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Our Westward Expansion: The Waymire Family Story- Of Generations Moving West (Our American Heritage)
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This story is about the lives of two generations of deep shaft coal miners and their families primarily during the five decades between 1890 and 1940. After immigration from Europe they spent their entire lives working and living in the mines and their associated camps in the southeast Kans…as coal belt and the surrounding four-state area. In addition to having much local significance, due to all the local color and familiar scenes of its regional setting, it is definitive of immigrants and coal mining elsewhere. It turns back the clock for us and transports us back for a real taste of the lives of many of our beloved area ancestors during this early Industrial Evolution Era. This was the age of steam power, resulting in a worldwide boom in the coal mining industry. Thousands of willing workers were needed to work in the many new mines and factories that were springing up. Many were coming from the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, Italy, and other southern and Eastern European nations at this time. They were willing workers full of high ideals and believing that their hard work and virtue would see them through the hard times that lay ahead. They exemplified the poor but honest, self-disciplined, and hard-working characters that Horatio Alger had written about earlier. European families were immigrating to this country by the thousands seeking the greater offered opportunities. They didn't expect all the deprivation, desparity, and drudgery that most of them found waiting on them over here. Perhaps many thought that things would get better over here than the famine, oppression, and tyranny they had left behind. They were looking for the freedom and opportunity for a new start; and possibly even a rung or two up the social ladder. They all came together in what became a 'melting pot' for all these many ethnic groups and eventually became proud and patriotic American citizens Nevertheless most of them were working long hours for short pay, and had dangerous and unhealthy working conditions down in the deep coal mines or working in the many sweat-shop factories in the cities. And most of the families had to become accustomed to deprivation and living in the rather oppressive, and sometimes even degrading conditions of the coal camps, or in the dirty tenement housing in the big cities. In addition, due to the usual exploitation of most of these workers at this time, widespread labor problems and resulting riots were often occurring. After a decade or so things did start to get better for the immigrant miners. Technology was changing people's lives, especially during the first decades after the turn of the century in 1900, with everything coming along as from electric lights, telephones, and household appliances to horseless carriages, mechanized equipment, and other labor-saving devices. All these new conveniences meant new sources of energy were needed besides just coal, such as oil, and electricity; and new job opportunities besides just miners, such as oilmen, railroad men, highway construction men, and a multitude of new manufacturing workers for such expanding new industries as the motorcar plants, and textile mills. The story also reveals these generation's, personal problems and disappointments. It also reveals their reaction to the national news events that were taking place around them then, as well as the implications they had on their lives. These would include WWI, the Roaring Twenties and Great Depression years, and WWII. It tells about their struggling efforts in this rapidly changing era that was the vanguard of the rise to prominence of our great American nation. Today who would ever know that deep shaft immigrant coal miners and their families had ever once lived and worked here? It is now no more than a dream remembered; a civilization buried and gone in an era that has almost disappeared into the pa Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Every generation has its own unique story to tell, especially about its early childhood years. These are the formative years when lifelong impressions are formed, and are dearly remembered as the good old days. These stories are about the families of the Great Depression and World War II ge…neration during the 30's and 40's decades. It is generally the period of the labor intensive low technology era before the beginning of the rapidly developing high technology society that would follow. It's said that out of the mouths of babes come truth and wisdom, and perhaps it's these perceptions that most reliably reveal those simpler yet challenging times. In these adult historic fiction stories the true emotions and concerns of the families are told, but as reflected through the eyes and innocence of the children. Freckles, the little girl from East Hollow, and Buddy, the little boy from the City Limits had much in common due to the similar life experiences of those of the generation of these stories. They had their carefree days at play with vivid imaginations and outrageous adventures, but they also had the responsibility of doing their chores and becoming a contributing member of the family. They may have been naive, having a lot to learn about life; yet they exhibit in these stories a development of understanding, and the advancing maturity that was necessitated by the times. It was a period when the people's greatest concerns were centered in their own town, on their own street, or in their own backyard so to speak. These concerns were about such things as finding a job, making a living, raising a crop in a terrible and seemingly unending drought, and just finding a way for the family to survive during the terrible economic depression. Nevertheless it was a quiet period of innocence and mutual concern for each other. Everyone was just hanging on as best they could, but with an eternal optimism about the hope for better times to come. Generally people didn't have much, but appreciated what they had and learned how to be frugal due to the dire necessity. People had a strong work ethic and desire to improve their social standing and economic condition. It was a time when men were the wage earners and women were the homemakers and both were proud of their respective roles. Women cultivated their cooking, sewing, child raising, and other domestic skills, and the time was not yet passed when men were proud of their hunting, fishing, and other outdoor prowess. These skills, in addition to their regular work skills, were useful in supplementing their table fare, especially when jobs could not be found. People learned to become as self-sufficient as they could be, but they were often mutually dependent upon each other and quite willing to lend a helping hand. Home gardens were common as were the keeping of cows, chickens, and other domestic sources of food and supplies. Women did a lot of canning, mending, and sewing while the men took care of the home repairs and other pressing matters. The wives and children also helped with all the additional chores that were to be done, and often sought part time ways to supplement the family income. After the country was