Matilde Washington was fifteen when she killed her first man. Her drunken step-dad Ellie Johnson, and his younger brother Ezra, had beaten and used her little body. Mattie took her…

In the late 1860s, Idaho City is the largest city in the American Northwest, a bustling mecca for those toiling away in the hot sun, desperate to find the next…

"Ten seconds," she whispered, cupping her ears with her hands, and watching the other two do the same. Excitement ran through her entire body. Fifteen banks later, and she still…

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91 firsthand accounts of Texas history, gathered by Barker and Bolton at the turn of the 20th century. Raw history from eyewitnesses, from Sam Houston to the common citizen.

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…