Books with author Henry Edwards

The second novel of the Temple Buck Quartet, this volume chronicles the exploits of Temple Buck and his rowdy trapper companions in the American Mountain fur trade from 1824 to 1826. The group push even farther west in their quest for beaver pelts, exploring new country and encountering fresh adventures, with some of them welcome and others not at all. The heavily researched tale, told in Temple’s own words, blends historical and fictional characters against a colorful backdrop of actual events flavored with gory battles against hostile Indians, humor, and romance, culminating in his disappointing return to his Ohio birthplace.

The first book in an exciting adventure series—the Temple Buck Quartet—that chronicles the rise and fall of the American Rocky Mountain fur trade, this volume is a coming-of-age story set in the first two years of the fur trade, 1822–24. Temple Buck is a young man whose rollicking tale begins with growing up in the Ohio wilderness before he is kidnapped by an evil keelboat captain. After his rescue by a beautiful St. Louis madam, he finally enlists in the first expedition up the Missouri River to the beaver-rich Rockies for a wealth of adventure and new experiences. This painstakingly researched tale blends historical and fictional characters into a colorful tapestry of actual events spiced with bloody battles, Indian customs, homespun humor, and earthy romance.

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The fourth and final volume in the Temple Buck Quartet describes the final years of the American Rocky Mountain fur trade (1833–1837) through the eyes and in the words of Temple Buck and his trapper comrades as they continue their determined quest for beaver through the uncharted wilderness of the Rockies. Through forbidding western deserts to the Pacific Ocean in Spanish California and back again, the companions harvest not only beaver pelts along the way, but a host of fresh adventures, new friendships, romance, and, at last, an unwelcome education in conservation, marketing, and gentlemen’s fashion. Temple Buck tells this true-to-life tale with homespun humor, matter-of-fact acceptance of high times and hardship, and the mountaineer’s abiding confidence that tomorrow will be better if you make it so.

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Semiramis Edward Henry Peple, american playwright (1869-1924)This ebook presents «Semiramis », from Edward Henry Peple. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.Table of Contents-01- About this book-02- DEDICATION-03- PREFACE-04- THE RAISING OF THE SIEGE-05- THE BUILDING OF A CITY-06- THE GOVERNOR OF SYRIA-07- THE FISH GODDESS-08- A PRAYER TO DAGON-09- THE DAUGHTER OF DERKETO-10- A MASTER'S KISS-11- THEY THAT DEPART AND HE THAT IS LEFT BEHIND-12- THE EAGLET NURSED BY DOVES-13- THE LIFTING OF A TAX-14- THE SANDAL AND THE STRAWS-15- THE SORROWS OF A KING-16- THE SKIN OF A ONE-EYED LION-17- THE TURN OF A WOMAN'S TONGUE-18- AN ARMY ON THE MARCH-19- THE PASS OF THE WEDGE-20- IN THE SHADOW OF ZARIASPA-21- THE RAISIN IN A SKIN OF VINEGAR-22- THE STRATAGEM-23- THE FLIGHT-24- THE RIDDLE OF THE SECRET WAY-25- WHO RULETH, FIRST MUST RISE-26- THE SIEGE-27- THE CITADEL-28- SHIFTING THE BURDEN-29- THE PASSING OF A MAN-30- A PATH WHICH LED TO ITS STARTING POINT-31- THE CRY OF THE TIGRESS TO HER MATE-32- WHEN A WOMAN RULED THE WORLD-33- THE DESERT AND THE KING-34- THE CROWNING OF THE DEAD-35- A WAR QUEEN'S PROPHECY

The existing history of Assyria’s greatest ruler, Semiramis, is so confounded with the religions and superstitions of the ancients that little or no authentic fact may be gleaned therefrom. Again, these legends were handed down from father to son among the Syrians and imaginative Persians, till finally recorded by the more imaginative Greeks. These latter gentlemen seemed seldom to allow mere truth to stand as a stumbling block in their literary paths, but leaped it nimbly for the entertainment of an admiring world. As for poets, they ever sing of Queen Semiramis at a period of her seasoned age and wickedness, though her "devilish beauty" continued to abide with her, being wielded as an evil scepter o'er the souls of men; yet much must be forgiven in a poet, because of that strange inaptitude of truth for a friendly relationship with meter and with rhyme.

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