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Offers a romantic and tumultuous saga of a Maine family who makes its home Down East. Spanning six decades, starting in the late nineteenth century, this novel depicts their lives as they meet head on the joys and challenges of the changing and encroaching world and eventually, World War II.

A novel that is filled with details of the natural world, both at sea and on land of Maine. It captures the pervasive changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution as coastal people stood on the brink of a new world, slowly turning from the glorious era of sail to serving the incoming tide of wealthy summer vacationers.

Traces life on the Maine coast through four generations of a seafaring family. This title includes descriptions of the sweeping cultural, economic, and philosophical changes that washed over Maine. It is suitable for those who wish to understand the maritime history of Maine.

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Excerpt from Virginia of Elk Creek Valley Elk Creek Valley was a blue and golden place that mid-summer morning in the Big Horn Country. It seemed like a joyous secret tucked away among the mountains, whose hazy, far-away summits were as blue as the sky above them. The lower ranges, too, were blue from purple haze and gray-green sagebrush, while the bare, brown foothills tumbling about their feet were golden in the sunlight. About the Publish...

Excerpt from The Beginnings of the American Revolution, Vol. 3: Based on Contemporary Letters Diaries and Other Documents HE pause at Lexington was invaluable to Concord, giving its people just so much more time in which to remove and conceal the stores entrusted to their keeping. Many thousands were saved to the Colony, and (the British) were in a great manner frustrated in their design. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundre...

Excerpt from The Beginnings of the American Revolution, Vol. 1: Based on Contemporary Letters, Diaries and Other Documents N studying the beginnings of the American Revolu tion, the remark made by John Adams that there was a revolution in men's minds that preceded the years of battle, and that the result of the war but set its seal on a severance of interests already accomplished is more and more clearly pressed home. The successive incidents...

Excerpt from The Beginnings of the American Revolution, Vol. 2: Based on Contemporary Letters, Diaries and Other Documents Ach week the line became more marked between the Tories and those whose sympathies lay with the country in its struggles, which now tended more and more openly and inevitably toward independence. The in fluence of the Committee of Correspondence in giving form to the Solemn League and Covenant drew attention to its power,...

Excerpt from The Girl From the Big Horn Country A September afternoon in the Big Horn mountains! The air crystal clear, the sky cloudless, the outlines of the hills distinct! Elk Creek Valley lay golden in the sunshine, silent save for the incessant hum of locust and cricket, the hurrying of the creek waters, and the occasional bellowing of steers on the range beyond the foot-hills, deserted except for the distant cattle, a coyote stealing ac...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...