The Second William Penn
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Scholars studying local history and frontier narratives of the American Southwest
- History enthusiasts interested in American westward expansion and records of cross-cultural contact
- English-language readers seeking nineteenth-century American local narrative texts
- Professionals engaged in editing and textual study of public-domain historical documents
Not a good fit for
- Beginners seeking a systematic general history or modern historiographical analysis
- Readers who have difficulty reading English and prefer a Chinese translation
- Readers with little interest in local historical detail who prefer fiction
Reading tips
- Read background on Southwestern American history first, then move into the book's specific narratives.
- Mark passages involving people, places, and events as you read, to facilitate comparison with other sources.
- Distinguish the author's personal stance from verifiable historical fact, and avoid drawing conclusions from a single text.
- Begin with chapters relating to William Penn or local settlement, then read through the whole book.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
William H. Ryus (born 1839), usually credited as W. H. Ryus, was an American writer whose life and work were closely tied to stagecoach transportation in the American West. Public information about him is limited; what can be confirmed is that he worked as a stagecoach driver in the West and drew on his firsthand experience to write the memoir The Second William Penn. The book recounts, in the first person, his stage-line career from Kansas to New Mexico, covering the daily labor of stagecoach routes, travels, and the life and scenery along the way, making it a typical participant's memoir of the westward expansion era. Such works preserve details of stagecoach transport in a plain, documentary style and are of historical value for understanding nineteenth-century transportation and frontier life in the American West. Ryus was not known for literary craft; his significance lies more in leaving a firsthand record of frontier experience from a driver's perspective for later researchers and readers.
