3,961円 Living off the landーhunting, fishing, and farming, along with a range of specialized crafts that provided barter or cash incomeーwas a way of life that persisted well into the twentieth century in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Before this way of life ended with World War II, professional p...

2,122円 Picturesque little Bayfield on Lake Superior is Wisconsin’s smallest city by population but one of its most popular visitor destinations. This book captures those unique qualities that keep tourists coming back year after year and offers a historically reliable look at the community as it is toda...

496円 A short piece that describes Old Time Taverns in New York city from the time of the founding by the Dutch to the American Revolution. John Austin Stevens Jr. (1827–1910) was a leader of business, an adviser of government and a student of the American Revolution. His was the founder of the Sons...

103円 Real places and People of the Sunshine State; “GERONIMO LIVE! And Other Florida Stories” covers the overlooked, sometimes unusual history of the Sunshine State. The stories include photos and information for visitors where applicable. Stories include “Florida’s Communist Tree,” “The Barefoot (Som...

496円 Richard Dillon, one of California’s premier historians, tells the compelling story of San Francisco’s exotic pre-1906 Chinatown when vicious hoodlum gangs held sway. Chinatown, as demonstrated by Dillon’s fast-paced narrative, became a cauldron of chaos teeming with thugs, prostitutes, gamblers, ...

5,224円 Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill. The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for more than a generation before the w...

164円 Contemporaneous essay by a resident describing the fall of the city.

496円 A humorous narrated walk along the Manhattan waterfront during the year 1860.

164円 A Brief illustrated description of the Latest Rage in Dining at the turn of the 20th century. An interesting facet of New York life at the turn of the start of the century.

496円 A Description of a trip from Santa Fe to Missouri in the 1850's at a time of Indian Troubles, through the heart of Buffalo Country.

1,199円 Jeff Kisseloff brings together 137 New Yorkers who witnessed daily life in Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II. Dividing the city into ten neighborhoods and devoting a chapter and about a dozen voices to each, Kisseloff offers a brief historical introduction, then lets the eyewitnesses speak...

5,305円 Beyond the Windswept Dunes takes the reader into a world of maritime adventure as it was experienced by the sailors, passengers, rescue workers, shipping magnates, industrialists, and many other people whose livelihoods revolved around Michigan’s port city of Muskegon. At one time the leading edg...