Part of the "Roadside History" series, this book provides a popular history of Louisiana organized by region. It is intended as a "historical guidebook" for travelers and natives alike. Providing deta
Rocks racing across a lakebed in Death Valley. Perfectly preserved 36-million-year-old tsetse flies in Colorado. Dinosaur trackways cemented into ancient floodplains in Connecticut. A gaping rift in t
Explains various aspects of volcanology including how different lavas form and why some volcanoes ooze liquid while others violently erupt and cause cataclysmic destruction.
When Healy pans for Idaho gold, descends the Missouri River, tames wild Alberta mustangs, stares down Montana outlaws, equips Klondike prospectors, or promotes the untapped potential of Alaska, you ca
From Marie Bailly, the first settler in northwest Indiana, to the high-flying Margaret Ray Ringenberg, and from Mother Theodore Guerin, a Catholic nun who was later canonized as a saint, to Vivian Car
In a single day they would deliver babies, sew up gunshot wounds, and treat half a frontier town for influenza, and struggle to reach all concerned on horseback in a driving snowstorm. Country doctors
Presents the story of Blind Tom, a workhorse whose great strength led to him being the lead horse pulling flatcars during the construction of the transcontinental railroad and who became famous as its
In the 1850s, Congress authorized and funded five railroad surveys to determine the most practical route for a transcontinental railroad through the western frontier. The northernmost survey, headed
Gathers a collection of stories written by young pioneers facing the hardships and joys of travelling west on the Overland Trail with their families in the mid-nineteenth century.
When you see a bird diving for a fish, landing on a perch, or singing from a fence post, do you wonder what it’s saying or thinking? While staking out nests or waiting for the perfect shot on cold mor
California Coast from the Air features 150 of the best photographs from this scientifically valuable yet truly artistic collection of more than 80,000 images.
From Natalia Shelikhova, unofficially the first woman governor of Russian Alaska, to the pioneer Iditarod racer Mary Shields, the eleven women portrayed in this engaging book were indeed bold—breaking
