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1913

George Washington's Farewell Address


George Washington - 1913
    His famous farewell address encapsulates a view of the Union, the Constitution, and good citizenship that is an important part of American political thought today.

Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals


Robert Falcon Scott - 1913
    On board was an international team of explorers led by Robert Falcon Scott, a man determined to be the first to reach the South Pole. A year and a half later, Scott and three members of his team died during a brutal blizzard. Their dream of reaching the Pole first had already been dashed by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, and now on their return trip--slowed by ill health and bad weather--Scott's party found themselves trapped in a tent without sufficient provisions, while the wind howled endlessly outside. Even in his final hours, Scott found the strength to continue the journal he'd started at the beginning of his adventures; the diary was found beside his frozen body.Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals is the explorer's detailed account of his time in Antarctica. The team's daily progress towards their final goal is recorded in Scott's vivid, personal narrative, as well as his impressions of the harsh conditions, the stark beauty of the tundra, and his own increasingly desperate ambition to beat his rivals to the Pole. Shortly before he died, Scott wrote: "Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman." Robert Falcon Scott and his men died, but their story lives on in his journals.

An Indian Winter or With the Indians in the Rockies


James Willard Schultz - 1913
    W. Schultz (1859–1947) was an author, explorer, and historian known for his historical writings of the Blackfoot Indians in the late 1800s, when he lived among them as a fur trader. In 1907, Schultz published My Life as an Indian, the first of many future writings about the Blackfeet that he would produce over the next thirty years. Schultz lived in Browning, Montana. "With the Indians in the Rockies" is by a Rocky Mountain veteran, J. W. Shultz, and is “real stuff,” vivid and exciting, with the value that comes from firsthand knowledge. It is the story of Thomas Fox, a trapper, whose life was spent among the Indians——friendly and hostile,—in the pursuit of his calling, and who told the story to Mr. Schultz around the camp-fire. Buffalo-hunting, rowing up the Missouri, fights with Indians, the discovery that his Uncle Wesley was married to a squaw, to whom he became very much attached, exploring the Rocky Mountains, adventures in the snow, bear hunting and the like make up the story.It is a story of out-door adventure, Indians, wild animals, and the perils of a mountain winter that has seldom been equalled in absorbing vividness and power. Mr. Schultz's work bids fair to become a classic for old and young alike. Few men are now left who can write with such knowledge and charm about the scenes and people of the old buffalo days. Every boy, as well as every man and woman who retains an interest in the realities of life in the open, will read the book with delight.Schultz writes:"WHEN in the eighteen seventies I turned my back on civilization and joined the trappers and traders of the Northwest, Thomas Fox became my friend. We were together in the Indian camps and trading posts often for months at a time ; he loved to recount his adventures in still earlier days, and thus it was that I learned the facts of his life. The stories that he told by the evening camp-fire and before the comfortable fireplaces of our various posts, on long winter days, were impressed upon my memory, but to make sure of them I frequently took notes of the more important points. "As time passed, I realized more and more how unusual and interesting his adventures were, and I urged him to write an account of them. He began with enthusiasm, but soon tired of the unaccustomed work. Later, however, after the buffalo had been exterminated and we were settled on a cattle-ranch, where the life was of a deadly monotony compared with that which we had led, I induced him to take up the narrative once more."

Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern Appalachians and a Study of Life Among the Mountaineers


Horace Kephart - 1913
    "Awonderful book. I like it especially for its color and anecdotes. It is a classic, not only for its accuracy and breadth of insights into the people of the region, but because these people themselves are so interesting and strong."--Annie Dillard, author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Round About a Pound a Week


Maud Pember Reeves - 1913
    In 1913 they published this unique record in Round About a Pound a Week. We learn about family life, births, marriages and deaths; of grinding work carried out on a diet of little more than bread, jam and margarine. We learn how they coped with damp, vermin and bedbugs; how they slept - four to a bed, in banana crates; how they washed, cooked, cleaned, scrimped for furniture and clothes, saved for all too frequent burials...This classic text is one of the most important and vivid historical portraits of the daily life of working people in the early part of the twentieth century.

