The Terrible Meek
Author : Charles Rann Kennedy
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Page : 82 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 1912
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Author : Charles Rann Kennedy
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Page : 82 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 1912
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Author : Keith Clark
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Page : 316 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Page : 956 pages
File Size : 11,66 MB
Release : 1912
Category : United States
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Author : Hansi
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Page : 490 pages
File Size : 18,65 MB
Release : 1912
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Author : Brooks Geer Ragen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0295806869
In 1845, an estimated 2,500 emigrants left Independence and St. Joseph, Missouri, for the Willamette Valley in what was soon to become the Oregon Territory. It was general knowledge that the route of the Oregon Trail through the Blue Mountains and down the Columbia River to The Dalles was grueling and dangerous. About 1,200 men, women, and children in over two hundred wagons accepted fur trapper and guide Stephen Meek's offer to lead them on a shortcut across the trackless high desert of eastern Oregon. Those who followed Meek experienced a terrible ordeal when his memory of the terrain apparently failed. Lost for weeks with little or no water and a shortage of food, the Overlanders encountered deep dust, alkali lakes, and steep, rocky terrain. Many became ill and some died in the forty days it took to travel from the Snake River in present-day Idaho to the Deschutes River near Bend, Oregon. Stories persist that children in the group found gold nuggets in a small, dry creek bed along the way. From 2006 to 2011, Brooks Ragan and a team of specialists in history, geology, global positioning, metal detecting, and aerial photography spent weeks every spring and summer tracing the Meek Cutoff. They located wagon ruts, gravesites, and other physical evidence from the most difficult part of the trail, from Vale, Oregon, to the upper reaches of the Crooked River and to a location near Redmond where a section of the train reached the Deschutes. The Meek Cutoff moves readers back and forth in time, using surviving journals from members of the 1845 party, detailed day-to-day maps, aerial photographs, and descriptions of the modern-day exploration to document an extraordinary story of the Oregon Trail.
Author : Henry Churchill King
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Life
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Author : E Stanley Jones Foundation
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501871293
"On the day that Mahatma Gandhi was killed, I arrived in Delhi just an hour and a quarter before the tragedy ... the greatest tragedy since the Son of God died on the cross." So begins this compelling account of Gandhi by E. Stanley Jones, the world-renowned missionary evangelist to India during 40 seething years of struggle. Based on an intimate knowledge and understanding, Jones's revealing interpretation was written in gratitude to Gandhi, who, although they often disagreed, showed Jones "more of the spirit of Christ than perhaps any other . . . in East or West." "Martin Luther King, Jr., told me he owed a debt to my father for his book on Mahatma Gandhi. He had read many books on Gandhi, read his writings, but it was that particular book of my father's that had triggered his decision to use the method of ... nonviolence in his civil rights movement for his people." --Eunice Jones Mathews "Highly recommended."--Library Journal "To understand the meaning of this great leader ... read this book of interpretation."--Kirkus "Jones ... possesses a great gift of sympathetically interpreting the East to the West."--[London] Times Literary Supplement
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Page : 796 pages
File Size : 39,41 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Labor unions
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Author : William Livingston
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Page : 1474 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 1912
Category : American periodicals
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Author : Leonard Bacon
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Page : 858 pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 1925
Category : History, Modern
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