Author: J. L. Ficks Publisher: Mirror Images Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 262
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Tale Three of the Shade Chronicles... A band of western slave traders think they have struck gold when they pull a half-dead Dark Elf out of the swirling sands of the Great Waste. They shackle him with the long lines of other night mortals and ship him overseas. Little do they know that inside this Dark Elf’s glowing yellow eyes lies the patient glimmer of a killer… *****WITH COVERWORK NOW BY ROB JOSEPH*****
Author: Anne C. Bailey Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108141218 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 210
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In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their sale. Immersing herself in the personal papers of the Butlers, accounts from journalists that witnessed the auction, genealogical records, and oral histories, Anne C. Bailey weaves together a narrative that brings the auction to life. Demonstrating the resilience of African American families, she includes interviews from the living descendants of slaves sold on the auction block, showing how the memories of slavery have shaped people's lives today. Using the auction as the focal point, The Weeping Time is a compelling and nuanced narrative of one of the most pivotal eras in American history, and how its legacy persists today.
Author: Peter Cozzens Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307958051 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 601
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Bringing together Custer, Sherman, Grant, and other fascinating military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Geronimo, this “sweeping work of narrative history” (San Francisco Chronicle) is the fullest account to date of how the West was won—and lost. After the Civil War the Indian Wars would last more than three decades, permanently altering the physical and political landscape of America. Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the intertribal strife over whether to fight or make peace; explores the dreary, squalid lives of frontier soldiers and the imperatives of the Indian warrior culture; and describes the ethical quandaries faced by generals who often sympathized with their native enemies. In dramatically relating bloody and tragic events as varied as Wounded Knee, the Nez Perce War, the Sierra Madre campaign, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, we encounter a pageant of fascinating characters, including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of officers, soldiers, and Indian agents, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud and the warriors they led. The Earth Is Weeping is a sweeping, definitive history of the battles and negotiations that destroyed the Indian way of life even as they paved the way for the emergence of the United States we know today.
Author: Angus Duncan Webster Publisher: ISBN: Category : Botanical gardens Languages : en Pages : 172
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"This book is the outcome of a paper of "The Regent's Park and Primrose Hill," which I read before several societies in London, and which by special request is being published in order that the history and antiquities of Old Marylebone Park and the Barrow Hill may be preserved. Several of the illustrations are from old and rare prints. "--Preface by author.
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Author: Ontario Fruit Growers' Association
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