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The Mexican Land Grants of CaliforniaThe land grants made in California were private rancho grants. The California missions held much of the best land in trust for the Indians. When the missions were secularized in 1833, many Indians chose to leave the missions when the land was divided. While...
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Steam, Steel and Silence: The Story of the Cole Creek Train WreckBurlington's train number 30 left Casper, Wyoming on a dark and stormy night in September 1923. Less than an hour into its run to Denver, Colorado the train plunged into the flooded waters of Cole Creek. This book tells the story of the train...
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Preserving America's Lighthouses: The Memoirs of a Coast Guard Ocean EngineerRear Admiral Daniel May, a 1979 graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, is the recipient of a Distinguished Service Medal and many other awards. During his career, he served as the engineer for major lighthouse projects, including the relocation of Block Island Southeast...
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50 Barn CupolasAuthor: Karl JohnsonPublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 08/09/2023Pages: 58Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.15dISBN: 9798856628899This title is not returnable
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Fifty Years On The Trail: The True Story of John Y. Nelson, Frontiersman, Scout, and GuideThis is the true story of John Young Nelson an early American frontiersman, military scout, interpreter, guide, police chief, and saloon owner. Born in Virginia in 1826, Nelson ran away from home as a young teenager to escape a domineering father and to seek...
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Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great DepressionDuring the Great Depression, more than 250,000 children left their homes and hopped freight trains crisscrossing the United States. They were looking for work and adventure; some wanted to leave their homes, and some had to. They grew up in speeding boxcars, living in...
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Bitter Roots: Five Generations of a Chinese Family in AmericaThis account of five generations of one family's life in America could simply be called an historical drama--the "characters" are all people who lived and breathed and walked the earth of China and California, from the 1850s to the present day. It is my...
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The Lost Rescue: Parallel Diaries of the Advance Party from the Lost Wagon Train of 1853In 1853, a wagon train camped in the Eastern Oregon desert, 130 miles from the Oregon Trail. Uncertain of their whereabouts and in desperate need of supplies, they sent a scouting party over the mountains for help. This is the true story of Elijah...
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My Life as an Indian (Expanded, Annotated)Beautiful, tender, haunting, and extremely exciting This is the memoir of famed author, explorer, guide, trader, and historian of the Blackfoot Indians, James Willard Schultz. Here he tells of his life with the Blackfeet and his marriage to a Blackfoot woman, whom he deeply...
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Riddled With Bullets: The True Story of East Tennessee's Own Public Enemy #1Six feet below the fertile soil of Claiborne County, Tennessee, in overgrown brush and shrub lies the body of Clarence Bunch. Once the terror of Tennessee, forgotten now to the world. In the days of Baby Face Nelson and Ma Barker, Tennessee's brief claim...
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Twelve Years a Slave: Large Print EditionThis Large Print Edition is cleanly formatted for easy reading. 16 point, spacing 1.25. (1853) Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free black man enslaved for twelve years. It provides the details of Northup's kidnapping in Washington, D.C. and...
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Playing Grandma's GamesThis book introduces the reader to a wide variety of games that were played in America from the beginning of European immigration into the nineteenth century. Americans were indeed a game-playing bunch during the country's formative years.Author: Karen South ArnoldPublisher: Western Reflections Publishing Co.Published:...
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Death of the Rising Sun: A Search for Truth in the JFK AssassinationGoodreads Top 200 Best 21st Century Nonfiction, 2022. Pulitzer Prize in History nominee, 2018. Ranked Second on Amazon Bestseller list, Presidents category, 2017. While numerous books cover the 1963 crime-of-the-20th-century from a conspiracy or lone-assassin viewpoint, this work by veteran journalist Kevin James Shay...
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Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex - Illustrated - NARRATIVE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDINAR: Original News Stories of Whale Attacks & CannabilismIn one of the most spellbinding accounts of men who go down to the sea in ships, the modern reader is given a seat in the whale boat of Owen Chase as he and his fellow crew and their Captain make way in three...
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The Man on the Grassy KnollThis remarkable journal is a detailed account of the author's role in the assassination of President John Kennedy. In 1963, John D____ was a senior varsity baseball player at an eastern university. An accomplished marksman, John was also fluent in Spanish. In the spring,...
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Search for the Navajo Code TalkersIt started with a newspaper article and a knock on the door. Sally McClain recounts how her path became unexpectedly entwined with that of the Code Talkers, Navajo veterans of World War II. The Code Talkers had been ordered not to speak of the...
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The Longest Night: The Bombing of London on May 10, 1941"An emotionally stirring account of the single most devastating attack on London during the Blitz... A captivating and important contribution... History that reads like a novel."--Kirkus The untold story of the massive bombing raid that almost brought Britain to military collapse, The Longest Night...
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The End of the Novel of LoveA finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Vivian Gornick's The End of the Novel of Love explores the meaning of love and marriage as literary themes in the twentieth century. In The End of the Novel of Love, an acclaimed...
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Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great GatsbyAn "astute, challenging, and far-reaching" look (Kirkus Reviews, starred) at how F. Scott Fitzgerald's vision of the American Dream has been understood, portrayed, distorted, misused, and kept alive "I found great pleasure in . . . Under the Red White and Blue . ....
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Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship PuebloWINNER OF THE SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATURE "I devoured Act of War the way I did Flyboys, Flags of Our Fathers and Lost in Shangri-la."--Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author In 1968, the small, dilapidated American spy ship USS...
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