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"The Bark Covered House" book written by William Nowlin is a literary masterpiece that indicates how properly the author is at telling tales. It's an excellent mix of information and biography. This book could be very thrilling as it tells a super tale by Nowlin. It makes you want to go on a ride that goes beyond time and into the complexities of human pleasure. This book is a masterpiece of writing. Nowlin expertly weaves together the historical and the personal, displaying a complex web of lives and activities. The book shows how notable of a writer Nowlin is; it's written in a way that is both lovely and beneficial. Nowlin takes readers to an extensive range of emotions and locations via ...
My father was born in 1793, and my mother in 1802, in Putnam County, State of New York. Their names were John and Melinda Nowlin. Mother's maiden name was Light. My father owned a small farm of twenty-five acres, in the town of Kent, Putnam County, New York, about sixty miles from New York City. We had plenty of fruit, apples, pears, quinces and so forth, also a never failing spring. He bought another place about half a mile from that. It was very stony, and father worked very hard. I remember well his building stone wall. But hard work would not do it. He could not pay for the second place. It involved him so that we were in danger of losing the place where we lived. He said, it was impossi...
Reproduction of the original: The Bark Covered House by William Nowlin
A graphic and thrilling description of real pioneer life in the wilderness of Michigan.
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As Brian C. Wilson describes them in this highly readable and entertaining book, Yankees—defined by their shared culture and sense of identity—had a number of distinctive traits and sought to impose their ideas across the state of Michigan. After the ethnic label of "Yankee" fell out of use, the offspring of Yankees appropriated the term "Midwesterner." So fused did the identities of Yankee and Midwesterner become that understanding the larger story of America's Midwestern regional identity begins with the Yankees in Michigan.
This first-person narrative of a pioneer boyhood is intended as a tribute to the author's parents, who emigrated to Dearborn, Michigan, from Putnam County, New York in 1834. William Nowlin describes his father's frustration with subsistence on a small, debt-ridden fruit farm and his mother's anguish at leaving her friends, church, and relatives. He recounts the family's adventurous journey on the Erie Canal, the dangers of a public house in Buffalo, the perils of their steamship voyage across Lake Erie during a storm, and the trials of establishing a new home. Wishing to memorialize the challenges of converting wilderness into what he sees as a prosperous and civilized community, Nowlin desc...