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The book received positive reviews but little commercial success. [5] Kirkus Reviews wrote that Tate successfully used his experience from writing biographies and literary criticism to create a sense of authentic conflict and drama, portraying his characters' morals and loyalties with "vitality and robustness". [1]
Stefansson, born William Stephenson, was born at Arnes, Manitoba, Canada, in 1879.His parents had emigrated from Iceland to Manitoba two years earlier. After losing two children during a period of devastating flooding, the family moved to Dakota Territory in 1880 and homesteaded a mile southwest of the village of Mountain in Thingvalla Township of Pembina County.
His father, a veteran of World War I, [3] was a merchant and farmer. Productive farmland surrounded Stantonsburg with historic Contentnea Creek (a tributary of the Neuse River that flows to the port of New Bern) forming the western boundary. In the town's business district, his father was a partner in Shingleton Brothers Hardware and Appliance ...
There is a Vietnamese book, apparently first published in 1975, called Hành Trình Về Phương Đông by one Nguyên Phong. It purports to be the translation of a book written by Spalding in India in 1924. The book has gained some popularity in Vietnam, and an English translation was published in 2009, as Journey to the East.
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (ISBN 0684811073), written by Stephen Ambrose, is a 1996 biography of Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The book is based on journals and letters written by Lewis, William Clark, Thomas Jefferson and the members of the Corps of Discovery.
Patrick Gass (June 12, 1771 – April 2, 1870) served as sergeant in the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806). He was important to the expedition because of his service as a carpenter, and he published the first journal of the expedition in 1807, seven years before the first publication based on Lewis and Clark's journals.
Fathers: A Literary Anthology is a collection of 49 personal essays and poems about fathers by eminent American, British and Canadian writers. Contributors include Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Bruce Chatwin, Winston Churchill, Seamus Heaney, Doris Lessing and Philip Roth. [ 1 ]
In addition to furs and the company of other mountain men, Carson sought action and adventure. Carson probably killed and scalped a Native for the first time when he was 19, during Young's expedition. [16] In August 1829, the party went into Apache territory along the Gila River. The expedition was attacked, giving Carson his first experience ...