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  • Ross Sterling, Texan

    A Memoir by the Founder of Humble Oil and Refining Company

    by Ross S. Sterling, Editor Kilman ...
    Born on a farm near Anahuac, Texas, in 1875 and possessed of only a fourth-grade education, Ross Sterling was one of the most successful Texans of his generation. Driven by a relentless work ethic, he become a wealthy oilman, banker, newspaper publisher, and, from 1931 to 1933, one-term governor of Texas. Sterling was the principal founder of the Humble Oil and Refining Company, which eventually ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    A History of New York City to 1898

    by Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace ...
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    To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Salem Possessed

    The Social Origins of Witchcraft

    by Paul Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum ...
    Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill.The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for more than a generation before the witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in ... Read more

    $34.69 CAD

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  • When Evil Came to Good Hart, 10th Anniversary Edition

    by Mardi Link ...
    In this page-turning true-life whodunit, author Mardi Link looks into the cold-case files of the murders of a wealthy Detroit-area family in their northern Michigan cabin in 1968, detailing and reviewing all the evidence to date. She crafts her book around police and court documents and historical and present-day statements and interviews, in addition to exploring the impact of the case on the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Center of the World of Steel: Pittsburgh 1900. Illustrated

    by Walden Fawcett ...
    Pittsburgh Pennsylvania was the center of the world of Steel at the beginning of the 20th century. Take a look at Steel and Steel making in the industrial powerhouse of turn of the century Pittsburgh. ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • A Great Day to Fight Fire

    Mann Gulch, 1949

    by Mark Matthews ...
    Mann Gulch, Montana, 1949. Sixteen men ventured into hell to fight a raging wildfire; only three came out alive. Searing the fire into the nation’s consciousness, Norman Maclean chronicled the Mann Gulch tragedy in his award-winning book Young Men and Fire. Still, the silence of the victims’ families robbed Maclean’s account of an essential personal dimension. Shifting the focus from the fire to ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Our Better Nature

    Environment and the Making of San Francisco

    by Philip J. Dreyfus ...
    Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco—the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends. In Our Better Nature, Philip J. Dreyfus recounts the history of San Francisco from Indian village to ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Embarcadero

    True Tales of Sea Adventure from 1849 to 1906

    by Richard Dillon ...
         There are no tales like high-sea tales and here’s a baker’s dozen of true sea adventures—tales filled with salt spray, blood-and-thunder, and man-overboard action all guaranteed to satisfy the hardiest armchair adventurer.      Researched from ships’ logs, manuscripts, newspaper accounts and historical records and penned by Richard Dillon a gifted storyteller and one of California’s finest ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Kentucky Moonshine

    by David W. Maurer ...
    A concise, lively history of how the Bluegrass State became famous for illicit distilleries, by the author of The Big Con.When the first American tax on distilled spirits was established in 1791, violence broke out in Pennsylvania. The resulting Whiskey Rebellion sent hundreds of families down the Ohio River by flatboat, stills on board, to settle anew in the fertile bottomlands of Kentucky.Once ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making Home from War

    Stories of Japanese American Exile and Resettlement

    Edited by Brian Komei Dempster ...
    The sequel to the award-winning From Our Side of the Fence—personal stories of life after the WWII internment camps from twelve Japanese Americans.Many books have chronicled the experience of Japanese Americans in the early days of World War II, when over 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, were taken from their homes along the West Coast and imprisoned ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Winemaking in California in the 1860's, Illustrated.

    by A. Haraszthy ...
    A description of wine making in California during the 1860's, when the industry was in it's infancy. ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • Ozarks Ghosts and Hauntings

    by Bud Steed ...
    Series Book 1 - America's Ghosts
    The rocky hills and dark valleys of the Ozark Mountains hold many secrets for those bold enough to go in search of them. From the grieving ghost of the Ozark's Madonna to the dangerous apparition who haunts the Irish Wilderness, ghosts and legends abound in the Ozarks. A long settled land, the Ozarks has seen its fair share of tragedy and turmoil; from accidents to civil war battles the Ozarks ... Read more

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