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Blood and Treasure

Author : Bob Drury
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250247144
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Blood and Treasure written by Bob Drury and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Instant New York Times Besteller National Bestseller "[The] authors’ finest work to date." —Wall Street Journal The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power—Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the thirteen colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America’s “First Frontier” beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, the French, and the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate around the world. This is the setting of Blood and Treasure, and the guide to this epic narrative is America’s first and arguably greatest pathfinder, Daniel Boone—not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh-and-blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the forested frontier beyond the great mountains would become the stuff of legend. Now, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the brutal birth of the United States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and larger-than-life men and women who witnessed it. This fast-paced and fiery narrative, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals, newspaper reports, and eyewitness accounts, is a stirring chronicle of the conflict over America’s “First Frontier” that places the reader at the center of this remarkable epoch and its gripping tales of courage and sacrifice.

Blood and Treasure

Author : Donald S. Frazier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780890967324
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book Blood and Treasure written by Donald S. Frazier and published by . This book was released on 2009-02-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades before the Civil War, Southern writers and warriors had been urging the occupation and development of the American Southwest. When the rift between North and South had been finalized in secession, the Confederacy moved to extend their traditions to the west-a long-sought goal that had been frustrated by northern states. It was a common sentiment among Southerners and especially Texans that Mexico must be rescued from indolent inhabitants and granted the benefits of American civilization. Blood and Treasure, written in a readable narrative style that belies the rigorous research behind it, tells the story of the Confederacy's ambitious plan to extend a Confederate empire across the continent. Led by Lieutenant Colonel John R. Baylor, later a governor of Arizona, and General H. H. Sibley, Texan soldiers trekked from San Antonio to Fort Bliss in El Paso, then north along the Rio Grande to Santa Fe. Fighting both Apaches and Federal troops, the half-trained, undisciplined army met success at the Battle of Val Verde and defeat at the Battle of Apache Canyon. Finally, the Texans won the Battle of Glorieta Pass, only to lose their supply train--and eventually the campaign. Pursued and dispirited, the Confederates abandoned their dream of empire and retreated to El Paso and San Antonio. Frazier has made use of previously untapped primary sources, allowing him to present new interpretations of the famous Civil War battles in the Southwest. Using narratives of veterans of the campaign and official Confederate and Union documents, the author explains how this seemingly far-fetched fantasy of building a Confederate empire was an essential part of the Confederate strategy. Military historians will be challenged to modify traditional views of Confederate imperial ambitions. Generalists will be drawn into the fascinating saga of the soldiers' fears, despair, and struggles to survive.

The Heart of Everything That Is

Author : Bob Drury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451654685
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Heart of Everything That Is written by Bob Drury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on Red Cloud's autobiography, which was lost for nearly a hundred years, to present the story of the great Oglala Sioux chief who was the only Plains Indian to defeat the United States Army in a war.

Daniel Boone

Author : John Mack Faragher
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1429997060
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Daniel Boone written by John Mack Faragher and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 1993-11-15 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993 In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America's famous frontier hero. Drawing from popular narrative, the public record, scraps of documentation from Boone's own hand, and a treasure of reminiscence gathered by nineteenth-century antiquarians, Faragher uses the methods of new social history to create a portrait of the man and the times he helped shape. Blending themes from a much vitalized Western and frontier history with the words and ideas of ordinary people, Faragher has produced a book that will stand as the definitive life of Daniel Boone for decades to come, and one that illuminates the frontier world of Boone like no other.

The Accursed Treasure of Rennes-Le-Chateau

Author : Gérard de Sède
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Accursed Treasure of Rennes-Le-Chateau written by Gérard de Sède and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since February 1972 when Henry Lincoln introduced Rennes-le-Chateau and its priest Berenger Sauniere to the world outside France, vast numbers of people have become intrigued... some even obsessed... by the mystery. But those who do not understand the French language could not read "The Prime Source." The first book to tell the strange story has never been properly translated. This book fills that gap. The Accursed Treasure was the first important sign-post along a trail of discovery - and it remains key to the mystery. There is much yet to be found... much work yet to be done... before we can begin to understand its true significance. In your hands, you hold a mysterious, a significant - and a very important - book."

