Beyond Cumberland Gap

Beyond Cumberland Gap
Author: Kent Horner
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2018-08-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1640276386

"Another traumatic blow to your head may cause hallucinations ranging from brilliancy to absurdity," said the brain surgeon at the Landstuhl Medical Center in Germany where Staff Sergeant Travis Morgan first received medical evaluation following a mortar blast in Afghanistan. That explosion wounded Travis and killed Mojo, his German shepherd patrol dog. Three years later, Travis received such a severe whack when Bruno Tron, a strong, young Al Capone imitator, hoped to become rich by shooting the two security officers and robbing their armored truck at a Walmart Super Center near Neosho, Missouri. The robber, a self-proclaimed squatter, intended to use the Morgan family wilderness upon the Ozark Plateau to receive aerial drug drops flown from Mexico. Thus Travis, his father, mother, and Honcho, their family dog must be eliminated. After whacking Travis over his skull with a sack of stolen quarters at Walmart, Bruno tossed him into a sinkhole on the Morgan family wilderness and used the $400,000 for his start into crime. Travis hallucinating back and forth through time and space, helped: the founding fathers within the colonial era, George Washington winning the American Revolutionary War, Daniel Boone cutting through Cumberland Gap into Kentucky, Lewis and Clark finding the Pacific Ocean, and Wells-Fargo starting stagecoach routes to California. His Grandma's skeleton, sitting with her back to wall of the sinkhole, enabled Travis's two-way communications by way of his hallucinations. Ironically, Bruno Tron met an unusual fate. However, after his rescue, Travis realized his dream of lecturing about colonial history at the University of Virginia, his alma mater, buying a house, and marrying the beautiful brunette, Abby Principe, his childhood sweetheart.

The Cumberland Gap

The Cumberland Gap
Author: Patrick M. Sargent
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2005
Genre: Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN: 9780618484508

Beyond the Mountains

Beyond the Mountains
Author: Drew A. Swanson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0820353973

Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and place to experiment with modernization. In these various takes on the southern mountains, scattered across time and space, both mountain residents and outsiders consistently believed that the region’s environment made Appalachia distinctive, for better or worse. With chapters dedicated to microhistories focused on particular commodities, Drew A. Swanson builds upon recent Appalachian studies scholarship, emphasizing the diversity of a region so long considered a homogenous backwater. While Appalachia has a recognizable and real coherence rooted in folkways, agriculture, and politics (among other things), it is also a region of varied environments, people, and histories. These discrete stories are, however, linked through the power of conceptualizing nature and work together to reveal the ways in which ideas and uses of nature often created a sense of identity in Appalachia. Delving into the environmental history of the region reveals that Appalachian environments, rather than separating the mountains from the broader world, often served to connect the region to outside places.

Beyond the Frontier

Beyond the Frontier
Author: David S. Brown
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2010-10-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1459605683

As the world went to war in 1941, Time magazine founder Henry Luce coined a term for what was rapidly becoming the establishment view of America's role in the world; the twentieth century, he argued, was the American Century. Many of the nation's most eminent historians - nearly all of them from the East Coast - agreed with this vision and its e...

The Real Revolution

The Real Revolution
Author: Marc Aronson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780618181797

Why did the American Revolution take place? It was about more than the dates and details we all know: war elephants charging a fort in India and high-stakes gambles of bankers in Scotland, among other events, also played a part in the "real revolution" in the minds of the entire population of what would become the United States.

Historic Highways of America

Historic Highways of America
Author: Archer Butler Hulbert
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2020-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752388684

Reproduction of the original: Historic Highways of America by Archer Butler Hulbert

Fort Laurens, 1778-1779

Fort Laurens, 1778-1779
Author: Thomas I. Pieper
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1976
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780873382403

Fort Laurens was erected on the banks of the Tuscarawas River in Ohio in the fall of 1778 as the planned first step to secure the Western Frontier in the Revolutionary War. This book is the first complete account of the fort's history, drawing on all the documentary evidence available and placing it in the context of the larger struggle for independence.