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The Gila Trail
The Texas Argonauts and the California Gold Rush
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
The Texas Argonauts were on the march west as early as January, 1849 —a remarkable circumstance when it is recalled that the famous tea caddy of gold dust which set off the gold fever in the “States” did not reach Washington, D. C, until December 7, 1848. From Brownsville,...
by Howard Brinkley
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Never has the world come as close to the catastrophic destruction that nearly came to pass in October 1962. The United States and the Soviet Union, uneasy allies in World War II but Cold War rivals after the defeat of Germany, squared off over the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. This...
Beautiful Mine
Women Prospectors Of The Old West
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
During the gold rush, women worked alongside men panning and digging for gold and silver in the mountains of Colorado, California, and all the way up to Alaska. While many books have been written about the frontier women who ran brothels and boarding houses in mining towns, none have told the true...
Grand Old Party
A History of the Republicans
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
From Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War through the disputed election of George W. Bush and beyond, the Republican Party has been at the dramatic center of American politics for 150 years. In Grand Old Party, the first comprehensive history of the Republicans in 40 years, Lewis L. Gould traces the...
Closure
The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Recovery Mission
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2006
One of the four Operations Commanders of the World Trade Center site chronicles the rescue and recovery mission at Ground Zero from September 11, 2001, through the end of operations on May 30, 2002, while telling the story of his own struggle to make peace with all that he saw there.
On the...
Burnt-Out Fires
California’s Modoc Indian War
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Burnt-Out Fires deals with a very dark period of American history, a period that, until recently, had been purposefully forgotten ... a period that hopefully will cause a re-evaluation of the American ideals and dreams.
Everyone pointed to...
by Stan Hoig
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011
Before she was Wichita, Kansas, she was a collection of grass huts, home to the ancestors of the Wichita Indians. Then came the Spanish conquistadors, seeking gold but finding instead vast herds of buffalo.After the Civil War, Wichita played host to a cavalcade of Western men: frontier soldiers,...
by Den Galbraith
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Revolutions, native conspiracies and subsequent insurrections, filthy mountain men sleeping on the dirt and wrestling with grizzlies, radical priests, belligerent American soldiers, betrayal, violence, early forms of commerce, and other enthralling accounts are part of this small New Mexico town’s...
The Big Roads
The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Discover the twists and turns of one of America’s great infrastructure projects with this “engrossing history of the creation of the U.S. interstate system” (Los Angeles Times).
It’s become a part of the landscape that we take for granted, the site of rumbling eighteen-wheelers and...
The Siege of Washington
The Untold Story of the Twelve Days That Shook the Union
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
On April 14, 1861, following the surrender of Fort Sumter, Washington was "put into the condition of a siege," declared Abraham Lincoln. Located sixty miles south of the Mason-Dixon Line, the nation's capital was surrounded by the slave states of Maryland and Virginia. With no fortifications...
by Jill Lepore
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**New York Times Bestseller
In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American...
by Robert Ross McCoy
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2006
This work focuses on how whites used Nez Perce history, images, activities and personalities in the production of history, developing a regional identity into a national framework.
by Edward Austin Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018
Light Ahead for the Negro written by Edward Austin Johnson who was an attorney. This book was published in 1904. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work,...
Mannahatta
A Natural History of New York City
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
On September 12, 1609, Henry Hudson first set foot on the land that would become Manhattan. Today, it’s difficult to imagine what he saw, but for more than a decade, landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson has been working to do just that. Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City is the astounding...