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Carried West: One American Family's Journey Through Famine, War, and the American Frontier

by Parker Corbett
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781971207322
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Unbound Press Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Unbound Press Books
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 314
  • Original Price: USD 48.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 735 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): United States / 20th Century

Before there were legends of the West, there were people carried there by famine, war, poverty, and chance.

An Irish couple escapes hardship and lands in the brutal immigrant districts of New York. A child is swept into the orphan train movement and sent into an uncertain future. A teenage drummer marches into the carnage of the Civil War. On the Kansas prairie, settlers, railroad men, widows, dreamers, and survivors try to build lives on contested ground.In the nineteenth century, millions were uprooted by famine, war, poverty, and expansion. Among them was one family whose journey would mirror the making of America itself.

Carried West traces a remarkable true story across generations: from Irish hardship and immigration to New York's crowded streets, from the orphan train era to Civil War battlefields, from Bleeding Kansas to the rise of frontier towns shaped by railroads, ambition, and survival.

Through the intertwined lives of parents, children, soldiers, laborers, and settlers, this deeply researched narrative reveals how national events were experienced at ground level-through separation, sacrifice, resilience, and reinvention.

Both sweeping and intimate, Carried West is narrative nonfiction that combines the emotional pull of family saga with the scale of American history.

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