Did you know that girls and young women made a difference in America’s history? During the 1800s, many girls helped America grow bigger and better, yet are missing from many history books. Virginia Reed, at 12, survived the trek to California with the Donner Party. Joanna Troutman, at 17, created the first Texas flag. Belle Boyd risked her life to spy for the Rebels during the Civil War. Grace Bedell wrote a letter to Abraham Lincoln that changed the way he faced the nation. Kate Shelley, at 15, crawled across a high trestle in a ferocious thunderstorm to stop the next train from falling through a washed-out bridge. A young teacher, Minnie Freeman led her 17 students to safety through the blinding snow of the Blizzard of 1888. These are just a few of the 19 inspiring true stories of 19th century American girls who touched the hearts of their hometowns. You can remember them today by visiting their historical markers, monuments, exhibits, and parks, or by reading their poems, and singing their songs.

George Miller was born the year his home state entered the Civil War. He grew up hearing stories from his father about the exploits of a Texas Ranger captain who fought in the Red River clashes with the Union forces. So when he left home at the age of thirteen, he quite naturally worked his way across west Texas to El Paso, where he joined, at the age of nineteen, the most famous law enforcement organization in the States. This book follows his story as closely as possible, as he leaves the Rangers, trails cattle north across Oklahoma Territory, falls in with rustlers, joins Bill Doolins' Wild Bunch, and becomes a bartender at the infamous Corner Saloon in Oklahoma Territory. He was likable, true to his word, and a trusted friend; but sometimes the cards dealt him were not good ones. He lived hard and did the best he could, and when he died he was wearing a deputy sheriff's badge.

George Miller was born the year his home state entered the Civil War. He grew up hearing stories from his father about the exploits of a Texas Ranger captain who fought in the Red River clashes with the Union forces. So when he left home at the age of thirteen, he quite naturally worked his way across west Texas to El Paso, where he joined, at the age of nineteen, the most famous law enforcement organization in the States. This book follows his story as closely as possible, as he leaves the Rangers, trails cattle north across Oklahoma Territory, falls in with rustlers, joins Bill Doolins' Wild Bunch, and becomes a bartender at the infamous Corner Saloon in Oklahoma Territory. He was likable, true to his word, and a trusted friend; but sometimes the cards dealt him were not good ones. He lived hard and did the best he could, and when he died he was wearing a deputy sheriff's badge.

Of all of the stories to come out about World War II few are written about the young 18 year old inexperienced soldiers who were thrust into a brutal part of the war. None were professional soldiers, most were draftees or civilians who were allowed to play soldier for the duration of the war. This true story identifies those everyday occurrences which a "young soldier" experiences as he goes through Army basic training, being sent overseas to an infantry replacement depot in New Guinea, never quite knowing where he was or where he was going. Finally experiencing the horrors of combat in Leyte and Luzon, Philippines and wondering if his luck was going to see him through these ordeals.

The war in the South Pacific was beyond being called a brutal, savage war or some other words, which can explain what these men went through. The terrain, climate and disease those men had to fight besides the enemy was unbearable. The war in the South Pacific was a war without mercy. This is a descriptive march through history.

Charles Roseberry was 20 years old when he enlisted in the U. S. Army in 1942. Throughout his years in the army, beginning in Basic Training and continuing through his time in Africa, Italy, France, Germany and Austria, he wrote to his sister Margaret Roseberry Lawton who saved these letters for over 50 years. After his discharge, Charles Roseberry became active in the Disciples of Christ Church. With his letters are included his papers from this time. Rather than battle descriptions, what is found in the letters is the growth of a young man from a small southwest Virginia town away from home, in new countries with different customs, in the midst of war. His papers following the war reflect the continuing effect such an experience leaves on an individual.

A history of a Northern Minnesota logging railroad and branchline, the Minnesota & International, as told through employee recollections, company documents and contemporary press accounts, emphasizing the people and the day to day operations of the line, which served North Central Minnesota, between Brainerd and Bemidji and International Falls. The story is a through but light-hearted study of the people and the operating practices that made one particular segment of railroad run.

This is the story of the ancestors of Charles E. Roseberry and Betty Jean Keister. Charles Roseberry's parents were Charles Wesley Roseberry (1893-1984) who married Elizabeth Clancy Sutton (1892-1973) in Radford, VA where they lived the rest of their lives. Charles Wesley Roseberry was born in Newbern in Pulaski Co., VA where his ancestors had lived since 1872 when his grandfather, Samuel Roseberry moved from Carroll Co., VA. The Sutton family was also from Pulaski Co., VA. Elizabeth's great-grandfather, John C. Sutton was born in Montgomery Co., VA in an area that would later become Pulaski County.

