Folly Cove 01930: 249 books

A discussion of the war west of the Mississippi including The Opelousas Expedition, The Corps d'Afrique, The Sabine Pass Expedition and the Triumphs and Disasters of the Red River Expedition. Illustrated.

An American makes the trek across Siberia via horse, carriage and sled, during the mid nineteenth century. Original Illustrations included.

Lumber and Wheat were the industries that made Minnesota in the mid 19th Century. Here are two reports, one from the Lumber camps in the pine forest and the second from the wheat fields. These show glimpses of life in the woods and life on the farm during the period. The Minnesota Pineries and Among the Wheat Fields of Minnesota, reports from 1868.

The early Bohemians, poets, anarchists and immigrants all converged on Bowery Street in New Yorks Lower East Side during the 1890's. Bunner looks at Life on Bowery in this short illustrated essay.

In A Little Something About Kentucky, James Lane Allen, Kentucky's first and one of her foremost novelists gives us two essays that predate his first successful novel, “A Kentucky Cardinal.” Here we learn something of life in Kentucky during the latter part of the nineteenth Century. First published as “Court Days in Kentucky” and “Kentucky Fairs.”

A Californian on a world tour spends a discovers mid nineteenth Century Iceland and Icelanders. From the original Serialization of 1863.

"How would you like to ship with me?" Dick regarded me with a look of mingled surpise and inquiry. "To be explicit: I have been thinking of making the tour of New England in search of sport and adventures. I want a companion. How would you like to ship for the voyage...

Augusta Treverorum is a late 19th century description of the ancient northern capital of the Roman Empire. Many of the Roman Artifacts in Trier or Treves or Augusta Treverorum are discussed.

This short pieces describes the opening of the Jaffa Jerusalem Railway during August 1892. Laser reprint of original illustrated article.

This is an American View of the reign of the Ottoman Sulton during the declining years of Ottoman Rule in Constantinople.

This brief biographical sketch discusses the African explorer and some of his adventures.

Silver mining was a hot topic in the mid nineteenth century, with one discovery following another in the western United States. Across the border in Mexico the mines were much older, and not being worked with the modern methods of US mining. This is a mid nineteenth century tour of some of those mines.

The author makes a trek across Panama on a new Route from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Before the canal, there were hopes of a road to cut the trip around the Cape Horn.

A trip along the Juniata in mostly rural Pennsylvania during the mid nineteenth century, prior to the American Civil War. Digitally restored illustrations.