Here, find the inspirational story touching the hearts and lives of thousands around the globe as it moves from the depths of a life overcome to one beautifully transformed by a simple but powerful faith in Jesus Christ. Born into a historic family of Apache Chieftains and leaders, Reynard Faber was made Traditional Chief of the Jicarilla Apache nation by tribal leaders. FrontRunner's spiritual conversion to Christianity brings with it challenges...

Documents the 1810 to 1813 expedition, financed by millionaire John Jacob Astor and encouraged by Thomas Jefferson, to establish Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.

Made up of new research into a neglected area of British history: the stories of historical scams, cheats and forgeries. Former Director of Technology at the National Archives, David Thomas has delved into the archives to uncover unusual tales, from Tudor identity theft to the Spanish Prisoner letter scam of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book provides an fresh take on criminal history and the roots of identity theft, email scams and...

Gift donated in memory of Joan Croy. "...Captures the drama and detail of events at a Santa Fe Trail army post during the troulous times of the 1860s-1870s on the western plains"Back cover. Gift donated by George "Peter" Warrick.

Between 1840 and 1910, hundreds of thousands of men and women traveled deep into the underdeveloped American West, lured by the prospect of adventure and opportunity, and galvanized by the spirit of Manifest Destiny. Alongside this rapid expansion of the United States, a second, overlapping social shift was taking place: survival in a settler society busy building itself from scratch required two equally hardworking partners, compelling women to compromise...

"There is no precedent in postwar American history for the destruction of the town of Paradise, California. On November 8, 2018, the community of 27,000 people was swallowed by the ferocious Camp Fire, which razed virtually every home and killed at least 85 people. The catastrophe seared the American imagination, taking the front page of every major national newspaper and top billing on the news networks. It displaced tens of thousands of people,...

En 1819, el barco Essex zarpó del puerto de Nantucket, en la costa este de Estados Unidos, con el objetivo de cazar ballenas durante dos años. Quince meses después, mientras navegaba en pleno Pacífico, el barco fue atacado por una ballena gigante, y la tripulación se vio obligada a refugiarse en tres botes salvavidas. Fue entonces cuando empezó la tragedia: por temor a las tribus caníbales que se creía que poblaban las islas del Pacífico,...

"In the spring of 1846, the Donner and Reed families joined a wagon train bound for California in hopes of a better life. But when the party took an untested shortcut, it set them down a tragic path. As they crossed the Sierra Nevada, heavy snow fell in the mountain pass. They were trapped. Supplies were already low, and now they faced a winter of starvation. Told through the gripping, full-color graphic novel format, this Deadly Expeditions tale...