Betty Jean Keister's grandparents were Walter Henderson Keister (1870-1938) who married Ida May Foster (1877-1944) in Radford, VA where they lived the rest of their lives. Walter was born in Montgomery Co., VA where his ancestors had lived since 1800. The Foster family was from Prince William Co., VA but Ida May's line had lived in Monroe Co., VA since before 1795 when it was Greenbrier Co., VA.

Related families include the Angstadt, Beck, Burk, Carper, Daux, Filenger, Foster, Glasgow, Godbey, Gunn, Keister, King, Long, Patterson, Patton, Rankin, Roseberry, Shell, Shufflebarger, Songer, Sutton, Whitt and Wysor families.

This is the story of the ancestors of Charles E. Roseberry and Betty Jean Keister. Charles Roseberry's parents were Charles Wesley Roseberry (1893-1984) who married Elizabeth Clancy Sutton (1892-1973) in Radford, VA where they lived the rest of their lives. Charles Wesley Roseberry was born in Newbern in Pulaski Co., VA where his ancestors had lived since 1872 when his grandfather, Samuel Roseberry moved from Carroll Co., VA. The Sutton family was also from Pulaski Co., VA. Elizabeth's great-grandfather, John C. Sutton was born in Montgomery Co., VA in an area that would later become Pulaski County.

Betty Jean Keister's grandparents were Walter Henderson Keister (1870-1938) who married Ida May Foster (1877-1944) in Radford, VA where they lived the rest of their lives. Walter was born in Montgomery Co., VA where his ancestors had lived since 1800. The Foster family was from Prince William Co., VA but Ida May's line had lived in Monroe Co., VA since before 1795 when it was Greenbrier Co., VA.

Related families include the Angstadt, Beck, Burk, Carper, Daux, Filenger, Foster, Glasgow, Godbey, Gunn, Keister, King, Long, Patterson, Patton, Rankin, Roseberry, Shell, Shufflebarger, Songer, Sutton, Whitt and Wysor families.

This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs. Text for Author Bio box: Use author's bio Text for book Description box: Our hero's family has been destroyed by the Spanish Inquisition, and the woman he loved snatched from his arms. Now, Juan de Moncada is set on a savage mission of revenge. Journeying to the New World, Juan finds himself shipwrecked in the Yucatan and a captive of the Mayans. How he became the lover of a native princess and leader against a brutal attack by the Conquistadors makes this taut tale of swashbuckling adventure and passion one not to be missed.

Kristina, A Civil War Woman is a Historical novel about the women of the south during in the Civil War. The heroine is Kristina Augustsson who fought in the Southern Army by disguising herself as a man.

Kristina had emigrated from Sweden to Charleston, South Carolina in August 1860. Because she was big and unattractive, Kristina's disguise as a man gained her free passage as an indentured harness maker. Her nickname was "Pig-Face."

Shortly after landing in Charleston, Kristina was caught up in the War between the States. She fought beside her friend and fellow immigrant, Kurt Petersson and eventually was given the command of the Quaker Artillery Battery of the Army of North Virginia.

Historical records show that she was killed on May 2, 1863, in the battle of Chancellorsville.

When General Stonewall Jackson came upon Kristina dying beside her fallen friend, he said, "I've never seen a braver man." Her dying protest, "I'm a woman," went unheeded. The General thought the dying soldier was delirious. He could not see that his gallant warrior was a woman who wanted to be loved, have a home and children like any woman of her day.

Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind showed us the aristocratic Southern women. Kristina,shows us the lower class Southern women who fought the war with whatever resources available to them.

During the darkest hours of World War II, a Scarsdale, NY, high school student experienced a "vision" of the possibilities of a peaceful postwar world. From this mystical moment came the most powerful American student movement of the postwar decade—the Student Federalists—who pressed their elders and their contemporaries to consider the establishment of a world government based on the same principles which guided our nation's Founding Fathers more than a century-and-a-half earlier. Damned by the fanatics of the extreme right, and of the extreme left, the Student Federalists rapidly expanded after VJ Day, reaching a high point of some 15,000 members and almost four hundred local chapters.

No student movement ever grew as fast and as broadly as the Student Federalist between 1943 and 1949. Nor did any fade as precipitously in the face of a widening Cold War. Few other American movements have produced so many future leaders in academia, politics, international aid and public affairs as did this non-partisan and non-sectarian phenomenon.

This story—never told before—is documented by the correspondence, proceedings and news articles of the student participants and includes a 150-page appendix containing scores of documents, essays, statements of purpose, and official pamphlets.

