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Autore |
Morritt Robert D |
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Titolo |
Lost in the antebellum [[electronic resource] /] / by Robert D. Morritt |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-14199-X |
1-4438-2741-X |
9786613141996 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (195 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Biography |
United States History 18th century Biography |
United States History 19th century Biography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; MATTHEW MAURY; WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS; MARY E. HEWITT; THE HUTCHINSON FAMILY; DAVID CROCKETT (ALSO KNOWN AS DAVY CROCKETT); LYDIA SIGOURNEY; RECOLLECTIONS OF SIX DAYS JOURNEY IN THE MOON BY AN AERIO-NAUTICAL MAN; LOUISE ANTOINE GODEY; JOHN HOWARD PAYNE; ZEBULON PIKE; SARA PAYSON WILLIS PARTON ("FANNY FERN"); HENRY TIMROD; HENRY CLAY LEWIS - THE SWAMP DOCTOR; EDGAR ALLAN POE; WILLIAM WALKER; PHOEBE CARY; ALICE CARY; JAMES BOWIE; JAMES HOWARD - STEAMBOAT BUILDER; STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER; MARGARET FULLER; SARAH JOSEPHA HALE; HARRIET BEECHER STOWE |
CAROLINE LEE HENTZSARAH T. BOLTON |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A compendium of the thoughts and works of authors, of prose and scientific thought prior to the American Civil War. Featured are: Maury the oceanographer, William Gilmore Simms the author, of whom Edgar Allan Poe remarked was the best novelist America had in recent decades. The Hutchinson Family Singers whose concert tours in the U.S.A. and Britain did much to serve the cause of emancipation .The 'real' story of Davy Crocket, American frontiersman who died together with Jim Bowie at th... |
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