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Frances Walker
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From Morning to Night
At the same time, they negotiated the era's increasing Jim Crow restrictions and, during precious hours off-duty, helped support families, churches, and the larger black community."--BOOK JACKET.
Collecting Ladies
Around 1870, Ferdinand von Mueller, the greatest Australian botanist of the nineteenth century, began to advertise in several newspapers across Australia for 'lady' plant collectors. This was at a time when women typically had little recourse to science, or contact with men outside their circle of friends, making Mueller's network of ladies quite extraordinary. Collecting Ladies profiles 14 of Mueller's coterie of women collectors. Included are Fanny Charsley, Louisa Atkinson, Annie Walker and Ellis Rowan for whom Mueller made time to assist in pursuit of their own passions. He identified the plants they painted and provided letters of introduction to publishers and scientists. Together, these ladies produced some of the most beautiful books and botanical art to come out of Australia in the nineteenth century, covering all the Australian colonies.
Stealing the Gila
By 1850 the Pima Indians of central Arizona had developed a strong and sustainable agricultural economy based on irrigation. As David H. DeJong demonstrates, the Pima were an economic force in the mid-nineteenth century middle Gila River valley, producing food and fiber crops for western military expeditions and immigrants. Moreover, crops from their fields provided an additional source of food for the Mexican military presidio in Tucson, as well as the U.S. mining districts centered near Prescott. For a brief period of about three decades, the Pima were on an equal economic footing with their non-Indian neighbors. This economic vitality did not last, however. As immigrants settled upstream ...
The Gatekeeper
The Kiss of Death Awaits Thy Hand, My Dear Something strange is happening in the sleepy little town of Dawsons Grove. When a beautiful young mystery writer named Terry Parker moves into a palatial Victorian home on the outskirts of town, she is unaware of the dark legacy buried deep within its crumbling walls. Her charming lover has turned against her, and one by one, bodies turn up all over town. When Detective Rory Franklin is put on the case, he learns that the key to solving the murders may lie with a man who died nearly a century ago. Terry soon finds herself at the center of a fierce battle between good and evil as she tries to save her life, her home and her newborn son.
In Old Virginia
Walker humbly referred to himself as a poor illiterate worm, but his diary dramatically captures the life of a small planter in antebellum Virginia
