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The North American Indians by George Catlin being letters and notes on their manners customs and conditions. Volume two of two, both Volumes contain 320 illustrations from the John Grant 1926 edition. George Catlin was an American painter and writer. In 1823 he gave up his law practice to pursue his self-taught art, painting portraits in Philadelphia, Washington, D. C. and Albany, New York. After meeting a tribal delegation of Native Americans...

The North American Indians by George Catlin being letters and notes on their manners customs and conditions. Volume one of two, both Volumes contain 320 illustrations from the John Grant 1926 edition. George Catlin was an American painter and writer. In 1823 he gave up his law practice to pursue his self-taught art, painting portraits in Philadelphia, Washington, D. C. and Albany, New York. After meeting a tribal delegation of Native Americans...

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General W.T. Sherman was the only man to twice receive the thanks of Congress during the Civil War, first for Chattanooga and second for Atlanta and Savannah. Vol. II of his memoirs establish him as one of the Union's most successful generals.

Sherman's infamous march on Atlanta during the Civil War demoralized the Confederacy and destroyed the city's military value. This memoir profiles the general's early military career and shows how he gained his command in the Union Army.

The Mississippi River and Mark Twain are practically synonymous in American culture. Known as "America's river, " the popularity of Twain's steamboat and steamboat pilots the on the ever-changing Mississippi has endured prominently over the years.Samuel Clemens became a licensed river pilot at the age of 24 under the apprenticeship of Horace Bixby, pilot of the Paul Jones. His name, Mark Twain, was derived from the river pilot term describing ...

A graphic account of the life of the Great Medicine Man and Chief Sitting Bull. His tragic death, story of the Sioux nation, their manners and customs ghost dances and Messiah craze also a very complete history of the sanguinary Indian war of 1890-91

Taken captive at the early age of thirteen by Seneca Indians, Mary Jemison was trained in the wilderness to the ordinary duties of the Indian female. Embedded with the sentiments and lifestyle of the Seneca's she essentially transformed into a member of the tribe. Mary Jemison's story is a remarkable one not because of her extraordinary lifestyle, but because this was the lifestyle that, in the end, she chose for herself. When prisoners were b...

LIFE AND TIMES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Written by himself, his early life as a slave and his escape from bondage. Also his connection with the Underground Railroad and covers his relations with John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid.

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After being relieved of military command for overcautiousness, Gen. McClellan was nominated in 1864 as the Democratic Party candidate to run against Lincoln on a peace platform. Although unsuccessful in this bid, McClellan went on to serve as governor of New Jersey from 1878 to 1881, proving himself to be a brilliant administrator.

The Louisiana Purchase by Ripley Hitchcock offers the journals of Lewis and Clark on their mission to explore the greatest land purchase in history. In a transaction that doubled the size of the United States, this book investigates not only the physical boundaries but the financial agreements between the United States and Napoleon Bonaparte, and the importance of New Orleans, Florida and the Missouri River in the westward expansion of the Uni...

The Louisiana Purchase by Ripley Hitchcock offers the journals of Lewis and Clark on their mission to explore the greatest land purchase in history. In a transaction that doubled the size of the United States, this book investigates not only the physical boundaries but the financial agreements between the United States and Napoleon Bonaparte, and the importance of New Orleans, Florida and the Missouri River in the westward expansion of the Uni...

In early 1864, Robert E. Lee began experimenting with tactical innovations for the upcoming spring campaign. To this end, he ordered the organization of sharpshooter battalions. William S. Dunlop was the commander of the sharpshooter battalion formed from the 1st, 12th, 13th, and 14th South Carolina, and Orr's Rifles. In Lee's Sharpshooters he chronicles the training processes, the ordnance tests and the marksmanship exercises the soldiers wen...

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In 1881 George Melville was the engineer aboard the sailing vessel Jeanette when she finally succumbed to the pack ice off the coast of Siberia in 1881. The entire crew escaped onto the ice with three boats and made for the open sea. They became separated on the water, and only Melville's boat reached the relative safety of the western shore of the Lena River delta. He immediately recruited an expedition to find the others. This is the tale of...

Originally published in 1827, this historical account of Philip's War, also called the Great Indian War of 1675 and 1676, recounts the causes of the bloody battles which killed 600 colonists and 3, 000 Native Americans. The conflict destroyed a number of tribes in the area and opened southern New England to unimpeded colonial expansion.