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Robber and hero: the story of the raid on the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota, by the James-Younger band of robbers, in 1876.Accounts of bank-robberies and other exploits of outlaws and desperadoes are usually supposed to belong to the criminal-news columns of the...

The Mormon Prophet and His Harem - Or, An Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and ChildrenNo apology is offered for presenting to the public the only authentic account of Brigham Young, of his polygamous family, and of that complicated and incongruous...

The Sea RoversA glorious vision is Gloucester harbor, whether seen under the radiant sun of a clear June morning or through the haze and smoke of a mellow October afternoon. Gloucester town lies on a range of hills around the harbor, and fortunate is...

The Devil in Britain and America To my thinking, all modern English books on the Devil and his works are unsatisfactory. They all run in the same groove, give the same cases of witchcraft, and, moreover, not one of them is illustrated. I have...

The World's Great Sermons, Volume 04: L. Beecher to BushnellLyman Beecher was born in New Haven, Conn., in 1775. He graduated from Yale in 1797, and in 1798 took charge of the Presbyterian Church at Easthampton, Long Island. He first attracted attention by his...

Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 3 of 3It is not very profitable to enquire into the constitutional antiquities of a country which furnishes no authentic historian, nor laws, nor charters, to guide our research, as is the case with...

A Thousand Years of Jewish History - From the days of Alexander the Great to the Moslem Conquest of SpainThe dual purpose of the revision of this work has been simplification and amplification. The language has been recast in parts and there have been...

Mémoire sur les avantages qu'il y auroit à changer absolument la nourriture des gens de merPar M. Poissonnier Desperrires, Chevalier de l'Ordre du Roi, l'un de ses Mdecins ordinaires, Mdecin de la Grande Chancellerie & de la Gnralit de Paris, Inspecteur gnral des Hpitaux...

Papers and Proceedings of the Twenty-Third General Meeting of the American Library Association - Held at Waukesha, Wisconsin, July 4-10, 1901In your presence, and in addressing you to-night as presiding officer, I feel to a far greater extent than I can express in words...

Singapore, Malacca, Java. - Reiseskizzen von F. Jagor.Die Absicht des Verfassers ist, in den vorliegenden Reiseskizzen, welche achtzehn Monate einer fast fnfjhrigen Reise umfassen, kurze Schilderungen der hervorragendsten Gegenstnde zu geben; die rein persnlichen Erlebnisse und rein wissenschaftlichen Einzelnheiten sind daher in der Regel...

Adrift in the Unknown; or, Queer Adventures in a Queer RealmTitle: Adrift in the Unknown or, Queer Adventures in a Queer Realm Author: William Wallace Cook Release Date: December 10, 2013 [EBook #44404] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 For example, the action in...

Le roman de la rose - Tome III LVI Comment l'Amant trouva Richesse10399. Gardant le sentier et l'adresse Par lequel prennent le chastel Amans qui assez ont chastel Jouxte une clere fontenele, Pensant la Rose novele, En ung biau leu trop dlitable, Dame plesant...

Les illusions musicales et la vérité sur l'expressionNote sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a pas t harmonise. Les numros des pages blanches n'ont pas t repris. La premire dition de...

The Phantom YachtThe face of Dories Moore was as dismal as the day was bright. It was Indian summer and the maple trees under which she was hurrying were joyfully arrayed in red and gold, while crimson, yellow and purple flowers nodded at her...

Ticktock and JimHe watched the car drive off. His father, mother and sister Jean were all going into town for the afternoon while he stayed at home alone. He felt rather proud that his father had called him a man, but that didnt make...

Stoneheart: A RomanceSympathy is a feeling admitting neither analyzation nor discussion. It masters us, whether we will or no. Persons we meet unconsciously attract or repel us at first sight. And why? It is a question impossible to answer, but the fact is indubitable....

Poems on Slavery[The following poems, with one exception, were written at sea, in the latter part of October. I had not then heard of Dr. Channing's death. Since that event, the poem addressed to him is no longer appropriate. I have decided, however, to...

Haunted Places in EnglandIn presenting this volume to the Public, I wish to emphasise the fact that all the names of people and houses mentioned in it (saving in Chapter X.), in connection with the hauntings, are fictitious. ELLIOT ODONNELL. May 5, 1917. [5]...

Child Labor in City StreetsThis volume is devoted to the discussion of a neglected form of child labor. Just why the newsboy, bootblack and peddler should have been ignored in the general movement for child welfare is hard to understand. Perhaps it is due...

At the Court of the Amîr: A NarrativeIn Afghanistan however, difficult of access, and hence comparatively unknown, there have been, since that strong man Amr Abdurrahman ascended the Throne, such remarkable changes in the administration of the country, and such strides towards civilization, that...