James H Street: 15 books

The epic of the Arkansas, built in the wilderness by men who hauled her iron and guns hundreds of miles by ox wagons, is one of the most amazing and little-known dramas of Civil War history. The Arkansas struck terror from Illinois to New Orleans and became a ship that men whispered about; a ghost...

 James Street was born and raised in the South and was one of its most passionate and eloquent voices. Through this collection of articles from Holiday and the Saturday Evening Post  the people and the cities of the South come to life ― legends are explored, contradictions examined, historical...

Life in Western North Carolina for boys and girls and hunting dogs is full of wild boars, secret signals, hidden stills, places with  names like Fiefield Bald, Shuckstack, Neale's Gap, Little Mossy, Blue Run, and, of course, Doc Willet's drugstore and an ice cream sundae called the Idiot's Delight...

  Lonnie, and his friend Text, spend their days in the streams and woods of Mississippi poking sticks in doodlebug holes, looking for crawdad castles, and catching sweet stinker bugs for good luck, All the while they keenly observe Lonnie's father, Harve McNeil, train his champion bird dogs....

While Lee's Army of Northern Virginia dueled the Army of the Potomac, other Union and Confederate armies were struggling for control of Tennessee. Using eyewitness testimony, profiles of key personalities, period photographs, illustrations and artifacts, and detailed battle maps, author James Street...

 Thirty years after the Civil War, unscrupulous Northern industrialists cast their greedy eyes on the abundant resources of the South and attempted to reap the profits while sealing off the poor and forgotten in a corner room of a house still divided.  In Tomorrow We Reap, authors Street...

 London Wingo, an ordained minister and a fourth-year student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is  struggling to reconcile his desires for further education with his financial worries that accompany many young couples awaiting the birth of their first child. When he applies for...

    The title says it all.  An irreverent, journalistic survey that may never have been placed on a must read list by history professors or research specialists, but nevertheless is a succinct and down-home account by an author who speaks with the bite and honesty of someone you...

In the second novel of the Dabney family saga, Sam'l Dabney  is no longer “ol' man Dabney's brat” but has become a rich and successful aristocrat of such great influence that some call him the Father of Mississippi and Alabama. Old and dying, he and Tishomingo, a prince of the Choctaws, are...

     Baptist preacher, London Wingo, first introduced in The Gauntlet, returns to Linden, Missouri after a twenty year absence to face what is to be the greatest crisis in his ministerial and parental career. London and his wife, Kathie, had built a church in Linden, Missouri...

The Abernathy family lives in rural Mississippi where folks farm cotton and grow vegetables and kitchens are filled with smells of sweet potato pie, muscadine preserves, and pickled grapes. Cupboards bulge with Octagon soap wrappers collected to trade for dishes, and shelves are lined with homemade...

   In 1795 the rugged and dangerous Mississippi Territory is open for exploration and settlement by the rare few who have the courage and determination to survive.  When pioneers Sam'l Dabney and his sister, Honoria, lose their parents in a Creek attack and must leave Georgia...

  This is a story of a man called Lepe.      It is the story of a lifetime spent on the sea in the most dazzling years in all the history of navigation and discovery. It is the story of dark days spent under the shadow of the Spanish Inquisition; of bright hours of...

In this fifth and final novel of the Dabney family saga, the reader is introduced to the last of the gallant Dabney clan.  Passionate and restless, Mingo Dabney falls in love with Rafaela Galban, a beautiful Cuban girl who was to her people what Joan of Arc had been to the French. But as Mingo...