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Charles Jesse "Buffalo" Jones (January 31, 1844 - October 1, 1919), was an American frontiersman, farmer, rancher, hunter, and conservationist. As a contemporary of Buffalo Bill, Pawnee Bill and Wild…
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Return to paradise. These 500 island themed song lyrics will take you there.
Welcome to Real Country Lyrics Volume Fourteen (songs #7251 - 7500)
If you want to get back to real country music, you have to start with Real Country Lyrics. The…
The Goodnight-Loving Trail ran from Young County, Texas, southwest to Horsehead Crossing on the Pecos River, up the Pecos to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and on north to Colorado and…
Rockies In Bloom - Wildflowers helps you to become acquainted with the wonderful world of wildflowers and get started on developing skills to identify different species found in the Rocky…
In 1866, Professor Pierre M. Aronnax and his assistant Conseil, stranded in San Francisco by reports of a giant sea monster attacking ships in the Pacific Ocean, are invited to…
This publication, China Clipper - Floatplanes Of Pan Am, is the only book to document all the 4-engine Clippers operated by Pan American and BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corp). It…
The Maoris of New Zealand are numerically the most important branch of the Polynesian race which inhabits the islands of the Pacific Ocean. There is no doubt that the race…
New Zealander Tom Neale spent a total of sixteen years alone, in three spells, on the uninhabited Suwarrow coral atoll, half a mile long and three hundred yards wide in…
HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in May 1779. The vessel is best known for its role in hunting down the Bounty…
Cicero Rufus (Old Rufe) Perry, Texas Ranger, was not your 'typical' image of a Texas Ranger. He participated in the siege of Bexar, served from July 1 to October 1…
Bart Kennedy (1861-1930), from the age of 6 until about the age of 20, worked in cotton mills and machine shops in Manchester, England. At age 20, pennyless, he left…
In 1905, on the Fort Sill Apache Reservation in Oklahoma, Geronimo agreed to tell his life story to Stephem Melvil Barrett, superintendant of education in Lawton Oklahoma. Geronimo said, "Write…
In 1917 Zane Grey went on a five month hunting and fishing trip into vast areas of the Colorado wilderness. The travel party included his brother R. C. (Romer Carl…
"Pioneers Of the American West" comes in four volumes, in chronological order. The history of the American West is the story of trail-makers, pioneers in every sense of the word…
"Shipwrecked On the FeeJees" is the thrilling account from the log-book of William S. Cary, of Nantucket, the sole survivor of the crew of ship "Oeno", which was wrecked on…
The Pike's Peak Gold Rush (later known as the Colorado Gold Rush) was the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and…
William Henry "Bully" Hayes (1827 or 1829 - 31 March 1877) was a notorious American ship's captain who engaged in blackbirding in the 1860s and 1870s. Hayes operated across the…
We cannot think of the ocean without remembering the great voyagers and sea-captains, the brave commanders, the pirates, rovers, and buccaneers of bygone days. But much of civilised man's fear…
Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw (3 February 1870 - 30 June 1953) was an Irish writer and traveller. Beginning in 1903, she worked as a travel writer for the Daily Graphic and…
Concorde was the first supersonic passenger-carrying commercial airplane. It was built jointly by Great Britain and France. The Concorde made its first transatlantic crossing on September 26, 1973, and it…
James Buchanan Gillett (November 4, 1856 - June 11, 1937) was a lawman of the Old West, mostly known for his service as a Texas Ranger. He is a member…
Slim Whitman was an American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his smooth yodeling abilities and his use of falsetto (a tenor, his notes covered three full octaves). He…
Taking place during the American Civil War, the Sand Creek Massacre (also known as the Chivington Massacre, the Battle Of Sand Creek or the Massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was a…
Native Americans established settlement areas on the coastal areas of Massachusetts, including Nantucket Island and Martha's Vineyard Island on a seasonal basis. The three principal tribes were the Massachusetts (or…
The name Cochise means "having the quality or strength of an oak". Born around 1805, he was leader of the Chihuicahui Apache during the Apache Wars era from 1861 -…
Geronimo (1829-1909) was born in the Gila River area of Arizona. As an Apache leader and medicine man, he is best known for his fearlessness in resisting anyone-Mexican or American-who…
Shabbona (Sha-bon-ney) (1775-1859) was an Ottawa tribe member, born on the Kankakee River, who became a chief within the Potawatomi tribe in Illinois. His name means "indomitable", "hardy", "built like…
Chief Powhatan (c. 1547 - c. 1618), father of Pocahantas, was the leader of the Powhatan, an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Native Americans living in Tsenacommacah, in the Tidewater region of…
Cofachiqui (or Cofitachequi) was the name of a populous and wealthy Indian province visited by Hernando De Soto's expedition in April 1540 through what is now South Carolina. He and…
Rosewood Florida was originally settled in 1845 by both Black and white people. Black codes and Jim Crow laws in the years after the Civil War fostered segregation in Rosewood…
Paul Bunyan is a giant lumberjack and folk hero in American and Canadian folklore. His exploits revolve around the tall tales of his superhuman labors, and he is customarily accompanied…
Owen Jones (15 February 1809 - 19 April 1874) was a world reknowned British architect and "Lithographer To the Queen". A versatile architect and designer, he was also one of…
The 1692 Jamaica earthquake struck Port Royal, Jamaica, on 7 June. A stopped pocket watch indicated that it occurred around 11:43 AM local time. Known as the "storehouse and treasury…
"Range Of A Cowboy" documents all the hardships and rewards of driving 3,100 head of Mexican cattle from the Texas Rio Grande border to Montana along the Great Western Trail…
Windsor Castle in Berkshire England was started by William the Conqueror in the 11th century. It has been used by the reigning monarch and is the longest-occupied palace in Europe…
The Lone Ranger is a masked former Texas Ranger, named John Reid, who fought outlaws in the American Old West with his Native American friend Tonto. Clayton Moore was the…
Seven Voyages Of Sindbad is one of the fables from the Arabian Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern stories frst told in the 14th century. The tale is about a…
On May 10, 1756, sixteen year old Mary (Molly) Finney survived the "Means Massacre" by Native Americans and was taken captive to Quebec. There she was sold as a slave…
