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The Red Man's Continent, A Chronicle of Aboriginal America, by Ellsworth Huntington. Published: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1919. HTML file. Read


Kansas Women in Literature, by Nettie Garmer Barker. Published: Kansas City, Kans, S. I. Meseraull & Son, printers, abt 1915. HTML file. Read


The Famous Missions of California, by William Henry Hudson. Published: London, England, 1901. HTML file. Read


Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery, A Narrative by Filson Young. Published: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1906. HTML file. Read


Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains, by Charles Alexander Eastman (aka Ohiyesa). Published: Boston; Little, Brown and Company, 1918. HTML file. Read


Indian Boyhood, by Charles Alexander Eastman (aka Ohiyesa). Published: New York; McClure, Phillips & Co., 1902. HTML file. Read


The Story of Mormonism and The Philosophy of Mormonism, by James Edward Talmage. Published: Salt Lake City, Utah, 1914. HTML file. Read


The Voyage of Verrazzano; A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America, by Henry Cruse Murphy. Published: New York, 1875. HTML file. Read


A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, by Mary Wollstonecraft. Published: 2nd Edition, London, J. Johnson, 1792. Author is mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, Frankenstein author. HTML file. Read


The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Published: Adopted in a convention held at the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Seneca Falls, Jul 19-20 1848. Demands the rights of women as individuals be acknowledged and respectd by society; signed by sixty-eight women and thirty-two men. HTML file. Read


History of Western North Carolina; a History (1730-1913) by John Preston Arthur. Published: Edward Buncombe Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, of Asheville, N.C.; at Raleigh, N.C., Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, 1914. Some notes are currently not available. HTML file. Read


The Rhode Island Cavaliers, by L. Nelson Nichols. Published: The Journal of American History, 1913. HTML file. Read


Memoirs of Daniel W. Cunningham: The Criminal History of Roane and Jackson Counties, West Virginia. Published: Typed copy made from manuscript at Charleston, West Virginia, Feb 24 1929. HTML file. Read


The Battles About Atlanta, by O. O. Howard. Published: The Atlantic Monthly, Oct-Nov 1876. Note: About the Civil War. HTML file. Read


Official History of the 120th Infantry "3rd North Carolina" 30th Division, From August 5, 1917, to April 17, 1919; Canal Sector, Ypres-Lys Offensive, Somme Offensive, by Major John O. Walker, Major William A. Graham, Captain Thomas Fauntleroy. Published: Lynchburg, Va., J. P. Bell Company, 1919. HTML file. Read


Sergeant Hallyburton, the First American Soldier Captured in the World War, by Charles W. Hyams. Published: Moravian Falls, N. C., Dixie Publishing Company, 1923. Note: Hallyburton served in the U.S. Army, 16th Inf. Reg., Co. F, WWI. HTML file. Read


History of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Published: Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2001. HTML file. Read


A Soldier's Story: Prison Life and Other Incidents in the War of 1861-'65, by Miles O. Sherrill. Published: North Carolina, Newton Enterprise [1904?]. Note: Author served in CSA, North Carolina 12th Inf. Regt., Co. A. HTML file. Read


The Confessions of Nat Turner, The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, VA; Also, an Authentic Account of the Whole Insurrection, With Lists of the Whites Who Were Murdered, and of the Negroes Brought Before the Court of Southhampton, And There Sentenced, &c., by Thomas R. Gray. Published: Baltimore, by Thomas R. Gray, Lucas & Deaver Printers, 1831. HTML file. Read


The Office of Strategic Services: America's First Intelligence Agency. Published: United States Central Intelligence Agency, 2000. HTML file. Read


The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. Embracing an Account of His Early Life, the Redemption by Purchase of Himself and Family from Slavery, and His Banishment from the Place of His Birth for the Crime of Wearing a Colored Skin, by Lunsford Lane. Published: Boston, Printed for the Publisher, 1842, 2nd Edition. Note: Author was born May 30 1803, Raleigh, North Carolina. HTML file. Read


The Battle with the Slum, by Jacob A. Riis. Published: New York, Macmillan Company, 1902. Note: Sequel to How the Other Half Lives, both are about living conditions in Lower East Side of turn-of-the-century New York City. HTML file. Read


The Hatfield-McCoy War; A Tale of Horror and Outrages Rarely Equaled. Published: The Daily State Journal; Parkersburg, West Virginia; Wednesday Evening, February 1 1888. HTML file. Read


History of Nebraska; From the Earliest Explorations of the Trans-Mississippi Region, by J. Sterling Morton and Albert Watkins. Published: Western Publishing and Engraving Company, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1918. HTML file. Read


Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence During the Civil War, by P. K. Rose. Published: United States of America Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Directorate of Operations, Clandestine Service. Originally appeared in the Winter 1998-1999 edition of Studies in Intelligence, a journal of CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence. HTML file. Read


Intelligence in the War of Independence. Published: United States of America Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). HTML file. Read


Studying the Condition of Affairs in Indian Territory and California: A Report by Prof. Charles Cornelius Coffin Painter, Agent of the Indian Rights Association. Published: Philadelphia, Indian Rights Association, 1888. Covers the Seger Colony, Anadarko, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Comanche, Iowa, Ponca, and Wichita in Indian Territory; Agua Caliente, Captain Grande, Cohuilla, Mesa Grande, San Jacinto and San Ysabel in Califonia. HTML file. Read


Slavery Era Insurance Registry; A Database of Slaveholders in the States of AL, AR, GA, KY, LA, MO, MS, NC, SC, VA, and Washington DC, Who Insured Slaves As Property, With Insurance Companies Licensed to do Business in California During the Slave Era. Published: WebRoots.org (c) March 13 2002. Includes slaveholder and insurance company names; and where known has place of residence, slave name and occupation and death date, and policy number. Data supplied by the California Department of Insurance. 200k Text file. Read


The Discipline of Friends, Revised and Approved by the Yearly Meeting, Held at New-Garden, in Guilford County, North-Carolina, from the 4th to the 7th of the 11th Month, Inclusive, 1822. Published: Hillsborough, Printed by Dennis Heartt, 1823. HTML file. Read


California All the Way Back to 1828, by Michael Claringbud White, written by Thomas Savage for the Hubert Howe Bancroft Library, 1877. Published: 300 copies, Westernlore Press, Los Angeles, G. Dawson, 1956. Michael was born 1801 in England, came to Southern California in 1817, became known as Miguel Blanco, was a pioneer settler on Catalina Island, finally settled on a ranch near Mission San Gabriel. HTML file. Read


An Account of the July 3 1778 Pennsylvania "Wyoming Valley Massacre". Published: The Boston Gazette and Country Journal [newspaper] Aug 3 1778. HTML file. Read


General Benedict Arnold's Account of the Beginning of the Revolutionary War; His Report to Sir Henry Clinton, Commander in Chief of British Forces in America, Sep 8 1781. Published: England, Gentleman's Magazine, November 1781. HTML file. Read


Newspaper Account of the Revolutionary War Beginning. Published: 1781, New London, The Connecticut Gazette and the Universal Intelligencer; Sep 10, Sep 14, Sep 21, Oct 12. HTML file. Read


The Country Housewife's Family Companion: Or Profitable Directions For Whatever Relates to the Management and Good Economy of the Domestik Concerns of a Country Life, According to the Present Practice of the Country Gentleman's, The Yoeman's, The Farmer's, &Ampc. Wives, in the Counties of Hertford, Bucks, and Other Parts of England,.... by William Ellis. Published: London, Printed for James Hodges, London and B. Collins, Salisbury, 1750. HTML file. Read


The Virginia Campaign and the Blockade and Siege of Yorktown 1781: Including a Brief Narrative of the French Participation in the Revolution Prior to the Southern Campaign, by Colonel H. L. Landers. Published: United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1931. HTML file. Read


Address by Chief Justice Walter Clark Before the Federation of Women's Clubs, New Bern, N. C., 8 May, 1913: The Legal Status of Women in North Carolina: Past, Present, and Prospective. Published: 1913. HTML file. Read


Wau-bun, the Early Day in the Northwest, by Mrs. John H. Kinzie (Juliette Augusta Magill). Published: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1873. Takes place in the early 1830s when "the Northwest" was IL/MI/WI/MN. Author, married in Virginia, was mother of 1st white child born in the city of Chicago, IL. Has many Indian, military, and historical accounts of events of the area. HTML file. Read


The Quimby Manuscripts: Showing the Discovery of Spiritual Healing and the Origin of Christian Science, Edited by Horatio W. Dresser. Published: 2nd Edition, New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1921. HTML file. Read


The Old Confederate's Story, by Robert C. Carden. Published: The Independent [newspaper], Boone, Iowa, Apr 5-Aug 12 1912. Served in the CSA, Co. B, 16th Tennessee Infantry. HTML file. Read


A Frenchman in Virginia; Being the Memoirs of a Huguenot Refugee in 1686, Translated by a Virginian, by Fairfax Harrison. Published: Originally in 1687: Privately Printed, Richmond, Virginia, 1923. He also went into Maryland. HTML file. Read


The Life and Diary of John Floyd, Governor of Virginia, an Apostle of Secession and the Father of the Oregon Country, by Charles H. Ambler. Published: Richmond, Richmond Press, 1918. The Diary part covers March 1831 to February 1834. HTML file. Read


The Summer of Pestilence: A History of Ravages of the Yellow Fever in Norfolk Virginia, A. D. 1855, by George D. Armstrong, D.D. Published: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1856. Told in a series of letters as the events occured. HTML file. Read


The Curious Adventures, Painful Experience, and Laughable Difficulties of a Man Of Letters, While Traveling as a Peddler in the South During the Late Harper's Ferry Excitement, Written by Himself (John Gilbert). Published: Baltimore, New York and St. Louis, John Gilbert & Co., 1860. HTML file. Read


Calamity at Richmond, being a narrative of the affecting circumstances attending the awful conflagration of the theatre in the city of Richmond, on the night of Thursday, the 26th of December, 1811, by John F. Watson. Published: Philadelphia, John F. Watson, 1812. The book was apparently never finished. HTML file. Read


A Discourse Occasioned by the Burning of the Theatre in the City of Richmond, Virginia, on the Twenty-sixth of December, 1811, by Archibald Alexander. Published: Philadelphia, Printed by John Weldwood Scott, 1812. HTML file. Read


Chief Flying Hawk's Tales: The True Story of Custer's Last Fight as Told by Chief Flying Hawk to M. I. McCreight (Tchanta Tanka). Published: New York, Alliance Press, 1936. HTML file. Read


