Across the Plains to Colorado and A Stage Ride to Colorado, two first person accounts, showcase the beauty and troubles of travel across the American continent in the mid 19th century.続きを見る
Traces the engrossing story of the Union Army’s strategies, stratagems, and movements on the bloodiest day in American military history
Unfurl Those Colors! provides an operational study of the Army……続きを見る
A complex mosaic of post oak and blackjack oak forests interspersed with prairies, the Cross Timbers covers a north-south belt of southern Kansas, eastern Oklahoma, and North Central Texas. Home to ……続きを見る
• The Federal Writers’ Project named an area three miles south-southeast of Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley the Devil’s Cornfield because the arrowweed growing there resembled shocks of corn tied ab……続きを見る
Tour the zoos and aquarium that came to be featured favorites in New York tourism and recreation. Situated within the five boroughs of New York City are five zoos and one aquarium. New York City Zoo……続きを見る
著者:Thomas E. Emerson
出版社: University of Alabama Press
発売日: 2010年07月07日
Examines the authority a ruling elite exercised over the surrounding countryside through a complex of social, political, and religious symbolism
This study uses the theoretical concepts of agency, p……続きを見る
Progressive former governor James Stephen Hogg moved his business headquarters to Houston in 1905. For seven decades, his children Will, Ima, and Mike Hogg used their political ties, social position……続きを見る
Situated just south of the Carolina border in the scenic foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Cherokee County offers the charm of small-town life and country living with the convenience of nearby……続きを見る
The best way to get children excited about history is to make it fun! This book will take your child on an adventurous journey through San Francisco.
This book contains 50 clue-based questions th……続きを見る
A trip along the Juniata in mostly rural Pennsylvania during the mid nineteenth century, prior to the American Civil War. Digitally restored illustrations.続きを見る
著者:Richard Dillon
出版社: The Write Thought
発売日: 2013年10月15日
Award-winning historian Richard Dillon deals up intriguing vignettes on sixty-three men and women who helped shaped California into the colorful state that it is.
Dillon, whose work on Meriwether Le……続きを見る
The year is 1835, the place New Mexico, the hero or villain, depending upon your view is Don Albino Perez. Perez, the newly appointed Mexican governor, is more of an idealist than a politician. He r……続きを見る
Does a witch's ghost haunt a park in Annapolis? Why should Baltimore really be called Charm City? What weird stories and traditions regarding witches in the Chesapeake region are true and where did……続きを見る
Alabama's is a story, believes author Virginia V. Hamilton, that bears scrutiny by Alabamians and outsiders alike if they would understand the present.
Pause for a moment before a gallery of fading ……続きを見る
Jim Nichols was a lively, vigorous frontiersman who came to Texas about the time of its Revolution. As with many men of that day, Nichols' formal education was lacking, but he was a born writer with……続きを見る
An entertaining, abundantly illustrated history of a Chicago landmark, inspired by Daniel Burnham and a feat of engineering, now a grand locale for public recreation.
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著者:Rand Richards
出版社: Heritage House Publishers
発売日: 2013年02月17日
Eighteen self-guided walking tours down city streets that will take you back in time, with colorful stories about the buildings along the way and the people associated with them. Easy-to-follow maps……続きを見る
著者:Will Bagley
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2011年11月28日
The story of America’s westward migration is a powerful blend of fact and fable. Over the course of three decades, almost a million eager fortune-hunters, pioneers, and visionaries transformed the f……続きを見る
Renowned for his fierce devotion to the people of Texasーas well as his equally fierce rages and unpredictable temperーBob Bullock was the most powerful political figure in Texas at the end of the t……続きを見る
Discover a time when hydroplane racing captured the heart of the Detroit community in a way that has never been equaled. Since the start of the 20th century, Detroit has been the hub of the motorize……続きを見る
著者:W F G Shanks
出版社: Folly Cove 01930
発売日: 2012年11月02日
This is a brief description of Chattanooga how the Union forces managed to hold out in during the siege of the beleaguered city during the Confederate push on the City. Illustrated.続きを見る
"Reliable accounts of battles, wars, adventures, forays, murders, massacres, etc., etc, together with biographical sketches of many of the most noted Indian fighters and frontiersmen of Texas."
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A fascinating history of Park Ridge, Illinois, detailing its diverse community and past.In 1835, immigrants began to arrive from New York and New England to the area first called Pennyville, later r……続きを見る
If you are looking for a quirky and unusual date in Hollywood, then this book is perfect for you!
This book contains 50 clue-based questions that will send you and your date on a scavenger hunt thro……続きを見る
• The pueblo that became the city was established in 1781 as “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula.” A hill located less than 1,000 feet from Los Angeles city hall w……続きを見る
A combination history, photographic journey and travel guide to the historic living ghost town of Randsburg, California, located in the Mojave Desert. See where Billy Bob Thornton made his supporti……続きを見る