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A Crucible of Fire by Richard Feltoe
epub |eng | 2014-04-02 | Author:Richard Feltoe

CHAPTER 6 The Guns Must Be Taken! Previously, back at Chippawa, and as the shadows of the day had lengthened, General Brown had heard the sounds of heavy gunfire coming ...
( Category: War of 1812 January 17,2023 )
Planters, Paupers, and Pioneers by Lucille H. Campey
epub |eng | 2010-08-20 | Author:Lucille H. Campey

A great yelling and hubbub arose in one of the big saloon compartments where a crowd of the young children were, and when I went to quell the disorder there ...
( Category: Province & Local January 17,2023 )
The Black Donnellys by Thomas P. Kelley
epub |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:Thomas P. Kelley [Kelley, Thomas P.]

CHAPTER TEN Fire and More Fires The countryside became a place That lived in fear of night. When burning barns and fields would flame The heavens with their light. - ...
( Category: Canada January 16,2023 )
Dead Man's Noose by Morgan Hill
epub |eng | 2011-03-02 | Author:Morgan Hill [Hill, Morgan]

While Matt Blake took a break to down some water, he glanced at his prisoner. Duke McClain was still sitting where the sheriff had thrown him before the shooting started. ...
( Category: Americas January 16,2023 )
Tofino and Clayoquot Sound by Margaret Horsfield
epub |eng | 2014-10-25 | Author:Margaret Horsfield

The early road between Tofino and Ucluelet, late 1920s. Completed in 1928 after decades of effort, for many years part of the journey required vehicles to drive a considerable distance ...
( Category: First Nations January 15,2023 )
The Riders Come Out at Night by Ali Winston & Darwin BondGraham
epub |eng | 2023-01-10 | Author:Ali Winston & Darwin BondGraham

* * * Oakland was on tenterhooks for the next week. Protesters continued to gather and march in Fruitvale and downtown, one group walking with a symbolic casket painted with ...
( Category: Americas January 15,2023 )
Floods of Northern New Jersey by Amre Youssef
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Amre Youssef

High waters of the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook spill over into Ridgewood’s Graydon Pool area in 1979. (Photograph by Paul Brown; courtesy of the Record archives.) Robin Harty pulls her family across ...
( Category: Americas January 15,2023 )
A Narrative of Events by James Williams
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:James Williams

ST.ANN’S-BAY, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5TH, 1837. George Gordon, esquire, general magistrate, and Jno. Daughtrey, esquire, Special ditto, removed their court to this place, where the investigation was continued. The Commission, and ...
( Category: Jamaica January 15,2023 )
Flora Macdonald by Flora Fraser
epub |eng | 2023-01-10 | Author:Flora Fraser [Fraser, Flora]

14 “All Killed or Taken” July 1775–February 1776 lora was not, after all, to play hostess to the gregarious governor at the Kingsborough plantation in Anson County in the summer ...
( Category: Americas January 15,2023 )
Colorado's Legendary Lovers by Rosemary Fetter
epub |eng | 2015-04-10 | Author:Rosemary Fetter

The Unequal Wages of Sin Baby Doe Tabor and Arabella Huntington Although quite different in looks and personality, both Elizabeth McCourt (Baby Doe) Tabor and Arabella Huntington were exquisite as ...
( Category: Americas January 15,2023 )
Boudoirs to Brothels by Michael Rutter
epub |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Michael Rutter

We know about Dora’s public life in Salt Lake and Ogden because she was involved in public matters. However, we know very little about her personal and private affairs. She ...
( Category: Americas January 15,2023 )
The Pittsburgh Pirates' 1960 Season by David Finoli
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:David Finoli

Coming over from the St. Louis Cardinals on June 15, 1958, for Gene Freese and Johnny O’Brien, infielder Dick Schofield played a limited role for the Pirates in 1960, playing ...
( Category: Americas January 14,2023 )
The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky by Karen Tulchinsky
epub |eng | 2013-03-20 | Author:Karen Tulchinsky

* * * Blood Brothers JULY AND AUGUST 1944 THE TELEGRAM SLIPS from Sophie’s grasp. Her knees give out and she falls hard to the floor, landing in a strange ...
( Category: Post-Confederation January 13,2023 )
The Red Acorn by John McElroy
epub |eng | 2014-02-07 | Author:John McElroy [McElroy, John]

Sir Walter Scott says—as I improve him." "'Specially one of them soaking days when we were marching through the mud to Wildcat." "O, those were just thrown in to make ...
( Category: Americas January 13,2023 )
A Canyon Voyage by Frederick Dellenbaugh
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Frederick Dellenbaugh

Narrow Canyon. Photograph by BEST EXPEDITION, 1891. The Mouth of Fremont River (The Dirty Devil River) Photograph by the BROWN EXPEDITION, 1889 The last day of September found us up ...
( Category: Americas January 13,2023 )

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