Time to Become Barbarian: The Extraordinary Life of General Horace Capron
Entry/Object ID
2021-0006-0003
Description
"This book chronicles the achievements of Horace Capron, who at age sixty-seven agreed to travel to Japan as an advisor to the government on the development of the large northern island of Hokkaido. Russell traces Capron through the early years of the nineteenth century to his marriage into the influential Snowden family and his building of the town of Laurel, Maryland, where he made and lost a fortune in cotton milling and farming." --back cover
Physical Description: xi, 263 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm; signed by author
Collection
Laurel Museum Collection
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Book
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Other Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
Search Terms
Biographies, Japan, Horace Capron, Americans in foreign countries
