King Of The Wild Frontier
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King Of The Wild Frontier
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Author : Davy Crockett
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2010-06-17
King Of The Wild Frontier written by Davy Crockett and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-17 with History categories.
This easy-reading autobiography of bear hunting and Indian fighting — written in 1834, two years before Crockett met his fate at the Alamo — popularized tall tales of the frontier.
Davy Crockett King Of The Wild Frontier
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Author : Davy Crockett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-11-07
Davy Crockett King Of The Wild Frontier written by Davy Crockett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-07 with categories.
"Davy Crockett: King Of The Wild Frontier" is two books in one. It is the autobiography of Davy Crockett ("A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett") and a biography of David Crockett, by John S. C. Abbott ("David Crockett: His Life and Adventures").Contents:"A Narrative Of The Life Of David Crockett", by David CrocketDavid Crockett: His Life And Adventures", by John S.C. AbbottPrefaceParentage and ChildhoodYouthful AdventuresMarriage and SettlementThe Soldier LifeIndian WarfareThe Camp and the CabinThe Justice of Peace and the LegislatorLife on the ObionAdventures in the Forest, on the River, and in the CityCrockett's Tour to the North and the EastThe Disappointed Politician. Off for TexasAdventures on the PrairieConclusion"Davy Crockett: King Of The Wild Frontier" contains supplementary material:* Quotes Of Davy Crockett,* The Children Of Davy Crockett,* The Story Of The Raccoon Cap,* Davy Crockett Summary.
Born On A Mountaintop
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Author : Bob Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2013-03-05
Born On A Mountaintop written by Bob Thompson and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Pioneer. Congressman. Martyr of the Alamo. King of the Wild Frontier. As with all great legends, Davy Crockett's has been retold many times. Over the years, he has been repeatedly reinvented by historians and popular storytellers. In Born on a Mountaintop, Bob Thompson combines the stories of the real hero and his Disney-enhanced afterlife as he delves deep into our love for an American icon. In the road-trip tradition of Sarah Vowell and Tony Horwitz, Thompson follows Crockett's footsteps from his birthplace in east Tennessee to Washington, where he served three terms in Congress, and on to Texas and the gates of the Alamo, seeking out those who know, love, and are still willing to fight over Davy's life and legacy. Born on a Mountaintop is more than just a bold new biography of one of the great American heroes. Thompson's rich mix of scholarship, reportage, humor, and exploration of modern Crockett landscapes bring Davy Crockett's impact on the American imagination vividly to life.
The Alcalde
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-07
The Alcalde written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07 with categories.
As the magazine of the Texas Exes, The Alcalde has united alumni and friends of The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 100 years. The Alcalde serves as an intellectual crossroads where UT's luminaries - artists, engineers, executives, musicians, attorneys, journalists, lawmakers, and professors among them - meet bimonthly to exchange ideas. Its pages also offer a place for Texas Exes to swap stories and share memories of Austin and their alma mater. The magazine's unique name is Spanish for "mayor" or "chief magistrate"; the nickname of the governor who signed UT into existence was "The Old Alcalde."
Davy Crockett Of The Wild Frontier
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Author : Larry W Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-12-02
Davy Crockett Of The Wild Frontier written by Larry W Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-02 with categories.
David "Davy" Crockett was an early 1800s folk hero, frontier woodsman, scout, soldier, and politician. Known as the "King of the Wild Frontier", he grew up poor and uneducated but ended up as a Congressman from Tennessee. He had a reputation for deer and bear hunting and storytelling. His active participation in the Creek War, part of the War Of 1812, saw fierce battles with the Creek Indians. This book, "Davy Crockett Of the Wild Frontier", is a reprint of his own autobiography, with edits, notes and additional images. It is true history written as an entertaining novel. The reader will enjoy this 121 page illustrated account of one of America's greatest folk heros.
King Of The Once Wild Frontier
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Author : Robert Lawrence Schichler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
King Of The Once Wild Frontier written by Robert Lawrence Schichler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Social Science categories.
King Of The Mild Frontier
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Author : Chris Crutcher
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-09-22
King Of The Mild Frontier written by Chris Crutcher and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-22 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age A riveting, scorching—and hilarious—autobiography by the award-winning author of Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes and Deadline. From trying to impress a member of the girls’ softball team (with disastrous dental results) to enduring the humiliation of his high school athletic club initiation (olives and oysters play unforgettable roles), Chris Crutcher’s memoir of the tricky road to adulthood is candid, disarming, laugh-out-loud funny, relevant, and never less than riveting. He vividly describes a temper that was always waiting to trip him up even as it sustained him through some of the most memorable mishaps any child has survived. And how did this guy (he lifted his brother’s homework through the entire tenth grade) ever become a writer, not to mention the author of fourteen critically acclaimed books for young people? The frontier may be mild, but the book is not. Fans of Tara Westover’s Educated, Jack Gantos’s Hole in My Life, and Walter Dean Myers’s Bad Boy will laugh, will cry, and will remember. “Funny, bittersweet and brutally honest. Readers will clasp this hard-to-put-down book to their hearts even as they laugh sympathetically.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Red Dog
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Author : Willem Anker
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2021-03-09
Red Dog written by Willem Anker and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-09 with Fiction categories.
