Slocum 319 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slocum 319 write by Jake Logan. This book was released on 2005-08-30. Slocum 319 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It’s not the first time Slocum has courted death… Slocum has a sultry songbird in hand—until some cold-blooded killer murders her in her sleep. Even if it means a treacherous journey across the Old West, Slocum vows to bring the culprit to six-gun justice... Following some obscure leads from local ladies of ill repute, Slocum heads east from Tombstone. But here’s the strangest thing: along the way to Texas, women throw themselves at Slocum, only to try to kill him after they’ve had their fill. He has no trouble holding his own with these black widows as he searches for his ultimate prey. Until he comes face-to-face with the elusive Lady Death, the worst—or best—murderess this side of the Mississip’…
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office write by United States. Patent Office. This book was released on 1907. Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Dignity of Duty
Dignity of Duty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dignity of Duty write by Erasmus Corwin Gilbreath. This book was released on 2015-06-19. Dignity of Duty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Published 117 years after his death, the journals of the American soldier Erasmus Corwin Gilbreath provide a compelling vantage point by which to view contemporary American history. They tell, first and foremost, a tale of war in which there is no gloryonly carnage and death. Through Gilbreaths firsthand accounts we get a sense of what life was like during the Civil War, the Indian Wars, and the War with Spain from an accomplished field officer, rather than from high command. Gilbreath illuminates the true horrors of war in the 19th Century for soldiersboredom, fatigue, death, and crude medical care for the woundedand their families, as Gilbreaths wife and children followed him wherever his orders would lead, enduring the primitive conditions they found along the way. From his instrumental role in raising a company that would become part of the 20th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, to his death while serving with the 11th U.S. Infantry in Puerto Rico at the tail end of the SpanishAmerican War, Gilbreaths life exemplifies the dignity of his service and the importance he placed on duty to his nation. In his journals, Gilbreath paints a vivid picture of the turmoil and change that was 19th Century America. Passages such as the lyric firsthand account of the Battle of the Ironclads or his reconnecting with a fellow Gettysburg veteran in Chicago 21 years after the battle are beautifully written, and carry a personal and emotional gravity that are found in the best literary works. Gilbreath is one of Americas sons, a proud citizen soldier who helped to forge the United States, and we are truly fortunate that his legacy lives on in these pages.
A Man for All Oceans
A Man for All Oceans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Man for All Oceans write by Stan Grayson. This book was released on 2017-05-16. A Man for All Oceans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In June 1898, three years and two months after departing Boston in his aged oyster sloop Spray, Captain Joshua Slocum made land fall in New England and became the first person ever to sail alone around the world. The voyage capped a lifetime of adventure for the indomitable Slocum, who had advanced from seaman to captain during the challenging final years of commercial sail, surviving hurricanes, mutinies, shipwreck, and the death at sea of his beloved first wife, Virginia. Sailing Alone Around the World, Slocum's book about his circumnavigation, is a seafaring classic, unmatched for adventure and literary verve, and has never been out of print since its publication in 1900. Yet despite several biographies over the decades, Slocum the man has remained unknowable to his legions of admirers, the facts of his life and career as elusive as a ship on a fogbound sea. Here is the real story of Slocum's Nova Scotia childhood, his seafaring career, and how he became an American citizen. Grayson gives ample evidence of Slocum's uncanny genius as a navigator while also noting the occasional role that good luck played in his voyages, including his odyssey from Brazil to the United States in the self-designed and built 35-foot Liberdade. And Grayson brings a sailor's perspective to Slocum's solo circumnavigation and mysterious disappearance at sea. A fascinating appendix compares Sailing Alone Around the World with Thoreau's Walden and shows that Slocum's simple lifestyle and self-sufficiency prefigured today's emphases on the environment and living responsibly. Previously unpublished photographs bring Slocum's world to life, and detailed maps trace the adventures of a sailor who knew the world like the back of his hand. This biography reads like an adventure narrative and will serve as the standard work on Joshua Slocum for years to come.
The General and the Jaguar
The General and the Jaguar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The General and the Jaguar write by Eileen Welsome. This book was released on 2007-11-01. The General and the Jaguar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pulitzer Prize winner Welsome's gripping, panoramic story reveals a vicious surprise attack on the United States and America's hunt for the perpetrator, Pancho Villa.
