Through A Howling Wilderness

Author : Thomas A. Desjardin
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429903547

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A great military history about the early days of the American Revolution, Thomas A. Desjardin's Through a Howling Wilderness is also a timeless adventure narrative that tells of heroic acts, men pitted against nature's fury, and a fledgling nation's fight against a tyrannical oppressor. Before Benedict Arnold was branded a traitor, he was one of the colonies' most valuable leaders. In September 1775, eleven hundred soldiers boarded ships in Massachusetts, bound for the Maine wilderness. They had volunteered for a secret mission, under Arnold's command to march and paddle nearly two hundred miles and seize British Quebec. Before they reached the Canadian border, hundreds died, a hurricane destroyed canoes and equipment and many deserted. In the midst of a howling blizzard, the remaining troops attacked Quebec and almost took Canada from the British simultaneously weakening the British hand against Washington. With the enigmatic Benedict Arnold at its center, Desjardin has written one of the great American adventure stories.

Author : Gary D. Joiner
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1572335440

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Through the Howling Wilderness is replete with in-depth coverage on the geography of the region, the Congressional hearings after the Campaign, and the Confederate defenses in the Red River Valley.

Author : Ulysses Namon
Publisher : selfpublishing.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798887599359

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Howling Wilderness by Ulysses Namon Pdf

Author : Thomas A. Desjardin
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312339054

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Through a Howling Wilderness by Thomas A. Desjardin Pdf

A great military history about the early days of the American Revolution, Thomas A. Desjardin's Through a Howling Wilderness is also a timeless adventure narrative that tells of heroic acts, men pitted against nature's fury, and a fledgling nation's fight against a tyrannical oppressor. Before Benedict Arnold was branded a traitor, he was one of the colonies' most valuable leaders. In September 1775, eleven hundred soldiers boarded ships in Massachusetts, bound for the Maine wilderness. They had volunteered for a secret mission, under Arnold's command to march and paddle nearly two hundred miles and seize British Quebec. Before they reached the Canadian border, hundreds died, a hurricane destroyed canoes and equipment and many deserted. In the midst of a howling blizzard, the remaining troops attacked Quebec and almost took Canada from the British simultaneously weakening the British hand against Washington. With the enigmatic Benedict Arnold at its center, Desjardin has written one of the great American adventure stories.

Author : Loren K. Wiseman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1558780033

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Howling Wilderness by Loren K. Wiseman Pdf

Author : D. C. Cloud
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : History
ISBN : UOMDLP:abz0161:0001.001

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Monopolies and the People. by D. C. Cloud. by D. C. Cloud Pdf

Author : Jennifer Linhart Wood
Publisher : Springer
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030122249

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Sounding Otherness in Early Modern Drama and Travel by Jennifer Linhart Wood Pdf

Sounds are a vital dimension of transcultural encounters in the early modern period. Using the concept of the soundwave as a vibratory, uncanny, and transformative force, Jennifer Linhart Wood examines how sounds of foreign otherness are experienced and interpreted in cross-cultural interactions around the globe. Many of these same sounds are staged in the sonic laboratory of the English theater: rattles were shaken at Whitehall Palace and in Brazil; bells jingled in an English masque and in the New World; the Dallam organ resounded at Topkapı Palace in Istanbul and at King’s College, Cambridge; and the drum thundered across India and throughout London theaters. This book offers a new way to conceptualize intercultural contact by arguing that sounds of otherness enmesh bodies and objects in assemblages formed by sonic events, calibrating foreign otherness with the familiar self on the same frequency of vibration.

Author : Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Western Reserve (Ohio)
ISBN : WISC:89073040073

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Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve by Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham Pdf

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : UIUC:30112112728867

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Home in the Howling Wilderness by Peter Holland Pdf

A major new account of Pākehā and the land in New Zealand. During the nineteenth century European settlers transformed the environment of New Zealand’s South Island. They diverted streams and drained marshes, burned native vegetation and planted hedges and grasses, stocked farms with sheep and cattle and poured on fertiliser. In Home in the Howling Wilderness Peter Holland undertakes a deep history of that settlement to answer key questions about New Zealand’s ecological transformation. Did the settlers pursue farming regardless of the ecological consequences? Did they impose European plants, animals and farming methods on a very different environment? And did their efforts lead to the erosion, rabbit plagues and declining soil fertility of the late nineteenth century? Drawing on letter books and ledgers, diaries and journals, Peter Holland reveals how the first European settlers learned about their new environment: talking to Māori and other Pākehā, observing weather patterns and the shifting populations of rabbits, reading newspapers and going to lectures at the Mechanics’ Institute. Examining the knowledge they built up by these routes, Holland lays out how the settlers grappled with droughts and floods, worked out which plants and animals made sense, and worked out how to beat erosion and rabbits. As the New Zealand environment threw up surprise after surprise, the settlers who succeeded in farming were those who listened closely to the environment. They learned to predict weather more accurately, to farm differently with different soil types, to use different techniques of land management. In its depth and breadth of research, and with a visual component of 16 photographs and 22 figures, Home in the Howling Wilderness is a major new account of Pākehā and the land in New Zealand. --Publisher's information.

