Missouri Caves in History and Legend, Paperback - H. Dwight Weaver

Reducere. Missouri has been likened to a "cave factory" because its limestone bedrock can be slowly dissolved by groundwater to form caverns, and the state b...

Reducere. In 1886, the railroad-tie industry spawned the village of Zebra at the confluence of the Osage and Grand Glaize Rivers in the Ozark region of south...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this reprint of a classic piece of cave literature, the famed geologist, J Harlen Bretz, gives a detailed account of the formation an...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: V. V. TomekEditor: Mirek KatzlFor more than eight centuries, the Jews of Prague lived in the Prague ghetto. During that tim...

Reducere. Bart Ehrman, author of the highly popular books Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code, Lost Christianities, and the New York Times bestseller Misq...

Reducere. When the Union Electric Company finished constructing Bagnell Dam in 1931, they had done more than build a source of electrical power-they had crea...

Reducere. Guerrilla warfare, border fights, and unorganized skirmishes are all too often the only battles associated with Missouri during the Civil War. Comb...

Reducere. Although generations of readers of the Little House books are familiar with Laura Ingalls Wilder's early life up through her first years of marriag...

Reducere. The Civil War in Missouri was a time of great confusion, violence, and destruction. Although several major battles were fought in the state between...

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In 1956, the era of tail-finned cars and nineteen-cents-a-gallon gasoline, the Missouri Pacific Railroad emerged on the corporate scene as a privat...

Twelve classic tales with a richly coloured tapestry of characters: kings and queens in love and in trouble, heroes high-born and humble, mythical ...

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Description"The place where the German U-boat sank the British battleship Royal Oak was none other than the middle of Scapa Flow, Britain's greates...

Reducere. DescriptionCentral Missouri possesses a bounty of history regarding brave men and women who have served both state and nation in the armed forces. ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe definitive history of the American Third System of Fortifications that defended our coastline for more than half of century, these a...

Presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the use of caves and rock shelters across Europe during the medieval period for a wide range of religi...

Reducere. The Compleat Angler, Izaak Walton's fishing classic, is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing. Through prose, verse, song, and folklore, W...

Desperadoes like Frank and Jesse James earned Missouri the nickname of the "Outlaw State" after the Civil War, and that reputation followed the reg...

Reducere. DescriptionLouis Blanchette came to Les Petites Cotes (the Little Hills) in 1769. The little village, later dubbed San Carlos del Misury by the Spa...

Reducere. Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizin...

Reducere. Morgan Llywelyn, author of the Irish Century series of historical novels and for Lion of Ireland, weaves Irish mythology, historical elements, and ...

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Reducere. During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln reviewed thousands of wartime military trials, including several cases featured in this bo...

Reducere. A rare biography of a California Indian leader that weaves together the story of a legendary figure.It's a little known fact that the San Francisco...

The orchid is the most evocative of flowers, inspiring in some of its admirers a fanaticism akin to madness, as demonstrated in Susan Orlean's popu...

Reducere. Route 66 in the Missouri Ozarks picks up the journey west where its companion book, Route 66 in St. Louis, leaves off. As Bobby Troup's song says, ...

Reducere. DescriptionPhiladelphia's relationship with the underground is as old as the city itself, dating back to when Quaker settlers resided in caves alon...

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Reducere. DescriptionIn Navy SEALs: Mission at the Caves, the first book in the Special Operations Files series, highly decorated former Navy SEAL Brandon We...

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): Giovanni GuerrieriIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 132Publication date: 2010Dimensions:...

Reducere. Marauders like Jesse James and the Younger gang earned Missouri the title of "Outlaw State, " but the male desperadoes had nothing on their female ...

Reducere. Some of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Tom Horn (1860-1903) was both...

Reducere. Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizin...

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Reducere. Rich with ranger lore, wilderness savvy and tracking expertise, Meigs Line follows Dwight McCarter and Joe Kelley, two retired rangers, on their se...

A guide to Eisenhower from childhood to his time in the White House.Illustrations: Yes

Reducere. By Clint Lacy. Deep in the eastern Ozarks of Missouri, a battle still rages about a massacre that happened on Christmas Day of 1863. While some cal...

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Older than Stonehenge, Mycenae and the Egyptian pyramids, the huge megalithic tomb of Newgrange in Ireland stands as a testament to the achievement...

Reducere. Eliza Spalding Warren was just a child when she was taken hostage by the Cayuse Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two chil...