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by Barbara Alice Mann. Softbound, 295 pages, 6" x 9". Throughout the war, the unwavering goal of the Revolutionary Army, under George Washington, and its associated settler militias was to break the power of the Iroquois League, which had successfully held off invasion for the previious two centuries, and the newly formed Ohio Union. To destroy the Natives who stood in the way of land seizure Washington organized a series of rampages intended to destroy the League and the Union by starvation. Barbara Alice Mann tells how, in the wake of massive assults, Native America won the war in the West and managed to maintain control of the land west and north of the Allegheny-Ohio River systems. 

by Danny Fulks. Softbound, 224 pages, 6" x 9". The author selects and uses details that subtly recreate not just the events but the mood of a past time and place. He makes rural, working-class folk who lived in the southern Ohio Appalachia region in the early to mid 20th century. By combining accurate description with a peek at the minds and souls of the people he chronicles, the author provides a full and breathing account.

by Hampton Sides. Softbound, 578 pages, 5-1/4" x 8". Hampton Sides gives us a magnificent history of the the American conquest of the West. At the center of this sweeping tale is Kit Carson, the trapper, scout, and soldier whose adventures made him a legend. Sides shows us how this illiterate mountain man understood and respected the Western tribes better than any other American, yet willingly followed orders that would ultimately devastate the Navajo nation. Rich in detail and spanning more than three decades, this is an essential addition to our understanding of how the West was really won.

by Lon Tinkle. Softbound, 255 pages, 5-1/2" x 8". The day-by-day story of how 182 men fought a losing battle but won an almost unparelled measure of fame. Thoroughly documented, this book includes a chronology of events from June 30, 1835 thru February 23, 1836 and describes the circumstances that led up to each person being inside the walls of the abandoned mission.

Edited by Russell P. Bellico. Preface and Postscript by Arthur B. Cohn. Transcription and Index by Barbara B. Bartley. Softbound, 336 pages, 7" x 10". Bartley, owner of three Lake Champlain canal boats, kept a fascinating day-to-day journal of his life on the canals and waterways of the Northeast. From dramatic tales of near sinkings during gales to descriptions of the lives of ordinary people. He witnessed history in the making; from the Civil War, the first electric lights and telephones to the blizzard of 1888. An intimate portrait of the life of a canal boat family crisscrossing America during a period of extrordinary change.

by William M. Darlington. Softbound, 299 pages, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". Between 1750 and 1753 Gist, an agent of the Ohio Company of Virginia, explored the greater portion of the region now included within the states of Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia, and parts of western Maryland and southwest Pennsylvania. These remarkable journals contain descriptions of lands, friendly and hostile Indians, Indian customs, French settlements and forts, English settlements, and interesting events that occured on the trail. Additionally, this book contains biographical sketches of Gist and many interpreters and traders such as Andrew Montour and the Montour family, George Crogan, Thomas Cresap, the Indian Guyasuta, General James Grant, Conrad Weiser and others. Of special interest is Robert Orme's letter to Gov. Dinwiddie, describing the horror of Braddock's defeat. An indispensable resource for colonial histoey scholars and for living historians interested in pre-Revolutionary America. 

by A. G. Bradley. Softbound, 391 pages 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". Begining with the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, and the conditions and characters of the British American colonies in Canada in 1750, the author lays the background for the French designs against British expansion. He then proceeds to describe the various clashes between the to European powers in America, including the fight at Great Meadows, Braddock's Expedition, and Johnson's futile campaign on Lake George, that led to the formal declaration of war between France and England in May, 1756. The fighting continues through the battles at Louisbourg, Fort William Henry, Ticonderoga, Frontenac, and the Plains of Abraham as well as the deaths of Wolfe and Montcalm. The British triumphed in the end the French surrendered Montreal and their possessions in North America to Great Britain. Numerous maps illustrate the text, including one fold-out map.

by Davy Crockett. Softbound, 122 pages, 5-3/8" x 8-1/2". Filled with both adventure and hardship, this easy-reading autobiography established Crockett as a larger-than-life American hero, and introduced tall tales of the frontier to a popular audience. Written in 1834, two years before the legendary Tennessean met his fate at the Alamo, this book begins during Crockett's early childhood and ends just before he entered the U.S. Congress.

by Isabella L. Bird. Softcover, 256 pages, 5-3/8" x 8-1/2". The author remains a woman before her time and one of the most adventerous travel writers of the 19th century. She recounts her journeys through Canada and pre-Civil War United States in this travelouge. Drawing from letters to her sister back home in England, Bird passionately details such sights as wigwams on Prince Edward Island and the romantic falls of Lorette in Quebec, plus dark encounters with cholera, slavery, and harrowing storms at sea. A reprint of the 1856 The English Woman In America.