Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Books on Americana
• Adored by his soldiers and respected by his adversaries, Robert E. Lee achieved worldwide admiration for his military triumphs against a vastly more p... Lees meer

Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail

Theodore Roosevelt

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• "If I had not spent my year in North Dakota, I would never have become President of the United States," declared Theodore Roosevelt. The future states... Lees meer

Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier

Joseph Plumb Martin

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• A wide-eyed teenager during most of the Revolutionary War, Joseph Plumb Martin left his grandfather's farm in Connecticut in 1775 and spent much of th... Lees meer

The Tools That Built America

Alex W Bealer

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• Handsome in appearance, simple in construction, and remarkably efficient, early American tools were true marvels of ingenuity. In the hands of skilled... Lees meer

My First Summer in the Sierra

John Muir

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• In the summer of 1869, John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, joined a crew of shepherds in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. The... Lees meer

Of Plymouth Plantation

William Bradford

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• The most important and influential source of information about the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, this landmark account was written between 1630 and 16... Lees meer

The Account of Mary Rowlandson and Other Indian Captivity Narratives

Mary Rowlandson

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• The wife of a minister in a small frontier town west of Boston, Mary Rowlandson was forced to leave her house in the late winter of 1676 after maraudi... Lees meer

The Little Red Schoolhouse

Eric Sloane

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• School days, like our everydays, have changed. But the obsolete world of the one-room schoolhouse filled with rough-hewn desks still lingers. The echo... Lees meer

The Story of the Outlaw

Emerson Hough

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• The realism is almost too raw for literature. -- Literary Digest Compiled a century ago, when the wildness of the American West was still a living mem... Lees meer

ABC Book of Early Americana

Eric Sloane

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• From Almanack, Bathtub, and Conestoga Wagon to X-Brace, Yankee, and Zig-Zag Fence, this sketchbook of antiquities revisits delightful words and invent... Lees meer

The Frontier in American History

Frederick Jackson Turner

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• Written in 1893, this enormously influential survey revised previous interpretations of U. S. history with its exploration of frontier life's impact o... Lees meer

Boy Scouts Handbook

Boy Scouts of America

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• Read by presidents, scientists, and national heroes, the Boy Scouts Handbook has been used by generations of American youths. Filled with practical ad... Lees meer

Memoranda During the War

Walt Whitman

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• These reflections by one of America's greatest poets on the nation's most momentous struggle began when Walt Whitman discovered his brother's name in ... Lees meer