Author : Gordon R. Newell
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 1956
Category : History
ISBN :
In this historical work, the author presents a moving portrait of the young Abraham Lincoln awakening to early powers. It chronicles the years of self-discovery in the frontier village of New Salem.
Author : Gordon Newell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 1987-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780875646060
Author : Pauline R. Hillaire
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 080324097X
Joseph Hillaire (Lummi, 1894–1967) is recognized as one of the great Coast Salish artists, carvers, and tradition-bearers of the twentieth century. In A Totem Pole History, his daughter Pauline Hillaire, Scälla–Of the Killer Whale, who is herself a well-known cultural historian and conservator, tells the story of her father’s life and the traditional and contemporary Lummi narratives that influenced his work. A Totem Pole History contains seventy-six photographs, including Joe’s most significant totem poles, many of which Pauline watched him carve. She conveys with great insight the stories, teachings, and history expressed by her father’s totem poles. Eight contributors provide essays on Coast Salish art and carving, adding to the author’s portrayal of Joe’s philosophy of art in Salish life, particularly in the context of twentieth century intercultural relations. This engaging volume provides an historical record to encourage Native artists and brings the work of a respected Salish carver to the attention of a broader audience.
Author : Roberto Brambilla
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 26,38 MB
Release : 1980
Category : City planning
ISBN : 0936020059
Author : Lynn Bragg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 38,96 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1493016040
Tales of intrigue in this book include unusual unsolved crimes, legends of lost treasure, spine-tingling ghost stories, well-documented sea creature sightings, and more. Based on historic accounts from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, author Lynn Bragg recounts fifteen myths and mysteries from Washington's past, verifying some tales from multiple accounts and exposing some stories for what may have really occurred. Readers will be riveted by the detailed descriptions of Puget Sound's demon of the deep, Northwest gold fever may strike again after readers learn the details of Captain Ingalls's lost treasure, and believers will be surprised to learn that strange sightings over Mount Rainier predate the famous Roswell event. Enjoy these tales and more from Washington's suspicious past.
Author : Dale E. Soden
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,65 MB
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295803432
When the Reverend Mark Allison Matthews died in February 1940, thousands of mourners gathered at a Seattle church to pay their final respects. The Southern-born Presbyterian came to Seattle in 1902. He quickly established himself as a city leader and began building a congregation that was eventually among the nation’s largest, with nearly 10,000 members. Throughout his career, he advocated Social Christianity, a blend of progressive reform and Christian values, as a blueprint for building a morally righteous community. In telling Matthews’s story, Dale Soden presents Matthews’s multiple facets: a Southern-born, fundamentalist proponent of the Social Gospel; a national leader during the tumultuous years of schism within the American Presbyterian church; a social reformer who established day-care centers, kindergartens, night classes, and soup kitchens; a colorful figure who engaged in highly public and heated disputes with elected officials. Much of the controversy that surrounded Matthews centered on the proper relationship between church and state — an issue that is still hotly debated.
Author : Gwenda Blair
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501139363
The definitive family biography of President Donald Trump. The revealing story of the Trumps mirrors America’s transformation from a land of striving immigrants to a world in which the aura of wealth alone can guarantee a fortune. The Trumps begins with a portrait of President Trump’s immigrant grandfather, who as a young man built hotels for miners in Alaska during the Klondike gold rush. His son, Fred, took advantage of the New Deal, using government subsidies and loopholes to construct hugely successful housing developments in the 1940s and 1950s. The profits from Fred’s enterprises paved the way for President Trump’s roller-coaster ride through the 1980s and 1990s into the new century. With his talent for extravagant exaggeration—he calls it “truthful hyperbole”—President Trump turned the deal-making know-how of his forebears into an art form. By placing this much-publicized life within the context of family, Gwenda Blair adds a new dimension to the larger-than-life figure who ascended to the American Presidency.
Author : Mercedes Yaeger
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 2008-04-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 1438962606
The Pike Place Market has been called the "Soul" of Seattle, now meet the "Souls" of Seattle. __________________________________________________ The Market in Seattle is a community unlike any other, with over 400 residents, social services, governing bodies, farmers, craftspeople and restaurants. Fish fly, buskers sing, and ghosts haunt the Arcades. Market Ghost Stories is a collection of oral ghost stories in the Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington. It is a narrative book written by tour guide, Mercedes Yaeger, who has grown up in the Pike Place Market. She owns a night time tour company that explores that ghost stories of the community and the eccentric history of the city. Market Ghost Stories includes stories of those people who lived on the land before 1907, when the Pike Place Market opened, such as Princess Angeline; daughter of Chief Seattle. It also includes stories about more recent souls who have departed and still remain in the Market's Arcades. In the Pike Place Market, Seattle's first mortuary stands, the remnants of a community graveyard have been unearthed, and an old brothel still has a red glow cast on its side. Michael Yaeger, the Market's honorary Mayor of the Market and father to the author writes: "Mercedes has anchored her stories in the history, legends and lore of this grand and colorful city and its native people in a truly interesting, compassionate and entertaining way."
Author : Robert M. Eury
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 35,53 MB
Release : 1981
Category : City planning
ISBN :
Detailed accounts of the organizational methods and administrative activities for urban environmental design in ten cities: Savannah and Decatur, Ga.; Charleston, S.C.; Hudson, N.Y.; Mankato, Minn.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Baltimore, Md.; Seattle, Wash.; Los Angeles, Calif.; and Dallas, Tex.
Author : Mary Jordan Nixon
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 2003-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1469724898
In the 1920s, a battle rages between a spunky, half-Native American woman and a successful timber man, neighbors across the tides in Washington State's Puget Sound. Their backgrounds represent different races, cultures, spiritual beliefs and plans for the future. The teenaged girl Lilliwaup lives on the mainland with Blossom, an eccentric Indian grandmother who clings to memories of longhouses and potlatch give-away feasts. Blossom shapes Lilliwaup's beliefs with legends of the salmon people and Mt. Rainier. Lilliwaup also belongs to her father's Indian Christian Shaker church; she develops a powerful connection with the spirit world and relies on Jesus, her spirit guide StarBird, and shaking trances to overcome obstacles. Jack Brenner, a married timber executive, lives on a nearby island. He's come from Germany with a secret past and an uncanny ability to acquire what he wants. For several years, Lilliwaup and Brenner try to outfox one another. Lilliwaup goes after the Brenner's island, a place to restore Blossom's heritage. Inevitably, the two clash, come together and clash again. Eventually Ellie is born, a child who is determined to cross the tides and discover the truth. Untangling the truth threatens to undo them all.
