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This is an intriguing glimpse of life in an English country house between the wars, filled with anecdotes and bits of humor. ... Read more

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Fascinating read
The book arrived in perfect condition and was a fascinating read.
The book tells of a family's life in a home during an era of forgotten gentility. The story goes into much detail yet the reader is never tempted to skim. The book would serve as an excellent resource for anyone writing fiction or non-fiction and wanting to get the details right of how living was conducted in England between the two world wars. ... Read more

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A lovingly detailed history of the North Saskatchewan River Corridor, Shunda Basin, Brazeau Collieries and Nordegg, from before the arrival of Europeans, through the fur trade and exploration years, to the discovery of coal and the development of the region to the present day. Unique in its conception, development and population, the mining town of Nordegg in particular offers a lasting reminder of the persistence and vision of Alberta's pioneer generations. ... Read more

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At the age of nineteen Emily Wharton married Charles Sinkler and moved eight hundred miles from her Philadelphia home to a cotton plantation in an isolated area in the South Carolina Low Country. In monthly letters to her northern family she recorded keen observations about her adopted home, and in a receipt book she assembled a trusted collection of culinary and medicinal recipes reflecting her ties to both North and South. Together with an extensive biographical and historical introduction by Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq, these documents provide a flavorful record of plantation cooking, folk medicine, travel, and social life in the antebellum South.

While Emily Wharton Sinkler's letters reflect the vibrancy and affluence of Low Country plantation society at the peak of its power and wealth, they also record her philosophical indisposition to slavery and document her significant role in managing the plantation, which meant administering provisions and attending to the health of more than two hundred people. The receipts offer valuable insight into the melding of diverse cultural and ethnic influences—French Huguenot, African, Low Country, Virginian, and Pennsylvanian—and reveal Sinkler's reliance on locally grown ingredients, success in devising substitutions for items that had been readily available in Philadelphia, and skill in treating a myriad of ailments.

This new edition of An Antebellum Plantation Household includes an appendix of eighty-two additional receipts, recently discovered by the author amid her family archives. ... Read more

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The best non-fiction book ever written about the Midwest
I discovered this book when I was living in San Francisco, and it convinced me to move back home to the Midwest.Le Sueur is an earthy, populist writer.This is a history of Minnesota, but its doesn't troubleitself with governors and generals.Le Sueur writes about Indians,farmers, cornhuskers, pioneers, the ordinary people who built the Midwest. And her descriptions of nature and weather are beautiful.She lovedpeople, she loved her native country.If you're from the Midwest, buy thisbook.You'll either get homesick, or you'll be glad you never left home. ... Read more

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John Cabel Breckenridge Johnson was a true pioneer doctor inthe years following the Civil War. Dr. Breck, as he was called,journeyed by horseback, buggy, and wagon to care for the sick andneedy in the Ozarks. He was greatly loved by all, especially those whoreceived his tender care.This is a true story about Dr. Breck andBelle Ross Johnson, written by their daughter, Amy Johnson Miller, oneof their ten children.Dr. Breck died from the smallpox epidemic whenAmy was only six years old. The story depicts the Johnson familystruggles during the early 1900s moving from Forysth, Taney County,area of Missouri to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and finally Chanute,Kansas. ... Read more

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The great travellers of the 17th century - Martin, Penant, Johnson et al - used the word 'curiosity' to mean many different things. They labelled as 'curiosities' people, plants, legends, historical facts and geological certainties. This book follows their example in a 21st century journey around Argyll and its islands. It is difficult to find an area of Argyll which is not curious in some way: archaeology, geography, geology and genealogy have all served to mark out this western fringe of Scotland as unique. Discarding those curiosities which it is all too easy to find on any journey through the county, Marian Pallister has looked extensively into places, people and events which are curiously layered, and has created a book that is overflowing with enchanting 'curiosities' and local histories. ... Read more

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Truth is stranger (and more interesting) than fiction
Forget the things you think you know about the history of this area. Dr. Cashion spent enormous amounts of time and effort tracking down the truth about events which have become part of Texas folklore--and has debunked a lot of what we "thought" we knew in the process.His books are as fascinating as his University lectures...hang on for a great read!

I was ENTHRALLED!

I found this book at the dusty museum at Buffalo Gap, Texas,

and was enthralled!

Somebody has written the DIFINITIVE history of my early stompin'

grounds,

(the area whose back roads I traversed in my early 20's,

shooting .22 rimfire bullets into every road sign I encountered,

(statute of limitations HAS expired)

and as I read it,

I detected nary a false note.

Ty Cushion is a righteous dude,

(for a Baptist).

