Author : Earnest Elmo Calkins
Publisher : Prairie State Books
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 1989-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252060946
Traces the progress of the community and the college through the arrival of the railroad, slave running, abolitionist confrontations, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the Civil War, and the postwar era.
Author : Kristiana Gregory
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Diaries
ISBN : 9780590226516
In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail.
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Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 1816
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
"A leading agricultural magazine founded by the Union Agricultural Society of Chicago and a champion of farmers' rights ... Besides articles on agriculture, horticulture, and stock raising, it provided general and market news, a children's column, and departments dealing with health, household problems, and veterinary medicine." Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.
Author : Ladette Randolph
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0803207409
The gruesome story of the devastation of buffalo herds in the late nineteenth century has become uncomfortably familiar. A less familiar story, but a hopeful one for the future, is Ken Zonteks account of Native peoples efforts to repopulate the Plains with a healthy, viable bison population.
Author : Lisa Knopp
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780803278141
For Lisa Knopp, homesickness is a literal sickness. During a lengthy sojourn away from the Nebraska prairie, she fell ill, and only when she decided to return home didøshe recover. Homesickness is the triggering event for this collection of essays concerned with nothing less than what it means to feel at home. Knopp writes masterfully about ecology, place, and the values and beliefs that sustain the individual within an impersonal world. She is passionate about her subject whether it be an endangered beetle in the salt marshes near Lincoln, Nebraska, a forgotten Nebraska inventor, a museum muralist, a paleontologist, or Arbor Day as the misguided attempt of Eastern settlers to ?correct? a perceived deficiency in the Great Plains landscape. Here is a writer who has read widely and judiciously and for whom everything resonates within the intricately structured definition of home.
Author : Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0062094882
The third book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series—now available as an ebook! This digital version features Garth Williams's classic illustrations, which appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices. The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for the big skies of the Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their house. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. Just when they begin to feel settled, they are caught in the middle of a dangerous conflict. The nine Little House books are inspired by Laura's own childhood and have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America's frontier history and as heartwarming, unforgettable stories.
Author : George W. Wanamaker
Publisher :
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Harrison County (Mo.)
ISBN :
History of Harrison County, Missouri containing personal sketches of many who have been identified with the development the county.
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Page : 354 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge (Colo.)
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth J. Winkle
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1461734363
Drawing on the latest interpretive and methodological advances in historical scholarship, The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln reexamines the young adult life of America's sixteenth president.
