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Hero Tales From History
by Smith Burnham
- 1930 - Mini-biographies of some of the worlds most influential people, from Moses and Socrates, to Shakespeare, Joan of Arc, Magellan, Benjamin Franklin, Lewis and Clark, Clara Barton, and many many many more! With very nice color and b+w illustrations. (hardback)
$18.00


Westward the course of Empire
by Gene Morgan

-1945 - The story of the Pony Express, forerunner of the Burlington Zephyrs.
(hardcover)
$6.00


Kateri Tekakwitha
Mohawk Maid
by Evelyn M. Brown
- 1958 - The story of a North American Indian girl in the 1600s who becomes a Christian.
(hardcover)
$5.00

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Gettysburg
by William O. West

- 1966 - Photographs of dioramas (scale models) help illustrate the story of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. A "Great Battles of History" book. Hard to find! (hardcover)
$25.00


A Brave Young Land
by Edna McGuire

- 1937 - A nicely illustrated history textbook type book for children at about the 5th grade level. This covers the period in history from explorers finding new lands to the American Revolutionary War. Told in an engaging narrative style.
(hardcover)
$5.00

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The Incredible William Bowles
by Joseph Millard

- 1966 - The interesting life of William Augustus Bowles, a boy from a prominent Tory family during the American Revolution war, who ran away at age 13 to fight the war....wound up getting kicked out and joining up with a Creek Indian tribe in Florida. (hardcover)
$7.00


An American Heritage Guide: Historic Houses of America
- 1971 -
A fascinating state-by-state guide to many of the historic homes across the country.
$5.00

Famous Bombers of the Second World War Volume Two
by William Green

- 1960 - Extensive information and photographs of these planes. (hardcover)
$5.00

Wings of the World
by the National Aeronautics Council

- 1940 - Fighting, Commercial, and Private airplanes of the world including photographs, specifications and performance charts of 60 of the best known.
$6.00

On To Oregon!
by Honoré Willsie Morrow

- 1963 - The story of John Sager, born in 1831, who takes charge of his younger siblings when their parents die on the wagon journey west.
(hardcover)
$4.00

Collision Course
by Alvin Moscow
- 1960 - The chronicle of the mysterious sinking of the Andrea Doria ship in 1956.
$6.00

The Leading Facts of French History
by D. H. Montgomery

- 1889 - The French histories of Guizot, Rambaud, Martin, and Duruy. With colored maps. (hardcover)
$8.00

Midnight Champion Bucking Horse
by Sam Savitt
- 1963 - The true story of the greatest bucking bronco in rodeo history as told by the men who rode him in the 1920s and 1930s.
$5.00


Matthias W. Baldwin
Locomotive Pioneer!

by Ralph Kelly
- 1946 - A biography of the inventor, who lived from 1795-1866. With illustrations.
$9.00


Heroes and Holidays
by Virginia Cunningham

- 1948 - Life stories of Christopher Columbus, The Pilgrims, Geoge Washington, and Abraham Lincoln. (Cover edges taped and worn but pages are in great condition!)
(hardcover)
$4.00

The Nazi Years
by Joachim Remak

- 1969 - a documentary history of the problems and obsessions that led Germany to accept National Socialism.
$3.00


George Washington Carver
by Anne Terry White
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1962 - A Scholastic children's biography of the scientist who was born into slavery in the 1860s.
$4.00

 


Belva Lockwood Wins Her Case
by Drollene P. Brown

- 1987 - Describe the struggles and triumphs of a suffragette lawyer who became the first woman to practice law before the Supreme Court during the 1880s. (hardcover)
$4.00


Margaret Pumphrey's Pilgrim Stories
by Elvajean Hall

- 1964 - Various accounts of the Pilgrim life.
$3.00


Squanto Friend of the Pilgrims
by Clyde Robert Bulla

- 1968 - An American Indian boy in the early 1600s is taken to England, then years later returns to America.
$3.00

 


Zlata's Diary
by Zlata Filipovic

- 1994 - The diary of a girl living through the Bosnian-Serbian war of the early '90, written while she was ages 10-13.
(hardcover)
$2.00


The First Book of Japan
by Helen Mears
-1953 - Children's book detailing the culture, traditions, and way of life of the Japanese people. (hardback)
$4.00


Daniel Boone
by Katharine E. Wilkie

- 1961 - The life of the 18th century man.
$2.00


...If you lived in Colonial Times
by Ann McGovern
- 1970 - A Scholastic children's book about different aspects of life during the 1500s through 1700s.
$3.00

The First Frontier: Life in Colonial America
by John C. Miller
- 1966 - A recreation of the varied ways in which the colonists lived - from the Puritans to the Plantations!
$3.00


Pioneer Girl
by Maryanne Caswell

- 1964 -The story of a Toronto family who pioneered on the Canadian prairie in 1885, told through the letters of the 14 year old daughter who wrote home to her grandmother.
$6.00


Sarah Bishop
by Scott O'Dell
-1980 - Fictionalized story of the real Sarah Bishop, a teenager surviving on her own in the midst of the Revolutionary War.
$2.00

The Secret of Sarah Revere
by Ann Rinaldi
- 1995 - The story of Paul Revere, told from the fictionalized point of view of his 13 year old daughter, Sarah.
$2.00


Prairie City
by Angie Debo

- 1985 - A social history of the town of Prairie City, Oklahoma, as told by a woman who was brought there as a child in a covered wagon. (hardcover)
$5.00


The Negro Revolt
by Louis E. Lomax

- 1964 - Examines the 300 year old struggle of African-Americans for freedom.
$4.00

Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin
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1961 - The account of a white man who disguises himself as black to see how he's treated in the south in 1959.
$5.00

The Spider King
by Lawrence Schoonover
- 1954 - A biographical novel about Louis XI of France. (hardcover)
$3.00


Jennie
by Jane Claypool Miner
- 1989 - A fictionalized account of a young woman surviving the disastrous Johnstown Flood of 1889 in Pennsylvania.
$3.00


The United States Marines
by Lynn Montross and Willaim M. Miller
 
- 1967 - An authentic history of the Marines.
$3.00


The Bridge
by Dic Gardner

- 1963 - A fictional account of the collapse and rebuilding of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State. (hardcover)
$4.00


Challenge of Ice
by Robert N. Webb

- 1963 - Real life stories of polar explorers. (hardcover)
$3.00


The Tunnel
by Eric Williams
- 1961 - The author's true story of his life inside a WWII prisoner of war camp and attempts to escape. (hardcover)
$3.00


Peter the Great
by Giancarlo Buzzi
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1967 -The story of Peter the Great of Russia, in the 17th century. (Picture shows only part of book: I couldn't fit it all in the scanner!) (hardback)
 $3.00

The Story of Helen Keller
by Lorena A. Hickok
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1962 - A Scholastic children's biography of the girl who was born blind and deaf.
$2.00


American Spies
by Richard Deming
- 1960 - Real life stories of undercover agents in our history. (hardcover)
$4.00

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