Local history

With this compilation of Texas--and Texanized--favorite myths and legends, award-winning tale teller Donna Ingham applies her own unmistakable voice to traverse her home state through such stories as:The Coming of the Bluebonnet--an oft-collected Commanche myth about love and sacrifice and the origin of the Texas state flowerThe Story Behind the Story--about two early cattlemen and the basis for an episode in Larry McMurtrys Lonesome DoveThe Life and Times of Pecos Bill--a selection of tales about this legendary folk heroDiamond Bill--about an east Texas rattlesnake who fought in the Civil WarCupid Was a Mamas Boy--a Texanized classic Greek myth

Black soldiers of the American Revolution?

In 1914, desperate for land after the Gold Rush brought a population explosion to San Francisco, the city exiled its cemeteries, barring burials within city limits and relocating its existing graveyards to the tiny town of Colma, just south of Daly City, spawning Americas only necropolis, where the dead outnumber the living 1000 to 1.

With this compilation of Texas--and Texanized--favorite myths and legends, award-winning tale teller Donna Ingham applies her own unmistakable voice to traverse her home state through such stories as:The Coming of the Bluebonnet--an oft-collected Commanche myth about love and sacrifice and the origin of the Texas state flowerThe Story Behind the Story--about two early cattlemen and the basis for an episode in Larry McMurtrys Lonesome DoveThe Life and Times of Pecos Bill--a selection of tales about this legendary folk heroDiamond Bill--about an east Texas rattlesnake who fought in the Civil WarCupid Was a Mamas Boy--a Texanized classic Greek myth

Whether its for their solace and beauty or for the sense of history that seeps from the ground, cemeteries are fascinating places to visit, this guide shows where to find the most interesting and unusual ones in all of New England.

Black soldiers of the American Revolution?

From the Preface: In the 1700s, American colleges like Yale were hotbeds of intellectual activity that lead the country to revolution.

Paul Bunyan and Babe, Native American legends, ghosts, river mysteries, and more populate the pages of Spooky Wisconsin.

Paul Bunyan and Babe, Native American legends, ghosts, river mysteries, and more populate the pages of Spooky Wisconsin.

From the Preface: In the 1700s, American colleges like Yale were hotbeds of intellectual activity that lead the country to revolution.

From robbing graves, to calling their neighbors scum, to penning hot takes about the fantastic firewood situation in New England, the intrepid founding fathers and mothers of New England were way more complex and colorful than weve been led to believe.

In 1906 Atlanta, after a summer of inflammatory headlines and accusations of black-on-white sexual assaults, armed white mobs attacked African Americans, resulting in at least twenty-five black fatalities.

The complete story of the tragic loss of the passenger steamer City of Columbus.

From robbing graves, to calling their neighbors scum, to penning hot takes about the fantastic firewood situation in New England, the intrepid founding fathers and mothers of New England were way more complex and colorful than weve been led to believe.

In 1906 Atlanta, after a summer of inflammatory headlines and accusations of black-on-white sexual assaults, armed white mobs attacked African Americans, resulting in at least twenty-five black fatalities.

True accounts of major disasters in Oregon history are retold in this engagingly written collection.

The complete story of the tragic loss of the passenger steamer City of Columbus.

Sometimes a wars greatest heroes are its survivors, those who manage to forge new lives despite the tragedy they have experienced.

Sometimes a wars greatest heroes are its survivors, those who manage to forge new lives despite the tragedy they have experienced.

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America won the Revolutionary War against all odds.

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Did a doomed party of prospectors discover gold in South Dakotas Black Hills decades before Custers Black Hills Expedition scouted out the area?

Though the Georgia coast is a mere 110 miles long, a wealth of historic beautynatural and manmadelies between the Savannah and St.

America won the Revolutionary War against all odds.

In the late 1880s, the Pecos River region of Texas and southern New Mexico was known as ';the cowboy's paradise.

From blue bells to armadillos and the San Antonio River Walk to Cadillac Ranch, heres the inside story about the very things that give the state its character.

In the late 1880s, the Pecos River region of Texas and southern New Mexico was known as ';the cowboy's paradise.

This is a comprehensive history of the beginnings, trials, and flourishing of Plainville Connecticut.

This is a comprehensive history of the beginnings, trials, and flourishing of Plainville Connecticut.

Did a doomed party of prospectors discover gold in South Dakotas Black Hills decades before Custers Black Hills Expedition scouted out the area?

The state of Massachusetts still has and continues to celebrate its town or village greens.

More Shipwrecks of Florida is a sequel to Shipwrecks of Florida, 2nd edition.

The state of Massachusetts still has and continues to celebrate its town or village greens.

More Shipwrecks of Florida is a sequel to Shipwrecks of Florida, 2nd edition.

True accounts of major disasters in Texas history are retold in this engagingly written collection.

Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in the Peach State.

True accounts of major disasters in Texas history are retold in this engagingly written collection.

From its beginnings New Londons history is bound to the sea.

Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in the Peach State.

From its beginnings New Londons history is bound to the sea.

It's no surprise that the historic Massachusetts seaport's history is checkered with violence and heinous crimes.

Boston has always been known for its stiff character.

North CarolinaMyths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in North Carolina's history.

Witches and Warlocks of Massachusetts is a collection of legends and historical accounts about witches and warlocks from the Bay State.

Boston has always been known for its stiff character.

For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses not just their eyes to construct racial difference and define race.

It's no surprise that the historic Massachusetts seaport's history is checkered with violence and heinous crimes.

It Happened inMaryland takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from theOld LineState's storied past.

For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses not just their eyes to construct racial difference and define race.