The Red River Settlement: Its Rise, Progress, and Present State: With Some Account of the Native Races and Its General History, to the Present Day. - Softcover

Ross, Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1275755348 ISBN 13: 9781275755345

Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012

Synopsis

Title: The Red River Settlement : its rise, progress, and present state : with some account of the native races and its general history, to the present day.<br /><br />Author: Alexander Ross<br /><br />Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana <br /><br />Description: <br /><br />Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.<br /><br />Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.<br /><br />Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.<br /><br />++++<br />The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:<br />++++<br /><br />SourceLibrary: Huntington Library<br /><br />DocumentID: SABCP02906000<br /><br />CollectionID: CTRG99-B624<br /><br />PublicationDate: 18560101<br /><br />SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America<br /><br />Notes: Advertising material included in pagination.<br /><br />Collation: xvi, 416, 16 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm<br /><br />

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About the Author

Alexander M. Ross grew up on a farm in Ontario and served in the Royal Canadian Artillery in World War II. Now Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph, he has written "A Part of Me Is Missing" (2002 Borealis) and "Slow March to a Regiment" (2004). He has co-authored a revision of "The College on the Hill" (1999), a history of the Ontario Agricultural College.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1275755348
• ISBN 13: 9781275755345
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 450