That Dark And Bloody River
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That Dark And Bloody River
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Author : Allan W. Eckert
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2011-03-30
That Dark And Bloody River written by Allan W. Eckert and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-30 with History categories.
An award-winning author chronicles the settling of the Ohio River Valley, home to the defiant Shawnee Indians, who vow to defend their land against the seemingly unstoppable. They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists, settlers and speculators, soldiers and missionaries, fugitives from justice and from despair—pioneers all, in the great and inexorable westward expansion defined at its heart by the majestic flow of the Ohio River. This is their story, a chronicle of monumental dimension, of resounding drama and impact set during a pivotal era in our history: the birth and growth of a nation. Drawing on a wealth of research, both scholarly and anecdotal—including letters, diaries, and journals of the era—Allan W. Eckert has delivered a landmark of historical authenticity, unprecedented in scope and detail.
That Dark Bloody River
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Author : Allan W Eckert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996-10-01
That Dark Bloody River written by Allan W Eckert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-10-01 with categories.
A Dark And Bloody Ground
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Author : Edward G. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2003
A Dark And Bloody Ground written by Edward G. Miller and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Hürtgen Forest, Battle of, Germany, 1944 categories.
The book examines uncertainty of command at the army, corps, and division levels and emphasizes the confusion and fear of ground combat at the level of company and battalion - "where they do the dying." Its gripping description of the battle is based on government records, a rich selection of first-person accounts from veterans of both sides, and author Edward G. Miller's visits to the battlefield. The result is a compelling and comprehensive account of small-unit action set against the background of the larger command levels. The book's foreword is by retired Maj. Gen. R. W. Hogan, who was a battalion commander in the forest.
The Frontiersmen
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Author : Allen W. Eckert
language : en
Publisher: Jesse Stuart Foundation
Release Date : 2011
The Frontiersmen written by Allen W. Eckert and has been published by Jesse Stuart Foundation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Fiction categories.
The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America from crimes committed back east. In the beautiful but deadly country which would one day come to be known as West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, more often than not they left their bones to bleach beside forest paths or on the banks of the Ohio River, victims of Indians who claimed the vast virgin territory and strove to turn back the growing tide of whites. These frontiersmen are the subjects of Allan W. Eckert's dramatic history. Against the background of such names as George Rogers Clark, Daniel Boone, Arthur St. Clair, Anthony Wayne, Simon Girty and William Henry Harrison, Eckert has recreated the life of one of America's most outstanding heroes, Simon Kenton. Kenton's role in opening the Northwest Territory to settlement more than rivaled that of his friend Daniel Boone. By his eighteenth birthday, Kenton had already won frontier renown as woodsman, fighter and scout. His incredible physical strength and endurance, his great dignity and innate kindness made him the ideal prototype of the frontier hero. Yet there is another story to The Frontiersmen. It is equally the story of one of history's greatest leaders, whose misfortune was to be born to a doomed cause and a dying race. Tecumseh, the brilliant Shawnee chief, welded together by the sheer force of his intellect and charisma an incredible Indian confederacy that came desperately close to breaking the thrust of the white man's westward expansion. Like Kenton, Tecumseh was the paragon of his people's virtues, and the story of his life, in Allan Eckert's hands, reveals most profoundly the grandeur and the tragedy of the American Indian. No less importantly, The Frontiersmen is the story of wilderness America itself, its penetration and settlement, and it is Eckert's particular grace to be able to evoke life and meaning from the raw facts of this story. In The Frontiersmen not only do we care about our long-forgotten fathers, we live again with them.
Bloody River Blues
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Author : Jeffery Deaver
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-01-22
Bloody River Blues written by Jeffery Deaver and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-22 with Fiction categories.
Move over Bonnie and Clyde . . . Hollywood location scout John Pellam thought the scenic backwater town of Maddox, Missouri, would be the perfect site for an upcoming gangster film. But after real bullets leave two people dead and one cop paralysed, he's more sought after than the Barrows gang. Pellam had unwittingly wandered onto the crime scene just moments before the brutal hits. Now the feds and local police want him to talk. Mob enforcers want him silenced. And a mysterious blonde just wants him. Trapped in a town full of sinister secrets and deadly deceptions, Pellam fears that death will imitate art, as the film shoot - and his life - race toward a breathtakingly bloody climax.
Dark Journey
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Author : Allan W. Eckert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Dark Journey written by Allan W. Eckert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
In 1841 a party of men, women, and children set out from Missouri led by John Bidwell, the prince of California pioneers. Their trip to California across the plains and mountains, as revealed in the journal of their leaders, is a tribute to human courage, endurance, and faith. The Bidwell pioneers were followed by many other parties, including the Donner-Reed party. Caught in the Sierra Nevada mountains by the icy grip of an early winter, the Donner party built crude shelters and struggled to survive. Soup made of boiled leather and powdered bones became a luxury. Of the 79 persons who started, 34 died before an expedition out of California rescued the survivors.
Dark Tales From The Long River
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Author : David Price
language : en
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Release Date : 2021-06-01
Dark Tales From The Long River written by David Price and has been published by Fremantle Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-01 with History categories.
From searches for serial killers and missing persons to the persecution of migrants and Aboriginal people, David Price takes us back to a time when the line between lawmakers and criminals was lightly drawn. Based on a wide array of contemporaneous accounts of life in the Gascoyne, these sometimes shocking, sometimes disturbing true crime stories depict an era when laws served to maintain order rather than to secure justice. Dark Tales from the Long River offers a window into an evolving history of colonisation that is still struggling into the light.
Blue Jacket
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Author : Allan W. Eckert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Blue Jacket written by Allan W. Eckert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Indian captivities categories.
Blue Jacket (ca. 1743-ca. 1808), or Waweyapiersenwaw, was the galvanizing force behind an intertribal confederacy of unparalleled scope that fought a long and bloody war against white encroachments into Shawnees' homeland in the Ohio River Valley. Blue jacket was an astute strategist and diplomat who, thought courted by American and British leaders, remained a staunch defender of the Shawnees' independence and territory. In this arresting and controversial account, John Sugden depicts the most influential Native American leader of his time.
Gateway To Empire
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Author : Allan W. Eckert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Gateway To Empire written by Allan W. Eckert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Illinois categories.
Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown, c1983. (The winning of America series)
Blood River
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Author : Tim Butcher
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-12-15
Blood River written by Tim Butcher and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-15 with Travel categories.
**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey. When war correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa in 2000 he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous nineteenth century trans-Africa expedition - but travelling alone. Despite warnings that his plan was 'suicidal', Butcher set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a rucksack and a few thousand dollars hidden in his boots. Making his way in an assortment of vessels including a motorbike and a dugout canoe, helped along by a cast of unlikely characters, he followed in the footsteps of the great Victorian adventurers. Butcher's journey was a remarkable feat, but the story of the Congo, told expertly and vividly in this book, is more remarkable still. ‘A masterpiece’ John Le Carré ‘Extraordinary, audacious, completely enthralling’ William Boyd ‘A remarkable marriage of travelogue and history, which deserves to make Tim Butcher a star for his prose, as well as his courage’ Max Hastings