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books on: Missionary Ridge  - 590 results

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1.
Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West
Book by William L. Shea, Earl J. Hess; University of North Carolina Press, 1992
Subjects: Pea Ridge, Battle Of, 1862
...this reunion are located in the Bragg Reservation atop Missionary Ridge in Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park...Frost, "Frosts State Secret." 2. Harwood, Pea Ridge Campaign , 6. 3. Dodge, Battle of Atlanta , 31...
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John Rollin Ridge: His Life & Works
Book by James W. Parins; University of Nebraska Press, 1991
Subjects: Authors, American--19th Century--Biography, Cherokee Indians--Biography, Indian Authors--Biography, Ridge, John Rollin--1827-1867
...champion the cause of the missionaries, especially their educational...the ABCFM requesting that a missionary school be established near...of the Cornwall school. Ridge said that Northrup had served...and myself." 13 To John Ridge, it is clear, education...survive. By this time the Ridges were fairly prosperous. Major Ridge ran a large farm, held a...
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Blue Ridge Folklife
Book by Ted Olson; University Press of Mississippi, 1998
Subjects: Blue Ridge Mountains--Social Life And Customs, Country Life--Blue Ridge Mountains Region, Folklore--Blue Ridge Mountains, Folklore--Virginia
...organizations emerged in the Blue Ridge, part of an effort to promote...organizations, suggesting their mix of missionary zeal and economic self-determination...orders for traditional Blue Ridge crafts increased, several...foods and drinks of the Blue Ridge are here categorized as material...
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Being Lakota: Identity and Tradition on Pine Ridge Reservation
Book by Larissa Petrillo, Melda Trejo, Lupe Trejo; University of Nebraska Press, 2007
Subjects: Dakota Indians--South Dakota--Pine Ridge Indian Reservation--Ethnic Identity, Dakota Indians--South Dakota--Pine Ridge Indian Reservation--History, Dakota Indians--South Dakota--Pine Ridge Indian Reservation--Social Life And Customs, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)--History, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)--Social Life And Customs
...eloped together. They got married in Church of God. Its a missionary church. Church of God was a Lakota missionary church that came to Scottsbluff and everybody was going...didnt have no church, so we just set that up. The Indian missionaries bor- row a church. And years later, they start building...
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Father Francis M. Craft, Missionary to the Sioux
Book by Thomas W. Foley; University of Nebraska Press, 2002
Subjects: Catholic Church--Clergy--Biography, Craft, Francis M, Dakota Indians--Missions--History, Missionaries--West (U.S.)--Biography
...of Father Craft, the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Agencies were...J.,? the noted Jesuit missionary, was the first Catho- lic...Territory, exploring its missionary potential, envisioning another...years, and still no Catholic missionary activity was evident. With...
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journal articles on: Missionary Ridge  - 157 results

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Narratives of the Encounter at Ntaria
Journal article by Diane Austin-Broos; Oceania, Vol. 65, 1994
Subjects: Australian aborigines--Personal narratives, Missionaries--Personal narratives, Narration (Rhetoric)--Analysis
...They follow along ridge tracing with her stick...Missed Hermannsburg. Missionary didnt know. Relha...bushes watching the missionaries. Missionary ask im, Wheres the...voice imitating the missionaries. Finally they see...base of the mountain ridges either side of Missionary Plain. Then they...
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Millet Is Gone! Considering the Demise of Eleusine Agriculture on Kilimanjaro*
Journal article by Matthew V. Bender; The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 44, 2011
Subjects: Agriculture, Alcoholism, Centuries, Coffee, Crops, Farmers, Irrigation, Missionaries, Scholars, Society, Studies
...as resistance to alcohol from the missionaries, one might be tempted to conclude...colonial rule, the Catholic and Lutheran missionaries challenged many of the existing practices...membership in the community. Lutheran missionary Bruno Gutmann described what he claimed...been sealed by the rise of baptism. Missionaries vehemently opposed initiation for...
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Edward Sorin
Journal article by Earl Boyea; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 89, 2003
Subjects: Biographies, Colleges & universities, Missionaries, Nonfiction, O Connell, Marvin R, Sorin, Edward
...of Father Sorin. After an initial settlement at Black Oak Ridge, west of Washington, Indiana, Sorin accepted in late 1842...then adjust it to suit his needs" (p. 247). Sorin was a missionary seeking to keep the Catholic faith alive in a Protestant land...
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The Sins of the Fathers: Clifton Rodes Breckinridge Remembers the Civil War
Journal article by James Duane Bolin; Civil War History, Vol. 44, 1998
Subjects: Breckinridge, Clifton Rodes--Records and correspondence, Breckinridge, John C.--Family, Lexington, Kentucky--History, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
...from his own blunderings at Missionary Ridge. Historians have pondered Braggs...record as to Braggs behaviour at Missionary Ridge and the united action of his...battles of Murfreesboro and Missionary Ridge. I enclose a copy of that conversation...
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Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865
Journal article by Robert L. Paquette; Journal of Social History, Vol. 39, 2006
Subjects: Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865 (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...Grants own sizeable expectations. Missionary Ridge extends for several miles south...the Confederate performance at Missionary Ridge a disgrace, "a panic...had thought their position on Missionary Ridge was impregnable, Grant...
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magazine articles on: Missionary Ridge  - 52 results

