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The Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Handbook of American Indians, reprint of Bulletin 30 1912 edition. Volume 3 N-S. Included are illustrations, manners, customs, places and aboriginal words.

The Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Handbook of American Indians, reprint of Bulletin 30 1912 edition. Volume 4 T-Z. Included are illustrations, manners, customs, places and aboriginal words.

The Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Handbook of American Indians, reprint of Bulletin 30 1912 edition. Volume 2 H-M. Included are illustrations, manners, customs, places and aboriginal words.

The Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Handbook of American Indians. Reprint of 1912 edition. Volume 1 A-G. Included are illustrations, manners, customs, places and aboriginal words. In 4 Volumes.

Mr. Daniels's stories are invariably beautifully written fictional glimpses into the humorous, and sometimes sad, realities of the way people think and behave. Many of his stories are simply hilarious anecdotes addressing the problems that goofy people, nice people, and even nasty people, sometimes bring upon themselves, and the amusing results that may ensue when they try to extricate themselves from their difficulties. Most have a surprise e...

Mr. Daniels's stories are invariably beautifully written fictional glimpses into the humorous, sometimes sad, realities of the way people think and behave. Many of his stories are simply hilarious anecdotes addressing the problems that goofy people, nice people, and even nasty people, sometimes bring upon themselves, and the amusing resulted that ensue when they try to extricate themselves from their difficulties. Most have a surprise ending i...

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Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills are American place names that will live in History. Here Wilbur and Orville Wright, two unassuming brothers with a passion for advancing aeronautical knowledge, and the willingness to undertake a scientific adventure, made the worlds first successful flight of a man-carrying, power-driven heavier then air machine.

This is a reprint of the National Park Service Handbook Series Number 6. Which is a guide book for the Lee Mansion in Virginia. Built by his father-in-law, George Wahington Parke Custis, the adpoted son of General George Washington, the mansion was for many years a principal repository of the George Washington tradition.

ACROSS THE IMPERISHABLE CANVAS of the American Civil Il.. War are vividly recorded feats of arms and armies, and acts of courage and steadfast devotion which have since become a treasured heritage for all Americans. Among the military campaigns, few, if any, present action over so vast an area, of such singular diversity, and so consequential to the outcome of the war, as the great struggle for control of the Mississippi River. Seagoing men-of...

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...

Ancient Minoan families flee the devastation and conquest of Crete, and migrate via Cyprus to multicultural Palestine, among wild but advanced Sea Peoples. Defeated in war and put to work by Pharaoh, these new "Philistines" have a real-world promised land: to keep their new homes, they must rebuild Canaan and keep order on roads of trade from Egypt to Babylon---and if they fail, Pharaoh will return in wrath. So, how do the Philistines' familie...

The Life of Stonewall Jackson was written while John Esten Cooke was encamped with General Thomas Jackson and his troops during the Civil War. Based on his personal observations of the General, who was often compared to Napoleon, Cook combines them with information taken from official papers, contemporary narratives and personal acquaintances."Stonewall" Jackson is considered by military authorities to have been an outstanding leader, skilled ...

This present edition contains the full text of the original work, as revised and corrected by Sherman himself. A brief concluding chapter has been compiled and added at the express request of the publishers, completing an account of the general's life and touching upon his last illness, death, and funeral.

He never commanded in a major Union victory and his military career had repeated ups and downs, but William Tecumseh Sherman is the second best known of Northern commanders. His father died when he was nine years old, and Sherman was raised by Senator Thomas Ewing and eventually married into the family. Through the influence of his patron, he obtained an appointment to West Point. Only five cadets of the class of 1840 graduated ahead of him, a...

The years 1864-5 were a season of desperate battles, but in that time many more Union soldiers were slain behind the Rebel armies, by starvation and exposure, than were killed by cannon and rifle. The country has heard much of the heroism and sacrifices of those loyal youths who fell on the field of battle, it has heard little of the still greater number who died in prison pens. It knows full well how grandly her sons met death in front of the...

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

Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: 1804-1806, Part s 1 & 2 Volume 7.This set was first published in 1904 from the manuscripts of the American Philosophical Society together with manuscript material of Lewis and Clark and from other sources including notebooks, letters and maps, and the journals of Charles Floyd and Joseph Whitehouse.Volume 7 Part 1 Journals of Charles Floyd and Joseph Whitehouse. Volume 7 Part 2 Appendix, Index

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