Local history

In the mid-17th century, the Iroquois Confederacy launched a war for control of the burgeoning fur trade industry.

Adolph Sutro was forever seeking challenges.

In the first decades of the 1800s, white Americans entered the rugged lands of Arkansas, which they had little explored before.

In the 1800s, New Orleans' local economy evolved from rural-agrarian into urban-industrial.

The Great Basin is a hydrographic region that includes most of Nevada and parts of five other Western states.

Raised in poverty on an Iowa farm, the Cherry Sisters had little education and no training.

Between 1908 and 1920, Roger C.

This naval history of the Delaware Estuary spans three centuries, from the arrival of the Europeans to the end of the World War II.

In the late 19th century Ohio was reeling from a wave of lynchings and other acts of racially motivated mob violence.

This history of Westchester County, New York, from the time of European settlement to the present, examines four centuries of development in an iconic region that became the archetypal American suburb.

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Known as the Coastal Highway, U.

Inspired by the 2010 "e;Spirit of Mecklenburg"e;--a bronze statue of Captain James Jack, "e;the South's Paul Revere,"e; in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina--this history details the lives of 12 Charlotteans who made important contributions to the Queen City, from the early Colonial period to the 20th century.

In 1750 the Appalachian Mountains were a formidable barrier between the British colonies in the east and French territory in the west, passable only on foot or horseback.

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Professional motorsports came to Las Vegas in the mid-1950s at a bankrupt horse track swarmed by gamblers--and soon became enmeshed with the government and organized crime.

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

Virginia played an important role during World War I, supplying the Allied forces with food, horses and steel in 1915 and 1916.

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

Abraham Lincoln's presidency was bookended by a pair of dramatic railroad trips through the state of New York.

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

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

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

On a September night in 1958, three New Orleans college students went looking for a gay man to assault.

Life was harsh and dangerous for the prospectors of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898-1899.

The Texas land grants were one of the largest public land distributions in American history.

The 1813 storming of Fort Mims by Creek Indians brought to light the careers of Andrew Jackson, David Crockett and Sam Houston.

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In his day, theater actor and manager Jack Langrishe (1825-1895) was about as well known in the West as General Grant was in the East.

The African American presence in St.

In December 1883, five outlaws attempted to rob the A.

Western movies are full of images of swaggering outlaws brought to justice by valiant lawmen shooting them down in daring gunfights before riding off into the sunset.

What can be learned from another retelling of the Tombstone saga?

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

Lieutenant Colonel Edward J.

The traditional narrative of the American West tells of a frontier settled by pioneers emigrating from the east to the Pacific coast.

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

The story of American repertory theatre actress Jolly Della Pringle (1870-1952) is an odyssey of travel, adventure, drama, romance and many changes in fortune.

Drawing on a rare family archive and archival material from the Osage Nation, this book documents a unique relationship among white settlers, the Osage and African Americans in Oklahoma.

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

In the years before World War I, Montana cowboy Fred Barton was employed by Czar Nicholas II to help establish a horse ranch--the largest in the world--in Siberia to supply the Russian military.

In June 1876 the 7th U.

Depictions of the American west in literature, art and film perpetuate romantic stereotypes of the pioneers--the gold-crazed '49er, the intrepid sodbuster.

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

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.

As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero.

In 1933, Genevieve Yost, Kansas State Historical Society cataloger, published a "e;History of Lynching in Kansas.

California was the mining center of the West for half a century.

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.