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  • The Amazing Adventures of a Midwestern Girl

    by Barbara Barton ...
    Pulling a man from a burning car. Stealing an alligator's supper. Getting lost in the Pocono Mountains. These stories and more await the reader in true tales from the life of a Midwestern girl. Yarns that will touch your heart, keep you on the edge of your seat, remind you of home, and keep you laughing as you thumb through this snapshot of life in Michigan. Barton has skillfully woven stories ... ... Read more

    $3.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pistol Packin' Preachers

    Circuit Riders of Texas

    by Barbara Barton ...
    A writer once denounced the Lone Star State as "where the Godly could battle 'the devil' on his own ground." Circuit riders and other early preachers confronted dangerous outlaws, Indians, wild animals, and Texas' unpredictable weather. Their stories chronicle bringing one element of civilization to early explorers and settlers. Some fought for Texas independence with a Bible in one hand and a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Wild West

    History, myth & the making of America

    by Frederick Nolan ...
    On 14 May 1804, one Captain Meriwether Lewis and his companion William Clark led a thirty-three-man expedition to the new lands of Louisiana. 8,000 miles and two years later, after rafting up the Missouri and crossing the Rocky Mountains, they reached the far side of the world, the Pacific Ocean.Fredrick Nolan explores the first US settlers of the American West, including the remarkable stories of ... Read more

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  • The Undiscovered Country

    Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West

    by Paul Andrew Hutton ...
    **New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal Top Ten Book of the YearA True West Magazine Best Historical Non-Fiction Book and Best Author of the YearWestern Heritage Award for "Outstanding Nonfiction Book"Winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Historical NonfictionWinner of the Will Rogers Medallion AwardFrom the author of The Apache Wars, the true story of the American West, ... Read more

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  • Einstein in Kafkaland

    How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe

    by Ken Krimstein ...
    “Clever, charming, amusing, and just plain brilliant. Ken Krimstein is the most inventive graphic biographer on the planet-and certainly the only one who could explain both Einstein and Kafka. A page turner on gravity and relativity!” -KAI BIRD, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American Prometheus, the biography that inspired the Oscar-winning film OppenheimerFrom the award-winning New Yorker ... Read more

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  • Follow Me to Hell

    McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice

    by Tom Clavin ...
    **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTom Clavin's Follow Me to Hell is the explosive true story of how legendary Ranger Leander McNelly and his men brought justice to a lawless Texan frontier.**In turbulent 1870s Texas, the revered and fearless Ranger Leander McNelly led his men in one dramatic campaign after another, apprehending cattle thieves, desperadoes, border ruffians, and other dangerous ... Read more

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  • Three Roads to the Alamo

    The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis

    by William C. Davis ...
    "William C. Davis's Three Roads to the Alamo is far and away the best account of the Alamo I have ever read. The portraits of Crockett, Bowie, and Travis are brilliantly sketched in a fast-moving story that keeps the reader riveted to the very last word." — Stephen B. OatesThree Roads to the Alamois the definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie and William Barret Travis—the ... Read more

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  • The Three-Cornered War

    The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West

    by Megan Kate Nelson ...
    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryA dramatic, riveting, and “fresh look at a region typically obscured in accounts of the Civil War. American history buffs will relish this entertaining and eye-opening portrait” (Publishers Weekly).Megan Kate Nelson “expands our understanding of how the Civil War affected Indigenous peoples and helped to shape the nation” (Library Journal, starred review), ... Read more

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  • The Fate of the Corps

    What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers After the Expedition

    by Larry E. Morris ...
    "Combines adventure, mystery, and tragedy . . . a 'Who's Who' of explorers who opened the pathway for an ocean-to-ocean America." — St. Joseph News-Press (Missouri)The story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been told many times. But what became of the thirty-three members of the Corps of Discovery once the expedition was over?The expedition ended in 1806, and the final member of the corps ... Read more

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  • David Crockett

    The Lion of the West

    by Michael Wallis ...
    "Vivid, Comprehensible . . . cuts through decades of mythmaking." —Texas MonthlyPopular culture transformed his memory into “Davy Crockett,” and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. In this surprising New York Times bestseller, historian Michael Wallis has cast a fresh look at the flesh-and-blood man behind one of the most celebrated figures in American history. More than a ... Read more

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  • Finding Alfie: A D-Day Story (eBook)

    by Michael Morpurgo ...
    Illustrated by Michael Foreman ...
    On the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Michael Morpurgo tells a new story about this milestone moment in British history.Aunty Iris always treasured her small painting of a boat, painted by her close friend Alfie many years before. Her nephew, Michael, is inspired to try and find out what actually happened to Alfie in World War II. He embarks on a journey that takes him across the Channel ... Read more

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