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Although the Buffalo wing may be the Queen City’s most well-known innovation, Buffalo’s robust history of creative ingenuity has changed lives around the world time and time again. Joseph Dart’s invention of the grain elevator in 1842 led to Buffalo becoming a transportation mecca for many decades....
The Pioneer’s Way is a rousing call to those who want to be the solution to the problems in their own communities and beyond. Senseless school shootings, cure-defying epidemics, threats of environmental disaster: these are the kinds of headlines that riddle the news every day. The challenges we...
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867?1957) finished her autobiography, Pioneer Girl, in 1930 when she was sixty-three years old. Throughout the 1930s and into the early 1940s, she drew upon her original manuscript to write a successful series of books for young readers. Wilder’s vision of life on the...
Behind some of the most popular works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror there are forgotten stories of female creators. It’s no secret that genres like science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more, have evolved from niche interest to mainstream staple in the last few decades. However, the...
With humor and insight, E. W. Davis tells the story that begins with the discovery of then-valueless taconite on Minnesota’s Mesabi Iron Range in 1870 and several decades of attempts to process taconite commercially. Davis details the ups and downs of the exciting, decades-long research effort that...
Using the Hodeida Urban Primary Health Care Project as a case study, Marina de Regt offers a fascinating analysis of how development policies of the state interconnect with agendas of global donor organizations and the employment of women in the face of social disapproval and barriers to...
When Henry Flagler came to the Lake Worth region in 1893, he called is “a veritable paradise.“And then he had a vision: He would turn Palm Beach into the most highfalutin resort in the world. And he would build a commercial city across the lake “for my help.”That city was West Palm Beach.What began...
New York Times BestsellerWildly popular award-winning blogger, accidental ranch wife, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks, Ree Drummond (aka The Pioneer Woman) tells the true story of her storybook romance that led her from the Los Angeles glitter to a cattle ranch...
Three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. Scilla Elworthy, a realist with 40 years’ experience at the sharp end of politics and conflict, presents a bold but realistic vision for the future in Pioneering the Possible. Human beings worldwide are anxious, afraid for their children’s futures,...
Formed seemingly out of steel, glass, and concrete, with millions of residents from around the globe, Miami has ancient roots that can be hard to imagine today. Before the Pioneers takes readers back through forgotten eras to the stories of the people who shaped the land along the Miami River long...
A is for Abigail and Anna, Zebediah’s two sisters. He is making them an alphabet book.From B, which stands for bandalore, a forerunner of the yoyo, H for the hornbook that taught children to spell, and on through the pigeons that blackened the sky, to the uniform that Papa wore when he defended the...
The history of the Palm Beach area, the Treasure Coast, and Lake Okeechobee is one of turbulence, growth, and especially change. Meet the visionaries and outlaws, physicians and poets who shaped this region of southeast Florida from the 1690s through the 1990s. Author William McGoun’s stories are...
Step inside the door of Log Cabin Pioneers as Wayne Erbsen takes you on a personal journey of finding and restoring a historic log cabin. By the magic of a crackling fire, he’ll introduce you to authentic pioneers who will sing you ancient songs, spin yarns about Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone and...
Canton boasts a rich aviation heritage, reaching back to the earliest pioneers of flight. Local resident Frank S. Lahm founded the Aero Club of Ohio here and his son Frank P. Lahm worked with the Wright brothers on some of their earliest test flights. William Martin’s monoplane, the first...
For many early Americans, native and immigrant, Puyallup was much more than simply a destination in Western Washington, but was a fulfillment of a dream, a vision of prosperity and opportunity. The lush valley region along the Puyallup River provided both beauty and bounty, sustaining countless...
The petty thief… who escaped Van Diemen’s Land, twice, stole the government brig and set sail for Japan, where, by the Shogun’s decree, all foreigners were to be executed. The world’s best cricketer a champion of Aboriginal people who ‘invented’ Aussie Rules, survived the worst massacre of white...
For lovers of western lore and colouring book fans of all ages – 36 carefully researched and excellently rendered images of a keelboat approaching a thriving river town, fur traders being attacked by Indians, the dramatic rescue of the Donner party, a Mormon handcart company heading West,...
This famous 5th-8th grade level U.S. history textbook written in 1940 reflects both Catholic faith and patriotic love of country. With 55 chapters, plus Study Questions and other Activities, it teaches a lot in a simple manner, including the early exploration and settlement of the United States,...
Pioneers to the West will follow the rural experiences of children traveling across America in search of land, gold, farms, and religious freedoms.