Blood and Oil

Author : Michael T. Klare
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1429900571
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Blood and Oil written by Michael T. Klare and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Resource Wars, a landmark assessment of the critical role of petroleum in America's actions abroad In his pathbreaking Resource Wars, world security expert Michael T. Klare alerted us to the role of resources in conflicts in the post-Cold War world. Now, in Blood and Oil, he concentrates on a single precious commodity, petroleum, while issuing a warning to the United States-its most powerful, and most dependent, global consumer. Since September 11th and the commencement of the "war on terror," the world's attention has been focused on the relationship between U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and the oceans of crude oil that lie beneath the region's soil. Klare traces oil's impact on international affairs since World War II, revealing its influence on the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, and Carter doctrines. He shows how America's own wells are drying up as our demand increases; by 2010, the United States will need to import 60 percent of its oil. And since most of this supply will have to come from chronically unstable, often violently anti-American zones-the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea, Latin America, and Africa-our dependency is bound to lead to recurrent military involvement. With clarity and urgency, Blood and Oil delineates the United States' predicament and cautions that it is time to change our energy policies, before we spend the next decades paying for oil with blood.

Spooky Archaeology

Author : Jeb J. Card
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826359655
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Spooky Archaeology written by Jeb J. Card and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By exploring the development of archaeology, this book helps us understand what archaeology is and why it matters.

The Thanksgiving Treasure

Author : Gail Rock
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497673828
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Thanksgiving Treasure written by Gail Rock and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Clear River, Nebraska, in 1947, the real meaning of Thanksgiving is friendship and forgiveness—can the holiday end an ancient feud between Addie’s father and his nemesis? Eleven-year-old Addie and her best friend, Carla Mae, are looking forward to Thanksgiving in their small hometown. When the girls make their annual bike ride into the country to pick cattails, milkweed pods, thistles, and gold leaves for their autumn bouquets, they find themselves near Old Man Rehnquist’s farm. Mr. Rehnquist and Addie’s father became archenemies years ago during a feud over a pond that her dad dug for the farmer. At school, Addie and Carla are taught that Thanksgiving is a time for fellowship, and Addie has a great idea. She’ll invite Mr. Rehnquist to Thanksgiving dinner! Will her dad and the grumpy old man be able to bury the hatchet—or will Thanksgiving be the start of a new war between the neighbors? Can the real meaning of Thanksgiving win out?

Lethal Treasure

Author : Jane K. Cleland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781410460981
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Lethal Treasure written by Jane K. Cleland and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Josie Prescott, an abandoned storage unit is the perfect place to find some killer treasure. In the auction crowd is local interior designer Henri Dubois, bidding against a stranger. Josie is thrilled to win a small unit filled with Depression-era glassware and stunning vintage jewelry. Henri's unit includes hand-painted silent movie posters, which he asks Josie to appraise. But the next morning, she receives a frantic call from Henri's wife: he never made it home.

Nightwatch

Author : Patrick Todoroff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Nightwatch written by Patrick Todoroff and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a game about killing monsters. All kinds, anywhere, any time. You and your friends are members of the NIGHTWATCH: an ancient order of warriors, trackers, wizards, and alchemists dedicated to hunting down and destroying the malevolent creatures that terrorize humanity. Over the course of the game, your characters will rise through the ranks of their chosen Guild, gaining experience and unlocking new skills as they fight ever more dangerous enemies on the blood-soaked path to confront their ultimate quarry. So sharpen your sword, check the flints on your pistols, and grab a handful of elixirs; it's time to give the monsters someone to fear. *** NIGHTWATCH - a Solo or Cooperative Tabletop Miniatures Adventure Game. Miniatures agnostic and adaptable to nearly any fantasy setting from Ancients to Black Powder, NIGHTWATCH is easy to learn and quick to play, with straightforward dice mechanics and minimal book keeping.Made for Cooperative or Solo gaming, you can read the book in an afternoon and gather your friends, your dice, terrain, and miniatures that evening for your first hunt.___From the author of 'Hardwired: Cyberpunk Espionage and Mayhem', 'Hardwired: the Tsim Sha Tsui Expansion', and 'Zona Alfa: Salvage and Survival in the Exclusion Zone.'Now sharpen your sword, check the flints on your pistols, and grab a healing potion; it's time to give the monsters something to fear.

The Last Stand of Fox Company

Author : Bob Drury
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555849121
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book The Last Stand of Fox Company written by Bob Drury and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The authors of the bestselling Halsey’s Typhoon do a fine job recounting one brutal, small-unit action during the Korean War’s darkest moment.” —Publishers Weekly November 1950, the Korean Peninsula. After General MacArthur ignores Mao’s warnings and pushes his UN forces deeper into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Their only chance for survival is to fight their way south through the Toktong Pass, a narrow gorge that will need to be held open at all costs. The mission is handed to Captain William Barber and the 234 Marines of Fox Company, a courageous but undermanned unit of the First Marines. Barber and his men climb seven miles of frozen terrain to a rocky promontory overlooking the pass, where they will endure four days and five nights of nearly continuous Chinese attempts to take Fox Hill. Amid the relentless violence, three-quarters of Fox’s Marines are killed, wounded, or captured. Just when it looks like they will be overrun, Lt. Colonel Raymond Davis, a fearless Marine officer who is fighting south from Chosin, volunteers to lead a daring mission that will seek to cut a hole in the Chinese lines and relieve the men of Fox. This is a fast-paced and gripping account of heroism in the face of impossible odds.

