Moby-Duck is a journey into the heart of the sea and an adventure through science, myth, the global economy, and some of the worst weather imaginable. With each new discovery, Hohn learns of another loose thread, and with each successive chase, he comes closer to understanding where his castaway quarry comes from and where it goes.
In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. They lived with a family of homesteaders in the Elkhead Mountains and rode to school on horseback, often in blinding blizzards. Their students walked or skied, in tattered clothes and shoes tied together with string. The young cattle rancher who had lured them west, Ferry Carpenter, had promised them the adventure of a lifetime. He hadn't let on that they wou... View More...
An only-in-America story of a poor boy dream chaser, fist fighter, and connivers that mix it up in a young Oklahoma state petroleum industry. Stories of those that won and lost that ultimately catapulted Tulsa from a riverside town to the Oil Capital of the World, built on the story of Bob Galbreath and the Glenn Pool discovery. Includes a first hand account of Bob's story of drilling the discovery well and the other risk takers who helped make Tulsa the world's oil capital.
Stop struggling to manage all your genealogy facts, files, and data--make a plan of attack to maximize your progress. Organize Your Genealogy will show you how to use tried-and-true methods and the latest tech tools and genealogy software to organize your research plan, workspace, and family-history finds.
Traces the early history of Bayou St. John which developed into an important transportation route and drainage facility for New Orleans and surrounding areas.
This book is an-depth examination of the main Irish families. It contains no less than 6 Appendices showing the types of various surnames. It contains 243 colored images of family crests, each with a description of the shield and crest. Includes a full color map of Ireland 1300-1600.
This is the extraordinary story of Harriet Potter - the delicate, dark-eyed girl who became a legend during the stirring days of the battle for Texan independence and who played a dramatic part in the growth and destiny of her beloved and beautiful land.
Grainger County was created in 1796 from Hawkins & Knox Counties, TN. The court was held 4 times a year and heard such cases of assault, batteries, trespass, all breaches of the peace. They held authority of administration in intestate estates and orphans, granted license to build water grist mills, to taverns and ordinaries, and to build and maintain public ferries. The court also appointed Constables and Overseers of Roads, and named the men who lived within the bounds to keep them in repair, as well as recommending three persons to the Governor, of whom one was made Sheriff, as well as impo... View More...
Jacob B. 'Billy' Mathews performed a leading role in what is arguably the most notorious chapter in the history of the American West: New Mexico's Lincoln County War of the 1870s. In carrying out orders from some of the primary figures in the conflict, namely J.J. 'Jimmy' Dolan or Sheriff William Brady, Mathews took part in pactically all of the significant events of the war.What is known about his life before the Lincoln County War is quite meager, and much of what has been published about him is incorrect. The author seeks to rectify the inaccuracies as well as to provide new information on ... View More...
The fierce bands of Comanche Indians, on the testimony of their contemporaries, both red and white, numbered some of the most splendid horsemen the world has ever produced. Often the terror of other tribes, who, on finding a Comanche footprint in the Western plains country, would turn and go in the other direction, they were indeed the Lords of the South Plains.
The Civilization of the American Indian Series Vol.34.
Handwritten newletter called El Sabio Sembrador by Frederic A. Percy. Early El Paso history and deals with gun battles and the bloody reign of the city marshals of El Paso.
These 5,000 obituary notices were extracted from six early Kentucky newspapers and published, in installments, in "The Register of the Kentucky History Society." Most entries give the name of the deceased, place of residence, name(s) of wife or husband, parents or other survivors, date of death, and other genealogical details. This consolidated edition also features a complete index of names not found in the original.
This book contains letters written between the U.S. Army post Fort Vincennes and the other american forts on the Ohio River when Ohio and Indiana were the frontier. ?Indiana Historical Society Publications, Volume 19.
Henrietta Boggs-MacGuire, originally from Birmingham, Alabama and now residing in Montgomery is the 1st First Lady of Costa Rica. Married to a Legend, Don Pepe is the autobiography of Doña Henrietta's life during her time in Costa Rica and marriage to Don Pepe Figueres, former President of Costa Rica.
Reprinting these articles from The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record in their entirety makes available a mass of information on Long Island families that has previously been difficult to locate. With additions and corrections from the Record properly appended, this compilation becomes the single greatest repository of Long Island genealogies in existence. Two Volume Set.
Henry Morgenthau III tells the story of his Jewish family, reaching back to his great-grandfather, the dynamic but unstable Lazarus Morgenthau (1815-1897), who in 1866 moved his family to New York after making and losing a fortune in Mannheim, Germany; his grandfather, the determined Henry Sr. (1856-1946), who recouped the family fortune and retired from business in midlife to devote himself to public service as ambassador to Turkey throughout the Armenian crisis of 1913-15; and his father, the Henry Jr. (1891-1967), who became one of the country's most influential men and, as secretary of the... View More...
The history of Kentucky: Including an account of the discovery--settlement--progressive improvement--political and military events--and present state of the country. VOL I only.
Georgia's Last Frontier presents the history of one of the state's least developed regions. During the 1830s, Carroll County was a large part of Georgia's most rugged frontier. James C. Bonner examines how life in this isolated region was complicated by the presence of Native Americans, cattle rustlers, and horse thieves. He details how the discovery of gold in the Villa Rica area resulted in drunkenness and violence, but also laid the foundations of mining technology that were later used in Colorado and California. The region remained isolated until after the Civil War, when a rail line was c... View More...
The history of the American West has usually been seen from the perspective of American expansion. Drawing on previously unexplored primary sources, James E. Officer has now produced a major work that traces the Hispanic roots of southern Arizona and northern Sonora—one which presents the Spanish and Mexican rather than Anglo point of view. Officer records the Hispanic presence from the earliest efforts at colonization on Spain's northwestern frontier through the Spanish and Mexican years of rule, thus providing a unique reference on Southwestern history.
