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  • Memoir of Colonel Ellis P. Bean, Written by Himself, About the Year 1816

    "Women of Mexico appear in a romantic, if not passionate, light in the memoirs of Colonel Ellis P. Bean the young Tenesseean who blazed a path of military glory in the history of Texas and Mexico of about 1810." Waxahachie Daily Light, Oct. 7, 1914Peter Ellis Bean (1783–1846) was a United States filibuster in Texas and Mexico, and a Mexican revolutionary.Bean was born in Tennessee in 1783. In 1800 ... Read more

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  • Memoir of Colonel Ellis P. Bean, Written by Himself, About the Year 1816

    "Colonel Bean was in the van of the Anglo-Saxon development in Texas and had a life of highly colored adventure in Mexico...born in Tennessee in 1783...joined the rebels and engaged in guerilla warfare against the Spaniards." -Star Tribune, May 4, 1930"Women of Mexico appear in a romantic, if not passionate, light in the memoirs of Colonel Ellis P. Bean the young Tenesseean who blazed a path of ... Read more

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    From 1807 until 1814, armies from Napoleon's empire fought the allied powers of Spain, Britain and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula. The Penisular Wars or Guerra de la Independencia (“War of Independence”) contributed considerably to Napoleon’s eventual downfall; but until 1813 the conflict in Spain and Portugal, though costly, exercised only an indirect effect upon the progress of ... Read more

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  • Strategy Six Pack 14 (Illustrated)

    Mark Antony, Two Years Before the Mast, Daniel Boone, David Crockett, A Ride to Khiva and Six Years With the Texas Rangers 1875-1881

    “All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.”Daniel Boone.Strategy Six Pack 14 is a 1,000 page plus digital trove of historical nuggets, featuring two biographies of early American legends, Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky and David Crockett, both penned by historian John Abbott; a famous 19th Century American nautical memoir Two Years Before the Mast by Richard ... Read more

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  • Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta

    Celebrated California Bandit

    Series series The Western Frontier Library Series
    In 1854, a Cherokee Indian called Yellow Bird (better known as John Rollin Ridge) launched in this book the myth of Joaquin Murieta, based on the California criminal career of a 19th century Mexican bandit. Today this folk hero has been written into state histories, sensationalized in books, poems, and articles throughout America, Spain, France, Chile, and Mexico, and made into a motion picture ... Read more

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  • Turnbull's Slaves: A Minorcan Story

    England won control of Florida from Spain in 1763. The British granted large tracts of land to certain influential people. Andrew Turnbull was one of them. Turnbull recruited 1,400 people as his indentured servants from the Mediterranean area to colonize his land. The status of the Minorcans soon changed from indentured servants to slaves when Turnbull failed to keep his promises.They endured many ... Read more

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  • A Sea of Pirates: The West Indies 1805, Illustrated.

    by Peter Grotjan ...
    A brief account of the adventurers of a Philadelphia merchant sailing the piratical waters of the West Indies in the early 19th century. ... Read more

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  • The Man in the Arena

    Selected Writings of Theodore Roosevelt

    The first compilation of selections from the major works of Teddy Roosevelt since the resurgence in his popularity due to the major award-winning/bestselling biographies by Edmond Morris and H. W. BrandsBy the time he was twenty-five the future president of the United States was already a published author. From The Naval War of 1812 through his four-volume Winning of the West, Teddy Roosevelt ... Read more

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  • History of the War with Mexico

    by Horatio Ladd ...
    The war of the United States with Mexico awakened the military ardor of American citizens, which had been slumbering since the contest with Great Britain in 1812-14. It stirred their imagination with the romance which has ever been connected with the scenes of Spanish conquest, heightened by the strange histories and vestiges of the most ancient people and civilization of the New World. It allured ... Read more

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  • The Gila Trail

    The Texas Argonauts and the California Gold Rush

    The Texas Argonauts were on the march west as early as January, 1849 —a remarkable circumstance when it is recalled that the famous tea caddy of gold dust which set off the gold fever in the “States” did not reach Washington, D. C, until December 7, 1848. From Brownsville, Corpus Christi, and San Antonio, the dusty trails of the gold seekers crisscrossed through West Texas and northern Mexico. ... Read more

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  • Cuba in War Time

    According to Wikipedia: "Richard Harding Davis (18 April 1864—11 April 1916) was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Davis, whose mother Rebecca Harding Davis was also a prominent writer in her day, made his reputation as a newspaper reporter in May to June 1889 reporting on the ... Read more

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  • The Vigilantes of California, Idaho and Montana

    "Experience in a mining camp beyond the reach of law...an article...by John W. Clampitt." Blue-Grass Blade, July 11, 1909"Clampitt's 'The Vigilantes of California, Idaho, and Montana' is...a readable and instructive contribution." -Hartford Courant, July 25, 1891What role did "Vigilance Committees" play in the history of the settlement of the West?In 1891, famed attorney John Wesley Clampitt (1839 ... Read more

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