Arrowhead, Beaton, and Needles are among the drowned; Waneta is a power dam; Jersey City was auctioned; Comaplix died one fiery night; Cody, Three ...

Explore over 18 beloved ghost towns in New Jersey through over 200 black and white and color photographs, historic vignettes, and touring informati...

Rocky Mountain ghost towns are filled with chilling, but captivating stories. Horace Tabor (in 1879) was said to be the fifth richest man in the Un...

The famous Victoria ghost who appeared to a tour group listening to her story, the little boy playing with a red ball in Nanaimo, the phantom "help...

In the years that preceded the October 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel invested heavily in the creation of a heavy attack force of four F-4 Phantom/Kur...

Many stories involved fearsome creatures with supernatural powers. One of these creatures, now known as Bigfoot, passed beyond the realm of native ...

This stirring new version of the great Babylonian epic includes material from the recently discovered "monkey tablet" as well as an Introduction, t...

This stirring new version of the great Babylonian epic includes material from the recently discovered "monkey tablet" as well as an Introduction, t...

Sidney Godolphin Osborne’s eyewitness famine narrative Gleanings in the West of Ireland is a text that is currently both neglected and misunderstoo...

My brother officers. Are they human? Thus reads the first journal entry of twenty-three-year-old John Verney, graduate of Eton and Oxford, lover of...

Welcome to gold creek and ghost town country where towns stand in another century, the echoes of history are audible, and the wilderness is still j...

When Josephine Knowles left for the Klondike gold fields with her husband in 1898, she didn’t know she would be facing a constant battle with cold,...

Bill Arnott guides readers on an epic literary odyssey following history’s most feared and misunderstood voyageurs: the Vikings! To go Viking is to...

When local author Dane Starbuck set out several years ago to write the biography of Pierre Goodrich, scion of one of Indianas most prominent twenti...

Includes timelines, maps, suggested further readings, and an index.

Includes timelines, maps, suggested further readings, and an index.

Government House Halifax is the home of the Sovereign's representative in the Province of Nova Scotia and the ceremonial home of all Nova Scotians....

In 1620 the first Danish settlement on the Indian subcontinent was established in the small fishing village of Tranquebar facing the Indian Ocean o...

Great Britain and the American Civil War is the telling of what the American Civil War meant to Great Britain; how she regarded it and how she reac...

An essential and concise reference guide to the final resting places of the monarchs of England. Through 234 illustrations and photos, learn the tr...

This book is an attempt at an objective history about the Reformation. It presents the facts, but does not pursue any theory, or forward any cause....

Over the years, the Great Lakes - Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario - have carried Native Americans, explorers, immigrants, bandits, min...

This book brings together a sampling of the best of the gold rush stories. From realism to romance, from true-life adventure to droll reminiscence,...

Explore the popular sights the rich and famous once enjoyed at Bar Harbor, Maine, and discover today's lesser-known treasures. 147 color images cap...

One hundred years ago, British Columbia was a resource-rich province greeting new arrivals from all over the world who'd come to seek their fortune...