Confluence: The History of Fort Snelling, Hardcover - Hampton Smith

Reducere. Fort Snelling, a foundational place in the story of Minnesota, was built 200 years ago at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, a...

Reducere. For millennia, the place where the Minnesota River joins the Mississippi has been a crossroads, a place of strategic power. In the 1820s, the newly...

Reducere. In April 1775, a small band of men set out from Hartford and traveled swiftly north toward the shore of Lake Champlain, recruiting men to their exp...

Reducere. Confluence: The Story of Greeley Water covers 150 years of a modern water utility which began with a single irrigation ditch in 1870. Today, the sy...

Reducere. DescriptionPamlico Sound is one of the most storied bodies of water among North Carolina's Outer Banks. Early colonists to Roanoke Island used it f...

Reducere. DescriptionOutlaws, lawmen, soldiers and those on the Trail of Tears all passed through the Fort Smith and Van Buren area. Some of those restless s...

Reducere. Erected on the city's Northside in 1970, Three Rivers Stadium was Pittsburgh's home of champions for three decades. It hosted the first-ever World ...

Reducere. It was in Hampton Roads, Virginia, that hundreds gained their freedom. The teeming wharves were once a major station on the Underground Railroad, a...

Reducere. Take a trip down memory lane to beloved destinations for fun and families across Virginia's tidewater. Cruise the rails of Ocean View Amusement Par...

Reducere. On the afternoon of April 9, 1865, some sixteen thousand Union troops launched a bold, coordinated assault on the three-mile-long line of earthwork...

Reducere. DescriptionBetween 1910 and 1922, seventeen Montana communities built libraries with money given to them by the era's richest man, Andrew Carnegie....

Reducere. DescriptionForeward by Gene Smith, author of Lee and Grant An original and deeply human portrait of soldiers and civilians caught in the vortex of ...

Reducere. From its Wild West days to the early twentieth century, Fort Collins boasted its share of colorful characters. British import Edith Boothroyd saved...

DescriptionIn Minnesota in 1911, Nilda Carlson is torn between society life in the city of Blackduck and spending time with her family back home on...

Reducere. Exciting New Series by Beloved Author Lauraine Snelling Cassie Lockwood's mother died when she was little, so Cassie traveled with her father's Wil...

Reducere. DescriptionFort Worth is an American city quintessentially founded upon change. From its birth to the present, Fort Worth has consistently built an...

Reducere. DescriptionIn less than one hundred years, Fort Lauderdale grew from a wilderness stagecoach stop and trading post to become one of America's favor...

Reducere. DescriptionIn February 1862, after defeats at Bull Run and at Wilson's Creek in Missouri, the Union army was desperate for victory on the eve of it...

DescriptionIn Minnesota in 1911, Nilda Carlson is torn between society life in the city of Blackduck and spending time with her family back home on...

Reducere. Eighteen-year-old Astrid Bjorklund has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. She had intended to study medicine in Chicago or Grand Forks, but when ...

Reducere. In March 1921, Major John G. Thornell and his crew were detailed to Italy to procure a new experimental airship for the United States Army Air Serv...

Reducere. Nimrod: The Tower of Babel is the BEST PRESENTATION on Nimrod and the Tower of Babel ever put together. This book is fully illustrated with charts,...

Reducere. Despite a thriving culinary scene, Fort Worth lost some of its most iconic restaurants decades ago. Locals still buzz about the legendary chili dis...

Reducere. From its Wild West days to the early twentieth century, Fort Collins boasted its share of colorful characters. British import Edith Boothroyd saved...

Reducere. DescriptionEarly in the morning of September 29, 1864, two Union corps under the command of General Benjamin Butler crossed the James with the goal...

Reducere. Fort George G. Meade: The First 100 Years is a visually engaging depiction of Fort Meade's century of service to the nation. Using historical essay...

Reducere. With an abundance of appetizing eateries comes a wealth of memories. George Motz, author of Hamburger America, refers to Powers as "one of the grea...

At an early age, Alexa Hampton learned the language of good design, the vocabulary to speak it, and the elements that define it. As the daughter of...

This famous book by preacher and theologian Ethan Smith puts forth the notion that the Native American tribes are descended from the Ten Lost Tribe...

As early as 1895, seeking to avoid the summer heat of the city, well-to-do executives, heirs and heiresses of family fortunes, bankers, artists, an...

Reducere. DescriptionBeyond the streets and buildings that now bear the name Brickell is the rich history of William and Mary Brickell, who worked alongside ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. Withdrawal of the mighty Hudson Bay Company from present-day Alberta and Saskatchewan created a lawless environment with new economic opportunities...