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Daniel Webster by John Bach McMaster (1902) Republished from the original 1902 edition - (PDF 1.8Mb, 156pp, 27 illustrations)

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A highly-regarded illustrated biography which looks more deeply into Daniel Webster''s personal life and convictions than the better-known biography by Henry Cabot Lodge.

Contents

Chapter I - School Days
Chapter II - Struggling with Poverty and Law
Chapter III - Entrance into Politics
Chapter IV - A Congressman from New Hampshire
Chapter V - A Congressman from Massachusetts
Chapter VI - A New England Federalist
Chapter VII - The Encounter with Hayne
Chapter VIII - Expounder of the Constitution
Chapter IX - The Encounter with Calhoun
Chapter X - A Whig Leader
Chapter XI - The Struggle with Slavery
Chapter XII - Secretary of State
Chapter XIII - Longing for the Presidency
Chapter XIV - The Seventh of March

Theodore Roosevelt, Typical American by Charles E. Banks and Leroy Armstrong (1901) Republished from the original 1902 edition - (PDF 1.8Mb, 185pp, 26 illustrations)

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A superb political hagiography, published during TR''s presidential election campaign (he succeeded the assassinated McKinley). Widely circulated, but now appears rarely in bibliographies related to Theodore Roosevelt.

"Believing in the Monroe Doctrine and American control of the canal at the Isthmus, in reciprocity and expansion, Mr. Roosevelt is strong, upright, honest and aggressive, and implicitly trusted by a United People."

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird (1880) Republished from the original edition - (PDF 1.2Mb, 145pp)

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Why Miss Bird, a wealthy, well-educated and cultivated Englishwoman, chose to spend the fall of 1873 wandering around the mountain wildernesses of Colorado, is not fully explained. However, her descriptions of the region and its settlers are without equal, and form part of the bedrock of Rocky Mountain history. Readers cannot help but understand how she was drawn to the rugged and mysterious "Mountain Jim" - the complete opposite of the Victorian gentleman she had been raised to serve.

Col. Robert Campbell - The Fur Trader by William Fayel (1886) Republished from the original edition - (PDF 0.2Mb, 20pp)

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"The following narrative by the late Col. Robert Campbell, contains a sketch of his life and remarkable experiences while engaged in the Rocky Mountain Fur trade, during a period of ten years - from 1825 to 1835. It was dictated to me in the year 1870, while I was accompanying him and Hon. Felix R. Brunot, President of the Board of Indian Commissioners as their Secretary, on a mission to Fort Laramie, to treat with Red Cloud. The notes were taken by installments after various intervals on our trip, while the narrator was in the reminiscent mood, and each recital was suspended as soon as he found it tiresome. Mr. Brunot who was made acquainted with my purpose, expressed his approbation, because no connected account of that portion of Col. Campbell''s life, had ever been given to the public. In fact, this is the only record ever authorized or made of Col. Campbell''s experiences." - the Author, William Fayel, 1886.

Our Presidents by Virginia Townsend (1889) Republished from the 1889 special edition - (PDF 1.8Mb, 262pp)

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Published for the centennial of the office of the presidency of the United States of America, this Victorian hagiography covers the lives of George Washington through Benjamin Harrison. Special attention is devoted to the First Ladies.

Mortuary Customs Among the North American Indians by H. C. Yarrow (1880) Republished from the original edition - (PDF 0.8Mb, 108pp)

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An early study of mortuary customs, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution (1880)

"The mortuary customs of savage or barbaric people have a deep significance from the fact that in them are revealed much of the philosophy of the people by whom they are practiced. Early beliefs concerning the nature of human existence in life and after death and the relations of the living to the dead are recorded in these customs. The mystery concerning the future love for the departed who were loved while here, reverence for the wise and good who may after death be wiser and better, hatred and fear of those who were enemies here and may have added powers of enmity in the hereafter - all these and like considerations have led in every tribe to a body of customs of exceeding interest as revealing the opinions, the philosophy of the people themselves." - John Wesley Powell (from the Preface)

Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt (1914) Republished from the original edition - (PDF 1.9Mb, 224pp, 2 illustrations)

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A superb account of exploration and adventure by one of the 20th century's most remarkable men.

"This is an account of a zoo-geographic reconnaissance through the Brazilian hinterland. The official and proper title of the expedition is that given it by the Brazilian Government: ''Expedicao Scientifica Roosevelt-Rondon.'' When I started from the United States, it was to make an expedition, primarily concerned with mammalogy and ornithology, for the American Museum of Natural History of New York." - Theodore Roosevelt

The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt (1899) Republished from the original edition - (PDF 1.0Mb, 127pp, 2 illustrations)

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The classic narrative of the heroic actions of the First United States Volunteer Cavalry in Cuba.

"During the year preceding the outbreak of the Spanish War, I was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. While my party was in opposition, I had preached, with all the fervor and zeal I possessed, our duty to intervene in Cuba, and to take this opportunity of driving the Spaniard from the Western World. Now that my party had come to power, I felt it incumbent on me, by word and deed, to do all I could to secure the carrying out of the policy in which I so heartily believed; and from the beginning I had determined that, if a war came, somehow or other, I was going to the front." - Theodore Roosevelt

This fine eBook is colorfully presented in portrait orientation, fully-searchable and fully printable. Enjoy! (1.02Mb, 127pp, 2 illust)

Hero Tales from American History by Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge (1895) Republished from the first 1895 edition - (PDF 1.0Mb, 120pp)

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Twenty-nine biographical essays about men whose heroic actions or commitment to duty and country made a decisive difference at key turning points in American history. Chapters include George Washington, Daniel Boone, The Battle of New Orleans, Robert Gould Shaw, Admiral Farragut at Mobile Bay and many others. Written as a conversational narrative.

