18 books like Narrative of the adventures of Zenas Leonard

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Torches Together Emmy Arnold · 1964 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate **Not many people talk about "joy" these days.** Emmy Arnold's memoir radiates just that - an enthusiasm for life and an unflagging optimism grounded in faith. In a genre awash in sordid sex and dysfunctional relationships, she offers a refreshing account of a hard life lived victoriously, of people brought together, despite their own weakness and turbulent times, to experience new levels of… Shares Biography & Memoir, History

Presidents for Kids

Presidents for Kids Presidents For Kids · 2025 Shares United States, Biography & Memoir with this book.

The adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A. Washington Irving · 1800 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Challenging 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… Shares Fur trade, West, Description and travel, Biography & Memoir

Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 Reuben Gold Thwaites · 1904 · 369p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel: descriptive of the Indians and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement, Edited with notes, introduction, index, etc. The 32 volumes of reprints include 2 volumes of indexes. Some of the reprints are offered separately on this website, and… Shares Overland journeys to the Pacific, Fur trade, Indians of North America, Description and travel

The Hudson Bay Company Robert Michael Ballantyne · 1848 · 189p · ≈ 6h · Challenging 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… Shares Fur trade, Indians of North America, Description and travel, Biography & Memoir

A diary in America Frederick Marryat · 1839 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Challenging "First appeared in June 1839...in three volumes, with three supplementary volumes appearing later in the year... In preparing this edition...I have used both the first and second series." Shares Indians of North America, Description and travel, United States, Biography & Memoir

California and Oregon trail Francis Parkman · 1872 · ★ 3.6 · 381p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and his sojourn with the Oglala Indians. Shares West, Indians of North America, Description and travel, History

Annapurna-conquest of the first 8000 metre peak Maurice Herzog · 1951 · ★ 4.5 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate One of the great works of mountaineering literature- long out of print and now reissued with a new introduction by Joe Simpson.The enthralling account, by the leader of the French expedition, of the first conquest of Annapurna - at that time, and at more than 8000 metres, the highest mountain ever climbed. It is a story of breathtaking courage and determination against appalling odds. In records… Shares Description and travel, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History

Stories of American life and adventure Edward Eggleston · 1895 · ★ 3.7 · 177p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Shares Indians of North America, United States, History with this book.

Ghosts

Ghosts Owen Davies · 2010 · 1440p · ≈ 48h · Moderate Shares Sources, History with this book.

Mr. Tucket Gary Paulsen · 1969 · ★ 4.1 · 166p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail with his family by wagon train. When he receives a rifle for his birthday, he is thrilled that he is being treated like an adult. But Francis lags behind to practice shooting and is captured by Pawnees. It will take wild horses, hostile tribes, and a mysterious one-armed mountain man named Mr. Grimes to help Francis become the… Shares Overland journeys to the Pacific, West, Indians of North America

Army Life in a Black Regiment Thomas Wentworth Higginson · 1870 · ★ 3.9 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging "*Army Life in a Black Regiment* has some claim to be the best written narrative to come from the Union [side] during the Civil War," wrote historian Henry Steele Commander. "Higginson's picture of the battle which was the origin of 'praise the Lord and pass the ammunition' and his reading of the Emancipation Proclamation to the black regiment are unsurpassed for eloquence." A Union colonel wrote… Shares United States, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History

The last American vampire Seth Grahame-Smith · 2014 · ★ 4.0 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "The follow-up to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter--a sweeping, alternate history of 20th Century America as seen through the eyes of vampire Henry Sturges. He is searching for renewed purpose in the wake of his friend Abraham Lincoln's shocking death. It will be an expansive journey that will first send him to England for an unexpected encounter with Jack the Ripper, then to New York City for the… Shares United States, History

The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid Pat Garrett · 2008 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Light Hankering for a mostly true tale about the hard-living desperadoes who inhabited America's desert Southwest in the mid-1800s? This biography of the ill-fated gunslinger Billy, the Kid was written by Pat Garrett, the sheriff who shot Billy down. Although some historians now question the veracity of some of the self-aggrandizing bluster Garrett and his ghostwriter included in the book, The… Shares Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir

Three years in California [1846-1849] Walter Colton · 1850 · 456p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Walter Colton (1797-1851) of Vermont had a career as clergyman and journalist before sailing to California as naval chaplain of the Congress. In July 1846, Commodore Stockton named him alcalde of Monterey, a post to which he was elected a few months later. He remained in California until 1849, using his time to found the state's first newspaper and building its first schoolhouse. Three years in… Shares Zamorano 80, Sources, Description and travel, History

The Way of a Man Emerson Hough · 1907 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares United States, History with this book.

Life on the plains and among the diggings Alonzo Delano · 1854 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Born in Aurora, New York, Alonzo Delano (1806-1874) moved on to the Midwest as a teenager. July 1848 found him a consumptive Ottawa, Illinois, storekeeper, and he joined a local California Company. He remained in the West after the Gold Rush, winning fame as an early California humorist. Life on the plains and among the diggings (1857) is based largely on letters from Delano published in Ottawa… Shares Overland journeys to the Pacific, Indians of North America, Description and travel, Biography & Memoir

The Billion-Dollar Molecule

The Billion-Dollar Molecule Barry Werth · 1994 · ★ 4.0 · 445p · ≈ 14h · Moderate The Billion-Dollar Molecule raises the curtain on the fascinating and tumultuous drama of a radically new start-up pharmaceutical company. That company, Vertex, is trying to design a lifesaving new drug that - if it works - will prove the potential of a brand-new drug-making technique and also fulfill the vision of Vertex's founder and chairman, Joshua Boger, one of the most promising scientists… Shares United States

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