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  Theodore Winthrop. Saddle and Canoe... - Russian Bookstore: Travel, History, Language
Theodore Winthrop went off and got himself killed in the Civil War before he could ever fully develop the raw brilliance of his writing talents.
Winthrop's work expresses all the grit and honestly one would expect from an adventure traveler's diary, where a man chose to travel alone amongst the native populations and immerse himself in their culture.
Winthrop also had a tremendous vision of the fateful changes that were soon to befall the region, for better or for worse, and he expresses them with a magnificent range of vocabulary and fluidity of composition.
www.fabrussia.com /books-essays-travelogues/072/theodore-winthrop-saddle-and-canoe.htm   (270 words)

  
  Guardian Unlimited | Arts critics | Splendid isolation
Winthrop lived in New York, but was descended in "an unbroken line of Winthrop males" (as the catalogue of a new show at London's National Gallery ripely puts it) from Governor John Winthrop of the 17th-century Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Winthrop's collection may not be as lunatic as some of the relics of America's passion for all things old and European, but there is some thing peculiar about his obsessions, not least with the Renaissance as a savage spectacle.
Winthrop must have savoured the malevolent shade of Lucrezia Borgia, the wicked Renaissance beauty, who was said to have slept with all her brothers and her father - the Pope.
www.guardian.co.uk /arts/critic/feature/0,1169,990021,00.html   (1414 words)

  
 Chapter 4: Our Judaeo-Christian Heritage in Non-Episcopal
Winthrop did not favor an enlargement of the suffrage, which was limited to the Regenerate accepted as church members or "Brethren," who constituted the true "church." These would vote in the same parish "meeting house" depending upon whether the matters under decision were sacred or secular.
For Winthrop there was no need for any sharp limit on magistrates, since both their godliness (they had to be church members) as well as annual elections assured no danger for either the Freemen or the larger population of the unenfranchised.
Winthrop himself wondered whether a new colony should be strict in punishments to set the example or whether they should be lenient because people would be more inclined to transgress.
www.wsu.edu /~tcook/doc/RAPT/Chapt4.html   (16024 words)

  
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Theodore Roosevelt, on the contrary, was born in New York City, enjoyed every advantage in education and training; his family had been for many generations respected in the city; his father was cultivated and had distinction as a citizen, who devoted his wealth and his energies to serving his fellow men.
Theodore, whom one of his fellow travelers on the steamer remembers as "a tall thin lad with bright eyes and legs like pipestems," developed rapidly in mind, but the asthma still tormented him and threatened to make a permanent invalid of him.
Theodore's friends, on the other hand, advised him against accepting the appointment, because, they said, it would shelve him, politically, use up his brains which ought to be spent on higher work, and allow the country which was just beginning to know him to forget his existence.
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 Saddle and Canoe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Theodore Winthrop went off and got himself killed in the Civil War before he could ever fully develop the raw brilliance of his writing talents.
Winthrop's work expresses all the grit and honestly one would expect from an adventure traveler's diary, where a man chose to travel alone amongst the native populations and immerse himself in their culture.
Winthrop also had a tremendous vision of the fateful changes that were soon to befall the region, for better or for worse, and he expresses them with a magnificent range of vocabulary and fluidity of composition.
www.lookupbooks.com /History/1590480643-Saddle-and-Canoe.asp   (248 words)

  
 The Vault at Pfaff's - Biographies - Individuals
Winthrop’s name was “one of the few really historic names in this country” (7); he was descended from John Winthrop, the first Governor of Connecticut, who obtained the charter of rights for the colonists; on his mother’s side he counted six college presidents (7-8).
Winthrop’s career included stints as a tutor and a staff member at a counting-house; he also earned his law degree and practiced briefly in St. Louis and New York before ultimately settling down to write novels, tales, travel accounts, and journals.
After the attack on Fort Sumter, Winthrop eagerly enlisted in the artillery corps of the Seventh Regiment as did O’Brien; Winthrop was soon made the acting military secretary and aid to General Butler.
digital.lib.lehigh.edu /pfaffs/people/individuals/142   (1149 words)

