Wondrous Times on the Frontier

Wondrous Times on the Frontier
Author: Dee Brown
Publisher: august house
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780874836752

Uses many sources to portray the diversity of the American frontier of the 1800s.

The Heart Remembers

The Heart Remembers
Author: Al Lacy
Publisher: Multnomah
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2008-12-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307563847

This final book in the Frontier Doctor trilogy continues the story of Dane and Tharyn Logan, husband and wife medical team serving a mining community west of Denver. While caring for the physical ailments of the residents of this frontier town, the Logans also minister to their spiritual needs. And Dane has the joy of leading a Ute Indian chief and his family to faith in Christ. Dane’s biggest challenge comes, however, when the stagecoach he’s riding crashes down a ravine. Dane survives, but loses his memory. Who is he? Does he have a family somewhere? And will his trust in God help him find his way back home?THE FRONTIER DOCTOR TRILOGY Countless perils menaced the settlers of the vast wilderness, and one of the most severe was the scarcity of medical care. Risking his own life by day or by night, in all kinds of weather, the frontier doctor was a rare, unsung hero of the West. Strong Heart, Able Hands Dr. Dane Logan and his wife, Tharyn, are happily settled in Central City and considering the right time to start a family. Their medical practice in the little mining town keeps them busy with everything from new babies and appendicitis to gunshot wounds and a rancher gored by a bull. It’s almost more than one doctor can keep up with. Then when the stagecoach he’s riding in crashes down a ravine, Dane awakens with a head injury—and no idea who he is. Will his trust in God help him find his way back home? Story Behind the Book Of all the perils confronting the settlers of the Wild West, serious illness, injuries from mishaps of countless number, and wounds from battles with Indians and outlaws were the most dreaded. The lack of proper medical care resulted in thousands of deaths. It is our desire that the reader will be deeply impressed with the courage of those frontier doctors who helped settle the West. We think you’ll find this final book in this trilogy filled with our faith—gained from so many years of serving the Lord and trusting His written Word.

Crabgrass Frontier

Crabgrass Frontier
Author: Kenneth T. Jackson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 434
Release: 1987-04-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199840342

This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, and rapid transportation, Kenneth Jackson chronicles the phenomenal growth of the American suburb from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. He treats communities in every section of the U.S. and compares American residential patterns with those of Japan and Europe. In conclusion, Jackson offers a controversial prediction: that the future of residential deconcentration will be very different from its past in both the U.S. and Europe.

King of the Wild Frontier

King of the Wild Frontier
Author: Davy Crockett
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2010-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 048647691X

This easy-reading autobiography of bear hunting and Indian fighting — written in 1834, two years before Crockett met his fate at the Alamo — popularized tall tales of the frontier.

The Heart's Frontier

The Heart's Frontier
Author: Lori Copeland
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0736947531

An exciting new Amish-meets-Wild West adventure from bestselling authors Lori Copeland and Virginia Smith weaves an entertaining and romantic tale for devoted fans and new readers. Kansas,1881—On a trip to visit relatives, Emma Switzer's Amish family is robbed of all their possessions, leaving them destitute and stranded on the prairie. Walking into the nearest trading settlement, they pray to the Lord for someone to help. When a man lands in the dust at her feet, Emma looks down at him and thinks, The Lord might have cleaned him up first. Luke Carson, heading up his first cattle drive, is not planning on being the answer to anyone's prayers, but it looks as though God has something else in mind for this kind and gentle man. Plain and rugged—do the two mix? And what happens when a dedicated Amish woman and a stubborn trail boss prove to be each other's match?

The Highest Frontier

The Highest Frontier
Author: Joan Slonczewski
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2012-08-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780765367723

The first SF novel in more than ten years from the scientist and author of A Door into Ocean. A girl goes to college in orbit, in a future transformed by technology, global warming, and invasive species.

Fathers on the Frontier

Fathers on the Frontier
Author: Michael Pasquier
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0195372336

Introduction : les confrères et les pères in American Catholic history --Missionary formation and French Catholicism --Missionary experience and frontier Catholicism --Missionary revival and transnational Catholicism --Missionary politics and ultramontane Catholicism --Slavery, Civil War, and southern Catholicism --Conclusion.

Jewries at the Frontier

Jewries at the Frontier
Author: Sander L. Gilman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780252067921

Traversing far flung Jewish communities in South Africa, Australia, Texas, Brazil, China, New Zealand, Quebec, and elsewhere, this wide-ranging collection explores the notion of "frontier" in the Jewish experience as a historical/geographical reality and a conceptual framework. As a compelling alternative to viewing the periphery only as a locus of dispossession and exile from the "homeland, " this work imagines a new Jewish history written as the history of the Jews at the frontier. In this new history, governed by the dynamics of change, confrontation, and accommodation, marginalized experiences are brought to the center and all participants are given voice. By articulating the tension between the center/periphery model and the frontier model, Jewries at the Frontier shows how the productive confrontation between and among cultures and peoples generates a new, multivocal account of Jewish history.