Love Letters To Missouri A Kept Promise

Author : Samuel Matthias Ayres
Publisher : Virtualbookworm Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : California
ISBN : 9781589398634

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Love Letters to Missouri--a Kept Promise by Samuel Matthias Ayres Pdf

"Love Letters from Missouri" is a human interest story of a young Missouri doctor, Dr. Samuel Ayres, who joined the general exodus of 1850 to the gold fields of California in the pursuit of riches. As promised to his wife, Samuel faithfully writes letters describing his day-to-day adventures of the trail, including brief encounters with Indians, successful treatment of numerous chases of cholera along the Platte river between Fort Kearney and Fort Laramie, and celebrating the third anniversary of the establishment of the Great City of Salt Lake. Frequently he mentions his loneliness and heartbreak being away from his wife Priscilla and their two small boys, of concern for his own personal safety and of his extreme disappointment in the deteriorated conditions and lack of opportunities found in California on his arrival. Following only one actual day of labor in the gold fields, Dr. Ayres succumbed to illness and tragically dies November 19, 1850, six months and one week after his departure from his Missouri wife and family.

Author : Will Bagley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806187754

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With Golden Visions Bright Before Them by Will Bagley Pdf

During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers—men, women, and children—followed the “road across the plains” to gold rush California. This magnificent chronicle—the second installment of Will Bagley’s sweeping Overland West series—captures the danger, excitement, and heartbreak of America’s first great rush for riches and its enduring consequences. With narrative scope and detail unmatched by earlier histories, With Golden Visions Bright Before Them retells this classic American saga through the voices of the people whose eyewitness testimonies vividly evoke the most dramatic era of westward migration. Traditional histories of the overland roads paint the gold rush migration as a heroic epic of progress that opened new lands and a continental treasure house for the advancement of civilization. Yet, according to Bagley, the transformation of the American West during this period is more complex and contentious than legend pretends. The gold rush epoch witnessed untold suffering and sacrifice, and the trails and their trials were enough to make many people turn back. For America’s Native peoples, the effect of the massive migration was no less than ruinous. The impact that tens of thousands of intruders had on Native peoples and their homelands is at the center of this story, not on its margins. Beautifully written and richly illustrated with photographs and maps, With Golden Visions Bright Before Them continues the saga that began with Bagley’s highly acclaimed, award-winning So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848, hailed by critics as a classic of western history.

Author : Eliza Sarah Graham
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504351034

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The Promises I Keep by Eliza Sarah Graham Pdf

Set in 1856 Missouri, seventeen-year-old Mariah Rainey has lived with little hope that life will be any different for her than it has been for her motherliving in poverty with an abusive husband and five children. Upon the death of her mother at her fathers hand, Mariah is suddenly thrown into survival mode: charged with her mothers dying wish that she take the children to safety, far away to someplace green. She quickly must learn the skills of a man in order to protect her siblings from her father and to somehow make an escape to her mothers family in Kentucky via the old abandoned Wilderness Road out of Independence. With her father sure to follow, Mariah and her younger sister, Lolly, disguise themselves as young men and take off with their baby brother, Trill, to face the treacherous journey to freedom. Able to handle any crisis along the trail, Mariah thrives as a man, but she can never escape the wrath of her father or the horrible retribution he will exact upon her and everyone she loves.

Author : Naomi Benaron
Publisher : BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 188615760X

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Love Letters from a Fat Man by Naomi Benaron Pdf

"A collection of short stories about family relationships and coming of age both in the United States and Rwanda during the 1990s Rwandan holocaust that offers a look at the wider subjects of race, religion, discrimination, and mental illness"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Bukeka Chandler
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781613461099

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A Prophetic Love Letter by Bukeka Chandler Pdf

Awoken by a startling prophetic dream, Bukeka Chandler could not predict the many turns her life would take. After praying for her life to line up with the will of God and dreaming of a promised love, she received confirmation of God's hand in her love life when a former coworker shared the same dream. Her dream then became her inspiration to do what God called her to do. As she listened to the promptings of the Holy Spirit, Bukeka's path toward obedience took her from Michigan to California, from a troubled marriage to studying marriage and family therapy. Through it all, Bukeka found security in God's steadfast presence and the beauty of His plans for her. This memoir exposes her personal drama while testifying of God's goodness as He led her toward the prophetic love described in her dream. A Prophetic Love Letter reveals a dramatic transformation from allowing her flesh to deceive her in believing this promised love was a famous man to recognizing the power of submission to God and gaining a new understanding of love. Open your heart to divine leading in A Prophetic Love Letter, which illustrates the hope to be found in trusting God's guidance.

