History Books

Aboriginal Remains In Verde Valley Arizona

  [english | 1896]  

Cosmos Mindeleff

Summary: [Aboriginal Remains In Verde Valley Arizona by Cosmos Mindeleff. The region described in the following pages comprises the valley of the Rio Verde in Arizona from Verde in eastern central Yavapai county to the confluence with Salt river in Maricopa county. The written history of the region treated extends back only a few years. Since the aboriginal inhabitants abandoned it or were driven from it ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 251

Casa Grande Ruin

  [english | 1896]  

Cosmos Mindeleff

Summary: [Casa Grande Ruin Cosmos Mindeleff by Cosmos Mindeleff. The Casa Grande ruin situated near Gila river in southern Arizona is perhaps the best known specimen of aboriginal architecture in the United States and no treatise on American antiquities is complete without a more or less extended description of it. Its literature which extends over two centuries is voluminous but of little value to the ...]
Genres: [government publication | history] Downloads: 460

An Ethnologist View Of History

  [english | 1896]  

Daniel Brinton

Summary: [undefined]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 294

The Battle And The Ruins Of Cintla

  [english | 1896]  

Daniel Brinton

Excerpts: [... Inconsistent spelling, hyphenation, and capitalization have been maintained. A list of inconsistently spelled words is found at the end of the text. THE ...... adventure. We have at least four accounts of it from participants. One prepared under the eye of Cortes himself, one by the anonymous historian of his ...... the rear. The Indians were prepared, having sent their women and ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 182

The Life Of Gordon Volume I

  [english | 1896]  

Demetrius Charles Boulger

Summary: [Havent read the book. However Mr. Homers review of this book seems to contain some false information. I am unable to verify any of it so far...]
Genres: [biography | war | history] Downloads: 195

De Werken Van William Shakespeare

  [dutch | 1896]  

Dr A Burgersdijk

Excerpts: [... moest worden, met hem nog twaalf slechts zes konden zelf hun naam schrijven. In April 1564 werd hem zijn derde kind, zijn oudste zoon, geboren ...... hoe ingespannen en met welk genot hij dieren en planten en alle verschijnselen der natuur heeft gadegeslagen, hij moet zich van zijn prille jeugd ...... nog voorhanden aanteekeningen maken melding van uitgaven voor het in orde brengen ...]
Genres: [history | criticism | biography] Downloads: 304

Battle Of Fort George

  [english | 1896]  

Ernest Alexander Cruikshank

Excerpts: [... Historical Society in publishing a paper written by Capt. Cruikshank, who has well earned the title of the historian of the Niagara peninsula. Of the ...... teams passing each other in a day. At this time the old portage on the American bank was entirely dis-used, but in 1806 the exclusive rights to the carrying ...... of the population were believed to be natives of the British ...]
Genres: [war | history | canadian literature] Downloads: 19

A Lady Of Quality

  [english | 1896]  

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Summary: [I really enjoyed this book. The style of writing is great and the story is interesting.]
Genres: [fiction and literature | history | romance] Downloads: 264

Bell Cathedrals The Cathedral Church Of Salisbury

  [english | 1896]  

Gleeson White

Excerpts: [... is at the junction of three ancient hundreds-Underditch, Alderbury, and Cawdon-the south-east wall of the close being the boundary line which divides ...... to Sarum on the day of the Holy Innocents, and there the King offered one gold ring with a precious stone called a ruby, one piece of silk, and one ...... with an apsidal choir he removed this east end, and remodelled it in the ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 476

Company A Corps Of Engineers U S A 1846 48

  [english | 1896]  

Gustavus Woodson Smith

Excerpts: [... in persuading the Government at Washington to send-by permission of the Government of France-a selected Captain of the U. S. Engineer Corps ...... march in the enemy's country, it may be well to state here, that with two exceptions, the enlisted men of the engineer company were native born, and ...... met with. The first day, (out from Victoria,) we had three bad boggy brooks to ...]
Genres: [history | war] Downloads: 335

The Cathedral Church Of Canterbury

  [english | 1896]  

Hartley Withers

Summary: [The Cathedral by Hugh Walpole. CONTENTS BOOK I Prelude I. Brandons II. Ronders III. One of Joan s Days IV. The Impertinent Elephan V. Mrs. Brandon Goes Out to Tea VI. Seatown Mist and Cathedral Dust VII. Ronder s Day VIII. Son--Father BOOK II The Whispering Gallery I. Five O Clock--The Green Cloud II. Souls on Sunday III. The May-Day Prologue IV. The Genial Heart V. Falk by the River VI. Falk s ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 350

The Life Of Nelson Volume 1

  [english | 1897]  

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Excerpts: [... of Independence indeed, Nelson wrote that many of the inhabitants were as arrant rebels as those who had renounced their allegiance. Under these conditions, ...... a childless marriage further debarred him. He could rise far higher, and, alas. descend far lower as he followed the radiant vision,-the image ...... for Nelson's own prospects to find him writing in evident sympathy: ...]
Genres: [biography | nautical | history] Downloads: 424

The Life Of Nelson Volume 2

  [english | 1897]  

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Excerpts: [... accomplishing of them is my study, night and day.. My dear Sir James, he writes to Erskine after returning to Palermo, I am in desperation about ...... command here to Commodore Troubridge. Nothing but absolute necessity obliges me to write this letter. I could no more stay fourteen days longer here, ...... left Italy I told you of the extraordinary circumstance of a child being ...]
Genres: [biography | nautical | history] Downloads: 14

Colonizao De Loureno Marques

  [english | 1897]  

Alfredo Freire De Andrade

Excerpts: [... Freire d'Andrade. COLONISAO. LOURENO MARQUES. PORTO TYPOGRAPHIA DE A. J. DA SILVA TEIXEIRA Rua da Cancella Velha, 70 1897. COLONISAO. LOURENO ...... que, junto margem da bahia, ser sempre a de maior valor. Muitas tentativas se tm feito j e as camaras e commisses municipaes tm diligenciado resolver ...... o arvoredo sempre forte e robusto, e as especies numerosas, dando por vezes ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 380

A Little Girl Of Long Ago

  [english | 1897]  

Amanda Minnie Douglas

Excerpts: [... in the world that I am glad to live and be among them, if I can't ever be quite straight and strong.. My dear child. Doctor Joe's eyes said the ...... my thinking, he added, when he saw how disappointed the little girl looked. And, oh. see here, Mr. Willis is handsome and Gaylord Clark, and there ...... I've heard lambs make a dozen different sounds.. The little girl laughed. She ...]
Genres: [history | young readers | fiction and literature] Downloads: 404

The Butcher Of Cawnpore

  [english | 1897]  

William Murray Graydon

Summary: [Nicely woven part story of warof independence of India. plots are surprising. Enjoy urself.]
Genres: [adventure | history | fiction and literature] Downloads: 397

Great Britain And Her Queen

  [english | 1897]  

Annie Keeling

Excerpts: [... miserable marriage, but of a fitting union her parents had been sundered only by death, not by wretched domestic dissensions. People heard that ...... on the most numerous class-that of the humble and the poor. [Illustration: Rowland Hill]. How would the Englishman of to-day endure the former ...... to himself. Whether any salvation for the unhappy land did lie in such a ...]
Genres: [biography | history] Downloads: 37

Hovin Inkeri

  [english | 1897]  

Annie Kepplerus

Excerpts: [... joka vuosi pitvn antaa kreivin kamreerille kirjalliset luettelot kunkin viljasta ja karjasta ja niityst, ja sen mukaan kuuluvat sitten lisvn veroja. ...... mustan juovan toisen vedenkantajan poskelle sanoen, ettei kasva pirakka nauris, jos ei nauriskasken viertj ole hyvll tuulella. Pirtin vieress pellolla ...... roiskahtelivat ja tullinkantaja kellahti nurmikolle. - Vaan kun ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 171

A Book Of Scoundrels

  [english | 1897]  

Charles Whibley

Summary: [I found this book to be overly wordy and full of words that were in fashion a long time ago. It was of some interest if one is willing to wade through so much courtly verbiage. It may appeal to those who enjoy Shakespeare though it is not quite that convoluted.]
Genres: [history | biography | mysterydetective] Downloads: 455

The Evolution Of Fashion

  [english | 1897]  

Florence Mary Gardiner

Summary: [The Evolution Of Fashion by Florence Mary Gardiner. Great historical account of fashion trends by the author of Furnishings and Fittings for Every Home About Gipsies c. c. Author s Preface In compiling this volume on Costume portions of which originally appeared in the Ludgate Illustrated Magazine under the editorship of Mr. A. J. Bowden I desire to acknowledge the valuable assistance I have ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 315