A Relic of the Revolution: Containing a Full and Particular Account of the Sufferings and Privations of All The American Prisoners Captured on The High Seas, And Carried Into Plymouth, England, During The Revolution of 1776, by Charles Herbert. Published: Boston, Charles H. Peirce, 1847. Has names of ships and prisoners. Journal covers Nov 1776-Aug 1780. HTML file. Read


A Brief History of Macon County, North Carolina, by Rev. C.D. Smith. Published: 1891: May 25 2002 WebRoots, Inc., (c) May 2002 Teresita Press. Includes The Topography of Macon County, by W.A. Curtis, published in The Franklin Press 1905 edition of Brief History. Donated to the WebRoots.org Library by Teresita Press. HTML file. Read


Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes, by Jane Addams. Published: New York, The Macmillan Company, 1912. Hull-House was the first Social Settlement in Chicago, IL. HTML file. Read


The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets, by Jane Addams. Published: New York, The Macmillan Company, 1909. Jane founded the Social Settlement of Hull-House in Chicago in 1889. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. HTML file. Read


Surprising Accounts of the Revival of Religion in the United States of America, in Different Parts of the World, and Among Different Denominations of Christians, With a Number of Interesting Occurrences of Divine Providence, by William W. Woodward. Published: William W. Woodward, 1802. HTML file. Read


The Resources of North Carolina: Its Natural Wealth, Condition, and Advantages, as Existing in 1869, by Bannister, Cowan & Company. Published: Wilmington, N. C.; Bannister, Cowan; 1869. HTML file. Read


The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors, by Ralph Delahaye Paine. Published: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1919. HTML file. Read


A la California: Sketches of Life in the Golden State, by Col. Albert S. Evans. Published: San Francisco, A.L. Bancroft & Company, 1873. HTML file. Read


Anti-Slavery Leaders of North Carolina, by John Spencer Bassett, edited by Herbert B. Adams. Published: Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, June 1898. HTML file. Read


The Discovery of Gold in California, by Gen. John A. Sutter. Published: Hutchings' California Magazine, November 1857. HTML file. Read


Canoeing in the Dismal Swamp, by John Boyle O'Reilly. Published: Boston, Pilot Publishing Company; Athletics and Manly Sport, 1890, pages 350-452. Historical account of the Swamp. HTML file. Read


The Battle of Little Bighorn; An Eyewitness Account by the Lakota Chief Red Horse recorded in pictographs and text at the Cheyenne River Reservation, 1881. Published: Garrick Mallery, Picture Writing of the American Indians, 10th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1893. HTML file. Read


The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina; Their Origin and Racial Status; A Plea for Separate Schools, by George Edwin Butler. Published: Durham, N.C., Seeman Printery, 1916. Has some genealogies. HTML file. Read


Journal of a Tour to North Carolina, by William Attmore, 1787, edited by Lida Tunstall Rodman. Published: Chapel Hill [NC], Published by the University, 1922. HTML file. Read


The Story of the Wilmington, N.C., Race Riots, by Col. Alfred M. Waddell, Leader of the Reform Movement and now Revolutionary Mayor of Wilmington. Published: Collier's Weekly, Nov. 26, 1898. HTML file. Read


Hanover; or, The Persecution of the Lowly. Story of the Wilmington Massacre [North Carolina], by Jack Thorne (really David Bryant Fulton). Published: M. C. L. Hill, 1901. HTML file. Read


A Statement of Facts Concerning the Bloody Riot in Wilmington, N.C. Of Interest to Every Citizen of the United States, by Rev. J. Allen Kirk. Published: probably Wilmington, NC, 1898. HTML file. Read


A Campaign in New Mexico With Colonel Doniphan, by Frank S. Edwards. Published: Philadelphia, Care and Hart, 1847. Battles of Bracito and Sacramento; includes lots of early-Texas and area history. HTML file. Read


The Cook's Decameron; A Study in Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes, by Mrs. W. G. Water. Published: London, W. Heinemann, 1901. Diary, ten days in the life of Marchesa di Sant'Andrea and her meals. HTML file. Read


The Book of the Fair; An Historical and Descriptive Presentation of the World's Science, Art, and Industry, As Viewed Through the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893, by Hubert Howe Bancroft. 992 pages. Published: Chicago and San Francisco, The Bancroft Co., 1893; Edition Cygne Noir, Copy No. 1 of 150. Includes history of this fair and fairs of the past, historical sketch of Chicago, the California Midwinter International Exposition. HTML file. Read


The Twin Hells; A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and Missouri Penitentiaries, by John N. Reynolds. Published: Atchison, Kansas, The Bee Publishing Co., about 1890. Includes many male and female convict-biographries. HTML file. Read


The Four Epochs of Woman's Life, by Anna M. Galbraith. Published: 2nd Edition, Philadelphia and London, W. B. Saunders Co., 1915. HTML file. Read


The Education of the Child, by Ellen Key. Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York-London, 1909. HTML file. Read


The Problem of the Ohio Mounds, by Cyrus Thomas. Published: Government Printing Office, Washington, 1880. Indian mounds. HTML file. Read


Domestic Medicine; or, the Family Physician, by Dr. William Buchan. Published: 2nd Edition, London; Balfour, Auld and Smellie, 1785. The first home medical book. Fifty-five chapters of causes, symptoms, regimen, medicine, surgery. Includes chapter left out of 1769 1st Edition. HTML file. Read


Military Journal, During the American Revolutionary War from 1776 to 1783; Describing the Events and Transactions of this Period: With Numerous Historical Facts and Anecdotes; To Which Is Added, An Appendix, Containing Biographical Sketches of Several General Officers, by James Thacher, M.D. Published: Boston, Richardston & Lord, 1823. James was a surgeon in the Massachusetts regiment. HTML file. Read


Luzena Stanley Wilson, '49er; memories recalled years later for her daughter Correnah Wilson Wright. Published: 500 copies, Mills College, Calif., The Eucalyptus Press, 1937. Luzena born about 1821 moved from Missouri to California in 1849. HTML file. Read


The Conquest of the Old Southwest: The Romantic Story of the Early Pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790, by Archibald Henderson. Published: New York, The Century Co., 1920. HTML file. Read


The Testimony of a Refugee from East Tennessee, by Hermann Bokum. Published: Philadelphia, Printed for gratuitous distribution, 1863. Author fled the South during the Civil War. HTML file. Read


The Journey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536, from his own 1542 narrative translated by Fanny Bandelier. Published: New York, A.S. Barnes & Company, 1905. HTML file. Read


Illinois Servitude and Emancipation Records, 1722–1863; An Index Compiled from the Illinois State Archives. Published: May 5 2002, WebRoots.org. Covers Gallatin, Randolph, St. Clair, Edwards, & Pope counties. 277k plain HTML file. Read


Elijah T. Estes WPA Interview, November 28 1938, Oregon. His ancestors: Jacob Shearer and wife Sophia, emigrated from Germany to America in 1740 and settled in a portion of North Carolina known at that time as Guilford County; John Tate and his wife Elizabeth emigrated from Scotland. HTML file. Read


Texas Freedom Documents: Declaration of the People of Texas, November 7, 1835; Address of the Honorable S. F. Austin, Delivered at Louisville, Kentucky, March 7, 1836, includes the Decree of October 3, 1835; Texas Declaration of Independence, March 2, 1836. HTML file. Read


The Letters and Journals of Narcissa Whitman. Published: Written 1836-1847. Narcissa and companion Eliza Spaulding were the first white women to travel the Oregon Trail. Narcissa was killed in the Whitman Massacre. HTML file. Read


Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction, Compiled and Edited by Hallie Q. Brown. Published: Aldine Publishing Company, Xenia, Ohio, 1926. HTML file. Read


Fairfax County Resolves, [Virginia] by George Washington and George Mason. Published: Written July 17 1774, Mount Vernon. Adopted July 18, 1774, by a Fairfax County convention chaired by George Washington. HTML file. Read


To Nebraska in '57; A Diary of Erastus F. Beadle. Published: The New York Public Library, 1923. The author was born 1821 in New York, the journey was from Buffalo. HTML file. Read


The Valley Campaigns; Being the Reminiscences of a Non-Combatant While Between the Lines in the Shenandoah Valley During the War of the States, by Thomas Almond Ashby. Published: New York, The Neale Publishing Company, 1914. HTML file. Read


Thirty-Six Years in the White House, by Thomas F. Pendel, Door-keeper; Lincoln-Roosevelt. Published: Washington DC, The Neale Publishing Company, 1902. HTML file. Read


The Hessians and the Other German Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War, by Edward J. Lowell. Published: New York, Harper and Brothers, 1884. HTML file. Read


Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian War of 1851, which led to that event, by Lafayette Houghton Bunnell. Published: 3rd Edition, New York, Chicago, F. H. Revell Company, about 1892. Author was part of the Mariposa Battalion that discovered Yosemite in 1851, he named it. HTML file. Read


Morals and Marriage; The Catholic Background to Sex, by T. G. Wayne. Published: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936. HTML file. Read


History of Southern Montana, by Al Noyes. Published: State Publishing Co, Helena, MT, 1915. HTML file. Read


Our National Parks, by John Muir. Published: Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901. John teaches to respect and conserve nature. HTML file. Read


Belle Boyd, In Camp and Prison, by Belle Boyd. Volume II of II. Published: London; Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1865. Born 1844, Martinsburg, Virginia, at 16 she took up the cause of the C.S.A. during the Civil War, and became the famous La Belle Rebelle. HTML file. Read


Belle Boyd, In Camp and Prison, by Belle Boyd. Volume I of II. Published: London; Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1865. Born 1844, Martinsburg, Virginia, at 16 she took up the cause of the C.S.A. during the Civil War, and became the famous La Belle Rebelle. HTML file. Read


The Rocks of Deer Creek, Harford County, Maryland; Their Legends and History, by Thomas Turner Wysong. Published: Baltimore, Printed by A. J. Conlon, 1880. HTML file. Read


A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains [in 1873], by Isabella L. Bird. Published: G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1881. HTML file. Read


A Naval History of the American Revolution, by Gardner Weld Allen. Published: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Boston and New York, 1913. HTML file. Read


The 11 o'clock Ride of Paul Revere, by Paul Revere. Published: 1775 signed statement of the facts. HTML file. Read


Vivisection in America, by Frances Power Cobbe. Published: 4th Edition; Swan, Sonnenschein and Co.; London, 1890. HTML file. Read


The Travels of Captaine John Smith in Two Volumes: The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & The Summer Isles [published 1624]; Together with The True Travels, Adventures and Observations [published 1630], and A Sea Grammar [published 1627], by Captain John Smith. Published: Glasgow, James MacLehose and Sons, Publishers to the University; New York, The Macmillan Company; 1907. Volume II. HTML file. Read


