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Memories of Old Montana

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Con Price

Con Price recalls the 1870s through the 1940s, growing up in Iowa and South Dakota before heading out on a cattle drive into Montana. Never…

The Knight and the Captain

In The Mysteries of London Vol. III

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George W. M. Reynolds

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the third volume. Initially se…

Chapter x, The "Worshipful Company" and English Watchmaking

In Time Telling Through the Ages

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Harry Chase Brearley

A history of timekeeping from the stone age through to American mass production, covering timepieces from the sundial and water clock throug…

Chapter 7 At the Foot of the Ladder

In Struggles and Triumphs, or Forty Years' of Recollections of P.T. Barnum, writte…

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P. T. Barnum

The 1873 edition of the autobiography of the founding genius of the "Greatest Show on Earth," P.T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum. It d…

Chapter 9 Of Perception

In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book II

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John Locke

John Locke wrote four essays on human (or humane) understanding. Here are a few quotes from the book: "I see no reason to believe, that…