Across the Plains

Across the Plains
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publsiher: Cosimo Classics
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1892
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: UCAL:B4107542

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"America was to me a sort of promised land; 'westward the march of empire holds its way'; the race is for the moment to the young; what has been and what is we imperfectly and obscurely know; what is to be yet lies beyond the flight of our imaginations. . . " Robert Louis Stevenson, The Amateur Emigrant This jacketed hardcover edition of Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays (1892) by Robert Louis Stevenson is the second book in a trilogy that began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters and in which the author described his travels in the United States. Each of the 12 chapters is a self-contained essay that discusses a particular aspect of what Stevenson observed as he traveled by train from New York to California. They give a fascinating view of what travel was in the late Victorian period from the perspective of a Scottish visitor.

Across the Plains

Across the Plains
Author: Sarah Royce
Publsiher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2009-06-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0816527261

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On April 30, 1849, Sarah Bayliss Royce, along with her husband, Josiah, and their daughter, Mary, left her home in Tipton, Iowa, and headed for California in a covered wagon. Along the way, she kept a diary which, nearly thirty years later, served as the basis for a memoir she titled Across the Plains. That book has been freshly transcribed by Jennifer Dawes Adkison from RoyceÕs original handwritten document, and this new edition is faithful to the original, restoring several passages that were omitted from the previous edition. In a new introduction Adkison reveals Across the Plains to be far more than a simple narrative of one pioneer womanÕs journey west. She explains that Royce wrote the book at the request of her son, Josiah Royce, a well-known professor of philosophy at Harvard University with motives of his own. She crafted the narrative that her son wanted: an argument for spiritual faith and fortitude as foundational to CaliforniaÕs history. Yet the narrative itself, in addition to offering a window into a world that has long lacked close documentation, gives us the opportunity to study the ways in which nineteenth-century western women asserted this primacy of faith and crafted their experience into stories with larger cultural and social resonance. Scholars have long used Across the Plains to mold and support an iconic image of the resolute pioneer woman. However, until now no one has considered RoyceÕs own self-conscious creation of this persona. Readers will discover that in many ways, Sarah RoyceÕs careful construction of this cultural portrait deepens our respect for her and our delight in her travels, travails, and triumphs.

Across the Plains In 1844

Across the Plains In 1844
Author: Catherine Sager Pringle
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2010-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1409979121

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The Sager orphans (sometimes referred to as Sager children) were the children of Naomi and Henry Sager. In April 1844 Henry Sager and his family took part in the great westward migration and started their journey along the Oregon Trail. During their journey both Naomi and Henry Sager lost their lives and left their seven children orphaned. Later adopted by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, missionaries in what is now Washington, the children were orphaned a second time, when both their new parents were killed during the Whitman massacre in November 1847. Catherine (1835-1910), the eldest of the Sager girls, married Clark Pringle, a Methodist minister and bore him 8 children. They lived in Spokane, Washington. About 1860, ten years after her arrival in Oregon, she wrote a first-hand account of their journey across the plains and their life with the Whitmans. This account today is regarded as one of the most authentic accounts of the American westward migration. She hoped to earn enough money to set up an orphanage in the memory of Narcissa Whitman. She never found a publisher. Catherine died on August 10, 1910, at the age of seventy-five.

The Plains Across

The Plains Across
Author: John D. Unruh
Publsiher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 590
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN: 0252063600

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The most honored book ever released by the University of Illinois Press, The Plains Across was the result of more than a decade's work by its author. Here, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Oregon Trail, is a paperback reissue that includes the notes, bibliography, and illustrations contained in the 1979 cloth edition.

Across the Plains

Across the Plains
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1925
Genre: Monterey (Calif.)
ISBN: OCLC:1040824198

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Across the Plains in 1884

Across the Plains in 1884
Author: Catherine Sager
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-10-24
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9798868942082

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Days on the Road Crossing the Plains in 1865

Days on the Road  Crossing the Plains in 1865
Author: Sarah Raymond Herndon
Publsiher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2023-09-25
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9783387084771

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Great Plains

Great Plains
Author: Ian Frazier
Publsiher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2001-05-04
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781466828889

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National Bestseller Most travelers only fly over the Great Plains--but Ian Frazier, ever the intrepid and wide-eyed wanderer, is not your average traveler. A hilarious and fascinating look at the great middle of our nation. With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bull's cabin, to an abandoned house once terrorized by Bonnie and Clyde, to the scene of the murders chronicled in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It is an expedition that reveals the heart of the American West.