Depicts the settlement of the American west during the 1800s.

Describes the causes, methods, people, and effects of the expansion of the original thirteen colonies to the West.

Kingsley's historical romance of the Spanish Main, first published in 1855. From the coral reefs of the Barbados to the jungles and fabled cities of the Orinoco

1. This is unusual, a memoir written by someone under fifty years of age. What made you write? My parents were growing old, and I wanted to record their stories