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Author : North West Company
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773507140
Describes duties, wages, stations, and many other details concerning the approximately one hundred voyageurs in the English River district during 1785 and 1786.
Author : Mark Higginson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595149254
North of the River is a exciting and graphic tale of a young Army officer's first tour of duty in the Korean DMZ of 1969. The fact that a low grade war was being fought in Korea at that time is generally unknown to most of the American people. This story provides a fascinating and revealing tale, full of humor, adventure, romance, and an accurate picture of military life and life as a Red Cross "Doughnut Dolly" in this little know theater. It moves quickly through a thirteen month tour until the reader crashes head on into the surprise, action filled conclusion.
Author : Jack Nisbet,David Thompson
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570610061
In this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet re-creates the life and times of David Thompson-fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and mapmaker. From 1784 to 1812, Thompson explored western North America and was the first to chart the entire length of the Columbia River. His field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history and indigenous cultures of the region, and Nisbet uses them to guide his own discovery of the Northwest Territory some two centuries later. Book jacket.
Author : Lauraine Snelling
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781441203182
Proud of Their Heritage and Sustained by Their Faith, They Came to Tame a New Land She had promised herself that once they left the fjords of Norway, she would not look back. After three long years of scrimping and saving to buy tickets for their passage to America, Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund, along with their son, Thorliff, finally arrive at the docks of New York City. It was the promise of free land that fed their dream and lured them from their beloved home high above the fjords of Norway in 1880. Together with Roald's brother Carl and his family, they will build a good life in a new land that promises untold wealth and vast farmsteads for their children. As they join the throngs of countless immigrants passing through Castle Garden, they soon discover that nothing is as they had envisioned it. Appalled by the horrid stories of fellow immigrants bilked of all their money and forced to live in squalid living conditions, the Bjorklunds continue their long journey by train as far as Grand Forks. From there a covered wagon takes them into Dakota Territory, where they settle on the banks of the Red River. But there was no way for them to foresee the price they will have to pay to wrest a living from the indomitable land. The virgin prairie refuses to yield its treasure without a struggle. Will they be strong enough to overcome the hardships of that first winter?
Author : J'Nell L. Pate
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 087565133X
In 1848 the York and Gilmore families stopped their covered wagons north of the Trinity River near present-day Fort Worth. A century and a half later, the settlement they founded is North Fort Worth, with a colorful history centered around livestock, tourism, and family life. After the Civil War, life often revolved around massive cattle drives passing through North Fort Worth. Later, stockyards were built and the meat packing industry boomed, attracting thousands of people from around the world - Austria, Greece, Russia, Mexico, and Poland. North Fort Worth is now incorporated within the city of Fort Worth and continues to contribute a unique history and atmosphere essential to one of Texas' most diverse and fascinating cities.
Author : Pete Hamill
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316006583
Recreating 1930s New York with the vibrancy and rich detail that are his trademarks, Pete Hamill weaves a story of honor, family, and one man's simple courage that no reader will soon forget. It is 1934, and New York City is in the icy grip of the Great Depression. With enormous compassion, Dr. James Delaney tends to his hurt, sick, and poor neighbors, who include gangsters, day laborers, prostitutes, and housewives. If they can't pay, he treats them anyway. But in his own life, Delaney is emotionally numb, haunted by the slaughters of the Great War. His only daughter has left for Mexico, and his wife Molly vanished months before, leaving him to wonder if she is alive or dead. Then, on a snowy New Year's Day, the doctor returns home to find his three-year-old grandson on his doorstep, left by his mother in Delaney's care. Coping with this unexpected arrival, Delaney hires Rose, a tough, decent Sicilian woman with a secret in her past. Slowly, as Rose and the boy begin to care for the good doctor, the numbness in Delaney begins to melt.
