Life of Albert Pike (c)
Life of Albert Pike (c)

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Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published:

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13: 9781610752350

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A Life of Albert Pike, originally published in 1997, is as much a study of antebellum Arkansas as it is a portrait of the former general. A native of Massachusetts, Pike settled in Arkansas Territory in 1832 after wandering the Great Plains of Texas and New Mexico for two years. In Arkansas he became a schoolteacher, newspaperman, lawyer, Whig leader, poet, Freemason, and Confederate general who championed secession and fought against Black suffrage. During his tenure as Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite—a position he held for more than thirty years beginning in 1859—Pike popularized the Masonic movement in the American South and Far West. In the wake of the Civil War, Pike left Arkansas, ultimately settling in Washington, D.C., where he lived out his last years in the Mason's House of the Temple. Drawing on original documents, Pike’s copious writings, and interviews with Pike’s descendants, Walter Lee Brown presents a fascinating personal history that also serves as a rich compendium of Arkansas’s antebellum history.

Yankee Destinies
Yankee Destinies

Author: Peter R. Knights

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1469620162

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This book reconstructs important milestones in the lives of 2,808 white, native-born men who resided in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1860 or 1870. Selected systematically from the census for those two years, these men represent two cross-sections of those viewed by contemporaries as "typical" Bostonians. Using a broad array of sources--manuscript census returns; tax assessments; city directories; birth, marriage, and death records for more than twenty states; cemetery records; newspapers; and family genealogies--Peter Knights traced these men not only back to their origins in hundreds of small New England towns but also (for those who left) onward from Boston. He determined changes in their occupations and wealth and after they arrived in Boston, the fates of their marriages, their production of children, and--in all but seventy cases--their deaths and the causes thereof. The result is a comprehensive quantitative study of important aspects of the lives of what are probably the largest sample population groups for any North American community.

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Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc

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Published: 1905

Total Pages: 890

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Edgar Allan Poe Analyzes Handwriting: A Chapter on Autography
Edgar Allan Poe Analyzes Handwriting: A Chapter on Autography

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008-02

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 0615182631

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Edgar Allan Poe's classic work of graphology, which includes as much literary criticism as it does handwriting analysis, and also serves as an overview of the major literary figures of his time - some still well-known, many forgotten. This edition includes an introduction and a Biographical Dictionary of Poe's Subjects.