Twodot: 177 books
by Victoria Shearer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Salvage of a sunken slave ship, devastating hurricanes and the odd doings
of locals such as Jimmy Buffett and Hemingway's cats.
Cowboys and Gangsters
Stories of an Untamed Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Even after WWI had ended, the region of Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas stubbornly refused to be tamed. It was still a place where frontier gunfights still broke out at an alarming rate. Utilizing official records, newspaper accounts, and oral histories, Cowboys and Gangsters tells the story of...
by Sarah F. Wakefield
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees is a reprint of the classic narrative of Sarah Wakefield's survival. Told in her own words, this compelling tale was a best seller when it was originally published more than one hundred years ago. Today it offers readers a unique perspective on Sioux culture and what life was like on the Great Plains in mid-nineteenth-century America.
Famous Firearms of the Old West
From Wild Bill Hickok’S Colt Revolvers To Geronimo's Winchester, Twelve Guns That Shaped Our History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
From Buffalo Bill to Wild Bill and from Chief Joseph to Geronimo, the most famous guns in the West and the history behind them
More than a few of the actual guns once in the hands of the heroes and villains of America’s Old West still exist, housed in a dozen museums across the...
Outlasting the Trail
The Story of a Woman's Journey West
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Based on the dramatic events of a real family's overland crossingMary Rockwood Powers reluctantly left her comfortable life as a doctor's wife in Wisconsin in 1856, one of the many women whose destiny as a settler of the West was determined by her husband's wishes. Trading in her home for canvas roof...
Calamity Jane
The Life and Legend of Martha Jane Cannary
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Young Martha Jane Cannary began life as a camp follower and street urchin. Parentless by the age of twelve, she morphed into the mother of two who just as often took employment as a waitress, laundress, or dance hall girl as she did an Indian scout or bullwhacker. Just as likely to wear a dress as...
It Happened in Alaska
Remarkable Events that Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
The remote, unforgiving landscape and colossal—and unpredictably unstable—mountain ranges of Alaska have kept at bay many a faint-hearted outsider, but the lure of this territory’s beauty, as well as its rich and vast resources, continues to entice adventuresome natives and outsiders alike....
It Happened in Washington
Remarkable Events that Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In It Happened in Washington you'll sail the seas along Washington's rugged coast, explore the untamed wilderness of the U.S.-Canada border, and climb to the summit of Mount Rainier. This collection includes thirty-three extraordinary episodes from Evergreen State history.
Washington Myths and Legends
The True Stories behind History’s Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Tales of intrigue in this book include unusual unsolved crimes, legends of lost treasure, spine-tingling ghost stories, well-documented sea creature sightings, and more. Based on historic accounts from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, author Lynn Bragg recounts fifteen myths and mysteries...
The Queen of Heartbreak Trail
The Life and Times of Harriet Smith Pullen, Pioneering Woman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The story of Harriet Smith Pullen’s early life, from her childhood journeys by covered wagon to her family’s subsistence in sod houses on the Dakota prairie where they survived grasshopper plagues, floods, fires, blizzards, and droughts is a narrative of American migration and adventure that still...
Jeannette Rankin
Bright Star in the Big Sky
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
The first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin represented Montana for two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. A leading advocate for both woman suffrage and world peace, she was instrumental in securing the right or Montana women to vote, five years before the right was...
Mr. Las Vegas Has a Bad Knee
and Other Tales of the People, Places, and Peculiarities of the Modern American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
For more than thirty years, journalist and author Martin J. Smith has traveled the American West, chasing offbeat stories that often are bizarre, always compelling, and at times profound. His journey through that oft-idealized and misunderstood landscape has made him a witness to some of the West’s...
by Todd R. Berger
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The Grand Canyon is an American icon, a scenic wonder like no other. From the several Native American tribes who have called Grand Canyon home to swashbuckling pioneers to an airliner collision over the canyon that led to the formation of the FAA, It Happened at Grand Canyon tells the history of this colossal, magnificent place.
by Lyndee Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
More than Petticoats: Remarkable Illinois Women chronicles the stories of twelve Illinois women who lived in the era of True Womanhood and dedicated themselves to charity toward family and strangers. Unwittingly, these women forged a legacy that expanded well beyond Illinois' borders.
From First Lady...