The Travels of Captaine John Smith in Two Volumes: The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & The Summer Isles [published 1624]; Together with The True Travels, Adventures and Observations [published 1630], and A Sea Grammar [published 1627], by Captain John Smith. Published: Glasgow, James MacLehose and Sons, Publishers to the University; New York, The Macmillan Company; 1907. Volume I. HTML file. Read


The Anthology of Zion Methodism with an Appendix, by W. H. [William Henry] Davenport. Published: Charlotte, N. C.; A. M. E. Zion Publishing House, 1925. HTML file. Read


The History of the First Locomotives in America; From Original Documents and the Testimony of Living Witnesses, by William H. Brown. Published: New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1871. HTML file. Read


Etiquette of Social Life in Washington [D.C.], by Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren. Published: 5th Edition, Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1881. HTML file. Read


Autobiography of James L. Smith, Including, Also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus, Etc., by James Lindsay Smith. Published: Norwich, Ct., Press of the Bulletin Co., 1881. Author born in Northumberland County, Virginia. HTML file. Read


Diary of William Becknell: Journal of two expeditions from Boon's Lick to Santa Fe. Published: Missouri Intelligencer and Boon's Lick Advertiser [newspaper], April 22, 1823, page 2. HTML file. Read


Ranch and Mission Days in Alta California, by Guadalupe Vallejo. Published: The Century Magazine, December, 1890. HTML file. Read


Life in California Before the Gold Discovery, by John Bidwell (Pioneer of '41). Published: The Century Magazine, December, 1890. HTML file. Read


Pioneers Who Traveled Old Santa Fe Trail. Published: Las Vegas Daily Optic [newspaper], July 30, 1910. List of 427 people and their home-towns. HTML file. Read


Two Short Biographries of Father Junipero Serra, founder of the California Missions in the 1770s. Published: Alta California [newspaper], October 31 1862, Biography of Junipero Serra. Published: The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIII, Robert Appleton Company, 1912, Junipero Serra. HTML file. Read


Diary of the War for Separation, a Daily Chronicle of the Principal Events and History of the Present Revolution, to Which is Added Notes and Descriptions of All the Great Battles, Including Walker's Narrative of the Battle of Shiloh, by H. C. Clarke, of Vicksburg, Miss. Published: Augusta, Ga.; Steam Press of Chronicle & Sentinel, 1862. HTML file. Read


Some Real American Ghosts, edited by Joseph Lewis French. Published: The Modern Library, New York, 1919. Collection of 14 newspaper articles from the late 1800s. HTML file. Read


Anecdotes and Memoirs of William Boen, a Coloured Man, Who Lived and Died Near Mount Holly, New Jersey. To which is Added, The Testimony of Friends of Mount Holly Monthly Meeting Concerning Him. Published: Philadelphia, Printed by John Richards, 1834. HTML file. Read


The Indian War of 1864: Being a Fragment of the Early History of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming, by Eugene Ware. Published: Crane & Co., Topeka, Kans., 1911. Also has a lot of Native American, area, and Civil War history. HTML file. Read


McNeil's Travels in 1849, to, Through and From the Gold Regions, in California, by Samuel McNeil, a shoemaker [of Lancaster, Ohio]. Published: Columbus, Scott & Bascom, Printers, 1850. HTML file. Read


Oregon, or A Short History of a Long Journey from the Atlantic Ocean to the Region of the Pacific by Land, drawn up from the Notes and Oral Information of John B. Wyeth, One of the Party who left Mr Nathaniel J Wyeth, July 28th, 1832..., by Benjamin Waterhouse. Published: Cambridge, Massachussetts, 1833. HTML file. Read


Across the Plains in 1844, by Catherine Sager Pringle. Published: about 1860. The journey was from Missouri to Oregon. HTML file. Read


The History of the Telephone, by Herbert N Casson. Published: 1st Edition, A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1910. HTML file. Read


History of the Conflict between Religion and Science, by John William Draper. Published: New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1897; (c) 1874. HTML file. Read


Robert Fulton: His Life and its Results, by Robert H. Thurston. Published: New York; Dodd, Mead, and Company Publishers, 1891. HTML file. Read


Biography of Rev. John Collins born 1769 New Jersey, by John Emmitt. Published: April 2002 WebRoots.org, donated to WebRoots Library by the author, no copyright. HTML file. Read


Pioneer Notes from the Diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes, edited by Marjorie Tisdale Wolcott. Published: Los Angeles, Privately Printed, 1929. Born Baltimore, Maryland, 1815; moved to California in 1850; was 1st Judge of the Southern District of California, which included Los Angeles and San Diego counties. HTML file. Read


Wyatt Earp Tells Tales of the Shotgun-Messenger Service, by Wyatt Earp. Published: San Francisco Examiner, California, August 9, 1896. HTML file. Read


General Directions for Collecting and Drying Medicinal Substances of the Vegetable Kingdom: List and Description of Indigenous Plants, etc.; their Medicinal Properties; Forms of Administration, and Doses. Published: Confederate States of America Surgeon General's Office, 1862. HTML file. Read


A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa: But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, by Venture Smith. Published: New-London [Connecticut], Printed by C. Holt, at the Bee-Office, 1798. HTML file. Read


From the Hub to the Hudson: With Sketches of Nature, History and Industry in Northwestern Massachussetts, by Washington Gladden. Published: Boston, New England News Co., 1869. HTML file. Read


The Story of Stupidity: A history of western idiocy from the days of Greece to the moment you logged on, by James F. Welles, Ph.D. Published: Mt. Pleasant Press, 1988. Copyright 1988, donated to the WebRoots.org Library by the author. HTML file. Read


Miracle Mongers and Their Methods, by Harry Houdini. Published: 2nd Printing, E. P. Dutton and Co., New York, 1929; (c) 1920. HTML file. Read


The Lenape Stone: Or The Indian and The Mammoth, by H.C. Mercer. Published: New York & London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1885. A carved stone representing Indians fighting the Hairy Mammoth, found in 1872 Bucks County, Pennsylvania. HTML file. Read


The Adventures of a Conscript, by W. H. Younce. Published: Editor Publishing Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, 1889. Served in: 58th North Carolina Inf.; Virginia State Line's Artillery Battalion which became Co. K, 21st Virginia Cavalry; and the Federal army. HTML file. Read


Dodge: A Story of the Old Hell-raising Trail's End Where the Colt Was King [Dodge City, Kansas], by William MacLeod Raine. Published: about 1925. HTML file. Read


View of the Hebrews: Or The Tribes of Israel in America, by Ethan Smith. Published: Second Edition, Smith & Shute, Poultney, (Vt.), 1825. The book has a lot of Native American history. HTML file. Read


Seven Wives and Seven Prisons: Or Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Maniac, by Himself. Published: New York, by the Author, 1870. Even the table of contents is entertaining. HTML file. Read


New Orleans Superstitions, by Lafcadio Hearn. Published: Harper's Weekly, December 25, 1886. HTML file. Read


The Last of the Voudoos, by Lafcadio Hearn. Published: Harper's Weekly, November 7, 1885. About Jean Montanet who died August 1885 in New Orleans. HTML file. Read


A Woman's War Record, 1861-1865, by Septima Maria Levy Collis. Published: New York And London; G. P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker Press; 1889. Husband served with U.S. Army, 114th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment. HTML file. Read


Eruptions of Hawaiian Volcanoes: Past, Present, and Future, by Robert I. Tilling, Christina Heliker, and Thomas L. Wright. Published: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1987. HTML file. Read


Eruptions of Mount St. Helens: Past, Present, and Future, by Robert I. Tilling, Lyn Topinka, and Donald A. Swanson. Published: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1990. HTML file. Read


Woodward's Reminiscenses; A Personal Account of the Creek Nation in Georgia and Alabama, by General Thomas S. Woodward, edited by J. J. Hooper. Published: Montgomery, Ala.; Barrett & Wimbish, 1859. Early history and pioneers of Alabama, and some Georgia, told in letters from May 1857 to December 1858. Author born 1794-1797. HTML file. Read


The Negro in the Regular Army, by Oswald Garrison Villard. Published: Boston, Atlantic Monthly #91, 1903, pages 721-729. HTML file. Read


The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional, by Rev. Charles Chiniquy. Published: Chicago; A. Craig & Co., Publishers, 1880. HTML file. Read


A Woman's Wartime Journal: an Account of the Passage over Georgia's Plantation of Sherman's Army on the March to the Sea, as Recorded in the Diary of Dolly Sumner Lunt (Mrs. Thomas Burge). Published: New York, The Century Co., 1918. HTML file. Read


Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America, Written in Boston, State of Massachusetts, September 28, 1829, by David Walker. Published: Boston, Revised Edition, 1830. HTML file. Read


A Virginia Girl in the First Year of the War, by C. C. Harrison. Published: Century Magazine #30, August 1885, pages 606-614. HTML file. Read


The Adventures of a Forty-Niner. An Historic Description of California, With Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days, by Daniel Knower. Published: Albany, Weed-Parsons Printing Co., 1894. HTML file. Read


The Young Housewife's Counsellor and Friend: Containing Directions in Every Department of Housekeeping. Including the Duties of Wife and Mother, by Mary Ann Bryan Mason. Published: New York; E. J. Hale & Son, 1875. Cover says Mrs. Mason's [New] Cookery and more than 1/2 of the book is Recipes. HTML file. Read


The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736 by William Byrd, and Now First Published, edited by Edmund Ruffin. Published: Petersburg, Printed by Edmund and Julian C. Ruffin, 1841. HTML file. Read


A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865: Being a Record of the Actual Experiences of the Wife of a Confederate Officer, by Myrta Lockett Avary. Published: New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1903. HTML file. Read


Great Auction Sale of Slaves, at Savannah, Georgia, March 2d & 3d, 1859, by Q. K. Philander Doesticks. Published: 1863 edition. Details of the slaves, buyers, and how the sale works. HTML file. Read


The Great Chicago Fire, Board of Police and Fire Commissioners' Report. Published: 1871. HTML file. Read


The Great Chicago Fire, letter from William Gallagher to his sister. Published: Written October 17 1871. HTML file. Read


The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon, Formerly A Hunter; Containing a Narrative of the Wars of Kentucky, by Daniel Boon. Published: George Imlay, 1793. Covers a period from May 1769 to October 1782. HTML file. Read


Memoir on The Dangers and Defences of New York City, by James Morton. Published: Washington; William A. Harris, 1858. HTML file. Read


Journal of a Fur-Trading Expedition on the Upper Missouri, 1812-1813, by John C. Luttig. Published: St. Louis, Missouri Historical Society, 1920. HTML file. Read


The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation, Written by Herself. Published: Revised Edition; Topeka, F.M. Steves & Sons, 1905. HTML file. Read


