Pauketat illuminates the riveting discovery of the largest pre-Columbian city on U.S. soil. Once a flourishing metropolis of 20,000 people in 1050, Cahokia had rotted away by 1400. Its earthen...
Search Results
-
Author: Pauketat, Timothy R.Summary:
-
Author: Ostler, JeffreySummary:
Ostler recounts the Lakota Sioux's loss of their spiritual homeland and their remarkable legal battle to regain it. Moving from battlefields to reservations to Supreme Court chambers, Ostler...
-
Author: Perdue, ThedaSummary:
Historians Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green paint a portrait of the infamous Trail of Tears. Despite protests from statesmen like Davy Crockett, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay, a dubious 1838...
-
Author: Dorsey, Tim.Summary:
A group of characters unites on the Silver Stingray, Amtrak's newest express train, for a murder mystery weekend that is marked by unexpected twists.
-
Author: Dorsey, Tim.Summary:
There's a different schemer or slimeball behind every door: cocaine duckpins who have survived only bt the dumbest fortune, hard-luck gigolos desperate to score, undercover cops busting undercover...
-
Author: Dorsey, Tim.Summary:
Recent Tampa resident Jim Davenport's dreams of tropical paradise are shattered when he kills one of two recently released convicts and must contend with the other.
-
Author: Hiaasen, Carl, Montalbano, William D.Summary:
When an independent fishing captain is muscled by the Machine to run drugs, he turns into a sea-going vigilante.