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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico Volume 3/4 N-S

By: Frederick Webb Hodge

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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico Volume 3/4 N-S

By: Frederick Webb Hodge

This Comprehensive listing of tribal names, confederacies, settlements, and archeological information was originally begun in 1873 as a list of tribal names. It grew to include biographies of Indians of note, arts, manners, customs and aboriginal words. Included are illustrations, photographs and sketches of people, places and everyday articles used by the Native Americans. The Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Handbook of American Indians. Reprint of 1912 edition. Volume 3 N-S. Included are illustrations, manners, customs, places and aboriginal words. In 4 Volumes.

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1582187509

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9781582187501

The Poe Encyclopedia

By: Frederick S. Frank,Tony Magistrale

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The Poe Encyclopedia

By: Frederick S. Frank,Tony Magistrale

?? [[ Best known as the author of imaginative short fiction, such as The Fall of the House of Usher and The Cask of Amontillado, and as the author of hauntingly sonorous poems such as The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe was a leading practitioner of the American Gothic and helped popularize the short story as a genre. This reference work assembles in dictionary format a complete and current body of information on Poe's life and work. More than 1900 entries cover all phases of Poe's art and literary criticism, his family relationships, his numerous travels and residences, and the abundance of critical responses to his works. Each entry provides bibliographical information, and the volume concludes with an extensive listing of works for further consideration. ]] ?? Best known for his mysterious and imaginative short fiction, such as The Fall of the House of Usher and The Cask of Amontillado, as well as hauntingly sonorous poems such as The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe has secured a lasting place in the American literary canon. He was one of the first American authors to be given serious attention in Europe, and his works popularized the Gothic, the short story, and detective fiction in America. Poe's works are frequently studied in schools and colleges, but he also retains his appeal as one of America's most demanding popular authors. His works reflect his vast and sometimes arcane erudition, his probing insights into the workings of the mind, his theories of literature and aesthetics, and his interest in science and the supernatural. Through more than 1900 alphabetically arranged entries, this reference book provides complete and current coverage of Poe's life and work. Some entries treat Poe's known reading and his responses to literary contemporaries and international literary figures. Others comment on the impact of various writers and literary traditions on Poe's imagination. Still others address Poe's views on subjects ranging from Shakespeare to mesmerism to phrenology. Each entry is supplemented by a bibliographical note which gives the basis for the entry and suggests sources for further investigation. Each entry for Poe's fiction and poetry contains a critical synopsis, and an extensive bibliography at the end of the volume lists the most important critical and biographical studies of Poe.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313003513

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9780313003516

Gettysburg National Military Park

By: Frederick Tilberg

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Gettysburg National Military Park

By: Frederick Tilberg

On the gentle rolling farm lands surrounding the little town of Gettysburg Pa. was fought one of the great decisive battles of American history. The Battle of Gettysburg, for 3 days, from July 1-3rd 1863 a gigantic struggle between 75, 000 Confederates and 88, 0000 Union troops raged about the town and left 51,000 casualties in its wake. If you are planning on visiting the battlefield this guide will provide you with a background of the events that took place on those fateful July days in 1863. A must read if you need a brief background on this historic battle and site. This Guide Book for Gettysburg National Military Park Pennsylvania is a reprint of the National Park Service Handbook Series No. 9.

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1582187800

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9781582187808

Peterson First Guide to Rocks and Minerals

By: Frederick H. Pough,Roger Tory Peterson

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Peterson First Guide to Rocks and Minerals

By: Frederick H. Pough,Roger Tory Peterson

Written and designed for the beginner, this book describes and illustrates the most common and interesting rocks and minerals, from simple sandstone to exotic gems. Illustrated with dozens of beautiful color photographs, it tells how these rocks and minerals formed and how to identify them--and includes tips on collecting. 175 color photographs, 12 line drawings.

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132

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0395935431

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9780395935439

Macready's Reminiscences and Selections from his Diaries and Letters

By: Frederick Pollock

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Macready's Reminiscences and Selections from his Diaries and Letters

By: Frederick Pollock

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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338523929X

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9783385239296

Sierra Crossing

First Roads to California

By: Thomas Frederick Howard

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Sierra Crossing

First Roads to California

By: Thomas Frederick Howard

A critical era in California's history and development—the building of the first roads over the Sierra Nevada—is thoroughly and colorfully documented in Thomas Howard's fascinating book. During California's first two decades of statehood (1850-1870), the state was separated from the east coast by a sea journey of at least six weeks. Although Californians expected to be connected with the other states by railroad soon after the 1849 Gold Rush, almost twenty years elapsed before this occurred. Meanwhile, various overland road ventures were launched by "emigrants," former gold miners, state government officials, the War Department, the Interior Department, local politicians, town businessmen, stagecoach operators, and other entrepreneurs whose alliances with one another were constantly shifting. The broad landscape of international affairs is also a part of Howard's story. Constructing roads and accumulating geographic information in the Sierra Nevada reflected Washington's interest in securing the vast western territories formerly held by others. In a remarkably short time the Sierra was transformed by vigorous exploration, road-promotion, and road-building. Ox-drawn wagons gave way to stagecoaches able to provide service as fine as any in the country. Howard effectively uses diaries, letters, newspaper stories, and official reports to recreate the human struggle and excitement involved in building the first trans-Sierra roads. Some of those roads have become modern highways used by thousands every day, while others are now only dim traces in the lonely backcountry.

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Univ of California Press

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0520926218

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Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History

A Reinterpretation

By: Frederick Merk,Lois Bannister Merk

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Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History

A Reinterpretation

By: Frederick Merk,Lois Bannister Merk

Before this book first appeared in 1963, most historians wrote as if the continental expansion of the United States were inevitable. "What is most impressive," Henry Steele Commager and Richard Morris declared in 1956, "is the ease, the simplicity, and seeming inevitability of the whole process." The notion of inevitability, however, is perhaps only a secular variation on the theme of the expansionist editor John L. O'Sullivan, who in 1845 coined one of the most famous phrases in American history when he wrote of "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions." Frederick Merk rejected inevitability in favor of a more contingent interpretation of American expansionism in the 1840s. As his student Henry May later recalled, Merk "loved to get the facts straight." --From the Foreword by John Mack Faragher

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Harvard University Press

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0674548051

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9780674548053

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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico Volume 3/4 N-S

Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico Volume 3/4 N-S

The Poe Encyclopedia

The Poe Encyclopedia

Gettysburg National Military Park

Gettysburg National Military Park

Peterson First Guide to Rocks and Minerals

Peterson First Guide to Rocks and Minerals

Macready's Reminiscences and Selections from his Diaries and Letters

Macready's Reminiscences and Selections from his Diaries and Letters

Sierra Crossing

Sierra Crossing

Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History

Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History

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