[PDF] Pioneer Biography eBook

Author : John Mack Faragher
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 1993-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429997060

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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993 In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America's famous frontier hero. Drawing from popular narrative, the public record, scraps of documentation from Boone's own hand, and a treasure of reminiscence gathered by nineteenth-century antiquarians, Faragher uses the methods of new social history to create a portrait of the man and the times he helped shape. Blending themes from a much vitalized Western and frontier history with the words and ideas of ordinary people, Faragher has produced a book that will stand as the definitive life of Daniel Boone for decades to come, and one that illuminates the frontier world of Boone like no other.

Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 38,48 MB
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1501168681

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#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 : James McBride
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,71 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
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ISBN : 9781022184459

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This book provides biographies of important pioneers in American history. From Daniel Boone to Davy Crockett, readers gain a deeper understanding of the people who shaped our country. A must-read for history buffs and anyone interested in the American frontier. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : John G. Turner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 32,76 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674067312

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Brigham Young was a rough-hewn New York craftsman whose impoverished life was electrified by the Mormon faith. Turner provides a fully realized portrait of this spiritual prophet, viewed by followers as a protector and by opponents as a heretic. His pioneering faith made a deep imprint on tens of thousands of lives in the American Mountain West.

Author : Jayne Pettit
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780531115220

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A biography of the zoologist focusing on her work with the chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania.

Author : John Parlin
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 19,68 MB
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0307807835

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"Women must try to do things as men have tried. " When she was eight years old, Amelia Earhart built a roller coaster and "flew" through the air. She loved to watch daredevil pilots fly loops in the sky. Amelia decided to pilot a plane herself, and became one of the first women to learn to fly. She broke flight records and in 1932 was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. The whole world admired her courage and daring. Amelia Earhart disappeared while trying to set a new record flying all the way around the world at the equator, but her pioneer spirit inspired many others to follow in her path.

Author : James Smith Buck
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385428998

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.