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Pony Express & Overland Stage: Two Accounts of the Opening of the American Western Frontier-Seventy Years on the Frontier by Alexander Majors & A ThrPony Express and Stage Coach--icons of the Western FrontierThe opening of the great North American interior during the 19th century has passed into legend. This was the 'Wild West' and its personalities and great events have become familiar to almost everyone. This was a...
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The Electrical Unions and the Cold War: Generation of ResistanceElectrical workers and their unions were at the vortex of the arguments that shook the labor movement and the country during the Cold War. This book recounts and interprets that experience. While international issues were widely considered beyond the bailiwick of workers, they split...
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The Old Santa Fe Trail, the Story of a Great HighwayThe story of the Old Santa Fe Trail, so truthfully recalled by Colonel Henry Inman, ex-officer of the old Regular Army, in these pages, is a most thrilling one. The vast area through which the famous highway ran is still imperfectly known to most...
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For the Independent, Peaceful Reunification of the CountryThis book contains speeches and writings between 1948 and 1975 of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung on the subject of reunification of Korea. His thoughts offer interesting insights into the communist view of reunification on the Korean Peninsula.Author: Kim Il SungPublisher: University Press...
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City of NetsA dazzling social and cultural history of Hollywood's golden age in the decade from World War II to the Korean WarIn 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced...
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Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877From its shocking curtain-raiser--the conflagration that consumed Lower Manhattan in 1835--to the climactic centennial year of 1876, when Americans staged a corrupt, deadlocked presidential campaign (fought out in Florida), Walter A. McDougall's Throes of Democracy carries the saga of the American people's continuous self-reinvention...
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Lost Boys of Hannibal: Inside America's Largest Cave SearchIn 1967, the largest cave search in US history unfolded in historic Hannibal, Missouri, the boyhood home of author Mark Twain. Three modern day Tom Sawyers, with no caving expertise but an abundance of bravado, made Hannibal ground zero for a terrifying calamity that...
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The Outer LimitsIn this TV Milestone, author Joanne Morreale highlights the differences of The Outer Limits (ABC 1963-65) from typical programs on the air in the 1960s. Morreale argues that the show provides insight into changes in the television industry as writers turned to genre fiction-in...
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Ghosts of Winter: A young woman encounters the Third ReichAnger smolders in Germany over the country's humiliation following the Great War. A brash Führer has seized on the discontent, and militarized all citizens to regain world power. Germany is no longer a democracy - it is the Third Reich.Despite her father's misgivings over...
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Saint Louis: The Story of Catholic Evangelization of America's Heartland: Vol 3: The Age of Cardinals"The Age of Cardinals of Saint Louis ranged from 1903..". to 1969: John Joseph Glennon (made Archbishop in 1903, Cardinal in 1946) to Joseph Elmer Ritter (made Archbishop in 1946, Cardinal in 1961) to John Joseph Carberry (made Archbishop in 1968, Cardinal in 1969).Prostrate...
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Last Days of TheresienstadtIn February of 1945, during the final months of the Third Reich, Eva Noack-Mosse was deported to the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt. A trained journalist and expert typist, she was put to work in the Central Evidence office of the camp, compiling endless...
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Lampasas 1855-1895: Biography of a Frontier CityFor nearly three decades, the settlers of Lampasas were challenged by frontier hardships and dangers. The isolated Hill Country community was founded in the 1850s amid bubbling mineral springs, During summer "watering seasons," hundreds of Texans made their way through the wilderness to "take...
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SanctionedHis name was Lonnie Siegel, but he was known by others.Lonnie was born into an aristocratic German family and orphaned during an allied bombing raid over Dresden. Shuttled from one caretaker to the next, he was ultimately taken in by an elderly first-generation immigrant...
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A Passionate Life: W. H. H. Murray, from Preacher to ProgressiveThe first full biography of W. H. H. Murray (1849-1904), a Boston preacher often described as the father of the American outdoor movement and the modern vacation.Author: Randall S. BeachPublisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New YoPublished: 03/02/2023Pages: 189Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...
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Robert R. Church Jr. and the African American Political StruggleSouthern Conference on African American Studies, Inc., C. Calvin Smith Book Award This volume highlights the little-known story ofRobert R. Church Jr., the most prominent black Republican of the 1920s and1930s. Tracing Church's lifelong crusade to make race an important part of thenational political...
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Big Bend Country: Land of the UnexpectedHaving first visited the Big Bend in 1928, Kenneth B. Ragsdale has been digging around in and writing about the region for decades. In Big Bend Country: Land of the Unexpected, he takes a nostalgic retrospective journey through the times and places of this...
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John Wayne's AmericaThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg brings his eloquence, wit, and on-target perceptions of American life and politics to this fascinating, well-drawn protrait of a twentieth-century hero. In this work of great originality--the biography of an idea--Garry Wills shows how John Wayne...
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Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long SixtiesA narrative history of the movement that turned "Orientals" into Asian Americans Until the political ferment of the Long Sixties, there were no Asian Americans. There were only isolated communities of mostly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos lumped together as "Orientals." Serve the People tells...
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A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs of a Wartime BoomtownA Sentimental Journey is a social history of the life and culture of the World War II home front in Wilmington and Southeastern North Carolina. "The Defense Capital of the State," it became a mighty contributor to the war effort and the country's unique...
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Exploring with Byrd: Episodes of an Adventurous LifeAs the culminating volume of Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr.'s renowned expeditions, this is the comprehensive autobiography of a man who knew no limits. From his earliest days as a Navy pilot in training, to his controversial flights to the North and South Poles,...
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