Relates the adventures of Dreiser and Booth, during their two-week tour across four states in 1914 in order to capture their impressions of the sights, people, and experiences.

Since it was first published in 1974, "The Killer Angels" has become the most belove, widely-read Civil War novel of the post-World War II era. Shaara's unforgettable novel served as the basis for the acclaimed feature film Gettysburg, has sold millions of copies, and inspired the bestselling Civil War novels Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure by his son, Jeff Shaara. After more than a quarter of a century and three million copies in print,...

A fictionalized account of Frances Slocum, a Quaker girl from Pennsylvania, kidnaped at the age of five by Indians and later forced to choose between the two cultures. Through her eyes is seen the destruction of the Indians.51

Novel describes the shattering effects of twentieth century materialism on the life of Solon Barnes, a devout Pennsylvania Quaker. Also the story of how he turns to the spiritual core of his religion to reconcile his worldly failure as a businessman and the revolt of his five children.

"The story of a young woman from Wisconsin who goes to Chicago, becomes an actress, marries and moves to New York, and when her husband loses his job, returns to the stage." ***"A powerful account of a young working girl's rise to the 'tinsel and shine' of worldly success, and of the slow decline of her lover and protector Hurstwood." Oxford Companion to Engl Lit. ***"Plain, unaffected, and unconventional story of the actual life of the lower middle-classes...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning book that is quite simply the best book ever written on the Scopes Trial and its place in American history and myth. In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the twentieth century's most contentious dramas:the Scopes trial that pitted William Jennings Bryan and the anti-Darwinists against a teacher named John Scopes in a famous debate over science, religion, and their place...

The passenger train has long held a special place in the imagination of Americans, and Indiana was once a bustling passenger train crossroads. Limiteds, Locals, and Expresses in Indiana, 1838-1971, brings to life the countless locals, accommodation trains, and secondary expresses that Hoosiers patronized during the Golden Age of the passenger train. Craig Sanders gives us a comprehensive history of intercity passenger service in Indiana, from the...

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