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Geronimo’s Story of His Life
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Geronimo
Geronimo’s Story of His Life is the oral life history of a legendary Apache warrior. Composed in 1905, while Geronimo was being held as a U.…
The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War
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Leander Stillwell
Leander Stillwell was an 18-year-old Illinois farm boy, living with his family in a log cabin, when the U.S. Civil War broke out. Stillwell …
By Ox Team to California
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Lavinia Honeyman Porter
Imagine a young, twenty-something woman in 1860, reared “in the indolent life of the ordinary Southern girl” (which means she has never lear…
Living on Half a Dime a Day
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Sarah Elizabeth Harper Monmouth
How to live on 5 cents a day! How to survive financial ruin without losing your house! How to keep to a bare bones budget and still have mon…
Gallipoli Diary
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John Graham Gillam
Major John Graham Gillam, British Supply Officer, wrote in his World War I Gallipoli Diary that when he sailed from England for the Dardanel…
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
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John Muir
"The only fire for the whole house was the kitchen stove, with a fire box about eighteen inches long and eight inches wide and deep,- s…
The Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner
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George-Günther Von Forstner
The Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner is a graphic account of WWI submarine warfare. Forstner was the commander of German U-boat U…
The Journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
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Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Few stories of shipwreck and survival can equal that of the 16th century Spaniard Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca who, cast ashore …
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan
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John Lloyd Stephens
The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood…
The Journey of Coronado
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Pedro De Castañeda
In 1540, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado led an army from Mexico is search of the fabled golden cities of Cíbola. The Spaniards …
A Gold Hunter's Experience
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Chalkley J. Hambleton
"Early in the summer of 1860, I had an attack of gold fever. In Chicago, the conditions for such a malady were all favorable. Since t…
Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams
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Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams lived the American Revolution as the wife of one of its central figures--John Adams. Her family correspondence, published alon…
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife
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Frances M. A. Roe
"There appeared from the bushes in front of me, and right in the path, two immense gray wolves . . . Rollo saw them and stopped instan…
Recollections of Life in Ohio
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William Cooper Howells
Recollections of Life in Ohio is the autobiography of William Cooper Howells (1807-1894), father of the American novelist William Dean Howel…
Days on the Road
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Sarah Raymond Herndon
“We had spent almost all our money for toll, ferrying and other expenses on the road. It might be a serious matter to be in a strange place…
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán
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John Lloyd Stephens
The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood…
The Gold Hunters
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John David Borthwick
This is a robust, rough and tumble, first-hand account of the early California gold rush years 1851-1854 by a Scottish adventurer and artist…
Boots and Saddles
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Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Elizabeth Custer has penned an engaging portrait of 1870’s life on a U.S. cavalry post in the Dakotas, just before her husband and his troop…
Stickeen
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John Muir
A great dog story, a well told tale--the naturalist and adventurer John Muir recounts how he and his companion, a dog named Stickeen, each, …
The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour
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Sir Alfred Edward East
Sketching from Nature, Equipment, Colour, Composition, Trees, Skies, Grass, Reflections, Distance -- chapters rich with timeless oil paintin…