Thomas Pell And The Legend Of The Pell Treaty Oak
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Author | : Blake Bell |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0595313345 |
Thomas Pell and the Legend of the Pell Treaty Oak is a meticulously-researched and well-documented work about a seventeenth century swashbuckling soldier of fortune, Thomas Pell, and the legend of the "Treaty Oak" that bore his name. Beneath that oak, on June 27, 1654, Pell acquired from local Native Americans the lands that became the Manor of Pelham. Memories have faded and the mists of time have obscured the story of Thomas Pell's Treaty Oak. Thomas Pell and the Legend of the Pell Treaty Oak is an effort to part the mists and document the story in honor of the 350th anniversary celebration of Pelham, New York.
Author | : Blake A. Bell |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2022-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438486758 |
The Haunted History of Pelham, New York is an unusual and fascinating fusion of New York history and folklore. Recognizing that virtually every gripping regional ghost drama springs from kernels of fact, Blake A. Bell weaves spellbinding accounts of ghosts, spirits, and specters together with well-documented context for the stories to help readers understand the actual events and historical developments that underlie each. With nine sections including those on Indigenous American Hauntings, Revolutionary War Specters, Ghostly Treasure Guards, and Phantom Ships off Pelham Shores, Bell relates entertaining and dramatic ghost stories that have been passed from generation to generation as he helps readers understand how local lore came to be and why it is important to an understanding of the region, its culture, and its self-awareness.
Author | : Theodore Kazimiroff |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2009-05-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 080271952X |
As recently as 1924, a lone Algonquin Indian lived quietly in Pelham Bay Park, a wild and isolated corner of New York City. Joe Two Trees was the last of his people, and this is the gripping story of his bitter struggle, remarkable courage, and constant quest for dignity and peace. By the 1840s, most of the members of Joe's Turtle Clan had either been killed or sold into slavery, and by the age of thirteen he was alone in the world. He made his way into Manhattan, but was forced to flee after killing a robber in self defense; from there, he found backbreaking work in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Finally, around the time of the Civil War, Joe realized there was no place for him in the White world, and he returned to his birthplace to live out his life alone-suspended between a lost culture and an alien one. Many years later, as an old man, he entrusted his legacy to the young Boy Scout who became his only friend, and here that young boy's son passes it on to us.
Author | : Jon Kukla |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2009-09-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307493237 |
In A Wilderness so Immense, historian Jon Kukla recounts the fascinating tale of the personal maneuverings, political posturing, and international intrigue that culminated in the greatest land deal in history. Spanning nearly two decades, Kukla’s book brings to life a pageant of characters from Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and John Jay, to Napoleon and Carlos III of Spain and other colorful figures. Employing letters, memoirs, contemporary documents, and a host of other sources, Kukla creates a complete and compelling account of the Louisiana Purchase. From the hinterlands in Kentucky to the courts of Spain, France, and England to the halls of Congress, he re-creates the forces and personalities that turned a struggle for navigation rights on the Mississippi into an event that doubled the size of the country and altered the destiny of the United States forever.
Author | : Thomas Carlyle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Hero worship |
ISBN | : |
Author | : G. Wayne Miller |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1611681871 |
The only biography of Claiborne Pell, the six-term senator from Rhode Island best known as the sponsor of the educational Pell Grants
Author | : D'Arcy McNickle |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780826311009 |
A novel about a fictional Northwestern tribe.
Author | : Stephen Jenkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Bronx (New York, N.Y.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daniel Webster Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN | : |
Surprised by an early and devastating winter, 145 of 376 Mormon handcart pioneers perished. A rescue of the survivors took place from a stone refuge near Devil's Gate, Wyoming. Jones accompanied the Mexican War volunteers who marched from St. Louis in 1847, and went to Utah in 1850, where he played an active part in Mormon affairs. He spent many further years as a guide, hunter, Indian fighter, and explorer.
Author | : Lyman Horace Weeks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : New York (N.Y.) |
ISBN | : |