State & Local 48

"Paul Maccabee's John Dillinger Slept Here is not just one of the best books ever written about Minneapolis-St. Paul, it is one of the best books of local history I have ever readーabout any city an……続きを見る

The Lazy S Ranch, one of the last major ranches to be established in Texas, came into being at a time when most of the other great ranches were disappearing. Founded in 1898 by Dallas banker and ran……続きを見る

“The KKK weren’t never about race. It were always about power and greed.” So begins 86-year-old Hadley Thompson, who insists a rural historian research why two people were murdered. At first, Hubbel……続きを見る

Ripped from today’s headlines, Unsolved is the first ever book to examine the sacrifices made by American’s heroic law enforcement officers who were murdered while their killers escaped justice. Lef……続きを見る

Using a question-and-answer format, this book follows the development of Santa Fe, a city that lived under several flags before New Mexico was finally admitted into the Union in 1912 as the 47th sta……続きを見る

By 1850, the frontier settlement of San Antonio had seen more than its share of hardships, Indians attacks, rebellions, and repeated military occupations. These events all marked the towns recent pa……続きを見る

Browne takes us on a journey through the new territory during the latter part of the civil war when settlers were having some of the worst troubles with the Apache nation and troops were busy in the……続きを見る

If there was any man qualified to write a history of the bloody state of Kansas in the 1860s, it was Sam Crawford. He lived an extraordinary life as a Kansas legislator, a general in the American Ci……続きを見る

A nation that fails to protect its borders is not a nation at all. Rather, its a place that invites chaos, criminals, and subversives that will lead the land to become a mere footnote in the annals ……続きを見る

Mining Cinnabar, Quicksilver, Mercury, a necessity for process of removing gold and silver from ore, started at New Almaden just in time for the gold production in California. The heavily contaminat……続きを見る

Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Franciscoーthe landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet mo……続きを見る

This series of articles first appeared beginning in December 1864, with the final article appearing in April 1867. In them Abbot gives us a victor's view of some of the battles and men that saved th……続きを見る

In A Dangerous Journey Browne Travels across California from San Francisco through a country full of outlaws, nearly losing his life along the way. 続きを見る

Lumber and Wheat were the industries that made Minnesota in the mid 19th Century. Here are two reports, one from the Lumber camps in the pine forest and the second from the wheat fields. These show ……続きを見る

Much has been written of the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota in August of 1862, but little has been written about the physicians who were caught up in it. This book is an attempt to correct the omission……続きを見る

A contemporaneous account of the silver mining boom in the ghost town of Austin Nevada during the mid nineteenth century. 続きを見る

This Contemporaneous account tells of the destruction caused by the three consecutive devastating storms during the month of December 1839.First published in pamphlet form in 1840, Boston. 続きを見る

A tour through the gas company with explanations of the gas works as typical in the mid 19th Century. 続きを見る

CONTENTS PREFACE. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. ー THE NEGRO RIOTS OF 1712-1741. CHAPTER III. ー THE STAMP-ACT RIOT OF 1765. CHAPTER IV. ー DOCTORS' RIOT, 1788. CHAPTER V. ー SPRING ELECTION RIOTS OF 1834.……続きを見る

This first volume in the new Stories of the Susquehanna Valley series describes the Native American presence in the Susquehanna River Valley, a key crossroads of the old Eastern Woodlands between th……続きを見る

Among the famous ranch brands of Texas are the T Anchor, JA, Diamond Tail, 777, Bar C, and XIT. And the greatest of these was XITーThe XIT Ranch of Texas. It was not the first ranch in West Texas, b……続きを見る

These fourteen non-fictional accounts relate to Arizona from the time of the first visit by Spanish explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1540 to the frustrated claim of a would-be homesteader i……続きを見る

The remarkable and improbable story of the utopian single-tax social experiment that gave rise to one of the most unique and colorful communities along the Gulf Coast On November 15, 1894, a small g……続きを見る

‘Planting the Seeds of Research’ explores why by the beginnings of the twentieth century the United States dominated agricultural production worldwide. The thesis is that the ultimate investments ma……続きを見る

‘Planting the Seeds of Research’ explores why by the beginnings of the twentieth century the United States dominated agricultural production worldwide. The thesis is that the ultimate investments ma……続きを見る

'Planting the Seeds of Research' explores why by the beginning of the twentieth century the United States dominated agricultural production worldwide. The thesis is that the ultimate investments mad……続きを見る

By 1900, the German population in the United States was close to 2.7 million. In numerous cities in the Northeast and Midwest, those who had immigrated in the nineteenth century congregated in demar……続きを見る

Volume Two of the Great Ledger Records of the Town of Greenwich Connecticut 1640-1742 is a completely new and comprehensive Grantor-Grantee Book for the time period. It contains a wealth of genealog……続きを見る

New York Times Editor's Pick &Best True Crime of 2022 “Blood & Ink is among 2022’s best works of true crime.” ーWashington Post Vanity Fair’s Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder……続きを見る

Il sistema di dipendenza, che chiamiamo società moderna, è costruito sui principi fondamentali dell'adescamento e degli abusi sui minori. Per comprendere i nostri abusatori e gli abusi che potremmo ……続きを見る