Honor Bound

by Stuart I. Rochester, Frederick T. Kiley

1998 · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Honor Bound is the result of a fruitful collaboration between Stuart I. Rochester and Frederick Kiley. In examining the lives of the prisoners in captivity, it presents a vivid, sensitive, sometimes excruciating, account of how men sought to cope with the physical and psychological torment of imprisonment under wretched and shameful conditions. It includes insightful analyses of the circumstances and conditions of captivity and its varying effects on the prisoners, the strategies and tactics of captors and captives, the differences between captivity in North and South Vietnam and between Laos and Vietnam, and analysis of the quality of the source materials for this and other works on the subject.

Confederates in the Tropics

by Sharon Hartman Strom, Frederick Stirton Weaver

2011 · Univ. Press of Mississippi

Charles Swett (1828–1910) was a prosperous Vicksburg merchant and small plantation owner who was reluctantly drawn into secession but then rallied behind the Confederate cause, serving with distinction in the Confederate Army. After the war some of Swett’s peers from Mississippi and other southern states invited him to explore the possibility of settling in British Honduras or the Republic of Honduras. Confederates in the Tropics uses Swett’s 1868 travelogue to explore the motives of would-be Confederate migrants fleeing defeat and Reconstruction in the United States South. The authors make a comparative analysis of Confederate communities in Latin America and use Charles Swett’s life to illustrate the travails and hopes of the period for both Black and white people. Swett’s diary is presented here in its entirety in a clear, accessible format, edited for contemporary readers. Swett’s style, except for his passionate prefatory remarks, is a remarkably unsentimental, even scientific look at Belize and Honduras, more akin to a field report than a romantic travel account. In a final section, the authors suggest why the expatriate communities of white Southerners nearly always failed, and they follow up on Swett’s life in Mississippi in a way that sheds light on why disgruntled Confederates decided to remain in or eventually to return to the US South.

Burs Under the Saddle

by Ramon Frederick Adams

1989 · University of Oklahoma Press

"This immense book, by a noted bibliographer of the West, is beyond question the fairest, most complete and most learned evaluation of printed references to western outlaws to appear until now....It will stand for many years, solid as a rock amid the flooding maelstrom of western myth and legend, pointing up the truth about those men of the past who lived by their wits and their guns. It will be impossible for anyone studying that era and such men to do so without reference to this volume."—Los Angeles Times "Adams turns again to the books and histories of the western gunmen and outlaws and critically examines 425 titles, most of which rate as ’burs’ under his saddle. Ramon Adams’ plea is that the writers must stop compounding each other’s errors into legend. In this book, with great skill and without malice, he has pointed out past mistakes. His book should be in the essential baggage of every writer on western outlaws and on every library shelf."—American West "The value of this book to writers and historians of the badman tradition cannot be overestimated, for Adams has replaced rumors, myths, and falsehoods with documented historical facts. It is a book for all conscientious students of and writers on the American West; henceforth, any writer of ’authentic Western history’ who refuses to check with Adams should be, as the judge said to Billy the Kid in one legend, 'hanged by the neck until dead, dead, dead.'"—Southwest Review

Only Yesterday

by Frederick Lewis Allen

1997 · John Wiley & Sons

Only Yesterday ist eine sehr gut geschriebene, anekdotenreiche Darstellung des Aktienmarktes der 20er Jahre. Der Autor beschreibt die Welle des Reichtums nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg bis zum legendären Schwarzen Freitag 1929 und der sich anschließenden Weltwirtschaftskrise. Außerdem versteht es der Autor meisterhaft, das Hauptthema nebenbei mit viel "Hintergründigem" dieser Tage zu verquicken: Al Capone und die Prohibition, Präsident Hardings Ölskandale, das Wachstum der Automobilindustrie, die zeitgenössische Literatur von F. Scott Fitzgerald und die Arbeit von Sigmund Freud. (10/97)

Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5: Families G-P

by John Frederick Dorman

2004 · Genealogical Publishing Com

"The foundation for this work is the Muster of Jan 1624/25 which had never before been printed in full."--Page xiii, volume 1.

Six-Guns and Saddle Leather

by Ramon Frederick Adams

1998 · Courier Corporation

Authoritative guide to everything in print about lawmen and the lawless—from Billy the Kid to the painted ladies of frontier cow towns. Nearly 2,500 entries, taken from newspapers, court records, and more.