Overland Tales
Author: Josephine Clifford
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-07-30
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 3385544122
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author: Josephine Clifford
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-07-30
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 3385544122
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author: Josephine Woempner Clifford McCrackin
Publisher:
Published: 1877
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Josephine Clifford
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-06
Total Pages: 313
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a collection of true-to-life stories and sketches by Josephine Clifford, recounting her journeys through California, Arizona, and New Mexico. The stories are based on real experiences, with little fictional embellishment, and cover a range of topics from heroism to tragedy to everyday life on the frontier. It provides a glimpse into the landscapes, cultures, and people of the American West during the late 19th century.
Author: Clifford Josephine
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2016-06-23
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9781318057191
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Author: Josephine Woempner Clifford McCrackin
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Published: 2015-08-22
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781296980207
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Author: Josephine Clifford
Publisher:
Published: 2015-07-06
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781330812754
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Overland Tales In the book I now lay before the reader, I have collected a series of stories and sketches of journeyings through California, Arizona, and New Mexico. There is little of fiction, even in the stories; and the sketches, I flatter myself, are true to life - as I saw it, at the time I visited the places. A number of these stories first appeared in the Over-Land Monthly, but some of them are new, and have never been published. I bespeak for them all the attentive perusal and undivided interest of the kind reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Graham Rawle
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2018-03-22
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1473547377
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Welcome to Overland! Where the California sun shines down on synthetic grass and plastic oranges bedeck the trees all year round. Steam billows gently from the chimney tops and the blue tarpaulin lake is open for fishing... Hollywood set-designer George Godfrey has been called on to do his patriotic duty and he doesn’t believe in half-measures. If he is going to hide an American aircraft plant from the threat of Japanese aerial spies he has an almighty job on his hands. He will need an army of props and actors to make the Lockheed factory vanish behind the semblance of a suburban town. Every day, his “Residents” climb through a trapdoor in the factory roof to shift model cars, shop for imaginary groceries and rotate fake sheep in felt-green meadows. Overland is a beacon for the young women labouring below it: Queenie, dreaming of movie stardom while welding sheet metal; Kay, who must seek refuge from the order to intern “All Persons of Japanese Ancestry”. Meanwhile, George’s right-hand Resident, Jimmy, knows that High Command aren’t at all happy with the camouflage project... With George so bewitched by his own illusion, might it risk confusing everybody – not just the enemy? Overland is a book like no other -- to be read in landscape format. Based on true events, it is a novel where characters' dreams and desires come down to earth with more than a bump, confronting the hardships of life during wartime. As surreal and playful as it is affecting and unsettling, no-one other than Graham Rawle could have created it.
Author: Frank McLynn
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 543
ISBN-13: 0802199143
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An acclaimed historian’s “compellingly told” year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer the American West in the mid-nineteenth century (The Guardian). In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by Midwestern farmers to Oregon and California from 1840 to 1849—between the era of the fur trappers and the beginning of the gold rush. Even with mountain men as guides, these pioneers literally plunged into the unknown, braving all manner of danger, including hunger, thirst, disease, and drowning. Employing numerous illustrations and extensive primary sources, including original diaries and memoirs, McLynn underscores the incredible heroism and dangerous folly on the overland trails. His authoritative narrative investigates the events leading up to the opening of the trails, the wagons and animals used, the roles of women, relations with Native Americans, and much else. The climax arrives in McLynn’s expertly re-created tale of the dreadful Donner party, and he closes with Brigham Young and the Mormons beginning communities of their own. Full of high drama, tragedy, and triumph, “rarely has a book so wonderfully brought to life the riveting tales of Americans’ trek to the Pacific” (Publishers Weekly).