This is the story of the Elbert Howell and Bertha Burnop family ancestors. Elbert Eden Howell (Dec. 25, 1878-Mar. 24, 1964) married Bertha Allie Burnop (Sep. 7, 1883-Dec. 9, 1956) on Oct. 1, 1900 in Radford, Virginia where they lived the rest of their lives at 4th and Ingles Streets. Elbert was born in Floyd Co., Virginia and most of his ancestors were from this area going back more than 100 years when Floyd County was still part of Montgomery Co., Virginia. The Burnop family was from Westmorland County, England and Bertha's ancestors were from the Smyth, Carroll and Grayson counties area of Virginia. Immigrants were primarily from England and Germany.

The related Duncan, Fischbach, Hanks, Heimbach, Holtzclaw, Hylton, Morricle, Otterbach, Pratt, Stuell, Vaughan, and Weddle families also have chapters including descendancy reports.

This is the story of the Elbert Howell and Bertha Burnop family ancestors. Elbert Eden Howell (Dec. 25, 1878-Mar. 24, 1964) married Bertha Allie Burnop (Sep. 7, 1883-Dec. 9, 1956) on Oct. 1, 1900 in Radford, Virginia where they lived the rest of their lives at 4th and Ingles Streets. Elbert was born in Floyd Co., Virginia and most of his ancestors were from this area going back more than 100 years when Floyd County was still part of Montgomery Co., Virginia. The Burnop family was from Westmorland County, England and Bertha's ancestors were from the Smyth, Carroll and Grayson counties area of Virginia. Immigrants were primarily from England and Germany.

The related Duncan, Fischbach, Hanks, Heimbach, Holtzclaw, Hylton, Morricle, Otterbach, Pratt, Stuell, Vaughan, and Weddle families also have chapters including descendancy reports.

After serving in the 'Great War' Casey Bretten returns to college and graduates with honors. He begins a new vocation as the manager of an Automobile Service and Repair business in Toledo, Ohio near his family farm. Through no fault of his own Casey had suffered abrupt endings to three affairs. He had tasted the 'honey of sex' and is eager to marry and settle down. He meets Emma Haan where she is working in a local bank. They fall in love and are married. Everything is going well until the Great Depression and Casey and Emma lose all they have worked for. They are near the point of destitution when Charlie Nash stops by Casey's business and offers Casey a job in Kenosha, Wisconsin at his Nash Motors Plant. The family moves to Kenosha and in 1933 they have their last child, a girl. Casey names the girl 'Tiona' which means 'Little Princess' in Indian. Unknown to Emma, Tiona is the name of Casey's first love. In 1936 Casey is promoted to the position of 'Regional Service Manager' of the entire Western United States. The family moves to Los Angeles. From 1936 to 1945 Casey flies more than 300,000 miles on United Air Lines planes. He is home with his family one week out of every twelve. During that time Emma is home with the children. Some of the problems Emma faces are: The death of her Mother. The 1938 flood in Los Angeles which almost results in the death of one of the children. The two youngest children contacting 'whooping cough.' Buying and moving to a two-bedroom house that is all they can afford. Emma's brother's young widow comes to visit them there with her baby and eventually marries a sailor who is transferred to Pearl Harbor. After several years they are able to buy a larger house. Here, Tiona's best friend is sent to Manzanar, a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp. Bill, after being rated 4-F is drafted into the service and Bob is also drafted even though he has a heart problem. Bob is later wounded while serving in the Philippines. Later Emma finds out she has breast cancer and Tiona, Casey's first love moves in next door.

Dan Hyland, as a boy growing up in the city of New Brunswick, New Jersey from 1930-1938, saw the last boats being locked through the Delaware and Raritan Canal. He knew the old lock keepers and people who lived in the abandoned barges along the canal. The Raritan River and the D.& R. Canal provided recreation that was both exciting and extremely dangerous. Dan rode the ice flows on the Raritan after city work crews dynamited the frozen river in the early spring. He met strange and colorful people with names like "Corker Pete" and "Two-Cent Itszi." Dan and his buddies pulled a lot of stunts, caused mischief, and had run-ins with waterfront bullies. He enjoyed a free and virtually unsupervised boy's life. Money was nearly non-existent, so Dan and his friends pooled their resources, skills, and imaginations to find ways of earning money to go to the movies and acquire their play equipment. They learned how to capitalize on the neighborhood bootleggers and traveling junkmen. "River Rats: Growing Up on the Raritan River" is a memoir of the Great Depression. The stories are upbeat and at times humorous, reminiscent of the exploits of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.