Book Description
An account of Robert Louis Stevenson's twelve day journey from New York to California in 1879, interwoven with a history of the building of the transcontinental railroad and the settling of the West.
Author : Jim Murphy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,26 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780395764831
An account of Robert Louis Stevenson's twelve day journey from New York to California in 1879, interwoven with a history of the building of the transcontinental railroad and the settling of the West.
Author : J. Murphy
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,73 MB
Release : 2003-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780613646383
For use in schools and libraries only. An illustrated history of the building of the transcontinental railroad, including Robert Louis Stevenson's account of his 12-day journey to California on six trains in 1879.
Author : Roger Farr
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 13,36 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781594553691
Author : Jim Murphy
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN : 9781594554810
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Authors, English
ISBN :
Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 2001-11-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780743203173
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Author : Lansford Warren Hastings
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 1557092451
Published in 1845, this guidebook for pioneers is a reproduction of one of the most collectible books about California and the Western movement. It was the guidebook used by the Donner Party on their fateful journey. In addition, because Hastings' shortcut route through the Rockies produced such tragedy, the War Department commissioned The Prairie Traveler.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,87 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Authors, Scottish
ISBN :
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"For in emigration the young men enter direct by the shipload on their heritage of work; empty continents swarm, as at the bosun's whistle, with industrious hands, and whole hew empires are domesticated to the service of man." -Robert Louis Stevenson, The Amateur Emigrant The Amateur Emigrant from the Clyde to Sandy Hook (1895), by Robert Louis Stevenson is the first book (followed by Across the Plains and the Silverado Squatters) in a trilogy the author wrote about his journey from Scotland to California in 1879-1880. In this volume, he describes the first leg of his trip, made by ship from Europe to New York City. Stevenson depicts the crowded conditions he experienced in steerage with others who, like him, were poor and sick. At the conclusion, the author also offers his usual sharp-eyed observations, which, in this case are of New York and New Yorkers.
Author : Hai McCammon
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2021-07-30
Category :
ISBN :
Join us to discover the journey of young European men and those who came to the promised land-America. On the emigrant train from new york to San Francisco. This book is the middle section of the author's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters.