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The House of the Burgesses
A facsimile reprint of the Second Edition (1994) of this genealogical guide to 25,000 descendants of William Burgess of Richmond (later King George) County, Virginia, and his only known son, Edward Burgess of Stafford (later King George) County, Virginia. Complete with illustrations, photos, comprehensive given and surname indexes, and historical introduction.
Across the Wide Missouri
In the summer of 1819 Alexander Campbell and his family left Highland County, Virginia, on a trek to the wilderness country of Missouri Territory. This is his actual diary of the trip to and from Missouri three years apart, during which time the Campbells suffered great privation and saw much of the lower Midwest and upper South. Complete with index, map, and detailed background notes by scholars Mary Wickizer Burgess and Michael Burgess.
BP 250
An Annotated Bibliography of the First 300 Publications of the Borgo Press, 1975-1998
The Wickizer Annals
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The Horse Story Megapack
The horse has been championed throughout history as a war machine, a means of transport, an adjunct to farming, a source of popular entertainment, and, finally, as a true friend and companion. So it's no surprise that writers throughout history have featured the horse prominently in their fiction. Here are 25 stories and 5 poems of equine fiction and literature, from Anna Sewell's Black Beauty to classic tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Jonathan Swift, and many others! Included are: Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell The Man from Snowy River, by A. B. Paterson [poem] Chu Chu, by Bret Harte John G., by Katherine Mayo Gulliver's Travels: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms, by Jonathan...
The Purple Glove Murders
Two new short novels featuring attorney Gail Brevard. In THE PURPLE GLOVE MURDERS, Gail and her companion and law partner, Conrad "Connie" Osterlitz, are relaxing at their Southern California mountain hideaway when Gail hears of a nearby tragedy. Retired Justice Winston Craig, a friend of Gail's late father, has been discovered face down near his dock on exclusive Black Bear Lake. The judge's widow, Eva, asks for their help in finding the cause of his death. As Gail begins to uncover the details of Craig's life, a familiar pattern begins to emerge. Convinced that the judge was murdered because of something he knew from one of his old cases, Gail suddenly finds herself at risk. Then Connie is...
California Ranchos, Second Edition
California Ranchos is a thorough reworking of a 1942 WPA project, listing the land grants issued during the Spanish and Mexican periods of California history. Entries include: rancho name, record number, present-day county, area of grant, grant date, recipient(s), acreage, new patent date, new recipients' names, and location. Entries are arranged by county and rancho name. Several comprehensive indexes make the material completely accessible. The first place to go for research into California land holdings.
¡Viva California!
Here are seven previously uncollected documents relating to the history of California, from its early days as a Mexican territory to the first fifty years of statehood as part of the United States. Jose del Carmen Lugo, a native-born Californio, tells of his life as a ranchero in San Bernardino and elsewhere, and the coming of the Norteamericanos in the 1840s. Benjamin Davis (Benito) Wilson recounts many of the same events from the perspective of an English-speaking settler who intermarried with one of the early land-owning Mexican families, and later supported the U.S. side during the Mexican-American War of 1845-48. Alexandre Holinski touts the virtues of frontier California and San Franci...
Bad Karma
California’s burning out of control, and arson is suspected. No one has a clue how and why fires are being set off all over the state. David Spaulding, an agent with the FBI, has gone undercover to search for the truth. He becomes acquainted—and fascinated with—Carmen Ruiz, an attractive woman who has just signed on as an arson specialist in training with the California Division of Forestry. Will Dave and his team be able to track down the perpetrator in time to prevent another disastrous burn? Or will evil forces, too strong to control, prevail?
The Wickizer Annals
Conrad Wickizer (ca.1740-1802) immigrated from the Palatinate of Germany to Palatine, New York during or before 1765, moved to Luzerne County, Pennsylvania before 1782, and served in the Revolutionary War. Des- cendants lived throughout the United States.