My Life With the Eskimo


Vilhjálmur Stefánsson - 1913
     For the next two years he made his way northwards to Victoria Island to study an isolated group of Inuit who still used primitive tools and had strong Caucasian features, and whom some believed were descended from Vikings. The journey into these remote areas was incredibly tough and being delayed by blizzards Stefánsson, along with his companions, were forced to eat the tongue of a beached whale that had been dead for at least four years. Stefánsson, who learnt how to communicate with the Inuit, provides fascinating insight into the beliefs and every day life of these people. “the book is full of psychologic and human interest, and of clear-cut observation of many different kinds.” The North American Review “This book contains a wealth of ethnological and biological information … this is a valuable contribution to the scientific study of the Eskimos, by one who knows them thoroughly.” The Literary Digest “It is impossible to analyze with certainty the amalgam of motives underlying the ceaseless movement of northern exploration, but the lure of the difficult and the dangerous can hardly be less active than the desire to enlarge bounds of human knowledge.” The Nation This book is essential reading for anyone interested in this remarkable expedition and for people who want to find out more about life of people in the far north prior to the advent of modern technology. Vilhjálmur Stefánsson was a Canadian Artic explorer and ethnologist. Under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, he and Dr. R. M. Anderson undertook the ethnological survey of the Central Arctic coasts of the shores of North America from 1908 to 1912. The results of this expedition were My Life with the Eskimo first published in 1913. Stefánsson passed away in 1962.

Out of the Dark: Essays, Letters and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision


Helen Keller - 1913
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Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier


Louis Leon - 1913
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The Apostolic Fathers, Vol 2


Kirsopp Lake - 1913
    Loeb Classical Library #25Shepherd of HermasMartyrdom of PolycarpEpistle to Diogentus

Lineage, Life And Labors Of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot


Austin Craig - 1913
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Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout the Ages


Salomon Reinach - 1913
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Early Days on the Yukon: The Story of Its Gold Finds (1913)


William Ogilvie - 1913
    No man was better fitted to write of this wild and rich, rugged and bleak, yet beautiful region than was its explorer and path-finder, its pioneer writer, the creator of its institutions and moulder of its early government, the late William Ogilvie. The book has stirring interest; it is history in the making and the basis of future historical writing as to this vast lone land of the Arctic. It but touches the fringe of the time when men reached out for what was to be a hundred millions worth of gold; when that wonderful Camp was constituted in which good and evil developed side by side, and the strongest and meanest of mankind were tested in the sternest of the world ’s wars between humanity and nature. The book leads up to this period, shows the country in plain but effective narrative, and provides a valuable record of pioneer conditions and events.Over 100 years ago Yukon was an uninhabited, uncharted, unknown, and even unnamed land, by 1910 it sheltere a vigorous population, in numerous, prosperous towns and under a well-organized stable government. No such region has ever sprung into existence more suddenly or developed so rapidly with as little waste of wealth, energy, and human life. And this was due primarily to the mental strength, sound judgment, and fine moral fiber of William Ogilvie. Of Scotch Irish stock, born and educated in Ottawa, he took up his work of Dominion surveyor in the new lands of the Northwest Territory. His surveys on the Mackenzie and Yukon rivers, extending in a single trip alone nearly three thousand miles, yielded the first accurate information of a country never before traversed by the foot of a white man. He made the first preliminary survey of the international boundary between Alaska and Canada and so accurately that the latest survey found the line at the Yukon only a few score yards from where it ought to be.Ogilvie was made the first commissioner of Yukon Territory in 1896. He had to select his aids and advisers, to create a system of laws, and to administer them. He established schools as well as courts, organized a postal service, adjusted public grievances, created public sentiment, and made a strong and orderly state out of a wilderness and a mob of men seeking gold.It is the story of these days that he tells in this work with a directness and unaffected simplicity that conceals from the casual reader the great part he played himself. As a tale of the days when men fought with the wilderness for wealth the book is full of interest, overflowing with anecdote in which humor and death run side by side. It is invaluable as the record of an accurate observer, a keen judge of men, a retentive memory, and above all a strong leader in stormy times. For the history of the Northwest he has done a great service in recording what would otherwise have been irrevocably lost. Mr. Ogilvie's book must always be an indispensable document in any study of the social or political history of the Klondike. CONTENTS I. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF GEOGRAPHICAL AND POLITICAL DISTINCTIONS OF AMERICAN TERRITORY OF ALASKA AND THE YUKON TERRITORY OF CANADA II. BOUNDARY MATTERS III. STORY OF ATTEMPTED CRIME AND THE SWIFT JUSTICE WHICH FOLLOWED IT IV. REMARKS ON MR. OGILVIE'S SURVEY V. TRADING AND TRADING POSTS ON THE RIVER VI. GOLD DISCOVERIES AND MINING VII. FIRST GOLD SENT OUT VIII. DISCOVERY OF THE KLONDIKE IX. MR. OGILVIE'S VISIT TO THE COUNTRY IN 1887-8 AND OBSERVATIONS MADE THEN X. WINTER WORK IN 1895-6 XI. WORK DONE ON THE CREEKS BY MR. OGILVIE XII. LOCAL EXCITEMENT AS WEALTH OF KLONDIKE WAS REVEALED XIII. EXPERIENCES IN CAMP AND ON RIVER XIV.

