arcadia publishing sc jun 2012 (11 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - President Theodore Roosevelt's love of natural history is celebrated in two sketches written by renowned naturalist John Burroughs.The friends shared a two-week trip to Yellowstone in the spring of 1903, in order to observe the wildlife and geologic wonders of America's first national park. The desire was to commune with nature, not to hunt. 'I will not fire a gun in the Park; then I shall have no explanations to make,' President Roosevelt said. While they had guides, the president was unaccompanied by secret service, personal physician, or secretaries and, remarkably, took an 18-mile trek through hard country completely by himself on one occasion.'He came back as fresh as when he started.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Prepare yourself to journey through the local tales of fright throughout Rhode Island.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Robert Tallant says that 'New Orleans need never apologize for its murder history.' From that elegant brothel on Basin Street, where fat Kate Townsend's body was found on her lace-hung bed, with a basket of flowers suspended from the tester, to the shuttered filthy room where the hypnotist Dr. Deschamps lay with a dead child beside him, the murder history of New Orleans has been a dramatic one.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Discover the true accounts of South Carolinian's as they recount General Sherman's march through the Palmetto State during the Civil War.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tucked away in the northwestern frontier, Portland offered all the best vices: opium dreams, gambling, cheap prostitutes, and drunken brawling. In its early days, Portland was a combination rough-and-ready logging camp and gritty, hard-punching deep-water port town, and as a young city (established in the late 1840s) it developed an international reputation for lawlessness and violence. In the early 1900s, the British and French governments filed formal complaints about Portland to the US state department, and Congressional testimony from the time cites Portland as the worst place in the world for crimping. Today, tours of the alleged Shanghai Tunnels offer Portland visitors a taste of that seedy past.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The story of the Lake Erie Campaign and the culminating Battle of Lake Erie.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shenandoah County, in the years prior to the Civil War, was a prosperous place. Nestled within the Shenandoah Valley, it was a haven for agricultural commerce fueled by slave labor. Integral railways and transportation routes passed through Shenandoah County, feeding its impressive agricultural output throughout the Virginia. With the outbreak of Civil War, all of that would change. Four major battles took place in and around Shenandoah County New Market, Toms Brook, Fishers Hill, and Cedar Creek. Although the proceedings of these historic battles have been well-documented, the effect the combat had on residents of Shenandoah County has receded into the background. Now, author Hal Shape brings the lives of county residents to fore, recounting how their spirits were tested during this dark hour of American history.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Turn back the yellowing pages of Minnesota's past and explore the best of the state's worst moments, as chronicled in the Minneapolis Tribune and its successor newspapers. These stories and photos, culled from the Star Tribune's microfilm archive by author Ben Welter, range from the catastrophic to the merely curious. From a fire that destroyed the State Capitol in 1881, to a wordless fistfight that broke out on a Minneapolis street in 1898, a flu outbreak that killed more than 10,000 Minnesotans in 1918 and the arrest of Frank Lloyd Wright at a Lake Minnetonka cottage in 1926.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Told through a collection of first-person soldier accounts, the history of this Civil War battle and how the South's dubious chances of victory were overcome with grit and determination.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Since its beginnings in the 1850s, Eugene has attracted independent thinkers. Its early leaders sited the town in a picturesque location along the Willamette River and were confident that agriculture and timber businesses would guide its growth. As Eugene transformed from a settlement to a city, its citizens took an active voice in the creation of its identity, like advocating for a main railroad line to run through town and determining how the commercial district would branch out from the central downtown core. Today, the population continues to express strong and diverse feelings about politics, personal rights, and the environment as it shares the common experience of living and working in a place of great natural beauty.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Take a tour of Buffalo, NY's mobster and mafia history. Local mob expert reveals gangsters' stories, hangouts and more.