  
 NYU and the Village: Featured Voices/Theodore Winthrop
Theodore Winthrop was a curious young man whose literary career began late in his short life.
In his memoir of Winthrop, George William Curtis, a close friend, describes Theodore as "thoughtful and self-criticising, he was peculiarly sensible to religious influences, and his sensitive nature grew sometimes morbid." The use of "morbid" in this description is peculiar and may indicate that Winthrop was attracted to men.
During this period, Winthrop, along with many artists, writers, and intellectuals, lived in the NYU University Building that provides the backdrop for Cecil Dreeme, his gothic novel about sexual ambiguity that is set in and around Washington Square and NYU.
www.nyu.edu /library/bobst/collections/exhibits/bobst/washsq/voices/volumes/cdreeme/html/CD_int.HTM   (728 words)

  
 §3. Theodore Winthrop. XI. The Later Novel: Howells. Vol. 17. Later National Literature, Part II. The Cambridge ...
Less close to Cooper was another novelist who fought in the Civil War, and gave his life in one of the earliest battles, Theodore Winthrop (1828–61).
Of a stock as eminent in New England and New York as Cooke’s in Virginia, Winthrop had a more cosmopolitan upbringing than Cooke: after Yale he travelled in Europe, in the American tropics, in California while the gold fever was still new, and in the North-west.
4 Time might, it is urged, have made Winthrop the legitimate successor of Hawthorne, but in fact he progressed little beyond the qualities of Brockden Brown, whom he considerably resembles in his strenuous nativism, his melodramatic plots, his abnormal characters, his command over the mysterious, and his breathless style.
www.bartleby.com /227/0403.html   (388 words)

  
 Theodore Winthrop at AllExperts
Theodore Winthrop (1828 - 1861), novelist, lawyer, and world traveler, was born at New Haven, Connecticut, USA, and wasdescended through his father from Governor John Winthrop, and through his mother from Jonathan Edwards.
After a Federal attack to the enemy right flank was foiled, Major Winthrop lead an ill-fated assault on the Confederate left held by four companies of the 1st Regiment North Carolina Infantry, under the command of Colonel (later Lieutenant General) Daniel Harvey Hill.
Winthrop's novels, for which he had failed to find a publisher, appeared posthumously--John Brent, founded on his experiences in the far West, Edwin Brothertoft, a story of the Revolution War, and Cecil Dreeme.
en.allexperts.com /e/t/th/theodore_winthrop.htm   (358 words)

  
 kitsapsun.com: Books
Its author, Theodore Winthrop, was a Puritan descendant and a Yale graduate, whose temper was as quick as his beard was red.
Winthrop, posthumously, became one of the most popular American authors during the war and on into the 1870s.
Beyond that, Winthrop’s tales of his interactions with his Indian guides add up to a series of candid snapshots, woefully condescending and unenlightened from our 21st century point of view, but certainly indicative of the time and of the mistrust that permeated every interaction between Native Americans and whites.
www.kitsapsun.com /bsun/fe_books/article/0,2403,BSUN_19070_5211419,00.html   (509 words)

  
 Village of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois
Theodore Martes, 40776 Black Oak, Antioch, IL presented.
Sandra Rhodes, 4019 9th Street, Winthrop Harbor, addressed the board and stated that her daughter, Shelley, owns property at 111 Thompson, which is immediately west of the property in question.
Rhodes further commented that when another adjoining lot was developed, that the fill added to the site increased the flooding in her daughter's back yard.
www.winthropharbor.com /pzminutes/pzminutes_2005_01_11.asp   (1687 words)

  
 Your Okanogan Country vacation starts here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Winthrop, settled in the late 1800s and incorporated in 1924, adopted its Old West theme in 1969 and is a must-see for folks traveling in the Methow Valley.
Winthrop is named for Theodore Winthrop, an early day explorer.
Information: Winthrop Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Information Center, which is open from mid April through mid-October, 1 (888) 4-METHOW (463-8469) or info@winthropwashington.com; www.winthropwashington.com.
www.okanoganvacation.com /vacation/winthrop.shtml   (273 words)

  
 Whatcom Watch, May 1998
But for all of Winthrop's glorious vision and all of Egan's vast appreciation, there is still an overwhelming frustration permeating "The Good Rain," for Winthrop's prophecy of a new Avalon is far from realized; instead of nature directing civilization, man has beaten the land into submission to his demands.
Winthrop saw the beginning of a cultural shift from the East to the West; now the age of the Pacific, long foretold by Winthrop and others, is coming upon us.
Winthrop left a description of an unspoiled land, and with it a glorious vision for the future.
www.whatcomwatch.org /old_issues/v7i5.html   (13120 words)

