The Railroad Telegrapher
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 1224
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Out with the BAD IN with the GOOD: A PERFECT ECLIPSE
Author: Darrah J. Perez
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-06-03
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1387015346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHave you ever wondered the need to understand spiritual psychology and why it is important? Spirit attachment happens on an average regular basis, occasionally without us knowing. Have you ever wondered why Native Americans participate in sweat lodge ceremonies held in the day time? Blacking out of the sun, a solar eclipse happens in the daytime allowing with ease to purify and heal from within. Creating the absolute perfect eclipse, out with the bad, in the good; The 21 August 2017 eclipse across the United States can be energy purifying when understood how to do so.
38 Nooses
Author: Scott W. Berg
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2013-09-10
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0307389138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year In August 1862, after suffering decades of hardship, broken treaties, and relentless encroachment on their land, the Dakota leader Little Crow reluctantly agreed that his people must go to war. After six weeks of fighting, the uprising was smashed, thousands of Indians were taken prisoner by the US army, and 303 Dakotas were sentenced to death. President Lincoln, embroiled in the most devastating period of the Civil War, personally intervened to save the lives of 265 of the condemned men, but in the end, 38 Dakota men would be hanged in the largest government-sanctioned execution in U.S. history. Writing with uncommon immediacy and insight, Scott W. Berg details these events within the larger context of the Civil War, the history of the Dakota people and the subsequent United States–Indian wars, and brings to life this overlooked but seminal moment in American history.
The Last Letter Home
Author: Vilhelm Moberg
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2008-10-14
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0873517164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsidered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels. Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections, including the Minnesota Historical Society, enabled him to incorporate many details of pioneer life. First published between 1949 and 1959 in Swedish, these four books were considered a single work by Moberg, who intended that they be read as documentary novels. These editions contain introductions written by Roger McKnight, Gustavus Adolphus College, and restore Moberg's bibliography not included in earlier English editions. Book 4 portrays the Nilsson family during the turmoil of living through the era of the Civil War and Dakota Conflict and their prospering in the midst of Minnesota's growing Swedish community of the 1860s-90s. "It's important to have Moberg's Emigrant Novels available for another generation of readers."?Bruce Karstadt, American Swedish Institute.
One of the Presidents' Men
Author: Maurice H. Stans
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Stans, who served as Eisenhower's director of the Bureau of the Budget and as Nixon's secretary of commerce, has the distinction of being the last author of a balanced federal budget. Chairman of the Finance Committee for the Reelection of the President at the outbreak of the Watergate affair, he was accused of more than 100 campaign-finance violations. In this engrossing memoir, he describes a three-year ordeal of investigations, threatened indictments and a trial for breaches of the law. Cleared of all charges (after spending a million dollars in legal expenses), Stans is still regarded, unfairly he believes, as a major Watergate figure because of his longtime friendship with and support of the late Richard Nixon. In this lively memoir, he convincingly establishes that he had no knowledge of the break-in or cover-up, and he describes how he has struggled to restore his good name. Stans incidentally reveals for the first time an earlier personal crisis in which he was forced to resign as president of Western Bancorporation by the combined pressure of the Kennedy White House, the Justice Department and the CIA, as punishment for political activities in support of President Eisenhower."--Amazon.com.
Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees
Author: Sarah F. Wakefield
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2015-01-28
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 0806148977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Dakota War (1862) was a searing event in Minnesota history as well as a signal event in the lives of Dakota people. Sarah F. Wakefield was caught up in this revolt. A young doctor’s wife and the mother of two small children, Wakefield published her unusual account of the war and her captivity shortly after the hanging of thirty-eight Dakotas accused of participation in the "Sioux uprising." Among those hanged were Chaska (We-Chank-Wash-ta-don-pee), a Mdewakanton Dakota who had protected her and her children during the upheaval. In a distinctive and compelling voice, Wakefield blames the government for the war and then relates her and her family’s ordeal, as well as Chaska’s and his family’s help and ultimate sacrifice. This is the first fully annotated modern edition of Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees. June Namias’s extensive introduction and notes describe the historical and ethnographic background of Dakota-white relations in Minnesota and place Wakefield’s narrative in the context of other captivity narratives.
The Scarce Man
Author: James Frie
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2004-10
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 059533296X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Scarce Man centers on Agent Mike Rawlings of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. He is Minnesota's top murder detective and is nearing retirement when he's called in to handle the most baffling and dangerous case of his career. Someone with a violent M.O. is killing certain people in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Rawlings deduces that the murders are politically motivated, but what he doesn't know is that the killer, who in the days following 9/11, has become obsessed with the idea that he alone can begin a chain of events that will launch the social revolution he believes will save the country. The killer forms an alter-ego, whom he calls The Patriot. What Rawlings doesn't know, is that the Patriot has inside knowledge that will make him more deadly than anyone he's ever faced; and much harder to stop.
