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Takilma Tales
The Hippie History of Takilma, Oregon
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Takilma Tales: The Hippie History of Takilma, Oregon, explores the evolution of a small village near the former town of Waldo; a Gold Rush ghost town, in remote Southwest Oregon. In the 60s and 70s, young hippies flocked to the run-down mining and logging town of Takilma on the edge of the Siskiyou...
Dead End
Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for a reason....
Tara Revisited
Women, War, & the Plantation Legend
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Cutting through romantic myth, this captivating volume combines period photographs and illustrations with new documentary sources to tell the real story of southern women during the Civil War.
Drawing from a wealth of poignant letters, diaries, slave narratives, and other accounts, Catherine...
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.
Senior Year
Memories of the Class of 1983 of North Miami Senior High School
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2003
Twenty years ago, the class of 1983 of North Miami Senior High in North Miami, Florida graduated from high school and set out into their adult lives.
Originally written as a high school writing assignment and now revised and expanded into this book, Senior Year chronicles the events that took...
by Howard Mansfield
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1993
In the Memory House recalls what American society has forgotten--the land, its people, and its ideals. By examining what we choose to remember, this important book reveals how progress has created absences in our landscapes and in our lives.
by Theodore R Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
An Eastern Correspondent spends the summer on duty with Hancock's 1867 Indian Expedition, following Hancock and Custer as they attempt to make peace with the warring Indians on the plains. Good examples of real life in the Indian Wars.
by Thomas H. Leforge, Dr. Thomas B. Marquis
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Tom Leforge was a legend in his time. Interpreter and scout, he lived among the Crow Indians, as a Crow, for decades. If not for a broken collar bone, Leforge would have been with the six Crow scouts that accompanied General George Armstrong Custer to the Little Bighorn. Instead, he watched from a...
Wildest Lives of the Frontier
America through the Words of Jesse James, George Armstrong Custer, 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...
by Chris Barsanti
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
• More than 850 answers to common questions on the city of New York
• Clear organization makes finding information quick and easy
• Clear and concise answers
• Numerous photographs and illustrations bring the answers to life
• Thoroughly indexed
• Helpful bibliography
• Authoritative...
by Sinuard Castelo, Louise Clamme
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
This book is to give credit to those immigrants who contributed to the growth and economic development of Blackford County. Indiana when oil and gas were discovered here in the late 19th century. In the immigrants eyes this was the fulfillment of their dreams to come to a new hand and have the opportunity...
Indeh
An Apache Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
"A fascinating account of Apache history and ethnography. All the narratives have been carefully chosen to illustrate important facets of the Apache experience. Moreover, they make very interesting reading....This is a major contribution to both Apache history and to the history of the Southwest....The...
by Walter Prescott Webb
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Webb's classic history of the Texas Rangers has been popular ever since its first publication in 1935. This edition is a reproduction of the original Houghton Mifflin edition.
So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848
Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
The story of America’s westward migration is a powerful blend of fact and fable. Over the course of three decades, almost a million eager fortune-hunters, pioneers, and visionaries transformed the face of a continent—and displaced its previous inhabitants. The people who made the long and perilous...