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Around Tombstone:: Ghost Towns and GunfightsThe communities that once surrounded the infamous Wild West town of Tombstone, including Dos Cabezas, Fairbank, Gleeson, Pearce, Courtland, Charleston, and Milltown, are now mostly ghosts of their former selves. These rich mining towns had promising futures when they were first established, but many...
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True Tales of the Olympic PeninsulaA magnificent landscape of rugged peaks, impenetrable rainforest and wild coastlines, Washington's Olympic Peninsula makes a perfect setting for the unexpected.Dive into the stories of pioneers who created wealth and celebrity out of threadbare beginnings and immigrants who found fleeting success in Port Townsend....
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The Oregon Skyline Trail: A HistoryThe foundation of America's greatest long-distance hiking trail. The Skyline Trail began as a network of footpaths created by Oregon's indigenous tribes. Early fur traders and explorers followed in their steps, seeking safe routes over the unmapped Cascades. Judge John Breckenridge Waldo later spent...
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The Deadly 1940 Alamo Train CrashOn March 14, 1940, a train heading west along Highway 83 from Donna to Alamo struck a truck driver turning north from the highway onto Tower Road. The horrific crash killed twenty-nine of about forty-five farmworkers who were on the truck. A one-day investigation...
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Naming Arkansas: Curious Place Names from Greasy Corner to Sock CityThe History Behind the Names The place names of Arkansas reflect four centuries of settlement and human response to the state's unique geography. Each new group of settlers brought their own rich memories, heritage and hopes for a better life, all of which manifested...
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Chicago's UptownChicago's Uptown arose in the early 20th century due to advances in public transportation. In less than 20 years, what had been a hamlet transformed into a bustling district. Thanks to the array of elevated rail and streetcar lines, commuters could travel between downtown...
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Beware the Shifting Sands: Silver Secrets & Murderous Ambitions in the Black HillsAuthor: Mark MacedoniaPublisher: Christopher Matthews PublishingPublished: 03/15/2024Pages: 408Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.91dISBN: 9781944072872
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Victorian Southwest Michigan True CrimeMurder and mystery haunt the shadowy corners of the Victorian Era in Southwest Michigan. Decades after his supposed death in 1846, a litigious bachelor was discovered to have been buried alive. In 1865, a Battle Creek woman, yearning for her lover, used Spiritualism to...
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So Much OwedAn Irish country doctor is sickened by all he saw in the First World War. His children are now determined to fight in World War 2. How far can you stretch the ties that bind a family?In the turbulent and uncertain times of Ireland...
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Jewish Settlers in the Arizona TerritoryPioneers in Broadcloth In the 1800s, territorial Arizona offered excitement and adventure to new arrivals, including many Jewish families. Anna Solomon tended the family's general store in the remote Gila River Valley while her husband, Isadore, cut timber and burned charcoal for the furnaces...
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Roman Spectacle on the Rio Grande: Borderland Animal Fights at the Turn of the CenturyHow the gladiatorial games of ancient Rome appeared on the Texas frontier. From 1895 to 1913, promoters on the Texas-Mexico border imported a variety of large mammals from around the world to pit them against one another in interspecies combat. Lions fought bears, an...
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Jackson HoleThe broad valley of Jackson Hole and the ridges and slopes around what would become Jackson, Wyoming, had long been a crossroads to the region's Indigenous peoples when fur trappers arrived in the early decades of the 19th century and made Jackson Hole a...
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Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt in Albany: Governing New YorkFranklin and Eleanor Roosevelt changed America with a government on the side of the people that put Americans back to work and inspired confidence that the nation could overcome the Great Depression. This is the story of their progressive legacy when FDR was Governor...
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Fourth Ward Charlotte: A Neighborhood HistoryTake a walk through this intimate and charming neighborhood. In 1970, Charlotte's Fourth Ward was a desolate zone of vacant lots dotted with boarded-up and burned-out buildings. Today, the neighborhood is a leafy mix of Victorian homes, modern in-fill houses and stately apartment buildings....
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Cajun Country ChroniclesAuthor William Thibodeaux shares a bevy of Cajun Country tales. From shocking one offs to delightful immersion into the quotidian lives of Cajuns long deceased, we find ourselves with a satisfying grab bag of Cajun history. A murder becomes a case that winds its...
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Black Settlements in Southern IllinoisNever before has there been a published record that identifies the Black settlements in each of the lower sixteen counties of Southern Illinois. Few are aware of this legacy, which dates back to the early founding of the Illinois territory, but these communities are...
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1906 San Francisco Earthquake: A Captivating Guide to the Deadliest Earthquake in the History of the United StatesDid you know that the 1906 San Francisco earthquake is thought to be one of the deadliest earthquakes in history?In the early morning of April 18th, 1906, in San Francisco, California, the ground heaved up. Buildings swayed like blades of grass and collapsed, and...
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The 1906-1910 Cubs Dynasty: Rowdy Times and Rugged Men in Cutthroat ChicagoA Cubs dynasty founded on fastballs and fisticuffs. Unlike today's Chicago Cubs, the Cubs of 1906-1910 were not at all lovable, and certainly did not always display traits customarily linked with a winning team. Their manager would brawl with his own players, and the...
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World War II in North State CaliforniaOn Sunday morning, December 7, 1941 the world changed for the North State--and the nation. A national call to arms by President Franklin D. Roosevelt after the bombing of Pearl Harbor spurred local residents to action, and the normal rhythm of life immediately and...
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Black Communities of Fairfax: A HistoryThe story of Black Fairfax has long been untold. The free Black population of Fairfax Court House dates to at least the 1820s. After the Civil War, newly freed Black citizens expanded the hamlet of Jermantown dramatically. Additional segregated neighborhoods, including School Street, which...
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