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Pionier : Organ der schweizerischen permanenten Schulausstellung in Bern
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Year: 1881 Publisher: Bern : Schweizerisches Schulmuseum in Bern,

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Pioneers.


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Kings in grass castles
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Year: 1959 Publisher: London : Constable and Co.,

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Pioneers --- Ranches --- History.


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In the service of the company : letters of Sir Edward Parry, Commissioner to the Australian Agricultural Company.
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ISBN: 1920942106 Year: 2004 Publisher: Canberra, A.C.T. : ANU E Press,

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Australian agricultural company; Correspondence; Pioneers; History


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Lateglacial and postglacial pioneers in northern Europe
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ISBN: 9781407312316 1407312316 Year: 2014 Volume: 2599 Publisher: Oxford Archaeopress


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The Diaries of Edward Pease : The Father of English Railways
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ISBN: 1139600052 110806292X Year: 1907 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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Edward Pease (1767-1858), who left behind extensive diaries for the years 1824-57, was dubbed the 'father of English railways' thanks to his backing of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which began operating in 1825. A prominent Quaker and woollen manufacturer in Darlington, Pease famously recruited George Stephenson (1781-1848) as the line's engineer. His great-grandson Sir Alfred Pease (1857-1939) edited these diaries for private circulation only, but was persuaded to publish them in 1907. The work includes an introductory essay on Quakerism and biographical sketches of Pease and his wife Rachel. The diaries themselves reveal, as the editor mentions in his preface, a life devoted to public and private good works. The appendices include a variety of Quaker texts and other material relating to the Pease family and the founding of the railways.


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Looking back : Canadian women's prairie memoirs and intersections of culture, history, and identity
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ISBN: 1299146457 1552385094 1552380963 9781299146457 9781552385098 Year: 2010 Publisher: Calgary [Alta.] : University of Calgary Press,

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When we think about women settlers on the Prairies, our notions tend to veer between the nostalgic image of the "cheerful helpmate" and the grim deprivation of the "reluctant immigrant." In Looking Back: Canadian Women's Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture, History, and Identity, Leigh Matthews shows how a critical approach to the life-writing of individual prairie women can broaden and deepen our understanding of the settlement era. Reopening for examination a substantial body of memoirs published after 1950 but now largely out of print, Matthews engages critical and feminist theory to close the gap between our polarized stereotypes and the actual lived experiences of rural prairie women.Addressing both the limitations and possibilities of life writing, Matthews presents a sound, well-developed and well-written case for memoir as reconciling female experience to the dominant historiography of the prairie west. Reading for "failures and incoherences," the memoirs considered here reveal women's voices that probe a community's most cherished values and beliefs, reveal its conflicts and contradictions, and call leaders to account. - Catherine Cavanaugh, Athabasca University.


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In the service of the company : letters of Sir Edward Parry, Commissioner to the Australian Agricultural Company.
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Year: 2005 Publisher: Canberra : ANU Press,

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Australian agricultural company; Archives; Correspondence; Pioneers; History; Australia


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Arizoniana.
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Year: 1960 Publisher: Tucson, Arizona. : Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society,

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One side by himself : the life and times of Lewis Barney, 1808-1894
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ISBN: 0874214270 0874214289 9786613266965 1283266962 0874214726 9780874214727 9780874214277 9780874214284 Year: 2001 Publisher: Logan : Utah State University Press,

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""What an astonishing life and what a remarkable biography. Lewis Barney's sojourn on the hard edge of the American frontier is a forgotten epic. Not only does this book tell of an amazing personal odyssey from his birth in upstate New York in 1808 to his death in Mancos, Colorado, in 1894, but Barney's tale represents a living evocation of some of the most significant themes in American history. Frederick Jackson Turner theorized that the frontier shaped our national character, but Lewis Barney's life stands as a testament to the real impact of the westering experience on a man and his f

The conquest : the story of a Negro pioneer
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ISBN: 0585266352 9780585266350 0803282095 Year: 1994 Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,

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