Roughing It From California Through France
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Roughing It From California Through France
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Author : Ben Goodkind
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
Roughing It From California Through France written by Ben Goodkind and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with France categories.
Roughing It From California Through France
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Author : Ben Goodkind
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2016-05-21
Roughing It From California Through France written by Ben Goodkind and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-21 with categories.
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Roughing It
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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1913
Roughing It written by Mark Twain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1913 with Hawaii categories.
The book follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861-1867. Twain left Missouri in 1861 to work with his brother Orion Clemens, the newly appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory. By hiring him, Orion allowed Twain to fulfill one of his dearest ambitions: to travel. Once settled in Nevada, he fell victim to gold fever and went to the Humboldt mines. When prospecting lost its attractions, he found work as a reporter in Virginia City. In 1864, he moved to California and worked as a reporter in San Francisco. It was there that he began to establish a nationwide reputation as a humorist. Roughing It, first published in 1872, is his account of his adventures in the Far West. He devotes twenty chapters to the overland journey by boat and stagecoach to Carson City, including several chapters on the Mormons. Next come chronicles of mining life, real-estate speculation, local politics, and crime in Virginia City and San Francisco. After a junket to the Kingdom of Hawaii, the book closes with his return to San Francisco and his introduction to the lecture circuit.
The Overland Monthly
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
The Overland Monthly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with California categories.
Overland Monthly And Out West Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
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Manifest Destinations
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Author : J. Philip Gruen
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2014-09-02
Manifest Destinations written by J. Philip Gruen and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-02 with Social Science categories.
Tourists started visiting the American West in sizable numbers after the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were completed in 1869. Contemporary travel brochures and guidebooks of the 1870s sold tourists on the spectacular scenery of the West, and depicted its cities as extensions of the natural landscape—as well as places where efficient business operations and architectural grandeur prevailed—all now easily accessible thanks to the relative comfort of transcontinental rail travel. Yet as people flocked to western cities, it was the everyday life that captured their interest—the new technologies, incessant clatter, and all the upheaval of modern metropolises. In Manifest Destinations, J. Philip Gruen examines the ways in which tourists experienced Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco between 1869 and 1893, a period of rapid urbanization and accelerated modernity. Gruen pays particular attention to the contrast between the way these cities were promoted and the way visitors actually experienced them. Guidebooks made Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco seem like picturesque environments sprinkled with civilized buildings and refined people. But Gruen’s research in diaries, letters, and traveler narratives shows that tourists were interested—as tourists usually are—in the unexpected encounters that characterize city life. Visitors relished the cities’ unfamiliar storefronts and advertising, public transit systems, ethnic diversity, and multiple dwellings in all their urban messiness. They thrust themselves into the noise, danger, and cacophony. Western cities did not always live up to the marketing strategies of guidebooks, but the western cities’ fast pace and many novelties held extraordinary appeal to visitors from the East Coast and abroad. In recounting lively anecdotes, and by focusing on tourist perceptions of everyday life in western cities, Gruen shows how these cities developed the economy of tourism to eventually encompass both the urban and the natural West.
Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad Roughing It Loa 21
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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher: Library of America
Release Date : 1984-12-01
Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad Roughing It Loa 21 written by Mark Twain and has been published by Library of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-12-01 with Literary Collections categories.
This Library of America volume contains the novels that, when published, transformed an obscure Western journalist into a national celebrity. The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It (sometimes called The Innocents at Home) were immensely successful when first published and they remain today the most popular travel books ever written. The Innocents Abroad (1869), based largely on letters written for New York and San Francisco papers, narrates the progress of the first American organized tour of Europe—to Naples, Smyrna, Constantinople, and Palestine. In his account Mark Twain assumes two alternate roles: at times the no-nonsense American who refuses to automatically venerate the famous sights of the Old World (preferring Lake Tahoe to Lake Como), or at times the put-upon simpleton, a gullible victim of flatterers and “frauds,” and an awestruck admirer of Russian royalty. The result is a hilarious blend of vaudevillian comedy, actual travel guide, and stinging satire, directed at both the complacency of his fellow American travelers and their reverence for European relics. Out of the book emerges the first full-dress portrait of Mark Twain himself, the breezy, shrewd, and comical manipulator of English idioms and America’s mythologies about itself and its relation to the past. Roughing It (1872) is the lighthearted account of Mark Twain’s actual and imagined adventures when he escaped the Civil War and joined his brother, the recently appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory. His accounts of stagecoach travel, Native Americans, frontier society, the Mormons, the Chinese, and the codes, dress, food, and customs of the West are interspersed with his own experiences as a prospector, miner, journalist, boon companion, and lecturer as he traveled through Nevada, Utah, California, and even to the Hawaiian Islands. Mark Twain’s passage from tenderfoot to old-timer is accomplished through a long series of increasingly comical episodes. The plot is relaxed enough to accommodate some immensely funny and random character sketches, animal fables, tall tales, and dramatic monologues. The result is an enduring picture of the old Western frontier in all its original vigor and variety. In these two works, never before brought together so compactly, Mark Twain achieves his mastery of the vernacular style. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
The Routledge Encyclopedia Of Mark Twain
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Author : J.R. LeMaster
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-13
The Routledge Encyclopedia Of Mark Twain written by J.R. LeMaster and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
"A model reference work that can be used with profit and delight by general readers as well as by more advanced students of Twain. Highly recommended." - Library Journal The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain includes more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries that cover a full variety of topics on this major American writer's life, intellectual milieu, literary career, and achievements. Because so much of Twain's travel narratives, essays, letters, sketches, autobiography, journalism and fiction reflect his personal experience, particular attention is given to the delicate relationship between art and life, between artistic interpretations and their factual source. This comprehensive resource includes information on: Twain’s life and times: the author's childhood in Missouri and apprenticeship as a riverboat pilot, early career as a journalist in the West, world travels, friendships with well-known figures, reading and education, family life and career Complete Works: including novels, travel narratives, short stories, sketches, burlesques, and essays Significant characters, places, and landmarks Recurring concerns, themes or concepts: such as humor, language; race, war, religion, politics, imperialism, art and science Twain’s sources and influences. Useful for students, researchers, librarians and teachers, this volume features a chronology, a special appendix section tracking the poet's genealogy, and a thorough index. Each entry also includes a bibliography for further study.
Roughing It In Two Volumes
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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2024-03-11
Roughing It In Two Volumes written by Mark Twain and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-11 with Fiction categories.
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Potsdam Ny
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Author : Potsdam Public Museum (Potsdam, N.Y.)
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2004
Potsdam Ny written by Potsdam Public Museum (Potsdam, N.Y.) and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Red sandstone, lumber, paper, cows, and college students feature prominently in Potsdam. With its selection of two hundred stunning photographs, the book records aspects of life in Potsdam from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s. Located on the Racquette River between the St. Lawrence River and the Adirondack Mountains, the town is one often that were created in 1787 to promote settlement of New York State. Education has played an important role in Potsdam since 1816, when St. Lawrence Academy opened. The success of the academy led to the establishment in 1866 of a normal school, the forerunner of Potsdam College, with its renowned Crane School of Music.