Arcadia publishing sc jan 2000 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The autobiography of the maligned, cussed, discussed, much beloved Texas weatherman who played a pivotal role in the 1900 Galveston hurricane.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A collection of photographs and stories chronicling Galveston's catastrophic hurricane in 1900, its aftermath?and the lives of those caught in the storm.?Massive buildings were crushed like egg shells, great timbers were carried through the air as though they were of no weight, and the winds and the waves swept everything before them until their appetite for destruction was satiated and their force spent.? ?From the foreword by Richard Spillane, editor of the Galveston TribuneMore than 6,000 people lost their lives in the hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas on September 8, 1900. The many personal tragedies and triumphs of those who survived come to light in this full and thrilling account that is made even more evocative and jolting by its profusion of photographs taken immediately after the disaster.S. W. Clinton lost his wife and six children, including two sons he could not save from drowning before his very eyes. Long engaged, Ernest A. Mayo and Bessie Roberts decided it was better to face the daunting tasks ahead of them together, and were married a mere five days after the flood.Their stories, and the stories of all who survived the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, attest to humanity's ability to overcome even the most horrific of disasters.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Varina Davis is a lady in any event,' Southern women of the aristocratic circles of Washington told the war correspondent of the London Times who had been sent to the National Capital to report all the news he could gather concerning the secession of the Southern States from the great American Union. There was a finality in their tones and manner as if the fact settled the whole question and right of secession. And being such perfect ladies themselves, who could be a better judge of what it took to be one. . . . They further informed him that Varina was popular and had friends and social influence in Washington, adding with pursed lips that she belonged to the set they called ?nice people?; not like ?such people? as he had seen in the White House. Thus Mrs. Jefferson Davis was described to one who, with piqued curiosity, was soon to meet her as the First Lady of the Southern Confederacy. . . . But Varina Howell Davis came proudly to her high station. She was not without a due understanding of its significance, nor was she without the feeling that she, in some degree, deserved the distinction.' --from Chapter IIn this volume, Mrs. Rowland has written a charming and accurate historical narrative of the Southern Confederacy in which the wife of Jefferson Davis plays a part that holds and fascinates the reader. The narrative, written in an easy, yet frank and forceful style, denotes the work as an important contribution to American biography.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The cause of the Battle of Liberty Place was the result of several years of the troubled Reconstruction period, the coerced adoption of the 14 th Amendment, and the stealing of elections and the injustices of the carpetbag regime forced upon Louisiana by the Federal authorities. In particular, the usurpation of the State government in 1873 by Governor William Pitt Kellog and his Custom House gang contributed significantly to the events that led up to the battle.…