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781775580034

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Home in the Howling Wilderness by Peter Holland Pdf

During the 19th century, New Zealand's South Island underwent an environmental transformation at the hands of European settlers. They diverted streams and drained marshes, burned native vegetation and planted hedges and grasses, stocked farms with sheep and cattle and poured on fertilizer. Through various letter books, ledgers, diaries, and journals, this book reveals how the first European settlers learned about their new environment: talking to Maori and other Pakeha, observing weather patterns and the shifting populations of rabbits, reading newspapers, and going to lectures at the Mechanics' Institute. As the New Zealand environment threw up surprise after surprise, the settlers who succeeded in farming were those who listened closely to the environment. This rich and detailed contribution to environmental history and the literature of British colonial history and farming concludes—contrary to the assertions of some North American environmental historians—that the first generation of European settlers in New Zealand were by no means unthinking agents of change.

Author : Joaquin Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : California
ISBN : HARVARD:HWKNPH

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The Danites in the Sierras by Joaquin Miller Pdf

Author : Janet E. Nelson Rupert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Indian captivities
ISBN : 0989103404

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Howling Wilderness by Janet E. Nelson Rupert Pdf

Colonel Oliver Spencer was a Revolutionary War hero forced by post-war poverty to homestead in the -far West,- in the Ohio Valley. This was a dangerous proposition, since Native Americans were numerous and still in possession of the land. In this true story, the American government tried several times to wrest the land in Ohio from the Indians, but the natives spectacularly defeated the first of the military expeditions sent against them. Then Wapawaqua, an Iroquois living with Shawnee Indians, kidnapped the Colonel's son, ten-year-old Ollie Spencer, as the boy returned home from a Fourth of July celebration at Fort Washington in Cincinnati in 1792. This begins the boy's journey to becoming Indian while living with an Iroquois medicine woman and spiritualist, before his eventual rescue through diplomatic means with the aid of President Washington. Even then, the boy's adventure was not over as he began a circuitous and dangerous journey home. Finally, we learn how Ollie and his captors spent the rest of their lives, with the natives eventually fighting on the American side in the War of 1812 and their journey to a reservation in Kansas.

Author : Shaul Krakover,Y. Gradus
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739102877

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Tourism in Frontier Areas by Shaul Krakover,Y. Gradus Pdf

In this timely new collection of essays, an excellent roster of contributors bring new insight to a wide spectrum of topics related to tourism in frontier areas. The book focuses on international case studies as it discusses the economic feasibility of frontier tourist development, the tourist development of rural and urban settings, and the expansion of tourism to remote borderlands. The contributors highlight the potential, as well as the environmental, economic, bureaucratic, and cultural difficulties of peripheral tourism. This innovative and thought-provoking approach-with its wealth of detail-makes Tourism in Frontier Areas essential reading for scholars in tourist development, regional development, and economic geography.

Author : George D Pappas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317282105

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The Literary and Legal Genealogy of Native American Dispossession by George D Pappas Pdf

The Literary and Legal Genealogy of Native American Dispossession offers a unique interpretation of how literary and public discourses influenced three U.S. Supreme Court Rulings written by Chief Justice John Marshall with respect to Native Americans. These cases, Johnson v. M’Intosh (1823), Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) and Worcester v. Georgia (1832), collectively known as the Marshall Trilogy, have formed the legal basis for the dispossession of indigenous populations throughout the Commonwealth. The Trilogy cases are usually approached as ‘pure’ legal judgments. This book maintains, however, that it was the literary and public discourses from the early sixteenth through to the early nineteenth centuries that established a discursive tradition which, in part, transformed the American Indians from owners to ‘mere occupants’ of their land. Exploring the literary genesis of Marshall’s judgments, George Pappas draws on the work of Michel Foucault, Edward Said and Homi Bhabha, to analyse how these formative U.S. Supreme Court rulings blurred the distinction between literature and law.

Author : John CAMPBELL (Minister of Kingsland Chapel.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026598036

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African Light Thrown on a Selection of Scripture Texts. Edited by William Innes by John CAMPBELL (Minister of Kingsland Chapel.) Pdf