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HISTORY AS IT HAPPENSä IN HIGH ACTION AMERICAN HISTORY BOOKS

PONDER THE PATH [1808-1830], BEHOLD THE SHINING MOUNTAINS [1830-1836] and TRAILS OF THE WHITE SAVAGES [1813-1836] by Gary Wiles and Delores Brown are the most exciting advance in entertaining learning tools for readers in decades. They differ from traditional American History books in at least 3 ways.

These high action, nonfiction books for young-adult, general and collegiate readers are history as it happens™. Like PBS documentaries, their dialogue evolves from journals, letters, autobiographies and National Archive papers. You "hear" the ancients speak their own words and see insightful quotes that let you right into their minds and hearts.

A Table of Contents Chronology previews every chapter's precise historical period, and a time frame sign post stands atop every page.

Instead of focusing on one person, these books embroil famous and infamous contemporary figures together in the hard life and hot broth issues of their era.

They are already in hundreds of Library systems, Historical Societies, Museums and Universities!

 

PONDER THE PATH [1808-1830] [Revised 2nd Edition] ISBN 1-889252-02-6, a 6x9 Trade Paperback; 279 Pages; Map of Fur Country; 159 Volume Bibliography; 6 Page Index with Identifying Data. Considered for the Golden Spur and Francis Parkman Awards. See Bonus -Buy Discounts under TO ORDER if you get more than one book.

Back Cover.......Table Of Contents.......Reader Letters.......Reviews........Book Excerpts.......Rendezvous Legacy

 

BEHOLD THE SHINING MOUNTAINS [1830-1836] the freestanding sequel to PONDER THE PATH, weaves the Mountain Men, a Rogue Scottish Nobleman and the Missionaries into a fiery tapestry. Bill Sublette and Jedediah Smith lead a Santa Fe Trail expedition that only one of them will survive. While cholera empties New York City's streets except for pigs eating the corpses and garbage, upstate New Yorkers Marcus Whitman and Narcissa Prentiss beg the American Board of Foreign Mission to let them minister to the heathens thousands of miles to the West. Fleeing from debtor's prison in Scotland, nobleman Captain William Drummond Stewart lands in New York amid cholera's chaos and soon rides west searching for Bill Sublette. Captain Stewart savors America's wilderness and the wild Mountain Rendezvous where rabid wolves turn some men mad under the blood moon. Backwoodsman Bill Sublette trades economic gut punches with America's richest monopolists in their New York City boardroom before hoodlums come for Bill in the dark. Narcissa matures into a chemistry professor with red-gold hair, a clarion soprano and guts every man envies. She heads for the Rockies with a husband she's known 20 minutes before his proposal and a spurned suitor, who grates, "I will hate you till you die!" "A welcome change from dry history," writes Chuck Hamsa, Collection Bibliographer for Dupre Library at the University of Southwestern Louisiana.

Back Cover.....Table Of Contents.....Reader Letters.....Reviews.....Book Excerpts.....Rendezvous Legacy

 

Back Cover.....Table Of Contents.....Reader Letters.....Reviews.....Book Excerpts.....Rendezvous Legacy

These audiotape abridgments from nonfiction Pulitzer Prize Nominee TRAILS OF THE WHITE SAVAGES are exciting, entertaining and historically accurate! Each album has the book's every word about the named American. Like PBS documentaries, dialogue from journals, letters and verified texts has legendary Americans talking in their own words. Recorded in Dolby Ò Stereo as an AudioStagePlayÔ with a different voice for every person by authors Gary Wiles and Delores Brown. In durable white vinyl albums, they feature sound effects and music of the early 1800s. These enchanting 41/2 hour presentations swirl you into the mists of history. They're the carefree way to explore America's history from the War of 1812 through the Texas War of Independence. This is history as it happensÔ , and you are in the patriotic thick of it!

ANDREW JACKSON, THE GUNFIGHTER PRESIDENT

General Jackson's shot down in his 1813 Nashville gunfight by 2 officers on his own staff. He rises from his "deathbed," has himself tied on his horse and rides south to avenge Alabama's Fort Mims massacre. Jackson fights the Creek War's battles in Alabama with Sam Houston and David Crockett. He conquers Spanish owned Florida [twice!]. His world altering triumph in the Battle of New Orleans propels him into his fiery Presidency. This album reveals Andy's abiding love for wife Rachel and his dozen pistol duels defending her honor, his efforts to buy Texas and his indomitable spirit. Jackson's words and writings provide insight into the mind and heart of this fervent patriot. This true story leaves no doubt that White Savage Andrew Jackson, though physically frail, was absolutely the fiercest man ever to occupy America's White House. ISBN 1-889252-04-2. 3 Stereo cassettes [6 sides] White vinyl album, 4 Hours 25 Min. $19.95

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YOUNG SAM HOUSTON, A STORM RISING

