Recollections of Seventy Years and Historical Gleanings of Allegheny, Pennsylvania (Classic Reprint)
Recollections of Seventy Years and Historical Gleanings of Allegheny, Pennsylvania (Classic Reprint)

Author: John E. Parke

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-14

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780265285381

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Excerpt from Recollections of Seventy Years and Historical Gleanings of Allegheny, Pennsylvania About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

John McMillan
John McMillan

Author: Dwight Ray Guthrie

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 2012-01-11

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0822975335

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The first comprehensive biography of John McMillan, who "blew the Gospel trumpet", and spread Presbyterianism west of the Alleghenies. McMillan was a missionary, minister, politician, patriarch, and a founder of Washington and Jefferson College. The book also offers a colorful history of the Scotch-Irish pioneers who tamed a rugged and hostile region of early America.

To Conquer the Air
To Conquer the Air

Author: James Tobin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-06-12

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1439135495

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James Tobin, award-winning author of Ernie Pyle's War and The Man He Became, has penned the definitive account of the inspiring and impassioned race between the Wright brothers and their primary rival Samuel Langley across ten years and two continents to conquer the air. For years, Wilbur Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in obscurity, supported only by their exceptional family. Meanwhile, the world watched as Samuel Langley, armed with a contract from the US War Department and all the resources of the Smithsonian Institution, sought to create the first manned flying machine. But while Langley saw flight as a problem of power, the Wrights saw a problem of balance. Thus their machines took two very different paths—Langley’s toward oblivion, the Wrights’ toward the heavens—though not before facing countless other obstacles. With a historian’s accuracy and a novelist’s eye, Tobin has captured an extraordinary moment in history. To Conquer the Air is itself a heroic achievement.