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Arizona Legends and Lore by Dorothy Daniels Anderson
epub |eng | 2011-08-06 | Author:Dorothy Daniels Anderson [Anderson, Dorothy Daniels]

To have come this close to finding a fortune in gold only to see it slip from one’s grasp would have discouraged most men, but not Henry Wickenburg. Even after ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America by Marc Levinson
epub |eng | | Author:Marc Levinson

17 DEFYING DEATH For the first time since winning his congressional seat in 1928, Patman faced serious opposition in the July 1938 Democratic primary. He blamed the opposition on chain-store ...
( Category: Company Profiles December 27,2014 )
Death in a Promised Land by Scott Ellsworth
epub, mobi |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Scott Ellsworth [Ellsworth, Scott]

He added one more reason: “If we had a company formed it would still be impossible to buy this land for a certain percentage of the negroes would not sell.”31 ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
Murder in the Stacks: Penn State, Betsy Aardsma, and the Killer Who Got Away by David Dekok
epub |eng | 2014-09-02 | Author:David Dekok [Dekok, David]

Chapter 24 Left Behind One night in May of 1970, Louis C. Cotts, Betsy’s uncle, had a terrifying nightmare about her death. The terror ended only when Betsy came to ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
Bloody Williamson by Paul M. Angle
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Paul M. Angle [Angle, Paul M.]

Downtown Herrin, Scene of the Klan War 1. CATHOLIC CHURCH 2. CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL 3. PARISH HOUSE 4. SMITH GARAGE 5. LIBERTY HOTEL 6. EUROPEAN HOTEL 7. CITY HALL AND ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
Anything for a Vote by Joseph Cummins
epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Joseph Cummins [Cummins, Joseph]

WILSON’S STOLEN VALISE The only hint of a romantic scandal in this campaign came when Woodrow Wilson’s longtime friendship with a lovely divorcée named Mary Allen Peck was made public ...
( Category: Elections December 27,2014 )
The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
epub |eng | 2005-04-11 | Author:Russell Shorto

Chapter 11 AN AMERICAN IN EUROPE In January 1646 a coach, drawn by six horses, labored through the frozen ruts of a road in the German countryside. With gilt woodwork ...
( Category: Colonial Period December 27,2014 )
Hunting Che by Mitch Weiss & Kevin Maurer
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-05-28 | Author:Mitch Weiss & Kevin Maurer

* * * On a Sunday night in late August, Mario Salazar was getting ready for the dance. Every weekend, the Bolivian men gathered around a small band in the ...
( Category: Bolivia December 27,2014 )
Historic Houston Streets by Marks Hinton
epub |eng | | Author:Marks Hinton

» MARKS: Street sign near location of E. H. Marks ranch MARLOWE: Christopher – This 16th century English dramatist’s writings had a profound influence on William Shakespeare. His works include ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
Across Atlantic Ice by Dennis J. Stanford & Bruce A. Bradley
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-12-26 | Author:Dennis J. Stanford & Bruce A. Bradley

FIGURE 7.3. Bladelet and blade cores: (a) Solutrean bladelet core; (b-d) pre-Clovis bladelet cores; (e) face and top view of Solutrean polyhedral blade core; (f) face and top view of ...
( Category: Paleontology December 27,2014 )
After Lincoln by A. J. Langguth
epub |eng | | Author:A. J. Langguth

Ulysses S. Grant CHAPTER 13 ULYSSES S. GRANT (1869) JULIA GRANT HAD BEEN RELIEVED when Andrew Johnson escaped conviction in the Senate. She sympathized with those who thought Johnson’s light ...
( Category: Civil War December 27,2014 )
Symbiont (Parasitology Book 2) by Grant Mira
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:Grant, Mira [Grant, Mira]

Break the mirror; it tells lies. Learn to live in your disguise. Everything is changing now, it’s too late to go back. Caterpillar child of mine, This was always life’s ...
( Category: Technothrillers December 27,2014 )
Fireball by Robert Matzen
epub |eng | 2013-12-02 | Author:Robert Matzen [Matzen, Robert]

27. The Glamorous Life Alice Frances Getz was always special, the last of four born to Fred and Katie Getz of Kewanee, Illinois. The Getzes had thought Alice would be ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers December 27,2014 )
Stirring It Up with Molly Ivins by Ellen Sweets
epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Ellen Sweets

This recipe is gonna scare the beejebers out of the hypochondriacs among us, because nobody believes you should leave chicken out for more than six seconds lest you contract some ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
One Small Candle: The Pilgrim's First Year in America (The Thomas Fleming Library) by Fleming Thomas
mobi |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Fleming, Thomas [Fleming, Thomas]

Twenty-four men, armed and armored as before and under Miles Standish’s command, boarded the shallop and the longboat. Those in the longboat were to go ashore and march down the ...
( Category: Colonial Period December 27,2014 )

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