In this first novel by one of the western's most published writers, mistaken identities bring together a schoolmarm from the East with a sheep man believed to be an outlaw.
"e;The Importance of the North River (the Hudson), and the sanguine wishes of all to prevent the enemy from possessing it, have been the causes of this unhappy catastrophe.
Auszug: "Sie sehen«, sagte der Dichter Blandmour enthusiastisch, als wir vor etwa vierzig Jahren gegen Ende März durch weiches, feuchtes Schneegeriesel die Landstraße hinunter gingen, »Sie sehen, mein Freund, unsere gesegnete Wohltäterin, die Natur, ist in allem gütig und nicht nur das, sie ist auch so weise in ihrer Mildtätigkeit, wie es nur irgendein vernünftiger menschlicher Philantrop sein kann.
Excerpt: "e;The term "e;gringo"e;-a word of vague origin, once applied with contempt to the American in Mexico-is now used throughout Latin America, without its former opprobrium, to describe any foreigner.
Deck and Port, or Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate Congress to California is a memoir written by Walter Colton, an American chaplain, and writer, about his experiences during a naval expedition to California in 1846-1847.
Excerpt: "e;Philip Steele's pencil drove steadily over the paper, as if the mere writing of a letter he might never mail in some way lessened the loneliness.
Excerpt: "e;The strange phenomenon of Prohibition, after an appearance amongst us of over three years, is still non-understandable to the majority of a great, and so-called free, people.
Excerpt: "e;Without their knowledge, I presume to dedicate my first volume of Indian History to those whose names I have heard most frequently, as friends of the red man.
In the postbellum American South, lynching was a frightfully common occurrence, perpetrated so frequently that most Southern politicians and leaders turned a blind eye to the practice.
Excerpt: "e;My purpose in this book has been to condense into a brief account just those things that the ordinary man or woman wants to know about how we prepared for and waged our share in the world war.
This classic tome belongs on the bookshelf of anyone and everyone with an interest in Great Lakes freighters and vessels and in the origin and functioning of the Great Lakes shipping trade.
The journalistic production in "e;An Englishman Looks at the World"e; reflects Wells's turn from novel-writing to journalism, which began in the years before the outbreak of the Great War.
Excerpt: "e;It consisted of a few hundred new American eagles and a few times as many Spanish doubloons; for pirates like good broad pieces, fit to skim flat-spun across the waves, or play pitch-and-toss with for men's lives or women's loves; they give five-dollar pieces or thin British guineas to the boy who brings them drink, and silver to their bootblacks, priests, or beggars.
Excerpt: "e;A hundred years ago, in an upper room in Philadelphia, five men were gathered-men of noble bearing, of brilliant intellects, of undoubted character.
Working with a friend from the Health Department, Riis filled The Children of the Poor (1892) with statistical information about public health, education, and crime.
Excerpt: "e;For that matter the whole west coast of Africa is called by the natives The White Man's Grave; and everywhere the fever stalks along the beach like a grim sentinel warning the stranger to stay away and ready to beat him into delirium and death if he lands.
All time it takes to get to the the US from England, Wells is addressing a specifically male reader and talks about the concerns "e;he"e; would have in the same situation.
Excerpt: "e;One afternoon, last summer, while walking along Washington Street, my eye was attracted by a signboard protruding over a narrow archway nearly opposite the Old South Church.
Excerpt: "e;COMPANY L was organized and mustered into the State service June 22, 1893, and assigned as the 11th company of the Second Regiment with headquarters at Paterson, with the following officers: Addison Ely, Captain; Wilkin Bookstaver, First Lieutenant; Joseph J.
Excerpt: "e;When the bottoms drop out of the logging-roads, the crews leave the camps about the headwaters of Racket River and return to their scattered homes, leaving the winter's cut on the "e;brows.
