Thomas L Smith

Chronicles of Turkeytown, Or, the Works of Jeremy Peters. First Series: Containing the History of a Dreadful Catastrophe, the Amours of Dr. Post and M Thomas L Smith

Publisher Marketing: Title: Chronicles of Turkeytown, or, The works of Jeremy Peters. First series: containing The history of a dreadful catastrophe, The amours of Dr. Post and Mrs. Peweetle, and The history of a tatterdemalion. Author: Thomas L SmithPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U. S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03200200CollectionID: CTRG00-B221PublicationDate: 18290101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Collation: 238 p Contributor Bio:  Smith, Thomas L There were five children in my family, along with a dog, a cat, two horses, twenty chickens, a boa constrictor, a parrot and a monkey. In my late teens a fairly normal childhood was interrupted when our parents died in a plane crash on the way to a party. A few years later, after a suspension from college, the army drafted me. Life seemed to be going from bad to worse so I tried to turn it around by learning to fly helicopters while I was in the service. That didn't seem like such a good idea after I got shot down and seriously injured in Vietnam. However, when I moved to Alaska things got better. I fell in love with the wilderness, flying among the tall mountains, and a girl named Kathy. Then PTSD entered my life. Over the course of twenty-five years the disorder did everything but kill me. But from chaos came life in the form of our two sons, and meaning in measure of the books I have written.