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DAVID CROCKETT --

FRONTIERSMAN, SOLDIER AND MAN FOR THE AGES

A new Prologue reveals Crockett's early years in Virginia and Tennessee, including marriage to lovely Irish Mary Finley. Ride with Tennessee's Mounted Gunmen in 1813 to avenge the massacre at Fort Mims, Alabama where Creeks brained babies on stockade walls. Fight under General Jackson, who inspires David's motto, "Be sure you're right, then go ahead." Battle in Alabama and Florida. Share David's grief when wife Mary dies, leaving him with 2 little boys & a baby girl. Attend his odd marriage to Elizabeth Patton, who aids his rise to Colonel, Judge, Tennessee Legislator and U.S. Congressman. Learn why David tells his constituents he's going to Texas and they can go to Hell! Meet the fascinating men Crockett enlists en route to Texas to fight bravely at the Alamo. A new Epilogue ends this stirring true tale.

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This exciting new high action historical audiobook is abridgment #4 from the nonfiction epic TRAILS OF THE WHITE SAVAGES nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in U.S. History and the Bancroft History Award. Recorded in Dolby Ò Stereo on three 90 minute cassettes as an AudioStagePlayÔ with a different voice for every person. It's spiced by sound effects and music of the early 1800s. This album is exciting, entertaining and historically accurate with the book's every word about Joe Walker.

 "Sweeps you into the minds and hearts of its people." Chuck Hamsa, Library, University of Southwestern Louisiana

"Entertaining with lively dialogue & plenty of action." Joe N. Bone, Curator Crockett Cabin, Rutherford, Tennessee

"Should be required for anyone interested in the history of our country." Ray Glazner, Wisconsin Museum Consultant

ISBN 1-889252-07-7 3 stereo cassettes [6 sides] in white vinyl album Runs 4 hours, 21 minutes $19.95

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SHARE THE WILD LIVES OF THE SUBLETTE TRILOGY'S RUGGED MEN

In 1823 Bill Sublette, called "Constable One Punch" in St. Charles, Missouri, joined the legendary Mountain Men of his time trapping beaver in the wilderness. It was the beginning of 12 years of high adventure no one could ever have imagined! These fabled years were first enshrined in Ponder The Path and its sequel Behold The Shining Mountains, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in U.S, History. Now they're here in three epic albums in DolbyÒ stereo, spiced by sound effects and music of the era!

Audio Abridgment #1 of Ponder The Path, the nonfiction Francis Parkman Award nominee. This first album of the Sublette Trilogy chronicles Bill's entry into western Indian Country where he traps with famous Mountain Men, kills a grizzly mauling Jedediah Smith, fights in the Arikara wars and buys a fur company. Like all our albums, it's an AudioStagePlayÔ with a different voice for each person. Source book reviewers say: "A rousing historical epic." L.A. Times."An accurate primer of the fur trade and Rendezvous era giving hours of enjoyment." Muzzle Blasts Magazine."Inspiring, informative and just plain good." Muzzleloader Magazine. ISBN 1-889252-09-3

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ISBN 1-889252-10-7 3 stereo cassettes [6 sides] in white vinyl album $19.95

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ISBN 1-889252-11-5 3 stereo cassettes [6 sides] in white vinyl album $19.95

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FIRST WOMEN OVER THE ROCKIES IS

HISTORY AS IT HAPPENS!

Excerpted from Pulitzer Prize nominee Behold The Shining Mountains, this thrilling 41/2 hour nonfiction AudioStagePlayÔ is fascinating fare for young adult through collegiate or adult listeners. Recorded on three 90 minute cassettes in Dolby® Stereo with sound effects and music of the period, this album weaves the true stories of two missionary couples on a noble quest into a fiery tapestry with Mountain Men and Indians in the vast western wilderness of North America in the 1830s.

This is our Gold Field Trilogy Catalog on the Western Expansion of the United States driven by the frenzied gold and silver strikes between 1849 and 1879. These three books garbed in flaming red with incendiary titles fulfill our Intimate History As It Happens™ Series. They emphacize the nearly forgotten roles of women of every stripe in America's Western History. Whole books have been written on this period wtithout so much as a whisper about women. This Trilogy seeks to deal a serious setback to such books, although we also have plenty to say about the men who loved these women, fought the wars of the time and launched the tidal waves of money over these three decades -- often with the secret or overt connivance of these women!

 

 

Now being considered for the Pulitzer Prize, this $13.95 epic affords a most, intimate peek into the private lives of its real actresses, gamblers, cutthroats, harlots, soldiers, politicians and the tormented men who moiled for gold.

Bewitching Bavaria's King into elevating her from his mistress to Countess, actress Lola Montez incited a revolt. Her affairs with the Czar, Franz Liszt, Alexander Dumas and others scorched Europe's papers. Arrested in Britain for bigamy, Lola fled to the Gold Rush. After bad reviews, she challenged one editor to a duel while wearing her petticoat and horsewhipped a Grass Valley editor in a saloon, adding, "I was forced to use a whip that never touched the back of a horse to whip an ass."

