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Character Makes a Difference
Where I'm From, Where I've Been, and What I Believe
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
How powerful is integrity? Just ask minister-turned-statesman, Mike Huckabee. As lieutenant governor of Arkansas in 1996, he was publicly cast between the ultimate rock and hard place when his boss, governor Jim Guy Tucker, refused to resign despite his felony convictions in the Whitewater scandal. ...
by Damon Linker
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
An essential history of the influential men who have spearheaded the movement to erode the wall separating church and state.Beginning as far-left radicals during the 1960s, the theocons in Damon Linker’s book (including Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Novak, and George Weigel) gradually transitioned...
Gallia County, Ohio (Bicentennial)
History Vol. 2; Bicentennial Edition-2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
(From interior)This book is dedicated to the people, businesses, churches and organizations of Gallia County as it celebrates, along with the great State of Ohio, the 200th anniversary of the year both became part of the United States of America.
It Happened in Idaho
Remarkable Events That Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
This book offers an inside look at over 30 interesting and unusual episodes that shaped the history of the Gem State.
Durham’s Place-Names of California’s Central Coast
Includes Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, San Benito, Monterey & Santa Cruz Counties
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
• Sutil Island, a 1,250 foot-long island, 1,900 feet off the southwest end of Santa Barbara Island was named after one of merchant-explorer Sebastian Vizcaino’s ships.
• Gaspar de Portola founded Presidio of San Carlos Borromeo de Monterey,...
Durham’s Place-Names of California’s Desert Counties
Includes Imperial, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
• The name Rancho Cucamonga, derived from an Indian word, suffered a number of bizarre spellings by early Americans including, Coco Mongo Ranch, Cocomouga’s Ranch, Qui-qual-mun-go Ranch, Kikal Mungo ranch and Rancho Cocoa-Mungo.
• A place...
Durham’s Place-Names of California’s Gold Country
Including Yosemite National Park, Madera, Mariposa, Tuolumne, Calaveras, Amador, El Dorado, Placer, Sierra & Nevada Counties
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
• Above-ground graves resembling small, outdoor ovens furnished the name for the Mariposa County village of Hornitos. Hornitos is a Spanish word that means “little ovens.”
• In 1885, Alexander Kirkwood founded a hotel called Rattlesnake...
Durham’s Place-Names of Greater Los Angeles
Includes Los Angeles, Ventura, and Orange Counties
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
• The pueblo that became the city was established in 1781 as “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula.” A hill located less than 1,000 feet from Los Angeles city hall was used as a base during the first American occupation of Los...
by William Thorndale, William Dollarhide
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1987
This work shows all U.S. county boundaries from 1790 to 1920. On each of the nearly 400 maps the old county lines are superimposed over the modern ones to highlight the boundary changes at ten-year intervals. Also included are a history of census growth; the technical facts about each census; a discussion...
Durham’s Place-Names of Central California
Includes Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kings & Kern Counties
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
• Steven Barton founded the town of Isabella near the Kern River and named it for Queen Isabella of Spain in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition celebrating the quadricentennial of the discovery of America. Sixty years later, a dam was built on the river and the original...
Cries from an Isolated Society
A Poetry Chapbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Love good and hate evil: That is what we must all remember as the world progresses in time. The sin of our fallen culture penetrates every facet of life deeper by the day, rationalizing its way from the mind to the heart as many become numb to its downward spiral away from God's grace. This is my...
by Nelson Lee
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Among the many captive narratives of the nineteenth century, Nelson Lee's stands out as one of the most thrilling and authentic. A longtime Texas Ranger, Lee was captured by Comanches and held for three long, grueling years before making his escape. Once free, he nearly lost his mind and his life...
by David Baugher
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Did you know that a hidden room exists behind Abraham Lincolns head on Mt. Rushmore? that North Carolina was almost accidentally destroyed in a nuclear holocaust? that the Mason-Dixon Line had nothing to do with dividing north from south? that Major League Baseball once hosted a single game between...
by Helen Elliott Bandini
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
This book is an attempt to present the history of California in so simple and interesting a way that children may read it with pleasure. It does not confine itself to the history of one section or period, but tells the story of all the principal events from the Indian occupancy through the Spanish...