As I Remember Them
Title | As I Remember Them PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanne-Elise Olsen |
Publisher | University of Calgary Press |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1552380688 |
Originally written in the early 1970s, As I Remember Them is based on Jeanne-Elise Olsens extraordinary recall of her childhood and youth spent in an isolated part of the Laurentians in the Lièvre River Valley in the early twentieth century. She recounts how the Church lifted the ban, but only on specific conditions, one of which was for the family to leave Quebec.
Written As I Remember It
Title | Written As I Remember It PDF eBook |
Author | Elsie Paul |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Pages | 489 |
Release | 2014-04-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0774827122 |
Long before vacationers discovered BC's Sunshine Coast, the Sliammon, a Coast Salish people, called the region home. In this remarkable book, Sliammon Elder Elsie Paul collaborates with a scholar, Paige Raibmon, and her granddaughter, Harmony Johnson, to tell her life story and the history of her people, in her own words and storytelling style. Raised by her grandparents who took her on their seasonal travels, Paul spent most of her childhood learning Sliammon ways, teachings, and stories and is one of the last surviving mother-tongue speakers of the Sliammon language. She shares this traditional knowledge with future generations in Written as I Remember It.
As I Remember Them
Title | As I Remember Them PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Isaacson |
Publisher | Red Dog Books |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Air pilots, Military |
ISBN | 1742591183 |
Facts as I Remember Them
Title | Facts as I Remember Them PDF eBook |
Author | Rufe LeFors |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2013-12-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0292735200 |
The rivers of the Texas Panhandle, the Canadian, and the forks of the Red break through the Cap Rock at the eastern edge of the Staked Plains. It’s rough, bleak country, with few trees and a great expanse of sky. Storms that form on the Great Plains and in the Rocky Mountains sweep through with nothing much to slow them down. And the small dusty towns that serve this vast ranchland cling to the waterways as they have for over a hundred years, since their early settlement. Their names aren’t well known now, but they were once focal points in a rugged country where buffalo hunters, trail drivers, outlaws, and ordinary folks alike passed through. Rufe LeFors was one such "ordinary" man. With his father and older brothers, he was among the first to settle this country, drawn to West Texas by tales of open land and good grass. His life story, set down near the end of his long and adventurous life, is the best sort of insider's history, the chronicle of a life lived fully amid the exciting events and rough landscape of the frontier's final years. Rufe LeFors recorded his story over the course of a decade, finishing up in 1941 in his eighty-first year. His memoirs span the period from the War between the States to the early twentieth century, when the Panhandle was still scarcely settled, a true frontier. In his time LeFors was trail driver, pony express rider, and rancher. He traveled for a year with Arrington's Texas Rangers, and he wore the badge of deputy sheriff in the wild west town of Old Mobeetie. He rode a fast horse after claims in the Cherokee Strip, spent time as a horse trader, and finally settled in Lawton, Oklahoma, where, after some twenty years as a deputy, he was elected to the office of sheriff. LeFors knew how to tell a story. Whether it is an account of an outlaw's capture or the rescue of a white girl from prairie fire by a Comanche brave, he weaves into his narrative all the color, drama, and character of the event. His version of the death of Billy the Kid adds another perspective to that much celebrated episode in western history. His encounters with Temple Houston, the governor's flamboyant son, rancher Charles Goodnight, and Ranger Captain Arrington add to our fund of knowledge about those legendary frontier figures. LeFors wanted to get the facts—as he remembered them—straight. With his sharp eye for texture and detail and keen ear for language and timing, he created a narrative that wonderfully captures the flavor of his life and exciting times.
Great Symphonies
Title | Great Symphonies PDF eBook |
Author | Sigmund Spaeth |
Publisher | Praeger |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1936 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0837156416 |
Spaeth provides program notes to the better-known classical and romantic symphonies in the hope that people will better recognize them.
My Life - As I Remember It
Title | My Life - As I Remember It PDF eBook |
Author | David R. Wilson |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2012-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1479709247 |
A mature, intelligent, everyday person, Dianne Stewart, has read "My Life As I Remember It" and "Time Tested Thinking, As It Seems to Me". Her succinct observation is: "I think both books are extremely valuable. One is the story of a man, his life, his ups and downs, and his abiding faith in an abiding God, the other, what this man has learned and experienced with that same God".
As I Remember It
Title | As I Remember It PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Nelson |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2012-06-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1477121722 |
The story of a small town boy who went out into world, and where he ended upfor Maren