Gambler Charles Cora's sensitive, caring love affair with exquisitely lovely San Francisco madam Clara Belle Ryan got jolted when he shot the U.S. Marshal and was tried for murder. No one could have imagined what happened next to their timeless love.

Convent educated Simone Jules arrived hungry and homeless in 1849 in a San Francisco that had no women running gaming tables. The Bella Union boss's face blanched when she pulled two guns on him during her job interview for roulette croupier. But did she get the job?

Under 1850's clouds of civil war, California sprinted into the Union under the watchful eye of William Tecumseh Sherman. Some said this future Civil War General married his sister and lived all his adult life, just like Ulysses S..Grant, under an assumed name. How much of this do you suppose is true? To find out, get details from the reverse side and order this high action history book, the first of a trilogy on America's Gold Rushes. Upcoming book two will see the Civil War in Nevada's Comstock, Colorado, Idaho and Montana during its span of 1859-1869. Book three will delve into the Black Hills and other gold fields, ending in Bodie in 1879.

JOIN DESPERATE MEN AND WOMEN STORMING FROM ONE GRAND GOLD STRIKE TO THE NEXT!

Nothing has bewitched the minds of men like the quest for gold, except their lust for women, cards and war, and they're all here.

During the Civil War, both sides pursue the West's gold. The War's clashes in the West provide views of it few readers have ever seen.

Femmes fatales turn the revelations of military men and politicians in bedrooms and ballrooms into battle-field wins or defeats. Love affairs from President Buchanan's trysts with wily Confederate spy Rose Greenhow to the unbreakable bonds forged in hell between bald, married lawyer Alex Crittenden and his shapely young actress and mistress, Laura Fair, are shamelessly pried into - love letters and all.

Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in History and the Bancroft and Miles History Awards, Femmes Fatales is Book 2 of a Trilogy on western gold fields. Book 1.The Blackjack Queen, chronicles California's Gold Rush 1849 to 1859. From 1859 to 1869 Femmes tracks gold and silver strikes and the Civil War in Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, Montana and California. Femmes highlights mankind's greatest feat to date -- construction of the 2,000 mile transcontinental railroad with the Central Pacific blasting east from Sacramento through the Sierra Nevada Mountains' 60 foot snowdrifts to meet the Union Pacific's rail crews, battling plains tribes west from the Missouri River to profoundly change America forever.

Museum and Movie Consultant Ray Glazner writes, "This was a time of lawlessness, mayhem, adventure, scandal and War, and Wiles and Brown have captured it all. The famous, the infamous, the obscure fight for riches, love, glory and freedom in California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and Montana. Clear your work load before you start Femmes because you will not put it down!" Lori Bonner of Northern Idaho Library adds, "Femmes transports its reader to a past filled with excesses and dangerous exploits. Real people are brought to vivid life. This is a splendid resource for educators wishing to bring the Wild West into the classroom!"

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The Treaty of Fort Laramie barred whites from the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. The U.S. Army was to arrest white violators, but didn't and fed exaggerated reports on Black Hills gold to newspapers nationwide.

Dr. Fred Gowans & Brenda Francis of Brigham Young University say,"Wiles & Brown craft an entrtaining work of history featuring folks who lived, loved and died on the frontier. Well researched, this book inserts the reader into the personal lives of Lt. Col. George Custer, tycoon William Ral-ston, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, gambler Belle Siddons and cattle drover Daivd Shirk. Historians will find the Bibliography invaluable and the Maps and Index assets."

á When these two Denver madams square off in this first recorded formal duel between two women over a kept man, who do you suppose gets shot?

Will married San Francisco lawyer Alex Crittenden be able to con his mistress Laua Fair into overlooking seven years of lies about divorcing his wife after she's finally bought her own trousseau -- or will she kill him?

Former Federal Prosecutor Benjamin Bristow confides to his wife Abbie details of shocking scandals in Ulysses Grant's administration. Bristow is aghast that Grant thinks ignored scandals just disappear, including the greatest monetary theft in the history of the world, $50,000,000 overbilled to the Government by Union Pacific on the transcontinental railroad. Bristow is about to indict Grant's Private Secretary, General. Babcock for grand theft, and wife Abbie urges him to take the job as Secretary of State so he can jail the bums!

Bold Women is the third book in this Gold Field Trilogy to be nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in U.S. History. Joe Bone, Curator/Manager of the Davy Crockett Cabin Museum at Rutherford, TN, observes, "Amid these exciting accounts of the pursuit of wealth, fame, power and pleasure, stand heroes like David Shirk, whose honesty and tenacity on cattle drives allowed him to survive. Another heroine is Libbie Custer, devoting her life to vindication of her beloved husband. Wiles and Brown have given us an important and memorable work of American History."

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