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Charles Jesse "Buffalo" Jones (January 31, 1844 - October 1, 1919), was an American frontiersman, farmer, rancher, hunter, and conservationist. As a contemporary of Buffalo Bill, Pawnee Bill and Wild Bill Hickock, he helped shape the enduring image of the mountain man, plainsman and the cowboy west. After his years as a buffalo hunter, Buffalo Jones was instrumental in gathering buffalo for preservation. His legacy includes the first president...

Annie Oakley was an American sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. She developed hunting skills as a child to provide for her impoverished family in western Ohio. At 15, she won a shooting contest against experienced marksman Frank E. Butler, whom she later married in 1876. The pair joined Buffalo Bill in 1885, performing in Europe before royalty and other heads of state. Annie Oakley's worldwide stardom as a sharpshooter ...

William Frederick Cody, known as "Buffalo Bill", was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman. He became a rider for the Pony Express at age 15. During the American Civil War he served as a scout, and afterwards as a civilian scout, buffalo hunter and stagecoach driver. In 1872 he began his Wild West shows, traveling all over the country and Europe. This book, "Buffalo Bill When the West Was Wild" will educate and entertain the reader wi...

Chief Manuelito (Hastiin Ch¿il Haajiní) was one of the principal headmen of the Diné Navajo people before, during and after the devastating 1864 "Long Walk" period when they were forced to walk over 300 miles across deserts from northern Arizona to the Bosque Redondo Reservation in New Mexico. Manuelito rallied his nation against the oppression of the United States military. After being relocated to Bosque Redondo, Manuelito was among the lead...

Martha Jane Cannary (May 1, 1852 - August 1, 1903), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, sharpshooter, Pony Express rider, stage coach driver, wild west show performer and so much more. As a contemporary of Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and other illustrious figures of the frontier plains, Calamity Jane found center stage with the noted men of the west. This book, "Calamity Jane - Woman Of the Western Plains", traces...

Christopher Columbus was an explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for the widespread European exploration, exploitation and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions, sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, were the first European contact with the Caribbean, Central America, and South American peoples. This publication, "Four Voyages Of Christopher Columbus" examines the perils, s...

On April 4, 1789, the Bounty departed Tahiti with its store of breadfruit saplings. On April 28, near the island of Tonga, Fletcher Christian and 25 petty officers and seamen seized the ship. Bligh was set adift in an overcrowded 23-foot-long boat in the middle of the Pacific. By remarkable seamanship, Bligh and his men sailed over 3, 600 nautical miles, reaching Timor in the East Indies on June 14, 1789. This publication "Log Of Captain Bligh...

Texas Courthouses - Good Bad and Beautiful" showcases all 254 Texas county courthouses. Some are good, a few are bad but most are beautiful. Covering all 266, 807 square miles of Texas, reading about the history of each town square and its courthouse is an adventure in arm-chair travel. From original log cabins to ornate palaces, "Texas Courthouses - Good Bad and Beautiful" will entertain the reader on road trips into history.

Some of the world's most beautiful and iconic gardens were developed on grand properties of the "Landed Gentry", designed by master landscapers and maintained by skilled gardeners. English gardens are created with entry ways, paths, retaining walls, flower beds, pools and hedges. Flowers include the exotic, bold and beautiful lupine, veronica, hydrangea, hibiscus, and bee balm. Vine-covered arbors, arches overgrown with roses, herbs and edible...

Mother Goose is the author of children's stories written as rhymes that have been passed down through oral tradition and published over centuries. This publication, "Mother Goose Rhymes - The Complete Collection", contains over 100 full page color nursery rhymes that will thrill and amuse young children and the reader to them. Mother Goose is the most recognized book of nursery rhymes, enjoyed for generations.

During the 1830s, Osceola, a Seminole warrior, led members of his tribe in Florida in a valiant attempt to resist the US Army's efforts to forcibly deport them to a reservation west of the Mississippi River, following the directive of President Andrew Jackson. The result was three wars fought between the U.S. Army and the Seminole Indians, with Osceola as their leader. The Seminoles were part of the infamous Indian Removal known as The Trail O...

Squanto was of the Pawtuxet people in present-day Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He was seized with other Indians and taken to Málaga, Spain, to be sold into slavery. Squanto somehow escaped to England and joined the Newfoundland Company. He returned home in 1619 on his second trip back to North America only to find that his people had been wiped out by disease. During the spring of 1621, Squanto was brought to the new Pilgrim settlement of P...

Last Of The Wampanoag is the account that led up to King Philip's War, also known as the First Indian War, the Great Narragansett War or Metacom's Rebellion, which took place in southern New England from 1675 to 1676. It was the Native Americans' last-ditch effort to avoid recognizing English authority and stop English settlement on their native lands. The war is named after the Wampanoag chief Metacom, later known as Philip or King Philip, wh...

The shape of Texas was formed from 1519 - 1845 under six governments and flags. Its development included Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic Of Texas, the Confederate States Of America and the United States Of America. The "Compromise Of 1850" settled disputes of boundaries with Oklahoma and New Mexico. For readers interested in history, this book, "How Texas Got Its Shape", makes the past come alive with wars, intrigue, politics and more. Ful...

Captain James Cook did three voyages of discovery. His first one lasted three years, from 1768 to 1771. This book, "Otaheite - Log Of Captain Cook", covers the portion from Tierra del Fuego at the tip of South America through his three month stay in Tahiti. While there, he documented the track of Venus across the face of the sun, which was critical in determining the exact position of a ship. Captain Cook's description of the island life of Ta...

Canada's First Nation peoples were settled and had established trade routes across Canada by 500 BCE - 1, 000 CE. Communities developed each with its own culture, customs, and character. This book deals chiefly with the "Central" Eskimo of Hudson Bay, Baffin Land, Davis Strait, and Labrador in the early 1900s. Learn about the country and its peoples, occupations, social life, the hunter and tales of the First People of Canada.

Pontiac was a war chief who led the Ottawas during Pontiac's War, from 1763 to 1766, in an armed struggle against the British in the Great Lakes region. Pontiac's importance was as the mastermind and leader of the revolt. In July 1763, Pontiac defeated a British detachment at Detroit in the Battle of Bloody Run. An accomplished orator, Pontiac was able to corral numerous other tribes to his cause. Readers will be fully engaged with the history...

Pocahontas was a young Native American woman of the Powhatan people, daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief. She is noted for her interactions with the early colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. This book, "Pocahontas - Powhatan Princess", records interesting historical details of her childhood with the Powhatans, her saving of Captain John Smith, marriages to Powtawan member Kocoum and to Englishman John Rolfe, being presented as ro...

Tecumseh - The Roaming Cherokee" outlines in detail why his name means "goes through one place to another". He travelled extensively, promoting resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. As a persuasive orator, Tecumseh formed the first Native American confederacy and promoted intertribal unity. Taking sides with the British, he participated in many campaigns before, during and after the War Of 1812.Tecumseh b...

When the Hunga Tonga - Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted on January 15, 2022, destruction, death and personal stories of survival filled the news worldwide. Sonic waves from the blast were recorded around the globe. Tonga is known as "The Friendly Islands" and will remain so, regardless of Hunga Tonga - Hunga Ha'apai. This book "Hunga Tonga - The Volcano!" is filled with dramatic photos and records, such as that of Lisala Folau "the Aquaman" who s...