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  • Reflections on an Army Life on the Border

    par A H Guernsey ...
    Randolph Marcy went west in 1833. He reminisces  about his army life on the border of Indian Territory in this short 19th century piece. Illustrated ... En savoir plus

    2,56 €

  • Boxcar Diplomacy

    Two Trains that Crossed an Ocean

    par Jane Sweetland ...
    WWII was over, but in 1947, the challenge of rebuilding France had just begun. Fields were still pock-marked with ordnance and weather had so decimated the crop yield that there was not enough food to feed the population. Stalin was sweeping eastern bloc countries under an "iron curtain" that was dividing Europe between the eastern communist states and the western democracies. In this scenario, ... En savoir plus

    6,84 €

  • Giant Country

    Essays on Texas

    par Don Graham ...
    In Giant Country Don Graham brings together a collection of lively, absorbing essays written over the past two decades.The collection begins with a twist on book introductions that sets the tone for the essays to come—a self-interview conducted poolside at an eccentric Houston motel favored by regional rock bands. Over piña coladas the author works on his tan and discusses timeless Texas themes: ... En savoir plus

    13,28 €

  • Mr. E. 2003

    Manifest Lessons from Ohio’S Bicentennial Celebration

    par Keith A. Elkins ...
    In 2003, Ohio celebrated the bicentennial of its inauguration as the seventeenth state of the United States. It incited citizens from eighty-eight counties to celebrate the two-hundredth anniversary of Ohios heritage.In his memoir, author Keith A. Elkins, known as Mr. E. to his fourth-grade students, tells of how, inspired by his states momentous celebration, he discovered an opportunity to ... En savoir plus

    8,44 €

  • Violence in Lincoln County, 1869-1881

    Facsimile of 1957 Edition

    Lincoln County, New Mexico was once one of the largest counties in the United States and was the setting for a famous feud which lit up the horizon of history. Here between 1869 and 1881 were all the explosive ingredients for violence. On one side of the county was the Mescalero Apache reservation. A day away was an Army fort to keep the Indians “subdued.” Along the Pecos River were hundreds of ... En savoir plus

    8,74 €

  • Spirits of Southeast Alaska

    The History & Hauntings of Alaska's Panhandle

    Collection series The History & Hauntings of Alaska's Panhandle
    Ghostly footsteps and flickering lights, a silhouette in the window of an abandoned building, a restless presence at the scene of a sunken ship, spectral wails and poltergeist theft of office supplies, mythical Native American legends, and other paranormal happenings scattered across the Alaskan panhandle come together in Spirits of Southeast Alaska, a grand adventure into the historical hauntings ... En savoir plus

    9,24 €

  • Siskiyou Trail

    The Hudson’s Bay Company’s Route to California

    par Richard Dillon ...
         The Hudson’s Bay Fur Company route to California was the fur trappers’ and traders’ road in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s from Fort Vancouver (now in Washington State) to San Francisco and beyond.      Does “road” mean a six-lane paved freeway to you? Turn the calendar back and ponder a path that was rough, stony, precipitous, ill-marked, and full of perils at every turn: disease, famine, ... En savoir plus

    2,78 €

  • Death on the Gallows

    The Encyclopedia of Legal Hangings in Texas

    The most comprehensive work ever done on legal executions by hanging in Texas. Arranged by counties, this book documents 467 executions in Texas, many that have been forgotten through the years. Such as:Decapitated: Jack Fields-Wharton County, and Charles Myers- Tarrant County were both completely decapitated and Clemente Apolinar-Bexar County was almost decapitated.Had to be hanged twice: Joseph ... En savoir plus

    7,61 €

  • Revolution and Rebellion

    How Taxes Cost A Governor His Life In 1830s New Mexico

    par Frank McCulloch ...
    The year is 1835, the place New Mexico, the hero or villain, depending upon your view is Don Albino Perez. Perez, the newly appointed Mexican governor, is more of an idealist than a politician. He rides north with high hopes for his new office in a strange land. After reaching New Mexico and assuming his duties, Perez finds he has a strong and forceful opponent in the former governor, Don Manuel ... En savoir plus

    3,90 €

  • Chiriaco Summit

    Built by Love to Last in the Desert

    "Wine was free, but we had to pay for water." Joe Chiriaco and his thirteen siblings heard this from their Italian immigrant father as he recounted his ocean journey to America. In the face of limited water and rudimentary dirt roads, Joe and his Norwegian wife, Ruth Bergseid, founded Chiriaco Summit in the 1930s, a desert travel oasis on today's Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Los Angeles, ... En savoir plus

    7,70 €

  • Complete History & Literature

    A British author, particularly well known for her works of popular national history for children. H. E. Marshall is famous for her 1905 children's history of England, Our Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls, illustrated by A. S. Forrest. In the USA the book was entitled An Island Story. The book was a bestseller, was printed in numerous editions, and for fifty years was the ... En savoir plus

    5,13 €

  • Mule and Wagon to Automobile

    Social Change in North Georgia

    For north Georgian farmers in 1870, the cost of traveling over rough paths from farm to market by mule and wagon was prohibitive. Local farm households produced most of their own food, clothing and other essential needs. When the railroads were built, the cost of transporting goods fell sharply. Local farmers shifted from subsistence farming to cash crop production, sold their crops in Gainesville ... En savoir plus

