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Big Bend National Park: Land of Dramatic Contrasts and Scenic GrandeurSouthwestern Texas, along the Big Bend of the Rio Grande, one of the last scenic frontiers of America is located in a remote and unspoiled setting. Vast stretches of plains and range land, interspersed...

History of Central America, Volume 3, 1801-1887 - The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 8 Popular Feeling in Central AmericaEffect of Events in SpainRecognition of American EqualityRepresentation in the Spanish CrtesDelusive ReformsEnd of Saravia's RulePresident Jos BustamanteHis Despotic CourseDemands in the CrtesConstitutional GuaranteesOfficial...

William PennThe life of William Penn is one which cannot be too closely studied by American youth, and the German author of this little volume has told its story in most attractive style. Not one of the early settlers of the United States had...

Recipes from American NationalCream butter and sugar, add eggs 1 at a time. Sift flour and salt together, add soda to buttermilk, add to creamed mixture alternately with flour and nuts, raisins, orange peeling which has been put through food chopper. Bake in 8-inch...

The Greycliff Girls in CampThe Greycliff girls who had decided to go to the girls camp in Maine with Patricia West, their English teacher, were busy getting ready their camp equipment in the short time which elapsed between the close of school and their...

The Ball of FireSilence pervaded the dim old aisles of Market Square Church; a silence which seemed to be palpable; a solemn hush which wavered, like the ghostly echoes of anthems long forgotten, among the slender columns and the high arches and the delicate...

Tom Akerley - His Adventures in the Tall Timber and at Gaspard's Clearing on the Indian RiverThe night was hot and hazy. The aerodrome was in darkness save for a moving light in the black maw of one of the hangars and a shine...

Morristown National Historical Park, a Military Capital of the American RevolutionThis publication is one of a series of handbooks describing the historical and archeological areas in the National Park System administered by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior....

The Little DauphinThe story of Louis Charles, second son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, is one of the most pathetic in the history of royalty, and has an added interest because of the attempts of many romancers and some historical writers to raise...

History of the Seventy-Second Regiment of the North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 1861-'65It affords the writer pleasure to respond to the invitation of Judge Walter Clark, himself a distinguished officer of the boy-soldiers, to make a lasting memorial of the...

The Experiences of Uncle Jack: Being a Biography of Rev. Andrew Jackson NewgentThe pleasing task of writing an introduction to the life of my noble friend, Rev. A. J. Newgent, has fallen upon me. The intimate association which I have had with him for...

Szabadság a hó alatt, vagy: A zöld könyv - Történelmi regényA szl behordta hval az utakat, a lovak cslkig jrnak benne; a fenyfk stt lombja meghajlik a hburok terhe alatt, az als geszt vkony galyra pedig rfagyott a nappali olvadstl a jg vastag rtegekben,...

The Lady's Knitting-Book - Containing eighty clear and easy patterns of useful and ornamental knittingIn sending this little work before the public, I have tried to remedy one fault which I have often heard complained of, namely, that knitting-books generally give so many more...

Fritzchen: Die Geschichte einer EinsamenAus dem Dorfe Hohen-Leucken, das seinen Namen seinem hher gelegenen Herrschaftshause zu Ehren, sonst aber nur wie zum Spotte fhrte, kam der Doktor das ganze Jahr nicht heraus. Zwischen Moor und sumpfigen Wiesen lag es arglos eingebettet, und am Abend,...

Veterinary Medicines, Their Actions, Uses and DoseThere is no scarcity of excellent works on Veterinary materia medica and Therapeutics. Many of these will well repay the student for the time spent in mastering them, but none seem to meet the wants of the Veterinary...

With Trumpet and DrumThis volume is made up of verse compiled from my Little Book of Western Verse, my Second Book of Verse, and the files of the Chicago Daily News, the Youths Companion, and the Ladies Home Journal. ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product...

War Prisoner Money and MedalsThe guarantee of humane treatment for prisoners of war is an achievement of modern international law. This interesting and important legal problem was discussed at great length at several international conferences at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning...

The History of Badlands National Monument and the White River (Big) Badlands of South DakotaIn 1951 the National Park Service (NPS) launched the concept of developing a documented history for each unit of the national park system. Known since 1984 as park histories, the...

The History and Romance of Air Mail StampsThe history of the flying machine reaches back as far as the earliest of mans written records of his thoughts and ambitions. And one can only surmise how long ago it must have been, in the dim...

Frank Merriwell's Trust; Or, Never Say DieA half million enthusiastic followers of the Merriwell brothers will attest the unfailing interest and wholesomeness of these adventures of two lads of high ideals, who play fair with themselves, as well as with the rest of the...