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American Literature in Context: 1830-1865
Brian Harding2 "Howard Doughty, Francis Parkman, New York: Macmillan, 1962, p. 97. 3 Mason Wade, Francis Parkman: Heroic Historian, New York: Viking Press, 1942, p. 3. 4 The Journals of Francis Parkman, ed. Mason Wade, 2 vols, New York: Harper, ...
Francis Parkman
Howard DoughtyBest known as author of The Oregon Trail, Francis Parkman is now increasingly recognized as one of the greatest nineteenth–century American historians.
Francis Parkman and the Plains Indians
Francis ParkmanThe author, a wealthy Bostonian with a deep interest in Native American culture, provides a first-person account of his experiences living with a band of Oglala Sioux while they traveled the Oregon Trail during the summer of 1847.
The Battle For Quebec
Francis ParkmanThe sixth volume in Francis Parkman's seven-volume history, France and England in North America, originally published in 1884. It tells the story of the French and Indian War.
The Book of Roses
Francis ParkmanRenowned American historian and leading horticulturalist Parkman wrote what was for many years a standard manual on the subject of roses in 1866.
The Oregon Trail
Francis ParkmanKeen observations and a graphic style characterize the author's remarkable record of a vanishing frontier. Detailed accounts of the hardships while traveling across mountains, portraits of emigrants, Western wildlife, and Indian culture.
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of ...
William CrononWinner of the Francis Parkman Prize Changes in the Land offers an original and persuasive interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European ...
Francis Parkman, Historian as Hero: The Formative Years
Wilbur R. JacobsDid he color historical figures with his own heroic self-image? Was his objectivity compromised by his "unbending, conservative, Brahmin" values? These are some of the many issues that Wilbur Jacobs treats in this thought-provoking study.
An Offering of Sympathy to the Afflicted: Especially to ...
Francis ParkmanJAMES HAY BEATTIE. Extracts from the *' Life and Character of James Hay Beattie," by his father, James Beattie, LL. D. " November 28, 1790. — I intend to write a short account of the life, education and character of my son, now deceased.
Register of Carolina Huguenots, Vol. 4, Index
Horry Frost PrioleauHorry Frost Prioleau, Edward Lining Manigault. Francis (1726-1771) . . . 300, 573, 1631 Francis (1748-1749) . . . 591, 1652 Francis (1752-1767) . . . 300, 573, 1632 Francis Johnstone (1863-1884) . . . 177, 345, 597, 1114, 1249, 1658 Francis ...
Dear Pope Francis: The Pope Answers Letters from Children ...
Pope FrancisIn Dear Pope Francis, Pope Francis gives them that chance and celebrates their spiritual depth by directly answering questions from children around the world.
Francis Bacon: The Human Body
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon (1909-1992) is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest British artists of this century.
Marcel Duchamp, the Art of Chess
Francis M. NaumannEdited by Francis M. Naumann. Text by Francis M. Naumann, Bradley Bailey, Jennifer Shahade.
The Osage and the Invisible World: From the Works of Francis ...
Francis La FlescheFrom the Works of Francis La Flesche Francis La Flesche Garrick Alan Bailey. CHAPTER. 6. Rite. of. the. Chiefs. J.HE Rite of the Chiefs, associated with the great bundle (wa-xo'-be ton-ga), was the initiation rite of a man into one of the three ...
The Golden Frontier: The Recollections of Herman Francis ...
Herman Francis ReinhartThe Recollections of Herman Francis Reinhart, 1851-1869 Herman Francis Reinhart Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. ... 210; Reinhart stays with, 236 Harper & Reed: Reinhart works for, 301 Harris and Marks: Reinhart hauls freight for, 248 Harrison County ...
Francis of Assisi: Performing the Gospel of Life
Lawrence CunninghamIn this new biography of St. Francis, Cunningham follows the saint's life in chronological order, placing him within his culture, exploring official developments within the Catholic Church, and highlighting the many conversions of Francis ...
Francis and Clare: The Complete Works
Saint Francis (of Assisi)Francis (c. 1182-1226) and Clare (c. 1193-1254) together shaped the spirituality of early 13th-century Europe. Here for the first time in English are their complete writings, brought together in one volume.
The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope
Austen Ivereigh4 Dolan, Praying in Rome: Reflections on the Conclave and Electing Pope Francis. 5 Cardinal O'Malley ... 16 See Francis BurkleYoung's classic history of conclaves, Passing the Keys (Lanham: Madison Books, 2001). On the smoke dramas at ...
Charting Change in France Around 1540
PreviewSee Francis Higman, "Premières reponses catholiques aux ecrits de la Reforme en France, 1525-c. ... J. M. De Bujanda, Francis M. Higman, and James K. Farge ( Sherbrooke: Centre d'Etudes de la Renaissance; Geneva: Droz, 1985); Francis ...
Genealogical Records; Manuscript Entries of Births, Deaths ...
PreviewContains record of Francis Lewis and Elizabeth Ludlow, his wife, with their children. We have not been able to locate the present owner of the Bible, nor to verify the records. Francis Lewis Junr., Eldest Son of Francis Lewis of ye City of New ...
Proceedings of the Chemical Society
Chemical Society (Great Britain)Part II. By Francis Ernest Francis and Oliver Charles Minty Davis .............................. .......... .. Reduction products of aB-diethylanhydracetonebenzil, and condensation products of benzaldehydes with ketoncs. By Francis Robert Japp and William ...
Francis Bacon and the Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Discourse
A. Funari1 (Winter 2000): 96–143. Bacon,Francis. The Advancement ofLearning.1605. Facsimilereprint. London:Dodo Press,2005. ... Coleridge, SamuelT. “Francis Bacon.” InColeridge ontheSeventeenth Century,edited by Roberta Florence Brinkley, ...
Diary of Charles Francis Adams
Charles Francis AdamsCharles Francis Adams Robert J. Taylor, Marc Friedlaender, Celeste Walker. my bad nights when things ... Received a letter from Mr. Johnson in Paris complaining of not receiving any remittances through the Barings. His date is as late as the ...
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