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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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Excerpt from Rand, McNally Co, 'S New Overland Guide to the Pacific Coast: California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and KansasSuch persons would live as far south as Memphis, for instance, and as far north as Chicago. There are many thousands of these annu ally, for California, and especially Southern California, seems to have become a subject in which a great portion of the American people are interested. Why this is so may in some measure a...

Excerpt from Rand, McNally and Co, 'S Guide to Southern California Direct: Narrative, Historical, Descriptive, With Notes on California at LargeFinally, a quarter of a mile down the glittering line, a monster creeps stealthily up. You notice a phosphorescent gleam when an iron door is opened by one who seems a gnome, and the white heat Of the furnace throws itself upon a curling cloud. There is an impatient Sizzle, furtive and deafening explos...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Colorado the MagnificentFor the State is traversed by the main chain of the oft-quoted backbone of the continent, the huge ridge-pole of the Republic, the prolific mother of rivers born in fields of inaccessible snow, the rock-barred treasure-house of the world's greatest supply of gold. Amid these heights are born the Arkansas, both the Plattes, the Rio Grande the rivers of Nebraska and central Kansas, and that Rio Colorado that ...

Excerpt from The Sons of the Border: Sketches of the Life People of the Far FrontierJ ornada del Muerto, the most graceful and forcible of all his stories, we think. With this, general attention was attracted, and our young friend's writings soon became the special feature of the Kansas, and the favorite selections of the newspapers all over the country, although prepared from first to last only in the intervals of occasional release from ordi...

Excerpt from The Story of Electricity: For Amateurs and StudentsHere is a sense in which electricity may be said to be the young est Oi the sciences. Its modern develop ment has been start ling. Its phenomena appear on every hand. It is almost literally true that the light ing has become the servant Of man.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book ...

Excerpt from Frontier Army SketchesBut here, in mountain fastnesses and the dreary isolation of the wilderness, you strangely come upon the only genuine chivalry extant in American life. I may be taken to task for this Wholesale statement, for the over-busy, nervous, money-getting citizens of this great country claim all good qualities as their own. Therefore I will explain: Chivalry, in its essence, means not a careless but a careful regard f...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Frontier army sketches is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1883. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes t...

To Mexico by Palace Car - Intended as a guide to her principal cities and capital, and generally as a tourist's introduction to her life and people is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1884. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical l...

Excerpt from The Story of Electricity: For Amateurs and Students Here is a sense in which electricity may be said to be the young est Oi the sciences. Its modern develop ment has been start ling. Its phenomena appear on every hand. It is almost literally true that the light ing has become the servant Of man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com Th...