Stagecoach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle

Stagecoach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle

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Stagecoach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle

A comprehensive study, both light-hearted and serious, of the enormous role of taverns and modes of travel in colonial culture. Some of the chapters discuss the Puritan ordinary, the tavern landlord, tavern fare and tavern ways, signs and symbols, the tav
Earle, Alice Morse: - Alice Morse Earle (1851 - 1911) was an American historian and bestselling author born in Worcester, Massachusetts. When she was 23, she married and moved to New York. She began to write shortly before she turned forty. Unlike many historians of the time, Earle wrote about small sociological details rather than grand events, providing valuable insights into America's Colonial era. Earle spent all of her adult life in Brooklyn Heights, New York with her husband and four children, where she enjoyed tending her garden.
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ISBN 13 9780486225180
ISBN 10 0486225186
Title Stagecoach and Tavern Days
Author Alice Morse Earle
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Dover Publications Inc.
Year published 1969-01-01
Number of pages 449
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