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Originally published in 1960 and long out-of-print, William E. Scheele's The Mound Builders is still a valuable archaeological introduction to early American peoples, in particular the Hopewell and Adena of Ohio. It is intended for younger readers (ages 8-12) with larger easy to read text, and illustrations by the author.

George W. Tyler (1851-1927) was a lawyer and judge in Bell County, Texas. His history of the county, published posthumously, charts Bell County's developmenty from 1827 to 1920, from the Robertson Colony and the first settlements on Little River through the Great War. Originally published in 1936, this book is a faithful facsimile of that edition, complete with photographs and index.

A classic collection of Halloween Tales & Games written by Ethel Owen and beautifully illustrated by Eleanore Mineah Hubbard. There are, appropriately, thirteen selections. Originally published in 1928, this is a new facsimile edition.

This is a facsimile reprint of the 1886 edition. After its initial 3-month service, the 4th OVI mustered in for three years' service at Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, Ohio in June of 1861. It served in many minor and major battles, including Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg.

How to be a Medium is a detailed description and manual for all aspects of Mediumship. Its two parts are The Development and Practice of Mediumship and The Meaning of Mediumship.

127 pp. Color illustrations. A facsimile reprint of the 1926 Peters Ammunition Catalogue #40. At this time, Peters was based in Kings Mills, Ohio, on the banks of the Little Miami River, about 25 miles north of Cincinnati.

John Cabell Chenault lived with his family in Madison County, Kentucky, during the Civil War. Later in his life he recounted his experiences in a manuscript, forming the basis of this book, which was, after his death in 1924, edited and completed by Jonathan Truman Dorris. Although expressing some ambivalence about the existence of slavery, Chenault's reminiscences ultimately espoused the more typical 19th century description of a "benevolent ...

This is a new reprint of the 1912 classic calendar poetry book by James Whitcomb Riley. Each month is illustrated in the Arts & Crafts style with beautiful color woodcuts by Gustave Baumann. There is a full page poem and one full page illustration for each month.

The true story of how Detroit's Purple-Licavoli Gang took over Toledo and its aftermath. Prohibition and Toledo's proximity to rum-running routes made it an ideal target of organized crime and the author details how the takeover was implemented and how corruption eased the process.

Clovernook: Home for the Blind is a brief history originally published in 1957. Clovernook was built on the grounds of the home of noted poets Alice and Phoebe Cary in Cincinnati, Ohio. Within a decade it became one of the most innovative homes for the blind, incorporating a weaving shop and, importantly, a braille press which, by the 1920s, was the second leading publisher of braille books in the country. It remains to this day one of the lar...

In "Queen City Yesterdays, " William C. Smith describes the everyday life of his youth in the West End of 1880s Cincinnati. Short chapters describe in detail material and cultural life in urban Cincinnati: Central Avenue, School Days, Games, Chores, Literary Fare, Eating Habits, Social Customs, Entertainment, Sartorial Scenery, Cincinnati Saloon, Tailpiece. This is a reprint of the original 1959 edition.

Blood on the Moon (1931) is Tully's fifth and final book in what he called his Underworld Edition-a series of autobiographical books focusing on different aspects of his childhood and youth. As the concluding book in the series, Tully looks back at subjects from the previous four Underworld books. There are hobo stories that would have fit well in Beggars of Life, there are Hughie Tully's stories that could have come from Shanty Irish, the Gre...

The idea of men in jail had interested Jim Tully for years, going back to his youthful reading of Dostoyevsky's The House of the Dead and his own time in jail and on a work crew. It was to this subject that he turned with Shadows of Men. He had already written about drifters and the underworld in Beggars of Life and Circus Parade, but those episodes were, respectively, part of his larger story of life as a road kid and working for a small-time...

Mountain Feuds of Eastern Kentucky is a new reprint of a short memoir written by Noah M. Reynolds (1866-1955) about his family's feuds, in particular with the Wright family. The book is 5x7 inches with 45 pages.

Many saw the dark side of the American dream, but none wrote about it like Jim Tully. Having spent six years of his childhood in a Cincinnati orphanage, Tully returned to his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio before climbing aboard a freight train in 1901. Drifting across the country as a "road kid, " he spent his teens, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, and haunting public libraries. After six years on the road, he settled in Kent, ...

J.A. Richards's History of Bath County is still today an important contribution to the history of the county and Kentucky.

Perhaps few other frontiersmen of the early Revolutionary period were as complicated as the notorious Simon Girty. A native of Pennsylvania, Girty spent years of his childhood as a captive of the Seneca, eventually assimilating into its culture. During Lord Dunmore's War, Girty fought alongside Simon Kenton and Daniel Boone as a spy and scout for the British forces. Although initially supporting the Americans in the Revolution, Girty switched ...

Hill Man, set in the Kentucky Hills, is the story of the ambitious and lustful Rady Cromwell and three women. According to Giles, Rady was emblematic of men in his time and place, "men who know no law but their own wills and desires, and have no evidence of conscience. Rady is no fiction. He is fact." Hill Man was the only novel Janice Holt Giles wrote using a pseudonym. Although appreciative of her first publisher, the religiously oriented We...

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Cincinnati Union Terminal was completed in 1933 and today's remains one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in the United States. Its construction combined into one complex several area railroad stations and streamlined passenger service, able to process over 17, 000 passengers on over 200 trains per day. This book was originally published in 1933 to commemorate the dedication of the new terminal.