Reminiscences of The War of The Rebellion, by Lorenzo D. Barnhart. Served as a Private in Co. B, 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. HTML file. Read


Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard; a native of Clearfield County, Pa., who spent five years in trapping for furs, trading with the Indians, &c., &c., of the Rocky Mountains; written by himself. Published: 1st Edition; Clearfield, Pa.; D.W. Moore, 1839. HTML file. Read


The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, by Fannie Merritt Farmer. Published: Boston; Little, Brown, and Company, 1918. The last Fannie Farmer cookbook she wrote by herself. HTML file. Read


Description of a visit to Washington [D.C.], by Lucy Kenney. Published: 1835. HTML file. Read


Records of a California Family; Journals and Letters of Lewis C. Gunn and Elizabeth Le Breton Gunn, Edited by Anna Lee Marston. Published: San Diego, Calif., 1928. Includes genealogy. HTML file. Read


The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby, by John Singleton Mosby. Published: Boston; Little, Brown, and Company, 1917. Served in CSA Army, Virginia Cavalry, 43rd Battalion. HTML file. Read


An Exact and Authentic Narrative, of the Events Which Took Place in Baltimore, on the 27th and 28th of July Last; Carefully Collected From Some of the Sufferers and Eye-Witnesses, by John Thomson. Published: Printed For The Purchasers, September 1, 1812. June 22 1812, the office and printing press of the Federal Republican was demolished by a mob in Baltimore. This narrative is about the following massacre in the jail at the City of Baltimore and the events connected with it. HTML file. Read


Harriet Starr Cannon, First Mother Superior of the Sisterhood of St. Mary; A Brief Memoir, by Morgan Dix. Published: New York; Longmans, Green, and Co., London and Bombay, 1896. HTML file. Read


Early Days at the Mission San Juan Bautista; A Narrative of Incidents Connected with the Days when California was Young, by Issac L. Mylar. Published: Watsonville, Calif., the Evening Pajaronian, 1929. HTML file. Read


Female Ministry; or, Woman's Right to Preach the Gospel, by Catherine Mumford Booth. Published: London, Morgan & Chase, 1859. HTML file. Read


Report of a visit to Red Cloud and chiefs of the Ogallala Sioux, by Commissioner Felix R. Brunot. Written June 1871. HTML file. Read


Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners, by Vincent Colyer. Written December 12 1871. HTML file. Read


Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, by R. Clum. Written November 15 1871. HTML file. Read


The District in the XVIIIth Century. History, Site Strategy, Real Estate Market, Landscape, &c. As Described by the Earliest Travellers..., by Alfred J. Morrison. Published: Printed by Judd & Detweiler, Inc., 1909. Washington D.C. and near-by Virginia area, in the 1700s. HTML file. Read


Baltimore and the Nineteenth of April, 1861; A Study of the War, by George William Brown. Published: Baltimore, N. Murray, Publication Agent, Johns Hopkins University, 1887. HTML file. Read


Autobiography of August Vincent Theodore Spies. Published: Written and signed in 1887 after being sentenced to death for his part in the 1886 Haymarket Square Riot at Chicago IL. HTML file. Read


Autobiography of Albert Richard Parsons. Published: Written in 1887 after being sentenced to death for his part in the 1886 Haymarket Square Riot at Chicago IL. HTML file. Read


Death Valley in '49. Important chapter of California pioneer history. The autobiography of a pioneer, detailing his life from a humble home in the Green Mountains to the gold mines of California; and particularly reciting the sufferings of the band of men, women and children who gave "Death Valley" its name, by William Lewis Manly. Published: San Jose, Cal., The Pacific Tree and Vine Co., 1894. HTML file. Read


Letter from the Alamo, Texas, by Lt. Col. William Barret Travis. Written on letterhead, February 24 1836. HTML file. Read


Treaty of Greenville, by United State of America. Signed August 3 1795. Peace treaty between the U.S. and 12 Indian Tribes. HTML file. Read


The Tories of Chippeny Hill, Connecticut. A Brief Account of the Loyalists of Bristol, Plymouth and Harwinton, who Founded St. Matthew's Church in East Plymouth in 1791, by E. LeRoy Pond. Published: New York, The Grafton Press, 1909. HTML file. Read


Account of the Boston Massacre, by Captain Thomas Preston. Published: Written March 13 1770. HTML file. Read


The Horrid Massacre in Boston, by Anonymous. Published: Written 1770. HTML file. Read


Woman's Half-Century of Evolution, by Susan B. Anthony. Published: North American Review #175, December 1902, pages 800-810. HTML file. Read


One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry: His Experience and What He Saw During the War 1861-1865, Including a History of "F Company," Richmond, Va., 21st Regiment Virginia Infantry, Second Brigade, Jackson's Division..., by John H. Worsham. Published: New York, The Neale Publishing Company, 1912. HTML file. Read


Tunneling Under the Hudson River: Being A Description of the Obstacles Encountered, the Experience Gained, the Success Achieved, and the Plans..., by S. D. V. Burr, A.M. Published: New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1885. HTML file. Read


Recollections of a Naval Life: Including the Cruises of the Confederate States Steamers, "Sumter" and "Alabama", by John McIntosh Kell. Published: Washington, The Neale Company, 1900. HTML file. Read


The Irish Race in the Past and the Present, by Rev. Aug. J. Thebaud, S.J. Published: N.Y., Peter F. Collier, 1879. HTML file. Read


The Patriots and Guerillas of East Tennessee and Kentucky; The Sufferings of the Patriots; Also the Experience of the Author as an Officer in the Union Army; Including Sketches of Noted Guerillas And Distinguished Patriots, by Major J. A. Brents. Published: New York, J. A. Brents, Henry Dexter, Publisher's Agent, 1863. HTML file. Read


The Chronicles of Baltimore; being a complete history of "Baltimore Town" and Baltimore City from the earliest period to the present time, by John Thomas Scharf. Published: Baltimore, Turnbull Bros., 1874. Written like a diary, full of interesting events, hundreds of names. HTML file. Read


The Lawrence Massacre by a Band of Missouri Ruffians Under Quantrell, by J. S. Boughton and Richard Cordley. Published: J. S. Broughton, Publisher, Lawrence, Kansas, 1884. HTML file. Read


Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut, Written by Himself. Published: 6th edition, Hartford, Press of Case, Lockwood & Company, 1868. HTML file. Read


The War; "Stonewall" Jackson, His Campaigns, and Battles, the Regiment as I Saw Them, by James H. Wood, Capt., Co. D, 37th Virginia Inf. Regt. Published: Cumberland, Md., Eddy Press Corporation, 1910. HTML file. Read


The Mental Cure; Illustrating the Influence of the Mind on the Body Both in Health and Disease, and the Psychological Method of Treatment, by Warren Felt Evans. Published: Boston, H.H. & T.W. Carter, 25 Bromfield St., 1869. HTML file. Read


The Siege of Savannah in December, 1864, and the Confederate Operations in Georgia and the Third Military District of South Carolina During General Sherman's March from Atlanta to the Sea, by Charles Colcock Jones. Published: Albany, N.Y., J. Munsell, 1874. HTML file. Read


Sketch of Cobb Legion Cavalry and Some Incidents and Scenes Remembered, by Wiley C. Howard, of Company C. Published: Atlanta, Ga., 1901. C.S.A. Army of Virginia. HTML file. Read


The Bread and Biscuit Baker's and Sugar-Boiler's Assistant, by Robert Wells. Published: London, Crosby Lockwood and Son, 7, Stationers' Hall Court, Ludgate Hill, 1890. Recipes & info, bread, cakes, lozenges, ice cream, custards, etc. HTML file. Read


Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney: Late of Lincoln, Loudoun County, Va., by Samuel Mcpherson Janney. Published: Philadelphia, Friends' Book Association, 1881. HTML file. Read


Histories of 58 West Virginia Communities, by many authors. Published: WebRoots, March 2002. Histories first written in the 1920s-30s. HTML file. Read


Narrative of Events Which Occured in Baltimore Town During the Revolutionary War, by Robert Purviance. Published: Baltimore, Printed by J. Robinson, 1849. HTML file. Read


The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond; Early Recollections, by Robert Arnold. Published: Norfolk, Va., Green, Burke & Gregory, Printers, 1888. HTML file. Read


A Hashish-House in New York, by H. H. Kane. Published: Harper's Monthly, Vol. 67, November 1883, pages 944-49. HTML file. Read


Richmond in by-gone days; being reminiscences of an old citizen, by Samuel Mordecai. Published: Richmond, Virginia., G. M. West, 1856. HTML file. Read


Description of the Dismal Swamp and a proposal to drain the swamp, by William Byrd, written between 1728-37. Edited by Earl Gregg Swem. Published: Metuchen, N.J., printed for C. F. Heartman, 1922. The swamp was in Virginia and North Carolina. HTML file. Read


An Account of Virginia, its Scituation, Temperature, Productions, Inhabitants and their manner of planting and ordering Tobacco &c., by Thomas Glover. Published: Oxford, England, 1904, by Horace Hart, printer to the University, reprinted from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, June 20, 1676. HTML file. Read


"Morgan's Men:" A Narrative of Personal Experiences, by Henry Lane Stone. Published: Louisville, Brandt & Fowler, Inc., 1919. Morgan's Cavalry Division, Confederate States of America Army. HTML file. Read


A Lost Family Found; An Authentic Narrative of Cyrus Branch and His Family, Alias John White, by Elizabeth Merwin Wickham. Published: Manchester, VT, s.n., 1869. HTML file. Read


Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Orphan Brigade, by Lieut. Lot D. Young. Published: Louisville, Courier-Journal Job Printing Company, abt 1918. Served in H Regiment, Fourth Kentucky, C. S. A. HTML file. Read


Early Settlement and Growth of Western Iowa, by Rev. John Todd. Published: The Historical Department of Iowa, 1906. HTML file. Read


Military Reminiscences of Gen. Wm. R. Boggs, C.S.A., by William R. Boggs. Published: The Seeman Printery, Durham, N. C., 1913. HTML file. Read


The Life of Joice Heth, the Nurse of Gen. George Washington, (the Father of Our Country,) Now Living at the Astonishing Age of 161 Years, and Weighs Only 46 Pounds. Published: New York, Printed for the Publisher, 1835. HTML file. Read


Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters, by Hardin E. Taliaferro. Published: New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1859. HTML file. Read


Shakers. Compendium of the Origin, History, Principles, Rules and Regulations, Government, and Doctrines, by Frederic W. Evans. Published: D. Appleton, NY, 1859. Includes biographries of Shaker founders. HTML file. Read


