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Coronado National Memorial
A History of Montezuma Canyon and the Southern Huachucas
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Coronado National Memorial explores forgotten pathways through Montezuma Canyon in southeastern Arizona, and provides an essential history of the southern Huachuca Mountains. This is a magical place that shaped the region and two countries, the United States and Mexico. Its history dates back to the...
Traveler's Guide to the Great Sioux War
The Battlefields, Forts, and Related Sites of America's Greatest Indian War
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
“The Great Sioux War was the most famous Indian war in American history but most of its sites have been known to only a few students of the conflict—until now! This invaluable guide, by one of the leading historians of the military frontier, is essential reading for anyone interested in this epic...
Chicago Death Trap
The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2006
On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold-out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago’ s Iroquois Theatre. In the short span of twenty minutes, more than six hundred people were asphyxiated, burned, or trampled to death in a panicked mob’ s failed attempt to escape. In Chicago...
Vengeance in a Small Town
The Thorndale Lynching of 1911
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
One hundred years ago, in 1911, two young men lost their lives: one from a stab wound and the other by mob action. In an attempt to explain how such violence could take place in a prosperous and forward-looking community, the author first examines the growth of Thorndale as a small agricultural town...
by Theodore R Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Denver was a small town at the foot of the mountains when Theodore Davis took a stagecoach across the plains on the Smoky Hill Route from Atchison, Kansas. Herds of Buffalo and unfriendly Indians made the journey both exhilarating and dangerous, with a cavalry escort on parts of the trail. "...
by Gladys Hill
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
The shantyboys were important American Frontiersmen with a way of life individually their own. From all parts of the country they came to work the endless pines; from the East Coast to the rapidly advancing West they blazed the trails that led to expansion. It was their labor that birthed a giant...
An Indiana History Story a Day – December
Hoosier History Stories – 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Indiana possesses a rich history that is fun to read and learn. An Indiana History Story a Day, like the Indiana Bicentennial History Series that preceded it, presents Indiana history in an easy to read “this day in history format” The thirty-one stories in the December edition include:
December...
Big Thicket People
Larry Jene Fisher's Photographs of the Last Southern Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Living off the land—hunting, fishing, and farming, along with a range of specialized crafts that provided barter or cash income—was a way of life that persisted well into the twentieth century in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Before this way of life ended with World War II, professional...
Political Terrain
Washington, D.C., from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy once remarked, is a city of "southern efficiency and northern charm." Kennedy's quip was close to the mark. Since its creation two centuries ago, Washington has been a community with multiple personalities. Located on the regional divide between...
Taking the Waters in Texas
Springs, Spas, and Fountains of Youth
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
"It is well known that Southern Texas possesses a greater variety of Mineral Waters than any other country on the globe" enthused a promotion for one of Texas' many watering spas of the nineteenth century. Though most are closed and nearly forgotten today, Texas spas and resorts once drew thousands of...
This Superior Place
Stories of Bayfield and the Apostle Islands
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Picturesque little Bayfield on Lake Superior is Wisconsin’s smallest city by population but one of its most popular visitor destinations. This book captures those unique qualities that keep tourists coming back year after year and offers a historically reliable look at the community as it is today...
Family Stories from the Attic
Bringing letters and archives alive through creative nonfiction, flash narratives, and poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
FAMILY STORIES FROM THE ATTIC is an anthology of essays, creative nonfiction, and poetry inspired by family letters, objects, and archives. Nearly two dozen contributors from the United States and Australia tell stories of immigration and migration, loss, discovery, secrets, questions, love, and the...
by SleuthQuests
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book contains 50 clue-based questions that will send you on a scavenger hunt throughout the city. If you want to add a little bit of history into your travels, then you won’t want to miss this book!
A River Unvexed
A History and Tour Guide of the Campaign for the Mississippi River
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
The first comprehensive account of the entire campaign for the Mississippi River, beginning with the conquests of Memphis and New Orleans and concluding with Grant's strategies for the siege of Vicksburg. Included are driving tours of the battlefields and important sites.