J T Headley: 8 books

A short history of the siege of Detroit by Pontiac, chief of the Ottawas, as he banded together diverse tribes to try to stave off the inevitable English onslaught.

A brief history of cannon up to the time of the American Civil War.

Forty Years before Fremont made his expedition to the Pacific,  Sylvester Pattie and his son set off trapping up the Missouri River. They made their way through Santa Fe and the Southwest to the Pacific. Pattie is the first American Buried at San Diego, and his son ended up in a Spanish Prison. This is a brief account of the journey.

This is the story of exploration – Exploration in all the glory of isolation and starvation. There is something inexpressibly mournful in the detached sentences, entered by a weak and half-starved man in his journal. The absence of all attempt at description; the resigned, almost humble, way of...

Pontiac's war was fought at Detroit and at Fort Pitt. This is the story of the rescue mission sent to relieve Fort Pitt, release hostages and end the Indian Rebellion in what is now the American midwest.

This is a brief biographic sketch of the French Adventurer who became the foremost war chief of the Creek nation while McGillivrey was their political chief.

This mid nineteenth century account of Eaton's efforts to restore Hamet Bashaw to the Throne of Tripoli was one of the first accounts of the expedition to come to print.