Text and accompanying photographs examine the truth about fortune telling using real reported experiences, and suggests some fortune telling methods that you can test.
A biography of the outlaw who, with his brother Frank, led a gang of bank and train robbers from the late 1860s through the 1870s. Also includes a glossary and a further reading list.
Discusses the Wilderness Road, a trail providing a route from Tennessee to Kentucky in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Daniel Boone's role in its development, and life on the trail.
Examines the thrills and disappointments of the nineteenth-century rush for gold in California, during which people abandoned their jobs and homes and headed west in hopes of becoming rich.
Tells the life story of Doc Holliday, the dentist who gave up his practice to be a gambler and gunslinger in the Wild West, eventually joining forces with lawman Wyatt Earp and taking part in the famous shoot-out at the O.K. Corral. Also includes a glossary and a further reading list.
Discusses the military tactics, battles, and famous figures of the war that gained the American colonies their independence from Great Britain. Includes Internet links to Web sites, source documents, and illustrations related to the war.
Discusses the major battles, military tactics, and famous figures of this war rooted in European rivalries and fought in the Ohio Valley wilderness. Includes Internet links to related Web sites, source documents, and photographs.