Pioneering Look At The Life And Death Of A Frontier Town
While researching the town of Griffin for my own work, I was referred to Dr. Cashion's book by the curators of the Old Jail Art Center in Albany, TX.Not only is this book indispensible in any serious study of the town of Griffin, which was a hub of the cattle and buffalo trade in the mid-1800's (through which many notable western personas passed, such as John Selman -the killer of John Wesley Hardin, and the fabled poker queen Lottie Deno), it is also a fascinating account of the birth, life and eventual demise of a classic frontier boom town.Dr. Cashion's book, while also covering the whole of the Clear Fork Country (and also happily, its overlooked minority inhabitants), could almost be considered a biography of Ft. Griffin, if we can imagine the town itself as a personality. The book gives a fine description of the natural land as it was seen by its first inhabitants (and first European explorers), and goes on to describe the various elements (political, natural, social etc.) which led to the settling of the area.Griffin is treated with special interest, from its early beginnings as a military outpost, to its heyday as an outfitting and entertainment capital for buffalo hunters and later cattle outfits, to its oil days, and on through to its eventual decline.There are a great many interesting photographs, both of the land, of old surveying maps, and of the people who populated the area, white, black, and Indian.Of particular interest is the chapter `Just Plain Old Folks,' which records many of the daily doings, trials, and tribulations of the everyday citizens.Dr. Cashion writes with equal and obvious passion of the rawboned hunters and cattlemen, the violent sometimes gunmen like John Larn and Selman, who used both sides of the law to their own ends, the retired buffalo soldiers, just trying to make their living somewhere between the harsh trials of the land and the distrust of their white neighbors, and the women and children who found themselves living and working in lonely cabins far from the company of friends and neighbors.For this alone the book is worth it, but also worthy are the revisionist-minded attempts of the author to debunk the many stereotypes and outright falsehoods about the area which have passed as history for so long.Griffin the town is no more the blood-soaked, bullet-riddled Sodom of the west that it has sometimes been portrayed as in fiction and some history (an old biography of Doc Holliday comes to mind, and is once referred to by the author) than is any other myriad of western towns which has ever romantically laid claim to that misnomer. The stories of its people however, are no less interesting, and Dr. Cashion's book proves that.Highly recommended!

Had this prof. for a class..He's cool and his book is great
Well written!enjoyable to read. I had Dr. Cashion at Sam Houston State this fall. His class is great, it was a great learning expirience. The book is wonderful. Although I missed a couple of points about the book butthat's ok. ... Read more

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Indiana University Press is pleased to be able to collaborate with the Hoosier National Forest in making this engaging look at the Forest region available to a wide audience. "Looking at History" examines the history from geologic times to the present of a nine-county region - Perry, Jackson, Orange, Crawford, Dubois, Lawrence, Monroe, Martin, and Brown. It is an area rich in cultural heritage - prehistoric Indians, pioneer settlers, rural family life, folklore. "Looking at History" concentrates on the land and the natural culture of the inhabitants to produce a unique portrait of a distinctive area of our state. Included are 105 photographs, drawings, and maps. ... Read more

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Will make your world more beautiful!!!
I am a voracious reader and it is one of my greatest pleasures...and this book is marvelous, a wee bit David Sedaris-esque, very honest insights about life on the land, marriage, being a mother..author has a great sense of humor and is at times so honest it makes you blush, a very intimate memoir about living, parenting and loving within an intentional, green community along the Rum River in rural Minnesota. Parents will love it, wives will love it, baby boomers will love it,naturalists will love it, the green community will...well you get my meaning..can't recommend it highly enough...your life will be richer for having read this book!!

Inspired by World Gone Beautiful
World Gone Beautiful is what good memoir is to me - a walk down a road not taken lead by an intensely honest and insightful soul.I loved learning about Linda Buturain's experience creating a community with three other couples/families on 80 acres along the wild Rum River in Minnesota. World Gone Beautiful spoke to my heart about living on the land gently and preserving whenever possible large expanses of natural space.This book is a window into a beautiful soul, an author willing to expose her vulnerabilities, passions, and joys.Thank you Linda Buturain for World Gone Beautiful. ... Read more

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For centuries Falkirk's key position at the heart of Scotland has ensured its central role in the nation's history. Roman legions, Highland cattle drovers, canal builders, and ironmasters have all left their mark on a district associated in turn with William Wallace, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Bonnie Prince Charlie. In the Victorian and Edwardian eras, unrivalled skill in ironfounding and the fertility of the carse brought prosperity to the town and to the nearby villages. The decline associated with steady economic and social change in the last half-century has given way to a growing self-confidence and to real programmes of urban and industrial renewal. There is an awakening of interest in the history of the area, helped in no small way by the restoration of the canals and the construction of the Falkirk Wheel, the world's first rotating boat lift. This book gives a fully revised and comprehensive account of Falkirk's fascinating history. ... Read more

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From 1752 to 1932
A fascinating fast moving history of several families and towns staring with Johnson Hall and Fishhouse in 1752 and ending at Windover in Johnsburg circa 1932.A fast interesting read as the author is able to make you feel you are actually there.This is a must read for anyone living in upstate NY and all others interested in some personal history - the plus is that today Johnson Hall is a museum, Fishhouse still exists as a town and Windover continues to serve it's original intended purpose - a family retreat deep in the heart of the Adirondacks.Only Foxlair seems to be lost for all time (purposely burned day after Thanksgiving in 1966 - the land is today owned by the State of New York.) ... Read more

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