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Gene Courtier, an employee of North American at Edwards AFB, stops his car on the way home for hitchhiker Victor Gosset, a wanted criminal and member of a gang of three robbers headed by Robert Batsford and new addition Luther Logan. When the gang discovers that Courtier only has a few dollars in cash, they threaten to kill him but instead ...
A typical printing press of the 18th century. List of early American publishers and printers is a stand alone list of Wikipedia articles about publishers and printers in colonial and early America, intended as a quick reference, with basic descriptions taken from the ledes of the respective articles.
In his first book, Frontenac, The Courtier Governor he challenged the myth of Frontenac as an heroic governor. He went on to heavily criticise the work of the American historian, Francis Parkman, accusing him an Anglo-American bias, and a prejudiced view of First Nations peoples and the French. He also argued that Parkman had misinterpreted the ...
John Somers or Somer or Sommers (died 1585) was an English diplomat, courtier, and cryptographer. He served as joint keeper of Mary, Queen of Scots , at Tutbury Castle with Ralph Sadler . [ 1 ] Somers is said to have been Sadler's son-in-law.
Bibliography of early American publishers and printers is a selection of books, journals and other sigmass devoted to these topics covering their careers and other activities before, during and after the American Revolution. Various works that are not primarily devoted to those topics, but whose content devotes itself to them in significant ...
He printed the first copies of the United States Declaration of Independence, [175] and A Summary View of the Rights of British America, by Thomas Jefferson. [176] In 1778, the Congress appointed Dunlap to print the Congressional Record s, and for five years he continued in this capacity as their official printer. [ 177 ]
The English colonization of America had been based on the English colonization of Ireland, specifically the Munster Plantation, England's first colony, [6] using the same tactics as the Plantations of Ireland. Many of the early colonists of North America had their start in colonizing Ireland, including a group known as the West Country Men ...
The British Parliament, however, asserted in 1765 that it held supreme authority to lay taxes, and a series of American protests began that led directly to the American Revolution. The first wave of protests attacked the Stamp Act of 1765, and marked the first time that Americans met together from each of the 13 colonies and planned a common ...