State Local category: 1635 books
A History of Highway 60
and the Railroad Towns on the Belen, New Mexico Cutoff
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
In 1903 the AT&SF Railroad began laying track on the Belen Cutoff from Belen, New Mexico to Amarillo, Texas. The railroad company encouraged settlement of New Mexico’s eastern plains by sponsoring emigrant trains, a quicker method of transport for settlers moving their belongings and livestock...
Lincoln's Enduring Legacy
Perspective from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Coming on the heels of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Lincoln's Enduring Legacy offers highly readable and accessible perspectives on Lincoln at 200 in terms of his impact on great leaders and thinkers and his place in American history. The book explores how Lincoln's words and deeds...
The American President
From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The American President is an enthralling account of American presidential actions from the assassination of William McKinley in 1901 to Bill Clinton's last night in office in January 2001. William Leuchtenburg, one of the great presidential historians of the century, portrays each of the presidents...
by Lowell H. Harrison, James C. Klotter
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The first comprehensive history of the state since the publication of Thomas D. Clark's landmark History of Kentucky over sixty years ago. A New History of Kentucky brings the Commonwealth to life, from Pikeville to the Purchase, from Covington to Corbin, this account reveals Kentucky's many faces...
Siskiyou Trail
The Hudson’s Bay Company’s Route to California
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
The Hudson’s Bay Fur Company route to California was the fur trappers’ and traders’ road in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s from Fort Vancouver (now in Washington State) to San Francisco and beyond.
Does “road” mean a six-lane paved freeway...
The Way I Heard It
Tales of the Big Bend
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
The folklore of Texas' Big Bend region was still in the making during Walter Fulcher's lifetime. Born in Lampasas County in 1887, he worked on the Martin Ranch near Sheffield when a young man. There he witnessed events in the last outlaw activities of the Black Jack Ketchum gang. He also listened to...
A Second Home
Missouri's Early Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
The one-room schoolhouse may be a thing of the past, but it is the foundation on which modern education rests. Sue Thomas now traces the progress of early education in Missouri, demonstrating how important early schools were in taming the frontier.
A Second Home offers an in-depth and entertaining...
Idaho's Remarkable Women
Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Idaho's Remarakble Women 2 tells the history of the Gem State through the stories of fifteen pioneering women, all born before 1900, who made a profound impact on Idaho. Meet Sacajawea, Lewis and Clark's Shoshone guide; Jo Monaghan, who lived as a man for nearly forty years; Margaret Cobb Ailshie,...
by James A. Crutchfield
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Colorado has historical high points as grand as its magnificent mountains. In this book, author James A. Crutchfield scales thirty-eight of these historical summits. From a prehistoric bison hunt to a mad scramble for a fortune in gold It Happened in Colorado is a window into the Centennial State's colorful past.
The Letters of Joe Hill
Centenary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
"Joe Hill's influence is everywhere. Without Joe Hill, there's no Woody Guthrie, no Dylan, no Springsteen, no Clash, no Public Enemy, no Minor Threat, no System of a Down, no Rage Against the Machine."—Tom Morello, from the foreword
Radical songwriter and organizer Joe Hill was...
by Dr. Gerald L. Miller, Shari Miller Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
MAKING THE ROUNDS shares the stories and insights of a compassionate doctor who practiced family medicine in the small working-class town of Markle, Indiana. This memoir develops the idea that, as a standard of health, communal wholeness is as important as individual wholeness, that health involves...
Greater Freedom
The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Greater Freedom offers a groundbreaking long-term community study of Wilson County, North Carolina. Charting the evolution of Wilson's civil rights movement, Charles McKinney argues that African Americans in Wilson created an expansive notion of freedom that influenced every aspect of life in the...
Crucible of Reconstruction
War, Radicalism, and Race in Louisiana, 1862--1877
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1984
In late April, 1862, Union warships slipped past the Confederate river forts below New Orleans and blasted the Rebel fleet guarding the city. Advancing overland, General Benjamin F. Butler occupied New Orleans on May Day, and for the duration of the war the Stars and Stripes waved over the Confederacy's...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
This collection of primary source material chronicles the Civil War experiences of North Carolinians from the secession crisis to the Confederate surrender at Bennett Place. In contrast to other works on the Civil War, this book focuses not on military events but on the larger issue of the societal...