Born On A Mountaintop

Author : Bob Thompson
Publisher : Crown
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307720900

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Born on a Mountaintop by Bob Thompson Pdf

Pioneer. Congressman. Martyr of the Alamo. King of the Wild Frontier. As with all great legends, Davy Crockett's has been retold many times. Over the years, he has been repeatedly reinvented by historians and popular storytellers. In Born on a Mountaintop, Bob Thompson combines the stories of the real hero and his Disney-enhanced afterlife as he delves deep into our love for an American icon. In the road-trip tradition of Sarah Vowell and Tony Horwitz, Thompson follows Crockett's footsteps from his birthplace in east Tennessee to Washington, where he served three terms in Congress, and on to Texas and the gates of the Alamo, seeking out those who know, love, and are still willing to fight over Davy's life and legacy. Born on a Mountaintop is more than just a bold new biography of one of the great American heroes. Thompson's rich mix of scholarship, reportage, humor, and exploration of modern Crockett landscapes bring Davy Crockett's impact on the American imagination vividly to life.

Author : David Ferrier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1737823845

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Born on a Mountaintop by David Ferrier Pdf

Author David Ferrier has remembered, recreated (and embellished) his choice childhood memories into this collection of twenty short stories. Spanning the years 1957 to the fall of 1963 he chronicles his joys, fears, triumphs and tragedies as they played out against the panorama of American history.Through the fantasy of Davy Crockett, the magic of Camelot on the Potomac, looming Armageddon from the island of Cuba and heartbreak in downtown Dallas, children were growing up, coming of age, reckoning and reasoning with the events of the times.It was, at times, a very frightening journey.Born On A Mountaintop is not all true, but most of it is, the rest should be.

Author : Larissa Theule
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781683354598

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Born to Ride by Larissa Theule Pdf

Louise Belinda Bellflower lives in Rochester, New York, in 1896. She spends her days playing with her brother, Joe. But Joe gets to ride a bicycle, and Louise Belinda doesn’t. In fact, Joe issues a solemn warning: If girls ride bikes, their faces will get so scrunched up, eyes bulging from the effort of balancing, that they’ll get stuck that way FOREVER! Louise Belinda is appalled by this nonsense, so she strikes out to discover the truth about this so-called “bicycle face.” Set against the backdrop of the women’s suffrage movement, Born to Ride is the story of one girl’s courageous quest to prove that she can do everything the boys can do, while capturing the universal freedom and accomplishment children experience when riding a bike.

Author : David Ferrier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1513668021

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Born On A Mountaintop by David Ferrier Pdf

This book is a reminisce, a personal history of events long past, sweetened by time, recalled with longing, factual, but not accurate. The events I have chosen to write about essentially happened, though not in the idealized manner I have recorded them. It is the issues, the perplexing questions and contradictions I encountered growing up which I have attempted to relate most accurately. Myths, Good and Evil, customs, traditions, facts and fables, along with not so Little White Lies were a minefield I had to traverse through my childhood. Not all of these fictions were harmful, but many were, and I still puzzle over their purpose. My companions on this journey, as portrayed in these stories, are for the most part, amalgams of my childhood companions. I have chosen to respect their privacy and not inflict my uncertainties and issues onto their journey of growth. Lowell, Massachusetts remains constant in my memory, a field of clover with considerable puddles of mud and patches of hemlock around the edges. On those occasions when I can remain still I can recall her rattling city buses, red brick mills lining the Merrimack River, her green, well tended parks and corner taverns alongside corner churches. The rest is silence. Mostly.

Author : Bob Thompson
Publisher : Crown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307720894

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Born on a Mountaintop by Bob Thompson Pdf

Traces the author's visits to key areas in the life of Davy Crockett, including the legendary frontiersman's Tennessee River Valley home and the Alamo site in Texas, exploring Crockett's true life and enduring cultural influence.

Author : John McLay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 096884670X

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On Mountaintop Rock by John McLay Pdf

In 1954, in the small town of Jasper in the Canadian Rockies, Jenny and Edward meet a character named Fraser McKillop and become involved in a quest to solve a true mountain mystery.

Author : Alice Faye Duncan
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781635924312

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Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop by Alice Faye Duncan Pdf

A 2019 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Editors' Choice * A Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book * Booklist Top 10 Diverse Books for Middle Grade or Older Readers * A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books "(A) history that everyone should know: required and inspired." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination--when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest. In February 1968, two African American sanitation workers were killed by unsafe equipment in Memphis, Tennessee. Outraged at the city's refusal to recognize a labor union that would fight for higher pay and safer working conditions, sanitation workers went on strike. The strike lasted two months, during which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was called to help with the protests. While his presence was greatly inspiring to the community, this unfortunately would be his last stand for justice. He was assassinated in his Memphis hotel the day after delivering his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" sermon in Mason Temple Church. Inspired by the memories of a teacher who participated in the strike as a child, author Alice Faye Duncan reveals the story of the Memphis sanitation strike from the perspective of a young girl with a riveting combination of poetry and prose.