Author : W. Michael Gear,Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466817821
People of the River is a gripping new saga of pre-historic America that takes us to the Mississippi Valley and the tribe known as the Mound builders. It is a time of troubles. In Cahokia, the corn crop is failing again and a warchief—and the warrior woman he may never possess—are disgusted by their Chief's lust for tribute. Now even the gods have turned their faces, closing the underworld to the seers. If the gods have abandoned the people, there is no hope—unless it comes in the form of a young girl who is learning to Dream of Power. A masterful story of North America's Forgotten Past by New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Oscar de la Torre
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469643250
In this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating the transition from slavery to freedom. He draws on social and environmental history to connect them intimately to the natural landscape and to Indigenous peoples. Relying on this world as a repository for traditions, discourses, and strategies that they retrieved especially in moments of conflict, Afro-Brazilians fought for autonomous communities and developed a vibrant ethnic identity that supported their struggles over labor, land, and citizenship. Prior to abolition, enslaved and escaped blacks found in the tropical forest a source for tools, weapons, and trade--but it was also a cultural storehouse within which they shaped their stories and records of confrontations with slaveowners and state authorities. After abolition, the black peasants' knowledge of local environments continued to be key to their aspirations, allowing them to maintain relationships with powerful patrons and to participate in the protest cycle that led Getulio Vargas to the presidency of Brazil in 1930. In commonly referring to themselves by such names as "sons of the river," black Amazonians melded their agro-ecological traditions with their emergent identity as political stakeholders.
Author : Graciela Limón
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558855854
A group of would-be immigrants follows smuggler Leonardo Cerda in an attempt to cross the desert border between Mexico and the United States. The grueling and desperate trip will mark their lives forever.
Author : Myrna Kostash,Duane Burton
Publisher : Coteau Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1550503170
Framed within her own view of this great river, well-known prairie writer Myrna Kostash has combed the available literature to compile this compendium of writings - poetry, fiction and non-fiction -- from those who spent time reading the river. Beginning with Saskatchewan River Crossing, at the river's source, she takes the reader through 21 communities along the North Saskatchewan, from Edmonton to Prince Albert, from Shandro Crossing (Alberta) to The Pas (Manitoba). Included are the words of people from writers like Hugh McLennan, Eli Mandel, Aritha van Herk, John V. Hicks, and Tomson Highway, to the explorer Alexander Mackenzie, 19th Century mountaineer James Monroe Thorington, to a Cree legend. Reading the River opens with an introduction by Myrna Kostash, and a charting of the geological origins of the North Saskatchewan River, and closes it with The Future River, a commentary in several voices on, among other things, the river's likely return to a place of prominence in prairie lives, not as a transportation route, but this time as a source of crucial fresh water. Each author has a concise biography, setting their remarks in the context of their time and their works. What emerges is a portrait of this vital lifeline, the terrain and the culture that grew, and is growing, on its shores, to be appreciated by anyone who travels on, along, or merely to, the great river.
Author : Constance Helmericks
Publisher : Epicenter Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781935347897
In suburban Arizona, 1964, Connie Helmericks announced to her two daughters, 12-year-old Ann and 14-year-old Jean, "We're going to make a canoe expedition to the Arctic Ocean." And for two successive summers, that's exactly what they did. Down the Wild River North is the vividly told story of their adventures in the remote northern reaches of Canada and the Arctic, in a twenty-foot canoe, amidst a wondrous and vast landscape. A wilderness adventure, and a story of family bonds and spiritual renewal.
Author : Philip Gerard
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469602073
Down the Wild Cape Fear: A River Journey through the Heart of North Carolina
Author : Masaji Ishikawa
Publisher : Amazon Crossing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : Caste-based discrimination
ISBN : 1542047196
Previously published in Japan in 2000. Translated from Japanese by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown. First published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2017.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Bridge Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Bridges
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117931373
Author : Peter Heller
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525521877
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A fiery tour de force... I could not put this book down. It truly was terrifying and unutterably beautiful." -Alison Borden, The Denver Post From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip--a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of leisurely paddling and picking blueberries, and nights of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns. But a wildfire making its way across the forest adds unexpected urgency to the journey. When they hear a man and woman arguing on the fog-shrouded riverbank and decide to warn them about the fire, their search for the pair turns up nothing and no one. But: The next day a man appears on the river, paddling alone. Is this the man they heard? And, if he is, where is the woman? From this charged beginning, master storyteller Peter Heller unspools a headlong, heart-pounding story of desperate wilderness survival.