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Glengarry County, an area covering 288,688 acres (1,168 km 2), is a county in the province of Ontario, Canada.It is still inhabited by the descendants of 18th and early 19th-century Scottish Highland pioneer settlers from Lochaber, was historically a Gàidhealtachd community, and Canadian Gaelic language revival efforts are currently taking place there.
"Pioneer Sketches of Lewis County"; serialized in the Weston Independent, 1916-17. [2] Alexander Scott Withers - Author of "Chronicles of Border Warfare" - A Sketch (1921), n.p.; unnumbered [but 15 pp]. The Family and Early Life of Stonewall Jackson (1924), this work has been called "the first definitive study of Jackson's formative years," [3]
One of his last paintings was a life-size equestrian portrait of the Queen, shown at the Royal Academy in 1873, made from earlier sketches. [ 13 ] Landseer was particularly associated with Scotland, which he had first visited in 1824 and the Highlands in particular, which provided the subjects (both human and animal) for many of his important ...
Chicano pioneer Beto de la Rocha, ... Family and friends describe Beto's approach to drawing as either simple sketches or a torrent of pen strokes, depending on the era. In the 1960s, he was ...
The first edition of 1000 copies sold out before its delivery date, in the summer of 1901; a second printing, of either 500 or 1000 copies, was issued before Christmas of that year. The book, titled Pioneer History of Custer County and Short Sketches of Early Days in Nebraska, included 200 engravings in its more than 400 pages. [12] [25] [27]
The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life (also published as The California & Oregon Trail) is a book written by Francis Parkman.It was initially serialized in twenty-one installments in Knickerbocker's Magazine (1847–49) and subsequently published as a book in 1849.
It's like everything I was trained to do at The Groundlings where we did sketches and were in place, in costume, doing the sketch, lights out, run off, change, get back down to your spot, lights ...
Colours of the 72nd Regiment presented in 1825 [5] Recruiting poster, 1780s. The regiment was raised in the Western Highlands by Kenneth Mackenzie, Earl of Seaforth as the Seaforth (Highland) Regiment in January 1778 [6] as an act of gratitude for the restoration of the family Earldom which had been forfeited during the Jacobite rising of 1715.