Free Masonry and the War. Report of the Committee Under the Resolutions of 1862, Grand Lodge of Virginia. Published: Richmond, Chas. H. Wynne, Printer, 1865. HTML file. Read


The General Military Hospital for the North Carolina Troops in Petersburg Virginia. Published: Raleigh, Strother & Marcom Book And Job Printers, 1861. HTML file. Read


The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor..., by James W. Mahoney. Published: Asheville, N.C., Edney & Dedman, 1849. Covers body parts and their functions, symptoms and treatment of diseases, large section on medical herbs and plants. HTML file. Read


Biography of James Patton, by James Patton. Published: Asheville, N.C., [s.n.], 1850. Born 1756 in Ireland, 1783 came to America, died in North Carolina. Includes family history. HTML file. Read


Confederate Receipt Book. A Compilation of over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted to the Times. Published: West & Johnston, Richmond, 1863, G. W. Gary, Printer. Recipes and home remedies. HTML file. Read


History of Palo Alto County, Iowa, by J. L. Martin. Published: 1876 with 1878 Supplement. HTML file. Read


The Conquest of New France, A Chronicle of the Colonial Wars, by George M. Wrong. Published: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1918. HTML file. Read


The Last of the Mill Creeks, and Early Life In Northern California, by Sim Moak. Published: Chico, Calif., 1923. HTML file. Read


Andersonville; A Story Of Rebel Military Prisons, by John McElroy. Published: Toledo, D. R. Locke, 1879. A Confederate prison camp in Georgia, also tells about other camps. HTML file. Read


San Francisco During the Eventful Days of April, 1906, Personal Recollections, by James B. Stetson. Published: The Murdock Press, San Francisco, 1906?. HTML file. Read


The Vigilance Committee of '56, by a Pioneer California Journalist, James O'Meara. Published: San Francisco, James H. Barry, Publisher, No. 429 Montgomery Street, 1887. Takes place in San Francisco, California. HTML file. Read


California, 1849-1913; or, The rambling sketches and experiences of sixty- four years' residence in that state, by L.H. Woolley. Published: Oakland, Cal., De Witt & Snelling, 1913. Has a lot on San Francisco. HTML file. Read


Early Days in the Chippewa Valley, by C. S. Bundy, Washington, D. C. Published: Flint-Douglas Ptg. Co., Menomonie, Wis., 1916. Takes place in Dunn County, Wisconsin. HTML file. Read


David Crockett: His Life and Adventures, by John S. C. Abbott. Published: Dodd & Mead, New York, 1874. HTML file. Read


Sketches of Minnesota, the New England of the West. With incidents of travel in that territory during the summer of 1849, by E.S. Seymour. Published: New York, Harper & Brothers, 1850. HTML file. Read


History of Platte County, Nebraska, by I. N. Taylor. Published: Columbus Republican Print, Columbus, Neb., 1876. HTML file. Read


History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan; a grammar of their language, and personal and family history of the author, by Andrew J. Blackbird. Published: Ypsilanti, Mich., The Ypsilantian job printing house, 1887. Has extensive language section. HTML file. Read


Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters, by Logan Marshall. Published: L.T. Myers, 1912. HTML file. Read


The Quaker Colonies, A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware, by Sydney G. Fisher. Published: New Haven, Yale University Press; Toronto, Glasgow, Brook & Co.; London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press; 1919. History of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware under William Penn and his sons. HTML file. Read


Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars, by Dabney Herndon Maury. Published: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. HTML file. Read


History of the Amistad Captives, by John Warner Barber. Published: New Haven, Connecticut, E.L. and J.W. Barber, 1840. Capture of the Spanish schooner Amistad by the Africans on board, with biographical sketches. HTML file. Read


How the Other Half Lives; Studies Among the Tenements of New York, by Jacob A. Riis. Published: New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890. HTML file. Read


Zuni Folk Tales, by Frank Hamilton Cushing. Published: Knopf, New York, 1901. HTML file. Read


The Story of the Pony Express, by Glenn Danford Bradley. Published: A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1918. HTML file. Read


Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest, by Katharine Berry Judson. Indian Folk-Lore. Published: 2nd Edition, Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co, 1912. HTML file. Read


Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes, by W. D. Westervelt. Published: Boston, G.H. Ellis Press, 1916. HTML file. Read


Broken Gloom: Sketches of the History, Character, and Dying Testimony of Beneficiaries of the Colored Home, in the City of New-York, by Mary W. Thompson. Published: New York, J.F. Trow, Printer, 1851. HTML file. Read


The Stranger's Guide and Official Directory for the City of Richmond. Showing the Location of the Public Buildings and Offices of the Confederate, State and City Governments, Residences of the Principal Officers, etc. [Virginia]. Published: Richmond, Geo. P. Evans & Co., 1863. HTML file. Read


War Days in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Reminiscences of 1861 to 1865 [Virginia], by J.E.B. Stuart Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Published: Judge Printing Company, Fayetteville, N.C., 1910. HTML file. Read


Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences, by Nebraska Society of the D. A. R. Published: The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids Iowa, 1916. HTML file. Read


Men of Maryland, by Rev. George F. Bragg, D. D. Published: Baltimore, MD., Church Advocate Press, 1914. Black men and women of Maryland. HTML file. Read


History of Utah, 1540 - 1886, by Hubert Howe Bancroft. Published: San Francisco, The History Company, 1889. HTML file. Read


Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a Native of Africa, Who was Enslaved in Childhood, and Died in Boston, January 3, 1815 ... Aged 65 Years, by A Lady of Boston. Published: Boston, by James Loring, 132 Washington Street, 1832. HTML file. Read


The Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Written by Olive Gilbert, based on information provided by Sojourner Truth. Published: 1850. A slave born abt 1797-1800 at Hurley, Ulster County, New York. HTML file. Read


New England Articles of Confederation. Published: 1643. Plantations of Massachusetts, New Plymouth, Connecticut, New Haven. HTML file. Read


Topography of Washington's Camp of 1780 and its Neighborhood (Morristown, New Jersey). A paper read by Emory McClintock before the Washington Association of New Jersey at their meeting of February 22, 1894. Includes some roads, buildings, and residents. HTML file. Read


The Vermontville Colony, Its Genesis and History, With Personal Sketches of the Colonists, by Edward W. Barber. Published: Lansing, Mich., Robert Smith printing co., 1897. Vermontville, Michigan. HTML file. Read


Uncle Tom's Story of His Life. An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom"). From 1789 to 1876, by Josiah Henson, edited by John Lobb. Published: London, Christian Age Office, 89, Farringdon Street, 1876. HTML file. Read


Women of Achievement, by Benjamin Griffith Brawley. Published: Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society, 1919. Harriet Tubman, Nora Gordon, Meta Fuller, Mary Bethune, Mary Terrell. HTML file. Read


The Varick Family, by Rev. Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, D. D. Published: Mobile, Ala., 1906. Founder and first Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, abt 1750. HTML file. Read


War Stories and School-Day Incidents for the Children, by Berrien McPherson Zettler. Published: New York, The Neale Publishing Company, 1912. Served in CSA Army, 8th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Company B. HTML file. Read


Autobiography and Biography of Rev. Joseph Caldwell, D.D., L.L.D., First President of the University of North Carolina, by Joseph Caldwell. Published: Chapel Hill, N.C.; J.B. Neathery; 1860. Born Apr 21 1773, Lamington, New Jersey. HTML file. Read


The Missionary Pioneer, or A Brief Memoir of the Life, Labours, and Death of John Stewart, (Man of Colour,) Founder, under God of the Mission among the Wyandotts at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, by Joseph Mitchell. Published: New York, Joseph Mitchell, 1827. John was born in Powhatan County, Virginia. HTML file. Read


Autobiography and Reminiscences of John W. Carroll. Published: Henderson, Tenn., [s.n.], 1898. Lots of family history. During Civil War was in 27th Tenn. Infantry. HTML file. Read


Autobiography of Henry Parker, by Henry Parker. Written: 186_. Born 1835 in Western Virginia, he was a slave. HTML file. Read


A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley Formerly a Slave in the State of Delaware, North America, by Solomon Bayley. Published: London: Harvey and Darton, 1825. HTML file. Read


A Thrilling Narrative From the Lips of the Sufferers of the Late Detroit Riot, March 6, 1863, with the Hair Breadth Escapes of Men, Women and Children, and Destruction of Colored Men's Property,.... by Author. Published: Detroit, Mich., Published by the Author, 1863. HTML file. Read


A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn.; with Reminiscences of Camp Douglas, by John M. Copley. Published: Austin, Texas: Eugene Von Boeckmann, Printer, 1893. Camp Douglas, Illinois, was a military prison Camp. HTML file. Read


By-laws of the Orphan House of Charleston, South Carolina. Published: Charleston, Steam-Power Presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1861. Orphan House founded in 1790. Also tells how to treat the children. HTML file. Read


Life and Adventures of Robert Voorhis, the Hermit of Massachusetts, Who has Lived 14 Years in a Cave, Secluded from Human Society: Comprising, an Account of his Birth, Parentage, Sufferings, and providential escape from unjust and cruel Bondage in early life--and his reasons for becoming a Recluse, by Henry Trumbull. Published: Providence: Printed for H. Trumbell, 1829. HTML file and 22k .jpg image of title page. Read


Life and Adventures of James Williams, a Fugitive Slave, with a Full Description of the Underground Railroad, by James Williams. Published: San Francisco: Women's Union Print, 424 Montgomery Street, 1873. HTML file. Read


Legends of the Kaw, by Carrie De Voe. Published: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co., Kansas City, MO., 1904. Folk-Lore of Indians of the Kansas River Valley Indians. HTML file. Read


Account of the Death of Sitting Bull and of the Circumstances Attending It, by James McLaughlin. Published: Office Of Indian Rights Association, Philadelphia, 1891. HTML file. Read


Captured by the Indians: Reminiscences of Pioneer Life in Minnesota, by Minnie (Wilhelmina) Buce Carrigan. Published: Buffalo Lake, Minn., The News print, 1912. Took place in 1862. HTML file. Read


The Old Capitol and its Inmates, by Virginia Lomax. Published: New York, E. J. Hale & Son, 1867. The Old Capitol Prison and the Carrol Prison were in Washington, D.C. HTML file. Read


Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick," by Himself. Published: Los Angeles, Californis, 1907. HTML file and 15k .jpg image of title page. Read


Old Californian Days, by James Steele. Published: Chicago, Belford-Clarke co., 1889. California before the Gold Rush; San Gabriel and San Juan Capistrano Mission churches; Native American tribes. Mostly Southern CA. HTML file. Read


The Mountain Meadows Massacre, by Josiah F. Gibbs. Published: 2nd Edition, Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Co., 1910. Took place in southwest Utah, 120 California-bound pioneers were massacred by a Mormon militia and American Indian allies, in 1857. HTML file. Read


