Jonathan Root

Horizon Chasers

• Author(s): Gerry Max

• Categories: Social Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2007-02-21
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• Publisher: McFarland

Richard Halliburton was the quintessential world traveler of the early 20th century. In 1930, his celebrity equaled that of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. Halliburton called himself a "horizon chaser" and recommended that one should see the world before committing to a routine. Not only did he live up to his ideal, but he was eager to write about his adventures. A prolific partnership with gifted editor and ghost writer Paul Mooney produced excellent work, and theirs became a close personal relationship. Sadly, Halliburton and Mooney disappeared at sea on March 24, 1939, along with the entire crew of Halliburton's Chinese junk Sea Dragon, as they attempted to cross the Pacific from Ho...

Bulletin

• Author(s): Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station

• Categories: Agriculture

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1898
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Massachusetts

• Author(s): United States. Bureau of the Census

• Categories: Genealogy

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1908
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Year Book

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1896
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• Publisher: Unknown

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A Dictionary of all Officers, who have been commissioned, or have been appointed and served, in the Army of the United States since the inauguration of their first President, in 1789, to the first January, 1853, etc

• Author(s): Charles Kitchell GARDNER

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1853
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• Publisher: Unknown

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