Cursed in Virginia: Stories of the Damned in the Old Dominion State, Paperback - Mark Nesbitt

Reducere. About the AuthorMark Nesbitt was a National Park Service Ranger/Historian for five years at Gettysburg before starting his own research and writing...

Reducere. DescriptionAn unexpected visitor arrives in town But who is he? What is he? Where did he come from? Readers will learn the answers to all these que...

Reducere. In Cursed in the Carolinas, Patty A. Wilson recounts tales of genuine maledictions intended to invoke evil and unease across both North and South C...

Reducere. Colonist George Thorpe first crafted corn beere, an ancestor to bourbon, in 1620 at Berkeley Plantation, and George Washington once operated one of...

DescriptionA collection of frightening stories, including the Civil War ghosts of Gettysburg, spirits at John Brown's tannery, the fiddling ghost o...

The 1646 Treaty of Peace with Necotowance in Virginia fundamentally changed relationships between Native Americans and the English settlers of Virg...

Reducere. ``On the morning of 26 April 1607, three small ships carrying 143 Englishmen arrived off the Virginia coast of North America, having spent four mon...

Reducere. DescriptionHauntings lurk and spirits linger in the Keystone State Reader, beware Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where gho...

Richmond s 15th Street was known as Wall Street in antebellum times, and like its New York counterpart, it was a center of commerce. But the busine...

Documents 170 bird species in West Virginia, with information on occurrence, population density, change since the first Atlas, and population estim...

Reducere. Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, "When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West, " and in this book, Mark Arax spends four ye...

Reducere. DescriptionThe third volume in Mark Nesbitt's popular book series was first released in 1995. This volume includes more ghostly encounters on the G...

Reducere. Christianity Today Book AwardOne of our foremost historians of religion here chronicles the arrival of Christianity in the New World, tracing the t...

Reducere. In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaig...

Just the Tonic is an accessible yet informative history of tonic water: its connections to the major disease malaria, the cure discovered in the ba...

Reducere. "Ghosts of Gettysburg VII" is the newest addition to Mark Nesbitt's popular book series. It contains a multitude of stories never heard in public b...

Reducere. The village of Old Mines is the oldest settlement in the state of Missouri. Lead miners were in Old Mines as early as 1719. The founding of Old Min...

Reducere. In 1854, and again in 1856, Rev. Eli Washington Caruthers published a compilation of stories, gathered over the course of many years, that spotligh...

Reducere. From a cross-border Confederate attack to the underdressed men from Maple Corner, It Happened in Vermont looks at intriguing people and episodes fr...

DescriptionSpring in Maryland means one thing: lacrosse. As much a part of the state as crab cakes and the Chesapeake Bay, lacrosse is king at ever...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark Nesbitt"Ghosts of Gettysburg VI" is the sixth volume in Mark Nesbitt's popular "Ghosts of Gettysburg" book series. Thi...

Reducere. DescriptionAlong with more ghost stories from Gettysburg, this newest addition to the "Ghosts of Gettysburg" series includes stories about places w...

A series of terrifying attacks have left a city overrun by children gone murderous! In the sudden aftermat h of a series of horrifying atta cks, a ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially recognized the United States as a sovereign republic, also doubled the territorial girth of t...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter the release of Ghosts of Gettysburg, author Mark Nesbitt was deluged with faxes, phone calls and letters(this was before email and...

Reducere. The serene countryside of central California hides a bloody history. Many Native tribes lived in peaceful coexistence before the discovery of gold ...

A famous defender of the underdog, the oppressed, and the powerless, Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) is one of the true legends of the American legal s...

Reducere. The village of Old Mines is the oldest settlement in the state of Missouri. Lead miners were in Old Mines as early as 1719. The founding of Old Min...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first volume in Mark Nesbitt's popular book series. A combination of history and mystery, this volume focuses on the early ghost-lor...

Reducere. "I AM persuaded, " said Claude Bernard, "that the day will come, when the man of science, the philosopher and the poet will all understand each oth...

Reducere. Praise for Twisted Tales from VMI "I laughed till I stopped " Dave Hagemann, '80"Me, too." John Cooper, '83"Written proof my roommate was in seriou...