Author : W. Edward Crockett
Publisher : Islandport Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 2021-10-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781952143212
Ed Crockett, the son of an absent and alcoholic father, grew up in poverty in a crowded house on Portland's Munjoy Hill in the 1970s. He recounts his days growing up with the ever-present specter of a drunken father and then overcoming the odds to become a successful businessman and politician. The book is not just a tale of struggle and perseverance, but also a story of love, redemption, and ultimately forgiveness.
Author : Bob Thompson
Publisher : Crown
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,42 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 030772090X
Pioneer. Congressman. Martyr of the Alamo. King of the Wild Frontier. As with all great legends, Davy Crockett's has been retold many times. Over the years, he has been repeatedly reinvented by historians and popular storytellers. In Born on a Mountaintop, Bob Thompson combines the stories of the real hero and his Disney-enhanced afterlife as he delves deep into our love for an American icon. In the road-trip tradition of Sarah Vowell and Tony Horwitz, Thompson follows Crockett's footsteps from his birthplace in east Tennessee to Washington, where he served three terms in Congress, and on to Texas and the gates of the Alamo, seeking out those who know, love, and are still willing to fight over Davy's life and legacy. Born on a Mountaintop is more than just a bold new biography of one of the great American heroes. Thompson's rich mix of scholarship, reportage, humor, and exploration of modern Crockett landscapes bring Davy Crockett's impact on the American imagination vividly to life.
Author :
Publisher : Islandport Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781952143205
A remarkable collection of black and white images highlighting Portland and the people who lived there during the 1970s.
Author : Thea Lewis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1614236585
The author of Haunted Burlington shares Lake Champlain’s chilling history—from swashbuckling spirits to Champ, “North America’s Loch Ness Monster.” Lake Champlain is located between New York’s majestic Adirondacks and Vermont’s famed Green Mountains. Yet despite the beauty of this region, it has been the site of dark and mysterious events; it is not surprising that some spirits linger in this otherwise tranquil place. Fort Ticonderoga saw some of early America’s bloodiest battles, and American, French and British ghosts still stand guard. A spirit walks the halls of SUNY Plattsburgh, even after his original haunt burned in 1929. Champlain’s islands—Stave, Crab, Valcour and Garden—all host otherworldly inhabitants, and unidentified creatures and objects have made appearances on the water, in the sky and in the forests surrounding the lake. Join Burlington’s Thea Lewis as she explores the ghosts and legends that haunt Lake Champlain. Includes photos! “For Lewis, a gifted storyteller, a good story makes a haunted place all the more compelling.” —Happy Vermont
Author : Walter Wick
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 9781451776768
Twelve scary picture puzzles invite children to look and find images hidden in the pictures.
Author : Nathan Hale
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 29,18 MB
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1613129009
New York Times Bestselling Series! “These books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . .Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history.” —New York Times Learn the thrilling true story of the Texas Revolution and the Battle of the Alamo with the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series! “Remember the Alamo!” That rallying cry has gone down in Texas history. But what, exactly, should we remember? Who were the ragtag group of adventurers behind the famous slogan, and how did they end up barricaded in a fort against a Mexican army? Who survived, who died, and how? In the early 1800s, Native Americans, the Mexican government, and settlers from other areas of the United States were fighting over the territory that would become the Lone Star state. Here vivid illustrations—rendered in black, white, and shades of gray, with tinges of yellow—and witty text tell the story, from Texas’s near wilderness beginnings to the Battle of the Alamo and General Sam Houston’s ultimate victory over General Antonio López de Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. Let “Nathan Hale” tell the tale of the Texas fight for independence from the Mexican government. It features the exploits of the notorious Jim Bowie, as well as Stephen Austin, Davy Crockett, and other “all-star” settlers and soldiers who made the wild frontier of Texas their home—until the bitter end. Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales! Read them all—if you dare! One Dead Spy: A Revolutionary War Tale (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #1) Big Bad Ironclad!: A Civil War Tale (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #2) Donner Dinner Party: A Pioneer Tale (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales Book #3) Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood: A World War I Tale (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #4) The Underground Abductor: An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #5) Alamo All-Stars: A Texas Tale (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #6) Raid of No Return: A World War II Tale of the Doolittle Raid (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #7): Lafayette!: A Revolutionary War Tale (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #8) Major Impossible: A Grand Canyon Tale (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #9) Blades of Freedom: A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #10) Cold War Correspondent: A Korean War Tale (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #11)
Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1434438945
Hours of great reading await, with ghostly tales from some of the 19th and 20th century's most renowned authors. Here is the lineup: AT CHRIGHTON ABBEY, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon THE HAUNTED MILL, by Jerome K. Jerome THE GHOST CLUB, by John Kendrick Bangs THE SHADOWS OF THE DEAD, by Louis Becke THE ROOM IN THE TOWER, by E. F. Benson THE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS, by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton THE MIDDLE BEDROOM, by H. de Vere Stacpoole THE DRUMMER GHOST, by John William DeForest MISS JÉROMETTE AND THE CLERGYMAN, by Wilkie Collins THE SPECTRE BRIDE, by William Harrison Ainsworth THE TAPESTRIED CHAMBER; or, The Lady in the Square, by Sir Walter Scott THE OLD NURSE’S STORY, by Elizabeth Gaskell THE JUDGE’S HOUSE, by Bram Stoker AT THE END OF THE PASSAGE, by Rudyard Kipling THE WITHERED ARM, by Thomas Hardy JOHN CHARRINGTON’S WEDDING, by Edith Nesbit THE MAN OF SCIENCE, by Jerome K. Jerome WHAT DID MISS DARRINGTON SEE? by Emma B. Cobb A GHOST STORY, by Mark Twain THE SOUL OF ROSE DÉDÉ, by M.E.M. Davis THE HOUSE OF THE NIGHTMARE, by Edward Lucas White REALITY OR DELUSION? by Mrs Henry Wood FISHER’S GHOST, by John Lang THROUGH THE IVORY GATE, by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews THE COLD EMBRACE, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon And don't forget to check out all the other volumes in the "Megapack" series! Search on "Wildside Megapack" in your favorite ebook store to see the complete list...covering adventure stories, military, fantasy, ghost stories, westerns, mysteries, and much more!
Author : Kevin Cady
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 2016-11-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781539888864
It's every parent's worst nightmare: Your child goes out one day, vanishes off the face of the earth and no one seems to care. You need to fight tooth and nail to try and get anyone in authority to pay attention. On September 24, 1971, one horrifying choice forever shattered the lives of 16-year-old Cathy Marie Moulton's loved ones. A bright and vibrant adolescent who made consistent and appropriate life decisions suddenly made an impulsive and poor choice. She disappeared without a trace that day in Portland, Maine. More than 40 years later, Portland Police Department case #71-60141 (Cathy Moulton Missing-Endangered) is one the oldest active missing person cases in North America. Despite the best efforts of veteran investigators and an array of potential leads, the case remains unsolved. In this book, you will follow along while cold case detectives from Portland, Maine re-open the investigation a frigid twenty-five years after Cathy vanished. Municipal police detectives and federal criminal investigators in the United States and Canada closely collaborate and follow-up on old leads while developing many new ones in a rare example of cross-jurisdictional agency cooperation; spanning from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, Canada and from Maine to Florida to California in the United States. Investigators methodically explore how and why Cathy seemingly disappeared into thin air from the streets of Portland, Maine.
Author : Jon Knowles
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 32,37 MB
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1622735846
The ghosts that haunt our sexual pleasure were born in the Stone Age. Sex and gender taboos were used by tribes to differentiate themselves from one another. These taboos filtered into the lives of Bronze and Iron Age men and women who lived in city-states and empires. For the early Christians, all sex play was turned into sin, instilled with guilt, and punished severely. With the invention of sin came the construction of women as subordinate beings to men. Despite the birth of romance in the late middle ages, Renaissance churches held inquisitions to seek out and destroy sex sinners, all of whom it saw as heretics. The Age of Reason saw the demise of these inquisitions. But, it was doctors who would take over the roles of priests and ministers as sex became defined by discourses of crime, degeneracy, and sickness. The middle of the 20th century saw these medical and religious teachings challenged for the first time as activists, such as Alfred Kinsey and Margaret Sanger, sought to carve out a place for sexual freedom in society. However, strong opposition to their beliefs and the growing exploitation of sex by the media at the close of the century would ultimately shape 21st century sexual ambivalence. Book Two of this two-part publication traces the history of sex from the Victorian Era to present day. Interspersed with ‘personal hauntings’ from his own life and the lives of friends and relatives, Knowles reveals how historical discourses of sex continue to haunt us today. This book is a page-turner in simple and plain language about ‘how sex got screwed up’ for millennia. For Knowles, if we know the history of sex, we can get over it.
Author : Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307807401
Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally powerful, vivid, and unforgettable re-creation of the Western novel, which Clark transmuted into a universal story about good and evil, individual and community, justice and human nature. As Wallace Stegner writes, [Clark's] theme was civilization, and he recorded, indelibly, its first steps in a new country.
