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Title: The Lincoln Memorial

Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Washington DC's Famous Monument

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: James Weippert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Includes accounts of the memorial's construction by people who worked on it. Explains how the memorial's site was chosen and how it was built.

"In this temple as in the hearts of the people for whom he saved the union the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever." (The epitaph by Royal Cortissoz engraved in the Lincoln Memorial)

People have always loved symbols and monuments. Even before there was any sort of written language, there were places and things considered sacred, whether it was the Mesopotamians' ziggurats or the Egyptians' pyramids. Thus, it had long been a practice to make some sort of memorial to those who had died as a way to remember and honor them.

Abraham Lincoln is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the country's most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the "Westerner" who educated himself and became a self-made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican Party before becoming the 16th President of the United States. Lincoln successfully navigated the Union through the Civil War but didn't live to witness his crowning achievement, becoming the first president assassinated when he was shot at Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865.

Given the importance of Abraham Lincoln to the country, it's no surprise that plans to build monuments to him began within months of his death. There are countless ways that the Great Emancipator has been commemorated across America, but the most famous is the Lincoln Memorial, which would not be completed until well over half a century after his death.

Members Reviews:

Interesting read...

Some reviews posted here claim this book is nothing more than an extended tourist's brochure... And I can't disagree more. While not a "compendium of all knowledge" on the topic of the Lincoln Memorial, it treats the story from several different angles - and to a great degree of depth. I was not aware, for instance, that there was more than one committee charged with the task; nor was I aware of the degree of politicization surrounding it. All very enlightening!

From our viewpoint of the 2000's, it's a no-brainier to memorialize Mr. Lincoln, but in the late 1800's the country was still reeling from the war and its many costs - both financial and in terms of lives lost. Interesting perspectives are shared, without a heavy dose of judgement.

Kudos.

Fairly quick read as well.

This was the only book I could find specifically about the Lincoln Memorial that looked any good. I was hoping for a larger book

A bit more than a pamphlet. Only color photo is on cover. Small format. Interesting facts about building of monument. This was the only book I could find specifically about the Lincoln Memorial that looked any good.

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Title: The Underground Railroad: The History and Legacy of America's Greatest Abolitionist Network

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Neil Holmes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say - I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger." - Harriet Tubman

The Underground Railroad is one of the topics that young schoolchildren are most often taught. Every American is familiar with the idea of fugitive slaves escaping to Canada and the North with the help of determined abolitionists and even former escaped slaves like Harriet Tubman. The secrecy involved in the Underground Railroad made it one of the most mysterious aspects of the mid-19th century in America, to the extent that claims spread that 100,000 slaves had escaped via the Underground Railroad. Of course, from a practical standpoint, the Underground Railroad had to remain covert not only for the sake of thousands of slaves, but for a small army of men and women of every race, religion and economic class who put themselves in peril on an ongoing basis throughout the first half of the 19th century, and in the years leading up to the war.

Over 150 years later, that same secrecy has helped the Underground Railroad become so romanticized and mythologized that people often visualize it in ways that were far different from reality. Before the American Civil War eliminated slavery, it was a fixture in North America for over 200 years. By 1850 a trained slave was worth approximately $2,500, around 10 times the sum of a typical annual salary in that day. As a result, the economic dependence on slavery in the South was an extreme one, and in the wake of the Fugitive Slave Act, black people in the North were under constant pressure to defend their "credentials" to bounty hunters and owners.

Members Reviews:

Underground Railroad

The best thing about this book is the pictures of important people connected with the Underground Railroad. Having the pictures with names helps one see more character than just the names. Fredrick Douglass, once a slave himself, and Harriet Tubman are the most noted names but there are many others in out country who brought about the need for the Railroad and its assistance to the slaves. Warning: the book is short and will leave you wanting more personal information regarding this period in our history but there are listings in back that assist in getting to more of that information. Charles River Editors does a great job in peaking your interest. The routes are given on a map for the Underground Railroad and you may be surprised to find it not only lead to Canada but to Mexico and into the Caribbean. It was too far a journey for those in the deep south to go north when the could easier go to Mexico. This book makes the escapes come alive and you will want to read more personal accounts. I recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more about this concept of a way to escape with a name that has nothing to do with actual railroads. I got my book downloaded on my Kindle from Amazon. You can start reading this today so gets yours right now.

Good read

Charles River Editors - what can I say ! Short books containing a lot of information . Great bibliographies for sources in each book . Sometimes the book satisfies me and at times leads me to more books .

