The Resource Our family dreams : the Fletchers' adventures in nineteenth-century America, Daniel B. Smith
Our family dreams : the Fletchers' adventures in nineteenth-century America, Daniel B. Smith
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The item Our family dreams : the Fletchers' adventures in nineteenth-century America, Daniel B. Smith represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library.
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- Summary
- "In the early years after the Revolution, Americans were on the move, seeking to establish a new way of life. And, more than the church or the school or the courthouse, it was the family that nurtured the American Dream. In this novel-like narrative, Daniel Blake Smith vividly brings to life the Fletchers, a family of loving, ambitious, at times insecure pioneers who scattered across the vast expanse of post-revolutionary America but kept in touch through letters despite their wildly different life paths. On a hard scrabble farm in Vermont, the patriarch, Jesse Fletcher, struggled with debt and depression but managed to educate his children, especially his son Elijah, a Yankee who moved to Virginia, shocked by the horrors of slavery but then seduced by the plantation lifestyle. Another son, Calvin, left at age 17 for Indianapolis to become a self-made lawyer, banker, and a prominent citizen and passionate abolitionist. The grandchildren include Indiana, a women's education activist who donated her home to create Sweet Briar College; black sheep Lucian, who went to California to join in the gold rush; and physician Billy captured as a spy during the Civil War. Through letters and diaries, we find that the Fletchers appear surprisingly similar to us; they dream, fret, fight, and love. Despite numerous heartaches and setbacks, their spirit of enterprise, sacrifice, mobility, and education endures as American values to this day"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 275 p.
- Contents
-
- Beginnings
- Heading West
- Settling In
- "The Best Fortune We Can Give Our Children"
- Public Life
- Calamities
- War and Loyalty
- Legacies
- Isbn
- 9781137279811
- Label
- Our family dreams : the Fletchers' adventures in nineteenth-century America
- Title
- Our family dreams
- Title remainder
- the Fletchers' adventures in nineteenth-century America
- Statement of responsibility
- Daniel B. Smith
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In the early years after the Revolution, Americans were on the move, seeking to establish a new way of life. And, more than the church or the school or the courthouse, it was the family that nurtured the American Dream. In this novel-like narrative, Daniel Blake Smith vividly brings to life the Fletchers, a family of loving, ambitious, at times insecure pioneers who scattered across the vast expanse of post-revolutionary America but kept in touch through letters despite their wildly different life paths. On a hard scrabble farm in Vermont, the patriarch, Jesse Fletcher, struggled with debt and depression but managed to educate his children, especially his son Elijah, a Yankee who moved to Virginia, shocked by the horrors of slavery but then seduced by the plantation lifestyle. Another son, Calvin, left at age 17 for Indianapolis to become a self-made lawyer, banker, and a prominent citizen and passionate abolitionist. The grandchildren include Indiana, a women's education activist who donated her home to create Sweet Briar College; black sheep Lucian, who went to California to join in the gold rush; and physician Billy captured as a spy during the Civil War. Through letters and diaries, we find that the Fletchers appear surprisingly similar to us; they dream, fret, fight, and love. Despite numerous heartaches and setbacks, their spirit of enterprise, sacrifice, mobility, and education endures as American values to this day"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Smith, Daniel Blake
- Dewey number
-
- 973.5092/2
- B
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Fletcher family
- Fletcher, Jesse
- Fletcher family
- Fletcher family
- Pioneers
- United States
- HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
- Label
- Our family dreams : the Fletchers' adventures in nineteenth-century America, Daniel B. Smith
- Contents
- Beginnings -- Heading West -- Settling In -- "The Best Fortune We Can Give Our Children" -- Public Life -- Calamities -- War and Loyalty -- Legacies
- Control code
- BK0017581046
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- x, 275 p.
- Isbn
- 9781137279811
- Lccn
- 2015028245
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Label
- Our family dreams : the Fletchers' adventures in nineteenth-century America, Daniel B. Smith
- Contents
- Beginnings -- Heading West -- Settling In -- "The Best Fortune We Can Give Our Children" -- Public Life -- Calamities -- War and Loyalty -- Legacies
- Control code
- BK0017581046
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- x, 275 p.
- Isbn
- 9781137279811
- Lccn
- 2015028245
- Other physical details
- ill.
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