Local history

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.

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

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Illinois Women chronicles the stories of twelve Illinois women who lived in the era of True Womanhood and dedicated themselves to charity toward family and strangers.

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

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.

Fans of shoot-'em-up books and movie Westerns, as well as history buffs, will enjoy these short biographies about the baddest of the bad villains and desperadoes on the Alaskan frontier.

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

Maine has a rich supernatural history and ghost stories from the state are as varied as they are prolific.

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.

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.

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

Originally published in 1937 as part of the Rivers of America series, this book has become a classic of Maine literature.

A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Midwest.

Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of South Dakota.

Virginia saw significant action during the War of 1812, from the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair to the defense of Norfolk against British invaders.

Located just seconds from the winding Tennessee border, the remote mountain settlement of Lost Cove, North Carolina was once described as where the "e;moonshiner frolics unmolested.

Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and promised cures for everything from corns to cancer.

Through photos and narrative, some of Texas' most dedicated scientists show you actual specimens of dinosaur material found in Texas, as well as dinosaur exhibits found throughout the state.

The Arizona Territory is known for saloons, gunfights, outlaws and strong women.

This book is centered on the fifteen landmark cases as identified and required for students taking the College Board Advanced Placement(R) Government and Politics Exam.

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The Global Southern Music Issue enhanced eBook includes all the tracks on Traveling Shoes, our special free CD and:The South meets Senegal as hip-hop goes Trans-Atlantic.

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The Battle of the Little Big Horn was the decisive engagement of the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877.

This Omnibus E-book brings together all four issues of Southern Cultures Volume 15, published in 2009.

There is a significant French heritage in North Carolina.

Drawing on six years of research, this book covers the military service and postwar lives of notable Confederate veterans who moved into Northern California at the end the Civil War.

This book presents a comprehensive history of the seven Apache tribes, tracing them from their genetic origins in Asia and their migration through the continent to the Southwest.

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Indiana State Police Captain Matt Leach led the hunt for John Dillinger during the violent early 1930s.

In 1528, the Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and his three companions were shipwrecked and, looking for help, began an eight-year trek through the deserts of the American West.

The Civil War in 1861 found Southerners a minority throughout the West.

Set in the 1980s against a backdrop of the AIDS crisis, deindustrialization and the Reagan era, this book tells the story of one individual's defiant struggle against his community--the city of Kokomo, Indiana.

Once considered the "e;Metropolis of Arizona,"e; Tucson is in many respects a college town with a major military base onto which a retirement community has been grafted.

In 1899, one of America's wealthiest men assembled an interdisciplinary team of experts--many of whom would become legendary in their fields--to join him, entirely at his expense, on a voyage to the largely unknown territory of Alaska.

The signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 signified the end of the Vietnam War.

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

For the Mexican government to go to war with its more powerful northern neighbor in 1846 was folly.

Ohio sent eight presidents to the White House--one Whig and seven Republicans--from 1841 to 1923: William Harrison, U.

Based on years of research as well as interviews conducted with Circle in the Square's major contributing artists, this book records the entire history of this distinguished theatre from its nightclub origins to its current status as a Tony Award-winning Broadway institution.

Part of the self-image of Phoenix is that the city has no history and that anything of importance happened yesterday.

In an era of unique baseball stadiums, the Polo Grounds in New York stood out from the rest.

In 1922, a coal miner strike spread across the United States, swallowing the heavily-unionized mining town of Herrin, Illinois.

King Kamehameha the Great had 30 wives.

A comprehensive filmography, this book is composed of lengthy entries on about 75 films depicting legendary New Mexico outlaw Billy the Kid--from the lost Billy the Kid (1911) to the blockbuster Young Guns (1988) to the direct-to-video 1313: Billy the Kid(2012) and everything in between.

This biographical dictionary catalogs the Union army colonels who commanded regiments from Missouri and the western States and Territories during the Civil War.

The battle that unfolded at the Little Big Horn River on June 25, 1876, marked a watershed in the history of the Plains Indians.

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In 1893, Georgian horsemen from the Caucasus immigrated to the United States where for more than 30 years they performed in circuses and Wild West shows under the billing of "e;Russian Cossacks.