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by John Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
A discussion of the war west of the Mississippi including The Opelousas Expedition, The Corps d'Afrique, The Sabine Pass Expedition and the Triumphs and Disasters of the Red River Expedition. Illustrated.
It Happened in Las Vegas
Remarkable Events that Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped Sin City, It Happened in Las Vegas describes everything from a nineteenth-century land deal that almost created two competing cities to the torrential rainstorm that flooded downtown Vegas with three inches of water.
Ann Arbor Observed
Selections from Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Twenty-five years ago Grace Shackman began to document the history of Ann Arbor’s buildings, events, and people in the Ann Arbor Observer. Soon Shackman’s articles, which depicted every aspect of life in Ann Arbor during the city’s earlier eras, became much-anticipated regular stories. Readers...
by Omar Saif Ghobash
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
**A New York Times Editor's Pick**
**One of Time's Most Anticipated Books of 2017, a Bustle Best Nonfiction Pick for January 2017, a Chicago Review of Books Best Book to Read in January 2017, an Amazon Best of January 2017 in History, a Stylist Magazine Best Book of 2017, included in New Statesman's...
Mecca and Main Street
Muslim Life in America after 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2006
Islam is Americas fastest growing religion, with more than six million Muslims in the United States, all living in the shadow of 9/11. Who are our Muslim neighbors? What are their beliefs and desires? How are they coping with life under the War on Terror? In Mecca and Main Street, noted author and...
Christendom Destroyed
Europe 1517-1648
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
**“The latest volume to appear in the Penguin History of Europe. Like its companion volumes, [Christendom Destroyed] is no breezy survey but a masterly synthesis of depth and breadth."*—*The Wall Street Journal
“The political and religious conflicts of early modern Europe receive...
Trapping the Boundary Waters
A Tenderfoot in the Border Country, 1919-1920
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
On May 4, 1919, Charlie Cook set off for a year of adventure in the Minnesota-Ontario Boundary Waters. Soon abandoned by his comfort-loving companion, the restless World War I veteran spent an enlightening year learning—often the hard way—how to paddle and sail on windy lakes, hunt and fish for...
Wildest Lives of the Wild West
America through the Words of Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, and Other Famous Westerners
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
By and about the greatest celebrities of frontier America, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, personal letters, and court testimony. These glimpses into the worlds of...
THROUGH THICK AND THIN
The Coming of Age of Floyd and Christine Martin in Southern Mississippi 1922-1952
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
In 1922, Floyd Martin and Christine Mosley are young children, growing up in the quiet surroundings of Southern Mississippi. In 1929, the Great Depression begins and life gets a bit tougher. In 1936, Floyd and Christine meet, and, a few months later, are married. He is 22 and she is 16, and the challenges...
by Thomas Bender
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
New York Intellect is Thomas Bender's remarkable look at the connections between the life of a city and the life of the mind. New York has never been comfortable or convenient as a milieu for art and intellect, Bender notes. Yet New Yorkers have always struggled to create institutions and styles of...
by J M Tuttle, G W Schatzel
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Lumber and Wheat were the industries that made Minnesota in the mid 19th Century. Here are two reports, one from the Lumber camps in the pine forest and the second from the wheat fields. These show glimpses of life in the woods and life on the farm during the period. The Minnesota Pineries and Among the Wheat Fields of Minnesota, reports from 1868.
Cowboy Trout
Western Fly Fishing As If It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
In Cowboy Trout, historian-angler Paul Schullery chronicles many great moments in western fly fishing, from pioneer anglers casting the first flies on wilderness streams to the unexpected modern emergence of fly fishing as a political, commercial, and even spiritual presence in the lives of many westerners....
Vanishing Grace
Bringing Good News to a Deeply Divided World
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Christians have proclaimed the good news about Jesus for centuries. But the good news isn’t sounding so good these days, at least to some. More and more surveys show that people view Christians as bearers of bad news, judgment, and intolerance.
In Vanishing Grace, bestselling author Philip...
by H C Bunner
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
The early Bohemians, poets, anarchists and immigrants all converged on Bowery Street in New Yorks Lower East Side during the 1890's. Bunner looks at Life on Bowery in this short illustrated essay.