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Ten Days in HarlemRising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionized the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. New York City, September 1960. Fidel Castro - champion of the oppressed, scourge of colonialism, and leftist revolutionary - arrives...
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Sketches of Intriguing People: and the Curious Events They Suffered While Living in the Wilderness of the Northwest Territory.In 1787 the Northwest Territory was opened for settlement. It was as exciting a time as one could imagine, and volatile as well. With great anticipation, as well as extraordinary courage and resolve, citizens of the new United States ventured from the civilized communities...
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Voyage Into Savage Europe: A Declining CivilizationFrom the translator of Avigdor Hameiri's Hell on Earth, winner of the 2019 TLS-Risa Domb/Porjes PrizeIn this unique memoir, now in English for the first time, Israel's first Poet Laureate Avigdor Hameiri details a trip to Europe in 1930 from the perspective of a...
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Tascosa: Its Life and Gaudy TimesAs well as being the center of ranching activity in the Panhandle, Tascosa also became the last best hiding place in Texas for killers on the run, horse thieves, tinhorn gamblers, hair-trigger shootists or anyone else with a past he wanted to get away...
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Justice to Be Accorded to the Indians: Agent Peter Ronan Reports on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, 1888-1893Published by the Salish Kootenai College Press Peter Ronan (1839-93) was the government agent for the Salish and Kootenai tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana from 1877 until his death. It was a period of rapid cultural and economic change for...
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A Great Many of Us Have Good Farms: Agent Peter Ronan Reports on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, 1877-1887Published by the Salish Kootenai College Press Peter Ronan (1839-93) was the government agent for the Salish and Kootenai tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana from 1877 until his death. It was a period of rapid cultural and economic change for...
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Legendary Truths, Peter Lassen & His Gold Rush Trail in Fact & FableReading the history of California and the gold rush, one continually encounters historic discrepancies and contradictions, especially about the character and ability of Peter Lassen, a prominent California pioneer for whom the Lassen Trail, Lassen Peak, and Lassen Volcanic National Park were named. While...
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Heritage of Power (Marie Laveaux to Mary Ellen Pleasant)Heritage of Power is the first book to establish the civil-rights legacy of Mary Ellen Pleasant, called "The Mother of Civil Rights in California." Did this daring woman of mystery really aid the abolitionist John Brown and study with New Orleans' most famous Voodoo...
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The Diaries of Sarah Hurst 1759-1762: Life and Love in Eighteenth Century HorshamThe Diaries of Sarah Hurst records the day to day life of a young woman who lived in Horsham, Sussex between 1759 and 1762. Consequently, this book can claim to be one of the most important sources of information on life in the 18th...
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Ditches Across the Desert: Irrigation in the Lower Pecos ValleyThis book illuminates the myriad personalities and interests that combined and clashed over the Pecos Valley reservoirs and canals. Many Americans, including western lawmakers, considered irrigation to be America at its best. Wealthy easterners invested in its development in the great traditions of American...
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The Rise and Fall of the Dillinger GangA historical treatment of the career of the members of the Dillinger gang along with individual member biographies.Author: Jeffery S. KingPublisher: Cumberland House PublishingPublished: 04/15/2005Pages: 266Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.32h x 6.36w x 1.06dISBN: 9781581824506Review Citation(s): Ingram Advance 05/01/2005 pg. 120
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Jane Austen's EnglandJane Austen wrote about the English gentry class in the late Georgian and Regency periods (1796-1816). Her novels follow her heroines' quests for true love and fulfilment in English society during a period of great upheaval. But how accurate were Jane Austen's depictions of...
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War Garden VictoriousThis 1919 book describes both the success of the war garden in helping to reduce food shortages during the World War I period and the necessity for maintaining these gardens during peacetime.Author: Charles PackPublisher: Applewood BooksPublished: 01/30/2009Pages: 400Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.03w...
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Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies: Or, the Journal of a Sante Fe Trader, 1831-1839Josiah Gregg's Commerce of the Prairie, published in 1844, is based largely upon entries made into his own journal over the nine years that he lived in Northern Mexico and traversed the Prairie as a proprietor in the Santa F Trade. In utilizing his...
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Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels: In the Interior of North America (Volume 1)The four volumes of the Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the Interior of America during the years 1832-1834 follow the German explorer and naturalist's travels to the Great Plains region, including his journey up the Missouri River, with Swiss painter Karl Bodmer. While...
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Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels: In the Interior of North America (Volume 3)The four volumes of the Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the Interior of America during the years 1832-1834 follow the German explorer and naturalist's travels to the Great Plains region, including his journey up the Missouri River, with Swiss painter Karl Bodmer. While...
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Prodigal Sons: The Violent History of Christopher Evans and John SontagThis factual story about how Christopher Evans and John Sontag came to be the most wanted men in California in 1893 is also the story of life in the San Joaquin Valley at the turn of the century, where harsh realities forced rash acts...
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The Real Billy the Kid: with new light on the LINCOLN COUNTY WARMiguel Antonio Otero served as the first Hispanic governor of the U.S. Territory of New Mexico, from 1897 to 1906. He was appointed to the office by President William McKinley. Long after his retirement from politics, Governor Otero wrote and published his memoirs in...
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Praying with One Eye Open: Mormons and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Appalachian GeorgiaIn 1878, Elder Joseph Standing traveled into the Appalachian mountains of North Georgia, seeking converts for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sixteen months later, he was dead, murdered by a group of twelve men. The church refused to bury the missionary...
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Three Governors Controversy: Skullduggery, Machinations, and the Decline of Georgia's Progressive PoliticsThe death of Georgia governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in late 1946 launched a constitutional crisis that ranks as one of the most unusual political events in U.S. history: the state had three active governors at once, each claiming that he was the true elected official.This...
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