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Die Hudson-Bay-Kompagnie
The author's first-hand account of the first 3 or 4 years of his career with the Hudson's Bay Company during the early part of the 1800's. Includes personal narratives of his day-to-day adventures, duties to "the Company", personal trials and tribulations in the far north country of Canada, trips and expeditions, and several accounts of his hunting and fishing excursions - all before the age of…
Gemeinsame Themen: Canada, Indians of North America, Frontier and pioneer life, Description and travel
Die Abenteuer des Kapitän Bonneville, U.S.A.
While engaged in writing an account of the grand enterprise of Astoria, it was my practice to seek all kinds of oral information connected with the subject. Nowhere did I pick up more interesting particulars than at the table of Mr. John Jacob Astor; who, being the patriarch of the fur trade in the United States, was accustomed to have at his board various persons of adventurous turn, some of…
Gemeinsame Themen: Descriptions et voyages, Frontier and pioneer life, Description and travel, Travel
Kalifornien und der Oregon-Trail
Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and his sojourn with the Oglala Indians.
Gemeinsame Themen: Indians of North America, Frontier and pioneer life, Description and travel, Travel
Der Geist der Grenze
Wikipedia: Spirit of the Border is an historical novel written by Zane Grey, first published in 1906. The novel is based on events occurring in the Ohio River Valley in the late eighteenth century. It features the exploits of Lewis Wetzel, a historical personage who had dedicated his life to the destruction of Native Americans and to the protection of nascent white settlements in that region.…
Gemeinsame Themen: Women pioneers, Indians of North America, Frontier and pioneer life, History
Meine Antonia
My Antonia, first published 1918, is one of Willa Cather's greatest works. It is the last novel in the Prairie trilogy, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark.My Antonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named Antonia. The…
Gemeinsame Themen: Women pioneers, Frontier and pioneer life, Biography & Memoir, History