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Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Telling the stories of those who quietly conducted the business and built the livelihoods that made their societies prosper or fail this account shows how one Scots-Irish American family, the Hammills, millers, wagon makers, and blacksmiths, lived out their lives against the backdrop of the American Revolution, the Civil War, and westward expansion. Spanning three centuries from the shores of Ireland to the Chesapeake Bay Area to the Pacific Northwest,...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c1915
Description
The passage of more than one hundred years since "The Scotch-Irish in America" was first published in 1915 has rendered the book no less fascinating and gripping. Written in a thoroughly accessible way, it tells the story of how the hardy breed of men and women, who in America came to be known as the 'Scotch-Irish', was forged in the north of Ireland during the seventeenth century. It relates the circumstances under which the great exodus to the New...
Author
Series
Refined by love volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a diviion of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"In post-Civil War West Virginia, Ewan needs to overcome a bad business deal to save his West Virginia brickmaking operation-- and win the heart of the former owner's daughter"--
