The Same Great Struggle: The History of the Vickery Family of Unity, Maine, 1634-1997

by Andrea Constantine Hawkes

Overview

In the late 1800s the ninth generation of Vickerys expanded the family network to the Montana and Wyoming borderlands, and their stories of pioneer ranching and mining mirror the entrepreneurial spirit of their colonial ancestors, Hawkes keeps a keen historian's eye on the facts while weaving a fascinating tale.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780884482512
Publisher:	Tilbury House Distr
Publication date:	06/01/2003
Pages:	322
Product dimensions:	6.07(w) x 8.79(h) x 0.85(d)
Age Range:	10 Years

About the Author

Andrea Constantine Hawkes is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Maine. Her specialty is nineteenth-century United States history, as well as New England regional, and women’s studies. She co-edited The Civil War Recollections of General Ellis Spear, and edited and wrote an interpretative essay for The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife, the autobiography of Connie Scovill Small.

What People are Saying About This

Alan Taylor

Through the revealing prism of the Vickerys and their town, Andrea Hawkes astutely illuminates the power of both place and family heritage in the making of Maine's culture. (Alan Taylor, Professor of History, University of California at Davis; author of Liberty Men and Great Proprietors, and William Cooper's Town, winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

Editorial Reviews

...a well-written and enjoyable book that says much about the making of the United States.
— Maine Sunday Telegram

William David Barry