Author : Stacy Demoran Allbritton
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781589808652
During the Great Upheaval of 1755, the British forced the Acadians to leave their homes in the Canadian provinces and later the American colonies. Fourteen-year-old Marie Landry joins her family and friends on a mass exodus from Maryland to Louisiana 10 years later, where land awaits them. Along the way, she notes her feelings of despair and hope through candid diary entries.
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Page : 552 pages
File Size : 37,4 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Acadians
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Page : 560 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Acadians
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Page : 490 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Forests and forestry
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Author : Michael B. Melanson
Publisher : Lanesville Pub.
Page : 1066 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Reference
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Melanson-Melançon: The Genealogy of an Acadian and Cajun Family documents the Melanson, Melançon and Melancon descendants of brothers Pierre and Charles Mellanson from their arrival in Acadia (today, Nova Scotia) in 1657 through the nineteenth and into the early twentieth centuries.
Author : John Mack Faragher
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2006-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0393242439
"Altogether superb: an accessible, fluent account that advances scholarship while building a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England; had been one of the founding values of Acadia; its settlers traded and intermarried freely with native Mikmaq Indians and English Protestants alike. But the Acadians' refusal to swear unconditional allegiance to the British Crown in the mid-eighteenth century gave New Englanders, who had long coveted Nova Scotia's fertile farmland, pretense enough to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. John Mack Faragher draws on original research to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it.
Author : Arthur G. Doughty
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 2023-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387054017
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Lauraine Snelling
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1441203184
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 : Lucia St. Clair Robson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 1985-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345325222
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of Cynthia Ann Parker and the last days of the Comanche In 1836, when she was nine years old, Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians from her family's settlement. She grew up with them, mastered their ways, and married one of their leaders. Except for her brilliant blue eyes and golden mane, Cynthia Ann Parker was in every way a Comanche woman. They called her Naduah—Keeps Warm With Us. She rode a horse named Wind. This is her story, the story of a proud and innocent people whose lives pulsed with the very heartbeat of the land. It is the story of a way of life that is gone forever. It will thrill you, absorb you, touch your soul, and make you cry as you celebrate the beauty and mourn the end of the great Comanche nation.
Author : Winston Stokes
Publisher : Mac Donnell Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 2011-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1446093530
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
