When wilderness was king: Large PrintBy Randall ParrishRandall Parrish (1858-1923) was an American author of dime novels. His works include: When Wilderness was King (1904), My Lady of the North (1905), The Sword of the Old Frontier (1905), Bob Hampton of Placer (1906), Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West (1907), Prisoners of Chance (1908), My Lady of the South (1909), Keith of the Border (1910), Love Under Fire (1911), My Lady of Doubt (1911), Gordon Craig (1912), Molly McDonald (1912), The Maid of the Forest (1913), Shea of the Irish Brigade (1914), Beyond the Frontier (1916), The Devil's Own (1917), Wolves of the Sea (1918), The Strange Case of Cavendish (1918), and The Case and the Girl (1922).

My mother, her sleeves rolled high over her round white arms, was in the dark interiorof the milk-house as I passed, and spoke to me laughingly; and I could perceive my fathersitting in his great splint-bottomed chair just within the front doorway, and I marked howthe slight current of air toyed with his long gray beard. The old Bible lay wide open uponhis knee; yet his eyes were resting upon the dark green of the woods that skirted ourclearing. I wondered, as I quaffed the cool sweet water at the spring, if he was dreamingagain of those old days when he had been a man among men. How distinct in each detailthe memory of it remains! The blue sky held but one fleecy white cloud in all its wide arch;it seemed as if the curling film of smoke rising from our chimney had but gathered thereand hung suspended to render the azure more pronounced. A robin peeked impudently atme from an oak limb, and a roguish gray squirrel chattered along the low ridge-pole, withseeming willingness to make friends, until Rover, suddenly spying me, sprang hastilyaround the corner of the house to lick my hand, with glad barkings and a frantic effort towave the stub of his poor old tail. It was such a homely, quiet scene, there in the heart of thebackwoods, one I had known unchanged so long, that I little dreamed it was soon towitness the turning over of a page of destiny in my life, that almost from that hour I was tosever every relation of the past, and be sent forth to buffet with the rough world alone.

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.

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A first person account of a fateful solo hiking trip into California's Sierra Nevada mountains.

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