Home > History > Americas
Americas
The Edge Becomes the Center by DW Gibson
epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:DW Gibson [GIBSON, D W]

16. Ephraim sends a text message suggesting we meet at “17 Irving.” I look up the address on Google Maps to get the cross streets and I see that there ...
( Category: Sociology August 25,2017 )
Finley Ball by Nancy Finley
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-02-16 | Author:Nancy Finley

WHITE KNUCKLES In the stands at Riverfront Stadium, Charlie put his hands together and nervously squeezed them. It was, literally, white-knuckle time. While Dad and I were watching on the ...
( Category: Baseball August 25,2017 )
Rules of Revenge by AJ Quinn
epub |eng | 2014-11-13 | Author:AJ Quinn [Quinn, AJ]

* Jessie pressed the phone tightly against her ear and swore she could feel the tension coming through the satellite connection to Langley before she heard the deputy director’s taut, ...
( Category: Romantic Suspense August 25,2017 )
The Great Agnostic by Robert Ingersoll & Susan Jacoby
epub |eng | 2013-02-16 | Author:Robert Ingersoll & Susan Jacoby [Ingersoll, Robert & Jacoby, Susan]

VI Reason and Passion Not till the sun excludes you, do I exclude you. —Walt Whitman, “To a Common Prostitute” Allusions to this famous, once-scandalous Whitman poem occur many times, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 25,2017 )
Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding by Steven K. Green
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Steven K. Green [Green, Steven K.]

Further examples of Washington’s penchant for religious allusions are found in his two presidential thanksgiving declarations (1789, 1795), where he refers to the “many signal favors of Almighty God,” the ...
( Category: World August 25,2017 )
Tales Behind the Tombstones by Enss Chris
epub |eng | | Author:Enss, Chris

Bob Ford d. 1892 “Instantly his real purpose flashed upon my mind. I knew I had not fooled him. He was too sharp for that. He knew at that moment ...
( Category: World August 25,2017 )
Mochi's War by Enss Chris
epub |eng | 2012-08-25 | Author:Enss, Chris

Colonel Chivington disagreed with Bishop Whipple and maintained that the United States Army needed to “enact God’s justice.” According to an interview Chivington’s third wife, Isabella, did with historian Fred ...
( Category: Americas August 25,2017 )
Outlaw Tales of the Old West by Erin H. Turner
epub |eng | 2016-03-16 | Author:Erin H. Turner [Turner, Erin H.]

Nevada Outlaws Andrew Jackson “Big Jack” Davis : Master Stage Robber Andrew Jackson “Big Jack” Davis started out as an honest miner in the California Sierras. The intelligent, well-educated, fine-looking ...
( Category: Americas August 25,2017 )
Wicked Women by Enss Chris
epub |eng | 2015-02-20 | Author:Enss, Chris

Kate Horony The Hungarian Madam “It’s laughable how some people will talk. I laugh at how often I turn up dead and buried.” Big Nose Kate, 1883 Kate Horony pulled ...
( Category: Historical August 25,2017 )
Many Loves of Buffalo Bill by Enss Chris
epub |eng | | Author:Enss, Chris

Because the rugged frontier settlements where the Codys lived had no schools, William sent Arta and Irma away to boarding school when they were old enough. However, Louisa didn’t allow ...
( Category: World August 25,2017 )
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (Vintage) by Richard Lyman Bushman
mobi |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Richard Lyman Bushman

RETURN The day after dictating the letter to the Church, Joseph answered a letter from his “Affectionate Wife.” Emma had written, her “hands stiffened with hard work” and “heart convulsed ...
( Category: Americas August 24,2017 )
Blood by Fox Stephen
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Fox, Stephen [Fox, Stephen]

Dr. Bell now cut a small section, no bigger than a postage stamp, from each organ and placed them in labeled plastic containers, and then piled the specimens in a ...
( Category: True Crime August 24,2017 )
Recollections of Early Texas by John Holmes Jenkins
epub |eng | | Author:John Holmes Jenkins

CHAPTER XI In All Fairness . . . Bowie’s celebrated fight on the San Saba in 1831 has been often told and commented upon, and very justly, for no body ...
( Category: Americas August 24,2017 )
Grant Moves South by Bruce Catton
epub |eng | | Author:Bruce Catton

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Victory, and a New Plan What made Corinth important was the railroads. The great Memphis and Charleston line, the Confederacy’s vital East-West axis, ran through here on its ...
( Category: Americas August 24,2017 )
Red Earth White Earth by Will Weaver
epub |eng | 2009-08-24 | Author:Will Weaver

24 When he left the hotel and the basketball team that cold Sunday morning in March in Minneapolis, Tom walked for two days and nights. Any street, any place. Just ...
( Category: Americas August 24,2017 )

First Prev [742] [743] [744] [745] 746 [747] [748] [749] [750] [751] [752] Next Last