[PDF] Hardscrabble Or The Fall Of Chicago eBook

Author : Major Richardson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368340115

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Author : Major Richardson
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Fiction
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Hardscrabble is an adventurous historical fiction about the Indian attack on Fort Dearborn in 1812. It was a battle between United States troops and Potawatomi Native Americans that lasted about 15 minutes and resulted in a victory for the Native Americans. The story is full of amusing characters and descriptions that excellently portray the tensions of the battle.

Author : Richardson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 15,33 MB
Release : 2016-02-19
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ISBN : 9781530122523

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John Richardson was a British Army officer and the first Canadian-born novelist to achieve international recognition.

Author : John Richardson
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,90 MB
Release : 2009-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409930952

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John Richardson (1796-1852) was a British Army officer and the first Canadian-born novelist to achieve international recognition. At the age of 16 he enlisted as a gentleman volunteer with the British 41st Foot. This is when he met Tecumseh and General Isaac Brock, whose personalities marked his imagination and whom he would later immortalize in his novel The Canadian Brothers (1840) and in other writings. During the War of 1812, he was imprisoned for a year in the United States after his capture during the battle of Moraviantown. He began his fiction-writing career with novels about the British and French societies of his time. In his third and most successful novel, Wacousta (1832), he turned to the North American frontier for his setting and to its recent history for its historical framework.

Author : Richardson Richardson
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 31,57 MB
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781331373650

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Excerpt from Hardscrabble or the Fall of Chicago: A Tale of Indian Warfare It was on a beautiful day in the early part of the month of April, 1812, that four persons were met in a rude farm-house, situated on the Southern Branch of the Chicago river, and about four miles distant from the fort of that name. They had just risen from their humble mid-day meal, and three of them were now lingering near the fire-place, filled with blazing logs, which, at that early season, diffused a warmth by no means disagreeable, and gave an air of cheerfulness to the interior of the smoke-discolored building. He who appeared to be master of the establishment was a tall, good looking man of about forty-five, who had, evidently, been long a denizen of the forest, for his bronzed countenance bore traces of care and toil, while his rugged, yet well-formed hands conveyed the impression of the unceasing war he had waged against the gigantic trees of this Western land. He was habited in a hunting-frock of grey homespun, reaching about half way down to his knee, and trimmed with a full fringe of a somewhat darker hue. His trowsers were of the same material, and both were girt around his loins by a common belt of black leather, fastened by a plain white buckle, into which was thrust a sheath of black leather also, containing a large knife peculiar to the backwoodsmen of that day. His feet were encased in moccasins, and on his head, covered with strong dark hair, was carelessly donned a slouched hat of common black felt, with several plaited folds of the sweet grass of the adjoining prairie for a band. Ho was seemingly a man of strong muscular power, while his stern dark eye denoted firmness and daring. The elder of the two men, to whom this individual stood, evidently, in the character of a superior, was a short thick-set person of about fifty, with huge whiskers that, originally black, had been slightly grizzled by time. His eyebrows were bushy and overhanging, and almost concealed the small, and twinkling eyes, which it required the beholder to encounter more than once before he could decide their true color to be a dark gray. 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.