Author : Joe Friesen
Publisher : Signal
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771030246

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The Ballad of Danny Wolfe by Joe Friesen Pdf

A gripping, fast-paced account of the life of the indigenous man who founded and led the Indian Posse, one of the most dangerous gangs in North America, into violence, power, and infamy. In 2008, Daniel Richard Wolfe was awaiting trial on two counts of first-degree murder at the Regina Correctional Centre. This wasn't his first time in jail; from his teenage years his life had been marked by stints in and out of prison – with Danny sometimes finding his own way out. This time around, he was orchestrating his boldest move yet: a carefully plotted escape that would send the RCMP on a nationwide manhunt, launching Danny Wolfe to headline-topping notoriety. The Ballad of Danny Wolfe cinematically traces the storied years of Danny Wolfe's life, from his birth in Regina to his relationship with his mother, Susan Creeley, a First Nations woman who was forever marked by her experience in the residential school system; to his first brush with the law at the age of four and then his subsequent arrests; to the creation of the Indian Posse, the street gang he founded with a handful of equally disenfranchised indigenous friends; to the dissonance Danny felt between the traditional world he was born into and the criminal one that became his life; to the dramatic tensions over power and loyalty unfolding in the gang world and within the Posse itself. Drawing on unprecedented access to the Wolfe family and first-hand accounts from the people closest to the gang leader, Joe Friesen's portrait of Danny Wolfe is at once riveting and timely, nuanced and provocative.

Author : Becca Stevens
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780718094560

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Love Heals by Becca Stevens Pdf

Have you struggled with deep wounds, grief, or longing for justice? Love heals us and hope is always possible. Becca Stevens, founder and president of Thistle Farms, shares true stories of healing and joy where brokenness is transformed into compassion. In each chapter, Stevens provides encouragement and practical steps for anyone going through a difficult season or searching for a deeper faith. Love Heals is: A gorgeous gift book with beautiful photography and inspirational callouts For women of any age seeking healing and hope A gift of hope for a friend or self-purchase After reading, readers will learn: Love heals by the mercy of God. Love heals with compassion. Love heals during the act of forgiving. Love heals past our fears. Love heals across the world. In Love Heals, you'll find principles that have transformed lives. Stevens has been featured in the New York Times, on ABC World News, NPR, the TODAY show, and PBS, and named a 2016 CNN Hero. In 2011, the White House named Becca a "Champion of Change."

Author : Ellen Cooney
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544236158

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The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances by Ellen Cooney Pdf

A novel of a young woman who, despite knowing nothing about animals, signs herself up for dog training school at The Sanctuary, where she discovers that rescue can find even the most hopeless among us and that friends come in all shapes, sizes, and breeds

Author : Dianna Buck
Publisher : Teacher Created Resources
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781420682380

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Read-Write-Respond Using Historic Events: July-December by Dianna Buck Pdf

Author : Paul Williams
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476665870

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Jackson, Crockett and Houston on the American Frontier by Paul Williams Pdf

The 1813 storming of Fort Mims by Creek Indians brought to light the careers of Andrew Jackson, David Crockett and Sam Houston. All three fought the Creeks and each would have his part to play two decades later when the Alamo was stormed during the fight for Texan independence from Mexico. President Jackson was the first head of state to recognize the fledgling Republic of Texas. Colonel Crockett would be enshrined as a folk hero for his stand at the Alamo. General Houston won Texan independence at San Jacinto in 1836. This book tells the stories of the two landmark battles--at Fort Mims and the Alamo--and the interwoven lives of Jackson, Crockett and Houston, three of the most fascinating men in American history.

Author : Susan Sawyer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762795833

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Myths and Mysteries of Tennessee by Susan Sawyer Pdf

This engaging, myth-busting series seeks new explanations for the ghost stories, outlaw tales, haunted places, and unsolved mysteries that shaped a state's identity.

Author : Earl B. Russell
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781475985849

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Cold Turkey at Nine by Earl B. Russell Pdf

Having been born on April Fools Day, author Earl B. Russell likes to imagine that in an early sign of his precocious nature, the doctor dried him off, held him up for his mother to see, and then listened as the baby looked at his mother and exclaimed, April Fool! Russells mother knew he was a problem child right off the bat. At first glance, his older brother told everyone Russell would never amount to anythingso much for making a good first impression! As his life began in a rural Tennessee farmhouse, disappointing both his mother and brother, he had nowhere to go but up. In his tragicomic memoir, Russell traces his unimaginable postWorld War II life in the American Heartland through zany and introspective accounts that reveal horrific tragedies, soul-searching life lessons, and amusing adventures. Beginning with his upbringing on a poor farm, Russell shares compelling narrative from his coming-of-age journey as he encounters unspeakable losses, revels in the joys of marriage and family, climbs the academic ladder, and confronts a forty-year-old family secret. Along the way, the problem-child-turned-adult finds himself in raw academic brawls in the halls of ivy, conferring with world-renowned retinal researchers, and crossing paths with astronaut Neil Armstrong, Mickey Mantle, Queen Elizabeth, and Prince Charles. Cold Turkey at Nine is an engaging story of resiliency, love, and one mischievous little boys path as he explores how ordinary people deal with extraordinary circumstances.

Author : Baptiste Paul
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 9780735844810

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Climb On! by Baptiste Paul Pdf

Children form teams, build a pitch, and play a joyous game of soccer in a book with English and Creole (as spoken in Saint Lucia) vocabulary words.