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Texas in 1837
An Anonymous, Contemporary Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Written anonymously in 1838–39 by a "Citizen of Ohio," Texas in 1837 is the earliest known account of the first year of the Texas republic. Providing information nowhere else available, the still-unknown author describes a land rich in potential but at the time "a more suitable arena for those who...
by Mary Osborne Douthit
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
"The purpose of this book is to record woman’s part in working out the plan of our Western civilization; no other civilization, perhaps, bearing so conspicuously the imprint of her hand and her brain." So wrote Mary Douthit, herself a pioneer woman. She continued: "In patience, courage, and endurance,...
by Judge William L. Kuykendall
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
From service in the Civil War to presiding over the trial of Wild Bill Hickok's killer to raising sheep, Judge W.L. Kuykendall lived a frontier life full of real adventure and close calls. When elected judge by the citizens of Deadwood for the trial of Hickok's killer, Kuykendall told the town..."While...
Alex Sweet's Texas
The Lighter Side of Lone Star History
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Alexander Edwin Sweet (1841-1901) is Texas's own "Sifter," whose humorous columns appeared in the Galveston Daily News in the late 1870s and early 1880s. In his wickedly funny, tongue-in-cheek sketches, readers learned of an astonishing variety of frontier phenomena, some familiar, others downright odd....
by George Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2002
Entertaining historical vignettes focus on the human-interest aspects of real people and actual events of frontier Texas. Included are stories about the early colonists, the Indians, the cowboys, the gunslingers, the lawmen, the entrepreneurs, and the statesmen. Subjects such as the conflicts with...
In Their Shoes
In Their Shoes
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Probably no American journalist, man or woman, has had a more extraordinary career than Grace Halsell. Before President Lyndon Johnson personally hired her to work in the White House, Halsell had, over a period of two decades, written her way around the world - Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Orient,...
It Happened in New York City
Remarkable Events That Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped Gotham, It Happened
in New York City describes everything from the installation of the Statue of Liberty to the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, from the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11 to the construction of the new Yankee stadium, slated to open in 2009.
by William R. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
"Oliver Cromwell struck a mortal blow at the universal heart of Flunkyism," wrote Carlyle of the execution of Charles I.
Yet, Flunkyism is not dead!
In the United States alone more than 5,000,000 persons derive their incomes, in whole or in part, from "tips," or...
Carville
Remembering Leprosy in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
Mysterious and misunderstood, distorted by biblical imagery of disfigurement and uncleanness, Hansen's disease or leprosy has all but disappeared from America's consciousness. In Carville, Louisiana, the closed doors of the nation's last center for the treatment of leprosy open to reveal stories of...
In Love and War
The World War II Courtship Letters of a Nisei Couple
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
The events of December 7, 1941, rocked the lives of people around the world. The bombing of Pearl Harbor had intimate repercussions, too, especially in the territory of Hawaii. In Love and War recounts the wartime experiences of author Melody M. Miyamoto Walters’s grandparents, two second-generation...
Las Tejanas
300 Years of History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Since the early 1700s, women of Spanish/Mexican origin or descent have played a central, if often unacknowledged, role in Texas history. Tejanas have been community builders, political and religious leaders, founders of organizations, committed trade unionists, innovative educators, astute businesswomen,...
Yanks in the Redwoods
Carving Out a Life in Northern California
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Yanks in the Redwoods tells the story of the exploration and settlement of the Northwest, focusing on a one-hundred-mile region of the Mendocino Coast, 70 miles north of San Francisco.Covering the period of 18001900, the book presents several never-before-published accounts by participants. The...
Texas by Terán
The Diary Kept by General Manuel de Mier y Terán on His 1828 Inspection of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Texas was already slipping from the grasp of Mexico when Manuel Mier y Terán made his tour of inspection in 1828. American settlers were pouring across the vaguely defined border between Mexico's northernmost province and the United States, along with a host of Indian nations driven off their lands...
by Gail E. Wagner, David H. Dye, Nicholas P
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1996
Ancient human groups in the Eastern Woodlands of North America were long viewed as homogeneous and stable hunter-gatherers, changing little until the late prehistoric period when Mesoamerican influences were thought to have stimulated important economic and social developments. The authors in this...