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Cover of Secret Cleveland: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
by Deb Thompson, Tonya Prater
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

Take a journey to explore hidden nooks and crannies, that you never knew existed in Cleveland, without leaving your home. Haunted locales, “World’s largest”, odd sights, noteworthy inventions, unique foods and more exist among the pages of Secret Cleveland: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and...
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by James C. Klotter
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 1989

"The reader gets to play detective in four mysteries from Kentucky's past -- the disappearances of James Harrod and "Honest Dick" Tate, the battlefield death of Indian chief Tecumseh, and the assassination of William Goebel. James Klotter offers clues but leaves the solution to the...
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by David W. Maurer
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

" When the first American tax on distilled spirits was established in 1791, violence broke out in Pennsylvania. The resulting Whiskey Rebellion sent hundreds of families down the Ohio River by flatboat, stills on board, to settle anew in the fertile bottomlands of Kentucky. Here they used cold...
Cover of Juanita
by William B. Secrest
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012

     For many years one of the prime hardships on the western American frontier was the scarcity of women. Men could endure living a rough existence out in the open, fighting Indians and the elements, but the loneliness of life without women could become almost unendurable. Miners...
Cover of Memoirs, Episodes in New Mexico History, 1892-1969
by William A. Keleher
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008

William A. Keleher always had an active curiosity and this made him an outstanding newspaperman and an indefatigable researcher of historical events. It led him into many intellectual adventures that resulted in a whole series of books of New Mexicana. In this personal narrative, he gives readers...
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by Sue Flanagan
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010

When Sam Houston crossed the Red River for the first time in 1832, he termed Texas the "finest portion of the Globe that has ever blessed my vision." He soon made it his "abiding place" and became a lifelong traveller in his adopted country. By carriage and muleback his diplomatic, military, political,...
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The Making of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

A Devil, Two Rivers, and a Dream

by Teresa S. Moyer, Paul A. Shackel
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2007

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is most widely known today for the attempted slave revolt led by John Brown in 1859, the nucleus for the interpretation of the current national park. Here, Moyer and Shackel tell the behind-the-scenes story of how this event was chosen and preserved for commemoration,...
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35 Degrees 24 Minutes North - 91 Degrees West

A Town Called Hickory Ridge

by Johnny H. Wilson, Isaac A. Bratcher, Don Evans
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2006

A history of the settlement and development of the townships of Brushy Lake and Hickory Ridge and of the emergence of the town of Hickory ridge, all located within the state of Arkansas. The time span covered begins with the discovery of America and comes forth to about the year 2000. It includes...
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The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

Sentinel of the Shoals

by Dawson Carr
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

Since 1871 the Cape Hatteras lighthouse has been a welcome sight for sailors entering the treacherous region off North Carolina's Outer Banks known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic. At 208 feet high, it is the tallest lighthouse in the country and one of the state's most famous landmarks. Through...
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Summary of Legends and Lies

by Bill O'Reilly and David Fisher | Includes Analysis

by Instaread Summaries
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016

Legends and Lies by Bill O’Reilly and David Fisher | Includes Analysis   Preview: In Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies: The Real West, each chapter is a standalone account of the life of an individual who was in some way notorious or iconic and lived their life during what...
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Pistol Packin' Preachers

Circuit Riders of Texas

by Barbara Barton
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2005

A writer once denounced the Lone Star State as "where the Godly could battle 'the devil' on his own ground." Circuit riders and other early preachers confronted dangerous outlaws, Indians, wild animals, and Texas' unpredictable weather. Their stories chronicle bringing one element of civilization...
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A History of Highway 60

and the Railroad Towns on the Belen, New Mexico Cutoff

by Dixie Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016

In 1903 the AT&SF Railroad began laying track on the Belen Cutoff from Belen, New Mexico to Amarillo, Texas. The railroad company encouraged settlement of New Mexico’s eastern plains by sponsoring emigrant trains, a quicker method of transport for settlers moving their belongings and livestock...
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Lincoln's Enduring Legacy

Perspective from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment

by Danny Adkison, John Barr, Byron Daynes
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010

Coming on the heels of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Lincoln's Enduring Legacy offers highly readable and accessible perspectives on Lincoln at 200 in terms of his impact on great leaders and thinkers and his place in American history. The book explores how Lincoln's words and deeds...
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Faith and Treason

The Story of the Gunpowder Plot

by Antonia Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014

In England, November 5 is Guy Fawkes Day, when fireworks displays commemorate the shocking moment in 1605 when government authorities uncovered a secret plan to blow up the House of Parliament--and King James I along with it. A group of English Catholics, seeking to unseat the king and reintroduce...
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