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Burnaby's Travels

Reprinted from the Third Edition Of 1798

By: Rufus Wilson,Andrew Burnaby,Francis Fauquier

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Burnaby's Travels

Reprinted from the Third Edition Of 1798

By: Rufus Wilson,Andrew Burnaby,Francis Fauquier

The English clergyman examines the middle section of America as it is being developed, paying especial attention to the flora and fauna and Native Americans in addition to the expected commentary on American religious observance.

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Applewood Books

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ISBN 10

1429000201

ISBN 13

9781429000208

Rambles in Colonial Byways

(Volume 1)

By: Rufus Wilson

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Rambles in Colonial Byways

(Volume 1)

By: Rufus Wilson

A noted journalist of his day takes notes on and retells the history, in detail, of many places in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. In PA, much detail is offered on Utopian societies and new religions and the like. vol. 1 of 2

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262

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Applewood Books

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ISBN 10

1429005343

ISBN 13

9781429005340

Out of the West

By: Rufus Rockwell Wilson

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Out of the West

By: Rufus Rockwell Wilson

The epic of American expansion has had many chroniclers. Romance is wedded to heroism and rich achievement crowned high endeavor. In this present volume is woven the golden thread of that romantic and heroic era. Here, on these pages, live again the mighty men of those epoch-making days when the forces of manhood were matched against the forces of nature, valor against villainy, and life itself was ventured on a single hazard of fortune. Nurtured, many of them, in the calm and quiet of the more settled East, they dreamed as youths of those plains and mountains "out where the West begins." They matched their wits against the crafty red man and their strength against the perils and privations of a trackless wilderness. With the might to conquer they triumphed over heat and cold, over foe and famine, over storm and starvation, and made Death Valley a highway to the shores of the Pacific - where the West ends. The record which these pages unfold could be written only by a man who knows the West, and who, though himself an Easterner, feels akin with the spirit of the pioneer. Countless pages have been scanned for an accurate record of those men and times and for verification of the stirring incidents recited here. Numerous interviews and prolonged research have enabled the author to present a stirring, vivid picture of glamorous years and of valorous men who undeterred by danger and unafraid of death wrought mighty deeds and opened vast areas to commerce and civilization.

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849663604

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9783849663605

The Capital City (And its Part in the History of our Nation)

By: Rufus Rockwell Wilson

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The Capital City (And its Part in the History of our Nation)

By: Rufus Rockwell Wilson

The writer who undertakes to tell the story of Washington confronts a task the like of which is presented by none of its sister cities. The federal capital during its first hundred years of existence has been - and is today - the political center of the republic, the birthplace of parties and legislation, the training-ground and forum of one generation after another of public men. Indeed, from its founding until the present time it has been the brain and heart of the nation. This fact has been kept constantly in mind in the writing of the present work, and, while sketching the rise of Washington from a wilderness hamlet to one of the most beautiful capitals in the world, the author has also attempted adequately to portray the political growth and development of the republic. Washington, Jackson, and Lincoln, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun, Seward, Chase, and Sumner are an inseparable and vital part of the history of the capital which they endeared to their countrymen and have in the following pages the place that by right belongs to them. Liberal use, at the same time, has been made of anecdote, in the hopeful belief that our great men can be thus brought closer to a later generation than is possible in any other way. No pains have been spared to assure accuracy of detail; though in a work intended primarily for popular reading it has not been thought necessary to quote authorities which are within the reach of every student. Years of preparation and many months of exacting labor have helped to the making of a book which it is hoped will awaken in its readers a new interest and a new pride in the history of their capital and common country.

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849663221

ISBN 13

9783849663223

New York In Bygone Days - Its Story, Streets And Landmarks

By: Rufus Rockwell Wilson

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New York In Bygone Days - Its Story, Streets And Landmarks

By: Rufus Rockwell Wilson

Verily this Island of Manhattan is exposed to the danger of being snowed under by the showers of works scattered broadcast by her chroniclers, her eulogists, and her critics. Plentiful has been the crop of local commentaries. "New York in bygone days" is a fair type of one species of these city histories. In the main it is composed of gleanings from more ponderous and elaborate works. Mr. Wilson devotes the first volume to the civic development of the city from the first settlements around the fort to the end of the Civil War. The story is fairly well told, without a single touch of originality. Nor is there evidence that the values of the secondary sources were weighed. Extracts are given from Mrs. Lamb, who certainly permitted her pen to wander into pleasant details where verification is impossible. The excuse for being of this "New York" is that the whole story is thrown together and the reader can follow the growth of modern Gotham from its Dutch origins. In the second volume the localities are described. Still some of the personal touches tacked on to places are fresh, a, for instance, a letter from Margaret Fuller when she was the guest of Horace Greeley. Of her host she says, "His abilities in his own way are great. He believes in mine to a surprising extent. We are true friends," — a sequence delightfully suggestive of a select mutual - admiration society. This edition contains both original volumes.

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849663043

ISBN 13

9783849663049

Heath's Memoirs of the American War

By: Rufus Rockwell Wilson

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Heath's Memoirs of the American War

By: Rufus Rockwell Wilson

This is one of the most important source books of American history. General Heath's memoirs, which were originally published in 1798, are of direct value to the student of the war of the Revolution, constituting a first-hand account of many of the operations connected therewith, and assisting to an appreciation of the men and conditions of the period. The author served as a major general in the American army throughout the long conflict, his military activity dating from the battle of Concord, where he took part in the harrying of the retreating British.

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3849663515

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9783849663513

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Burnaby's Travels

Burnaby's Travels

Rambles in Colonial Byways

Rambles in Colonial Byways

Out of the West

Out of the West

The Capital City (And its Part in the History of our Nation)

The Capital City (And its Part in the History of our Nation)

New York In Bygone Days - Its Story, Streets And Landmarks

New York In Bygone Days - Its Story, Streets And Landmarks

Heath's Memoirs of the American War

Heath's Memoirs of the American War

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