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Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875 to 1881
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James B. Gillett
James Gillet recounts his adventures with the Texas Rangers 1856-1937. In a very entertaining style he recounts personal stories of wars, …
Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable
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Jean S. Remy
Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable is a halting account in presidential history - quite literally! From Washington to Jac…
A Glimpse of India
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Clara Swain
A Glimpse of India: being a collection of extracts from the letters Dr. Clara A. Swain, first medical missionary to India of the Woman's For…
''Tell It All'': The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism
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Fanny Stenhouse
Fanny relates the experiences of a 19th century missionary as she and her young husband proselytize throughout Europe in search of converts …
Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War
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Various
Seven narratives published in the late nineteenth century and assembled in this 1913 collection. - Summary by david wales
London Labour and the London Poor Volume I
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Henry Mayhew
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…
The History of the Suez Canal
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Ferdinand de Lesseps
A lively picture of the origin and completion of the Suez Canal (built between 1859 and 1869) and his architect, Vicomte de Lesseps. This is…
Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
William Westgarth
Son of John Westgarth, surveyor-general of customs for Scotland, was born at Edinburgh, in June 1815. He was educated at the high schools at…
Gossip In The First Decade Of Victoria's Reign
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John Ashton
"I have written this Gossip not only for the edification of those to whom a portion, more or less, may be news, but for those who, like…
London Labour and the London Poor Volume II
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Henry Mayhew
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot
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L. W. De Laurence
L.W. de Laurence, an occult and spiritual author and publisher, not only provides a history of the Tarot for fortune-telling purposes, but w…
The Elements of Geology
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William Ruschenberger
Elements of Geology is one in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little …
Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the An…
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Francis Bond Head
“Galloped on with no stopping, but merely to change horses until five o’clock in the evening—very tired indeed, but . . . saw fresh horses i…
The Secret of Charlotte Brontë
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Frederika Richardson Macdonald
Twenty years ago, now, I attempted (but was not especially successful in the task) to establish upon the personal knowledge that my own resi…
Korea and Her Neighbors
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Isabella L. Bird
In this book, Isabella L. Bird, who had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society only 2 years prior, describes her travels th…
An Inaugural Dissertation on Pulmonary Consumption
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Edward Delafield
At a time when diseases termed "consumption" were among the leading cause of death in the county, physicians such as Edward Delafi…
Speeches of Prince Bismarck, Part 2
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Otto Von Bismarck
A collection of Bismarck’s speeches translated by art historian Edmund von Mach and published in 1914 as part of THE GERMAN CLASSICS—an exte…
An Historical Research Respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic,…
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George Livermore
Collects the speeches, writings, public statements and legislative acts of the Founding Fathers and Framers of the United States against sla…
An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the Brit…
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William Wilberforce
An impassioned plea by Wilberforce about putting an end to slavery in the West Indies based on his view of the institution as a national dis…
Pictorial History of the War for the Union, Volume 1
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Ann Stephens
Pictorial History of the War for the Union, Volume 1, is an indispensable read for any Civil War buff. Written during the Civil War, Ann Ste…