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A. H. U. Colquhoun - Chronicles of Canada Volume 28 - The Fathers of Confederation: A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion
During and after the United States' War of Independence, Canada remained loyal to Great Britain. The upheavals of the 1830's and early 1840's led to a Popular Government and union of Upper and Lower Canada in 1841,...
4 hours 8 minutes
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Francis Bond Head - Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the Andes
“Galloped on with no stopping, but merely to change horses until five o’clock in the evening—very tired indeed, but... saw fresh horses in the corral, and resolved to push on. At half-past seven, after having...
7 hours 55 minutes
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Harris Newmark - Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913
Harris Newmark was personally acquainted with every person and family involved in the founding of the city of Los Angeles, California. He gathers into this well-written book his reminiscences of the period from 1853...
22 hours 41 minutes
Memoirs
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Osborne Perry Anderson - Voice From Harper's Ferry
A Voice from Harper's Ferry is the abolitionist testament of Osborne Perry Anderson, the only surviving black participant in the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry organized by John Brown. The book details the motivations and...
2 hours 22 minutes
