The Restoration of the Jesuits in Ireland, England, Sicily, and North America
Morrissey has written a lengthy and detailed life and times biography of Peter Kenney. His book is an important contribution to 19th-century Irish and American religious history.
True Stories Of The Gem State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats
From Butch Cassidy to George Levy, Harry Orchard to Caleb Lyon, read about the most notorious desperadoes in the history of the Gem State. Through these astonishing true stories, Outlaw Tales of Idaho introduces you to a state you thought you know--and a West wilder than you even imagined.
2014 Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards Finalist Aware that her youth is slipping by, Mary Beth Baptiste decides to escape her lackluster, suburban life in coastal Massachusetts to pursue her lifelong dream of being a Rocky Mountain woodswoman. To the horror of her traditional, ethnic family, she divorces her husband of ......
This well-researched biography of the life-and controversial death-of Robert LeRoy Parker, a.k.a. Butch Cassidy, is a journey across the late-nineteenth-century American West as we follow Cassidy's exploits in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, where he made his name as a surprisingly affable outlaw. More important, this book answers the question: Did ......
ISBN-13: 9781630760380
(Paperback)
Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT Imprint: TAYLOR TRADE PUBLISHING
John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West
John Wesley Hardin! His name spread terror in much of Texas in the years following the Civil War as the most wanted fugitive with a $4,000 reward on his head. A Texas Ranger wrote that he killed men just to see them kick. Hardin began his killing career in the late 1860s and remained a wanted man until his capture in 1877 by Texas Rangers and ......
Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934), Nathaniel Hawthorne's only son, lived a long and influential life marked by bad circumstances and worse choices. Raised among luminaries such as Thoreau, Emerson, and the Beecher family, Julian became a promising novelist in his twenties, but his writing soon devolved into mediocrity.What talent the young Hawthorne ......
The first in-depth historical study of the trailblazing filmmaker and feminist and her work ''Tami Williams has produced a monumental, extraordinarily well-researched, highly readable portrait of one of the most significant figures in the history of cinema.... There is, quite literally, no other book like it anywhere, in any language. It is the ......
Here is the enthralling story of the Grand Duchess of Courland and her daughters, and their cunning navigation of the courts of Napoleonic Europe. They shared beds with the most powerful men of Europe-Metternich and Talleyrand-and these remarkable women were able to subtly shape history from their boudoirs.
ISBN-13: 9781590773949
(Paperback)
Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT Imprint: M. EVANS & COMPANY