Men and Memories of San Francisco, In the Spring of '50, by T.A. Barry and B.A. Patten. Published: San Francisco, A.L. Bancroft & company, 1873. Very detailed street-by-street description of San Francisco, and many of its residents. HTML file. Read


The Vigilantes of Montana, by Prof. Thomas J. Dimsdale. Published: 1st in The Montana Post, Thomas J Dimsdale, Editor, and published several times in book form since 1866. HTML file. Read


Early History Of Omaha (Nebraska), by Alfred Sorenson. Published: Omaha; Printed at the Office of The Daily Bee; 1876. HTML file. Read


First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6, by Noah Brooks. Published: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1902. This is the 1902 printing of the 1901 edition. HTML file. Read


Memoir of the Proposed Territory of Arizona, by Sylvester Mowry. Published: Washington; Henry Polkinhorn, Printer; 1857. HTML file. Read


A History of The Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territory, by David E. Johnston. Published: 1906, Standard PTG. & Pub. Co., Huntington, W. Va. Mainly covers Mercer County, Virginia, the counties around it, some other areas of Virginia and West Virginia, from 1654 to 1905. HTML file. Read


Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811, by John Bradbury. Published: 2nd Edition, London, by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819. HTML file. Read


Voyage of the Paper Canoe: A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles From Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, During the Years 1874-5, by Nathaniel Bishop. Published: Boston, Lee and Shepard, Publishers; New York, Charles T. Dillingham; 1878. HTML file. Read


Four Months in a Sneak-Box. A Boat Voyage Of 2600 Miles Down The Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and Along the Gulf Of Mexico, by Nathaniel H. Bishop. Published: Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1879. HTML file. Read


The Prairie Traveler. A Hand-Book For Overland Expeditions, by Randolph B. Marcy, Captain U. S. Army. Published: By Authority Of The War Department, 1859. How to pack your wagon, what you'll encounter along the way, 28 detailed itineraries. HTML file. Read


Pioneers of France in the New World, by Francis Parkman. Published: 1865. Part 1 deals with Florida, Part 2 deals with Canada. HTML file. Read. See also: France and England in North America, Part Third; The Discovery of the Great West by Francis Parkman


Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul (Minnesota), by Frank Moore. Published: St. Paul, 1908. Collection of articles published in the Daily Pioneer Press. HTML file. Read


The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid; The Noted Desperado of the Southwest, Whose Deeds of Daring and Blood made His Name A Terror in New Mexico, Arizona and Northern Mexico; by Pat Floyd Garrett, Sheriff of Lincoln Co., N.M., By Whom He Was Finally Hunted Down and Captured By Killing Him; A Faithful and Interesting Narrative. Published: Santa Fe, New Mexican Print. and Pub. Co., 1882. Garrett was the sheriff who killed Billy. The book was supposedly really authored by Ash Upson, a newspaperman and friend of Garrett. HTML file. Read


The Life and Adventures of "Buffalo Bill" Colonel William F. Cody, by William F. Cody. Published: 2nd Edition, 1917. HTML file. Read


Last of the Great Scouts; the Life Story of Col. William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") as told by his sister, Helen Cody Wetmore. Published: The Duluth Press Publishing Company, Chicago, 1899. HTML file. Read


Buffalo Bone Days, A Short History Of The Buffalo Bone Trade, by M. I. Mccreight (Tchanta Tanka), A Last Survivor, Bone Buyer and Shipper. Published: 1939, Printed by Nupp Printing Co., Sykesville, PA. HTML file and 7k .jpg image of book cover. Read


Kansas; Its Interior And Exterior Life. Including a Full View of Its Settlement, Political History, Social Life, Climate, Soil, Productions, Scenery, Etc., by Sara T. L. Robinson. Published: 1856. HTML file. Read


Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlement and Settlers of Northeastern Pottawatomie and Southwestern Nemaha Counties, Kansas, by F. F. Crevecoeur. Published: 1902, from items printed in the Onaga Republican during the Winter of 1901-2. HTML file. Read


A History of Lawrence, Kansas, from the Earliest Settlement to the Close of the Rebellion, by Richard Cordley, D.D., Who Came to Kansas in 1857; Pastor of Plymouth Congretational Church at Lawrence from 1857 to 1875 and 1884 to Present Time; an Eyewitness of the Quantrill Raid. HTML file. Read


The Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days, by Noah Smithwick. Published: Austin, Gammel, 1900. HTML file. Read


History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by Herbert C. Bell. Published: Chicago, Ill; Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers; 1891. HTML file. Read


Abraham Lincoln And The Union; A Chronicle of the Embattled North, by Nathaniel W. Stephenson (Nathaniel Wright). Published: New Haven, Yale University Press; Toronto, Glasgow, Brook & Co.; London, Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press; 1918. HTML file. Read


The Day Of The Confederacy; A Chronicle of the Embattled South, by Nathaniel W. Stephenson (Nathaniel Wright). Published: New Haven, Yale University Press; Toronto, Glasgow, Brook & Co.; London, Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press; 1919. HTML file. Read


The Story of a Pioneer, by Anna Howard Shaw, D.D., M.D., With the Collaboration of Elizabeth Jordan. Published: Harper & Brothers, New York, 1915. Rev. Anna was a womens suffrage pioneer, she came to America from Scotland. HTML file. Read


The Story of a Kansas Pioneer, by Melissa Genett Anderson. Published: The Manufacturing Printers Co., 10 N. Main St., Mt Vernon, O., 1924. A North Carolina Anderson family who moved to Indiana, Missouri, then Kansas. HTML file. Read


Pioneers of the Old South, A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings, by Mary Johnston. Published: New Haven, Yale University Press; Toronto, Glasgow, Brook & Co; London, Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press; 1918. The book deals with areas of Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia. HTML file. Read


Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War, by Thomas Nelson Page. Published: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897; University Press, John Wilson And Son, Cambridge, Mass, U. S. A. HTML file. Read


A briefe account of a strange & unusuall Providence of God befallen to Elizabeth Knap of Groton, a 1671 letter by Samuel Willard. Published in Groton In The Witchcraft Times; Groton, Massachusetts, 1883, Samuel A. Green, Editor. HTML file. Read


Death Warrant for Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, and Sarah Wilds. Issued July 12 1692, Boston, Massachusetts, for witchcraft. HTML file. Read


Warrant For The Arrest Of Elzabeth Proctor And Sarah Cloyce, April 4, 1692. Issued in Salem, Massachusetts, for witchcraft. HTML file. Read


Memorable Providences, Relating To Witchcrafts And Possessions, by Cotton Mather. Published: R.P., Boston, 1689. Relating to a family of Boston, Massachusetts. HTML file. Read


Salem Village Church Record Book 1689-1753, [Massachusetts] transcribed by William Thaddeus Harris. Published: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 11, 1857 (April) pages 131-135; (October) pages 316-321; Vol. 12, (July) 1858; pages 127-128; (January) pages 245-248. HTML file. Read


History of Delaware County and Border Wars of New York, by Jay Gould. Published: Roxbury; Keeny & Gould, Publishers, 1856. HTML file. Read


A History of the Township and Village of Howell, Michigan, by A. Riley Crittenden. Published: Livingston Tidings Print, Howell, Michigan, 1911. HTML file and 44k jpg image of title page. Read


Canal Reminiscences: Recollections of Travel in the Old Days on the James River & Kanawha Canal, by George William Bagby. Published: Richmond, Virginia; West, Johnston & Co., Publishers, 1879. HTML file and 13k jpg image of title page. Read


A New Voyage to Carolina, Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of that Country: Together with the Present State thereof. And A Journal of a Thousand Miles, Travel'd thro' several Nations of Indians. Giving a particular Account of their Customs, Manners, &c., by John Lawson. Published: London, 1709. The voyage was from England to South Carolina then North Carolina. HTML file and 53k jpg image of title page. Read


Memoirs of a Southern Woman "Within the Lines," and a Genealogical Record, by Mary Jones Polk Branch. Published: The Joseph G. Branch Publishing Co., Publishers, Chicago, 1912. Mary was raised near Columbia, Tennessee. HTML file. Read


A Slaveholder's Daughter, by Belle Kearney. Published: The Abbey Press, Publishers, 114 Fifth Avenue New York, 1900. Belle was born on a plantation near Vernon, Mississippi. HTML file. Read


On The Old Plantation: Reminiscences of His Childhood, by John George Clinkscales. Published: Band & White Publishers, 1916. The Plantation was in Abbeville County, South Carolina. HTML file. Read


An Old Town By The Sea, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Published: 2nd Editon, 1917. The old town is Portsmouth, New Hampshire. HTML file. Read


What A Young Boy Ought To Know, by Sylvanus Stall, D.D. Published: Philadelphia, Pa: 1304 Land Title Building, The Vir Publishing Company, 1905. HTML file. Read


The Mother's Book, by Mrs. Child. Published: Boston; Published by Carter, Hendee and Babcock, Baltimore, Charles Carter, 1831. HTML file. Read


John George Hohman's Pow-Wows; A Collection Of Mysterious And Invaluable Arts And Remedies, by John George Hohman. Published: 2nd English-language edition, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, T. F. Scheffer, Printer, 1856. HTML file. Read


An Essay upon Nursing and the Management of Children, from their Birth to Three Years of Age, by a Physician (William Cadogan). Published: London, 3rd Edition, 1749. HTML file and 86k jpg image of title page. Read


Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth, by Rebecca Latimer Felton. Published: Index Printing Company, Atlanta, Ga., 1919. HTML file. Read


Jacob Abbott, Friend of Children, by Lyman Abbott. Published: from Silhouettes of My Contemporaries, Doubleday, 1922. HTML file. Read


Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney Biography. Published: A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Eds. Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore. Charles Wells Moulton, 1893. HTML file. Read


Faces We Seldom See: The Author of the Elsie Books, by Florence Wilson. Published: Ladies' Home Journal, April 1893. HTML file. Read


The Evil of Unlimited Freedom in the Use of Juvenile Fiction, by Miss M. A. Bean, Librarian of Brookline (Mass.) Public Library. Published: Library Journal 4, 1879, pages 341-43. HTML file. Read


Reading in the Public Schools, by Robert C. Metcalf, Master of Wells School, Boston. Published: Library Journal 4, 1879, pages 343-345. HTML file. Read


The Colony At Roanoke in 1586, by Ralph Lane. Published: From Lane's report to Sir Walter Raleigh. HTML file. Read


Return To Ronoake in 1590, by John White. Published: Principal Navigations, Voyages of the English Nation, III, by Richard Hakluyt, 1600. HTML file. Read


The Settlement of Jamestown, by Captain John Smith. Published: 1607? HTML file. Read


Robert Juet's 1609 Journal. Published: New York Historical Society, Second Series, 1841. This is his complete journal, as a crew member of Captain Henry Hudson's voyage that eventually sailed up the Hudson River. HTML file. Read


Crooked Spines in Girls, by Helen C. Lewis. Published: Arthur's Home Magazine, July 1861, page 46. HTML file. Read


Early Culture of Children, by G. M. J. Published: The Mothers' Journal and Family Visitant, 1853, pages 115-116. HTML file. Read


Three Little Boys in Prison, by Charles Holden. Published: The Mother's Assistant, January 1844, pages 32-33. HTML file. Read


Confinement of Children in School, by Dr. James Jackson of Boston. Published: The Mother's Assistant, July 1845, pages 7-8. HTML file. Read


Treatment of Children at School, by Dr. S. B. Woodward. Published: The Mother's Assistant, October 1845, pages 78-79. HTML file. Read


Dangers of Childhood, and Means of Obviating Them, by Professor George Whippel. Published: The Mother's Assistant, February 1845, pages 25-30. HTML file. Read


Prognostications of the Weather. Published: Robert Merry's Museum, November 1844, pages 154-159. HTML file. Read


Deer Hunting, by Simon Sassafras. Published: Robert Merry's Museum, May 1850, pages 133-134. HTML file. Read


The Indian's Story. Published: Robert Merry's Museum, January 1850, pages 23-24. HTML file. Read


Skating--Woman's Rights, by William C. Cutter (aka Hiram Hatchet). Published: Robert Merry's Museum, February 1857, page 33. HTML file. Read


The Sewing-Machine. Published: Robert Merry's Museum, December 1857, page 182. HTML file. Read


Clothing for Girls, by G. M. J. Published: The Mothers' Journal and Family Visitant, 1853, pages 148-150. HTML file. Read


Female Education. Published: The Mother's Magazine, July 1848, pages 226-227. HTML file. Read


The Change of the Seasons. Published: Robert Merry's Museum, November 1850, pages 129-134. HTML file. Read


The Atlantic Telegraph. Published: Robert Merry's Museum, October 1858, pages 103-108. HTML file. Read


Adventures of a 'Merry' Boy. Published: Robert Merry's Museum, February, 1865, pages 49-53. HTML file. Read


Children and Children's Parties, by S. B. S. Published: The Mothers' Journal and Family Visitant, 1853, pages 347-349. HTML file. Read


Early Training of Children. Published: The Fireside Miscellany; and Young People's Encyclopedia, February 1854, pages 60-61. HTML file. Read


Children, from One to Three Years of Age. Published: Arthur's Home Magazine, December 1861, page 315. HTML file. Read


Dictionary of Americanisms -- A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States, by John Russell Bartlett. Published: First Edition, Bartlett and Welford, New York, 1848. HTML file and 76k jpg image of front page. Read


Popular Amusements, by Rev. Jonathan Townley Crane, with an introduction by Bishop E. S. Janes. Published: Cincinnati, Hitchcock and Walden; New York, Carlton and Lanahan, 1870. HTML file. Read


Booth And Bad Literature. Published: The Youth's Companion, May 11, 1865, page 74. HTML file. Read


The Reading of Young Ladies. Published: American Magazine of Useful Knowledge, December 1836, page 91. HTML file. Read


The Morality of Pictures, by William A Alcott. Published: The Mother's Assistant, April 1845, pages 78-79. HTML file. Read


Devouring Books, by A. Published: American Annals of Education, January 1835, pages 30-32. HTML file. Read


Books For Children. Published: American Annals of Education, 1828, pages 99-103. HTML file. Read


How To Make Boys Love Home. Published: Arthur's Home Magazine, February 1861, pages 119-120. HTML file. Read


Vicious Novels: Cause of Their Increase, by F. C. W. Published: The Mother's Magazine, December 1845, pages 374-379. HTML file. Read


On Novel Reading. Published: The Guardian; or Youth's Religious Instructor, 1820, pages 46-49. HTML file. Read


Moral Poisons: The Antidote, by F. C. W. Published: Part 1 - The Mother's Magazine, May 1845, pages 148-152; Part 2 - The Mother's Magazine, June 1845, pages 184-188. HTML file. Read


Novels and Romances. Published: The Guardian; or Youth's Religious Instructor, 1820, pages 369-371. HTML file. Read


What Books Shall I Read?, by Simon Brown. Published: The Mother's Assistant, and the Young Lady's Friend, February 1845, pages 37-39. Note: Addressed to a niece. HTML file. Read


Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America, From Childhood to the Age of Nineteen: With Anecodtes Descriptive of Their Manners and Customs: To Which is Added, Some Account of the Soil, Climate, and Vegetable Productions of the Territory Westward of the Mississippi by John Dunn Hunter. Published: 3rd edition, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Ohme, Brown, & Green, 1824. HTML file and 49k jpg image of front page. Read


Settlement of the Neversink Valley, by Rev. Samuel W. Mills, first President of the Minisink Valley Historical Society. Published: Speech given before the Minisink Valley Historical Society on July 22, 1890, for the bicentennial celebration of the settlement of the Neversink Valley, held by the Society at Caudebec Park in Cuddebackville, New York. HTML file. Read


Ancient Highways in Neversink Valley and Vicinity, by Dr. W. L. Cuddeback. Published: Speech given before the Minisink Valley Historical Society, February 7, 1889. HTML file. Read


Old Families of the Delaware and Neversink Valley's Customs and Costumes of the Early Settlers - Days or Trials and Privations, by James Bennet. Published: Speech given at the Fowler House, on the corner of Fowler Street and Jersey Avenue, February 21, 1909, at the 21st Annual Banquet of the Minisink Valley Historical Society. HTML file. Read


A History of Ulster County Under the Dominion of the Dutch, by Augustus H van Buren. Published: Kingston, NY, 1923, Augustus H van Buren. HTML file. Read


Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay, L.L. D. Published: 2nd Edition, London, Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852. First published: London, Richard Bentley, 1841. HTML file. Read


History of Nova Cæsarea - The Colonial History of New Jersey, by Samuel Smith. Published: Burlington, New Jersey, 1765, by Samuel Smith; and Trenton, New Jersey, 1890, by William S Sharp. HTML file. Read


The Indians: or Narratives of Massacres and Depredations on The Frontier, In Wawasink and Its Vicinity During The American Revolution, by John A Gray. Published: John A. Gray, Printer, 111 Nassau street, N. Y., 1846. HTML file and 17k jpg image of book cover. Read


The Original Life And Adventures of Tom Quick, The Indian Slayer, by James E Quinlan. Published: The Deposit Journal, 1894, Deposit, NY. Reprint of original title Tom Quick, the Indian Slayer and the Pioneers of Minisink and Wawarsink, DeVoe & Quinlan, 1851, Monticello, NY. HTML file. Read


The Green Mountain Boys: Or Vermont and the New York Land-Jobbers, by Philip H Smith. Published: Pawling, N. Y., Philip H. Smith, 1885. HTML file. Read


Legends of the Shawangunk, by Philip H Smith. Published: Pawling, NY: Smith & Co., 1887. HTML file. Read


Origin and Sketch of the "Jersey Blues" by William H. Benedict. Published: Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, New Ser., 9, October 1924, pages 341-346. HTML file. Read


Tom Quick - Indian Slayer, by Theo. D. Schoonmaker. Published: 1904. HTML file. Read


New Jersey In The Colonial Wars, by The Hon. Richard Wayne Parker. Published: The New Jersey Society of Colonial Wars, 1919. HTML file. Read


New Jersey Paper Currency, 1709-1786, by William W Bradbeer, Cranford NJ. Republished: The New Jersey Frontier Guard Organization, 1996. HTML file. Read


The Currency Act of 1764. British Government Document affecting his Majesty's colonies or plantations of Rhode Island and Providence plantations, Connecticut, the Massachuset's Bay, and New Hampshire. HTML file. Read


Currency Act of 1751. Published: The Statutes at Large, London: Printed for Mark Basket, 1769, Vol. 7, pages 403-4, (24 George II, chapter 53). British Government Document affecting Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, the Massachusets Bay, and New Hampshire. HTML file. Read


Massachusetts' Currency Reform Act of 1749. Published: Acts and Resolves of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, Vol. III, pages 430-441. HTML file. Read


A Brief Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Paper Currency of New-England, by Anonymous. Published: Boston, Massachusetts, 1749. HTML file. Read


Postscript, To a Discourse concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America, by William Douglass. Published: June 1740. HTML file. Read


Discourse on the Currencies of the American Plantations, by William Douglass. Published: 1740? probably first in Boston MA, but maybe London England. HTML file. Read


A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper-Currency, by Benjamin Franklin. Published: Philadelphia PA, April 1729. HTML file. Read


The Second Part of the South-Sea Stock, by Unknown. Published: Boston MA, March 1721. Reprinted: Andrew McFarland Davis, Colonial Currency Reprints, 1682-1751, Boston: The Prince Society, 1911, Volume II, pages 304-32. HTML file. Read


The Distressed State of the Town of Boston, by John Colman. Published: April 1720. Reprinted: Andrew McFarland Davis, Colonial Currency Reprints, 1682-1751, Boston: The Prince Society, 1911, Volume I, pages 398-408. HTML file. Read


A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South, by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois. Published: Atlantic Monthly, Volume 83, 1899, pages 99-104. HTML file. Read


The Freedmen's Bureau, by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois. Published: Atlantic Monthly, Volume 87, 1901, pages 354-365. HTML file. Read


Paths of Hope for the Negro: Practical Suggestions of a Southerner, by Jerome Dowd. Published: Century Magazine, Volume 61, New York, 1900. HTML file. Read


Credo, by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois. Published: The Independent, Volume 57, October 6 1904, page 787. HTML file. Read


Strivings of the Negro People, by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois. Published: Atlantic Monthly, Volume 80, 1897, pages 194-198. HTML file. Read


Of the Training of Black Men, by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois. Published: Atlantic Monthly, Volume 90, 1902, pages 289-297. HTML file. Read


An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage, by Frederick Douglass. Published: Atlantic Monthly, Number 19, January 1867, pages 112-117. HTML file. Read


Robert Thruston Hubard's Negroes in Buckingham, by Robert Thruston Hubard. Dated: October 1841. HTML file. Read


Old Indian Legends, by Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin). Published: 1901, Ginn and Company, Boston MA. HTML file. Read


Impressions of an Indian Childhood, by Zitkala-Sa. Published: Atlantic Monthly, Volume 85, 1900, pages 37-47. HTML file. Read


An Indian's Views of Indian Affairs, by Chief Young Joseph. William H Hare, Editor. Published: North American Review, Volume 128, April 1879, pages 412-433. HTML file. Read


Naming the Indians, by Frank Terry. Published: American Monthly Review of Reviews, No. 15, March 1897. HTML file. Read


An Apache Medicine Dance, by Frank Russell, translated by Gunsi. Published: American Anthropologist, Vol. XI, No. 12, December 1898, pages 357-372. HTML file. Read


Myths of the Jicarilla Apaches, by Frank Russell, as related by Laforia and translated by Gunsi. Published: Journal of American Folklore, Volume XI, No. XLIII, Oct-Dec 1898. HTML file. Read


The Pueblo of Acoma, by Clarence Pullen. Published: Harper's Weekly, Volume 34, August 2 1890, pages 594-595. HTML file. Read


The North American Indian -- The Disappearance of the Race A Popular Fallacy, by J. Worden Pope. Published: The Arena, Arena Publishing Co., Boston MA, November 1896. HTML file. Read


The Future of the Red Man, by Simon Pokagon. Published: Forum, Issue 23, August 1897, pages 698-708, New York, N.Y. HTML file. Read


Indian Superstitions and Legends, by Simon Pokagon. Published: Forum, Issue 25, July 1898, pages 618-629, New York, N.Y. HTML file. Read


Simon Pokagon on Naming the Indians, by Simon Pokagon. Published: American Monthly Review of Reviews, New York, Volume 16, September 1897, pages 320-321. HTML file. Read


An Indian on the Problems of His Race, by Chief Simon Pokagon (Po-Ka-Gon), Albert Shaw, Editor. Published: American Monthly Review of Reviews, Volume 12, December 1895, pages 694-695. HTML file. Read


Remaining Causes of Indian Discontent, by John M Oskison. Published: North American Review 184, March 1 1907, pages 486-493. HTML file. Read


Friends of the Indian, by John M Okison. Published: The Nation, A Weekly Journal, Volume 81, October 26 1905, pages 332-333, New York Evening Post Company. HTML file. Read


A Chiricahua Apache's Account of the Geronimo Campaign of 1886, by Morris E. Opler & Sam Kenoi. Published: New Mexico Historical Review, Volume XIII, No. 4, October 1938, pages 360-386. HTML file. Read


The Jicarilla Genesis, by James Mooney. Published: American Anthropologist, Volume XI, No. 7, Washington DC, July 1898, pages 197-209. HTML file. Read


Myths and Legends of the Sioux, by Marie L. McLaughlin, Editor. Published: Bismarck Tribune Co., Bismarck, N.D., 1916, 1st Edition. HTML file. Read


The New Indian Messiah, by Lt. Marion P. Maus. U.S.A. Published: Harper's Weekly, Volume 34, Dec 6 1890, page 947. HTML file. Read


Noqoìlpi, the Gambler: A Navajo Myth, by Washington Matthews. Published: Journal of American Folklore, Vol. II, No. V, April-June 1889, pages 89-94. HTML file. Read


Many Swans: Sun Myth of the North American Indians, by Amy Lowell. Published: North American Review, New York, Jul-Dec 1920, Vol. 212, pages 250-266. HTML file. Read


American Notes, by Rudyard Kipling. Published: Brown and Company, Boston, 1899. HTML file. Read


The Color Line, by Frederick Douglass. Published: North American Review, Boston MA, Volume 132, June 1881. HTML file. Read


Custer's Last Battle, by Captain Charles King, U.S.A. Published: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volune 81, August 1890, pages 378-387. HTML file. Read


Legends of Vancouver, by E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake). Published: Private printing, Canada, 1911. HTML file. Read


The True Story of the Wallowa Campaign, by General O. O. Howard, U.S. Army. Published: North American Review, D. Appleton and Company, New York, Volume 129, pages 53-64, July 1879. HTML file. Read


The Red Man's Last Roll-Call, by Charles M. Harvey. Published: Atlantic Monthly, New York, Volume 97, pages 323-330, 1906. HTML file. Read


Ancient Mining on the Shores of Lake Superior, by Albert D. Hagar. Published: Atlantic Monthly, New York, Volume 15, March 1865, pages 308-315. HTML file. Read


The Wards of the United States Government, by H.H. Published: Scribners Monthly, Volume 19, Issue 5, March 1880, pages 775-782. HTML file. Read


The Indian on the Reservation, by George Bird Grinnell. Published: Atlantic Monthly, New York, Volume 83, pages 255-267, 1899. HTML file. Read


The Wild Indian, by George Bird Grinnell. Published: Atlantic Monthly, New York, Volume 83, pages 20-29, 1899. HTML file. Read


The Last of the Five Tribes, by Grant Foreman. Published: Overland Monthly, pages 196-198, California Publishing Company, San Francisco, March 1907. HTML file. Read


An Interesting Representative of a Vanishing Race, by B. O. Flower. Published: The Arena, Volume 16, Arena Publishing Co., Boston MA, July 1896, pages 240-250. HTML file and 39k jpg image of Chief Simon Pokagon. Read


Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology, by John Fiske. Published: James R. Osgood & Co, 1872; Published: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1900. HTML file. Read


The Navajo Indians, by William M. Edwardy. Published: Harper's Weekly, New York, July 5 1890, Volume 34, page 530-?. HTML file. Read


The Soul of the Indian, by Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa). Published: Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1911. HTML file. Read


Angel DeCora - An Autobiography. Published: The Red Man, Carlisle Indian Press, Carlisle PA, March 1911, pages 279-285. HTML file. Read


Have We Failed with the Indian? by Henry L. Dawes. Published: Atlantic Monthly, New York, Vol. 84, 1889, pages 280-285. HTML file. Read


The Indian Territory, by Hon. Henry L. Dawes, LL.D. Published: The Independent, Vol. 52, October 1900, pages 2561-2565, Independent Publications, New York. HTML file. Read


Recent Writings By American Indians, by Elisabeth Luther Cary. Published: The Book Buyer, New York, New York, 1902, pages 21-25. HTML file. Read


Notes Among the Indians, by Vincent Colyer. Published: Part 1 - Putnam's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 21, September 1869, pages 367-374; Part 2 - Putnam's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 22, October 1869, pages 474-480. HTML file. Read


The Land of Little Rain, by Mary Hunter Austin. Published: Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1903. HTML file. Read


The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, by Herself (Marthy Cannary Burk). Published: 1896. HTML file and 28k jpg image of last page. Read


Three Noted Chiefs of the Sioux, by Anonymous. Published: Harper's Weekly, New York, Volume 34, page 995, October 20 1890. HTML file. Read


An Indian Boy's Story, by Daniel La France (Ah-nen-la-de-ni). Editor, anonymous. Published: The Independent, Volume 55, pages 1780-1787, New York City, July 30 1903. HTML file. Read


The Indian of Commerce, by Anonymous. Published: The Nation, Volume 72, pages 319-320, E.L. Godkin & Co., New York, April 18 1901. HTML file. Read


Abbot's American Histories, American History Vol. I, Aboriginal America, by Jacob Abbott. Published: New York, Sheldon & Company; Boston, Gould & Lincoln; 1860. Types of life in America, remarkable plants and animals, Indian Races, the Indian family, native ingenuity, Indian Legends and Tales, constitution and character of the Indian mind, the coming of the Europeans, etc. HTML file. Read


My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass; With an Introduction by James M'Cune Smith. Published: New York, Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. HTML file. Read


Reconstruction, by Frederick Douglass. Published: Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, pages 761-765, 1866. HTML file. Read


The Free Negroes of North Carolina, by David Dodge, Published: Atlantic Monthly, January 1886, Volume 57, pages 20-30. HTML file. Read


The Future of the Colored Race, by Frederick Douglass. Published: North American Review, Boston, MA, May 1886, pages 437-440, HTML file. Read


My Escape from Slavery, by Frederick Douglass. Published: The Century Illustrated Magazine, November 1881, pages 125-131. HTML file. Read


Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom, Or, The Escape Of William And Ellen Craft From Slavery, by William Craft. Published: London, Richard Barrett, Printer, Mark Lane, 1860. HTML file. Read


Pioneers of Jackson County, West Virginia; History of Mill Creek and Sandy Valley and Its Early Settlement, by John A. House. Published: WebRoots, Inc., 2001; (c) 2001 Betty Briggss. Written in 1906. HTML file. Read


The Free Colored People of North Carolina, by Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Published: The Southern Workman, Vol. 31, Number 3, pages 136-141, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, 1902. HTML file. Read


Speech of John A Chandler of Norfolk County, in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Policy of the State with respect to Her Slave Population, January 17, 1832. Published: Richmond, Virginia, Thomas W. White, Printer, 1832. HTML file. Read


Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave. Written by Himself. With an Introduction by Lucius C Matlack. Published: Third Stereotype Edition, New York, Published by the Author; 5 Spruce Street, 1850. HTML file. Read


The Effects of Negro Suffrage, by H. H. Chalmers. Published: North American Review, Volume 132, pages 239-248, D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1881. HTML file. Read


The Negro in American Fiction, by Benjamin Brawley. Published: The Dial, Volume 60, pages 435, 445-450, The Henry O. Shepard Company, Chicago, 1916. HTML file. Read


The Negro's Place in History, by Prof. Willis Boughton, Ohio State University. Published: The Arena, Arena Publishing Co., Boston MA, Volume 16, September 1896, pages 612-621. HTML file. Read


A Master Sold by a Slave, by John Stuart Bonner, Editor. Published: New York, McClure's Magazine, Issue 9, June 1897, page 709. HTML file. Read


The Negro Genius, by Benjamin Brawley, Dean of Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia. Published: The Southern Workman, Vol. 44, pages 305-308, First Edition, Press of The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia, May 1915. HTML file. Read


What the Southern Negro is Doing for Himself, by Samuel J Barrows. Published: Atlantic Monthly, Boston, June 1891, Volume 67, pages 805-815. HTML file. Read


Indenture Contract for five year old Susan, to John F Hawkins of Bedford Co VA, August 19 1865. HTML file and 137k jpg image. Read


Negro Suffrage in a Democracy, by Ray Stannard Baker. Published: Atlantic Monthly, New York, 1910, Volume 106, pages 612-619. HTML file. Read


Observations on the Slaves and the Indented Servants, inlisted in the Army, and in the Navy of the United States. Signed by Antibiastes. Published: Styner and Cist, Philadelphia, 1777. HTML file. Read


A Slaves Story, by Anonymous. Published: Putnam's Monthly Magazine, New York, June 1857, Volume 9, pages 614-620. HTML file. Read


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The Life of Christopher Columbus From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time, by Edward Everett Hale. Published: Chicago, G.I. Howe, 1891. HTML file. Read


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