Taylor Trade Publishing imprint: 604 books
Early American Naturalists
Exploring the American West, 1804-1900
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
Beginning with the trailblazing expedition of Lewis and Clark, Early American Naturalists tells the stories of men and women of the 1800s who crossed the Mississippi River and encountered the new life of the western New World. Explorers profiled include John James Audubon, Martha Maxwell, and John Muir.
by Steven A. Jent
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2001
From the sixteenth century through the twentieth, Texans have had interesting things to say about themselves, their home, and the rest of the world. People beyond its borders have had interesting things to say about Texas and Texans for almost as long.
This book brings together some 700 noteworthy...
The Adventures of James Capen Adams
Mountaineer and Grizzly Bear Hunter of California
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
This is the story of James Capen Adams, a mountain man born in 1807 who brought grizzlies to the city of San Francisco, and then New York, for exhibition. But Adams was not simply a showman; he had a deeper connection with the animals. While living in the mountains with the grizzlies, he tamed and...
Gridiron Glory
The Story of the Army-Navy Football Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
Consistently ranked among the top ten college football rivalries by fans and pundits alike-and often ranked among the top five-the annual Army-Navy game is the one rivalry that, as one commentator has noted, "stops the most powerful men and women in the world in their tracks for one day a year." It...
Washington and Cornwallis
The Battle for America, 1775-1783
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
Washington and Cornwallis is a gripping narrative of the defeats and narrow victories that won the States' independence from the English crown. Patterson chronicles the battles waged between General George Washington and Lieutenant General Charles Lord Cornwallis, and examines their methods of command...
Hitler's Shadow War
The Holocaust and World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2006
In Hitler's Shadow War, World War II scholar Donald M. McKale contends that the persecution and murder of the Jews, Slavs, and other groups was Hitler's primary effort during the war, not the conquest of Europe. According to McKale, Hitler and the Nazi leadership used the military campaigns of the...
Billy the Kid
Beyond the Grave
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Did Pat Garrett kill the wrong man in 1881 in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, or did the outlaw known as Billy the Kid live on as William Henry Roberts until 1948? W.C. Jameson analyzes the evidence, including use of new technology to produce a compelling case for Billy's survival. Heralded by Booklist as...
Footprints of a Regiment
A Recollection of the 1st Georgia Regulars, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 1992
An absorbing, first-person Civil War memoir from the perspective of a foot soldier looking back some thirty years later.
Becoming a Family
Promoting Healthy Attachments with Your Adopted Child
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2005
It is a story that moves us to tears. An American couple travels across the world to rescue a child from the hopelessness of a foreign orphanage, bringing their new son or daughter to a life of love and family. But does this transition always go smoothly?
Adoptive parents hope their child will easily...
The Salem Witch Trials
A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2004
Based on over twenty years of original archival research, this history unfolds a nearly day-by-day narrative of the Salem Witch Trials as the citizens of Salem experienced the outbreak of hysteria.
Singin' a Lonesome Song
Texas Prison Tales
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2001
Texas convicts and inmates have made the Texas prison system the most colorful in the world over the past 150 years. T
America's Founding Fathers
Their Uncommon Wisdom and Wit
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2003
Arguably, no other revolution in history has enjoyed such a brilliant gallery of thinkers as the one that led to the founding of the United States. America’s Founding Fathers is centered on the personal philosophies, opinions, thoughts, witticisms, and feelings of the exemplary men who founded our...
Land of Dreams
An Israeli Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
This memoir, written by a native son, recalls everyday life before, during, and after the birth of the State of Israel.
by Patrick M. Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2007
Here in an entertaining illustrated format are hundreds of little-known facts about the always-fascinating Civil War. Did you know...
-A January 1861 plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln was thwarted with the helpf of a police chief named...John Kennedy?
-The Confederacy briefly had...