Story that begins, "Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill Mountains"
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Literature of the Hudson River Valley - Desmond-Fish Library  "Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill Mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are...
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Rip Van Winkle - the text - TeacherWeb  ... in the early times of the province, just about the beginning of the government of the ... shoot marbles, and told them long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians.
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What is the setting of "Rip Van Winkle"? What feature of the place ...  Jan 27, 2016 ... At the beginning of Washington Irving's tale "Rip Van Winkle" the narrator offers a description of the story's setting by detailing geographical...
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WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the  I mostly remember the calculations and the starting part of each course, but ... his African family. a history of the West Indian slave trade. stories of early slavery in...
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Rip Van Winkle - American Studies @ The University of Virginia  "Oh he went off to the army in the beginning of the war; some say he was killed .... "The story of Rip Van Winkle may seem incredible to many, but nevertheless I...
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Explorers for Kids: Henry Hudson - Ducksters  Henry set sail on his first expedition in May of 1607. His boat was called the ... He sailed north up the coast of Greenland and to an island called Spitsbergen.
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John Greenleaf Whittier - Kouroo Contexture  There waits below for the hangman's work ... With him went many passengers, both of New and Old England, Friends, ... of England, and that they would deliver their message to no one but ... attack would be made against the Ossipee and would draw the Penobscot and Kennebec ...... OUR fellow-countrymen in chains!
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Pennsylvania 1630-1700 - USHistory.org  In 1609, Henry Hudson sailed into Delaware Bay, thus giving the Dutch their claim to the ... In 1610 Virginian Captain Samuel Argall visited Delaware Bay (he named it for ... a patent to explore the Delaware region more thoroughly and Dutch trading ... This marks the first permanent settlement by Europeans in Pennsylvania.
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Henry Hudson and His Crew Sailed into the River that Would Bear ...  How did the Hudson River in New York and New Jersey get its name? On the misty morning of September 3, 1609, explorer Henry Hudson and his crew aboard...
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Hudson River Genealogy - FamilySearch Wiki  Jan 30, 2015 ... The original Erie Canal, opened in 1825 to connect the Hudson with Lake Erie, ... The river is named after Henry Hudson, an Englishman sailing for the Dutch ... Company, the waterway was a major travel route for Native Americans. ... The Hudson River is an often-used term to describe much of the most...
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Thomas James North-West Passage expedition 163132 | Explore ...  Thomas James's 1631 voyage to find the North-West Passage became ... the Henrietta Maria's ordeal inspired Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic poem The Rime...
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The Wilderness Road - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  In 1775, the now-legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone blazed a trail through the Cumberland Gapa notch in the Appalachian Mountains located near the intersection of Kentucky, Virginia and Tennesseethrough the interior of Kentucky and to the Ohio River.
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Henry Hudson - Exploration - HISTORY.com  English explorer Henry Hudson was determined to find the Northwest Passage ... Henry Hudson made his first voyage west from England in 1607, when he was hired ... The following year, Hudson made a second Muscovy-funded voyage between ... They traveled up the river about 150 miles, to what is now Albany, before...
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro - CliffsNotes  Hemingway opens this story with a typical Hemingway narrative device: Two people are ... Hemingway zeroes in on the immediate problem: Harry's certain death ... and readers don't yet know the names of the characters, the place, the time, ..... and the other, when the plane lifts off and heads toward Mount Kilimanjaro.
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The Story of My Life. - Digital Library Project  One of my Swiss ancestors was the first teacher of the deaf in Zurich and wrote a .... The impulse gone, I fell down and cried for her to take me up in her arms. ...... time to know an author, to recognize his style as I recognize the clasp of a friend's hand. ... the home of Washington Irving, where I walked through "Sleepy Hollow.
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Henry Hudson's Third Voyage, 1609: The New World  Jan 19, 2007 ... Hudson explored the northeastern coast of America, eventually sailing ... He hoped the river - now named the Hudson River - would provide a ... sailed with Hudson previously as mate, and would again in 1610. ... away from his voyage north to sail across the ocean and explore the coast of the New World.
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French Connections - Pilgrim Hall Museum  The first, a tale of adventure, is Frenchman Samuel de Champlain's ... The second encounter, a tale of romance, is the Cape Cod shipwreck of French ... Champlain arrived in the area we know as Plymouth in the summer of 1605, and ... One happy exception is the story of Francis LeBaron (1668-1704) who ... Thacher wrote:.
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Fulton's First Steamboat Voyage, 1807 - EyeWitness to History  Eyewitness account of Fulton's first voyage from New York to Albany. ... In 1802 Fulton contracted with Robert Livingstone to build a steamboat that would ply the Hudson River. ... By August 1807, Fulton's boat was ready for a trial run from New York City to ... Twenty-four hours later the intrepid adventurers arrived at Robert...
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https://ia902609.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages ...  Looking for Alaska quote MY FAVORITE BOOK OF ALL TIME SAID the pinner before me. This is .... I go to seek the great perhaps-last words of Franois Rabelais as ... Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel 16th century novel by Francois Rabelais ... Paper Towns by John Green<<< so many people get his quotes mixed up!
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The Story of Samoset - Bog Bit  Dec 19, 2010 ... Even though the trans-Atlantic journey of the pilgrims was filled with many dangers, ... who stunned the new settlers the following March by boldly walking into the ... Then he greeted the settlers with the words, Welcome Englishmen. ... the English language much better than either Samoset or Massassoit.
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The Pioneers (novel) - Wikipedia  The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel by ... This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. ... Leatherstocking and his closest friend, the Mohican Indian Chingachgook, begin to...