George Washington: 141 books

Chapters include: WAR DIARY OF A UNION WOMAN IN THE SOUTH; THE LOCOMOTIVE CHASE IN GEORGIA; A ROMANCE OF MORGAN'S ROUGH-RIDERS; COLONEL ROSE'S TUNNEL AT LIBBY PRISON; A HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL OUT OF DIXIE; and ESCAPE OF GENERAL BRECKINRIDGE.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. When a man came down out of the mountains looking dusty and gaunt as the stranger did, there was no marvel in the matter of his eating five cans of cove oysters. The one unaccountable thing about it was that Saul...

In the Ether Day Address the phylogenetic key supplied by Darwin was utilized to formulate the principle that the organism reacts as a unit to the stimuli of physical injury, of emotion, of infection, etc. Pain, like other phenomena, was probably evolved for a particular purpose-- surely for...

Set in sultry New Orleans during the Civil War, Kincaid’s Battery tells the story of a Confederate army artillery unit, Hilary Kincaid’s Battery—or “the ladies’ men,” as they are more teasingly known. The men’s various romances with the women of the Big Easy, among other adventures, examine themes of hope, peace, and the nature of war.

“The Amateur Garden” is a classic guide to designing, maintaining, and even profiting from a beautiful garden. It looks in detail at the different plants and flowers that can be introduced, as well as such subjects as climate consideration, soil types, seasonal expectations, and much more. Highly...

Excerpt rs ago, and because of its unsafety is being taken down at the present writing.] This ravine, the middle one of the grove's three, is about a hundred feet wide. When I first began to venture the human touch in it, it afforded no open spot level enough to hold a camp-stool. From...

Excerpt him would have spent his first earnings, as other ambitious ones did, for a saddle; but 'Thanase Beausoleil had bought a fiddle. He had hardly got it before he knew how to play it. Yet, to the father's most welcome surprise, he remained just as bold a rider and as skilful a thrower...

The story is told in the most leisurely manner, and it certainly is not the author's fault if the reader is not intimately acquainted with the river and with almost the entire crew and passenger list of the Votaress before closing the book. The plot is complicated and there are some dramatic scenes,...

Down through the Bad Lands the Little Missouri comes in long windings, white, from a distance, as a frozen river between the ash-gray hills. At its margin there are willows; on the small forelands, which flood in June when the mountain waters are released, cottonwoods grow, leaning toward the southwest...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Sarah Newbolt enjoyed in her saturnine, brooding way the warmth of April sunshine and the stirring greenery of awakening life now beginning to soften the brown austerity of the dead winter earth. Beside her kitchen...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Coming to Comanche, you stopped, for Comanche was the end of the world. Unless, of course, you were one of those who wished to push the boundary-line of the world farther, to make homes in the wilderness where there had been no homes, to plant green fields in the desert where none had been before.

Beneath the romantic surface of these Creole stories lies a scathing social satire that explores the problems of racially and culturally diverse antebellum New Orleans. Adventure, love, misfortune - Cable offers an enchanting view into an exotic and alluring southern society.