Modern (19th C)
63 books
Modern (19th C)
647
Agnes C. Laut - Chronicles of Canada Volume 23 - The Cariboo Trail: A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia
Between the California and Yukon/Klondike gold rushes was the Cariboo Gold Rush in what would become northern British Columbia. The first discovery was made in 1859, but the rush didn't get underway in earnest until...
2 hours 24 minutes
General
423
Frances M. Perry - Four American Indians: King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola
Four American Indians by Edson L. Whitney and Frances M. Perry, gives a short history of King Philip, Sachem of the Wampanoags; Pontiac, an Ottawan chief; Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief; and Osceola, a Seminole chief....
5 hours 38 minutes
War & Military
440
Jefferson Davis - Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1b
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward...
18 hours 52 minutes
War & Military
475
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - My Hunt After 'The Captain'
Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally published in The Atlantic Magazine, 1862. Holmes, Sr. (1809 -1894) was an...
2 hours 11 minutes
Modern (19th C)
463
Stephen Leacock - Chronicles of Canada Volume 20 - Adventurers of the Far North
This is volume 20 of The Chronicles of Canada series . This volume describes the explorers who braved the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage, focusing on Samuel Hearne, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, and...
3 hours 19 minutes
War & Military
574
Francis Key Howard - Fourteen Months in American Bastiles
Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at the same location where his grandfather was inspired to write the national...
3 hours 21 minutes
Modern (19th C)
439
Francis Archibald Bruton - Three Accounts of Peterloo
A companion volume to F.A. Bruton's 'The Story of Peterloo', the full title of this short collection is 'Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses, Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith with Bishop...
2 hours 8 minutes
