Life Of William Ellis

Author : Karl Jacoby
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393253864
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire written by Karl Jacoby and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award "An American 'Odyssey,' the larger-than-life story of a man who travels far in the wake of war and gets by on his adaptability and gift for gab." —Wall Street Journal A black child born on the US-Mexico border in the twilight of slavery, William Ellis inhabited a world divided along ambiguous racial lines. Adopting the name Guillermo Eliseo, he passed as Mexican, transcending racial lines to become fabulously wealthy as a Wall Street banker, diplomat, and owner of scores of mines and haciendas south of the border. In The Strange Career of William Ellis, prize-winning historian Karl Jacoby weaves an astonishing tale of cunning and scandal, offering fresh insights on the history of the Reconstruction era, the US-Mexico border, and the abiding riddle of race in America.

Author : William Ellis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Country Housewife's Family Companion written by William Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Ellis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
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Download or read book Narrative of a Tour Through Hawaii, Or Owhyhee written by William Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Elliott Ellis
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813127965
Total Pages : 252 pages
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Download or read book The Kentucky River written by William Elliott Ellis and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, John Singleton Mosby led the Forty-third Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, better known as MosbyÕs Rangers, in bold and daring operations behind Union lines. Throughout the course of the war, more than 2000 men were members of MosbyÕs command, some for only a short time. Mosby had few confidants (he was described by one acquaintance as Òa disturbing companionÓ) but became close friends with one of his finest officers, Samuel Forrer Chapman. Chapman served with Mosby for more than two years, and their friendship continued in the decades after the war. Take Sides with the Truth is a collection of more than eighty letters, published for the first time in their entirety, written by Mosby to Chapman from 1880, when Mosby was made U.S. consul to Hong Kong, until his death in a Washington, D.C., hospital in 1916. These letters reveal much about MosbyÕs character and present his innermost thoughts on many subjects. At times, MosbyÕs letters show a man with a sensitive nature; however, he could also be sarcastic and freely derided individuals he did not like. His letters are critical of General Robert E. LeeÕs staff officers (Òthere was a lying concert between themÓ) and trace his decades-long crusade to clear the name of his friend and mentor J. E. B. Stuart in the Gettysburg campaign. Mosby also continuously asserts his belief that slavery was the cause of the Civil WarÑa view completely contrary to a major portion of the Lost Cause ideology. For him, it was more important to Òtake sides with the TruthÓ than to hold popular opinions. Peter A. Brown has brought together a valuable collection of correspondence that adds a new dimension to our understanding of a significant Civil War figure.

Author : William Ellis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
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Download or read book The Modern Husbandman written by William Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1744 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edmund Kell Blyth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Life of William Ellis written by Edmund Kell Blyth and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karl Jacoby
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101159510
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows at Dawn written by Karl Jacoby and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful reconstruction of one of the worst Indian massacres in American history In April 1871, a group of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O?odham Indians surrounded an Apache village at dawn and murdered nearly 150 men, women, and children in their sleep. In the past century the attack, which came to be known as the Camp Grant Massacre, has largely faded from memory. Now, drawing on oral histories, contemporary newspaper reports, and the participants? own accounts, prize-winning author Karl Jacoby brings this perplexing incident and tumultuous era to life to paint a sweeping panorama of the American Southwest?a world far more complex, diverse, and morally ambiguous than the traditional portrayals of the Old West.

Author : Clough Williams-Ellis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
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Download or read book The Tank Corps written by Clough Williams-Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George William Ellis
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849652491
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book King Philip's War written by George William Ellis and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period of the Indian war of 1676, known as King Philip's war, is one of the most interesting in the early history of the New England colonies. It was the first great test to which the New England Commonwealths were subjected, and it enforced upon them in blood and fire the necessity of a mutual policy and active cooperation. The lesson that union is strength was learned at that time and was never forgotten. New England, after the war, free from fear of any Indian attacks, was able to turn her attention to her own peaceful industrial and political development undisturbed.

Author : John Eimeo Ellis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368194631
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life of William Ellis written by John Eimeo Ellis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.