Christian Hell From the 1st to the 20th Century


Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner - 1913
    Contents: literature and iconography; surpassing horror of Christian ideas; early Christian fathers; visions and descriptions; after the reformation; 19th century and today. With 27 illustrations.

The Cambridge Medieval History 2


John Bagnell Bury - 1913
    The Rise of the Saracens and the Foundation of the Western Empire

The Decorative Art of Leon Bakst


Arsène Alexandre - 1913
    Showcases the costumes, set designs, and paintings of Leon Bakst, the designer for the Ballets Russes. Notes on the ballets by Jean Cocteau. 53 pages, with 38 additional leaves of illustrationsTranslated from the French.

Reminiscences of School Life and Hints on Teaching


Fanny Jackson Coppin - 1913
    Born into slavery, Coppin was the second African-American woman to graduate from Oberlin College. A noted classical scholar, she devoted her life to the education of African-American children. This volume, originally published posthumously in 1913, is a four-part work composed of an autobiographical sketch (including an account of her classical studies at Oberlin and her role as teacher and first black woman principal of a high school - the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia); an essay setting forth her views and theories on education; a travelogue on her journeys to England and South Africa; and a description of her work as a missionary and educational activist in South Africa.

The Panama Canal (1913) [Illustrated]


FREDERIC J. HASKIN HASKIN - 1913
    It is written, therefore, in the simplest manner possible, considering the technical character of the great engineering feat itself, and the involved complexities of the diplomatic history attaching to its inception and undertaking. The temptation to turn aside into the pleasant paths of the romantic history of ancient Panama has been resisted; there is no attempt to dispose of political problems that incidentally concern the canal; in short, the book is confined to the story of the canal itself, and the things that are directly and vitally connected with it. Colonel Goethals was good enough to read and correct the chapters relating to the construction of the canal, and, when shown a list of the chapters proposed, he asked that the one headed "The Man at the Helm" be omitted. The author felt that to bow to his wishes in that matter would be to fail to tell the whole story of the canal, and so Colonel Goethals did not read that chapter. Every American is proud of the great national achievement at Panama. If, in the case of the individual, this book is able to supplement that pride by an ample fund of knowledge and information, its object and purpose will have been attained. This pre-1923 publication has been converted from its original format for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the conversion.

Scythians and Greeks


Ellis Hovell Minns - 1913
    

Sinopah: The Indian Boy


James Willard Schultz - 1913
     If you like this book, please search for "James Willard Schultz Native American Collection". James Willard Schultz, (born August 26, 1859, died June 11, 1947) was a noted author, explorer, Glacier National Park guide, fur trader and historian of the Blackfoot Confederacy. While operating a fur trading post at Carroll, Montana and living amongst the Pikuni tribe during the period 1880-82, he was given the name "Apikuni" by the Pikuni chief, Running Crane. Apikuni in Blackfoot means Spotted Robe.