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The City Different and the Palace
The Palace of the Governors: Its Role in Santa Fe History; Including Jesse Nusbaum's Restoration Journals
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The year was 1909, and a youthful Jesse Nusbaum had resigned his teaching position at the Normal School at Las Vegas, New Mexico, and had ridden his “…four-horse-power, twin-cylinder, chain-belt-driven, two-speed Excelsior motorcycle over the rough and rocky Santa Fe Trail route, to enter on July...
Cracker Culture
Celtic Ways in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Cracker Culture is a provocative study of social life in the Old South that probes the origin of cultural differences between the South and the North throughout American history. Among Scotch-Irish settlers the term “Cracker” initially designated a person who boasted, but in American usage the...
Durham’s Place Names of California’s North Coast
Includes Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino & Trinity Counties
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
• Wounded Knee Mountain in Del Norte County got its name from an incident suffered by an Unites States Geological Survey employee who was working in the neighborhood in 1915. The mountain sits just one and a half miles west of Broken Rib Mountain, another sore spot in California’s...
Southern Heritage on Display
Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity within Southern Regionalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
How ritualized public ceremonies affirm or challenge cultural identities associated with the American South
* A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
"From the jazz funeral processions in the streets of New Orleans to the annual Natchez Pilgrimage in Mississippi and the Scottish Highland...
Sabine Pass
The Confederacy's Thermopylae
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In an 1882 speech, former Confederate president Jefferson Davis made an exuberant claim: "That battle at Sabine Pass was more remarkable than the battle at Thermopylae." Indeed, Sabine Pass was the site of one of the most decisive Civil War battles fought in Texas. But unlike the Spartans, who succumbed...
by Carol Paradise Decker
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
The great Pecos Mission is now reduced to roofless red walls that loom over the surrounding countryside in Northern New Mexico. Each year thousands of visitors view the ruins and the earth-covered rubble of the pueblo it served. About 20 miles east of Santa Fe, the site is now protected by the National...
Merging Dimensions
The Opening Portals of Sedona
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
In a secluded valley near Sedona, Arizona, strange events mysteriously began in 1992. What does it portend for us all? There is a wondrous place I wish to share with you. The encounters I have been privileged to experience there have taken me on a journey like none other. As in all life, some of these...
Along the Lines of Devotion
The Bloodstained Field of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The fighting on July 1 1863 built the foundation to what would become known as the bloodiest battle fought on American soil. However, it remains one of the most overlooked locations around the battlefield. Cast into the shadows of more scenic locations such as Little Round Top, Devil’s Den, the...
Unfreeze Your Bird
The Story of Sun'n Fun the International Fly-In and Aviation Exposition
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Bud Davidson recalls his own 25 years of volunteering. Using interviews, the story builds on the experiences of many others that led a small weekend fly-in to become an international multi-million dollar event. Sources include little known debates that are documented in the minutes of Board and Executive...
Places of Worship
Exploring Their History
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 1995
Whether Christian churches, Jewish synagogues, Islamic mosques, Buddhist temples, or the gathering places for other faiths, buildings designed for worship are significant to both their own community of believers and their larger communities. Coming to understand the history of places of worship, therefore,...
by SleuthQuests
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
If you are looking for a quirky and unusual date in Hollywood, then this book is perfect for you! This book contains 50 clue-based questions that will send you and your date on a scavenger hunt throughout the city. If you want to add a little bit of history into your relationship, then you won’t want to miss this book!
by SleuthQuests
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
If you are looking for a quirky and unusual way to learn about Hollywood while on vacation, then this book is perfect for you! This book contains 50 clue-based questions that will send you and your date on a scavenger hunt throughout the older parts of the city. If you want to add a little bit of history into your relationship, then you won’t want to miss this book!
by SleuthQuests
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
If you are looking for a quirky to learn about San Francisco history while on vacation, then this book is perfect for you!
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 relationship, then you won’t want to miss this book!
by SleuthQuests
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
If you are looking for a quirky and unusual date in San Francisco, then this book is perfect for you!
This book contains 50 clue-based questions that will send you and your date on a scavenger hunt throughout the city. If you want to add a little bit of history into your relationship, then you won’t want to miss this book!