A D Jones

The Illustrated American Biography: Containing the Correct Portraits and Brief Notices of the Principal Actors in American History ... A D Jones

Publisher Marketing: Title: The illustrated American biography: containing the correct portraits and brief notices of the principal actors in American history ... Author: A D JonesPublisher: 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: SABCP01736300CollectionID: CTRG95-B3044PublicationDate: 18530101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: "Complete in six volumes. Each volume will contain one hundred portraits and be divided into three parts ..."Collation: 264 p.: ports.; 28 cm Contributor Bio:  Jones, A D A. D. Jones was born in 1920 in Atoka, Oklahoma. He grew up in the generation following the one portrayed in Aaron Nash: A Reason To Live. Mr. Jones lived through times of great economic and social change. Early on, his family traveled west to settle in northern Arizona. Not long before World War II, the family moved again to Berkeley, California, and he transferred to UC Berkeley, then worked in the shipyards. After the war, he built and for many years ran a construction business in Reno, Nevada. He has hiked, hunted and fished in much of the West. He has bred and raced thoroughbred horses and earned a pilot s license and scuba diving certification. Mr. Jones has two daughters and now lives in a retirement community in the foothills of the Coastal Range, south of San Francisco. He writes and occasionally enjoys a day at the races or a night on the town.