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Stewart Holbrook
James J. Hill, the Empire Builder, (1838-1916) was a Canadian-American railroad executive with the Great Northern Railway, responsible for building railways across the northern US.
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Little Annie Oakley and Other Rugged People is pure Americana that delves into the myths of unhackneyed and motley people, and the places they made famous.
Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, Drew, Fisk, Harriman, Du Pont, Morgan, Mellon, Insull, Gould, Frick, Schwab, Swift, Guggenheim, Hearst- these are only a few of the foundation giants that have changed…
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Richly comprehensive history, featuring more than 100 photographs and contemporary prints. Involving struggles against nature, corrupt politicians, and other obstacles, the colorful account abounds in tales of ingenuity and colossal…
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Praised by Kirkus Reviews as a brisk, colorful, and cleverly recounted selection of ten crimes, this gripping book ventures into the American backwoods for true tales of homicide.
Stewart H Holbrook
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
Far Corner is the saga of a latter-day pioneer of the Pacific Northwest wearing the only derby hat those parts had ever seen. Author Stewart Holbrook bought the hat in…
The Rocky Mountain Revolution is pure Americana focused on an unsavory segment of labor’s story, which helped make the reputations of William E. Borah, Clarence Darrow, and Big Bill Haywood.
Stewart H. Holbrook
THE COLUMBIA commemorates the disciplining and conversion of a wilderness river from a water passageway to a powerhouse and source of irrigation.
Visionaries, crackpots, fanatics, dreamers, suffragettes, temperance
workers, be-sloganned devotees of betterment in marriage,
religion, sex, alcohol, labor relations, penal codes & the treatment
of mental illness rub shoulders in a…
Stewart Hall Holbrook
The American lumberjack at work and at play from Maine to Oregon
Walter Fraser McCulloch
Woods Words: A Comprehensive Dictionary Of Loggers Terms is a reference book written by Walter Fraser McCulloch. The book is a compilation of the various terminologies used in the logging…
Alice Henson Ernst
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
