The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
by Henry Bibb
Stop at the Red Apple (Excelsior Editions)
by Elaine Freed Lindenblatt
The Presidents of the Republic of Texas (Oceana Presidential Chronology)
A mother's search for the son she gave up uncovers terrifying secrets in a Minnesota town in this "masterfully depicted true-crime tale" (Publishers Weekly). In 1962, Jerry Sherwood gave up her newborn son, Dennis, for adoption. Twenty years later, she set out to find him-only to discover he had died before his fourth birthday. The immediate cause was peritonitis, but the coroner had never decided the mode of death, writing "deferred" rather than indicate accident, natural causes, or homicide....
The first wildcatters in the Southeastern states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida began drilling around the turn of the century, but success eluded them. Except for a few insignificant shallow gas fields in northern Alabama, all early wells - more than two hundred of them by 1925 - proved to be dry. Huge riches from petroleum were being reaped in nearby Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas. It appeared that the Mississippi River was a barrier, an underground dike which prevented the oil and gas fr...
What lights the spark that ignites a revolution? Lost in the story of America's path to independence is the tumultuous nature of that nation's origins: the interplay of ideologies and personalities that provoked a group of merchants, farmers, artisans, and sailors to take up arms in pursuit of liberty ...A city of 15,000 inhabitants packed onto a land-connected island a little over one square mile, Boston in 1775 was also - following a series of incendiary incidents by patriotic citizens and tro...
The Mayflower Descendant, Volume 6, 1904
by Mass Soc of Mayflower Descendants
The Texas War of Independence (Hispanic America, #1)
by Richard Worth and Dick Worth
"Provides comprehensive information on the history of Spanish exploration in the United States, focusing on the Texas Revolt and the Mexican War"--Provided by publisher.
Virginia Tax Payers 1782 - 1787; Other Than Those Published by the United States Census Bureau
Historic Crimes & Justice in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (True Crime)
by David, Dr. Ferland
Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company (Great Lakes Books)
by C. Roger Pellett
From 1888 to 1898, the American Steel Barge Company built and operated a fleet of forty-four barges and steamships on the Great Lakes and in international trade. These new ships were considered revolutionary by some and nautical curiosities by others. Built from what was then a high tech material (steel) and powered by state-of-the-art steam machinery, their creation in the remote north was a sign of industrial accomplishment. In Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company, C. Roger Pe...
Some Pennsylvania Women During the War of the Revolution - Primary Source Edition
by William Henry Egle
The dramatic story of the United States' destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida In the aftermath of the War of 1812, Major General Andrew Jackson ordered a joint United States army-navy expedition into Spanish Florida to destroy a free and independent community of fugitive slaves. The result was the Battle of Negro Fort, a brutal conflict among hundreds of American troops, Indian warriors, and black rebels that culminated in the death or re-enslave...