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The First Great Awakening was a time of heightened religious activity in the colonial New England. Among those whom the English settlers tried to convert to Christianity were the region's native peoples. In this book, Linford Fisher tells the gripping...

California's Channel Islands are a chain of eight islands that extend along the state's southern coastline from Santa Barbara's Point Conception to the Mexican border. Popular tourist destinations today, these islands once supported some of the earliest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543531305Author Erin EdisonFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Pebble BooksPublisher Pebble BooksWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467113632Author Carole A KingFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 318g

From Blackbeard's den at Ocracoke, to the Hills of the Seven Sisters at Nags Head, to the misty swamps of Shallote, there is hardly an inch of territory along North Carolina's coast without a legend attached to it. Inlanders may be skeptical regarding...

Following the success of Quirky Berkeley, "arbiter of the eccentric" (The New York Times) Tom Dalzell returns to take readers on a tour of even more artwork that peppers the proudly idiosyncratic Northern California city. Stroll along iconic Telegraph...

Nearly every time he visits the Outer Banks, the author hears a new tale or another version of an old one and gets "that itch" to write it down for everyone to enjoy. That itch produced the seventeen stories in this fourth volume. There are tales of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543531343Author Erin EdisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone Press

The Point Reyes National Seashore (PRNS) is not only a stunning piece of land—the first large national park created from all private lands and the first large park adjacent a large metropolitan center—but the fight to save this fragile ecosystem in the...

The Ozarks is a place that defies easy categorization. Sprawling across much of Missouri and Arkansas and smaller parts of Oklahoma and Kansas, it is caught on the margins of America’s larger cultural regions: part southern, part midwestern, and maybe...

Scholars who teach, write, or speak on the history and culture of the Appalachian region are frequently asked by students, administrators, or colleagues to recommend a relatively short, comprehensive book about Appalachia. Until now, there has been no...

The Old South has traditionally been portrayed as an insular and backward-looking society. The Old South's Modern Worlds looks beyond this myth to identify some of the many ways that antebellum southerners were enmeshed in the modernizing trends of their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647790028Author Ken ScambrayFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint University of Nevada PressPublisher University of Nevada PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826322999Author Charles Leland SonnichsenFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint University of New Mexico PressPublisher University of New Mexico Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873515320Author Norman K. RisjordFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935810608Author Sharon NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Primer Publishers,U.S.Publisher American Traveler PressWeight(grams) 25g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935810585Author Sharon NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Primer Publishers,U.S.Publisher American Traveler PressWeight(grams) 25g

An old graveyard, writes Ruth Little, is a cultural encyclopedia--an invaluable source of insight and information about the families, traditions, and cultural connections that shape a community. But although graveyards and gravemarkers have long been...

This is a factual account, written in the pace of fiction, of hundreds of dramatic losses, heroic rescues, and violent adventures at the stormy meeting place of northern and southern winds and waters -- the Graveyard of the Atlantic off the Outer Banks...

Cracker Culture is a provocative study of social life in the Old South that probes the origin of cultural differences between the South and the North throughout American history. Among Scotch-Irish settlers the term 'Cracker' initially designated a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933212715Author Arthur RailtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Commonwealth EditionsPublisher Commonwealth EditionsWeight(grams) 180g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565549319Author John ChaseFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing CoWeight(grams) 315g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873513968Author Warren UphamFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S...

This book deals with a sequence of lively and often bizarre episodes within San Francisco's Russian community set in motion in early 1888 by the arrival in San Francisco of a new Russian Orthodox bishop-and his entourage, which included some twenty...

Commissioned in honor of its 125th anniversary, The History of Creighton University is the first official history of Creighton University. This extensively-researched and illustrated chronicle tells the compelling story of an institution which has grown...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543966282Author Buddy SullivanFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint BookBabyPublisher BookBabyWeight(grams) 0g

Author Maitland C. DeSormo chronicled some of the rich history of the Saranac region. This richly illus- trated volume contains over 250 vintage photographs.Book InformationISBN 9780932052872Author Maitland C. DeSormoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint...

Shares new discoveries about Native American history in the Sacramento Valley and the historical ecology of its fisheries.Book InformationISBN 9781647690465Author William R. HildebrandtFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Utah Press,U.S...

This volume explains the deep influence of biological methods and theories on the practice of Americanist archaeology by exploring W.C. McKern's use of Linnaean taxonomy as the model for development of a pottery classification system.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780925168429Author David P. KrutzFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint North Country BooksPublisher North Country BooksWeight(grams) 1229g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561642083Author Kevin M McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 254g

Because of the sheer volume of industrial debris and the limited information it yields, quarries are challenging archaeological subjects. Michael J. Shott tackles this challenge in a study of flakes and preforms from the Modena and Tempiute obsidian...

This book includes stories from all around the lake from the Civil War era through today.Book InformationISBN 9780925168986Author Jack HenkeFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint North Country BooksPublisher North Country BooksWeight(grams) 662g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681340302Author Klas BergmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190910150Author Maxwell JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USAWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595310095Author Letty Kirch HaynesFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint North Country BooksPublisher North Country BooksWeight(grams) 390g

Offering an introduction to the field of archaeology, the authors use a single case study to demonstrate the power of their interdisciplinary approach, and create a fresh portrait of 19th-century domestic life in the company-owned boarding-houses of the...

Commissioned in honor of its 125th anniversary, The History of Creighton University is the first official history of Creighton University. This extensively-researched and illustrated chronicle tells the compelling story of an institution which has grown...

Maine is a rural backwater? Meet Hiram Abrams, born in Portland in 1878 the son of a Russian immigrant real estate broker, attended public schools, left school at age sixteen, sold newspapers, bought a cow and started a dairy -- and eventually became the...

Whedbee's collections of legends and folklore have become regional classics. The continuing popularity of these books stems from the author's intimate knowledge of the places, people, and events of which he writes. He gathers the mysteries, tales,...