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Two Young Homesteaders
Theodora Robinson Jenness, 1847-
Two Young Homesteaders
Boston: D. Lothrop & Co., 1880
Jenness was born and educated in Maine. She married her husband, Major George Jenness in Ottawa, Kansas, in 1872, where she was engaged in mission work among…
Nell Grayson’s Ranching Days, or, A City Girl in the Great West
May Hollis Barton
Nell Grayson’s Ranching Days, or, A City Girl in the Great West
New York: Cupples & Leon, 1926
The Barton Books for Girls series consisted of 15 titles produced and marketed by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the "May Hollis…
The Boys of the Sierras, or, The Young Gold Hunters: A Story of California in ‘49
Hendrik Conscience, 1812-1883
The Boys of the Sierras, or, The Young Gold Hunters: A Story of California in ‘49
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1883
Conscience, a Belgian, wrote over 100 novels for children and adults, most set in Europe but a few,…
The Stolen Boy: A Story, Founded on Facts. By Mrs. Hofland.
Barbara Hofland, 1770-1844
The Stolen Boy: A Story, Founded on Facts. By Mrs. Hofland.
New York: Hurst, [1880s?]
This fairly conventional children’s novel recounts the story of Manuel’s three years in Comanche captivity after his kidnapping from his…
With Crockett and Bowie, or, Fighting for the Lone-Star Flag. A Tale of Texas
Kirk Munroe, 1850-1930
With Crockett and Bowie, or, Fighting for the Lone-Star Flag. A Tale of Texas
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1898
Munroe led an interesting life. Born in Wisconsin, he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts as a young boy. He…
A history of the national woman's rights movement for twenty years: with the proceedings of the decade meeting held at Apollo hall, October 20, 1870, from 1850 to 1870, with an appendix containing the history of the movement during the winter of 1871, in the national capitol.
Woodhull was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for President of the United States in 1872. Davis was an abolitionist, suffragist, and educator who was one of the founders of the New England Woman Suffrage Association.
Amerindians
Amerindians fishing with bows and arrows at the junction of two rivers. Robert Schomburgk, Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana (London, 1841)
Amsterdam
Horti Medici Amstelodamensis Rariorum Plantarum Historia. Title page that sums the colonial enterprise. 1697.
Aracaris
Curl-crested Aracaris. Henry Walter Bates, Naturalist on the River Amazons (London, 1863)
As man to man
Campaign literature stating: "Between ourselves let us give women the vote and vote for the woman suffrage amendment, Nov.7." The South Dakota Universal Franchise League was organized in 1911 by Mary Shields ("Mamie") Pyle. The women's suffrage…