From Lead Mines to Gold Fields: Memories of an Incredibly Long LifeU of Nebraska Press, 2015 - 230 頁 Henry Taylor's long life (1825-1931) gave him an unusual perspective on change in American society. During his lifetime, the West was largely settled. America fought wars with Mexico and Spain, was nearly torn apart by a civil conflict, and then joined allies across the sea in World War I. Inventions proliferated (trains, cars, airplanes, to name a few), and twenty-six presidents served in office. Taylor's life also exemplifies the mobile American lifestyle. His family moved several times before he left the lead mines of Wisconsin for the gold fields of California during the early 1850s. Taylor's account of his journey across the western continent in search of fortune provides an arresting and detailed look at the dangers of the trail. His account of his move to western Nebraska in 1878 offers insight into the problems and successes of the early homesteaders and settlers. The latter portions of the autobiography concern his later travels and his reflections on his long life. With wit and a keen sense of character, Taylor began to record his life story when he was 80 and completed it at the age of 103. Donald L. Parman has organized and annotated Taylor's story, supplying an introduction and information on people, places, and events in the text. |
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... father lived in Atwood. Mary also gave me full access to family photographs and correspondence. John Prideaux, another greatgrandchild, generously sent me Henry Taylor's manuscript and endorsed my editing it. I appreciate Glen Myers for ...
... father lived in Atwood. Mary also gave me full access to family photographs and correspondence. John Prideaux, another greatgrandchild, generously sent me Henry Taylor's manuscript and endorsed my editing it. I appreciate Glen Myers for ...
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... father suffered financial reverses, the Taylor family in 1832 moved to Wellsville, Ohio, on the Ohio River. When Henry was seventeen, the Taylors settled near Iowa City, Iowa. It appears that they later may have resettled near Dubuque ...
... father suffered financial reverses, the Taylor family in 1832 moved to Wellsville, Ohio, on the Ohio River. When Henry was seventeen, the Taylors settled near Iowa City, Iowa. It appears that they later may have resettled near Dubuque ...
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... father was dead until his cousin, Bessie Hickison, convinced him that Henry was still alive. I first learned about Henry Taylor's autobiography when my wife, Nadyne, and I toured the Jesuit missions in Sonora in the spring of 2001 as ...
... father was dead until his cousin, Bessie Hickison, convinced him that Henry was still alive. I first learned about Henry Taylor's autobiography when my wife, Nadyne, and I toured the Jesuit missions in Sonora in the spring of 2001 as ...
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... father, gloried in breasting the waves and storms of the ocean, and like him he prospered, living to be a very old man, and according to family traditions, died in 1815, [at] one hundred and one years old. When the Napoleonic ware [wars] ...
... father, gloried in breasting the waves and storms of the ocean, and like him he prospered, living to be a very old man, and according to family traditions, died in 1815, [at] one hundred and one years old. When the Napoleonic ware [wars] ...
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... father a tract of 1600 acres of land upon which he had settled. At the close of the Revolutionary war he had got it ... father's vessels, shipped from.
... father a tract of 1600 acres of land upon which he had settled. At the close of the Revolutionary war he had got it ... father's vessels, shipped from.
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From Wisconsin to Fort Laramie | |
Setbacks in Wisconsin and Homesteading in Nebraska | |
Selected Bibliography | |
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