Sustaining Empire

Author : Edward P. Pompeian
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421443392
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Sustaining Empire written by Edward P. Pompeian and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did trade with the United States prolong Spanish colonial rule during the Venezuelan independence struggles? From 1790 to 1815, much of the Atlantic World was roiled by European imperial wars. While the citizens of the United States profited from the waste of blood and treasure, Spanish American colonists struggled to preserve their prosperity on an imperial periphery. Along the Caribbean coast of South America, colonial elites and officials fought to secure Venezuela from threats of foreign invasion, slave rebellion, and revolution. For these elites, trading with the United States and other neutral nations was not a way to subvert colonial rule but to safeguard the prosperity and happiness of loyal subjects of the Spanish Crown. Food insecurity, deprivation, and political uncertainty left Venezuela vulnerable to revolution, however. In Sustaining Empire, Edward P. Pompeian lets readers see liberal free trade just as colonial Venezuelans did. From the vantage point of the slave-holding elite to which revolutionary figures like Simón Bolívar belonged, neutral commerce was a valuable and effectual way to conserve the colonial status quo. But after Spain's crisis of sovereignty in 1808, it proved an impediment to Venezuelan independence. Analyzing the diplomatic and economic linkages between the new US republic and revolutionary Latin American governments, Pompeian reminds us that the United States did not, and does not, exist in a vacuum, and that the historic relationships between nations mattered then and matters now. Examining an overlooked region, Pompeian offers a novel interpretation of early United States relations with Latin America, showing how US merchants executed government contracts and established flour, tobacco, and slave trading monopolies that facilitated the maintenance of colonial rule and the Spanish Empire. Trading with the United States, Pompeian argues, kept both colony and empire under a tenuous hold despite revolutionary circumstances. A fascinating revisionist history, Sustaining Empire challenges long-standing assertions that this commerce served primarily as a vector for the one-way transmission of revolutionary, liberal ideas from the North to South Atlantic.

Another Man's Treasure

Author : S. W. Hubbard
Publisher : S.W. Hubbard
ISBN 13 : 9780988405516
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Another Man's Treasure written by S. W. Hubbard and published by S.W. Hubbard. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audrey Nealon is the owner of an estate sale business and finds alarming surprises in the shabby home of an elderly widow. One of the things she finds is the ring her mother was wearing the night she disappeared. Audrey relentlessly pursues clues to her family's troubled history, which will put her on a collision course with dangerous people who do not want her to find the truth.

Treasure Island

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Treasure Island written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Young Whit and the Traitor's Treasure

Author : Phil Lollar
Publisher : NavPress
ISBN 13 : 1684281288
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Young Whit and the Traitor's Treasure written by Phil Lollar and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Odyssey book series explores the history of the much-loved character John Avery Whittaker. The series introduces newcomers to the larger world of Odyssey. For readers who are already Odyssey-philes, the novels provide the history of the franchise’s most important character. Whit and his family (father, Harold; stepmother, Fiona; half-sister, Charlie) have just moved to Provenance, NC, in the middle of the Great Depression. Harold will be teaching at nearby Duke University. Not-quite-10-year-old Johnny soon makes a friend in Emmy, who lives across the street and joins him in his adventures. At his new school, he encounters a bully who makes his life miserable, and he makes a new friend in Huck, the custodian. Both of them play key roles in the mysteries and action. The central mystery in book 1 involves Confederate gold missing since the end of the Civil War and the question of whether Johnny’s ancestor was the coward and thief who stole it, as everyone believes.

The Viking Saga of Harri Bristlebeard

Author : Jonathan Stroud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781844287680
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book The Viking Saga of Harri Bristlebeard written by Jonathan Stroud and published by . This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year the Vikings set off in search of a stolen magical banner, without success. Then Harri Bristlebeard, the hairy Norseman with extraordinarily lucky trousers, takes up the challenge! Readers must solve a range of tricky riddles and perilous puzzles to overcome fierce trolls, savage wolves, the World Serpent and other dire dangers.

America's Lost Treasure

Author : Tommy Thompson
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN 13 : 9780871137326
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book America's Lost Treasure written by Tommy Thompson and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In more than 250 photographs, drawings, and illustrations, "America's Lost Treasure" chronicles the sinking and recovery of the "Central America", the subject of "The New York Times" bestseller "Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea".