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The U.S. Navy in Hawaii, 1826-1945: An Administrative History, by Department of the Navy, Naval Historical Center, Washington D.C. Published: May 25 2001, adapted from Historical Section, Fourteenth Naval District. Administrative History of the Fourteenth Naval District and the Hawaiian Sea Frontier, Vol. 1, Hawaii, 1945. HTML file. Read


The New Dr. Price Cookbook, by Anonymous, Published: Copyright 1921, by Royal Baking Powder Co. Many famous, new, and unusual recipes. HTML file. Read


History Of Wayne County [North Carolina]. Address by Judge Frank A. Daniels, at opening of Wayne County's New Court House, November 30, 1914. By Frank Arthur Daniels. Published: Probably Goldsboro, NC, 1914. The main history section starts on page 14. HTML file. Read


The Philippine Islands 1493-1803, Volume II 1521-1569, Translated from the Original, Edited by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson, with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne; Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and their Peoples, their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as related in contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, showing The Political, Economic, Commericial and Religious Conditions of those Islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of The Nineteenth Century. Published: Arthur H. Clark Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1903. HTML file. Read


Youth and Sex; Dangers and Safeguards for Girls and Boys, by Mary Scharlieb and F. Arthur Sibly. Published: This edition, 1919; first edition, 1913. HTML file. Read


The Journal of Negro History, Edited by Carter G. Woodson, Volume 1 Number 2. Published: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., April 1916. The Negro Soldier in the American Revolution; Freedom and Slavery in Appalachian America; Antar, The Arabian Negro Warrior; Eighteenth Century Slaves as Advertised by Their Masters in various newspapers from about 1720 to 1800; book reviews. HTML file. Read


The Journal of Negro History, Edited by Carter G. Woodson, Volume 1 Number 1. Published: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., January 1916. Negroes of Cincinnati Prior to the Civil War; The Story of Maria Louise Moore and Fannie M. Richards; The Passing Tradition and the African Civilization; The Mind of the African Negro as reflected in his Proverbs; What the Negro was thinking during the Eighteenth Century; Letters showing the Rise and Progress of the early Negro Churches of Georgia and The West Indies; book reviews. HTML file. Read


U. S. Coast Guard, A Historical Overview, by U. S. Coast Guard Historians' Office. Published: Updated April 2003. HTML file and 1 .gif image. Read


The Bay State Monthly; A Massachusetts Magazine of Literature, History, Biography, and State Progress; Volume I Number IV, April 1884. Published: Boston, John N. McClintock and Co., 1884. Captain George Hamilton Perkins family; Dungeon Rock, Lynn MA; Acadiens; British Losses in the Revolution; Boston YMCA; the Ohio floods; account of the Boston Tea-Party taken from The Boston Evening Post Dec 20 1773; more. HTML file and 4 .png images. Read


The Bay State Monthly; A Massachusetts Magazine of Literature, History, Biography, and State Progress; Volume I Number I, January 1884. Published: Boston, John N. McClintock and Co., 1884. Marshall Pinckney Wilder family; an incident of 1686 king James II; 1775 Siege of Boston including map; old taverns and stage-coaches of Groton; family immigration to New England; Railway Mail Service, more. HTML file and one .jpg image. Read


Current History, A Monthly Magazine; The European War, Volume I Issue I; From the Beginning to March, 1915, With Index, by The New York Times. Published: New York, The New York Times Company, 1915. Number 1 is, What Men Of Letters Say about the crisis and the war as events were happening, by George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Norman Angell, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Baron de Constant, Rene Doumic, Gabriele Reuter, Gerhart Hauptmann, British Scholars, Professors of Germany, and many more, published in various editions of The New York Times. HTML file and some .jpg images of the authors. Read


Early History of Tarboro, North Carolina; also Collated Colonial Public Claims of Edgecombe County, and Easter Sunday in Savannah, Ga., by Gaston Lichtenstein. Published: Richmond, Wm. Ellis Jones, Book and Job Printer, 1908. HTML file. Read


The Old Northwest; A Chronicle of the Ohio Valley and Beyond, by Frederic Austin Ogg. Published: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1919. Volume 19 of The Chronicles of America series; covers the 1760 fall of Montreal, Pontiac's conspiracy, pioneer days and ways, Tecumseh, the War of 1812, the upper Mississippi Valley, and more. Bibliographical notes at end of book. HTML file. Read


The Curious Bermuda Triangle Part I, by WebRoots. Published: Oct 14 2004, WebRoots, Inc. Compiled from U.S. Government sources; delves into the Bermuda Triangle, and disappearances of Flight 19 and the USS Cyclops. There is currently no Part II. HTML file with a few small .jpg images. Read


United States Air Force Air Intelligence Report 100-203-79; Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S., Summary and Conclusions. Published: Headquarters, United States Air Force, Directorate of Intelligence, Washington DC, April 28 1949. Originally a Top Secret and Confidential document. HTML file with a few small .jpg images. Read


The Flying Saucers Are Real, by Donald Edward Keyhoe. Published: New York, Fawcett Publications, 1950. Questions cover-up's made by the government; has several documented reports of UFO's, some dating back to the 1800s. The author was a former chief of information for the Aeronautics Branch, Department of Commerce. HTML file. Read


Bearing Arms in the Twenty-Seventh Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Infantry During the Civil War, 1861-1865, by William P. Derby. Published: Boston, Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1883. A history of this regiment that fought mostly on VA and NC. Extensive rosters claim to correct 161 errors of the records of the Massachusetts Adjutant General's Office. HTML file. Read


The Story of My Life, by Helen Keller; With Her Letters (1887-1901) and a Supplementary Account of Her Education, Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of Her Teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy. Published: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905. HTML file. Read


Early Social Life in Edgecombe; Also Early History of Edgecombe, and A Tarborean's Experience Abroad. Three Articles by Gaston Lichtenstein. Published: Richmond, VA., Wm. Ellis Jones, Book and Job Printer, 1904. Reprinted from The Tarborough Southerner, Tarboro, NC. Edgecombe County is in North Carolina. The trip abroad was on the ship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, his account was sent to the Southerner from Prussia, July 20 1899. HTML file. Read


The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign; Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished, by Henry Charles Carey. Published: Philadelphia, Parry & McMillan, 1856. Slavery, Emancipation and Freedom in: United States, British Colonies, West Indies, Portugal and Turkey, India, Ireland and Scotland, Northern Germany, Russia, Denmark, Spain and Belgium; the duty of the people of the United States and of England. HTML file. Read


The Battle of Lexington, Fought in and Around the City of Lexington, Missouri, on September 18th, 19th and 20th, 1861, by Forces Under Command of Colonel James A. Mulligan, and General Sterling Price. The Official Records Of Both Parties to the Conflict; to which is added Memoirs of Participants, by Lexington Historical Society. Published: The Intelligencer Printing Company, Lexington, MO, May 1903. HTML file. Read


Pioneers of the Old Southwest; a Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground, by Constance Lindsay Skinner. Published: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1919. Volume 18 of The Chronicles of America series. Covers mainly the Pioneers, war with the French and Indians, the fight for Kentucky, Tennessee, Battle of King's Mountain, John Sevier, Daniel Boone. HTML file. Read


The Grand Canyon of Arizona: How To See It, by George Wharton James. Revised Edition. Published: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company; Kansas City, Fred Harvey; 1912. Not just a tourist book it also has much geology, history of early exploration and of native Americans of the area. HTML file. Read


History of the Forty-Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, "The Cadet Regiment", by Albert W. Mann, Historian of the Regiment. Published: Wallace Spooner, Boston, MA, 1908. Many interesting personal accounts; lots of statistics; some genealogy; complete rosters; after the war; 1863 Boston draft riot; meetings and reunions. HTML file. Read


The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873; Including a Full and Complete Account of the Four Days' Draft Riot of 1863, by Hon. Joel Tyler Headley Headley. Published: New York, E. B. Treat, 1873. Excellent accounts of riots for every occasion: Negro, stamp-act, doctors', election, abolition, flour, Astor-place, police, Dead-Rabbits', bread, draft, Orange, and more. HTML file. Read


Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony. An Historical Sketch of the Attempts made by Sir Walter Raleigh to Establish a Colony in Virginia, with the Traditions of an Indian Tribe in North Carolina. Indicating the Fate of the Colony of Englishmen Left on Roanoke Island in 1587, by Hamilton McMillan. Published: Wilson, N.C., Advance Presses, 1888. HTML file. Read


Woman on the American Frontier; A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic, by William Worthington Fowler. Published: Hartford, S. S. Scranton & Company, 1879. Woman: among Savages, Mohawk Wars; Rocky Mountains, the Northern Border, Far West, Texas, the South West; Emigrants on the Plains, Maine, Wyoming, Kansas, California; Alone with Famine and Death, Fighting for Children, Voyaging in a Prairie Schooner; Missionary to the Indians, in the Army, as an Educator, scenes of Pioneer Life, etc. HTML file. Read


The Hawaiian Archipelago. Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands, by Isabella Lucy Bird. Published: John Murray, London, 1875. As it was in 1875: steamer ships, Hawaiian hotels, volcanos, royality, lepers, Hawaiian history and royality, animals and plants, natives and customs, housing, education, scenery, the different islands, and more, as told in a series of letters to the authors sister. HTML file. Read


The Problem of the Fourth Gospel, by Henry Latimer Jackson. Published: Cambridge [England], The University Press, 1918. The gospel according to St. John, approximate date of the gospel, authorship in tradition, self-dating of the fourth gospel, etc, Excursus I & II. This book contains some non-English-alphabet characters and words. HTML file. Read


Formation Of The Union, 1750-1829, by Albert Bushnell Hart. Published: New York, London [etc.] Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897. 8th edition. Volume 2 of Epochs of American History. The Americans in 1750; expulsion of the French; causes of the revolution; union and independence; the confederation; the federal constitution; organization of the government; federal and republican supremacy; social, economic, political reorganization, etc. HTML file. Read


A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career. Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum. Comprising his Boyhood, Youth, ..., by Joel Benton. Published: Edgewood Publishing Company, 1891. Family and birth; first love; business ventures; joining a travelling circus; visits to/with Buckingham Palace, Paris, Bonaparte, Louis Phillipi, King Leopold, Prince of Wales, King of Hawaii, Cuba, Ceylon; burning of Iranistan; the American Museum; first Wild West Show; Tom Thumb; Jenny Lind; Grizzly Adams; founding East Bridgeport CT; the art of money getting; newspaper comments; political life; the funeral, much more. HTML file. Read


Sketches of Pitt County; A Brief History of the County, 1704--1910, by Henry T. King. Published: Raleigh, Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, 1911. North Carolina; includes genealogy sketches of prominent Pitt County men and women. HTML file. Read


Maintaining Health (formerly Health and Efficiency), by Rasmus Larssen Alsaker, M.D. Published: New York, F. E. Morrison, 1917. Health guide, hygiene and diet; humanity, health and healers, mental attitude, food, classification of foods, menus, care of the skin, sleep, exercise, breathing and ventilation, children, advanced years, etc. HTML file. Read


The Great Fortunes From Railroads, by Gustavus Myers; Volume 3 of History Of The Great American Fortunes. [Volume 1: Conditions In Settlement And Colonial Times, The Great Land Fortunes. Volume 2: Great Fortunes From Railroads]. Published: Chicago, C.H. Kerr & Company, 1910. Seizure of the public domain, the Vanderbilt fortune, the Gould fortune. The book is more a biography about economic conditions and wealth from railroads, than about the railroads themselves. HTML file. Read


Provincial America, 1690-1740, by Evarts Boutell Greene. Published: New York, N.Y.: Harper and Brothers, 1905. England and the Colonies; Puritans and Anglicans; French and English interests in America; King William's War; Queen Anne's War; Imperial policy and administration; provincial politics, industry, commerce, culture; immigration and expansion; founding of Georgia, etc. HTML file. Read


The 9-11 Commission Report, by The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (The 9-11 Commission). Published: U.S. Government Printing Office, July 2004. A full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11 2001 New York World Trade Center terrorist attacks; including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks, what led up to it, detailed accounts of what happened and of the terrorists, heroism and horror, the aftermath, and recommendations to guard against future attacks. Very extensive Notes. HTML file with images. Read


The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century; Part 2 of France and England in North America, A Series of Historical Narratives, by Francis Parkman. Published: First Edition; Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1867. From 1634 to about 1673, an extensive history of the area from the Mississippi to the Atlantic, and from the Carolinas to Hudson's Bay; parts of VA and of PA, NJ, Southeastern NY, New England, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Lower Canada, New France, shores of the Upper Lakes, and some of WI, MI, IL, and IN, including Native Americans and the Jesuits. 20th Edition. HTML file. Read


A Journal of the Plague Year; Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, As Well Public As Private, Which Happened in London During The Last Great Visitation in 1665; Written by a Citizen Who Continued All The While In London; Never Made Public Before, by Daniel Defoe. Originally published in 1722. Written as an eyewitness report, based on childhood memories and extensive research, historically and fictionally recreates the bubonic plague event. HTML file. Read


My Life and Work, by Henry Jones Ford. Published: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company, 1922. History of the principals and theories of what made the Ford Motor Company so successful; along with some history of Henry Ford and why and how he built cars, and how his companies worked. HTML file. Read


Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888, by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe. Published: New York, Appleton, 1909. Military, frontier and pioneer life; Indians, desperadoes, hunting, travel, forts; from various locations in Colorado, Kansas, Indian Territory, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska. HTML file. Read


The French in the Heart of America, by John Huston Finley. Published: New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1915. French explorers and priests as pioneers through the valleys of the St. Lawrence, the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi to the gulf and the Rocky Mountains. Some of the chapters first appeared in Scribner's magazine in 1912. HTML file. Read


Lincoln; An Account of His Personal Life, Especially of Its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War, by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson. Published: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (c) 1922. HTML file. Read


History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by the House of Representatives, and his Trial by the Senate, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors in Office, 1868, by Edmund Gibson Ross. Published: Santa Fe, N.M., New Mexican printing co., 1896. Burt Franklin Research & Source Works Series #94. HTML file. Read


A History of Colonial Bath, by Herbert R. Paschal, Jr., Ph.D. Published: Edwards & Broughton Company, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1955. Published for the 250th anniversary of Bath, North Carolina. HTML file. Read


In Ancient Albemarle, by Catherine Albertson. Published: North Carolina Society Daughters of the Revolution; Raleigh, Commercial Printing Company, 1914. North Carolina - Pasquotank county, the first Albemarle Assembly, where the Culpeper Rebellion began, some old farms and houses, the haunts of Blackbeard, Colonial Wars, and more. HTML file. Read


The American Woman's Home: or, Principles of Domestic Science; Being a Guide to the Formation and Maintenance of Economical, Healthful, Beautiful, and Christian Homes, by Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published: New York, J.B. Ford and company; [etc], 1869. Has sections on decoration, health, exercise, food, clothing, manners, infants and children, amusements and social duties, care of the aged and servants, gardens, animals, glossary of old words and references, more. HTML file. Read


American Prisoners of the Revolution, by Danske Dandridge. Published: Charlottesville, The Michie Company, 1911. Includes a list of 8000 men who were prisoners on board the Jersey, other prisoner lists, accounts, narratives, diaries, journals, newspaper extracts, letters, and more. HTML file. Read


The Mountains of California, by John Muir. Published: New York, The Century co., 1894. HTML file. Read


Travels in Alaska, by John Muir. Published: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin co., 1915. His trips of 1879, 1880, and 1890. HTML file. Read


Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains; or, The Last Voice from the Plains. An Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the Far West, by Capt. William F. Drannan, Who Went on to the Plains When Fifteen Years Old. Published: Chicago, Rhodes & McClure Publishing Company, 1900. Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill, City of Mexico, San Francisco, Sacramento, Alaska, Denver, Klamath Lake, Indians (Comanches, Utes, Modoc, Sioux, Apaches), society, buffalo, army forts, gold, massacres, and much more. HTML file. Read


History of Cherry Valley From 1740 to 1898, by John Sawyer. Published: Cherry Valley, NY, Gazette Print, 1898. HTML file. Read


Personal Experience of a Physician, With An Appeal to the Medical and Clerical Professions; And an Appendix, A Review of "Christ and the Temperance Question," Christian Union, by John Ellis. Published: Philadelphia, Hahnemann publishing house, 1892. Homeopathy and temperance, spiritual causes of diseases, appeal to the clergy, etc. HTML file. Read


The Prospective Mother; A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy, by Josiah Morris Slemons. Published: New York and London, D. Appleton and company, 1912. HTML file. Read


Myths & Legends of Our Own Land, by Charles Montgomery Skinner. Published: Philadelphia & London, J. B. Lippincott company, 1896. Covers the Hudson and its hills; the Isle of Manhattoes and nearby; on and near the Delaware; tales of Puritan land; lights and shadows of the South; the Central states and Great Lakes; along the Rocky Range; on the Pacific Slope; buried treasure; storied waters, cliffs, and mountains. HTML file. Read


The Paths of Inland Commerce; A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway, by Archer Butler Hulbert. Published: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1920. Volume 21 of The Chronicles of America series - Travel by Indian trails, rivers, wagon, flatboat, steamboat, trains, and on the Great Lakes, etc. Nice bibliographical notes section. HTML file. Read


Bohemian San Francisco, Its Restaurants and Their Most Famous Recipes; the Elegant Art of Dining, by Clarence Edgar Edwords. Published: San Francisco, P. Elder and Company, copyright 1914. HTML file. Read


The Loss of the SS. Titanic; Its Story and Its Lessons, by Lawrence Beesley, One of the Survivors. Published: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912. HTML file. Read


France and England in North America; A Series of Historical Narratives, Part Third; The Discovery of the Great West, by Francis Parkman. Published: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1870. Covers the discovery period from 1643 to 1689, when "the Great West" was the valleys of the Mississippi and the Lakes. La Salle, Joliet, Marquette and other explorers, their discoveries and adventures. Jesuits, Indians, Missions, Fur-Trade, Female Inquisitors are some other topics covered. HTML file. Read


The Life of Hon. William F. Cody Known as Buffalo Bill; The Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide; An Autobiography, by Buffalo Bill. Published: Hartford, Conn., F. E. Bliss, Copyright 1879. HTML file. Read


Alaska Indian Dictionary: Aleutian Indian and English Dictionary, Common Words in the Dialects of the Aleutian Indian Language, As Spoken by the Oogashik, Egashik, Egegik, Anangashuk and Misremie Tribes Around Sulima River and Neighboring Parts of the Alaska Peninsula, by Charles A. Lee. Published: Seattle, Wash., Lowman & Hanford Stationery & Printing Co., 1896. HTML file. Read


The Child Under Eight, by E.R. Murray, Vice-Principal, Maria Grey Training College, Brondesbury; and Henrietta Brown Smith, L.L.A., Lecturer in Education, Goldsmiths' College, University of London. Published: London, Edward Arnold, 1920. One of the Modern Educator's Library series of books. HTML file. Read


Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest Territories and Alaska, by Joseph Ladue, Founder of Dawson City, N.W.T., Explorer, Miner and Prospector, September, 1897. Published: New York, American Technical Book Co. 1897. Dawson City is in the Yukon Territory. 170k HTML file. Read


Steep Trails, by John Muir; Edited by William Frederic Bade; With Illustrations. Published: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1918. Mainly accounts of areas in California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, and the Grand Canon, written in between the late 1870s and 1902. Footnotes are from the editor, not the author. HTML file. Read


The Earth As Modified By Human Action: A New Edition of Man and Nature, by George Perkins Marsh. Published: New York, Scribner, Armstrong, 1878. George was the first American conservationist and this work was the first systematic analysis of humanity's destructive impact on the environment. First published in 1864 under title Man and nature it sold 100,000 copies in a few months, and was republished in 1874 as The Earth as Modified by Human Action. HTML file. Read


The Secrets of the Great City: A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City, by James Dabney McCabe (aka Edward Winslow Martin). Published: Philadelphia, Chicago, Jones Brothers & Co., 1868. Besides history, some other topics are society, the morgue, the Tombs, buildings, cemeteries, patterers, swindlers, lost children, baby farming, dens of midnight, the harbor, soldier minstrels, thiefs, poor girls, street boys, assignation houses. HTML file. Read


Manners and Social Usages, by Mrs. John Sherwood (Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood). New York, Harper & Brothers, 1887. A guide to 1880s social etiquette. Includes chapters on women as leaders, good and bad society, dancing, dinners and parties, manners of the past, the dress and duties of servants, and how to manage a home with only one servant. HTML file. Read


[The United States] Since the Civil War, by Charles Ramsdell Lingley. Published: New York, The Century Co., 1920. A well-researched history from Civil War Reconstruction to WWI, with extensive bibliographical notes at the end of each chapter. HTML file. Read


Essays in War-Time; Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene, by Havelock Ellis. Published: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917. Some topics are: war and eugenics; morality in warfare; feminism and masculinism; the mental differences of men and women; the nationalisation of health; eugenics and genius; marriage and divorce; birth control. HTML file. Read


Wisdom and Destiny, by Maurice Maeterlinck, translated by Alfred Sutro. Published: New York, Dodd and Mead, 1908. Translation of La sagesse et la destinée and is about fate and fatalism and wisdom. HTML file. Read


Journalism for Women; A Practical Guide, by E. Arnold Bennett. Published: London and New York, J. Lane, 1898. HTML file. Read


Ice creams, Water Ices, Frozen Puddings, Together with Refreshments for all Social Affairs, by Mrs Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer. Published: Philadelphia, Arnold and Company [c)1913. Includes sections on soups, shell-fish, poultry and game, cold dishes and sandwiches. HTML file. Read


The Great Salt Lake Trail, by Colonel Henry Inman, Late Assistant Quartermaster, United States Army Author of The Old Santa Fe Trail, Etc., and Colonel William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", Late Chief of Scouts. Published: New York, The Macmillan Company, 1898. Includes stories of trading posts, Mormons, pony express, Indian tribes, Blackfeet folk-lore, 1863 Sioux War, Buffalo Bill, Custer, Kit Carson, Union Pacific Railroad, frontier and pioneer life, and more. HTML file. Read


The Englishwoman in America, by Isabella Lucy Bird. Published: London, John Murray, 1856. A view of America and social life and customs in 1854. The author's journey was mostly in the north-east states, and nearby Canada, and inland to Chicago and the western prairies. HTML file. Read


The Second William Penn; A True Account of Incidents That Happened Along the Old Sante Fe Trail in the Sixties, by William Henry Ryus. Published: Kansas City, Mo., Press of Frank T. Riley Publishing Co., (c) 1913. HTML file. Read


Fifteen Years With the Outcast, by Mrs. Florence (Mother) Roberts. Published: Gospel Trumpet Company, Anderson, Indiana, 1912. Prostitution in California; also includes chapters about jail and prison life for the girls, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. HTML file. Read


Youth; Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene, by Granville Stanley Hall. Published: New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1907. Condensed from the author's Adolescence, published in 1904. About pre-teen and teen boys and girls, 100 years ago. Includes a Glossary with many antiquated terms you could use now-days, to get people wondering if you had insulted or complimented them. HTML file. Read


Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches, by Eliza Leslie. Published: 10th ed., Philadelphia, E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1840. Includes how to make liquors, beer, wine; preparations for the sick; and perfumeries. HTML file. Read


Mormon Settlement in Arizona; A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert, by James H. McClintock. Published: Phoenix, Arizona, 1921. Content is history, not religion. Also includes information about surrounding states. HTML file. Read


The Founding of New England, by James Truslow Adams. Published: Boston, The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922. HTML file. Read


The Nation in a Nutshell: A Rapid Outline of American History, by George Makepeace Towle. Published: Boston, Lee and Shepard; New York, C.T. Dillingham, 1887. A short and concise history of the United States in a single 200k file. HTML file. Read


Army Life In A Black Regiment, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Published: New York, Collier Books, 1870; first published in 1869. Includes a camp diary; some history of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers (later the 33rd United States Colored Troops), the first black regiment; and many "Negro Spirituals" sung at camp. HTML file. Read


Indian Raids in Lincoln County Kansas, 1864 and 1869; Story of Those Killed, With a History of the Monument Erected to Their Memory in Lincoln Court House Square, May 30, 1909; by C. Bernhardt. Published: Lincoln, Kansas, The Lincoln Sentinel Print, 1910. HTML file. Read


Occupations for Women: A Book of Practical Suggestions for the Material Advancement, the Mental and Physical Development, and the Moral and Spiritual Uplift of Women, by Frances Elizabeth Willard. Published: Cooper Union, N.Y., The Success Co., 1897. HTML file. Read


Curiosities of the Sky, A Popular Presentation of the Great Riddles and Mysteries of Astronomy, With Many Illustrations From Photographs and Drawings, by Garrett Putman Serviss. Published: New York, London, Harper & brothers, 1909. HTML file. Read


Chinigchinich; a Historical Account of the Origin, Customs, and Traditions of the Indians at the Missionary Establishment of St. Juan Capistrano, Alta California Called The Acagchemem Nation; by The Reverend Father Friar Geronimo Boscana; Translated from the Original Spanish Manuscript by Alfred Robinson. Published: New York, Wiley & Putnam, 1846. HTML file. Read


Hell: Why, What, How Long, by William Edward Biederwolf. Published: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1900. HTML file. Read


A Woman Tenderfoot, by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson. Published: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900. The advenures of a well-bred lady invited by her famous writer-husband, Ernest Seton-Thompson, to go on a four-month tour of the wild West. HTML file. Read


The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries That Lie on Both Sides of the River Missisippi: With An Account of rhe Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate, and Products: Translated from the French of M. Le Page Du Pratz; With some Notes and Observations Relating to our Colonies. Edited by Stanley Clisby Arthur. Published: New Orleans, J. S. Harmanson, Publisher, 1947. French original published in 1758. This is a copy of the 1774 edition printed for T. Becket to sell in London. HTML file. Read


By water to the Columbian Exposition, by Johanna Sara Wisthaler. Published: Schenectady, N.Y., E. Knauer, printer, 1894. Detailed narrative of a trip by water on canals and the Great Lakes from Schenectady NY, to Chicago IL, with a description of the Columbian Exposition of 1893. HTML file. Read


Spanish Mission Churches of New Mexico, by L. Bradford Prince. Published: The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1915. HTML file. Read


The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California, by Brevet Col. J. C. Fremont. To Which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California. With Recent Notices of the Gold Region From the Latest and Most Authentic Sources. Published: Buffalo, New York, Geo. H. Derby & Co., 1852. HTML file. Read


Cleveland, Past and Present; Its Representative Men, Comprising Biographical Sketches of Pioneer Settlers and Prominent Citizens, With a History of the City and Historical Sketches of Its Commerce, Manufactures, Ship Building, Railroads, Telegraphy, Schools, Churches, Etc., by Maurice Joblin. Published: Cleveland, Ohio, Fairbanks, Benedict & Co., printers, 1869. HTML file. Read


The Naval War of 1812, or, The History of the United States Navy During the Last War With Great Britain: To Which is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans, by Theodore Roosevelt. Published: 1st edition; New York, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1882, as The Naval War of 1812. This is Roosevelt's 3rd edition which includes a chapter on the Battle of New Orleans and an Appendix E in which he responds to his detractors. Covers 1813-1815 events on the Great Lakes and on the ocean. HTML file. Read


A Tour on the Prairies, by Washington Irving. Published: Philadelphia, Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835. An account of every-day occurrences of an expedition in Oct. and Nov. 1832 through a part of the unorganized Indian country now the state of Oklahoma. HTML file. Read


Introduction to the Study of Mortuary Customs Among the North American Indians; bound with A further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians, by Harry Ccrecy Yarrow. Published: United States Government Printing Office, Washington D.C., 1880; and the United States Bureau of American Ethnology's First annual report, 1881. Explores the various practices, customs, and superstitions in connection with the burial of American Indians. HTML file. Read


The Log-Cabin Lady; An Anonymous Autobiography. Preface by Marie M. Meloney. Published: Boston, Little, Brown, and company, 1922. The story of a woman of great social prominence, distinguished both in the U.S. and abroad. Born in a log cabin in Wisconsin to a family of pioneers in the Northwest, married to one of Boston's wealthy and aristocratic sons. HTML file. Read


Reminiscences of a Ranger, or, Early times in Southern California, by Major Horace Bell. Published: Los Angeles, Yarnell, Caystile & Mathes, printers, 1881. Horace moved to Los Angeles in 1852. After the Civil War he was a lawyer and newspaper editor. The book also covers his time as a Los Angeles Ranger chasing Joaquín Murietta in 1853, a soldier of fortune in Latin America; Los Angeles and area residents under Mexican and American rule, with emphasis on cowboys and criminals and Hispanic Californians and Native Americans. HTML file. Read


Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers, by Elizabeth Ellicott Lea. Published: 3rd Edition. 1st edition: Baltimore, H. Colburn, bookseller, 1845. 5th edition: Baltimore, Cushings and Bailey, 1853. Elizabeth was a Quaker. Besides cooking, she also writes about household items and duties, folk medicine and more. Many interesting recipies including baked pig's head, brain cakes, Irish style spiced beef, oyster pie, Virginia hoe cake, Carolina corn rolls, Irish moss Blancmange. HTML file. Read


A Belle of the Fifties; Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853-66; Put into narrative form by Ada Sterling. Published: New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, September, 1904. Mrs Clay was Virginia Clopton (1825-1915) who narried Clement Claiborne Clay Jr (1816-1882). In addition to the autobiography, the book also has historical accounts of parts of Virginia, Alabama, North Carolina, the Civil war, refugees, prisoners and prisons, and Plantation life. HTML file. Read


Travels in Virginia in Revolutionary Times, by Alfred J. Morrison. Published: Lynchburg, Va., J. P. Bell Company, Inc., about 1922. Told in narratives and letters of the times, 1769 to 1802, by various travellers. HTML file. Read


The Battle of Monterey, September 1846, Mexican-American War. Published: From The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch's Texas Rangers, by Samuel C. Reid, Jr., 1847. HTML file. Read


Commerce of the Prairies: Or the Journal of a Santa Fe Trader, During Eight Expeditions across the Great Western Prairies, and a Residence of Nearly Nine Years in Northern Mexico, by Josiah A. Gregg. Volume II. Published: New York, Henry G. Langley, 1845. Author born in Overton Co., TN, July 19 1806. He travelled the Santa Fe Trail from 1831 to 1839. Includes much history, with detailed sections on prairie life, Indians, and a trip to Mexico. HTML file. Read


Commerce of the Prairies: Or the Journal of a Santa Fe Trader, During Eight Expeditions across the Great Western Prairies, and a Residence of Nearly Nine Years in Northern Mexico, by Josiah A. Gregg. Volume I. Published: New York, Henry G. Langley, 1844. Author born in Overton Co., TN, Jul 19 1806. He travelled the Santa Fe Trail from 1831 to 1839. Includes much history, with detailed sections on New Mexico, Santa Fe, and native Tribes of the area. HTML file. Read


Richmond Revisited by a Federal, 1865-1905, by James Taylor Holmes. Published: Columbus, Ohio, The Berlin Printing Company, 1905. A look back at Richmond, Virginia, since the Civil War. Author was born in 1837. HTML File. Read


Autobiography of Asa Biggs, Including a Journal of a Trip from North Carolina to New York in 1832, by Asa Biggs. Published: Raleigh, Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1915. Asa was born Feb 4 1811 at Williamston, North Carolina. The book was written in early-mid 1865. HTML file. Read


Geologic History of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, by Robert N. Oldale. Published: U. S. Geologic Survey, online text version. HTML file. Read


History of the Donner Party; A Tragedy of the Sierra, by Charles Fayette McGlashan. Published: 2nd Edition, San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft & Co., 1880. HTML file. Read


The Journey of Coronado 1540-1542 from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas, and Nebraska as Told by Himself and His Followers, by George Parker Winship. Published: New York, A. S. Barnes & Company, 1904. Includes Castaenda narrative; other narratives, reports, and letters. HTML file. Read


The Haunted House: A True Ghost Story. Being an account of the Mysterious Manifestations that have taken place in the presence of Esther Cox, The young Girl who is possessed of Devils, and has become known throughout the entire Dominion as The Great Amherst Mystery, by Walter Hubbell. Published: Saint John, N.B., Daily News Steam Publishing Office, 1879. Took place at Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. HTML file. Read


History of Kentucky; North American Review. Published: The North American Review, Volume 35, Issue 76, pages 1-18, July 1832. HTML file. Read


The Sinking of USS Indianapolis: Narrative of the Circumstances of the Loss of USS Indianapolis on July 30 1945. Published: Department of the Navy Press Release, February 23 1946. HTML file. Read


Devastation in Cities of Dead: Nothing Yet Done to Repair the Great Damage in the Cemeteries [after the earthquake]. Published: San Francisco Chronicle, May 6 1906. HTML file. Read


The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire: A Complete and Accurate Account of the Fearful Disaster which Visited the Great City and the Pacific Coast, the Reign of Panic and Lawlessness, the Plight of 300,000 Homeless People and the World-wide Rush to the Rescue; Told by Eye Witnesses; Including Graphic and Reliable Accounts of all Great Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions in the World's History...., edited by Charles Morris. Published: Philadelphia, Chicago, etc., the J. C. Winston Co., about 1906. HTML file. Read


Arizona as it is; Or, The Coming Country: Compiled From Notes of Travel During the Years 1874, 1875, and 1876, by Hiram C. Hodge. Published: New York, Hurd and Houghton; Boston, H. O. Houghton and Company; Cambrige, The Riverside Press; 1877. HTML file. Read


On the Side of the Maids, by Eliza Lynne Linton. On the Side of the Mistresses, by A Suffering Mistress (probably Eliza Lynn Linton). Published: London, The Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 29, No. 171, 1874. Maids is on pages 298-307; Mistresses on pages 459-468. About the social status of maids and mistresses. HTML file. Read


A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison, by Paul Jennings. Published: Brooklyn, George C. Beadle, Bladensburg Series, No. Two, 1865. Paul was a slave of James Madison, He was freed by being sold to Senator Daniel Webster, who made Paul reimburse him. HTML file. Read


Report on the Battle of Little Big Horn, by Major M. A. Reno. Published: Annual Report of the Secretary of War, 1876, 44th Congress, 1st Session, pages 476-480. HTML file. Read


Study of Civil War Sites in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, by David W. Lowe. Published: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1992. Includes phase-by-phase descriptions of 15 battles, and sites and features associated with the battlefields. HTML file. Read


An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, in Religion, Manners, Arts & Tongues, with An Answer to the Objections against this Way of Education, by Bathsua Makin. Published: London, Cheapside, 1673. HTML File. Read


The Colored Cadet at West Point. Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military Academy. Published: New York, Homer Lee & Co., 1878. Henry was born Mar 21 1856 in Georgia, he entered the Academy May 20 1873. Mostly about West Point life. Also includes story of James W. Smith, the first colored cadet appointed to West Point. HTML file. Read


My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington, by Rose O'Neal Greenhow aka Wild Rose. Published: London, Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1863. Rose was born 1817 in Maryland. She was a leader in Washington society, and a renowned Confederate Civil War spy. HTML file. Read


History of the Colony of New Haven to its Absorption into Connecticut, by Edward Elias Atwater. Published: New Haven, Printed for the author, 1881. HTML file. Read


The Little Big Horn Massacre. Published: New York Times, July 1876. HTML File. Read


Butchered in Their Home; first newspaper account of the murder of Lizzie Borden's parents. Published: New York Times, August 5, 1892. HTML file. Read


The Gentlewomans Companion, or, A guide to the female sex: containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age:... with letters & discourses upon all occasions: whereunto is added, a guide for cook-maids, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service.... by Hannah Woolley. Published: London, Printed by A. Maxwell for Edward Thomas, 1675. Expanded sequel to the 1673 edition. HTML file. Read


The Gentlewomans Companion, by Hannah Woolley. Published: Printed by A. Maxwell for Dorman Newman at the King's Arms in the Poultry, 1673. How to be a Lady in 1673 London. HTML file. Read


History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire, From Its Settlement in 1638, to the Autumn of 1892, by Joseph Dow, Edited and Published by his Daughter. Vol. 1 of 2. Published: Salem, Mass., Salem Press Publishing and Printing Co., 1884. HTML file. Read


Military Improvisations During the Russian Campaign, World War II. Published: Washington DC, United States Army, Center of Military History, 1986 Facsimile Edition of August 1951 publication. Prepared by a group of former German generals and general staff officers, from the German point of view. WebRoots version has no page numbers. HTML file. Read


The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Deposition of Brigham Young for John D. Lee's Second Trial, July 30 1875; Last Words of John D. Lee Spoken at his Execution, March 23, 1877. Published: From The Mountain Meadows Massacre by Juanita Brooks, Stanford University Press, 1950. HTML file. Read


A Memorable Murder, by Celia Thaxter. Published: Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 35, May 1875, pages 602-615. About the Smutty-Nose Island, Maine, Ax Murders, March 6 1873. HTML file. Read


Finding the Body of Admiral Paul Jones in Paris. [John Paul Jones] Published: Scientific America, May 1905. HTML file. Read


The Battle of Camden, South Carolina, August 16 1780, by Lieut. Col. H. L. Landers. Published: Washington, United States Government Printing Office, 1929. HTML file. Read


The Pursuit and Capture of Chief Joseph, by Charles Erskine Scott Wood. Published: From Chief Joseph: the biography of a great Indian, by Chester Anders Lee; New York, Wilson-Erickson, incorporated, 1936. HTML file. Read


Henry Hartshorne apology to John Greenleaf Whittier for doubting his soundness and for his words causing him pain. Published: Written in 1882. HTML file. Read


Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, by Alice Morse Earle. Published: Chicago, H. S. Stone & Company, 1896. Bilbos, ducking, stocks, pillory, whipping, author punishment, etc. HTML file. Read


Negro Exodus From the Southern States, Benjamin Singleton testimony before the Senate Select Committee. Published: Testimony given at Washington DC, April 17, 1880. HTML file. Read


How a Kentucky Girl Emancipated Her Slaves, by Lydia Maria Child. Published: The Independent, March 27 1862, pages 6-7. Originally in The New York Tribune. HTML file. Read


My Own Life, Or, a Deserted Wife, by Mrs Ida May (Crumpler) Beard. Published: 2nd Edition, Raleigh, Edwards & Broughton, 1900. Author born Sep 29 1862 Forsyth County, near Salem, North Carolina. HTML file. Read


The Southern Husband Outwitted by His Union Wife, by Mrs. Kate Plake of Kentucky. Published: Philadelphia, Printed for the Authoress, Moore & Brother, about 1868. Author was born 1838. Topics also include women Civil War spies, wife abuse, child custody. HTML file. Read


The Indian Question, by Susette (Bright Eyes) La Flesche. Published: The Christian Union, March 10 1880, pages 222-223. HTML file. Read


Rangers in Colonial and Revolutionary America. Published: United States Army, Center of Military History. HTML file. Read


Ratie: A True Story of a Little Hunchback, by Mattie (Martha) Griffith Browne. Published: National Anti-Slavery Standard, Vol. XXIII, No.32, Dec 20, 1862. HTML file. Read


Geronimo's Story of His Life; as told to Stephen Melvil Barrett. Published: New York, Duffield & Company, 1906. WebRoots.org Edition, Oct 15 2002. HTML File. Read


Lakota Indian Accounts of the Wounded Knee Massacre. Published: Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1891, Vol. 1, pages 179-181. Extracts from report of council held by delegations of Sioux with Commissioner of Indian Affairs at Washington, February 11, 1891. HTML file. Read


An Autobiography, by Angel DeCora aka Hinook-Mahiwi-Kiinaka aka Mrs. William Deitz. Published: The Red Man, March 1911, pages 279-85. Author was born about May 3 1871, in Nebraska. HTML file. Read


Life in Old Virginia; A Description of Virginia More Particularly the Tidewater Section, Narrating Many Incidents Relating to the Manners and Customs of Old Virginia So Fast Disappearing as a Result of the War Between The States, Together With Many Humorous Stories, by James Joseph Mcdonald, Ed. by J. A. C. Chandler. Published: Norfolk, Va., The Old Virginia Publishing Company, Inc., 1907. HTML file. Read


The Evolution of the Constitution of the United States, by Sydney George Fisher. Published: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1897. HTML file. Read


The Emigrants' Guide, to Oregon and California, Containing Scenes and Incidents of a Party of Oregon Emigrants, A Description of Oregon; Scenes and Incidents of a Party of California Emigrants; and A Description of California;.... by Lansford Warren Hastings. Published: Cincinnati, George Conclin, 1845. Includes much history. Hastings promoted the "Hastings Cut-off," supposed to be a short cut to California across the Salt Desert, that the Donner party took. HTML file. Read


