North America category: 699 books
Taking Hawaii
How Thirteen Honolulu Businessmen Overthrew the Queen of Hawaii in 1893, With a Bluff
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
On a January afternoon in 1893, men hunkered down behind sandbagged emplacements in the streets of Honolulu, with rifles, machine guns, and cannon ready to open fire. Troops and police loyal to the queen of the sovereign nation of Hawaii faced off against a small number of rebel Honolulu businessmen—American,...
Visits With Lincoln
Abolitionists Meet The President at the White House
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Visits with Lincoln provides a balanced and readable discussion of ten abolitionists, male and female, black and white, who visited President Lincoln in the White House during the Civil War in an attempt to advance their goal of ending slavery immediately. The book paints a portrait of Lincoln through...
Burnt-Out Fires
California’s Modoc Indian War
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Burnt-Out Fires deals with a very dark period of American history, a period that, until recently, had been purposefully forgotten ... a period that hopefully will cause a re-evaluation of the American ideals and dreams.
Everyone pointed to...
Geronimo
Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
“In the hands of Mike Leach and Buddy Levy, the story of this brilliant Apache leader comes into sharp focus, both in their narrative of his life and in spirited commentaries on its meaning” (S.C. Gwynne, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon).
Playing cowboys and...
by John Myers Myers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
"The majority of the stories of the Alamo fight have been partly legendary, partly hearsay and at best fragmentary. It has been left to John Myers Myers to present an exhaustively researched book which reveals the chronicle of the siege of the Alamo in an entirely different light. . . . Myers'...
by Esther Pavao
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Did the Founding Fathers own slaves? What happened to the slaves that ran away to join the war? Were our cherished self-evident truths ever applied to all men equally? Have you ever wondered how our fearless and progressive founding fathers could give their lives for their own freedom, yet ignore...
by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This vintage book contains Ulrich Bonnell Phillips's 1918 historical treatise, “American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime”. Although Phillips displays what we would now consider to be unrepentant racism in this...
by Hubert Howe Bancroft
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Pyrrhus Press specializes in bringing books long out of date back to life, allowing today’s readers access to yesterday’s treasures.
The Adventures of the Mountain Men
True Tales of Hunting, Trapping, Fighting, Adventure, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Incredible stories from those who thrived in the Wild West.
The mountain men” were the hunters and trappers who fiercely strode the Rocky Mountains in the early to mid-1800s. They braved the elements in search of the skins of beavers and other wild animals, to sell or barter for goods....
by Randolph Marcy
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
One of the most practical and popular guides to the settlement of the Old West was Randolph B. Marcy's The Prairie Traveler, published in 1859.
A captain in the U.S. army, Marcy wrote The Prairie Traveler partly to allay the many myths and fears of the Western frontier, and partly to offer...
by Frederic Remington
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
A fascintating eyewitness account of the American Wild West in the latter part of the 19th century.
by Jeremiah Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Three Years in the Klondike is the recollections of a traveler to the Yukon in the late 19th century, during the gold rush.
A Year of Indiana History Stories - Book 1
Hoosier History Chronicles, #1
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
A Year of Indiana History Stories Book 1 includes three hundred and sixty-five stories of Indiana history. Hoosier history buffs will enjoy this journal of historic tales, some of which are obscure and little known. Others chronicle important benchmark historical Indiana events.
Astoria
Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
Astoria Or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains is a novel published in 1836 by Washington Irving, at the behest of John Jacob Astor, about the American West.
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer, historian,...