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Portraits of Women in the American West by Dee Garceau-Hagen
epub |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Dee Garceau-Hagen [Garceau-Hagen, Dee]

If Cascade residents talked about Fields’ “masculine” clothing, they also remarked on her carrying a firearm as another marker of masculinity. The Ursuline Annals from St. Peter’s report that Fields ...
( Category: West March 4,2023 )
Survival Along the Continental Divide by Jack Loeffler
epub |eng | 2008-06-16 | Author:Jack Loeffler [Loeffler, Jack]

I had sixteen or seventeen hundred dollars at the end of the war that my parents had in war bonds. I bought my first car in 1947 when I cashed ...
( Category: Southwest March 4,2023 )
On the Irish Waterfront by James T. Fisher
epub |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:James T. Fisher [Fisher, James T.]

PART THREE Waterfront Apotheosis 12 A Season for Testimony Anthony “Tony Mike” DeVincenzo worked as a longshoreman for twenty years on the Hudson County piers save for one day spent ...
( Category: Mid-Atlantic March 3,2023 )
Old Mackinaw; Or, The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings by W. P. Strickland
epub |eng | 1860-01-15 | Author:W. P. Strickland [Strickland, W. P.]

CHAPTER XI. Table of Contents The entrepot of a vast commerce—Surface drained—Superiority of Mackinaw over Chicago as a commercial point—Exports and imports—Michigan the greatest lumber-growing region in the world—Interminable forests ...
( Category: Midwest March 3,2023 )
The Old Santa Fe Trail by Henry Inman
epub |eng | 2016-08-06 | Author:Henry Inman [Inman, Henry]

CHAPTER XIV. TRAPPERS. Table of Contents The initial opening of the trade with New Mexico from the Missouri River, as has been related, was not direct to Santa Fe. The ...
( Category: Southwest March 3,2023 )
The Negro and Fusion Politics in North Carolina, 1894-1901 by Helen G. Edmonds
epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Helen G. Edmonds [Edmonds, Helen G.]

We get the Sheriff, Treasurer and two Commissioners, which will be satisfactory, but we could not under any circumstances agree to support any Negro for the Legislature. I suggest that ...
( Category: South March 2,2023 )
A Natural-Born Linthead by JL Strickland
epub |eng | 2012-11-16 | Author:JL Strickland [Strickland, JL]

The City of Valley, Alabama, bought Langdale and Riverdale Mills, the company’s original two from 1866. Duplex houses on 16th Street, Langdale Mill Village, 1997, courtesy of the collections of ...
( Category: South March 1,2023 )
Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 by Various J. Franklin Jameson
epub |eng | 2009-05-28 | Author:Various, J. Franklin Jameson [Various, J. Franklin Jameson]

(2) Equivalent to $6,400. (3) $12,000. (4) From $24,000 to $28,000. (5) A bay on the coast of Brazil, where the Dutch admiral Lichthart defeated the Portugese in a naval ...
( Category: Mid-Atlantic March 1,2023 )
Murder in Roanoke County by John Long
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:John Long [Long, John]

Roanoke County Courthouse. The roof and chimney behind the wing on the left is the county jail. Salem Historical Society. But public opinion was beside the point. It would be ...
( Category: South March 1,2023 )
Murder Mayhem in Chicago's Vice Districts by Troy Taylor
epub |eng | 2017-09-25 | Author:Troy Taylor [Taylor, Troy]

CHICAGO’S WICKEDEST PEOPLE Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most ...
( Category: Midwest March 1,2023 )
Lincoln's Wartime Tours from Washington, D.C. by John W. Schildt
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2020-10-26 | Author:John W. Schildt [Schildt, John W.]

GETTYSBURG, NOVEMBER 18–19 One week before the dedicatory events, Ward Hill Lamon and his top aide, Benjamin B. French, went by rail to Gettysburg to check on all the preparations. ...
( Category: Mid-Atlantic February 26,2023 )
The Life Legacy of William F. Drannan by William F. Drannan
epub |eng | 2009-01-06 | Author:William F. Drannan [Drannan, William F.]

As I rode along Gen. Wheaton dashed up by my side and said: "Where can those Indians be and what kind of guns have they? I have been losing men ...
( Category: West February 26,2023 )
The Life of Kit Carson: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel U.S.A by Edward Sylvester Ellis
epub |eng | 2019-11-25 | Author:Edward Sylvester Ellis [Ellis, Edward Sylvester]

CHAPTER XXII. Table of Contents Kit Carson Hears Surprising News—He Visits Fremont—Is Re-engaged as Guide—Fremont's Account of his Visit to Salt Lake. Kit Carson was astonished on reaching Bent's Fort ...
( Category: West February 26,2023 )
Laura Clay and the Woman's Rights Movement by Paul E. Fuller
epub |eng | 2021-10-21 | Author:Paul E. Fuller [Fuller, Paul E.]

VII STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF THE NATIONAL SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT 1309-1911 THE INTERNAL DISSENSION that marred Laura Clay’s last months on the Official Board was similar, in some respects, to the ...
( Category: South February 26,2023 )
John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 03 (of 10) by John L. (John Lawson) Stoddard
epub |eng | 2010-03-11 | Author:John L. (John Lawson) Stoddard [Stoddard, John L.]

BRONZE HORSE. A MONSTER BELL, KIOTO. A TEMPLE IN KIOTO. Accepting the invitation which that bell conveyed to us, we strolled toward one of Kioto's many temples. In the one ...
( Category: Southwest February 26,2023 )

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