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Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2009-09-01
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780803225268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the early childhood and life of Grace Snyder, whose family owned a Nebraska homestead in the late nineteenth century and endured the hardships and dangers of the prairie.
Author: Mary Mann Hamilton
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Published: 2017-12-05
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 0316341363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family, and make a home in the early American South. Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) began recording her experiences in the backwoods of the Mississippi Delta. The result is this astonishing first-person account of a pioneer woman who braved grueling work, profound tragedy, and a pitiless wilderness (she and her family faced floods, tornadoes, fires, bears, panthers, and snakes) to protect her home in the early American South. An early draft of Trials of the Earth was submitted to a writers' competition sponsored by Little, Brown in 1933. It didn't win, and we almost lost the chance to bring this raw, vivid narrative to readers. Eighty-three years later, in partnership with Mary Mann Hamilton's descendants, we're proud to share this irreplaceable piece of American history. Written in spare, rich prose, Trials of the Earth is a precious record of one woman's extraordinary endurance and courage that will resonate with readers of history and fiction alike.
Author: Anna Howard Shaw
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2018-03-21
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 8027242754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis eBook edition of "The Story of a Pioneer: Autobiography " has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in the United States. Contents: First Memories In the Wilderness High-School and College Days The Wolf at the Door Shepherd of a Divided Flock Cape Cod Memories The Great Cause Drama in the Lecture-Field "Aunt Susan" The Passing of "Aunt Susan" The Widening Suffrage Stream Building a Home President of "The National" Recent Campaigns Convention Incidents Council Episodes Vale!
Author: Anna Howard Shaw
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anna Howard Shaw
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2018-03-13
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 8026884841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in the United States. Contents: First Memories In the Wilderness High-School and College Days The Wolf at the Door Shepherd of a Divided Flock Cape Cod Memories The Great Cause Drama in the Lecture-Field "Aunt Susan" The Passing of "Aunt Susan" The Widening Suffrage Stream Building a Home President of "The National" Recent Campaigns Convention Incidents Council Episodes Vale!
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9781941813096
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A side-by-side textual comparison of the three surviving typescript revisions of "Pioneer Girl" that uses the texts themselves to draw inferences about Laura Ingalls Wilder's authorial and Rose Wilder Lane's editorial processes and intentions, as well as about the working relationship between the two women during their attempts to market "Pioneer Girl" as adult nonfiction, prior to the publication of Wilder's Little House novels that are based on these original manuscripts"--
Author: James S. Brown
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2022-01-04
Total Pages: 450
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe subject and author of this Life-Sketch of a Pioneer is James Stephens Brown, a notable participant in the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in California, a member of the Mormon Battalion, a missionary, and notable writer and speaker. His life has been one of thrilling experiences, more than ordinarily falls to the lot even of a pioneer settler in the West. This book is full of peril and hardship; with startling episodes and thrilling adventures.
Author: Arabella Fulton
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780531112113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers the memoirs of a woman who traveled on the Oregon Trail
Author: Christiana Holmes Tillson
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780809319800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristiana and John Tillson moved from Massachusetts to central Illinois in 1822. Upon arriving in Montgomery County near what would soon be Hillsboro, they set up a general store and real estate business and began to raise a family. A half century later, in 1870, Christiana Tillson wrote about her early days in Illinois in a memoir published by R. R. Donnelley in 1919. The Tillsons lived quite ordinary lives in extraordinary times, notes Kay J. Carr, introducing this edition. They moved west and prospered in the land business at a time when America was being transformed from a rural, agricultural country into an urban, industrial nation. Their views and sensibilities, Carr says, might seem strange to us, but they were entirely normal to people in the early nineteenth century. Thus Tillson's memoir provides fascinating but believable snapshots of ordinary nineteenth-century American life.
Author: Clifton R. Wharton
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2015-09-01
Total Pages: 723
ISBN-13: 1628952326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrivilege and Prejudice is a stereotype-defying autobiography. It reveals a Black man whose good fortune in birth and heritage and opportunity of time and place helped him to forge breakthroughs in four separate careers. Clifton R. Wharton Jr. entered Harvard at age 16. The first Black student accepted to the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins, he went on to receive a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago—another first. For twenty-two years he promoted agricultural development in Latin America and Southeast Asia, earning a post as chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation. He again pioneered higher education firsts as president of Michigan State University and chancellor of the sixty-four-campus State University of New York system. As chairman and CEO of TIAA-CREF, he was the first Black CEO of a Fortune 500 company. His commitment to excellence culminated in his appointment as deputy secretary of state during the Clinton administration. A remarkable story of persistence and courage, Privilege and Prejudice also documents the challenges of competing in a society where obstacles, negative expectations, and stereotypical thinking remained stubbornly in place. An absorbing and candid narrative, it describes a most unusual childhood, a remarkable family, and a historic career.
