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Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker Buck, Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand 'flatboat era' of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River, illuminating the forgotten past of America's first western frontier. Seven years ago, readers around the country fell in love with a singular American voice: Rinker Buck, whose infectious...
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1833, the new Mexican president, Santa Anna, wanted to have more control over Texas. American colonists outnumbered Mexican-born people in Texas. Santa Anna wanted to stop more Americans from coning to Texas and he made strict laws for the region. But American and Tejano, or Mexican-born, colonists wanted independence from the Mexican government. Through a bloody Texas Revolution, the independent Repbulic of Texas was born.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of running a long-shot political campaign, Democratic political consultant John Simon discovers a 100-year-old manuscript written by his grandfather Joseph--a brilliant young revolutionary whose exile to Siberia by the last czar of Russia is just the beginning of an extraordinary tale of survival, romance, and revolution. Return From Siberia chronicles not only the Simon family's relationship to each other and the past, but also the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
It is a story that many of us think we know but don't, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The famous journey of Tom Sawyer's friend Huck Finn, along the Mississippi River.
When Huckleberry Finn flees from his brutal father, he meets up with an old friend, the slave Jim, who is also running away. Together, they travel by raft down the Mississippi, tumbling in and out of amazing adventures -- from a floating house to a funeral, a shipwreck to a circus -- and experience some of the strange ways of people in the Deep South.
Author
Series
Special publication volume no. 43
Publisher
California Historical Society
Pub. Date
1968
Language
English
Formats
73) The pioneers
Author
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
An account of the westward movement of the pioneers which began in 1841, lavishly illustrated with contemporary paintings and photographs.
Series
Publisher
Shelter Harbor Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Combining engaging text with captivating images and helpful diagrams, renowned science writer Tom Jackson guides readers through the history of Engineering in the 7th installment of the groundbreaking PonderablesTM series.
75) The gamblers
Author
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
©1978
Language
English
Description
"This volume ' examines the role of gamabling on the American fronter: among the Indians, on the rivers, in the mining camps, and in the boom towns ... The book is packed with interesting anecdotes, and covers the race track and boxing ring, lotteries and steamboat racing, as well as all of the traditional card and table games. The text is arresting with well-placed illustrations.'" Libr J.
76) The great delusion: a mad inventor, death in the tropics, and the utopian origins of economic growth
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Endless economic growth rests on a belief in the limitless abundance of the natural world. But when did people begin to believe that societies should - even that they must - expand in wealth indefinitely? In The Great Delusion, the historian and storyteller Steven Stoll weaves past and present together through the life of a strange and brooding nineteenth-century German engineer and technological utopian named John Adolphus Etzler, who pursued universal...
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