Category: Autobiographies

Recollections of an Old Soldier

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: fhp2020

Condition: Good

David Perry was an American soldier who fought in the Revolutionary War, which resulted in the founding of the United States – this autobiography recalls his early years, and his role in the conflict.Born in colonial Massachusetts on August 8th, 1741, Perry had a difficult childhood – the death of his mother when he was merely seven meant he was sent to live with his uncle to learn the trade of tanning and shoemaking. Like many boys of his time, he received basic militia and leadership training in the countryside of New England, and saw battle whilst a teenager. Perry's earliest memories of co...
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Letters From An American Farmer And Sketches Of Eighteen-Century America

By: J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Price: $20.00

Publisher: : 1986

Seller ID: mc1867

ISBN-13: 9780140390063

Condition: Very Good

501 pages, including index. American Literature, as the voice of our national consciousness, begins in 1782 with the first publication in England of Letters from an American Farmer. Literature, that is, considered as arrangements of affective images embodied in the traditional forms of poetry, fiction, and drama, and expressing the spirit of place.
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John Robert Shaw: An Autobiography of Thirty Years, 1777-1807

By: John Robert Shaw, Oressa M. Teagarden

Price: $40.00

Seller ID: fhs2023

ISBN-13: 9780821410189

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

In the summer of 1807 more than a thousand subscribers from New England to Tennessee paid for the initial printing of The Life and Travels of John Robert Shaw: A Narrative of the Life and Travels of the Well-Digger, now resident of Lexington, Kentucky, Written by Himself. Shaw had come to Rhode Island as a British redcoat to put down the colonial rebellion. Through various quirks of fate, including being taken a prisoner of war, he ended up fighting with the Americans. Shaw was an exuberant spirit whose rowdy drinking bouts and related predicaments alternated with periods of wholehearted effor...
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My Search for Self: How I Found My Birth Family and Discovered My Heritage

By: Joseph E. Knight

Price: $40.00

Seller ID: fhk2006

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

The recollections Joseph Knight, who tells his story of finding and reuniting with his birth family, and how it began with a single Facebook post. Includes color and black and white photographs.
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Rooted in Florida Soil

By: Julia Lake Kellersberger

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: mcfl1601

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Poor - Staplebound, Taped, Staining, Excessive Wear and Tear

The first volume of the Local History Series of the Kellersberger Fund of South Brevard Historical Society; a personal narrative of the lives of Julia Lake Kellersberger and her husband. 60 pages.
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Force Without Fanfare: The Autobiography of K.M. Van Zandt

By: K.M. Van Zandt

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: mctxvz1600

ISBN-13: 9780875651545

Binding: Library

Condition: Good

In this faithful memoir, dictated at the age of ninety-three, K. M. Van Zandt recalls the details of a long and eventful life and of the struggle to build Fort Worth from a tiny “outpost on the Trinity” to a modern city. The son of Isaac Van Zandt—an active patriot during the days of the Republic of Texas and once a candidate for governor—K. M. Van Zandt began his career as a lawyer and surveyor for the railroad in East Texas. In 1861, he joined the Confederate army and served as an officer in the Seventh Texas Infantry. After the Civil War, he joined the wave of migration westward, settlin...
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Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: A Woman's Life on the Mormon Frontier

By: Mary Ann Hafen

Price: $18.00

Seller ID: fhh2016

ISBN-13: 9780803272194

Binding: Softcover

Condition: New

In the summer of 1860, the author of these recollections, then six years old, walked beside her parents’ handcart from Florence, Nebraska, to Salt Lake City. The family, converts to Mormonism, had left their comfortable home near Bern, Switzerland, to make the long journey to the Mormon Zion. Nearly eighty years later Mary Ann Hafen published this account of her life, giving an unparalleled, candid, inside view of the Mormon woman’s world. Called to go with the Swiss Company to settle the "Dixieland" region of southern Utah—a hot, dry, inhospitable land—Mary Ann's family lived in thatch, dugo...
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National Air And Space Museum

By: Michael J. Neufeld and Alex M. Spencer

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: mcm2008

Condition: Very Good

388 pages, including index. Free shipping media mail. The book is organized into five major chapters, beginning with the Smithsonian's decades of engagement with aeronautics before World War I; proceeding to curator Paul Garber's amassing a collection of historic airplanes between the wars; on to the long struggle to construct a museum on the National Mall; and then to two parallel stories, one on the mall museum since it's opening, and the other on the origins, construction, and life of our second major site, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, which opened in 2003.
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All Over but the Shoutin'

By: Rick Bragg

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: mc2038

ISBN-13: 9780679774020

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Like New

This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a hard-drinking man with a murderous temper and the habit of running out on the people who needed him most.But at the center of this soaring memoir is Bragg's mother, who went eighteen years without a new dress so that her sons could have school clothes a...
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Category: Autobiographies