The Discoverers, Pioneers, and Settlers of North and South America
Author : Henry Howard Brownell
Publisher :
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 33,45 MB
Release : 1853
Category : America
ISBN :
Author : Henry Howard Brownell
Publisher :
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 33,45 MB
Release : 1853
Category : America
ISBN :
Author : Henry Howard Brownell
Publisher :
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 1854
Category : America
ISBN :
Author : Anita Ganeri
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781435891678
Describes the top ten explorers whose expeditions changed the world.
Author : David G. McCullough
Publisher :
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 32,30 MB
Release : 2019
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781982131661
"As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler's son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent figure in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as trees of a size never imagined, floods, fires, wolves, bears, even an earthquake, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough's subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments."--Dust jacket.
Author : Lyn Coutts
Publisher : B.E.S. Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 2018-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781438050386
Children will discover stories about people who traveled across land, over and under the sea, and into space to help us expand our horizons beyond ordinary expectations. Includes Sacagawea, Neil Armstrong, Jacques Cousteau, Isabella Bird, Yuri Gagarin, Gertrude Bell, and more.
Author : Caroline Emerson
Publisher : Christian Liberty Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 2005-09-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781932971514
American Pioneers & Patriots will allow your 3rd and 4th grade students to explore America's past through the fictional accounts of typical pioneer families. Young patriots of today will gain an appreciation of the courage it took to build this great nation of ours!
Author : Wayne Franklin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 37,21 MB
Release : 1989-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0226260720
"Send those on land that will show themselves diligent writers." So urged the "sailing instructions" prepared for explorer Henry Hudson. With distinctive command of the primary texts created by such "diligent writers" as Columbus, William Bradford, and Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin describes how the New World was created from their new words. The long verbal discovery of America, he asserts, entailed both advance and retreat, sudden insights and blind insistence on old ways of seeing. The discoverers, explorers, and settlers depicted America in words—or via maps, tables, and landscape views—as a complex spatial and political entity, a place where ancient formula and current fact were inevitably at odds.
Author : Helen Fitch Parker
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,3 MB
Release : 1860
Category : America
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Author : Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307773558
An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and the seas, nature and society, he gathers and analyzes stories of the man's profound quest to understand his world and the cosmos.
Author : Charles Haven Ladd Johnston
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Brief biographies concentrating on the major discoveries of sixteen explorers including Leif Ericson, Hernando Cortés, Giovanni Verrazano, Father Marquette, and Robert Peary.