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The Boone Family
George Boone IV (1690-1753), a Quaker, emigrated from England to Abington, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, married Deborah Howell in 1713, and moved to Berks County, Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, California and elsewhere.
My Father, Daniel Boone
One of the most famous figures of the American frontier, Daniel Boone clashed with the Shawnee and sought to exploit the riches of a newly settled region. Despite Boone's fame, his life remains wrapped in mystery.The Boone legend, which began with the publication of John Filson's The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boone and continued through modern times with Fess Parker's Daniel Boone television series, has become a hopeless mix of fact and fiction. Born in 1819, archivist Lyman Draper was a tireless collector of oral history and is responsible for much of what we do know about Boone. Particularly interested in frontier history, Draper conducted interviews with the famous and the obscure and col...
The Land Before Her
To discover how women constructed their own mythology of the West, Kolodny examines the evidence of three generations of women's writing about the frontier. She finds that, although the American frontiersman imagined the wilderness as virgin land, an unspoiled Eve to be taken, the pioneer woman at his side dreamed more modestly of a garden to be cultivated. Both intellectual and cultural history, this volume continues Kolodny's study of frontier mythology begun in The Lay of the Land.
GOD BLEW, AND THEY WERE SCATTERED
BRIEF SYNOPSIS GOD BLEW, AND THEY WERE SCATTERED, BOOK III The continuing saga of the Taelmann (Tallman) family finds young William Tallman in the Oley Valley of Pennsylvania, some fifty miles from Philadelphia, where he shall remain from 1740 until 1780. There, circa 1742, he marries Anne Lincoln. Anne is the daughter of Mordecai Lincoln II, a land baron and ironmaster, and first wife Hannah Salter, the daughter and granddaughter of a powerful New Jersey political family; destined to become the great-great grandparents of the nation’s 16th president. Although William and Anne would have eleven children, after years of struggle the only child who would survive to adulthood would be their s...
Daniel Boone, His Own Story
A true life account first published in the early 1800s.
Our Cup Runneth Over
Carolyn and her husband Herbert came from two different worlds. She from a small town in West Virginia, and he from a small village in East Prussia. They each experienced a different kind of life during World War II. Herbert escaped death by the Russians, and the only act of war Carolyn saw was selling war bonds and standing in line for nylons for her mother until the telegraph came. Carolyns father was severely injured during a raid over Tokyo and would never be the same. Herberts family did not know if his father was dead or alive for the three years they were in a refugee camp after fleeing from the Russians.
And Five Became One
The story begins with a young wealthy heiress born to fulfill duties and live in the spotlight of the paparazzi's cameras. She dreams of shedding her well-known identity and to be normal. Her staff and friends care for her deeply, but she longs to fill the emptiness of not having a family of her own. Unexpected events arise transforming her into a plain Jane and living life in poverty. She must find out if this is the dream she always wanted, or a nightmare. Another story is unfolding that involves three children who tragically loose their parents. Their Uncle wants to provide them the love and stability they require, but many obstacles would have to be overcome. As if that were not enough, they would have to take a journey from San Diego to Arizona in search of finding a new home. Follow these characters as twists of events and hidden memories of the different worlds of the rich and famous with the poor and struggling collides. You will find it hard to put down the book once you begin...
