Author : Randall A. Reinstedt
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780933818231
A guest speaker tells the students in the one-roomed Manchester School about the rough mining days in California's past, and in particular, about the career of a stagecoach driver known as Charley Parkhurst.
Author : Karen Kondazian
Publisher : Hansen Fiction Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,51 MB
Release : 2012
Category : California
ISBN : 9781601823021
The Whip is inspired by the true story of a woman, Charlotte "Charley" Parkhurst (1812-1879) who lived most of her extraordinary life as a man. As a young woman in Rhode Island, she fell in love and had a child. Her husband was lynched and her baby killed. The destruction of her family drove her west to California, dressed as a man, to track down the murder. Charley became a renowned stagecoach driver. She killed a famous outlaw, had a secret love affair, and lived with a housekeeper who, unaware of her true sex, fell in love with her. Charley was the first woman to vote in America (as a man). Her grave lies in Watsonville, California.
Author : Randall A. Reinstedt
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780933818231
A guest speaker tells the students in the one-roomed Manchester School about the rough mining days in California's past, and in particular, about the career of a stagecoach driver known as Charley Parkhurst.
Author : Pam Muñoz Ryan
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 31,2 MB
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545360293
A reissue of Pam Munoz Ryan's bestselling backlist with a distinctive new author treatment.In this fast-paced, courageous, and inspiring story, readers adventure with Charlotte Parkhurst as she first finds work as a stable hand, becomes a famous stage-coach driver (performing brave feats and outwitting bandits), finds love as a woman but later resumes her identity as a man after the loss of a baby and the tragic death of her husband, and ultimately settles out west on the farm she'd dreamed of having since childhood. It wasn't until after her death that anyone discovered she was a woman.
Author : Fern J. Hill
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,54 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780741446435
Charley's Choice: The Life and Times of Charley Parkhurst is a fictional memoir of a California gold rush era stagecoach driver, who, upon death, was discovered to be a woman.
Author : Donald R. Livermore
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 1991-10-01
Category : California
ISBN : 9780933818637
Author : Oakley M. Hall
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN :
Bierce and his sidekick Tom Redmond follow a trail of murder that leads from a sinister British yachtsman to a photographer of female flesh. Bierce's unraveling sheds a blinding light on parental guilt and fin-de-sicle morality. The third in Hall's Ambrose Bierce series, this is a must-have for fans of Caleb Carr's "The Alienist" and E.L. Doctorow's "The Waterworks."
Author : Jacob Wright Harlan
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 38,34 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Jacob Wright Harlan (born 1828) grew up in Indiana and moved to Michigan where he joined an uncle who organized a wagon train to California in 1845. California '46 to '88 (1888) contains Harlan's memories of his overland journey to California in 1846, acquaintance with rescuers and survivors of the Reid and Donner Parties, Frémont's battalion in 1846-1847, San Francisco milk and livery businesses, storekeeping in gold camps near Coloma and Sonora, farming and ranching in and near San José, San Joaquín Valley, Alameda, and Choloma Valley. He then recalls his second overland trip to California, 1853, as part of cattle drive and real estate development in San Leandro.
Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 1926
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Yunte Huang
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393079163
Winner of the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Book Shortlisted for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time "An ingenious and absorbing book…It will permanently change the way we tell this troubled yet gripping story." —Jonathan Spence Hailed as “irrepressibly spirited and entertaining” (Pico Iyer, Time) and “a fascinating cultural survey” (Paul Devlin, Daily Beast), this provocative first biography of Charlie Chan presents American history in a way that it has never been told before. Yunte Huang ingeniously traces Charlie Chan from his real beginnings as a bullwhip-wielding detective in territorial Hawaii to his reinvention as a literary sleuth and Hollywood film icon. Huang finally resurrects the “honorable detective” from the graveyard of detested postmodern symbols and reclaims him as the embodiment of America’s rich cultural diversity. The result is one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year and a “deeply personal . . . voyage into racial stereotyping and the humanizing force of story telling” (Donna Seaman, Los Angeles Times).
