This work opens with an overview of Black Hawk's birth in 1767 and his growth, nothing that he was not a chief but a brave. When his father died, Black Hawk inherited his medicine bag, "with its attendant responsibility." The bulk of the book describes his place in American history. During the 1830's Andrew Jackson's administration pursued a policy of forcing all eastern Indians to move west of the Mississippi River. As part of this effort a treaty of dubious merits was negotiated by the government with certain members of the Saux and Fox tribes by which they ceded to the U.S. 50 million...
This work opens with an overview of Black Hawk's birth in 1767 and his growth, nothing that he was not a chief but a brave. When his father died, Blac...
Explosive growth in settlement took place in the Northwest Territory following the end of the War of 1812. Settlers came from the American seaboard and from Europe, especially England, which lost many of its middle-class farmers and artisans. One such settlement was the agricultural colony called the English Prairie, in southeastern Illinois in what is now Edwards County. Among its first settlers was a young engineer, Elias Pym Fordham, who kept journals which he sent back to England with his letters to his family. Those writings are here collected into a fascinating description of frontier...
Explosive growth in settlement took place in the Northwest Territory following the end of the War of 1812. Settlers came from the American seaboard an...
The author had already spent ten years compiling the information that went into this history when the first volume was published. Upon its completion he declared the work to be, and his contemporaries agreed, the most complete of its kind ever assembled. The rich Scottish heritage can be successfully traced thanks to the practice of bestowing hereditary surnames, many of which found a permanent record in the many charters and other public deeds which still exist today. One of the objects of this series is to not only explain the origin of these surnames but to deliver an account of the...
The author had already spent ten years compiling the information that went into this history when the first volume was published. Upon its completion ...
The author had already spent ten years compiling the information that went into this history when the first volume was published. Upon its completion he declared the work to be, and his contemporaries agreed, the most complete of its kind ever assembled. The rich Scottish heritage can be successfully traced thanks to the practice of bestowing hereditary surnames, many of which found a permanent record in the many charters and other public deeds which still exist today. One of the objects of this series is to not only explain the origin of these surnames but to deliver an account of the...
The author had already spent ten years compiling the information that went into this history when the first volume was published. Upon its completion ...
Enthusiasts of early American culture surely will want to add this volume to their bookshelves. Contents include: When the Inn Was a Puritan Ordinary, Madam Knight: Traveller and Tavern-keeper, the Inns of Old Boston, Some Revolutionary Taverns, Some Rhode Island Taverns in Which History Was Made, the Taverns That Entertained Washington, Entertainment for Man and Beast, Tavern Signs-and Wonders, Old Tavern Days in Newbury, the Inns of Ipswich, Some Portsmouth Publicans and Their Famous Guests, Some Taverns of Romance, and When Lafayette Came Back. Profusely illustrated with photographs of the...
Enthusiasts of early American culture surely will want to add this volume to their bookshelves. Contents include: When the Inn Was a Puritan Ordinary,...
This work was originally published by the Pennsylvania German Society in 1922 under the title Social Conditions Among the Pennsylvania Germans in the Eighteenth Century as Revealed in the German Newspapers Published in America. This informative work provides a descriptive analysis of the German American press of Pennsylvania, as well as a comprehensive survey of the German American communities which comprised its audience. Mr. Knauss explores the religious life, occupations, political affiliations, and social climate of these communities, while focusing on the role of the German American...
This work was originally published by the Pennsylvania German Society in 1922 under the title Social Conditions Among the Pennsylvania Germans in the ...