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Title: History's Greatest Mysteries: The Unsolved Case of D.B. Cooper

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Violet Meadow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-06-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

"Maybe a hydrologist can use the latest technology to trace the $5,800 in ransom money found in 1980 to where Cooper landed upstream. Or maybe someone just remembers that odd uncle." (FBI Special Agent Larry Carr)

On November 24, 1971, there was little to suggest that the skies above the Pacific Northwest would produce one of the greatest mysteries in American history and a criminal investigation that is still ongoing over 40 years later. However, on the day before Thanksgiving, a man calling himself Dan Cooper boarded Northwest Orient Flight 305 from Portland to Seattle and sat in the rear of the cabin. Shortly after takeoff the man handed a flight attendant warning that he had a bomb and informed her that he was hijacking the plane. Cooper demanded $200,000, several parachutes, and a truck to refuel the plane when it landed in Seattle. Another flight attendant would later inform authorities, He seemed rather nice. He was never cruel or nasty. He was thoughtful and calm all the time."

When the plane landed at Seattle-Tacoma Airport, Coopers demands were met, after which he let all of the passengers and most of the crew off. He then told pilot William Scott to fly toward Mexico at no higher than 10,000 feet and at the slowest possible speed, which would also require a refueling stop in Reno, Nevada. About 30 minutes after the plane had taken off, Cooper manually activated the aft air staircase near the back of the cabin and apparently jumped out of the plane shortly after. The plane landed without any problems at Reno about 90 minutes after Cooper had activated the staircase to exit.

Members Reviews:

it reads like a high school or college paper

Though it does cover the basics of the crime and a few of the theories on who DB Cooper was and his crime, it reads like a high school or college paper. The narrative bounced around quite a bit in the beginning and there were times that I had to and re-read paragraphs to see what in the world he was trying to say.

Did he die ... or live many years a wealthy man?

Informative. Good deductions. Well put-together, convincing arguments in identifying a very famous criminal that got away with the crime ... but very well may have died in the process.

Excellent book. No new information

Excellent book. No new information, but it does a great job of reviewing the facts and suppositions regarding the case, in a very entertaining manner.

Wonderful!!!

Wonderful book, you can learn alot from this book. If you want to learn something you might not have known you'll know it after reading this book.

The Unsolved Case of D.B. Cooper

I found this book very interesting and fascinating. It would be interesting to know if with today's technology if more would be known.

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Title: The Battle of Missionary Ridge: The Greatest Civil War Battles

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Dan Orders

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-06-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

"When those fellows get started, all hell can't stop them." (Union corps commander Gordon Granger during the Battle of Missionary Ridge)

In late September 1863, the Confederates began laying siege to the Union Army of the Cumberland around Chattanooga in what would be their last gasp for supremacy in the West. Following the devastating Union defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga on September 20, the army and its shaken commander, General William S. Rosecrans, began digging in around the city and waiting for reinforcements to arrive. Meanwhile the Confederate Army of Tennessee, under General Braxton Bragg, took the surrounding heights, including Missionary Ridge to the east and Lookout Mountain to the southwest, allowing them control over the vital rail and river supply lines needed by the Union forces in the city. Bragg planned to lay siege to the city and starve the Union forces into surrendering.

Having lost faith in Rosecrans after Chickamauga, Washington delegated to Ulysses S. Grant the task of lifting the siege by placing him in command of nearly the entire theater. Grant replaced Rosecrans with George H. Thomas, who had saved the army at Chickamauga, and ordered him to "hold Chattanooga at all hazards." Thomas replied, "We will hold the town 'til we starve."

Meanwhile President Lincoln detached General Hooker and two divisions from the Army of the Potomac and sent them west to reinforce the garrison at Chattanooga. What followed were some of the most remarkable operations of the entire Civil War.

Members Reviews:

Wonderful eBook! It is an easy read and informative ...

Wonderful eBook! It is an easy read and informative as well. As a Homeschooling mom, you can never have too many book variety for your kids to choose from.

Informative

This book was very well written and informative. I have always been fascinated by war interest ,and it just fed my interest.

American Civil War of the East

Charles River Publishers have put out a series of ebooks called 'Greatest Civil War Battles:' including this item about Missionary Ridge and the item about Lookout Mountain as described today. I have been watching the items put out by the publishers in this series and have yet to see a single one that concerns anything west of the Shenandoah Valley until these two. It is like there was no Civil War that did not involve eastern seaboard states. This is a typical eastern coast mind block. If it did not happen in Virginia or Pennsylvania, it was not worth examining. It is tiresome to have your own local and cultural and familial histories ignored by the 'intelligentsia.' No, I did not and will not read the items in this series until they show some level of acknowledgement of the rest of the country outside their city limits.

