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Innocents Abroad began as a series of travel letters written by Mark Twain mainly for the Alta California, a San Francisco paper that sponsored his participation in the trip to Europe and the Holy Land in 1867 aboard the steamship Quaker City. On the excursion from New York to Palestine they traveled a distance of over 20, 000 miles by land and sea through France, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Russia, Turkey and Egypt.Through his humorous and insight...

This is a reprint edition of Paul Allens 1814 edition. This is volume 2 of a 2 volume set. Volume 1 ISBN is 1582186987. Introduction and Index by James Hosmer. Published in 1903 for the centenial celebration.

This is a reprint edition of Paul Allens 1814 edition. This is volume 1 of a 2 volume set. Volume 2 ISBN is 1582187037. Introduction and Index by James Hosmer. Published in 1903 for the centenial celebration.

An 1844 graduate of West Point, he served in the infantry during the Mexican War with distinction before transferring to the quartermaster's department. He was ordered East for quartermaster duties but arrived to a brigadier's star. Taking his brigade to the Peninsula, he led a critical flank attack at Williamsburg and continued to distinguish himself during the rest of the dismal campaign. During the battle of Antietam, Israel B. Richardson w...

Abner Doubleday was an 1842 graduate of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point and a veteran of the Mexican war when he was assigned to Fort Moultrie in the summer of 1860. A Captain of Artillery, he served as second in command of the garrison at the historic fort when the curtain rose on the dramatic events leading to the outbreak of the War Between the States. Doubleday also had the distinction of aiming the first cannon fired in response ...

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Read about the lives of these inventors Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Elias Howe, Samuel Morse, Charles Goodyear, Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as many others. This book reviews the daily life and personal character. It also examines the inventor: their origins, hopes, aims, principles, disappointments, trials and triumphs of their work. With over forty-five illustrations, Men of Achievement discusses the ...

Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: 1804-1806, Part 1 & 2 Volume 6

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Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: 1804-1806, Part 1 & 2 Volume 5

Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: 1804-1806, Part 1 & 2 Volume 3

Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: 1804-1806, Part 1 & 2 Volume 2

Army Life in a Black Regiment is Thomas Wentworth Higginson's personal account of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, a black regiment mustered into the Army of the United States during the Civil War. It was composed of escaped slaves from South Carolina and Florida. Colonel Higginson transformed almost 800 former slaves into soldiers. The regiment was very effective along the Florida and Georgia coast. Harriet Tubman served with these men as a...

Mary Ashton Livermore was more than just a nurse for the Union Army. She was an educator, a writer and suffragette. When named co-director of the Chicago branch of the United States Sanitary Commission, Livermore not only tended the wounded, she raised money and supplies for the Sanitary Commission and edited their monthly bulletins, using these to communicate with its four thousand Aid Societies. During her official travels, she gathered fact...

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...

Written at the turn of the Century by the Founder of the National Audubon Society, George Bird Grinnell, when the figures of the real West were the Indian, the explorer, the soldier, the miner, the ranchman, the trapper, and the railroad builder, The Story of the Indian is an attempt to preserve the picturesque and original aspects of Western development. As a famed explorer, naturalist and pioneer conservationist, Grinnell's knowledge of the ...

Unlike other books from this time period dealing with historical aspects of the Civil War, Capturing a Locomotive focuses not only on the well known battles, it also gives the reader personal accounts of the Union soldiers who carried out the mission. The story details the capture of a railway train deep inside Confederate territory, the exciting chase that ensues and the final outcome for this group of brave Union men. Survivors of this missi...

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