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Blood And Thunder : An Epic Of The American West
by Sides Hampton
$15.95
History - U.S. - Old West
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Reviewed By... The Independent Holiday 2006

Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides is a great read about a forgotten era of the American west - the few short years that saw America's western boundary change from St. Louis to the Pacific ocean. Kit Carson, the mountain man of legend, is the main character in the book, but many powerful people who shaped the evolution of the west make significant appearance... read more>>>

Thunderstruck
by Larson Erik
$14.95
History - European - Great Britain
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Reviewed By... The Independent Holiday 2006

A worthy follow-up to his bestseller The Devil In the White City, Erik Larsonâ��s Thunderstuck is actually two true stories that the author alternates from chapter to chapter and then ties together at the conclusion. One deals with Guglielmo Marconi's struggle to establish the first long range wireless communication system. The other story is about Hawley Harvey Crippen, a mild-manne... read more>>>

Sea Captain's Wife : A True Story Of Love Race And War In The Nineteenth Century
by Hodes Martha
$15.95
History - U.S. - 19th Century
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Reviewed By... Bill Lewis

This is "small history" at its best; the kind of work that explores and illuminates major historical questions by telling a tightly focused story about an "ordinary" person doing her best to make her life endurable in the face of conditions over which she has very little control. Eunice Connolly, a poor white New Englander, came of age on the eve of the Civil War. Her first marriage provided little if any love... read more>>>

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