The Beginnings of San Francisco From the Expedition of Anza, 1774 to the City Charter of April 15, 1850, With Biographical and Other Notes, by Zoeth Skinner Eldredge. Published: San Francisco, Z. S. Eldredge, 1912. Includes much general California history. HTML file. Read


History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself; With a Supplement by the Editor, to which is added The Narrative of Asa-Asa, A Captured African. Published: London, F. Westley and A. H. Davis, and Waugh & Innes, Edinburgh, 1831. Mary was born about 1788 in Bermuda, she was the first black British woman to escape from slavery. She also describes slave life in Turks Island and Antigua. HTML file. Read


A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince, by Herself. Published: Second Edition, Boston, Published by the Author, 1853. Nancy was born Sep 15 1799 in Newburyport MA. Her mother was a daughter of a slave stolen from Africa who married an American Indian. Includes sections about the British West Indies, and England. HTML file. Read


The Diary of Johann August Sutter, with an Introduction by Douglas S. Watson. Published: San Francisco, The Grabhorn Press, 1932. Sutter was born 1803, in 1834 he left Switzerland for America. The diary starts in 1838 when he left Missouri for California. Gold discovered on his land led to the California gold rush. HTML file. Read


Daughters of Spain; Descendants of the Dons Who Once Owned All Alta California. Published: San Francisco Examiner, Dec 18 1892, page 15. HTML file. Read


Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage To Newfoundland, 1583, by Edward Haies. Published: From Voyages and Travels; Ancient and Modern, With Introductions, Notes and Illustrations, edited by C. W. Ellot; New York, P. F. Collier and son, The Harvard Classics, Vol. 33, 1910. Humphrey was founder of the first English colony in North America, his widow married the father of Sir Walter Raleigh. Edward Haies was his Rear-Admiral. HTML file. Read


Pioneer Recollections; Semi-Historic Side Lights on The Early Days of Lansing [Michigan], by Daniel S. Mevis. Published: Lansing, Michigan, Robert Smith Printing Company, 1911. Author was born in 1837, his family moved to Lansing in 1847. HTML file. Read


Memories Fond to My Heart, by Eliza Ethel Hutchison Nowacki. Published: The original was privately printed, 7 copies known to exist and are accounted for. This WebRoots.org publication is (c) Sep 2002 Robin Bellamy. Author was born Dec 12 1895, Madison Co., Ohio. HTML file. Read


Letters from An American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur, reprinted from the original 1782 edition, with a prefatory note by W. P. Trent and an introduction by Ludwig Lewisohn. Published: New York; Fox, Duffield, 1904. Topics include the area of Natucket, other areas down to Virginia, and slavery. HTML file. Read


"Three Score Years and Ten," Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West, by Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve. Published: Printing House, Harrison & Smith, Minneapolis, Minn., 1888. HTML file. Read


A Letter to Grover Cleveland on his False Inaugural Address, the Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude of the People, by Lysander Spooner. Published: Boston, Benj. R. Tucker, Publisher, 1886. HTML file. Read


George Fox, an Autobiography, edited by Rufus M. Jones. Published: Philadelphia, Ferris & Leach, 1903. George was founder of the Quaker movement. This book is an abridged version of his Journal of George Fox. HTML file. Read


The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld, by Herbert Asbury. Published: New York, A. A. Knopf, 1933. HTML file. Read


Joseph Smith the Originator of Mormonism: Historical Reminiscences of the Town of Afton [New Jersey], by W. D. Purple. Published: Chenango Union, Norwich, N. Y., Vol. 30, No. 33, May 2 1877. HTML file. Read


Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. Compiled Originally by Captain Grose; and now Considerably Altered and Enlarged with the Modern Changes and Improvements, by a Member of the Whip Club; Assisted by Hell-Fire Dick, and James Gordon, Esqrs. of Cambridge, and William Soames, Esq. of the Hon. Society of Newman's Hotel. Published: London, Printed for C. Chappel, 1811. Original title was Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. HTML file. Read


Terry's Texas Rangers, by Kate Scurry Terrell. Published: From A Comprehensive History of Texas Vol. 2, Edited by Dudley G. Wooten; Dallas, William G. Scarff, 1898. HTML file. Read


A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery, by Moses Roper. Published: Philadelphia, Merrihew & Gunn, Printers, 1838. Moses was born in Caswell county, North Carolina, about 1815. HTML file. Read


New Netherlands (Manhattan, Long Island, New York) in 1644, by Rev. Isaac Jogues, S.J. Published: Written at Three Rivers in New France, August 3 1646. HTML file. Read


Ralph and Mary Hall Trial for Witchcraft; and Katherine Harrison Complaint. Published: Various sources, 1665-1670. HTML file. Read


An Exhortation & Caution to Friends Concerning Buying or Keeping of Negroes, by George Keith, August 13 1693. Published: The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Philadelphia, n.p., 1889. Believed to be the first printed protest against slavery in America. HTML file. Read


The Death of President George Washington. Published: From the Diary of Col. Lear, 1799; Statement of Jas. Craik, 1800; The Virginia Herald, December 31 1799. HTML file. Read


35 Of The FBI's Most Famous Closed Cases, from the Office of Public and Congressional Affairs. Published: WebRoots.org August 31 2002, (c) Aug 2002 WebRoots Inc. HTML file. Read


Roswell, New Mexico, Flying Disc Teletype, by the FBI in Dallas. Published: Sent to Director and SAC, Cincinnati, July 8 1947. Censored HTML file. Read


History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia, and Representative Citizens, by Gibson Lamb Cranmer. Published: Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1902. Has about 450 pages of pioneer family sketches. HTML file. Read


The Mayflower and Her Log, July 15 1620-May 6 1621, by Azel Ames. Published: Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901. Includes The Speedwell's Log, MayFlower's consort; history of the Mayflower itself, crew and passengers, life aboard the ship, a journal while she lay in Plymouth Harbor. HTML file. Read


The Passing of the Frontier, A Chronicle of the Old West, by Emerson Hough. Published: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1918. Volume 26 of The Chronicles of America series. HTML file. Read


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