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by Judith Levy
Amazon Price: $13.57
Customer Review: This is a great book to give to your grandmothers in order that you may learn more about them. It is very detailed and I am looking forward to getting this back from them all filled out. I suggested that they fill this out a little every day because it can be a little daunting to look at the entire book as needing to be filled in. Definately would recommend this.
Generations: An American Family
by John Egerton
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Customer Review: This is the real story of Burnam and Addie Ledford of eastern Kentucky and their ancestors and their descendants. Author John Egerton, who spent quite a lot of time with the two Ledfords whose ages and memories were remarkable, took the ancient art of oral storytelling and crafted it into a well-written book. I felt I was actually there with Burnam and Addie while reading this book.
It's not just the story of this one family, but also a story about how some of our ancestors moved west through the Cumberland Gap; a story about how big and wide-spread a family tree gets over the years; a story about how slow things changed just a few generations ago, but how fast things change ...
by Martha Zschock, Heather Zschock
Amazon Price: $13.46
Customer Review: I bought this book for my 9-month-old twins. They won't be able to read it for a while, but it's waiting for them on their bookshelf as soon as they're ready for paper pages!! It's not a baby book, but I couldn't resist it when I saw it.
As a New Yorker, I'm a discriminating critic - this book is chock full of interesting text, great detail and fun illustrations. The quality is great. And all the adults that see it feel compelled to read it cover to cover.
So it's really a fun, fun gift for a family with kids, whether or not they live in or plan to visit New York.
Empire of Silver
by Robert Leaman Brown
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by Gary M. Pomerantz
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Customer Review: "Fascinating Atlanta history of five generations of the Dobbs family, descendants of slaves and the Allen family, former slave owners."
by Stewart Sifakis
Amazon Price: $26.95
Customer Review: Very clearly presents the organization of the Confederate armies and sorts out a lot of the confusion regarding regimental consolidations and duplicate naming. A great tool for genealogists and Civil War researchers
Frontier New York
by Jan Staller
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Customer Review: "Frontier New York." Photographs by Jan Staller. Introduction by Paul Goldberger.
"Here is New York as it has never been seen before, tantalizingly balanced on the very edge of familiarity" as quoted by Paul Goldberger who writes the introduction, Goldberg the distinguished architecture critic of The New York Times. Goldberger goes on to say "It is a city unpeopled, bathed in extraordinary light, sometimes at sunset, sometimes dusted with snow. This is New York as a frontier of the unknown, a world of great beauty and private calm."
55 stunningly beautiful full page brilliant colour photographs.
120 pages. Bound in rich rose coloured linen with silver gilt embossed ...
by Mark Coggins
Amazon Price: $18.63
Customer Review: In the guise of a fast-paced, entertaining and fun murder mystery, author Mark Coggins offers insight into the pitfalls of electronic voting. Rigging an election might be easier today than it was in the days of paper ballots. Also, August Riordan is one smart-mouthed private detective. His sarcastic remarks had me chortling and laughing from beginning to end.
by Timothy J. Kent
Amazon Price: $59.95
Customer Review: This two volume set by Timothy J. Kent is not only about birchbark canoes and how they were made, for it also tells us a lot about early Canadian history, genealogy and relationships between the Indians and the French fur traders. It is extremely well researched and wonderfully written. I would reccommend it to anyone with an interest in any of the above subjects.
by Mark H. Brown
Amazon Price: $31.50
Customer Review: As a museum director in Livingston, Montana, and teacher of a class on the history of the Yellowstone basin, this book is my foremost recommendation as an introductory survey to the breadth and depth of the regions history. Material covers only the "White European" history of the area with the early la Verendrye and Lewis and Clark explorations. Then there is the fur trade, Bozeman and Bridger Trails, Northern Pacific Railroad surveys, Sioux Wars including the Battle of Little Big Horn, founding of Yellowstone Park, early settlement, cattle industry and rustling including the Johnston County Wars developments and the demise of the Native way of life and open country, all of which are entic...
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