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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The notorious Central Pacific Railroad riveted the attention of two great American writers: Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris. Drabelle tells a classic story of corporate greed vs. the power of the pen. The Central Pacific Railroad accepted US Government loans; but, when the loans fell due, the last surviving founder of the railroad avoided repayment. Bierce, at the behest of his boss William Randolph Hearst, swung into action writing over sixty stinging...
Author
Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated exploration of the life of Harriet Tubman that covers her childhood, experiences as a slave, escape to freedom, work on the Underground Railroad, antislavery activism, and other topics.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The surprising story of our "naturalist president" Theodore Roosevelt and how his lifelong passion for the natural world set the stage for America's wildlife conservation movement. No United States president is more popularly associated with nature and wildlife than Theodore Roosevelt--prodigious hunter, tireless adventurer, and ardent conservationist. We think of him as a larger-than-life original, yet in The Naturalist, Darrin Lunde has located...
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
©1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
315 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
American Greats offers compelling evidence of the courage and character, invention and resilience, that helps define this nation. It's about action and, therefore, character. It celebrates what the late Commissioner of Baseball, Bart Giamatti described as "that compound whose mix forms the American character-of moral energy and pragmatic efficiency, optimism and guile, respect for law, admiration for the maverick, and love of the underdog." This book,...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 606 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Before Rachel Carson, there was George Bird Grinnell -- the man whose prophetic vision did nothing less than launch American conservation. George Bird Grinnell, the son of a New York merchant, saw a different future for a nation in the thrall of the Industrial Age. With railroads scarring virgin lands and the formerly vast buffalo herds decimated, the country faced a crossroads: Could it pursue Manifest Destiny without destroying its natural bounty...
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