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Title: Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Arapaho

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: David Zarbock

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-30-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

One of the most influential Native American tribes on the Great Plains was the Arapaho, a group so renowned among neighboring Native Americans that it's believed their name came from a Pawnee word for "trader. Like other notable Plains tribes, the Arapaho split off from other groups around the 16th-17th centuries and shifted from a sedentary agricultural society to the kind of nomadic group many envision when thinking of groups on the Plains. That nomadic lifestyle brought them into contact with the Sioux and Cheyenne, both of whom became allies as white settlers pushed west and led to conflicts.

The United States sought to defuse tensions with natives during the westward push by drafting treaties regarding major pieces of land, often without understanding the complex structure of the various tribes, and subgroups within those tribes. Most notably, the Arapaho were victims of the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864, an action considered so heinous that the leader of the attack, Colonel John Chivington, was actually relieved of command after it. Ultimately, the Arapaho were forced onto reservations alongside the Shoshone, one of the tribes Lewis and Clark encountered on their historic expedition in the early 19th century. Today, they are jointly recognized with the Cheyenne, a group they were closely associated with for centuries.

Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Arapaho comprehensively covers the culture and history of the famous group, profiling their origins, their history, and their lasting legacy.

Members Reviews:

A decent overview of the Arapaho. It does, ...

A decent overview of the Arapaho. It does, however, contain one startling inaccuracy. The book states the Battle of Washita took place near Cheyenne, Wyoming. The battle was fought along the Washita River in Oklahoma, not Wyoming.

Four Stars

very good reading.+++++

Disappointing

This was very disappointing purchase. The History and Culture of the Arapahoe is little more than a pamphlet. The information is simplistic and superficial.

fascinating must read.

if you have any interest in native american history, then this is a fantastic addition to your collection. the mythological story of how men and women met is priceless...please release other histories such as this!!!

Five Stars

extremly good matter of factt book.

easy to read and easy to understand

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Title: Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

Subtitle: The History and Legacy of America's Most Famous Inaugural Address

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Heather Masters

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-22-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." - (Abraham Lincoln)

When Abraham Lincoln decisively won reelection in 1864, he began working speedily toward finishing the war and figuring out its aftermath. With this clear mandate for governing, the Republicans in the House, with Lincoln's support, approved of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which banned slavery in all territories and states. In addition to the 13th Amendment, the future 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution were being discussed to protect minorities as well. To assist freed slaves, Congress also created the Freedmen's Bureau to offer food, clothing, and shelter to former slaves in the South. Lincoln did his part as well, issuing a Proclamation for Amnesty and Reconstruction, which offered full pardons and amnesty to all Rebels, except those high level officials involved in governing the Confederacy.

Lincoln wasn't given a chance to finish his work, but his thoughts and visions were eloquently saved for posterity in his second inaugural address, delivered a month before his death and considered one of America's greatest speeches. With the war nearing the end, Lincoln struck a conciliatory tone, reminding both sides that they prayed to the same God for victory and that neither side could divine God's will.

Members Reviews:

An excellent review and history

An excellent review and history of one of the greatest speeches ever given by an American President. Please read it.

Background, Political Climate and Intrigue

I expected this book to be nothing more than the text of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. Instead Lincoln's religious views (and changes to those views due to the Civil War) and love of Shakespeare are explained as components of the speech. The President's health and fatigue from the strain of war are discussed. The opinions of congressmen and civilians come into play: all the background necessary to explain why the man said what he did.

VERY GOOD

The speech given when the Union forces were in position to finish the Civil War.

Good overview of 2nd inaugural!

Great and concise analysis of Lincoln's 2nd inaugural. The assessment is balanced and puts the speech in proper historical context.

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Title: The Dust Bowl

Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Most Notorious Drought in American History

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Bob Neufeld

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

"People caught in their own yards grope for the doorstep. Cars come to a standstill, for no light in the world can penetrate that swirling murk.... The nightmare is deepest during the storms. But on the occasional bright day and the usual gray day we cannot shake from it. We live with the dust, eat it, sleep with it, watch it strip us of possessions and the hope of possessions." (Avis D. Carlson)

"How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him - he has known a fear beyond every other." (John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath)

It is almost impossible to imagine today, but in the late 19th and early 20th century there were places where land was cheaper than food and more plentiful than water. During the homesteading period of the 1860s-1880s, the government typically offered land grants of 160 acres to any farmer who could get it cultivated within a certain amount of time. With that much land to make productive, and a limited number of years to get it cleared and planted, men would do whatever it took to get their crops in. These farmers, trying to quickly carve working farms, were more concerned with speed than with the impact on the ground itself. Surviving each year itself was enough work; the future would have to worry about itself.

