Monroe: 1002 books

Wild country, land hungry pioneers, angry native Indians, a vicious attack in the dark of night, stolen gold, a secret hiding place, the mysterious death of a treasure hunter -- they're all in the legend of the secret cave on the hill.

“Beardsley’s book accomplishes to perfection what the writer intended.  It illuminates an area of history from a certain perspective as was never done before. . . . The distinguishing feature of his book is a n excitement over everything I aesthetics that has to do with symbols, meanings, language,...

Mermaid is a collection of poems inspired by the sea. Written with admiration for the aqua life,the classic book flows with a rippling cadence, imbued with the lore and romance invoked by the sea.

All history is, perforce, a merciless abridgment, and yet too much can never be written concerning any nation, any people— since each contribution must have a definite value. In the offering of this compendium of history and biography, the publishers lay claim not to any amplification of data in...

God inspired Different Strokes for Greedy Folks within me while I was trying to publish one book, in which I added some other little books. Wondering what in the world am I going to do while trying to recover from an injury on my job. You might get by but you wont get away with the things that we...

El siglo XX, parafraseando a Moshe Lewin, fue el «siglo soviético». Si consideramos que 1914 marca el inicio real del siglo, al cortar la Gran Guerra abruptamente con el antiguo régimen decimonónico, y 1991 señala su final con la descomposición de la Unión Soviética, podemos entender fácilmente...

Its name derived from the Nez Perce language, Latah County is the only county in the United States to have been created by an Act of Congress. The abundance of its natural resources�from blue fields of camas to deep veins of gold, from great stands of white pine trees to vast green grasslands�attracted...

Did Samuel Mudd have prior knowledge of the impending assassination of Abraham Lincoln and willingly provide aid to John Wilkes Booth after Lincoln's murder? Historians are still divided over this issue nearly 140 years later. In 1906, Nettie Mudd published this passionate plea for her father's innocence....

The author knows his city and loves it, and has a fund of anecdote as well as history up his capacious sleeve. The Boston of which he tells us reaches up to about hundredandfifty years back, without letting go of the older town of Colonial and Revolutionary days. All sorts of odd corners are portrayed,...

A slice of underworld life, *’*57, Chicago is a fact-based fictional thriller. The banker’s dead—a mob killing with repercussions. Money’s tied up. Three men are on a collision course: Al. He’s a layoff bookie, thinks he can live as a middleman between his customers and the...

Hoke County is located in the Sandhills region of North Carolina between the beaches and mountains. In the beginning, the countryside was covered with magnificent pine forest. Most of the early settlers were Highland Scots who started many of the region�s churches. As communities grew, families were...

What and how to teach in the K16 classroom history has been a perennial and, at times, heated debate. Beginning as early as 1892, the question of what knowledge is of the most worth and what should be the central function of the history curriculum became a focus of many interested in education. It...

Plantation sites, especially those in the southeastern United States, have long dominated the archaeological study of slavery. These antebellum estates, however, are not representative of the range of geographic locations and time periods in which slavery has occurred. As archaeologists have begun...

'The City of Detroit' is a milestone work on the history of the Michigan metropolis. Burton's work covers more than two hundred years of events and facts and had to be split into four volumes due to its size. There is hardly a more detailed book dealing with Detroit's past. This is volume four, covering the religious history, the history of Wayne County and miscellaneous topics.