Across the Plains
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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1995
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Across the Plains, autobiographical narrative by
R.L. Stevenson, was published in an abridged version in
Longman's Magazine (1883) and in book form in 1892. A sequel to
The Amateur Emigrant, it is an account of Stevenson's journey by railroad (1879) from New York to San Francisco.
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Jane Byrne plans to let her life be open book
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/14/1988; ; 567 words
; Former Mayor Jane M. Byrne has signed with a New York agent to...from New York publishers. "A book by Jane Byrne will have national appeal because of...Neill Jr.'s Man of the House. "Jane Byrne has a better story to tell than Koch...
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Jane Byrne throws the book at `Richie'
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/12/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...Chicago politics. If former Mayor Jane M. Byrne hadn't gone to war with Richard M. Daley, it is likely that Byrne would still be in power. But their...a pest. I didn't like him," Byrne writes in My Chicago, soon to be...
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JANE BYRNE: // Bitter memories of a blood feud with the Daleys
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/16/1992; ; 700+ words
; My Chicago By Jane Byrne. Norton. $22.50. Jane Byrne provides us in these underplayed pages with an analog and...that term paper, fanciful, readable and on time. Perhaps Jane Byrne's best, if unintentional picture of herself, may be...
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Reaching for City Hall // Candidates in mayoral primaries profiled // Jane Byrne longs to re-experience her glory years
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/22/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...profiles of the candidates. Jane M. Byrne hopes Chicagoans remember...start of her comeback bid, Byrne was talking about the...white ethnic areas, where Byrne is often accorded hero...neighborhoods. "We love you, Jane," they yell on the Northwest...
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Recalling the day Jane Byrne treated a 9-year-old girl like a queen
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/1/1987; 540 words
; ...misstatements made regarding former Mayor Jane Byrne's hiring and treatment of women...people forgotten the scandals of the Jane Byrne era? Byrne's mismanagement brought...I've decided to vote for Jane Byrne - but only if she stops singing...
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Chicago's unlikely Snow Queen 1979 blizzard upends Bilandic's bid to hold office, makes Jane Byrne 1st woman mayor Series: MAKING HISTORY: WOMEN WHO SHAPED ILLINOIS
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/31/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the way to a Chicago widow named Jane Byrne and started her on the political...American parents had envisioned. Byrne was born Margaret Jane Burke on May 24, 1934, the second...for his release from service. Jane Byrne's younger sister Carol was volunteering...
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Jane Byrne for Circuit Court post
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/3/1988; ; 648 words
; ...The Chicago Sun-Times recommends Jane Byrne for the Democratic nomination for...confrontational politics associated with Jane Byrne, whose record includes several negatives...County Democrats should vote for Jane Byrne if they want to put up their strongest...
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Give Byrne an honor worthy of her achievements Jane Byrne had the courage to plunge into a man's world and leave a mark.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/1/2003; 700+ words
; ...to honor our first woman mayor, Jane Byrne, and promptly, while she still...that will supplant Meigs Field after Jane Byrne? Therein would be a nice metaphor...Carol Braun, like Hillary Clinton, Jane Byrne had the courage to plunge into a...
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And the winner is . . . Jane Byrne
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/4/1987; ; 700+ words
; No doubt about it. Jane Byrne won the big debate Tuesday night...has been exposed. This leaves Mrs. Byrne as the major white politician because...support? Above all of this stands Jane Byrne. She can ask for black support in...
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Feisty Jane Byrne: her assets and liabilities
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 11/29/1986; ; 700+ words
; ...intention to run for mayor next year. Jane Byrne has a number of strengths that make...speaks of her in respectful terms. Byrne has been the mayor once and has been...withstanding another grueling contest. Byrne has spent two years assiduously courting...
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Jane Byrne
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Jane Byrne Jane Byrne (born 1934) won the most astounding political upset in Chicago's history when she unseated incumbent Michael A. Bilandic in the 1979 Democratic primary and went on to become the first woman mayor of Chicago. Born in Chicago...
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Byrne, Rose 1979–
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
BYRNE, Rose 1979– PERSONAL Born...of Robin (a market researcher) and Jane (a school administrator) Byrne. Education: Studied English literature...May 5, 2003. Electronic: Rose Byrne Official Site, http://www.therosebyrnesite...
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Harold Lee Washington
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...S. House of Representatives. Running for mayor of Chicago as a progressive candidate, he defeated sitting mayor Jane Byrne in the primary and went on to win the 1983 general election. The first African American to hold the office, Washington...
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Illinois
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States
...personal hardship, and even a small political upheaval when incumbent Mayor Michael Bilandic lost a primary election to Jane Byrne in February 1979, partly because of his administration's slowness in snow removal. Chicago is nicknamed the "Windy...
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Hillard, Terry 1954–
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
...many years, he served in the mayoral bodyguard detachments, and worked for Chicago’s first female mayor, Jane Byrne, in the early 1980s, and for its popular African American At a Glance… Born c. 1944, in South Fulton...
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