North America local history
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Heart of the SunsetHeart of the SunsetA fitful breeze played among the mesquite bushes. The naked earth, where it showed between the clumps of grass, was baked plaster hard. It burned like hot slag, and except for a panting lizard here and there, or a dust-gray jack-rabbit,...
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Chronicles of Canada series: Volume 06The Great Intendant : A Chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada, 1665-1672When the year 1665 began, the French colony on the shores of the St Lawrence, founded by the valour and devotion of Champlain, had been in existence for more than half a century....
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Tom Swift in the City of Gold Or, Marvelous Adventures UndergroundTom Swift in the City of Gold; Or, Marvelous Adventures Underground I Wonderful News II An Unsuspected Listener III Andy Is Whitewashed IV A Perilous Flight V News From Africa VI "Beware The Head-Hunters!" VII Tom Makes A Promise VIII Eradicate Will Go IX...
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Flower of the North: A Modern RomanceFlower of the North: A Modern Romance TO MY COMRADES OF THE GREAT NORTHERN WILDERNESS, THOSE FAITHFUL COMPANIONS WITH WHOM I HAVE SHARED THE JOYS AND HARDSHIPS OF THE "LONG SILENT TRAIL," AND ESPECIALLY TO THAT "JEANNE D'ARCAMBAL." WHO WILL FIND IN HERSELF THE...
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Chronicles of Canada series: Volume 05The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World FeudalismThis header should be the first thing seen when anyone starts to view the etext. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with...
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God's Country—And the WomanGod's Country—And the Woman Philip Weyman's buoyancy of heart was in face of the fact that he had but recently looked upon Radisson's unpleasant death, and that he was still in a country where the water flowed north. He laughed and he sang. His...
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Back to God's Country and Other StoriesBack to God's Country and Other Stories When Shan Tung, the long-cued Chinaman from Vancouver, started up the Frazer River in the old days when the Telegraph Trail and the headwaters of the Peace were the Meccas of half the gold-hunting population of British...
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The Golden SnareThe Golden Snare Bram Johnson was an unusual man, even for the northland. He was, above all other things, a creature of environmentand necessity, and of that something else which made of him at times a man with a soul, and at others a...
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Roughing It in the BushRoughing It in the Bush In most instances, emigration is a matter of necessity, not of choice; and this is more especially true of the emigration of persons of respectable connections, or of any station or position in the world. Few educated persons, accustomed...
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Chronicles of Canada series: Volume 04The Jesuit Missions : A Chronicle of the Cross in the WildernessThis header should be the first thing seen when anyone starts to view the etext. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with...
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Sowing Seeds in DannySowing Seeds in Danny "SO MANY FAITHSSO MANY CREEDS, SO MANY PATHS THAT WIND AND WIND WHILE JUST THE ART OF BEING KIND, IS WHAT THE OLD WORLD NEEDS!" In her comfortable sitting room Mrs. J. Burton Francis sat, at peace with herself and...
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The Dominion in 1983The Dominion in 1983The Dominion in 1983 was first published as a thirty page booklet in 1883 under the pseudonym Ralph Centennius. (The author's real name is unknown.) This edition has been proof-read word-by-word against a copy of the original on microfiche. (Canadian Institute...
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The Window-GazerThe Window-Gazer So in ye matere of Life's goodlie showe Some buy what doth them plese. While others stand withoute and gaze thereinne Your eare, good folk, for these! OLD ENGLISH RHYME. Professor Spence sat upon an upturned kegand shivered. No one had told...
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A Woman's Way Through Unknown LabradorA Woman's Way Through Unknown LabradorThis book is the result of a determination on my part to complete Mr. Hubbard's unfinished work, and having done this to set before the public a plain statement, not only of my own journey, but of his as...
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Chronicles of Canada series: Volume 03The Founder of New France : A Chronicle of Champlain Were there a 'Who's Who in History' its chronicle of Champlain's life and deeds would run as follows: Champlain, Samuel de. Explorer, geographer, and colonizer. Born in 1567 at Brouage, a village on the...
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Chronicles of Canada series: Volume 02The Mariner of St. Malo : A chronicle of the voyages of Jacques Cartier In the town hall of the seaport of St Malo there hangs a portrait of Jacques Cartier, the great sea-captain of that place, whose name is associated for all time...
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Chronicles of Canada series: Volume 01The Dawn of Canadian History : A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada We always speak of Canada as a new country. In one sense, of course, this is true. The settlement of Europeans on Canadian soil dates back only three hundred years. Civilization in Canada...
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The Lure of the Labrador WildThe Lure of the Labrador Wild L.H. Here, b'y, is the issue of our plighted troth. Why I am the scribe and not you, God knows: and you have his secret. D.W. "There's no sense in going furtherit's the edge of cultivation," So they...
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Rilla of InglesideRilla of Ingleside It was a warm, golden-cloudy, lovable afternoon. In the big living-room at Ingleside Susan Baker sat down with a certain grim satisfaction hovering about her like an aura; it was four o'clock and Susan, who had been working incessantly since six...
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France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New WorldFrance and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New World The springs of American civilization, unlike those of the elder world, lie revealed in the clear light of History. In appearance they are feeble; in reality, copious and full...
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