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The Pig War and the Pelican Girls: 21 Extraordinary and Forgotten Stories from American History
The Pig War and the Pelican Girls is a riveting and well-researched collection of little-known and obscure...
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The Pig War and the Pelican Girls is a riveting and well-researched collection of little-known and obscure tales from history. This page-turner unearths the stories of men and women who strove to save their country from aggressors or better the lives of others or simply survive under mysterious and extraordinary circumstances.
From the tale of the Pelican Girls, a group of women deemed "of virtuous character" by the Catholic church and sent to the first French colonies in the New World in an attempt to re-create the Garden of Eden, to the story of "The Limping Lady, " declared the most dangerous of all Allied spies by the Germans in World War II, the true tale of Pan American Airlines signing up passengers for a flight to the moon when mankind had barely left Earth orbit, and many, many more, Joe Cuhaj reveals real-life history that has been buried for centuries.
Whether you're an armchair historian or a lover of all things unusual and astonishing, this collection of obscure history shows that life surely is stranger than fiction.
Author: Joe Cuhaj
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 04/22/2025
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781493088270
About the Author
Joe Cuhaj grew up in northern New Jersey where his love of discovering obscure and off-beat tales of history was nurtured by his history-loving family and exceptional high school history teachers. The former radio broadcaster now lives in L.A. (Lower Alabama) on the Gulf Coast and is the author of 19 books, 13 outdoor recreation guides on hiking, kayaking, and camping, and six non-fiction history titles including titles Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space and Everyone's Gone to the Moon: July 1969, Life on Earth, and the Epic Voyage of Apollo 11.
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