Early Days in Long Valley
Author: Signe Bollar Callender
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 170
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Author: Signe Bollar Callender
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 170
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 124
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 14
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 1330
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2019-05-07
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1501168681
DOWNLOAD EBOOK#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country. As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler’s son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent pioneer in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as floods, fires, wolves and bears, no roads or bridges, no guarantees of any sort, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough’s subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments. This is a revelatory and quintessentially American story, written with David McCullough’s signature narrative energy.
Author: George E. Thompson
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2009-07
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 1440134219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo you live in Scotland, Denmark, China or Peru? Do you live in Paris, London, Moscow or Berlin? You can live in any of these places and still live in America. There is Indiana, PA; Florida, NM; and Honolulu, NC. Many family names (first, second and last) are found in the towns and communities where we live all across America. One may also find a variety of interesting, even fun names, including Asylum, Bamboo, and Cow Yard. These pages contain tens of thousands of names dealing with occupations, animals, plants, and points around the globe.
Author: E. Fenwick Colerick
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 290
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 1280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James C Monk
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2017-05-22
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 1524686492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKI suppose any book about Vietnam should discuss the historical perspective of the country and the political forces at play. The history we were embroiled in began in 1945. Here is my warped perspective sixty-eight years later. As most history evolves from previous conflicts, Vietnam is no different. At the end of WWII, after Japan surrendered to the Allied forces, Ho Chi Minh and the People’s Congress establish the National Committee of Vietnam to form a provisional government. Japan then transferred all power to Ho Chi Minh’s Viet Minh government.