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Hope for a Better World

Growing Up Quaker in the Midwest

By: James Walton Blackburn

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Hope for a Better World

Growing Up Quaker in the Midwest

By: James Walton Blackburn

This book tells the story of how I grew up in a Wilburite Quaker family in Ohio and attended Scattergood Friends School in Iowa. I give an overview of Quakers who originated as the The Religious Society of Friends in seventeenth-century England. I tell about Wilburite Friends, which are much different from most Quakers. Their practices are close to early English Friends. I tell how the Blackburn Family lived out Quaker beliefs. I tell about Scattergood Friends School in Iowa. I present my personal faith. An inspiration for this book is A Quaker Book of Wisdom "" Life Lessons in Simplicity, Service, and Common Sense by Robert Lawrence Smith. He states, "It is my ever-growing conviction that the compassionate Quaker message badly needs to be heard in today's complex, materialistic, often unjust, and discriminatory society. Every day brings new public debate over issues Quakers have always addressed: war and peace, social justice, education, health care, poverty, business ethics, public service, the use of world resources" (Smith, xii""xiii).

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1642997927

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9781642997927

Manchester, Its Political, Social, and Commercial History, Ancient and Modern

By: James Wheeler

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Manchester, Its Political, Social, and Commercial History, Ancient and Modern

By: James Wheeler

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.

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554

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368762311

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9783368762315

Kentucky

Decades of Discord, 1865-1900

By: Hambleton Tapp,James C. Klotter

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Kentucky

Decades of Discord, 1865-1900

By: Hambleton Tapp,James C. Klotter

The most thorough and ambitious study yet made of this significant and turbulent period in Kentucky's history. Over 70 pictures and maps recreate the atmosphere of the times.

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584

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University Press of Kentucky

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0916968057

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9780916968052

The Feud That Wasn't

The Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin, and Violence in Texas

By: James M. Smallwood

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The Feud That Wasn't

The Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin, and Violence in Texas

By: James M. Smallwood

Marauding outlaws, or violent rebels still bent on fighting the Civil War? For decades, the so-called Taylor-Sutton feud has been seen as a bloody vendetta between two opposing gangs of Texas gunfighters. However, historian James M. Smallwood here shows that what seemed to be random lawlessness can be interpreted as a pattern of rebellion by a loose confederation of desperadoes who found common cause in their hatred of the Reconstruction government in Texas.Between the 1850s and 1880, almost 200 men rode at one time or another with Creed Taylor and his family through a forty-five-county area of Texas, stealing and killing almost at will, despite heated and often violent opposition from pro-Union law enforcement officials, often led by William Sutton. From 1871 until his eventual arrest, notorious outlaw John Wesley Hardin served as enforcer for the Taylors. In 1874 in the streets of Comanche, Texas, on his twenty-first birthday, Hardin and two other members of the Taylor ring gunned down Brown County Deputy Charlie Webb. This cold-blooded killing - one among many - marked the beginning of the end for the Taylor ring, and Hardin eventually went to the penitentiary as a result. The Feud That Wasn't reinforces the interpretation that Reconstruction was actually just a continuation of the Civil War in another guise, a thesis Smallwood has advanced in other books and articles. He chronicles in vivid detail the cattle rustling, horse thieving, killing sprees, and attacks on law officials perpetrated by the loosely knit Taylor ring, drawing a composite picture of a group of anti-Reconstruction hoodlums who at various times banded together for criminal purposes. Western historians and those interested in gunfighters and lawmen will heartily enjoy this colorful and meticulously researched narrative.

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Texas A&M University Press

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160344386X

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The emergence of footballing cultures

Manchester, 1840–1919

By: Gary James

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The emergence of footballing cultures

Manchester, 1840–1919

By: Gary James

This study of Manchester football, by leading football historian Gary James, considers the sport’s emergence, development and establishment through to its position as the city’s leading team sport. The period from 1840 to 1919 saw football in Manchester develop from an inconsequential, occasionally outlawed activity, into a major business with a variety of popular football clubs and supporting industry. This book makes a distinct and original contribution to the historiography of sport. It is the first academic study into the development of association football in Manchester, and is directly linked to the current state of knowledge and debates within sports history on football’s origins. It adds regional focus to inform the wider debate, contextualising the growth of the sport in the city and identifies communities who propagated and developed football. Robust research should ensure that this becomes the benchmark study of regional football.

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Manchester University Press

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152611450X

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Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway

By: James Drake

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Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway

By: James Drake

Reproduction of the original: Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway by James Drake

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3752392037

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Hope for a Better World

Hope for a Better World

Manchester, Its Political, Social, and Commercial History, Ancient and Modern

Manchester, Its Political, Social, and Commercial History, Ancient and Modern

Kentucky

Kentucky

The Feud That Wasn't

The Feud That Wasn't

The emergence of footballing cultures

The emergence of footballing cultures

Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway

Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway

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