Daniel Webster by Henry Cabot Lodge (1883) Republished from the first edition - (PDF 1.4Mb, 173pp)

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Exceptional study of the life of Daniel Webster, long regarded as a key classic essential to a solid understanding of the United States in the first half of the 19th Century. Mr. Lodge pays special attention to Webster's support of the Tariff of 1828 and the rise of the Whig Party.

Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains by Charles A. Eastman (1918) Republished from the first edition - (PDF 90pp, 14 illustrations)

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The life stories of fifteen famous Indian chiefs - Red Cloud, Rain-in-the-Face, sitting Bull, Chief Joseph and others by one who knew them well. The author was a full-blooded Sioux whose insights into the personalities and accomplishments of these chiefs will never be surpassed.

Thirty Years a Slave by Louis Hughes (1897) Republished from the first edition - (PDF 0.8Kb, 94pp)

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Originally published in 1897, Louis Hughes recalls his life as a slave on a cotton plantation. His detailed and vivid recollections of social conditions in the Old South are as unforgettable as they are poignant. Of equal interest is his achievement of prosperity and self-respect as an independent businessman in Chicago and Milwaukee in the years following the Civil War.

Contents

I - LIFE ON A COTTON PLANTATION
II - SOCIAL AND OTHER ASPECTS OF SLAVERY
III - SLAVERY AND THE WAR OF THE REBELLION
IV - REBELLION WEAKENING SLAVES'' HOPES STRENGTHENING
V - FREEDOM AFTER SLAVERY

Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward (1856) Republished from the first edition - (PDF 1.6Kb, 196pp)

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Austin Steward''s recollections of life as a slave in the State of New York in the early 1800s are an important contribution to the limited autobiographical literature of Black History. Published in 1856, when Steward was the leader of the Wilberforce Colony in Canada, the book was a limited commercial success, but it drew great attention to the plight of southern slaves and northern freemen at a time when the nation was deeply divided over the "peculiar institution."

Contents

I. - SLAVE LIFE ON THE PLANTATION
II. - AT THE GREAT HOUSE
III. - HORSE-RACING AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
IV. - JOURNEY TO OUR NEW HOME IN NEW YORK
V. - INCIDENTS AT SODUS
VI. - REMOVAL FROM SODUS TO BATH
VII. - DUELING
VIII. - HORSE-RACING AND GENERAL TRAINING
IX. - DEATH-BED AND BRIDAL SCENES
X. - HIRED OUT TO A NEW MASTER
XI. - THOUGHTS ON FREEDOM
XII. - CAPTAIN HELMDIVORCEKIDNAPPING
XIII. - LOCATE IN THE VILLAGE OF ROCHESTER
XIV. - INCIDENTS IN ROCHESTER AND VICINITY
XV. - SAD REVERSES CAPTAIN HELM
XVI. - BRITISH EMANCIPATION OF SLAVERY
XVII. - ORATIONTERMINATION OF SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH POSSESSIONS
XVIII. - CONDITION OF FREE COLORED PEOPLE
XIX. - PERSECUTION OF THE COLORED PEOPLE
XX. - REMOVAL TO CANADA
XXI. - ROUGHING IT IN THE WILDS OF CANADA
XXII. - NARROW ESCAPE OF A SMUGGLER
XXIII. - NARRATIVE OF TWO FUGITIVES FROM VIRGINIA
XXIV. - PLEASANT RE-UNION OF OLD AND TRIED FRIENDS
XXV. - PRIVATE LOSSES AND PRIVATE DIFFICULTIES
XXVI. - INCIDENTS AND PECULIARITIES OF THE INDIANS
XXVII. - OUR DIFFICULTIES WITH ISRAEL LEWIS
XXVIII. - DESPERATION OF A FUGITIVE SLAVE
XXIX. - A NARROW ESCAPE FROM MY ENEMIES
XXX. - DEATH OF B. - PAUL AND RETURN OF HIS BROTHER
XXXI. - MY FAMILY RETURN TO ROCHESTER
XXXII. - THE LAND AGENT AND THE SQUATTER
XXXIII. - CHARACTER AND DEATH OF ISRAEL LEWIS
XXXIV. - MY RETURN TO ROCHESTER
XXXV. - BISHOP BROWNDEATH OF MY DAUGHTER
XXXVI. - CELEBRATION OF THE FIRST OF AUGUST
XXXVII. - CONCLUSION
CORRESPONDENCE

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History by Alfred Thayer Mahan (1890) Republished from the first edition - (PDF 3.1Kb, 403pp)

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Capt. Mahan's classic treatise on naval warfare and how its effective deployment changed the course of history. Featured are: the English and French wars against the Netherlands (1665-1667, 1672-1674, 1674-1678); War of the League of Augsburg (1688-1697); War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713); War of the Polish Succession; War of Jenkins' Ear (1715-1739); War of the Austrian Succession (1740); Seven Years' War (1756-1763); American Revolution; European wars (1779-1782) and naval engagements in the East and West Indies (1778-1783).

Originally published in 1890, this work was the primary motivation for a massive upgrade of the United States Navy under the direction of Theodore Roosevelt (a competent naval historian in his own right).

Needwood Forest: Home of the Lees of Maryland by Mary Digges Lee Randol (1949) Republished from the first edition - (PDF 0.7Kb, 24pp)

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Built about 1809 by William Lee, son of the Revolutionary governor of Maryland, Needwood Forest was a special place for dozens of Lee family members. The author's recollections of life at Needwood paint a vivid picture of a prominent and wealthy family throughout the 1800s.

Privately published by a great-great-grand-daughter of William Lee in 1949, the book is illustrated with photographs from the family''s collections. Detailed footnotes have been added for this edition.

History of American Privateers by Edgar Stanton Maclay) Republished from the first edition -

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