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"Into A Strange Land": Women Captives Among The Indians, Jennifer D. Mcdaid
"Into A Strange Land": Women Captives Among The Indians, Jennifer D. Mcdaid
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A Minister In All But Name: The Letters Of Martha Gerrish (1689-1736), Jessica Philyaw
A Minister In All But Name: The Letters Of Martha Gerrish (1689-1736), Jessica Philyaw
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Across The First Divide: Frontiers Of Settlement And Culture In Augusta County, Virginia, 1738-1770, Nathaniel Turk Mccleskey
Across The First Divide: Frontiers Of Settlement And Culture In Augusta County, Virginia, 1738-1770, Nathaniel Turk Mccleskey
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This is a history of a frontier county in late colonial Virginia. Augusta County was created in 1738 and subdivided for the first time in 1770. During the intervening years it encompassed most of Virginia's claims to land west of the Blue Ridge Mountains.;As drawn by Virginians, the borders of Augusta County simultaneously encompassed two types of frontiers: a frontier of settlement on which white immigrants created a new society, and a frontier of culture in which those settlers interacted with a variety of Indians. This study examines both types of frontier experiences.;On the settlement frontier, white immigrants rapidly created …
"To Me Like All Other Days; Busy": The 1887 Diary Of Jeannie L Harrison Of Santa Barbara, California, Garrett Randall Fesler
"To Me Like All Other Days; Busy": The 1887 Diary Of Jeannie L Harrison Of Santa Barbara, California, Garrett Randall Fesler
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