Author : Andréa deCento
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781664234345

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He Promised by Andréa deCento Pdf

Andréa deCento is a tried and true warrior who has pushed through the lines of resistance to taste the sweet victories of accomplishment. Now, she offers that part of her soul to each of us on the written page. This book serves as much more than just inspirational words written at a writer’s desk; it is distilled wisdom coming to you from the table of a champion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1386 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Copyright
ISBN : UCAL:B3421219

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1070 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UCAL:B3501020

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The South Western Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, and Court of Appeals of Kentucky; Aug./Dec. 1886-May/Aug. 1892, Court of Appeals of Texas; Aug. 1892/Feb. 1893-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals of Texas; Apr./June 1896-Aug./Nov. 1907, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory; May/June 1927-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Appeals of Missouri and Commission of Appeals of Texas.

Author : Robert Desty,Charles Andrew Ray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : PRNC:32101043030129

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Western Reporter ... by Robert Desty,Charles Andrew Ray Pdf

Author : John Hope Franklin,Loren Schweninger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199728794

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In Search of the Promised Land by John Hope Franklin,Loren Schweninger Pdf

The matriarch of a remarkable African American family, Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. In Search of the Promised Land offers a vivid portrait of the extended Thomas-Rapier family and of slave life before the Civil War. Based on personal letters and an autobiography by one of Thomas' sons, this remarkable piece of detective work follows the family as they walk the boundary between slave and free, traveling across the country in search of a "promised land" where African Americans would be treated with respect. Their record of these journeys provides a vibrant picture of antebellum America, ranging from New Orleans to St. Louis to the Overland Trail. The authors weave a compelling narrative that illuminates the larger themes of slavery and freedom while examining the family's experiences with the California Gold Rush, Civil War battles, and steamboat adventures. The documents show how the Thomas-Rapier kin bore witness to the full gamut of slavery--from brutal punishment, runaways, and the breakup of slave families to miscegenation, insurrection panics, and slave patrols. The book also exposes the hidden lives of "virtually free" slaves, who maintained close relationships with whites, maneuvered within the system, and gained a large measure of autonomy.

Author : S. N. Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Temperance
ISBN : UIUC:30112041565877

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Broken Promises by S. N. Cook Pdf

Author : Lisa Tucker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451666861

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Agoraphobics in Love by Lisa Tucker Pdf

After the accidental death of her parents, Emily retreated to their home, where she freelances for an online greeting card company and tries to come up with words for feelings she can no longer feel. Jules climbed his way up to creative director of an advertising agency; he had power, a girlfriend, and a great apartment in New York, when he started having the panic attacks that would leave him in a tiny sublet, unemployed and alone. But when Emily and Jules both join an online board for agoraphobics, what begins as friendship quickly develops into something much more. Now if only they can find the courage to leave their “safety zones” and actually meet for the first time... Witty, wistful, and deeply moving, “Agoraphobics in Love” is an O. Henry story for the twenty-first century. In sparkling prose, Lisa Tucker perfectly captures the miracle of two lonely people finding each other—and finding their way back to life.

Author : Su LuoLuo
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649201379

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Sweet Wife: 99 Love Letters by Su LuoLuo Pdf

"Husband by blood, what do you think should be done if his novels don't have a hit rate?" The next day, everyone in the company stopped working. They were all reading novels on their cell phones. "My dear husband, what do you think we should do if no one is willing to act out the script that they wrote?" "My dear husband, I'm lonely and cold. Why don't you go and raise a little fresh meat for me to play with?" What? This was intolerable! A certain man pressed a certain girl down on the bed and said with an evil grin on his face, "My wife is obedient, what little fresh meat? All of it is fleeting. If I have a husband, I'll take a hundred little pieces of fresh meat myself, why don't I try it?" As far as Lu Qing was concerned, the most important thing in this lifetime, besides being a pet, was to be a pet .... Deep as the sea, only foam loved; foam deep, silent deep love.

Author : Saint Catherine (of Siena)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : UOM:49015000401803

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The Letters of Catherine of Siena by Saint Catherine (of Siena) Pdf

Author : Cyrus Shahrzad
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781450059435

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The Thresholds of Innocence by Cyrus Shahrzad Pdf

WITHIN ALL THAT HARSH REALITY, A LOVE BLOOMS THAT TAKES OVER ALL THE PATRIOTIC FERVOR AND THE DEEP LOVE FOR THE MOTHER LAND. A LOVE LIKE NO OTHER, A LOVE THAT DRAWS THE LINES OF HIS FUTURE HIS DEEP LOVE FOR JUST BEING A FREE MAN TAKES HIM TO THE LAND OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY. THIS IS THE STORY OF ALMOST ALL OF US. STORY OF US NEW GENERATION AMERICANS WHO HAVE COME HOME TO BE FREE. THIS LOVE STORY IS THE LOVE OF ALL WHO PREFERRED TO BE FREE THAN BEING AT THE MERCY OF PATRIOTISM UNDER DICTATORSHIP.