Lost in the Antebellum.
Title:
Lost in the Antebellum.
Author:
Morritt, Robert D.
ISBN:
9781443827416
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (195 pages)
Contents:
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 HENTZ -- SARAH T. BOLTON.
Abstract:
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 Allen 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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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