thrown into WWII, things started to get better. Everyone was very patriotic and tried to do their part to support the war effort. They understood and accepted the rationing, military draft, blackouts, shortages, and other inconveniences. People bought war bonds, made victory gardens, participated in paper drives, and collected metal to be used in the manufacture of war goods. Their sons gallantly went off to serve their country and their daughters did their part at home, sometimes taking the jobs left behind by the men that went off to war. The childhood memories of the generation of these stories may now be no more than a dream remembered for some, but the legac Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This story is about two pioneer families that migrated west from North Carolina and Pennsylvania, and then came together in southeastern Kansas Territory just in time to be caught up right in the middle of the Kansas/Missouri Border War and the Civil War campaign that followed. The Border W…ar began in the mid 1850's and actually lasted throughout the Civil War years of 1861 to 1865. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 had opened up the land to legal settlement, but it allowed the residents of these territories to decide by popular vote whether the state would be a slave or free state, and that was the root of the resulting turbulence. The Border War pitted the pro slavery group against the abolitionist free-staters This situation soon led to organized guerilla-type raids followed by still more raids of retribution in retaliation. There was incessant pillaging, burnings, shootings, looting, and hangings throughout the long period of unrest and such dispirited cries rang out from the terror-stricken neighbors as, "The shot my husband and oldest son.", "they burned our cabin and crops .", "they stole all of our horses and other livestock .", "they set the whole prairie on fire .", and "they sacked the town and then burned it down." Through these turbulent times the Little and Williams families were quite active in business and political affairs both locally in Bourbon, County as well as at the more prominent centers around the territory then before statehood. There were doctors, merchants, judges, territorial legislature representatives, lawyers, newspapermen, and a U.S. Marshall in the families. The violence along the border only escalated with the beginning of the Civil War in Missouri in the spring of 1861. It didn't take the federal troops out of St. Louis long to run the Confederate-leaning state government out of central Missouri and across and down along the Kansas border to northwest Arkansas. The Battle of Carthage occurred along there on July 5, 1861. This engagement was still eleven days before the first Battle of Bull Run of the eastern campaign. The battle at Carthage was only the prelude to the big Battle of Wilson's Creek near Springfield that soon followed and the subsequent big Battle of Pea Ridge early the following year. The Civil War west of the Mississippi is referred to as the Trans-Mississippi Campaign, which included primarily the campaign in Missouri, but also in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and the action all along the Mississippi River. Many of the Little and Williams family members served in some of these engagements and other skirmishes around the state. History comes alive for us as it is seen through the eyes of actual exemplary family characters whose lives were integrally immersed in these major events of our American History. This type of story-telling also interjects the human characteristics and emotions with both the highs and lows of their proud accomplishments including the hardships and heartaches of the vulnerable victims. This new Our American Heritage series takes a genealogy approach in presenting our American History. This different look at our past through the eyes of some of our ancestors affords a more personal touch that results in more lasting impressions and a deeper understanding not usually garnered through the reading of textbooks. Images of ancestors engaged in the associated historic events are enabled to be brought into sharper focus from their often fuzzy obscurity. Such historic accounts in our ancestor's lives are intertwined and are all integrally wrapped up together in our American History, and we should know them both better than just the cursory impression gained from a smile in a faded photograph or a few memorized dates concerning some long ago historic events. Some of these ancestor generations were born in a special era with a unique set of Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. They thought it couldn't happen to them in their sleepy little insignificant community quietly nestled in our nation's heartland; but it did. Imagine the tranquility of a rural Midwest setting suddenly shattered by the intrusion of Islamic terrorists, with their conscription of illegal alie…n Mexican forces, as they attempt to launch stolen missiles and carry out a ruthless terrorist plot. In this story, characters of contrasting lifestyles are involved as a former romance is rekindled, a loved one succumbs of cancer, and as the terrorist threat gradually unfolds. There may be a time for everything in life's passing seasons, but the disruption caused by the impending terrorist attack was unthinkable. A handsome young hi-tech corporate executive, being transferred back to the area, and an attractive small town college instructor are the leading characters, supported by other strong characters in the roles of a retired judge, a retired history teacher, a retired minister, and a couple of Vietnam vets. After a few weeks of mysterious occurring events all mayhem breaks out in an Ozark national forest as the military and various Federal security agencies are deployed to defeat the threat and avoid a disaster of major national proportions. The action-filled scenes come alive with high-tech military weapons, surveillance equipment, and dialogue, as a local news helicopter is shot down by a shoulder-fired surface to air missile, and then escalates from there in the thoroughly engaging scenes that follow. The story however is much more than just a love story or military action thriller. It is a human interest story about maturing adults and how lives and perspectives naturally change during the normal life junctures. Some adult lifestyles are exciting, others mundane; from younger vigorous persons seeking romance and excitement to elders spending their last years in assisted living facilities and nursing homes. These various lifestyles and the perspectives of the characters are revealed throughout on common subjects ranging from religion to politics and including such other topics as historical accounts, the environment, and various other social issues. Despite their occasional personal life storms, these are the contented and serene lifestyles that are rudely interrupted as the terrorist induced life-threatening circumstances come crashing down around them. See the author's website link that follows for details about the book's Missouri regional setting and a complete synopsis: (You can copy/paste the URL in search engine if necessary.) Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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