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Missionary Man
Magazine article by Bosto Rob; Church & State, Vol. 52, April 1999
Subjects: Coral Ridge Ministries--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc., Johnson, Phillip--Attitudes, Proffitt, Benny--Attitudes, Religion and state--Social aspects, Religious Right (American politics)--Social aspects
MISSIONARY MAN. by Bosto Rob TV Preacher D. James...system in the name of Jesus. During Coral Ridge Ministries Feb. 26-27 "Reclaiming America...executive director of Exodus 2000, on Coral Ridge Ministries "Truths That Transform" radio...
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The Legacy of Johann Ludwig Krapf
Magazine article by M. Louise Pirouet; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 23, April 1999
Subjects: Africa, Anglican Church-Kenya, History, Krapf, Johann Ludwig (1810-81), Missionaries, Personal profiles, Protestantism
...and Krapf, Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society was...Rabai, on a ridge a few miles...Of all the missionaries sent out to...18 Both missionaries became widely...for their missionary work or for...
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On the Rez: The Writer, an Admirer of Indian Traditions of Freedom and Heroism, Visits an Old Friend on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Explores the Place, and Discovers a Modern-Day Indian Hero
Magazine article by Ian Frazier; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 284, December 1999
Subjects: Crow, SuAnne Big, Dakotas (Native Americans), Lance, Le War, Native American culture, United States history
...Heroism, Visits an Old Friend on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Explores the Place, and...OGLALA SIOUX Indians who live on the Pine Ridge Reservatiton, in southwestern South Dakota...field near the town of Oglala, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, and I see my friend Floyd...
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On the Rez: The Writer, an Admirer of Indian Traditions of Freedom and Heroism, Visits an Old Friend on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Explores the Place, and Discovers a Modern-Day Indian Hero
Magazine article by Ian Frazier; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 284, December 1999
Subjects: Native American reservations, Native Americans--Reservations, Oglalas--Social aspects
...Heroism, Visits an Old Friend on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Explores the Place, and...Oglala Sioux Indians who live on the Pine Ridge Reservation, in southwestern South Dakota...field near the town of Oglala, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, and I see my friend Floyd...
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Kwame Bediako and Christian Scholarship in Africa
Magazine article by Andrew F. Walls; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 32, October 2008
Subjects: Africa, African history, Christians, Language, Religion, Religious missions, Theology
...recognize scholarship as itself a missionary vocation. His new life brought...God always goes before his missionaries. Over the years that followed...and to the pastorate of the Ridge Church in Accra. In colonial times Ridge Church had been the church...left Aberdeen. When he left Ridge Church in 1987, he found...
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newspaper articles on: Missionary Ridge  - 78 results

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'Eat, Pray, Love' Part of West Ridge Worship Series
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 3, 2011
Eat, Pray, Love Part of West Ridge Worship Series. More listings on church...appear in Saturdays Neighbor section. West Ridge Community: On Sunday, June 5, the Rev...Pleasure" at 9 and 11 a.m. at West Ridge Community Church, 3300 Encounter Lane...
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Douglas MacArthur's Dad Equally Brave
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 25, 2006
Subjects: MacArthur, Arthur, Soldiers
...charge up the steep slope of Missionary Ridge near Chattanooga, Tenn. The...center of the Confederate line on Missionary Ridge. After seizing Confederate...bore the standard to the top of Missionary Ridge. State Historical Society of...
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Thomas Shows He's No Slacker in Taking Offensive
Newspaper article by Robert Meiser; The Washington Times, January 8, 2000
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., Sherman, William Tecumseh
...defeated him at Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. Significantly, Thomas army was...himself stranded on a hill before the ridge. Thomas was then ordered to advance...continued without orders up and over Missionary Ridge, routing the defenders...
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Rosecrans Remains Unsung Strategic 'Genius'
Newspaper article by David G. Moore, Conn F. Sheehan; The Washington Times, November 7, 1998
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S.
...eventually defeated Bragg at Missionary Ridge. But it was Rosecrans who had...steamboats to carry it out. As for Missionary Ridge, it was the Army of the...without orders and won the day. Missionary Ridge was a battle won by soldiers...
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Chickamauga Retreat Ends Negley's Career
Newspaper article by Steven Bernstein; The Washington Times, September 2, 2000
...more than two miles to the rear, toward Missionary Ridge, clogging Dry Valley Road. Included in...managed to gather them on a long, high ridge overlooking Dyer Field and called Horseshoe Ridge. There, Thomas was making a stand against...
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encyclopedia articles on: Missionary Ridge  - 6 results

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Missionary Ridge
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MISSIONARY RIDGE see Chattanooga campaign . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Chattanooga Campaign
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Chattanooga. Bragg then took up a position extending along Missionary Ridge across Chattanooga Valley to Lookout Mt. and laid...Nov. 25, Sherman could make no headway against Missionary Ridge from its northern end, so Grant ordered the center...
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Chattanooga
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...almost entirely surrounded by mountains, with many historical and tourist attractions on or near Lookout Mt., Missionary Ridge, and Signal Mt. To the west of the city, the Tennessee River cuts through the Cumberland Plateau in a magnificent...
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Sheridan, Philip Henry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...George H. Thomas in holding off the Confederates at Chickamauga and had a prominent part in the Union victory at Missionary Ridge. Ulysses S. Grant recognized his ability and appointed Sheridan commander of the cavalry corps of the Army of the...
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Hardee, William Joseph
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in October and was an able corps commander in the Army of Tennessee, fighting at Perryville, Murfreesboro, and Missionary Ridge and in the Atlanta campaign . He commanded against General Sherman in Georgia and South Carolina (1864 65), abandoning...
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