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Author: Jim Murphy
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780395764831
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An account of Robert Louis Stevenson's twelve day journey from New York to California in 1879, interwoven with a history of the building of the transcontinental railroad and the settling of the West.
Author: J. Murphy
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 2003-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780613646383
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For use in schools and libraries only. An illustrated history of the building of the transcontinental railroad, including Robert Louis Stevenson's account of his 12-day journey to California on six trains in 1879.
Author: Roger Farr
Publisher:
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781594553691
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: 1895
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"For in emigration the young men enter direct by the shipload on their heritage of work; empty continents swarm, as at the bosun's whistle, with industrious hands, and whole hew empires are domesticated to the service of man." -Robert Louis Stevenson, The Amateur Emigrant The Amateur Emigrant from the Clyde to Sandy Hook (1895), by Robert Louis Stevenson is the first book (followed by Across the Plains and the Silverado Squatters) in a trilogy the author wrote about his journey from Scotland to California in 1879-1880. In this volume, he describes the first leg of his trip, made by ship from Europe to New York City. Stevenson depicts the crowded conditions he experienced in steerage with others who, like him, were poor and sick. At the conclusion, the author also offers his usual sharp-eyed observations, which, in this case are of New York and New Yorkers.
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2001-11-06
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780743203173
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Author: Lansford Warren Hastings
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1557092451
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Published in 1845, this guidebook for pioneers is a reproduction of one of the most collectible books about California and the Western movement. It was the guidebook used by the Donner Party on their fateful journey. In addition, because Hastings' shortcut route through the Rockies produced such tragedy, the War Department commissioned The Prairie Traveler.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
Published: 1902
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John D. Unruh
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 9780252063602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The most honored book ever released by the University of Illinois Press, The Plains Across was the result of more than a decade's work by its author. Here, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Oregon Trail, is a paperback reissue that includes the notes, bibliography, and illustrations contained in the 1979 cloth edition.
