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Cambria CenturyFor a little village, a lot has happened in Cambria. It's on the road to Hearst Castle and the most scenic stretch of Highway 1, where you can see zebras roaming beside the freeway and elephant seals lounging in the sun. But it's also...
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The Fur Trade in ColoradoExploration, adventure, hardship, success - these are words that are interchangeable with the "taming" of the American West. They are also words that exemplify one of the lesser known, but greatest of "pioneer" industries that contributed significantly to forging and defining Colorado's wild frontier....
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Father Struck It RichThomas Walsh discovered fabulous golden wealth in the historic Camp Bird Mine near Ouray, Colorado. His daughter, Evalyn Walsh McLean, tells an engaging true story of the family that wanted for nothing. They led a life of extravagance. It enabled them to acquire possessions...
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The War State: The Cold War Origins Of The Military-Industrial Complex And The Power Elite, 1945-1963Today when you factor in the interest on the national debt from past wars and total defense expenditures the United States spends almost 40% of its federal budget on the military. It accounts for over 46% of total world arms spending. Before World War...
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Why The Vietnam War?: Nuclear Bombs and Nation Building in Southeast Asia, 1945-1961Why did the Vietnam War begin? When most Americans today think of the Vietnam War they think of the period of time between the years surrounding 1966 to 1969, because that is when most American soldiers actually went to Vietnam so it persists in...
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Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess2023 Reprint of the 1959 U.S. Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Rudolf Hoess [also Höss] was a German SS officer during the Nazi era who, after the defeat of Nazi Germany, was convicted for war...
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Slavery and the Slave Trade in AfricaThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Jacqueline Bouvier KennedyThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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I Had Rather Die: Rape in the Civil WarThe American Civil War is often regarded as a "low-rape" war, due to gentlemanly "restraint." Nearly thirty Union soldiers were executed for the crime. As a result, rape is perceived to have been dealt with harshly. On the surface, the numbers reflect the view...
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Vocabulum, Or, The Rogue's Lexicon. Compiled From the Most Authentic Sources.Published just before the Civil War, this dictionary offers a fascinating glimpse into the American underworld in the first half of the nineteenth century As New York City's Chief of Police and an owner of the National Police Gazette, George W. Matsell 1811-1877] had...
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The art of boxing. By Daniel Mendoza, P.P.The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...
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The Child's Book on Slavery, or, Slavery Made Plain.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Reminiscences of a Student's LifeThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Letters from the Oklahoma Land Run: 1889These letters were sent from Indian Territory by those seeking land in the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889. The adventurous writers sent home bits and pieces of news about new vocations, deaths, murders, births, fights, shootings, politics, prices for commodities and more. These land...
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Rangers and Pioneers of Texas: a History and Personal Account of Conflict with Native-American Indians, Mexicans and OutlawsThe incredible account of a Ranger of early TexasIt is not uncommon for the title of a book to fully communicate to a potential reader what will be discovered within its pages. The title of this book disguises the fact that the author and...
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British Battles of the War of Austrian Succession & Seven Years' War: Twenty-Seven Battles & Campaigns of the First Global Conflict, 1743-1767Great battles of the 18th century described and illustratedAlthough the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War were fought by several nations in battles when the British Empire was not involved, during the years between 1743 and 1767 British forces at sea...
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A History of the French & Indian Wars, 1689-1766: the Conflicts Between Britain and France For the Domination of North America---A History of the FrenA century of warfare to claim a continentThis unique Leonaur book provides an overview of all the conflicts in North America during the later 17th and 18th centuries, to the close of the Seven Years' War and on the Western frontier prior to the...
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The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United StatesPerhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In...
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The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. HayesThe Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations....
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Rock Force: The American Paratroopers Who Took Back Corregidor and Exacted MacArthur's Revenge on JapanFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of No Easy Day comes a thrilling World War II story of the American airborne soldiers who captured a Japanese-held island fortress "Rock Force is a beautifully told story of war: the friendships, the courage and...
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