A Guide to the Big Bend Area's Greatest Hiking Adventures, including Big
Fully updated and revised, Hiking Big Bend National Park features some of the finest trails in Texas - from short day hikes to backcountry treks. With this comprehensive guide, veteran hiker Laurence Parent provides all the information you need to get the most out of hiking this natural wonderland.
The stories of famous inventors who lived in Florida such as Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Hedy Lamarr, Jeff Bezos, and many others. From the first digital computer built by John Atanasoff in 1939 to the citrus, cattle, cruise, agriculture, aerospace, and biomedical industries, the sunshine state is brimming with world firsts.
Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for twenty-five creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in North Carolina.
For local travelers looking for an experience in their own backyard, this book is the essential guide to things to see and do around Austin, from Waco's Texas Ranger Hall of Fame to Museum of Handmade Furniture in Braunfels.
A Guide to the Area's Best Backcountry Hot Springs
Whether you're seeking a soak in naturally heated mineral water or out for a sightseeing adventure, this guides you to more than 100 of the best sites for soaking in the beauty of the region. Author Chris Andrews reveals his favorite "hot spots," from primitive pools in the backcountry to handcrafted bathhouses surrounded by civilization.
A History of Pleasurable Pastimes from Colonial Charles Town through the
A century before Boston became been the birthplace of the American Revolution, Carolina Colony was the birthplace of entertainment and leisure activities in Colonial America. Building a civilized city in the uncultivated New World was hard work, but Southern settlers made sure to leave time for life's lighter pursuits. Inspired by the court of ......
In the early twentieth century, Miami cultivated an image of itself as a destination for leisure and sunshine free from labor strife. Thomas A. Castillo unpacks this idea of class harmony and the language that articulated its presence by delving into the conflicts, repression, and progressive grassroots politics of the time. Castillo pays ......
A History of Piracy and Prohibition, Rebellion and Revolution
Quaker William Penn once described Charles Town as "a hotbed of piracy," full of wayward women "who frequented a tap room on The Bay and infected a goodly number of the militia with the pox." Since the Carolina Colony was founded and named for Charles II, the Merry Monarch, it's no surprise that Charlestonians have always had a flair for flouting ......
From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Southwest states of ......
