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'That Place Over There' A Journalistic Look At Latter-Day Corinne, The Last Gentile Railroad Boomtown In The Mormon Lands Of Utah, John W. Morris
'That Place Over There' A Journalistic Look At Latter-Day Corinne, The Last Gentile Railroad Boomtown In The Mormon Lands Of Utah, John W. Morris
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The effort here, compiled over a nearly three-year period, is simply to encourage reporters of the mass media, those recorders of instant history on a daily basis, to take the time to put down in print somewhere the memories of old-timers everywhere. While centered in Corinne, Utah, the last rabble-rousing boomtown along the first transcontinental railroad to span the United States, this work is a collection of feature articles, laced with anecdotes and perhaps tall tales, of the type old-timers are eager to tell. It is a renegade mixture of oral and written histories and probably breaks most of the …
Some Aspects Of The Life And Work Of John Ellis, King's Agent For West Florida 1763 To 1776, Julius Groner
Some Aspects Of The Life And Work Of John Ellis, King's Agent For West Florida 1763 To 1776, Julius Groner
Dissertations
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Giving Up The Ghost: Death In The Depression, Victoria Getis
Giving Up The Ghost: Death In The Depression, Victoria Getis
Honors Papers
The preceding section is the human evidence behind this paper: what did the Great Depression feel like? What was it like to live in a Hooverville? To travel across the country in a rundown Jalopy? To Jump freight trains and live in box cars? To go on relief? What impact did the depression have on the national and individual psyche? Many authors have dealt with these questions, so why do it again? First, this thesis represents a attempt to draw together all the information for myself. Second, it is also an endeavor to find what people considered then (and perhaps …
The Planning And Development Of Two Moravian Congregation Towns: Salem, North Carolina And Gracehill, Northern Ireland, Christopher E. Hendricks
The Planning And Development Of Two Moravian Congregation Towns: Salem, North Carolina And Gracehill, Northern Ireland, Christopher E. Hendricks
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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Nobody's Children: The Treatment Of Illegitimate Children In Three North Carolina Counties, 1760-1790, Lynne Howard Frazer
Nobody's Children: The Treatment Of Illegitimate Children In Three North Carolina Counties, 1760-1790, Lynne Howard Frazer
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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Influence, Image, And Intimacy: Gift-Giving In Tudor England, Cheryl B. Bacon
Influence, Image, And Intimacy: Gift-Giving In Tudor England, Cheryl B. Bacon
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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Stretching The Bounds: Lady Jean Skipwith, Mistress Of Prestwould, 1748-1826, Lisa Ann Flick
Stretching The Bounds: Lady Jean Skipwith, Mistress Of Prestwould, 1748-1826, Lisa Ann Flick
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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John Nock Hinton: The Reconstructed Life Of An English Born Mormon Convert Of Virgin City, Utah, Lenora Atkin Meeks
John Nock Hinton: The Reconstructed Life Of An English Born Mormon Convert Of Virgin City, Utah, Lenora Atkin Meeks
Theses and Dissertations
John Nock Hinton, an Englishman, was converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England in 1856. The motivating factor in his life, thereafter, was his strong conviction that the Church was the literal kingdom of God on the earth, and its leaders were God's prophets, and its mission was to usher in the last dispensation on the earth, the Millennium, and the second coming of the Savior. His duty, as he saw it, was to labor unceasingly to help accomplish that mission, to work out his own salvation, and to teach his children the …