A Pionee
A Pionee

Author: George Stringer Rowe

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing

Published: 2009-06

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781104598624

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Reluctant Pioneer
Reluctant Pioneer

Author: Thomas Osborne

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2013-05-18

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1459702387

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Thomas Osborne delivers a gripping account of 1870s Ontario pioneer life. The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale. For the next five years Thomas endured starvation, falling through the ice and freezing, accidents with axes and boats, and narrow escapes from wolves and bears. Many years later, after returning to the United States, Osborne wrote down all his adventures in a graphic memoir that has become, in the words of author and journalist Roy MacGregor, "an undiscovered Canadian classic." Reluctant Pioneer provides a brooding sense of adventure and un- sentimental realism to deliver a powerful account of pioneer life where tragedies arrive as naturally as rain and where humour resides in irony.

Tiny Stitches
Tiny Stitches

Author: Gwendolyn Hooks

Publisher: Lee & Low Books

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781620141564

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The life story of Vivien Thomas, an African American surgical technician who developed the first procedure used to perform open-heart surgery on children.

Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown
Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown

Author: James S. Brown

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-11

Total Pages: 549

ISBN-13:

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This work is an autobiography of an early Mormon Pioneer, James Stephens Brown, who was a notable writer and speaker, was a prominent participant in the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in California. This significant work provides a window into the past. Brown's relationship with historical events of the moment contains the time when the territorial area of the great Republic was almost doubled by the addition of the Pacific slope and the Rocky Mountain region and when the great gold in California was discovered. The narrative of this book is presented in the simple and straightforward language of the people, with a clarity and power of expression that will be pleasing and impressive to every reader. The aim of the writer was to tell the story of his life for the advantage and amusement of his children and friends and of all others who may read it. Brown describes several compelling and startling incidents of his life with ease in this autobiography.

Memoirs of John R. Young, Utah Pioneer, 1847
Memoirs of John R. Young, Utah Pioneer, 1847

Author: John R Young

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9781230733081

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...and she walked two miles to Merthyr, took part in the singing, and was healed. This was the only person that I baptized while laboring in Wales. Christmas dawned, clear and cold, the ground covered lightly with snow. As soon as it was light, Elder William N. Williams and I walked to Thomas Jones'. On the way, we witnessed a foot-race, the runners being stripped to the flesh, and running splendidly. A large crowd was out to see the performance. Returning to Merthyr to attend a conference meeting, I next walked twelve miles with President Jacobs, and a Sister Simons of Bount'ful, Utah, who, after twenty-five years' absence had returned to visit relatives and obtain genealogies for temple work. She is doing good missionary work; many, through curiosity, come to our meetings to see a live woman from Utah. To them she bears a faithful testimony of the divinity of the Latter-day work. In the evening, the Tredagar saints gave a concert, which we attended. The Welsh are fond of amusements, especially singing, in which they are highly gifted. On the 26th, I attended a public meeting. Elders Jacobs, Young, Howells, and Williams spoke. After meeting, two were baptized. On December 27th, I walked twelve miles to Abersychan, attending a meeting at which four valley Elders spoke. We had an excellent time. On December 28th, Elder Thomas F. Howells and I walked six miles, to Pontypool, to visit a few saints living at that place. We took dinner with Brother Richard Watkins, and he accompanied us to Abergavanny. In the evening we held meeting at Brother Bazzants', then visited Father Ellis and his grandchild. The next day we returned to Abersychan, met Elders Jacobs and Williams, and were kindly cared for by a Sister Thomas. On Sunday, December 30th, we...