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Monday, June 27, 2016

It's Monday, What are You Reading? Revolution: Mapping the Road to American Independence

It's Monday, What are You Reading? 
Revolution: 
Mapping the Road to American Independence 1755-1783
by Richard H. Brown and Paul E. Cohen


This post is the one-hundred and eleventh entry for this meme suggested by Sheila@ One Persons Journey Through A World of Books. [Entries 22-25 in the series were posted at  the Dr. Bill Tells Ancestor Stories]

This fine book was a recent gift from my daughter, Annette. It is a excellent reference but also an interesting read. Many of the maps were made by British engineers during their ‘occupation’ of America during this period - a different point of view; always of value.



Book Description from Amazon:

The spectacular legacy and importance of early American cartographers.
Historians of the Revolutionary War in America have been fortunate in their resources: few wars in history have such a rich literary and cartographic heritage. The high skills of the surveyors, artists, and engravers who delineated the topography and fields of battle allow us to observe the unfolding of events that ultimately defined the United States.
When warfare erupted between Britain and her colonists in 1775, maps provided graphic news about military matters. A number of the best examples are reproduced here, including some from the personal collections of King George III, the Duke of Northumberland, and the Marquis de Lafayette. Other maps from institutional and private collections are being published for the first time. In all, sixty significant and beautiful cartographic works from 1755 to 1783 illustrate this intriguing era.
Most books about the Revolution begin with Lexington and Concord and progress to the British surrender at Yorktown, but in this rich collection the authors lay the groundwork for the war by also taking into account key events of the antecedent conflict. The seeds of revolution were planted during the French and Indian War (1755–1763), and it was then that a good number of the participants, both British and rebel, cut their teeth. George Washington took his first command during this war, alongside the future British commanding General Thomas Gage.
At the Treaty of Paris, the French and Indian War ended, and King George III gained clear title to more territory than had ever been exchanged in any other war before or since. The British military employed its best-trained artists and engineers to map the richest prize in its Empire. They would need those maps for the fratricidal war that would begin twelve years later. Their maps and many others make up the contents of this fascinating and beautiful book.
60 maps



Happy Reading!

Dr. Bill  ;-)

Monday, June 20, 2016

It's Monday, What are You Reading? Montana Women Homesteaders


Montana Women Homesteaders: 
A Field of One’s Own 
Edited by Sarah Carter
 


This post is the one-hundred and tenth entry for this meme suggested by Sheila@ One Persons Journey Through A World of Books. [Entries 22-25 in the series were posted at  the Dr. Bill Tells Ancestor Stories]

This has been sitting on my wife’s book shelf for several years. She handed it to me when she heard me say I was enjoying the Colorado Women Climbers book. Guess it is time to check it out! ;-)


Book Description from Amazon:

In Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One's Own, author and historian Sarah Carter introduces the voices and images of women who filed on 160- or 320-acre homestead plots in Montana.
Single, widowed, divorced, or deserted, women varied in ages, educational levels, and ethnic backgrounds, but all proved up on their homesteads.
In published accounts, scrapbooks, personal reminiscences, and photographs, the women recorded their remarkable journeys.
Carter reveals inspiring stories filled with joy, tragedy, and redemption. 
Silver medal, WILLA Literary Awards, scholarly nonfiction, 2010
For more information, visit FarcountryPress.com.



Happy Reading!

Dr. Bill  ;-)

Monday, June 6, 2016

It's Monday, What are You Reading? The Magnificent Mountain Women


It's Monday, What are You Reading?
The Magnificent Mountain Women:
Adventures in the Colorado Rockies
by Janet Robertson
 
This post is the one-hundred and ninth entry for this meme suggested by Sheila@ One Persons Journey Through A World of Books. [Entries 22-25 in the series were posted at  the Dr. Bill Tells Ancestor Stories]
 

http://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Mountain-Women-Janet-Robertson/dp/B000GQWHKY/ (1990 edition)(I read)

http://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Mountain-Women-Second-Adventures/dp/0803289952/ (2003 2nd Edition)



This has been sitting on my shelf for years, picked up in Colorado at the bookstore one year.
Good read… shouldn’t have waited so long!! ;-)



Book Description from Amazon:

1st Edition:
Adventures in the Colorado Rockies. Lively well illustrated book on women climbers, skiers, hikers, guides, doctors, etc. in the 54 Colorado peaks.

2nd Edition:
Since the Pikes Peak gold rush in the mid–nineteenth century, women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike, climb, ski, homestead, botanize, act as guides, practice medicine, and meet a variety of other challenges, whether for sport or for livelihood. Janet Robertson recounts their exploits in a lively, well-illustrated book that measures up to its title, The Magnificent Mountain Women. Arlene Blum provides a new introduction to this edition.


Happy Reading!

Dr. Bill  ;-)