History of the Americas

This fast-paced and fascinating story, originally published in 1983, covers a vital part of coastal Maine's history too long overlooked: the cultural history of the Penobscot, Kennebec, Saco, and Damariscotta Rivers.

In movies, stage plays, short stories, novels, newspaper articles, poems, and songs, literally hundreds of accomplished authors have been drawn toward the near mythical persona of Henry McCarty, aka William Bonney, alias Billy the Kid.

On March 6, 1836 one of the most well-known Americans of his time fought and died in one of America's most celebrated battles.

Texas and Texans have been known to boast of having the best or the worst, the most or the least, the largest or the tiniest of just about everything.

The Revolutionary War Quiz and Fact Book contains more than 600 intriguing questions and answers about not only the American Revolutionary War, but also about the other major conflicts of the time.

Much is known about Nixon's actual visit to China, but the story of how it all came together has never been told until now.

Combining fascinating stories of Texas history with travel adventures around the state, Exploring Texas History: Weekend Adventures suggests where to go and what to see by tracking historical characters and events.

A Field Guide to Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians identifies and describes more than 200 dart and arrow projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native Americans in Texas.

This is the true story about how Washington, D.

Continuing the amusing, interesting, factual, and sometimes ridiculous bits of information in A Treasury of Texas Trivia, this second volume brings you all-new entertaining tidbits-some of them useful historical facts and some just for fun.

For Texans and non-Texans alike, Mythic Texas is a fascinating journey into a culture that is like no other in the world.

Although there are numerous books about Louisiana, little information about the forts are included and none combines the forts with ghost stories.

When Waddy Bullion refers to his experience working for LBJ as a tax attorney and business advisor, he calls it "e;being in the boat.

Did the famous Davy Crockett surrender at the Alamo or die fighting like a tiger according to Texas tradition?

Over the years, Colorado has attracted its share of literary vagabonds, but none have described the state in such eloquent prose as those who visited the area during its early years.

From the sixteenth century through the twentieth, Texans have had interesting things to say about themselves, their home, and the rest of the world.

If you love history and want to amaze your family and colleagues with your prodigious knowledge of Lone Star lore, this book is just what you need.

Beginning with the trailblazing expedition of Lewis and Clark, Early American Naturalists tells the stories of men and women of the 1800s who crossed the Mississippi River and encountered the new life of the western New World.

For more than a century and a half Texans have honored the heroes of the Texas fight for independence.

Here are the personal philosophies, opinions, thoughts, witticisms, and feelings of such upstanding and quintessential Americans as Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jacqueline Kennedy, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, and Hillary Clinton.

Chronicles one of the greatest sea tragedies of our time.

Captain Klevenhagen was one of the best officers Texas ever had.

During the brutal and destructive King Philip's War, the New England Indians combined new European weaponry with their traditional use of stealth, surprise, and mobility.

Tom Dodge is at his best when he talks about Texas.

In the beginning it was happy trails.

Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, Robert E.

This is the definitive account of a beloved hotel that has played a memorable role in San Antonio's history.

James Walker Fannin.

Tuck this book under your arm, jump in your car, and get ready to discover the ghosts of North Texas!

Legends of abandoned old graveyards and some not so abandoned abound-the crying dog in the cemetary well, the wandering ghost of Long Tom March, who carries a deck of cards and won't rest until he finds a winning poker hand.

375 exciting tales of heroism and tragedy drawn from the nearly 150,000 search and rescue missions carried out by the National Park Service since 1872.

Here, for the first time, is a book that goes beyond providing just a brief battle history for each of the Civil War parks.

President Theodore Roosevelt left his mark on every facet of American life, including, quite colorfully, its language.

For visitors and recent arrivals, Atlanta Rising, will serve as the essential primer on the ins and outs of the South's capital city.

Every time a cowhand dug his boot into the stirrup, he knew that this ride could carry him to trail's end.

A writer once denounced the Lone Star State as "e;where the Godly could battle 'the devil' on his own ground.

Across the North, 26,000 Rebels died in what was called "e;Yankee captivity"e;six times the number of Confederate dead listed for the battle of Gettysburg, and twice that for the Southern dead of Antietam, Chickamauga, Chancellorsville, Seven Days, Shiloh, and Second Manassas combined.

Powder papers, booty balls, and sugar tits Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs has a cure for whatever ails!

Women are all too easily forgotten when it comes to war.

Take a guided tour of more than 15,000 years of life in TexasMr.

For fifty years prison inmates in Texas were leased out to railroads, coal mines, farm plantations, and sawmill crews with terrible incidences of brutality, cruelty, injury, and death to the prisoners.

Jon McConal, longtime columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, takes readers on a trip back through years of writing about Texas-its history, people, and unusual places.

Not every Wild West disagreement was settled with guns on a dusty street.

Contains over one hundred descriptions of the Battle of the Alamo by people who were witnesses or who claimed to have witnessed the event.

Texas convicts and inmates have made the Texas prison system the most colorful in the world over the past 150 years.

Entertaining historical vignettes focus on the human-interest aspects of real people and actual events of frontier Texas.

Some of the law officers who served the West during the last half of the nineteenth century drifted from one side of the law to the other and sold their talents to whichever side offered the most advantage.

Ghosts can be encountered anywhere at any time by any person.

Everyone loves a good murder mystery, and in this case, the murders and the outcomes are both quite real.

Based on a 1912 publication about Texans who fought for the South in the Civil War, Texas Boys in Gray presents a collection of fascinating remembrances of those who were there.