Oliver Hazard Perry's Books

Pulitzer Prize-winner La Farge died in 1963. Of his many books, this work has earned the affection of Santa Feans and New Mexicans, who continue to regard it as a regional classic.

A guide to Pennsylvania's 67 county courthouses, with information on each building's history, architectural style, and symbolic features."--

La Farge covers many aspects of everyday life in these 16 stories, which range from an old man facing death alone in the Mexican bush to some boys adjusting to the responsibilities of life at St. Peter's school. Born in 1901, La Farge is ranked among the literary lions of American Southwestern letters.

Pulitzer Prize-winner La Farge died in 1963. Of his many books, this work has earned the affection of Santa Feans and New Mexicans, who continue to regard it as a regional classic.

In his first book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Laughing Boy," La Farge presented a superb lyrical story of Navajo Indian life. He later returned to the Navajo scene with "The Enemy Gods," a richer, deeper book than he had written before, and its theme, both an absorbing story and a living social document, is nearer to his heart.

From 1950 until just before his death in 1963, Pulitzer Prize-winner La Farge wrote weekly columns for "The Santa Fe New Mexican." This edition collects the writings as edited by his friend, Winfield Townley Scott.

Reproduction of the original: The Great Lakes by James Oliver Curwood

This volume affords a visual documentation of the most varied political career in American history and exemplifies the work of the principal American portraitists from the days of Copley and Stuart to the dawn of the Daguerrean era. Included in the 159 illustrations are all the known life portraits, busts, and silhouettes of John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams, along with important replicas, copies, engravings, and representative likenesses of their siblings. The book is organized into seven chapters which generally coincide with the major divisions of John Quincy Adams' political career. Within each chapter are discussed the artists, their relationships with the Adams's, and the provenance of each of their works. A chronology of John Quincy Adams' life for each period accompanies the chapter to which it pertains. Information about the size of each likeness, the inscriptions if any, the date executed, and present ownership where known is summarized in the List of Illustrations. The Adams's, as they watched themselves age over the years in the marble, ink, or oil of the artists who portrayed them, recorded much by way of commentary on the artistic talent and process at hand. The author makes use of the diaries and correspondence preserved in the Adams Papers, thus combining a learned appreciation with an intimate glimpse of Adams's as they saw themselves.

The Treaty of Ghent signed in 1814 allowed Americans once again to travel abroad. Intrepid Americans ventured to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt. This book covers the 25-year period after 1815 that saw young men from East Coast cities traveling to the lands of the Bible and of the Greek and Latin authors they had first known as teenagers. Naval officers off ships of the Mediterranean squadron visited Cairo to see the pyramids. Two groups went on business, one importing steam-powered rice and cotton mills from New York, the other exporting giraffes from the Kalahari Desert for wild animal shows in New York.

Book's by Oliver Hazard Perry

Behind the Mountains

Behind the Mountains

County Courthouses of Pennsylvania

County Courthouses of Pennsylvania

A Pause in the Desert

A Pause in the Desert

Behind the Mountains

Behind the Mountains

The Enemy Gods

The Enemy Gods

The Man with the Calabash Pipe

The Man with the Calabash Pipe

The Great Lakes

The Great Lakes

Portraits of John Quincy Adams and His Wife

Portraits of John Quincy Adams and His Wife

American Travelers on the Nile

American Travelers on the Nile

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