Members Reviews:

Lessons Learned from the Dust Bowl could Lead Us to Solutions Regarding Global Warming & Industrialization

This 54-page booklet on the Dust Bowl is an eye opener.

While reading this, and perusing the B&W photographs I recalled classes in high school some 45 years ago. In a nutshell, we were taught some of the lessons learned from the dust bowl days. That is likely the greatest value of books like this.

These are the thoughts that passed through my mind while reading The Dust Bowl:

America during the 1930s was very much like Egypt and South Africa these days. By that, I mean economically and environmentally.

The soil conservation lessons learned from the dust bowl have been well inculcated in agriculture, but not necessarily the big picture lessons. The big picture I speak of is how mass farming affects more than just the locale in which it is practiced. But, alas, a discussion of that issue has no place in a book review.

Therefore, just take it from me - this is a terrific book from Charles Rivers Editors.

Lesson learned?

Good overview of a difficult decade in American history. Situations and the fortitude of people hard to understand today. Drought, duststorms, grasshoppers and all in the Great Depression. Stirred a lot of emotions in me.

Dust Bowl

Not very well written. Good subject, I've been studying for years. Lots of better books out there for this subject.

Good read

I am using this as s primary source for a paper due to the abundance of quotes throughout it. It does a good job of painting a picture of what it was like to live there. Also, using the audible version I finished it in about two hours.

Devastating Dust Bowl and the Lessons We Can Learn

Amazing survival and history of a blighted time in U.S. History, this true documentation is one that links the reader to potential misuse of today's troubled environment and the need for regulation(s).

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Title: The Brooklyn Bridge

Subtitle: The History of New York City's Most Famous Bridge

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Ian H. Shattuck

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-10-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Includes descriptions of the bridge's construction by workers and officials; a bibliography for further reading; a table of contents.

"Spring and fall in New York are the best seasons here to get out and about. I like the little park in Dumbo between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge. I like Prospect Park...." (Paul Dano)

New York City has countless landmarks and tourist spots, but few are as old or as associated with the city as the Brooklyn Bridge, the giant suspension bridge that spans nearly 1,600 feet as it connects lower Manhattan to Brooklyn. Indeed, the bridge is so old that Manhattan and Brooklyn represented the largest and third-largest cities in America at the time of its construction, and the East River posed a formidable enough challenge that taking a ferry across could be dangerous.

Originally known as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and then later as the East River Bridge, the iconic bridge wasn't formally dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge until about 30 years after it was completed in the early 1880s. As the first steel suspension bridge built in America, it represented an enormous engineering feat that claimed the lives of several workers, including its original designer, but by the time it was finished the Brooklyn Bridge towered nearly 300 feet above the water at over 80 feet wide. With those dimensions, it was over 50 percent larger than any suspension bridge to date. From its inception, the Brooklyn Bridge has been celebrated as one of the things that makes New York City unique. President Chester Arthur attended its opening, and P. T. Barnum famously walked Jumbo the Elephant across the bridge as a publicity stunt.

Members Reviews:

History across the bridge

Wow this was really interesting. I knew a little but this was so detailed. I love how easy it is to get a history lesson in just a few minutes with these books.

Very good short history

This was my first read on the subject. It is awesome to learn what an endeavor it was. It is amazing to read of the terrible dangers involved in its construction. I wonder how many New Yorkers know the history behind the landmark. Highly recommended read.

VERY GOOD

The History of the Brooklyn Bridge can also be found in the ebook THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE AND THE GOLDEN STATE BRIDGE. Both ebooks are published by CHARLES RIVER EDITORS and brought to you by Amazon. (who else?) The texts of the books are different.

Good short history of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge

A brief quick read providing the core facts of the building of the bridge. The bibliography provides references for an in depth study. The Kindle version has a couple of minor sloppy typos.

STRESS TESTING THE CABLES

GREAT STORY OF ROBELING STRESS TESTING TECHNOLOGY OF UTILIZING SUSPENDED CABLE ARCHITECTURE IN THE BUILDING OF THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE ANE EVERY MAJOR BRIDGE BUILT SINCE THEN

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Title: Mount Rushmore

Subtitle: The History and Legacy of America's Most Unique Monument

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Neil Reeves

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

"America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller than these." (Simon Hoggart)

In the 1920s plans were made to carve the figures of America's greatest presidents into Mount Rushmore, the tallest spot in the Black Hills of the Dakotas, and by 1939 the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt had been carved into the rock. With that, one of America's greatest national monuments was born.