    4,11 €

  • Field of Corpses

    Arthur St. Clair and the Death of an American Army

    par Alan D. Gaff ...
    November 4, 1791, was a black day in American history. General Arthur St. Clair’s army had been ambushed by Native Americans in what is now western Ohio. In just three hours, St. Clair’s force sustained the greatest loss ever inflicted on the United States Army by Native Americans—a total nearly three times larger than what incurred in the more famous Custer fight of 1876. It was the greatest ... En savoir plus

    9,99 €

  • The Last Soul of Witherspoon

    Life in a Kentucky Mountain Settlement School

    par Alex Browning ...
    THE LAST SOUL OF WITHERSPOON takes a global approach in its history of the school.Readers will find this book to be autobiographical as well as a social history told on three levels.Herein is a story of a person from Long Shoal in Lee County, Kentucky, whose childhood innocence collides head-on with adolescence while a student in the mountain settlement school of Witherspoon. Readers will find at ... En savoir plus

    4,11 €

  • Dinosaur Highway

    A History of Dinosaur Valley State Park

    Collection Livre 23 - Chisholm Trail Series
    Where the Paluxy River now winds through the North Texas Hill Country, the great lizards of prehistory once roamed, leaving their impressive footprints deep in the limy sludge of what would become the earth’s Cretaceous layer. It wouldn’t be until a summer day in1909, however, when young George Adams went splashing along the creekbed, that chance and shifting sediments would reveal these stony ... En savoir plus

    9,98 €

  • South Dakota Warbird Survivors 2003

    A Handbook on Where to Find Them

    For those of you who are familiar with the airspace over South Dakota and its environs, the weather and colors of the landscape running from the bare prairie to the Badlands and the Black Hills can be incredibly beautiful, particularly early in the morning. The state is also home to a considerable number of retired warbirds and gate guardians. Ellsworth Air Force Base, for example, has been the ... En savoir plus

    4,11 €

  • History of the Donner Party (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

    A Tragedy of the Sierra

    Collection series Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading
    History of the Donner Party takes you straight into the most terrifying tragedy of American western emigration. "More thrilling than romance, more terrible than fiction, the sufferings of the Donner Party form a bold contrast to the joys of pleasure-seekers who to-day look down upon the lake from the windows of silver palace cars," writes McGlashan.In 1846 the Donner Party emigrated across the ... En savoir plus

    3,70 €

  • The Complete Story OF THE Galveston Horror

    In presenting to the people of this country and the world a chronicle of the frightful visitation of hurricane and flood upon the beautiful and enterprising City of Galveston, which unparalleled calamity occurred on September 8, 1900, the Publishers wish to say that the utmost care has been taken to make the record of the catastrophe complete in every particular. ... En savoir plus

    3,42 €

  • History of Texas Christian University

    A College of the Cattle Frontier

    par Colby D. Hall ...
    First published by TCU Press in 1947, Colby Hall’s book History of Texas Christian University: A College of the Cattle Frontier is the story of the first seventy-five years of the institution. Tracing the evolution of Add Ran College to Add Ran University, and ultimately to Texas Christian University, Hall shows the struggles and success in the transformation of a frontier college dedicated to ... En savoir plus

    9,88 €

  • Lookout Mountain and How We Won It, Illustrated

    par W F G Shanks ...
    This short piece principally describes the geography and the setting of the battle field at Lookout Mountain. Well Illustrated. ... En savoir plus

    1,70 €

  • Alamo of the Revolution

    Benedict Arnold and the Massacre at Fort Griswold

    In July of 1781, an American privateer sailing out of New London, Connecticut captured the British merchantman the Hanna, loaded with a bounty of luxury goods destined for British officers based in New York City. That action induced the British supreme leader of British forces in America to grant permission to the infamous traitor Benedict Arnold to lead an 1,800-man punitive amphibious expedition ... En savoir plus

    9,99 €

  • Remembering Morven and the Old 660Th District

    Co. E was part of Symons Regiment, 1st Regiment, and commanded by Angus Morrison, recently Ordinary of our county. They went by rail from Thomasville to the sand walled artillery fort on the Great Ogeechee, protecting a vital railroad bridge, just upriver, from federal gunboats. Under the higher command of Gen. Lafayette McLaws and the post command of Major Anderson of nearby Lebanon Plantation, ... En savoir plus

    4,11 €

  • Thoughts and Sentiments of Hebbronville

    Book 2

    This book completes the documentation of Hebbronville. On the subject of the Catholics, the book talks about the Scotus College, the first church, and Catholic education. On Jim Hogg County, the buildings stories and the oldest retail businesses and hotels in Hebbronville are featured. Besides, many short stories and vignettes appear. The stories depict life in Hebbronville in the early and middle ... En savoir plus

    4,11 €

  • You Must Be A Jones

    A Family Memoir

    A story of an ideal American family to rival The Waltons...You Must Be A Jones, A Family Memoir is a heartwarming story of an African American family persevering during some of the country’s most significant periods of change. The story highlights how Cole’s parents, a committed and hardworking African American couple, created a happy and wholesome life and promising futures for their seven ... En savoir plus

    4,27 €