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Morgan offers an authentic and deliciously humorous account of the prostitutes and other "disreputable" women who were the earliest female pioneers of the Far North. At the turn of the century, tens of thousands of Americans left their homes, escaping a worldwide depression & the restraints of the Victorian Era, to stampede to Alaska & the Yukon, where millions of dollars in gold was being discovered in remote, subartic mining camps. Women accompanied the men on the long journey to the Far North--more often prostitutes, dance hall girls & entertainers than respectful wives & schoolteachers. These are the girls of the demimonde, that "half world" of disreputable women who lived on the outskir...
This realistic story of a black Christian mother who instructs her son to think and behave according to the teachings of Jesus Christ. As he matures, he strives to live as a “good person” in an uncertain and materialistic world. Joseph is the main character who meets a girl in an orphanage and she will forever influence his life. He fell in love, after being seduced, and he is befriended by an army buddy. Over indulgence in alcohol led him to become homeless. Thus, in the story there is love, sex, friendships, betrayal, humor, violence and an ending, which is both positive and miraculous for the reader who may believe.
This work embraces about 1,200 sketches of 19th-century York Countians. Most sketches include a variety of genealogical and biographical data.
This book assembles a knowledge base of the cross-cultural congregation-to-congregation relationship of two local churches: Madison square Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the Providence Baptist Church in Monrovia, Liberia.
Containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States