The catalog of an exhibition exploring the founding history of coastal New Hampshire and southern Maine during the turbulent century of the 1600s, told through the lives of eight individuals who vied for control of the landscape and their destiny on the far reaches of settlement in early New England. The exhibition was held at the Counting House Museum in South Berwick, Maine, from June 3, 2017 to October 28, 2018.

Here, in this remarkable, previously unknown collection of 230 of his photographs from 1800s to 1900, we see a Florida we will never see again. We see people carving out a life on a frontier that was in many ways more unique than any other. Here sailboats were the counter-parts of the covered wagon and the barefoot mailman of the pony express. Through Munroe's (Ralph Middleton) camera we see carefully detailed scenes that historians cannot fully describe: the Gold Coast before settlement; the first pictures of the Seminole Indians; Key West as the wrecking capital of the world; beauty primeval and untouched. ... jacket.

The sixteenth-century Mediterranean witnessed the expansion of both European and Middle Eastern civilizations, under the guises of the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman empire. Here, Andrew C. Hess considers the relations between these two dynasties in light of the social, economic, and political affairs at the frontiers between North Africa and the Iberian peninsula.

Americans imagine the Early West as a vast expanse of almost empty land populated only by farmers, ranchers, cattle, and horses. Now a leading scholar challenges this stereotype with his concise examination of early city planning and urban development in the region. Extending and elaborating on studies by Carl Bridenbaugh and Richard Wade of the Atlantic Seaboard and the Ohio Valley, John Reps demonstrates that throughout the Trans-Mississippi West cities and towns, not farms and ranches, formed the vanguard of frontier settlement. Urban communities thus stimulated rather than followed the opening of the West to agriculture. These cities did not grow randomly, for their founders established patterns of streets, lots, and public sites to guide expansion as population increased. Reps supports his thesis with 100 illustrations-plans, maps, surveys, and views-showing the original designs of every major Western city and of dozens of smaller places. Based on Reps's massive Cities of the American West (winner of the Beveridge Prize in 1980), this succinct account includes extensive notes and references that will be useful to readers who wish to pursue his penetrating critique.

Role of Indian Tea Association in assisting the refugees from upper Burma escape into India during World War, 1939-1945.

Sophie follows her husband, Dr. Alfred Fritze from the rich city life in Prussia to the poverty of the American frontier where their survival is challenged by the long frigid Minnesota winter so cold it swallows up hope and leaves privation in its stead. The Dakota people are friendly but there are those who hate the whites. Bigoted settlers spread out endangering the Dakota people's way of life. Men, who would gain from their demise, harass and belittle the Indian way of life. IAugust 1862, Chief Little Crow declares war because 4 boys have killed white women. He knows that the Dakota way of life is doomed. Caught in the middle of a civil war, Sophie loses her son and is taken captive. She and her friends, Tiny Feet and Walking Raven must wait for Sibley's army to rescue them. Alfred and their daughter Mina deliver a baby then must swim the cold waters of the Minnesota River before finding their way to the fort with no walls. The bloody war that changed the way of the Dakota people doesn't last long but too many people die and a nation is destroyed.

The first literary geography of the Putumayo, exploring its history and enduring significance through literature of and on this Colombian region by Latin American, US and European writers.