Historians Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green paint a portrait of the infamous Trail of Tears. Despite protests from statesmen like Davy Crockett, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay, a dubious 1838 treaty drives 17,000 mostly Christian...
19th century
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Author:Perdue, Theda, Green, Michael D.Summary: - Author:Stevenson, Robert LouisSummary:
In 1874, Stevenson left Edinburgh for San Francisco to join his fiancee. A shrewd and sympathetic observer, he produced the best account ever written of the passage to the New World.
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Author:Erickson, SteveSummary:When the Twin Towers suddenly reappear in the badlands of South Dakota, nobody can explain their return. To the tens of thousands drawn to the "American Stonehenge," the Towers seem to sing, even as everybody hears a different song.
- Author:Wangersky, RussellSummary:
'Read him.' — George Elliott Clarke, author of I & I and George and Rue An award-winning author goes looking for the meaning of family and belonging on a glorious wild-goose-chase road trip across middle America Wangersky's great-...
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Author:Dougan, AndySummary:In 1818, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein introduced readers to the concept of raising the dead through scientific procedures. Few, however, realised that Shelley's story has a strong basis in fact, and the subject of arguably; the greatest...
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Author:Ray, Deborah KoganSummary:Documents the life and achievements of the nineteenth-century Northern Paiute leader, examining how her aptitude for languages and diplomacy enabled her to advocate on behalf of her tribe.
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- Author:Richards, DustySummary:
Former rancher Herschel Baker has just settled into the job as sheriff of Yellowstone County when a cowboy is hung from a tree with the words "Hoss Steeler" pinned to his chest. It's vigilante justice, plain and simple, and it's just...
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Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave from an Illinois farm, travels to New Orleans only to discover that nothing but misery awaits him in the big city. Sitting on a pier as he contemplates his life, he decides the sea holds his...
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Author:Gordon, GrahamSummary:Biography of Jem Mace the father of modern boxing and the first worldwide sports star.
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This audiobook features two of Poe's horror variety tales, "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Tell-Tale Heart," as well as two of his more famous poems, "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee....
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Author:Siggins, MaggieSummary:In 1807 Marie-Anne Lagomodière became the first white woman to make the canoe voyage from Quebec to the Red River Valley in western Canada as she accompanied her coureur du bois husband. She settled into the life and learned Cree and...
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Set between Kansas and Saskatchewan in 1907, this middle-grade novel follows a young boy who gets separated from his family en route to Canada and must find his way alone across the immense prairie landscape. Following the sudden death...
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Author:Kaplan, FredSummary:From acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan comes this exploration of how Abraham Lincoln's and John Quincy Adams' experiences with slavery and race shaped their differing viewpoints. He provides both perceptive insights into these two great...
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Author:Twain, MarkSummary:Twain grew up on the river, achieved his boyhood dream of being a river pilot, and then had the good sense to write about it.
- Author:Tamara Fonteyn, Dumas, Alexandre, Staal, Pierre Gustave EugèneSummary:
Un mot s'impose sur la présente édition du Comte de Monte- Cristo. Il s'agit d'une version abrégée d'environ un cinquième par rapport au texte intégral. L'abréviation a été réfl échie de manière à...
- Author:Cotton, Ralph W.Summary:
When Texas Bob Krey gets a hot hand in cards, his good luck sparks a gunfight. Once the smoke clears, two men are dead, including the brother of Judge Henry Bass. Now Texas Bob is an outlaw, and only Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack has the...
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Author:Petrovskiĭ-Shtern, ĬokhananSummary:This is the first study of the military experience of some one to one-and-a-half million Jews who served in the Russian Army between 1827, the onset of the conscription of Jews in Russia, and 1917, the demise of the tsarist regime. The...
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Author:Wilson, FrancesSummary:Thomas De Quincey--opium eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger--is embedded in our culture. In this biography, Frances Wilson tells the riches-to-rags story of a figure of dazzling complexity and originality.
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Author:Kittler, Friedrich A.Summary:
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