason for civil disobedience. This beautifully designed edition presents Dr. King's speech in its entirety, paying tribute to this extraordinary leader and his immeasurable contribution, and inspiring a new generation of activists dedicated to carrying on the fight for justice and equality.
Book Synopsis Pioneer Spirit by : Mary Ellen Doyle
Download or read book Pioneer Spirit written by Mary Ellen Doyle and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother Catherine Spalding (1793–1858) was the cofounder and first leader of one of the most significant American religious communities for women—the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth near Bardstown, Kentucky. Elected at age nineteen to lead the order, Spalding also founded several educational institutions, Louisville's first private hospital, and the first social service agency for children in Kentucky. Pioneer Spirit is the first biography of Catherine Spalding, a woman who made it her life's work to serve the citizens of the Kentucky frontier. Catherine, who lost her mother at a young age and was raised in many different homes before she was ten years old, eventually came to be raised in a colony of Catholic families. These formative years taught her independence, the value of hard work and an enduring spirit, and the importance of education, all of which would figure prominently in her later career. Spalding became increasingly interested in health care, services for orphans, and education, and her business skills and strong sense of purpose allowed her to achieve her goals with little interference from outsiders. She showed a natural gift for administration, and the scope and services of the Sisters of Charity expanded under her leadership. In the midst of this ministerial work, however, Spalding always maintained the connection of her ministry to spiritual and communal life, ascribing great importance to all three facets of her calling. Author Mary Ellen Doyle notes that in Spalding's correspondence with the Sisters, she repeatedly emphasized the heart of charity: "genuine interest in each other and sisterly affection free of personal ambition or jealousy." By the time of Catherine Spalding's death, the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth extended beyond Nazareth to more than one hundred sisters in sixteen convents. Spalding's legacy of service continues today with more than six hundred members worldwide, and her story of progressive and compassionate leadership offers unique insights into the growth of a religious order and the struggles of developing America's frontier communities.
Book Synopsis The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett from the Mahatmas M. & K. H. by : Alfred Percy Sinnett
Download or read book The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett from the Mahatmas M. & K. H. written by Alfred Percy Sinnett and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book O Pioneers! written by Willa Cather and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the young Swedish-descended Alexandra Bergson inherits her father's farm in Nebraska, she must transform the land from a wind-swept prairie landscape into a thriving enterprise. She dedicates herself completely to the land—at the cost of great sacrifices. O Pioneers! [1913] is Willa Cather's great masterpiece about American pioneers, where the land is as important a character as the people who cultivate it. WILLA CATHER [1873-1947] was an American author. After studying at the University of Nebraska, she worked as a teacher and journalist. Cather's novels often focus on settlers in the USA with a particular emphasis on female pioneers. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours, and in 1943, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Book Synopsis Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies by : John Dickinson
Download or read book Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies written by John Dickinson and published by New York : Outlook Company. This book was released on 1903 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Soul of a Soldier:The True Story of a Mounted Pioneer in the Civil War by : Myron M. Miller
Download or read book The Soul of a Soldier:The True Story of a Mounted Pioneer in the Civil War written by Myron M. Miller and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soul of a Soldier: the True Story of a Mounted Pioneer in the Civil War by Myron M. Miller What happened to a soldier's soul during the Civil War as he faced the horrors of war?Why did a man leave behind a wife and two very young children to serve in the army? Who was Samuel K. Miller before, during and after the Civil War? What was the Mounted Pioneer Corps, and what was their critical role in keeping an army moving? Why was he chosen to be in that unit? When a woman was left with children while her husband went off to the Civil War, what pressures did she face because he was away? How did the women manage their homes while their husbands were away? What were the feelings of a Union soldier as he faced his “brothers” across the picket lines, the Confederates whom he came to know personally? What did they eat? Where did they live and sleep? What did they wear, and where did they get what they needed? What volunteer organizations sprung up to help the soldiers as they fought in the battlefields, either by providing physical help, or in aiding them to be in contact with their loved ones? From his vantage point, somewhat unique because of the positioning of the Mounted Pioneer Corps during battles, what did he see of the battles? What were the forces for and against the war in his community back in Pennsylvania? Who were the Copperheads? What happened to his four Ellis family brothers-in-law who also served in the Union Army? All these questions are answered in this book, “The Soul of a Soldier: the True Story of a Mounted Pioneer in the Civil War.” At age 42, Samuel K. Miller volunteered for the 211th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in September 1864 and served until June 1865. During his nine months in the service, he wrote 46 letters to his wife and, through her, to their one and five year old sons at their home in the little town of Hartstown, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, population less than 200. This book contains the 46 letters that Samuel wrote during his time in the service of the Union Army, first as an infantryman, then in the Mounted Pioneer Corps attached to the Headquarters of the Union Ninth Corps. Portions of those letters are organized into 17 thematic chapters, which provide the answers to the questions raised above. Samuel's letters provide a penetrating look into his soul, because of the highly personal nature of his letters. His letters reveal his character, values, his aspirations. Demetrius, an ancient Greek orator, literary critic, rhetorician and governor of Athens for ten years, once wrote: “Everyone reveals his own soul in his letters. In every other form of composition it is possible to determine the writer's character, but in none so clearly as the epistolary [the letters].” Demetrius' words apply to Samuel Miller, for Samuel revealed his soul in his letters.