  
 NPS Publications: Mount Rainier: Its Human History Associations (Early American Exploration)
Theodore Winthrop, descendant of Governor Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay Colony, visited the Northwest in 1853, and wrote an account of his experiences, "in a book which seems destined to remain the chief classic of our early Northwest." (Williams, 1913, p.
The beauty and grandeur of "Tacoma" was noted frequently by Winthrop on the way up the Puyallup River and across to the White River, where he met some of McClellan's men engaged in the survey of the road.
Winthrop's books is especially felicitous in its descriptions of Mount Rainier and its surroundings.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/berkeley/rensch2/rensch2d.htm   (2316 words)

  
 §3. Theodore Winthrop. XI. The Later Novel: Howells. Vol. 17. Later National Literature, Part II. The Cambridge ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Less close to Cooper was another novelist who fought in the Civil War, and gave his life in one of the earliest battles, Theodore Winthrop (1828–61).
Of a stock as eminent in New England and New York as Cooke’s in Virginia, Winthrop had a more cosmopolitan upbringing than Cooke: after Yale he travelled in Europe, in the American tropics, in California while the gold fever was still new, and in the North-west.
4 Time might, it is urged, have made Winthrop the legitimate successor of Hawthorne, but in fact he progressed little beyond the qualities of Brockden Brown, whom he considerably resembles in his strenuous nativism, his melodramatic plots, his abnormal characters, his command over the mysterious, and his breathless style.
www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/227/0403.html   (389 words)

  
 03SummerGuide
Named for Theodore Winthrop, an adventurer and Yale graduate who passed through the area in the 1850s, the town was platted in 1901, and soon grew to include neighboring Heckendorn.
Winthrop was a bustling frontier town in the early 1900s, supporting a growing population of ranchers, farmers and miners.
The plan was a success, and during the summer, the boardwalks of Winthrop are filled with visitors taking in the essence of the Old West.
www.methow.com /~mv-news/03sum_valleytowns.htm   (1164 words)

  
 The Sunny Side of the Cascades - New York Times
Today the Shafer Museum is a kind of miniature re-creation of the town of yesteryear, with a collection of outbuildings housing a newspaper office, doctor's office, a schoolroom, a grim, dirt-floored homesteader's cabin, and a hodgepodge of buggies, farm tools and mining equipment.
My daughters loved a story I unearthed in a local history of a little girl visiting Barron in 1910 and stumbling on a trunk of fancy dresses that the dance hall ladies had left behind in their hurry to depart when the gold suddenly gave out in 1907.
This was wilderness without the worry or the work: we had arranged the expedition through the extremely competent and pleasant Sawtooth Outfitters and they took care of everything from the horses to the food to the choice of route and campsite.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E7D71139F932A25757C0A96F958260&sec=travel&pagewanted=2   (650 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Theodore Roethke
""Theodore Roethke, who wrote about growing up in a Michigan greenhouse under the command of strict German parents, was an early influence and one I joyfully return to," Alcosser said."I listen to his tapes as I drive back and forth between Florence and Missoula.
Theodore Roethke, Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, and Richard Hugo, Pulitzer Prize nominee for poetry and fiction, were just two of the many people who hung out in the Blue Moon during this time period.
Prime example of this change, in O'Connell's view, is poet Theodore Roethke, the longtime teacher at the University of Washington: "Roethke elaborated a spiritual relationship between people and place based on merging of the self with the environment, bringing man and nature together into a distinct, organic whole.
news.surfwax.com /authors/files/Theodore_Roethke_Book.html   (822 words)

  
 The Jewel City - Ben Macomber - Some other Publications of John H. Williams
"'The Canoe and the Saddle,' Winthrop's treasure-house of information concerning Indian life and the ways of the wilderness frontier, was frequently republished during the thirty years following its first appearance in 1862; but since out of print, it stood out of danger of being forgotten by all except students of the history of the West.
Winthrop was shot at Great Bethel, in June, 1861.
"Winthrop's great work is not of the kind that one readily forgets, but it is none the less pleasant to be reminded of it by such an edition.
www.books-about-california.com /Pages/The_Jewel_City/The_Jewel_City_Other_Pubs.html   (1029 words)

