Americas category: 34066 books
From Indians to Eskimos (storey 24 of 40)
Coppermine, N.W.T. Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Out with the old and slide into the new. My two brothers and I stand shivering at the school door. Winds howl off of the snow swept rock that stands guard above the school. Willy wags wing gusts of powered snow into the corner that we huddle. Frigid fingers tear and tug at our faces and pull on our...
Light-Horse Harry Lee
The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary Hero - The Tragic Life of Robert E. Lee's Father
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
"Light-Horse Harry blazes across the pages of Ryan Cole's narrative like a meteor—and his final crash is as destructive. Cole tells his story with care, sympathy, and where necessary, sternness. This book is a great, and sometimes harrowing read." —Richard Brookhiser, senior editor at National...
Mathew Brady
Portraits of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The first narrative biography of the Civil War's pioneering visual historian, Mathew Brady, known as the "father of American photography.†?
Mathew Brady's attention to detail, flair for composition, and technical masteryhelped establish the photograph as a thing of value. In the 1840s...
Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
The Remarkable True Story Of American Heroine Ida Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter is the absorbing, painstakingly researched story of Ida Lewis and the fearless rescues she made at Lime Rock Lighthouse in Newport, Rhode Island. Born in 1842, Ida began tending the light at age fifteen after her father, the keeper of the light, was disabled by a...
Summary of Killing Patton
by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Killing Patton by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard | Includes Analysis Preview of this summary: Chapter 1 On October 3, 1944, Patton’s forces were fighting for Fort Driant, a heavily fortified German position near the French town of Metz. The men of his Third...
by Henry Cabot Lodge
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
A fascinating look at some of the greatest heroes of American history, written by Theodore Roosevelt and his friend Henry Cabot Lodge, the eminent historian.Includes writings on: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, General Grant, John Quincy Adams, and the battles of Gettysburg, New Orleans and the Alamo.
The Goddess of War
A True Story of Passion, Betrayal and Murder in the Old West
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
John Wesley Hardin is the most famous gunfighter of the American Wild West. The subject of conversations from the Mexican border to the rowdy saloons of Kansas, he was the greatest celebrity of the age. He wrote an autobiography, but he only told what he wanted known, and few have researched beyond...
Inventing Loreta Velasquez
Confederate Soldier Impersonator, Media Celebrity, and Con Artist
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
She went by many names—Mary Ann Keith, Ann Williams, Lauretta Williams, and more—but history knows her best as Loreta Janeta Velasquez, a woman who claimed to have posed as a man to fight for the Confederacy. In Inventing Loreta Velasquez, acclaimed historian William C. Davis delves into the...
Wild Bill
The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City**.**
In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO—the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation...
The Pirates Laffite
The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
An “engrossing and exciting” account of legendary New Orleans privateers Pierre and Jean Laffite and their adventures along the Gulf Coast (Booklist, starred review).
At large during the most colorful period in New Orleans’ history, from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of...
They Called Him Wild Bill
The Life and Adventures of James Butler Hickok
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
His contemporaries called him Wild Bill, and newspapermen and others made him a legend in his own time. Among western characters only General George Armstrong Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody are as readily recognized by the general public. In writing this biography, Joseph G. Rosa has expressed the hope...
The Revolution of Robert Kennedy
From Power to Protest After JFK
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A groundbreaking account of how Robert F. Kennedy transformed horror into hope between 1963 and 1966, with style and substance that has shaped American politics ever since.
On November 22nd, 1963, Bobby Kennedy received a phone call that altered his life forever. The president, his brother,...
by Willard Sterne Randall
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
The long-awaited biography of the frontier Founding Father whose heroic actions and neglected writings inspired an entire generation from Paine to Madison.
On May 10, 1775, in the storm-tossed hours after midnight, Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary firebrand, was poised for attack. With only two...
by Robert W. Black
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
From the deadly shores of North Africa to the invasion of Sicily to the fierce jungle hell of the Pacific, the contribution of the World War II Ranger Battalions far outweighed their numbers. They were ordinary men on an extraordinary mission, experiencing the full measure of the fear, exhaustion,...