Modern (19th C)

The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the …

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Washington Irving


Benjamin Bonneville spent the years 1832 to 1835 on the adventure of a lifetime, leading an expedition of trapping, trading, and exploring i…

Mark Twain's Partner

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Michael J. Phillips


In 1861, a 26-year-old Sam Clemens "went west" with his older brother Orion. By that time he'd had some experience with publishing…

The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict.

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Thomas Archer


"Bare, unpicturesque, and sordid as are the conditions of poverty, there are sights in London which everybody may and should see - sigh…

The Armenian Crisis in Turkey

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Frederick Davis Greene


Frederick Greene shows in this book that the case of the subject races in the Ottoman Empire is desperate, that there is no hope of reform f…

Historical Sketches of the Catholic Church in Oregon, During the Past Forty Yea…

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Francis Norbert Blanchet and François Norbert Blanchet


This book is a first-hand account of the experiences of Fr. Norbert Blanchet and his fellow missionaries to Oregon in the 1830’s and 1840’s.…

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…

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These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…

Charles James Fox

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Henry Offley Wakeman


Charles James Fox (1749-1806) was a prominent British Whig member of Parliament and the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger. A staunch op…

The Ashtabula Disaster

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Stephen D. Peet


Rev. Stephen D Peet describes the fatal railroad disaster on December 29, 1876 in Ashtabula, Ohio due to a bridge failure. He was a resident…

The Dread Apache: That Early-Day Scourge of the Southwest

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Merrill Pingree Freeman


Excerpt which contains the opinions and biographical accounts from the author: "A short time ago, idling through a collection of early-…

The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The West

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Walter A. Wyckoff


A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any jo…

Anglo-American Memories

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George Washburn Smalley


“These Memories [1911] were written in the first instance for Americans and have appeared week by week each Sunday in the New York Tribune….…

The Long Road of Woman's Memory

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Jane Addams


In this book, Jane Addams tells of a strange rumor involving Hull House, the famed settlement house founded by her in Chicago in 1889. The r…

Mexico and the United States: a Story of Revolution, Intervention and War

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Frederick Starr


Starr, being an anthropologist and a historian, visited Mexico extensively. As he wrote this book, a highly disruptive, deadly revolution wa…

When Railroads Were New

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Charles Frederick Carter


This history of American railroads originated as a series of articles in Railroad Man's Magazine before being compiled into a book in 1909. …

Chronicles of Canada Volume 24 - The Family Compact: A Chronicle of the Rebelli…

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W. Stewart Wallace


The Rebellions of 1837–1838 were two armed uprisings that took place in Lower Canada (now Quebec and Labrador) and Upper Canada (now Ontario…

The Events of 1848, Especially in Their Relation to Great Britain

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Richard Monckton Milnes


The Events of 1848, Especially in Relation to Great Britain" by Richard Monckton Milnes is a historical work that delves into the tumul…

Finland and the Tsars, 1809-1899

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Joseph R. Fisher


Fisher’s treatment of the history of Finland, in the context of its relations with Russia, was released in 1899—at the start of the first at…

Lamp of Wisdom

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William H. Councill


William H. Councill, former slave and contemporary of Booker T. Washington was founder of Huntsville Normal School, now Alabama Agricultural…

Under Six Flags: The Story of Texas

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M. E. M. Davis


A history of the of Texas from La Salle's Texas Settlement in 1685 to the dedication of the State Capitol building at Austin in 1888. - Summ…

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 16

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Charles F. Horne, Rossiter Johnson and John Rudd


A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

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