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The Perilous West: Seven Amazing Explorers and the Founding of the Oregon TrailAlthough a host of adventurers stormed west in 1806 after Lewis and Clark's safe return, seven of them left unique legacies because of their monumental journeys, their lionhearted spirit in the face of hardship, and the way their paths intertwined time and again. The...
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Rescue at Pine Ridge: Based on a True American StoryHicks pens the story of the heroic rescue of the famed 7th Cavalry by the 9thCavalry Buffalo Soldiers.Author: Erich Martin HicksPublisher: Outskirts PressPublished: 11/14/2008Pages: 366Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.82dISBN: 9781432728229This title is not returnable
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Hitler's Soldiers in the Sunshine State: German POWs in Florida"They were Uncle Sam's smiling workers and they looked like all-American boys. There were at least 10,000 of them, deployed in 25 Florida camps between 1942 and 1946. They were also members of the Wehrmacht, Hitler's armed forces."--Forum"Most Americans were unaware their government was...
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Living and Playing the Blues on Dockery Plantation-FarmsThis history of the Dockery Plantation-Farms encompasses from the 1890s through this very day. Thousands of black laborers and their families, until mechanization, defined the National Register of Historic Places site. Did the plantation witness the "birth of the blues?" Who besides Charley Patton...
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The Bloodiest Prison Uprising in US Penal History: The Untold StoryThe Bloodiest Prison Uprising in US Penal History provides lessons for present-day institutions involved in American corrections.This is the untold story of the man in charge, who was intimately involved in the bloody prison uprising, and how he later suffered the politics of the...
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Eyewitness to the Old West: First-Hand Accounts of Exploration, Adventure, and PerilA collection of over 150 vignettes from the journals and diaries of people who lived or traveled in the Old West, these accounts begin with the sixteenth-century collisions between the Spaniards and the Indians and conclude with Black Elk's mournful description of the Battle...
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From the Secret Files of J. Edgar HooverDuring his forty-eight years as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover scrupulously maintained secret office files and arranged for special filing procedures to safeguard "sensitive" information. None of the documents in five separate files was intended ever to be disclosed....
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Exploring Alamo LegendsDid the famous Davy Crockett surrender at the Alamo or die fighting like a tiger according to Texas tradition? Did Sam Houston lie when he said he ordered James Bowie to blow up the Alamo? What happened to James C. Neill, the real commander...
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Case #1: The Mary Ellen Wilson FilesAs recently as 1874, no laws yet existed in this country for the protection of children. In New York of the same year, it was the widely publicized case of Mary Ellen Wilson-a nine-year-old girl who had been a prisoner in her tenement home,...
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Sourdoughs, Claim Jumpers & Dry Gulchers: Fifty Of The Grittiest Moments In The History Of Frontier Prospecting, First EditionSourdoughs, Claim Jumpers & Dry Gulchers: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Frontier Prospecting, offers 50 tales of hard-bitten sourdoughs, petty bandits, outright outlaws, guilt-free gunmen, and murderous money-grubbers as they scrabbled to gain the lands, foodstuffs, and fortunes of wide-eyed...
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Crunch!: A History of the Great American Potato ChipFrom Cranberry Pie to Point Bock Beer Cake, from Roast Mallard to Friday Fish Fry, from Latvian peppercakes to Wild Rice with Italian Sausage, this cookbook is bursting with the flavor of Wisconsin's varied cultures and communities. These nearly 100 recipes were demonstrated during...
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Dickens, Dali and OthersTen celebrated essays by a man universally regarded as a master of the essay form. Included are such classics as "Charles Dickens," "The Art of Donald McGill," "Boys' Weeklies," "Raffles and Miss Blandish," and "Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali."Author: George Orwell,...
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The Seminole Wars: America's Longest Indian Conflict"In this insightful book the conflicts known as the Seminole Wars are placed in the larger context of American history. Twenty-first-century Seminole Indians and all other Floridians have been shaped in part by those nineteenth-century events."--Jerald T. Milanich, Florida Museum of Natural HistoryThe Seminole...
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Invaded on All Sides: The War of 1812 and Michigan's greatest battlefield engagements at Frenchtown and the River RaisinFrom January 18 to January 23, 1813, Frenchtown, on the banks of the River Raisin, became a battleground where the military forces of the United States and Great Britain fought each other for control of the Lower Great Lakes. At stake were the destinies...
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The Greatest Mountain Men Stories Ever ToldLong the dominant icon embodying the spirit of America's frontier past, the image of the cowboy no longer stands alone as the ultimate symbol of independence and self-reliance. The great canvas of the western landscape-in art, books, film-is today shared by the figures called...
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The Fighting Corsairs: The Men of Marine Fighting Squadron 215 in the Pacific During WWIIFrom an historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a Marine fighter squadron in the South Pacific during the critical days of 1943 when the tide turned against the Japanese. Based on individual interviews and wartime...
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We Have Taken A City: The Wilmington Racial Massacre and Coup of 1898In 1898, Wilmington, North Carolina was the scene of what many describe as the only successful coup d' etat in the history of the United States, when angry whites overthrew the duly elected government and went on a rampage that tore through the African-American...
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The Haitian RevolutionToussaint L'Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collection of his writings and speeches, former Haitian politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide demonstrates L'Ouverture's profound contribution...
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Land Remembers: The Story of a Farm and Its PeopleWritten for general readers, teachers, journalists, and policymakers, this volume explores four controversial topics in science and technology, with commentaries from scientists and experts in such fields as sociology, religion, law, ethics, and politics: Antibiotics on the Farm and in Our Food; Genetically Modified...
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Geronimo and Sitting Bull: Leaders of the Legendary West**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Silver Winner for Western Biographies and Memoirs** Two Native American leaders who left a lasting legacy, Geronimo and Sitting Bull. Most Americans and many people worldwide have heard these two famous names. Today, however, the general public knows little...
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