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Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes is a series of historical novels by American writer William T. Vollmann about the conflicts between the natives of North America and settlers, governments, and others. Each volume focuses on a different episode in North American history, with most also including digressions and chronological ...
W.T. Rawleigh was born on the family farm, near Mineral Point, Wisconsin, on December 3, 1870. [3] As the oldest of a family of three boys and four girls born to Charles David and Sarah Malinda Rawleigh, it was necessary for Rawleigh to take on adult responsibilities at a young age in order to help provide income beyond the daily chores that a life in agriculture required.
William M. Elkins attended Harvard University, graduating in 1905. [1] He spent much time in his early days with his cousin, Harry Elkins Widener, who was lost in the Titanic disaster in 1912. [1] William McIntire Elkins was best known as a collector of rare books and art.
Tebbel, John William (1969). The compact history of the American newspaper. New York, Hawthorn Books. Thayer, William Makepeace (1905). Benjamin Franklin, Or, From Printing Office to the Court of St. James. Hodder and Stoughton. Thomas, Isaiah (1874). The history of printing in America, with a biography of printers. Vol. I. New York, B. Franklin.
The first series, planned by Lord Acton and edited by him with Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, Sir Adolphus William Ward and G. W. Prothero, was launched in 1902 and totalled fourteen volumes, the last of them being an historical atlas which appeared in 1912. The period covered was from 1450 to 1910. [1]
In 1912 Lewis F. Muir and L. Wolfe Gilbert composed the song "Waiting For The Robert E. Lee", which describes the Robert E. Lee sailing to New Orleans. It was performed by Al Jolson in the 1927 film The Jazz Singer. The steamboat is also mentioned in the song "I wanna go back to Dixie" by Tom Lehrer.
William MacLeod Raine (1871–1954) Robert J Randisi (born 1951) James Reasoner (born 1953) John H. Reese (1910–1981), (pseudonyms Eddie Abbott, John Jo Carpenter, Camford Cheavly, Camford Sheaveley & Camford Sheavely (chron.)) Conrad Richter (1890–1968) Lucia St. Clair Robson (born 1942) Dana Fuller Ross (born 1953) Zola Helen Ross (1912 ...
For the Term of His Natural Life is a story written by Marcus Clarke and published in The Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872 (as His Natural Life).It was published as a novel in 1874 and is the best known novelisation of life as a convict in early Australian history. [1]