State Local category: 1635 books
by Frederick Schwatka
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
These pages narrate the travels, in a popular sense, of an Alaskan exploring expedition. The expedition was organized with seven members at Vancouver Barracks, Washington, and left Portland, Oregon, ascending through the inland passage to Alaska, as far as the Chilkat country. At that point the party...
The City in Slang
New York Life and Popular Speech
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 1995
The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger,...
Another's Country
Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Cultural Interactions in the Southern Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
The 18th-century South was a true melting pot, bringing together colonists from England, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and other locations, in addition to African slaves—all of whom shared in the experiences of adapting to a new environment and interacting with American Indians. The shared...
by Gerald Butler
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2000
This accurate pictorial history will acquaint the reader with the seacoast defenses of Boston Harbor. Fortified since the the 1600s, seacoast defenses provided important protection for the new seaport. By the Civil War, strong granite fortresses guarded the seaward approaches to the Port of Boston....
Maine's Remarkable Women
Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Maine's Remarkable Women tells the stories of fifteen strong and determined women who broke through social, cultural, or political barriers. Through their passions for art, exploration, literature, politics, music, and nature, these women made contributions to society that still resonate today.
Meet...
by Mrs. Mary Matilda Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In this true story, Mary Matilda McNair Mathews tells the tale of going west for no other reason than to get the facts on her brother's murder. With her small son, she braves what was in 1869, a wild and lawless country. For ten years she made her way as a businesswoman and investor. Observing all...
Kentucky Maverick
The Life and Adventures of Colonel George M. Chinn
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Colonel George M. Chinn's (1902--1987) life story reads more like fiction than the biography of a Kentucky soldier. A smart and fun-loving character, Chinn attended Centre College and played on the famous "Praying Colonels" football team that won the 1921 national championship. After graduation,...
by William C. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Mapping old trails has a romantic allure at least as great as the difficulty involved in doing it. In this book, William Foster produces the first highly accurate maps of the eleven Spanish expeditions from northeastern Mexico into what is now East Texas during the years 1689 to 1768.Foster draws upon...
Wells, Fargo Detective
A Biography of James B. Hume
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
In the tradition of his award-winning biographies, Meriwether Lewis and Fool’s Gold, acclaimed historian Richard Dillon recreates the life of one of frontier America’s most gifted lawmen, James B. Hume.
Dillon paints a vivid picture of Hume, the greatest of Wells,...
The Goose Creek Bridge
Gateway to Sacred Places
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
The Goose Creek Bridge is the gateway to the Saint James, Goose Creek Parish in South Carolina and the church, cemeteries, chapels, and sanctuaries within. The work chronicles the bridge as it conveyed congregants to the pews of the church on selected Easter Sundays during every era of the three-hundred...
Moses Levy of Florida
Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
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America's Bloody Hill of Destiny
A New Look at the Struggle for Little Round Top, Gettysburg, July 2, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2018
No chapter in the annals of the most important battle of America's national epic has been more celebrated than the key struggle for possession of the rocky hill at the extreme southern flank of the battle line at Gettysburg, Little Round Top. And no contest during the battle of Gettysburg was deadlier...
Gettysburg's Most Hellish Battleground
The Devil’s Den, July 2, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
During the crucial three days of combat at Gettysburg, the most nightmarish place on the entire battlefield was appropriately named the Devil's Den. This jumble of huge boulders situated at the southern end of Houck's Ridge was truly a hell on earth during the decisive afternoon of July 2, 1863.
The...
by Alan Renga
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
With its low fares and friendly service, Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) was one of the most successful regional airlines in American history. Its distinctive orange, red, and white planes, complete with a beaming smile were immediately recognizable to those living on the West Coast. The airline was...