Local and family history, nostalgia

In a series of essays, Runyon, reflects on the frank, often outrageous opinions of his ';old man,' who knows a thing or two about just about everythingand even if he doesn't, he'll tell you anyway.

A collection of photographs documenting a diverse array of lifestyles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Pennsylvania and New York by amateur photographer Henry K.

Explores towns, settlements, forts, and other areas that have been completely deserted or brought back to life as tourist attractions.

Official companion guide to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Civil War Trails initiative.

The three New Jersey beach resorts known collectively as The Wildwoods have recently been the subject of widespread notice for their unique concentration of mid-century commercial architecture.

Covering ancient ceremonies, mythology, the gospels, and traditions from around the world, this book uncoversthe fascinating background toone of the biggest festive seasonsChristmas.

Regional histories of the great railroads and relics of rail culture.

High adventure, dastardly deeds, and newly uncovered lore.

High adventure, dastardly deeds, and newly uncovered lore.

The return of a bestselling classic with new material.

The Klondike bar is America's favorite ice cream novelty.

Cemeteries, abandoned buildings, and roads to nowhere are all that remain of several once-thriving towns in Pennsylvania.

Back by popular demand, a supernatural detective story revealing the true account of a house haunted by ghosts lingering after a nineteenth century murder.

From the Pennsylvania Dutch Country in Southeastern and Central Pennsylvania has spread the fun holiday celebration of Groundhog Day.

In Prosperos America, Walter W.

The Music Issue enhanced eBook include all the tracks on our special CD and:The tell-all letter from a teenage girl who kissedand kissedElvis PresleyHow corruption and greed made the Jacksonville music sceneGretchen Wilson, country musics Redneck WomanThe invaluable social spaces of African American record storesBobby Rush, bluesman-plusWhere Opryland resides in hearts, minds, and soulsBackstage with the Avett Brothers, Doc Watson, Tift Merritt, Southern Culture on the Skids, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Johnny Cash, and more great artists.

At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the unsuspecting European settlers living along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers of North Carolina.

For many years, movie audiences have carried on a love affair with the American West, believing Westerns are escapist entertainment of the best kind, harkening back to the days of the frontier.

Since colonial days, administration of the death penalty--whether by hanging, firing squad, electrocution, or lethal injection--has persisted as one of the most controversial ethical and practical issues of American jurisprudence.

Miners, loggers, railroad men, and others flooded into the American West after the discovery of gold in 1848, and entertainers seeking to fill the demand for distraction from the workers' daily toil soon followed.

This illustrated filmography analyzes the plots and players of the more than forty motion pictures about the legendary Missouri outlaw Jesse James (1847-1882), from the silent era to the 21st century.

The Texas Ranger law enforcement agency features so prominently in Texan and Wild West folklore that its accomplishments have been featured in everything from pulp novels to popular television.

This reference work contains details of all the crimes resulting in executions in the fifteen western American territories.

In January 1, 1885, Wells, Fargo & Company's chief detective James B.

The healing arts as practiced in the Old West often meant the difference between life and death for American pioneers.

This is a survey of the major historic trails of New Mexico and other parts of the American Southwest.

Yellow Rose of Texas: The Myth of Emily Morgan tells the fact based story of the African-American woman who inspired the world famous folk song.

Phillips and Ruth Lee Thygeson were pioneers in medical research on external diseases of the human eye.

The autobiography has not always been acknowledged as true literature.

A new interpretation of the nature of the eighteenth century's Anglo-French wars, focusing on those taken captive.

Among the many upheavals in North America caused by the French and Indian War was a commonplace practice that affected the lives of thousands of men, women, and children: being taken captive by rival forces.

An adventurous single woman who knew how to cook, twenty-three-year-old May Arkwright moved alone to the remote valleys of northern Idaho in 1883.

In the fall of 1913, Laura and Earle Smith, a young Iowa couple, made the gutsysome might say foolhardydecision to homestead in Wyoming.

Thelawless days Old West lasted only a short time, but the stories of its outlaws and the havoc they wreaked are legendary.

Sourdoughs, Claim Jumpers & Dry Gulchers: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Frontier Prospecting, offers 50 tales of hard-bitten sourdoughs, petty bandits, outright outlaws, guilt-free gunmen, and murderous money-grubbers as they scrabbled to gain the lands, foodstuffs, and fortunes of wide-eyed greenhorns, gullible and trusting tenderfoots, and slow-on-the-draw gold panners.

Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales ofOregon, with compelling legends ofthe Beaver State's most despicable desperadoes.

Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales ofColorado, with compelling legends ofthe Centennial State's most despicable desperadoes.

The Epidemic tells the story of how a vain and reckless businessman became responsible for a typhoid epidemic in 1903 that devastated Cornell University and the surrounding town of Ithaca, New York.

Bestselling true-crime author M.

America's most notorious family feud began in 1865 with the murder of a Union McCoy soldier by a Confederate Hatfield relative of Devil Anse Hatfield.

Against the odds, the Hudson Valley has cleaned up its act and rediscovered its soul.

True stories of the Land of Enchantment's most infamous crooks, culprits, and cutthroats.

True stories of the Grand Canyon state's mostinfamous robbers, rustlers, and bandits.

Meet the Most Notorious Texans Who Ever LivedRide with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach and train robbers.

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

A fresh, lively retelling of the life of one of the most infamous characters of the Old West, Doc Holliday, by an imaginative, yet accurate storyteller.

The Montana Cowboy brings together true stories of real cowboys and cowgirls from across the Treasure State.

A moving, thoughtful, beautifully illustrated look at the lives of men and women who helped shape the history of the Lakota people and the American WestLakota Portraits weaves together vignettes of Lakotas, including both prominent and ordinary individuals, to tell the story of the Lakota people.

In the same absorbing style that characterized his bestseller Lost Hollywood, David Wallace presents a the Prohibition-era personalities and events that made New York City the cultural and financial capital of the world.