661円 In this clazzic peice, Manton Marble takes us on a trip through the Red River Valley in the mid nineteenth century. For Manton, this is a pleasure trip, and he shows us the joy of the country and the people of the valley as he accompanies a group of prospectors on the way to Frazer River in sear...

1,921円 Images of America: Portsmouth, Virginia is an educational and entertaining volume that will delight residents and visitors as well as lovers of history everywhere. Located in heart of the Chesapeake Bay at the zero milepost on the Intracoastal Waterway, Portsmouth's five historic districts and it...

496円 This short piece describes a journalists trip through California mining country during the latter days of the American Civil War, a time when more mines were failing that flourishing, and frontier life was on the verge of civilization.

496円 Burnt-Out Fires deals with a very dark period of American history, a period that, until recently, had been purposefully forgotten ... a period that hopefully will cause a re-evaluation of the American ideals and dreams. Everyone pointed to the Modocs as “model Indians.” Living on the Oregon-Calif...

287円 This book is an autobiography of the 1971 Oklahoma Teacher of the Year.  He details life in Oklahoma from when he was born in 1907, the year Oklahoma became a state and continues through his retirement as a teacher.  The cover of the book is a photograph of his father's farm gate. ...

661円      • Above-ground graves resembling small, outdoor ovens furnished the name for the Mariposa County village of Hornitos. Hornitos is a Spanish word that means “little ovens.”      • In 1885, Alexander Kirkwood founded a hotel called Rattlesnake House in ...

746円 Denver was a small town at the foot of the mountains when Theodore Davis took a stagecoach across the plains on the Smoky Hill Route from Atchison, Kansas. Herds of Buffalo and unfriendly Indians made the journey both exhilarating and dangerous, with a cavalry escort on parts of the trail. &quot...

496円 This book contains 50 clue-based questions that will send you on a scavenger hunt throughout Central Park. If you want to add a little bit of history into your travels, then you won’t want to miss this book!

3,740円 This translation of an eyewitness account by a major participant offers valuable information about all three attempts to establish a French colony on the south Atlantic coast of North America. Rene Laudonniere's account of the three attempts by France to colonize what is now the United States is ...

330円 This article highlights the profession of wrecking … salvage of shipwrecks, as practiced on the keys in the mid nineteenth century. This is a laser reprint of the original article.

330円 This short piece principally describes the geography and the setting of the battle field at Lookout Mountain. Well Illustrated.

164円 A contemporaneous look at life in the city during the blockade.