Mountain Charley
Author : Elsa Jane Guerin
Publisher : Sterling/Main Street
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
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Author : Elsa Jane Guerin
Publisher : Sterling/Main Street
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
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Author : Ed Sams
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 48,29 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781500534882
Of all the brave stage drivers in the old west, Mountain Charley Parkhurst was one of the bravest and most colorful. He also just happened to be a woman.
Author : Charles Harper
Publisher : Chronicle Chroma
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 20,14 MB
Release : 2021-09-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781736478301
This reprint of this super popular title has been published in various formats. This medium-size format has been the bestselling version and has now been out of print for several years. There is a dedicated fan base of fervent Charley Harper fans and a new audience waiting to discover his work for themselves and to gift it to others.
Author : Joy Fielding
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 2008-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1416586946
"New York Times" bestselling and award-winning author Joy Fielding tells the story of an ambitious journalist whose foray into the mind of a killer puts her own family in jeopardy.Charley Webb is a beautiful single mother who writes a successful and controversial column for the Palm Beach Post. She's spent years building an emotional wall against scathing critics, snooty neighbors, and her disapproving family. But when she receives a letter from Jill Rohmer, a young woman serving time on death row for the murders of three small children, her boundaries slowly begin to fade. Jill wants Charley to write her biography so that she can share the many hidden truths about the case that failed to surface during her trial. Seeing this as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Charley begins her jour-ney into the mind of this deeply troubled woman.Her path takes a twisted turn, however, when the anonymous letters she's recently received from an angry reader evolve into threats, targeting her son and daughter. As Charley races against time to save her family, she begins to understand the value of her seemingly intru-sive neighbors, friends, and relatives. As she discovers, this network of flawed but loving people might just be her only hope of getting out alive.Filled with complex characters and a plot rich with intrigue, "Charley's Web" is Joy Fielding at her heart-skipping, mesmerizing best.
Author : Linda S. Peavy
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806130545
Describes the lives of women of various backgrounds as they traveled west, established homes, worked inside and outside the home, and helped to develop settled society
Author : Henry B.M. Best
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 155002986X
Although Charles Best is known for discovering insulin, the story of his life neither begins nor ends with that one moment. Not only did he make many other discoveries, he was also one half of an extraordinary couple who, during their almost sixty years together, were involved in many of the significant events of the twentieth century. Margaret & Charley is the story of these two people from their beginnings on the east coast at the turn of the century through the years that followed. Through diaries, scrapbooks, photograph albums, and other documentation, the details of their lives are shared with the reader.
Author : Angela Jones
Publisher : Teacher Created Resources
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 24,24 MB
Release : 1996-11
Category : Activity programs in education
ISBN : 1557345651
When faced with the horrors of war, Charley skedaddles away from the Union Army.
Author : DeAnne Blanton
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,62 MB
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807158569
Popular images of women during the American Civil War include self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, and brave ladies maintaining hearth and home in the absence of their men. However, as DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook show in their remarkable new study, that conventional picture does not tell the entire story. Hundreds of women assumed male aliases, disguised themselves in men’s uniforms, and charged into battle as Union and Confederate soldiers—facing down not only the guns of the adversary but also the gender prejudices of society. They Fought Like Demons is the first book to fully explore and explain these women, their experiences as combatants, and the controversial issues surrounding their military service. Relying on more than a decade of research in primary sources, Blanton and Cook document over 240 women in uniform and find that their reasons for fighting mirrored those of men—-patriotism, honor, heritage, and a desire for excitement. Some enlisted to remain with husbands or brothers, while others had dressed as men before the war. Some so enjoyed being freed from traditional women’s roles that they continued their masquerade well after 1865. The authors describe how Yankee and Rebel women soldiers eluded detection, some for many years, and even merited promotion. Their comrades often did not discover the deception until the “young boy” in their company was wounded, killed, or gave birth. In addition to examining the details of everyday military life and the harsh challenges of -warfare for these women—which included injury, capture, and imprisonment—Blanton and Cook discuss the female warrior as an icon in nineteenth-century popular culture and why -twentieth-century historians and society ignored women soldiers’ contributions. Shattering the negative assumptions long held about Civil War distaff soldiers, this sophisticated and dynamic work sheds much-needed light on an unusual and overlooked facet of the Civil War experience.
Author : Peter Boag
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520949951
Americans have long cherished romantic images of the frontier and its colorful cast of characters, where the cowboys are always rugged and the ladies always fragile. But in this book, Peter Boag opens an extraordinary window onto the real Old West. Delving into countless primary sources and surveying sexological and literary sources, Boag paints a vivid picture of a West where cross-dressing—for both men and women—was pervasive, and where easterners as well as Mexicans and even Indians could redefine their gender and sexual identities. Boag asks, why has this history been forgotten and erased? Citing a cultural moment at the turn of the twentieth century—when the frontier ended, the United States entered the modern era, and homosexuality was created as a category—Boag shows how the American people, and thus the American nation, were bequeathed an unambiguous heterosexual identity.
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Page : 742 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 1905
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