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Tales of The Old-Timers - A History of Lexington records small portions of life in Lexington, Ohio, over the last two centuries. The interesting words of early writers are used just as they put them to paper. The stories are based simply on facts dug up by the author and written down with only his own understanding of times past and the perspective of old-timers used as a guide. In some cases, information supplied from fading memories may have...

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Excerpt from Depreciation Charges of Railroads and Public Utilities: A Memorandum Filed With the Depreciation Section of the Bureau of Accounts of the Interstate Commerce CommissionThe companies with which I am connected furnish heat, light, fuel and power for the daily requirements of many millions of people. The total quantity of gas sold by the Consolidated Gas Company and its affiliated companies in 1919 was cubic feet. Its affiliated elec...

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When first published in 1935, On the Border with Mackenzie, or Winning West Texas from the Comanches by Capt. Robert G. Carter, quickly became known as the most complete account of the Indian Wars on the Texas frontier during the 1870s. And even today it still stands as one of the most exhaustive histories ever written by an actual participant in the Texas Indian Wars-one who rode with the legendary Col. Ranald Mackenzie. L. F. Sheffy refers t...

Excerpt from Depreciation Charges of Railroads and Public Utilities: A Memorandum Filed With the Depreciation Section of the Bureau of Accounts of the Interstate Commerce Commission Reasons for Interest in Subject, Effect of Increased Railroad Rates on Costs of Utility Service in New York City, Pertinent Provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act, Purposes of the Statute Analyzed, Nature of "Depreciation Charges" as to Railway Property, The So...

This fascinating book is based on the work of Ohio historian D. W. Garber, author of Waterwheels and Millstones (1970). Garber's lifelong passion was documenting the age of water-powered mills along the forks of the Mohican River in Richland County, Ohio, often accompanied on research trips by author Robert Carter. Garber's grandson, author Michael Cullen, was often regaled with stories from those trips. Between the two authors, they have cull...

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An excellent book based on exhaustive research and written with fresh insight. It is a spellbinding accomplishment and brings both the man and his era to life. . . . It is an extraordinary achievement." – Arizona Daily Star " Carter presents this astounding tale in a very balanced fashion, providing both the nineteenth-century rationale and his repug-nance at acts today considered shocking. . . . Through Carter’ s writing, the heroic and ultim...

Originally coined to signify a style of pottery in southern Iraq, and by extension an associated people and a chronological period, the term "Ubaid" is now often used loosely to denote a vast Near Eastern interaction zone, characterized by similarities in material culture, particularly ceramic styles, which existed during the sixth and fifth millennia B.C. This zone extended over 2, 000 km from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Straits of...