Folly Cove 01930: 249 books

Denver was a small town at the foot of the mountains when Theodore Davis took a stagecoach across the plains on the Smoky Hill Route from Atchison, Kansas. Herds of Buffalo and unfriendly Indians made the journey both exhilarating and dangerous, with a cavalry escort on parts of the trail. "...

Randolph Marcy went west in 1833. He reminisces  about his army life on the border of Indian Territory in this short 19th century piece. Illustrated

A Brief look at the Pan American Exposition with Illustration by Andre Casaigne and Harry Fenn.

Marquand takes a tour of Italy in 1893 to photograph monuments of his passion: della Robbia works. Rich photographs accompany his description of the tour and the monuments.

Shipbuilding at Glasgow during the later half of the nineteenth century was a race to build faster ships for Trans-Atlantic travel. This is a brief look at the building of “The City of New York.”

A Mid Nineteenth Century trip along the recently completed Catawissa Railroad in Rural Pennsylvania.

An Eastern Correspondent spends the summer on duty with Hancock's 1867 Indian Expedition, following Hancock and Custer as they attempt to make peace with the warring Indians on the plains. Good examples of real life in the Indian Wars.

 A Brief look at the campaign that pushed Harrison into his presidency.

The story of a near shipwreck and salvation of a small sloop off the coast of Australia in 1853. Good description of native customs. Illustrated.

A brief account of the adventurers of a Philadelphia merchant sailing the piratical waters of the West Indies in the early 19th century.

This is a brief essay and early military pyrotechnics, Greek Fire, and the transition to gunpowder.

This is a short history of Babylon, with some interesting stories and legends and an account of the fall of Babylon and it's destruction.

Written in the mid nineteenth century, Early Aeronautics tells the story of the very beginning of flight – parachutes and hot air balloons in their earliest incarnations. Includes original illustrations.

A brief paper on historic gambling and gamblers through the mid 19th century.