James Kennovan was a rebellious youth who went to sea as a teenager and later walked the rugged streets of the Bowery as a New York City cop. Then, in 1849, he answered the siren's call and sailed to California intending to fill a gunnysack with gold nuggets and return East. But that's not what happened.Although prone to excessive drinking and brawling, Jimmy Kennovan soon ruled the sport of pedestrianism -- a popular 19th century amusement in which men (and some women) walked for ...

A history of the military campaigns between Union and Confederate armies in the Volunteer State.Civil War in Tennessee provides a broad overview of the region **'**s conflicts and recounts the main battles as well as some of the smaller actions. It was springtime 1861 when the young men marched off to war, many to never return. This descriptive history begins with the battles at Shiloh, Lookout Mountain, Chickamauga, and Stones River and ends with the terr...