Monatsarchive: November 2017

Historic Highways of America: Volume 6: Boone’s Wilderness Road

Publiziert am 30. November 2017 von Jazzybee

Historic Highways of America: Volume 6: Boone’s Wilderness Road – Archer Butler Hulbert.

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion. Comprising the following volumes:

Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals.
Indian Thoroughfares.
Washington’s Road: The First Chapter of the Old French War.
Braddock’s Road.
The Old Glade (Forbes’s) Road.
Boone’s Wilderness Road.
Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent.
Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin.
Waterways of Westward Expansion.
The Cumberland Road.
Pioneer Roads of America (two volumes).
The Great American Canals (two volumes).
The Future of Road-Making in America.

One roadway — the Wilderness Road to Kentucky from Virginia and … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Historic Highways of America: Volume 5: The Old Glade (Forbes’s) Road

Publiziert am 30. November 2017 von Jazzybee

Historic Highways of America: Volume 5: The Old Glade (Forbes’s) Road – Archer Butler Hulbert.

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion. Comprising the following volumes:

Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals.
Indian Thoroughfares.
Washington’s Road: The First Chapter of the Old French War.
Braddock’s Road.
The Old Glade (Forbes’s) Road.
Boone’s Wilderness Road.
Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent.
Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin.
Waterways of Westward Expansion.
The Cumberland Road.
Pioneer Roads of America (two volumes).
The Great American Canals (two volumes).
The Future of Road-Making in America.

Forbes’s road, fortified at Carlisle, Shippensburg, Chambersburg, Loudon, Littleton, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Historic Highways of America: Volume 4: Braddock’s Road (And three relative Papers)

Publiziert am 30. November 2017 von Jazzybee

Historic Highways of America: Volume 4: Braddock’s Road (And three relative Papers) – Archer Butler Hulbert.

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion. Comprising the following volumes:

Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals.
Indian Thoroughfares.
Washington’s Road: The First Chapter of the Old French War.
Braddock’s Road.
The Old Glade (Forbes’s) Road.
Boone’s Wilderness Road.
Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent.
Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin.
Waterways of Westward Expansion.
The Cumberland Road.
Pioneer Roads of America (two volumes).
The Great American Canals (two volumes).
The Future of Road-Making in America.

The French were invariably defeated by the British … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Historic Highways of America: Volume 3: Washington’s Road (Nemacolin’s Path)

Publiziert am 29. November 2017 von Jazzybee

Historic Highways of America: Volume 3: Washington’s Road (Nemacolin’s Path) – Archer Butler Hulbert.

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion. Comprising the following volumes:

Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals.
Indian Thoroughfares.
Washington’s Road: The First Chapter of the Old French War.
Braddock’s Road.
The Old Glade (Forbes’s) Road.
Boone’s Wilderness Road.
Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent.
Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin.
Waterways of Westward Expansion.
The Cumberland Road.
Pioneer Roads of America (two volumes).
The Great American Canals (two volumes).
The Future of Road-Making in America.

If you journey today from Cumberland, Maryland, on the Potomac, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Historic Highways of America: Volume 2: Indian Thoroughfares

Publiziert am 29. November 2017 von Jazzybee

Historic Highways of America: Volume 2: Indian Thoroughfares – Archer Butler Hulbert.

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion. Comprising the following volumes:

Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals.
Indian Thoroughfares.
Washington’s Road: The First Chapter of the Old French War.
Braddock’s Road.
The Old Glade (Forbes’s) Road.
Boone’s Wilderness Road.
Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent.
Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin.
Waterways of Westward Expansion.
The Cumberland Road.
Pioneer Roads of America (two volumes).
The Great American Canals (two volumes).
The Future of Road-Making in America.

THE brave missionaries in Canada called the Indian trails of the North … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Historic Highways of America: Volume 1: Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals

Publiziert am 29. November 2017 von Jazzybee

Historic Highways of America: Volume 1: Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals – Archer Butler Hulbert.

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion. Comprising the following volumes:

Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals.
Indian Thoroughfares.
Washington’s Road: The First Chapter of the Old French War.
Braddock’s Road.
The Old Glade (Forbes’s) Road.
Boone’s Wilderness Road.
Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent.
Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin.
Waterways of Westward Expansion.
The Cumberland Road.
Pioneer Roads of America (two volumes).
The Great American Canals (two volumes).
The Future of Road-Making in America.

The first monograph of the … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Old Times on the Mississippi

Publiziert am 28. November 2017 von Jazzybee

Old Times on the Mississippi – Mark Twain

When Mark Twain was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among his comrades in the village on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman. There were transient ambitions of other sorts, but they were only transient. When a circus came and went, it left the boys burning to become clowns; the first negro minstrel show that came to that section left them all suffering to try that kind of life; now and then they had a hope that if they lived and were good, God would permit them to be pirates. These ambitions faded out, each in its turn; but the ambition to be … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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A Tramp Abroad

Publiziert am 28. November 2017 von Jazzybee

A Tramp Abroad – Mark Twain

“A Tramp Abroad” is one of Mark Twain’s famous travel books, describing the events of a journey to Europe with his fictional friend Harris. They start their journey in Germany, travel through Switzerland and the Eastern part of France and touch cities in Northern Italy as well as some well-known mountains in the Alps. Twain’s humor is exceedingly fit to tell of many funny situations that the both of them encounter.

A Tramp Abroad

A Tramp Abroad

Format: Paperback

A Tramp Abroad.

ISBN: 9783849674823.

Available at amazon.com and other venues.

 

Biography of Mark Twain (from Wikipedia):

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Thrice-Greatest Hermes

Publiziert am 28. November 2017 von Jazzybee

Thrice-Greatest Hermes – G. R. S. Mead

This is the edition including all three books. The so-called Hermetic writings have been known to Christian writers for many centuries. The early church Fathers (Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria) quote them in defense of Christianity. Stobaeus collected fragments of them. The Humanists knew and valued them. They were studied in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and in modern times have again been diligently examined by many scholars. G. R. S. Mead has issued a translation of the whole body of extant literature, with extended prolegomena, commentary, etc. There is a wide difference of opinion as to the date at which this literature was produced. Mead believes that some of the extant … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Bleak House

Publiziert am 27. November 2017 von Jazzybee

Bleak House – Charles Dickens

Bleak House is not certainly Dickens’s best book; but perhaps it is his best novel. Such a distinction is not a mere verbal trick; it has to be remembered rather constantly in connection with his work. This particular story represents the highest point of his intellectual maturity. Maturity does not necessarily mean perfection. It is idle to say that a mature potato is perfect; some people like new potatoes. A mature potato is not perfect, but it is a mature potato; the mind of an intelligent epicure may find it less adapted to his particular purpose; but the mind of an intelligent potato would at once admit it as being, beyond all doubt, a genuine, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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