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This brief history follows Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery down the Columbia River from Wallula Gap to the mouth at Astoria. That this work is brief rests on two factors: The first is the obvious fact that it is short. This is not the definitive history of the river. The second point is that not all of the river is described. Lewis and Clark joined the Columbia at its confluence with the Snake at Walla Walla; and this account follows their journey from Sacagawea Point to its contentious meeting with the Pacific Ocean. The intention is to compare and contrast the Columbia of Lewis and Clark with the river as it is now. The journals of the two leaders are quoted in each chapter ...

On the morning of June 25th, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer made a fateful decision to attack a large Native American village camped on the banks of the Little Big Horn River. It was a decision that would cost him his life, the lives of 268 of his men, and the lives of over 60 Native Americans defending their right to live free. Myths, mysteries, and legends of this fight have grown for over 142 years, elevating a lonely patch of dirt and grass, dotted with white and brown tombstones, to mythological proportions. How did this apocalyptic clash of cultures happen? What is true, and what is conjecture? What really happened? Experience the entire battle as it was tol ...

“Full-Name Index to The History of Sequoyah County 1828-1975” is an essential tool for any family historian or genealogist with ancestors who lived in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma during the 1800s and 1900s. “The History of Sequoyah County 1828-1975” is a rich history of an area that would become and eventually did become Sequoyah County. Attention is given to the history of communities, churches, clubs and organizations, businesses, and schools. Probably the most fascinating portion of the book is the vast amount of family stories. The family stories of “The History of Sequoyah County 1828-1975” are written by various authors. Most of these authors were family members who provided deta ...

Past and present economic crises have called into questions mainstream economic policies & theories upon which they are based. This book explores, through readings on critical thinking, mainstream economics & various shades of heterodox or radical political economy, how various theories stand up against each other, side-by-side. How do "mainstream" economics & economists compare with radical or "heterodox" political economy & paradigm adherents? What do they admit as facts?; What do they disagree upon & why? What are some basic principles of critical thinking & epistemology to add to debates? What is the state of economics & economists today? What are markets, free or otherwise? What do ...

Poetry that follows the intense romance between two inseparable lovers caught in the throws of addiction. Their ancestral trauma bonds them as they share their experience of transcending this physical reality, the body is only a container for the soul and our world a reflection of everything within.

Join The Treasure Team on their summer adventure. Jay Sepulvado, his sister Amy, and their cousin “Peppermint” Paddie from Shreveport team up with Jo Castie in Ebarb, Louisiana. They are on the trail of the hidden treasure their Uncle Tee Procell talked about. Now Uncle Tee is seriously ill. Will they find anything of value—well, besides hot tamales, the Cryin’ Woman, and Indian lore—in time? The team of four children gather clues to the treasure from elders in the Zwolle-Ebarb community. The stories they hear are taken word-for-word from actual oral history collected by author Mary van Rheenen and Janet Shoemaker while doing research for the Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Ebarb in the mi ...