North America local history
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Springfield 1880JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE IT'S NEVER QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. Springfield Model 1880. Trapdoor rifle with bayonet. Vengeance optional. With a handful of murderous rogues, Captain Jed Foster has run off with four wagons containing new Springfield rifles, bayonets, and ammunition meant to resupply...
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VancouverismUntil the 1980s, Vancouver was a typical mid-sized North American city. But after the city hosted Expo 86, something extraordinary happened. This otherwise unremarkable urban centre was transformed into an inspiring world-class city celebrated for its livability, sustainability, and competitiveness. This book tells the...
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The Grand Experiment: Law and Legal Culture in British Settler SocietiesThe essays in this volume reflect the exciting new directions in which legal history in the settler colonies of the British Empire has developed. The contributors show how local life and culture in selected settlements influenced, and was influenced by, the ideology of the...
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A Wampum Denied, 191: Procter's War of 1812, Second EditionA Wampum Denied reassesses the much-maligned career of Henry Procter, commander of the British forces, traces the Canadian/British/Native side of the conflict (amid a literature dominated by the American view), and casts new light on an allied military strategy that very nearly succeeded, but...
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DK Eyewitness Top 10 Mexico CityDK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Mexico City will lead you straight to the very best the city has to offer. Whether you're looking for the things not to miss at the Top 10 sights or want to find the best nightspots, this guide...
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The Vermont-Quebec Border: Life on the LineThe Vermont-Quebec Border: Life on the Line is a visual record of life in the villages, towns, and countryside in this unique and special part of the world. In recent years, issues relating to the border have been thrust to the forefront as never...
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Ancient Teotihuacan: Early Urbanism in Central MexicoThis is the first comprehensive English-language book on the largest city in the Americas before the 1400s. Teotihuacan is a UNESCO world heritage site, located in highland central Mexico, about twenty-five miles from Mexico City, visited by millions of tourists every year. The book...
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Handbook to Life in the Aztec WorldSince its violent dissolution in 1521, the Aztec Empire of Mexico has continually intrigued us. Recent discoveries resulting from the excavation of the Templo Mayor in the heart of Mexico City have taught us even more about this fascinating culture. The increasing recognition that...
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Canada In Pictures: Central Canada - Volume 2 - Quebec and OntarioCentral Canada is composed of the most beautiful provinces in the entire country. Both Quebec and Ontario have notable French influences. They also have picturesque scenery and a vibrant Native American culture. This book provides key information that you can use when planning a...
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Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You: Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican WorldFolio 46r from Codex Telleriano-Remensis was created in the sixteenth century under the supervision of Spanish missionaries in central Mexico. As an artifact of seismic cultural and political shifts, the manuscript painting is a singular document of indigenous response to Spanish conquest. Examining the...
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When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting That Changed HistoryA dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cort s that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the AmericasOn November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cort s first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to...
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Many a Midnight Ship: True Stories of Great Lakes ShipwrecksMany a Midnight Ship brings to life the powerful history of the greatest northern waterway of the North American continent. These fourteen stories illustrate the majesty of the Great Lakes and the tragedy bestowed upon its waters. From the coffin ship Atlantic, which foundered...
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The River Has Never Divided Us: A Border History of La Junta de Los RiosWinner, William P. Clements Prize, Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America, 2004Not quite the United States and not quite Mexico, La Junta de los Rios straddles the border between Texas and Chihuahua, occupying the basin formed by the conjunction of the Rio Grande and...
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Captains Outrageous: A Hap and Leonard Novel (6)Hap and Leonard is now a Sundance TV series starring James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams. Hap Collins and Leonard Pine find mucho trouble, this time in Mexico, when they come face to face with a nudist mobster, his seven-foot strong-arm, a octogenarian knife-touting...
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The lure of Piper's GlenThe lure of Piper's Glen When the bottoms drop out of the logging-roads, the crews leave the camps about the headwaters of Racket River and return to their scattered homes, leaving the winter's cut on the "brows." A few weeks later, when all the...
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The making of a manThe making of a manYour battle of Life, boys, has just begun. If you have the courage to be fair, honest, strong and clean now, and if you follow along the paths your conscience indicates, you will have the strength of character which produces...
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25 years in the Secret Service: The recollections of a spyTwenty-five years in the Secret Service: The recollections of a spyIt has seemed good in the sight of many people that I should place on record, in some permanent and acceptable form, the story of my eventful life. And so I am about to...
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List of post offices in Canada, with the names of the postmasters ... 1856List of post offices in Canada, with the names of the postmasters ... 1856 - With a supplementary list to 1st March, 1857, inclusiveProduced by: WebRover, Adrian Mastronardi, The Philatelic Digital Library Project and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was...
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Roger the ranger: A story of border life among the IndiansRoger the ranger: A story of border life among the IndiansIt is of no use, Father Nat; we have gone over the same ground again and again. I shall never settle down as a New England farmer, and there are other reasons why I...
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Land without chimneys or, the byways of MexicoLand without chimneys; or, the byways of MexicoTHIS book is not sent forth to fill a long-felt want; nor does the author hope to convince all his readers to his way of looking at the social and religious problems of Mexico. As a teacher...
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