Bill Aspinwall (23 results)

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Ladies' man. Child soldier. Civil War hero. Egotist. Tramp. Drunkard. Published author. Roving Bill Aspinwall: Dispatches from a Hobo in Post-Civil War America tells the story of an American hobo entirely in his own words.William 'Roving Bill' Aspinwall was all of these things and yet no lone descriptor does him justice. Born one of 23 siblings, married 5 times, wounded fighting for the Union in one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War, kicked out of numerous jobs and soldiers' homes for drunkenness, and having spent decades wandering as a penniless vagabond, Bill also kept up a 24-year correspondence with John James McCook, Professor of Modern Languages at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. In so doing Bill provided the earliest and best account of life on the road by an American hobo.Written between 1893 and 1917, Roving Bill Aspinwall: Dispatches from a Hobo in Post-Civil War America tells Bill's story entirely in his own words. Describing experiences on the road, the people he meets, his dalliances with women and his memories of the Civil War, the letters are a rich and unique correspondence. Having been physically and mentally scarred at the 1863 Battle of Champion Hill, Bill details his lifelong battle with booze. He also gives first-hand accounts of men thrown out of work during the economic Panic of 1893, of wandering around the country as an itinerant umbrella-mender, of working in factories, farms and even a circus, as well as his visit to the St. Louis World's Fair in 1903. Bill's words are the real voice of a nineteenth-century hobo.…

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorRoving Bill Aspinwall (1845-1921) was born one of 23 siblings, married 5 times, wounded fighting for the Union in one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War, kicked out of numerous jobs and solders homes f.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Roving Bill Aspinwall | Dispatches from a Hobo in Post-Civil War America | Bill Aspinwall | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2022 | Feral House | EAN 9781627311229 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. viii, 253 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. ; LCCN 76384047 LC F292.W3 J67 Dewey 929.3758756 OCLC 2894208 ; blue cloth with gold lettering, knocked ; no dustjacket ; Contents: Creation of Wayne County -- Court sites -- Establishment of post offices and post roads -- Chartered towns, Revolutionary War veterans -- Altamaha vignettes of places and peopple -- Rotogravure -- Flora of Wayne -- arriage licenses 1809-1900 -- Post Offices -- Census 1820-1880 -- Confederate records -- Registered voters 1892 -- Tax payers - 1909 -- World War I registrations -- County officers -- Marked graves -- Wills -- Bibliography -- Court sites - continued -- Index ; scarce ; G. Book.…

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