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Traces the history of the Dutch presence in North America, and provides information about seventeenth-century Dutch leader Peter Stuyvesant, a stern war hero who was sent in 1647 to establish order in New Netherland, a Dutch colony located at the site of modern-day New York.

The experiences, based on her own account, of Mary Jemison who was captured by a Shawnee war party when she was twelve and subsequently rescued and adopted by the Seneca with whom she chose to remain the rest of her long life.

Dana is Abby and Zander's daughter, but growing up in New York City in the late nineteen fifties is not always easay, especially when you would like your own room separate from your twin sister- and when your beloved father dies and you are forced to move things just get worse.

The true story of a dog determined to make friends.

In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy.

In 1815, while traveling by covered wagon to settle in the wilderness of western New York, eleven-year-old Mem experiences a flood and separation from her family.

Rebecca discovers many things about plant and animal life when she spends the day in Teatown Woods in the Hudson Highlands of New York looking for the ovenbird.

Describes the origins, history, and culture of the Native Americans who lived in and near what is now New York state, and whose languages were included in the Algonquian group, from prehistory to the present.

An overview of the shale gas industry in the Marcellus region in northeastern United States; discussing extraction by means of fracking, and the ramifications for environmental policy, energy markets, politics, and the lives of the area's residents.