The four men were certainly worthy of being immortalized in granite, and Mount Rushmore poignantly symbolizes the legacies and legends of the four presidents (which often overshadow the actual men themselves). Every American is taught a pristine narrative of the life and legacy of George Washington and can easily recite the highlights and myths of his life. Thomas Jefferson was instrumental in authoring the Declaration of Independence, laying out the ideological groundwork of the notion of states' rights, leading one of the first political parties, and overseeing the expansion of the United States during his presidency. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the Westerner who educated himself and became a self-made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican Party before becoming the 16th president of the United States and saving the Union. And at the turn of the 20th century, Theodore Roosevelt came to be recognized as the quintessential American, remembered for being a president, an explorer, a hunter, an author, a soldier, a president, and a safari adventurer, all of which combine into one unique reputation.

Members Reviews:

Fun, Fast, Easy, Informative Read.

Length: 44 pages.

At just 44 pages, this is not going to be a compendium of information. But, it has at least one nugget on just about every page.

For I stance, I was shocked at the cost of the project. Shocked in a good way.

Also chuckled that experts in Atlanta cackled so that 'at least the mountain will be in a state where nobody will see it.' The laugh is on them, since Mt Rushmore is one of the greatest, most visited monuments in the world.

Can't wait to see the Crazy Horse monument completed.

This book is a fun, fast, easy, yet, informative read. Recommended.

EXCELLENT

Mount Rushmore, the location where the likeness of four Presidents have been carved in granite.

You will enjoy this ebook.

Greatness of history

What can you really say about the most famous place in the world...one of a kind. The men that accomplished the behemoth feat were famous in their own right. I can not even fathom what it took to accomplish what they did. All I can say is "thank God" for the dedication. Again another book of miracles.

Five Stars

Excellent information about mount Rushmore

good

very interesting book, good read

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Title: The Weird Wild West

Subtitle: Tall Tales and Legends About the Frontier

Author: Sean McLachlan, Charles River Editors

Narrator: Bob Neufeld

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Space may be the final frontier, but no frontier has ever captured the American imagination like the Wild West, which still evokes images of dusty cowboys, outlaws, gunfights, gamblers, and barroom brawls over 100 years after the West was settled. A constant fixture in American pop culture, the 19th-century American West continues to be vividly and colorfully portrayed not just as a place but as a state of mind.

Even for those who travel through the West today, there are plenty of traces of the old times. Ghost towns still stand in remote parts of the desert and prairie, Native American rock art still tell their mute legends, and old prospectors' mines still dot the hillsides. Even some of the places' names, such as Bloody Basin, Arizona, and Soldier's Hill, New Mexico, have their stories to tell. In November 2014 one lucky archaeologist at Nevada's Great Basin National Park spotted an old rifle leaning against a pine tree; the sun and wind had weathered the wooden stock until it was as gray as the tree trunk, making it almost invisible to passersby. When the gun was examined, it turned out to be a Winchester rifle. The serial number was still legible, and records showed it had been manufactured and shipped in 1882. Some prospector or hunter had set the rifle against a tree more than a century ago and never came back for it. It had been leaning there ever since.

As popular as works about the West remain today, the Wild West captured the imagination of people all the way back to the days when it really was wild. Even in the 19th century, its fame spread thanks to dime novels, travelogues, Wild West shows, and theater plays, and people were thrilled by tales of exploration and gunfights.

Members Reviews:

Wonderful Reading for the Famiky

Length: 68 pages.

Although the first few pages I detected more clumsy writing than normal for Charles Rivers Editors, overall, this is one of their most interesting booklets.

Indeed, this book could be greatly expanded and the price increased accordingly and I think it still would be a best seller for years.

One topic is an hombre who ended up as a resident, more or less, in a Belmont amusement park in Long Beach, California. This story, alone, makes this book worth the asking price.

I greatly enjoyed reading The Weird Wild West and am convinced that anyone interested inthe Wild West will love this book.

A lot weirder than I remember from history class!

A nice short, but concise book of some of the weird aspects of the American "Wild" West.

Recommend it for anyone looking for a entertaining afternoon/evening of reading.

Good read. I believe most of the historical info ...

Good read. I believe most of the historical info is correct and based on real history and not made up history.

The stupid and the weird

If you like reading about tall tales, lies and the old West then this is your book. I enjoyed the discussions about the outlaws. I hated the stories about ancient civilizations that one or two people supposedly found in the old West. The stories about the various monsters and other weird creatures are just plain weird.

very quick read

While I enjoyed the stories they are told very quickly and without a lot of the details I would have preferred. If the subject interest you, don't hesitate to give this book a shot