A blistering, brutal novel of the South African frontier from a major new literary voice In the eighteenth century, a giant strides the border of the Cape Colony frontier. Coenraad de Buys is a legend, a polygamist, a swindler and a big talker; a rebel who fights with Xhosa chieftains against the Boers and British; the fierce patriarch of a sprawling mixed-race family with a veritable tribe of followers; a savage enemy and a loyal ally. Like the wild dogs who are always at his heels, he roams the shifting landscape of southern Africa, hungry and spoiling for a fight. Red Dog is a brilliant, fiercely powerful novel - a wild, epic tale of Africa in a time before boundaries between cultures and peoples were fixed, based on the life of a real historical figure.
Restricted Data
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Author : Alex Wellerstein
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2024-04-23
Restricted Data written by Alex Wellerstein and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-23 with History categories.
The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post–Cold War present. The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and beyond, there were efforts to control the spread of nuclear information and the newly discovered scientific facts that made such powerful weapons possible. The totalizing scientific secrecy that the atomic bomb appeared to demand was new, unusual, and very nearly unprecedented. It was foreign to American science and American democracy—and potentially incompatible with both. From the beginning, this secrecy was controversial, and it was always contested. The atomic bomb was not merely the application of science to war, but the result of decades of investment in scientific education, infrastructure, and global collaboration. If secrecy became the norm, how would science survive? Drawing on troves of declassified files, including records released by the government for the first time through the author’s efforts, Restricted Data traces the complex evolution of the US nuclear secrecy regime from the first whisper of the atomic bomb through the mounting tensions of the Cold War and into the early twenty-first century. A compelling history of powerful ideas at war, it tells a story that feels distinctly American: rich, sprawling, and built on the conflict between high-minded idealism and ugly, fearful power.
Legends Of The Frontier
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Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-12-30
Legends Of The Frontier written by Charles River Charles River Editors and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-30 with categories.
*Discusses some of the legends and controversies surrounding the lives and deaths of the three frontier legends. *Includes the story about Crockett's famous Not Yours To Give speech, and the debate over whether he actually gave it. *Includes pictures of Boone, Bowie, Crockett and other important people and places in their lives. *Includes a Bibliography on each man for further reading. The Wild West and the frontier have long held a special place in the narrative of American history, and all of the legends and folk heroes who lived in the 19th century owe their reputation to the original American frontier folk hero, Daniel Boone. Boone was literally a trailblazer: the legendary pioneer established his Wilderness Road by striking west into present-day Kentucky and establishing Boonesborough, one of the earliest white settlements west of the Appalachians. Hundreds of thousands of settlers would follow his path by the end of the 18th century. While that was an important and proud legacy for the former Revolutionary War militiaman and Virginia State Assemblyman, Boone became known for the outsized tales and adventures associated with his foray into the frontier. Far and wide, people spoke of Boone's expert marksmanship, his encounters with wild bears, and his hardscrabble frontier life, making him a living legend and the prototypical Western frontier folk hero in America. Following right in Boone's path was "The King of the Wild Frontier," Davy Crockett. Also a living legend in his own life. Crockett was a hardscrabble frontiersman who could spin a good yarn but who also took a no-nonsense approach that brought him from the backwoods of Tennessee to the halls of Congress. Though he served during the presidency of another Westerner, Andrew Jackson, Crockett was very much his own man, and he was distrustful of other politicians, a sentiment that has only endeared him further to subsequent generations of Americans. Jim Bowie he was known across America in his lifetime for a controversy other than the Battle of the Alamo. In what became known as the notorious Sandbar Fight of 1827, a duel between two men turned into a large fight that included Bowie, who was shot and stabbed during the melee but still managed to stab to death the sheriff of Rapides Parish in Louisiana with a large knife that has since become universally known as the Bowie knife. Jim Bowie was famous in his lifetime, but like Crockett it was his death in Texas that made him an American legend. Though there is still some mystery and controversy surrounding exactly what transpired at the Battle of the Alamo, the deaths of Crockett, Bowie, William B. Travis and the rest of the defenders at the hands of Santa Anna's Mexican soldiers became a symbol of sacrifice and defiance, and the battle itself became a rallying cry throughout the rest of Texas' War for Independence. Naturally, it also cemented the legacies of both Bowie and Crockett as well. Legends of the Frontier chronicles the life, myths and legends of the three frontier legends, examining the known and unknown in an attempt to separate fact from fiction. Along with pictures of important people and places, you will learn about Boone, Crockett and Bowie like you never have before, in no time at all.