  
 The Grand Army Hall
Dedicated to the principles of "fraternity, charity and loyalty", the organization grew to be the largest and most influential in the country.
The Post was named for Major Theodore Winthrop, the first Union officer to die in battle.
Major Winthrop came from Connecticut, was aid to General Butler, leading troops at Bethel Church Virginia, June 10, 1861 when killed.
olgp.net /chs/d4/grandarmyhall.htm   (480 words)

  
 NYSL Kids: Elizabeth Winthrop
Winthrop is the author of Island Justice and more than fifty other books for children and adults.
She hails from a family of writers including Theodore Roosevelt and his cousin Franklin, the subject of her novel, Dear Mr.
Emily's summers at her grandparents' farm were always special and unchanging, but nothing seems the same the summer her best friend comes to visit.
www.nysoclib.org /kids/winthrop.html   (662 words)

  
 175 Facts About NYU
Theodore Winthrop used the University Building for a scene in his 1861 novel Cecil Dreeme.
The heroine is a young woman who, to escape marriage to the villain of the story, disguises herself in men’s clothing and hires a room in the building as a young artist.
The University Building lent plausibility to the story because it had five entrances on three different streets that made possible the heroine’s secret comings and goings.
www.nyu.edu /library/bobst/research/arch/test/175/pages/cecil.htm   (96 words)

  
 Winthrop - AskTheBrain.com
Winthrop Harbor: Trout, bluegill, small bass and an occasional perch are being taken through the ice.
Pillsbury Winthrop is an international law firm with core practice areas in: technology and finance, litigation, global energy, and capital markets.
Pillsbury Winthrop is also recognized as a leading counsel and principal authority on intellectual property proceedings before the International Trade Commission.
www.askthebrain.com /winthrop-.html   (305 words)

  
 Rip Van Winkle Of Mount Rainier
According to Theodore Winthrop who visited the northwest in 1853 and published a book entitled "The Canoe and the Saddle," which had wide vogue at the time and is consulted today, Mount Rainier had its Indian Rip Van Winkle.
The richer he got the stronger his passion grew for hiaqua, and, when a spirit told him in a dream of vast hoards at the summit of Rainier, he determined to climb the mountain.
The spirit was Tamanous, which, Winthrop ex-plains, is the vague Indian personification of the super-natural.
www.oldandsold.com /articles14/national-parks-34.shtml   (904 words)

  
 Delta Kappa Epsilon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the Civil War, the first Union officer killed in battle was a Deke, Theodore Winthrop of Phi.
During the Spanish-American War, the first American officer to be killed was a DKE, Surgeon John B. Gibbs (Rutgers), and his brother in DKE J. Frank Aldritch (DePauw) dies when the USS Maine is sunk.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a member of a DKE Chapter (Alpha at Harvard) that had been suspended for conflict with the international organization, and for this reason he is not typically numbered among the Presidents who were Dekes.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Delta_Kappa_Epsilon   (1029 words)

  
 Amazon.com -zShops: Winthrop, Theodore: THE CANOE AND THE SADDLE, ADVENTURES AMONG THE NORTHWEST...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Amazon.com -zShops: Winthrop, Theodore: THE CANOE AND THE SADDLE, ADVENTURES AMONG THE NORTHWEST...
Winthrop, Theodore: THE CANOE AND THE SADDLE, ADVENTURES AMONG THE NORTHWEST...
Following is a "youthful journal" of his trip to Panama, found after his death and not prepared by Winthrop for publication.
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 Milliken's Bend
New York City in 1861; that morning when the Easter bells had scarcely ceased to ring the glad announcement of Nature's resurrection, when Broadway suddenly blossomed with flags, and the famous New York seventh hastened away to the defense of Washington.
In its ranks marched the flower of the youth of New York, Theodore Winthrop and his brother, and two brothers of George William Curtis, Phillip Schuyler and Robert Gould Shaw.
Theodore Winthrop said, "It was worth a lifetime, that march down Broadway.
www.millikensbend.org /Tide1/page2.html   (633 words)

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