Leather stocking and silk, or, Hunter John Myers and his times: a story of the valley of Virginia. - Softcover

Cooke, John Esten

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ISBN 10: 1275702198 ISBN 13: 9781275702196

Verlag: Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012

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Title: Leather stocking and silk, or, Hunter John Myers and his times : a story of the valley of Virginia.

Author: John Esten Cooke

Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana

Description:

Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.

Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.

Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.

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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library

DocumentID: SABCP01917800

CollectionID: CTRG96-B1168

PublicationDate: 18540101

SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America

Notes: Authorship attributed to John Esten Cooke.

Collation: 408 p

Biografía del autor:

John Esten Cooke was an American novelist, poet and Civil-War veteran best-known for his writings about his home state of Virginia. Although trained as a lawyer, Cooke was able to support himself with his writing from the very beginning of his career, and eventually produced more than 200 published works, including the novels The Virginia Comedians and The Wearing of the Gray, and biographies about General Robert E. Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson. Although Cooke served under General J. E. B. Stuart during the American Civil War, he was not suited to military life and returned to his writing at the war s end. Cooke died 1886 and is commemorated in the John Esten Cooke Fiction Award, awarded annually by the Military Order of the Stars and Bars.

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• Verlag: Gale, Sabin Americana
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1275702198
• ISBN 13: 9781275702196
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 408