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BIRTH OF AMERICA BOOKS (tm)

Real People, True Stories - High Action American History Books

Based on Journals, Diaries & Newspapers

HISTORY AS IT HAPPENS (tm)

by Delores Brown & Gary Wiles

FIVE-TIME PULITZER PRIZE NOMINEE

AUTHOR DELORES BROWN WILES

DARE TO JOIN Trailblazers, Future Presidents, Entertainers, Gamblers, Outlaws, Madams, Missionaries and Spies Storming Toward a Churning Cauldron of Adventure & Intrigue!

RISK CAPTURE AND HANGING - Reverse Battle Strategies Spying for Civil War Generals!

STRIKE IT RICH in Gold Rush and Silver Stampedes with Miners, Entertainers, Madams, Outlaws, Gamblers and Thieves desperately seeking GOLD WITH A CARD'S FLIP -- OR UNDER THE NEXT ROCK --

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PICK IT UP!!!

Madam Moustache, Rattlesnake Dick, Grant, Sherman, Calamity Jane,

Hickok, Crockett, Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger, Andrew Jackson,

AND MORE ARE THERE!

WILL YOU BE THERE TOO??

Our first trilogy breathes life into Trailblazing Mountain Men.

Readers Exclaim:

"It's like being there!"

PONDER THE PATH [1808 -1830] is the stirring true account of how Bill Sublette was inspired as a boy by his grandfather to follow in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark. Toughened by his boyhood on the frontier and service as Constable One Punch in Missouri, Bill's lured away by the fur trade's riches. After dragging drunks from brothels and grogshops for General Ashley's expedition, Bill keelboats up the Missouri to meet legendary Mountain Men Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger, James Clyman, Tom Fitzpatrick, Moses Black Harris and legions of others. In mountains so beautiful men will die just to be there, they battle arctic cold, bad whiskey, grizzlies, Indians and each other for fur fortunes that often turn to a shallow grave. This epic ends with Bill's astounding Oregon Trail feat headlining newspapers across the nation in 1830. Muzzleloader magazine says, "Ponder The Path is inspiring, informative and just plain good reading."

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.

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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 heathen Indians 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 voice 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.

BEHOLD THE SHINING MOUNTAINS [1830-1836] ISBN 1-889252-00-X, a 6x9 Trade Paperback; 334 Pages; 3 Maps [Fur Country, 1830 New York & Eastern U.S]; 223 Volume Bibliography; 7 Page Index with Identifying Data. Considered for the Pulitzer Prize in U.S. History in 1996.

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-TRAILS OF THE WHITE SAVAGES [1813-1836] reveals how the Irish rebel-

lion burning to this day was ignited by one divorce in 1533. This epic tells the true tale of the Scotch-Irish coming to America and being branded "White Savages" by Ben Franklin. White Savage progeny Sam Houston, David Crockett and Joseph Walker battle the Creek Nation under kinsman General Andrew Jackson in the bloody War of 1812. With Crockett and Joel Walker in his command, General Jackson conquers Florida only to face a Congressional lynch mob. Badly wounded in the battle of Horseshoe Bend, Sam Houston wins General Jackson's admiration before rising to Tennessee's state house. After marrying a firebrand girl, whose desertion topples him as Governor, Houston heads west and finds lovely Tiana in Oklahoma Territory. Crockett becomes a Judge before he can read, then gets himself elected to Congress. The Walker Clan settles in Missouri and produces the most astonishing lawman ever to tame the wildest town on a frontier. The Santa Fe Trail, Old Spanish Trail and California Emigrant Trail are blazed by Walker, White Savages Ewing Young and Kit Carson. Houston and Crockett will fight gallantly in the hopeless battles for Texas independence. "This book should be required reading for everyone interested in the history of our country." Ray Glazner, Historian, and National Museum Consultant.

TRAILS OF THE WHITE SAVAGES [1813-1836] ISBN 1-889252-03-4 6x9, a 6x9 Trade Paperback; 352 Pages; 16 Pinpoint Action Maps; 11 Black & White Portraits; 169 Reference Bibliography; 8 Page Index of Persons & Places with Identifying Data including dates & places of birth of all central figures and admission dates of all states mentioned. Considered for the Pulitzer Prize in U.S. History and the Bancroft History Award.

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Listen to audiostageplays(tm) performed by the authors taken from Ponder the Path, Behold The Shining Mountains & Trails Of The White Savages. Eight albums are available. Each album contains 3 audio cassettes with 4+ hours of high action entertainment, actual sound effects and music of the period. Audiostageplays™

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STRIKE IT RICH IN OUR GOLD RUSH TRILOGY!

Squeeze into reveling crowds storming the gold fields.

THE BLACKJACK QUEEN, CUTTHROATS AND GOOD TIME GIRLS OF THE GOLD RUSH [1849-1859] lays the foundation for the gold and silver frenzy that swept 1800s America. "GOLD EVERYWHERE, all you have to do is bend over and pick it up" resounded through the newspapers that skyrocketed word of California's gold discoveries around the globe. Goldseekers flooded the golden state followed by those who'd attempt to pluck their new-found wealth: Meet outrageous outlaws such as horsethief Cherokee Bob, stagecoach robber, Tom Bell, and Lawman Henry Plummer who'd creatively gained his own release from San Quentin Prison; petite Simone Jules, a convent-educated French miss dreaming of capturing a job as San Francisco's first woman Roulette Croupier; entertainers like little Lotta Crabtree dancing on an anvil to applause from her teacher/mentor, the notorious Lola Montez and cheers from miners with crumpled hats who throw golden nuggets at Lotta's tapping feet. And William Tecumseh Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant are there too. Unable to make it in private life, The Blackjack Queen's last pages find Sherman sitting on the steps of his Louisiana Military Academy wondering if any cadets will come, and what will happen to them all if Louisiana secedes from the Union, while a disconsolate Grant paces on the street corner attempting to sell firewood by the stick. Grant, Sherman, and others who survive this book journey into the second of our Gold Rush Trilogy, Femmes Fatales, Gamblers, Yankees and Rebels in the Gold Fields [1859-1869].

240 pages. 3 Maps. 65 Illustrations. Chron in Table of Contents. Time frame atop each page. Dialogue is from Diaries, Letters etc. 85 Reference Biblio. Research Notes with pages used from each reference. 6,747 Word Index on 182 People, Itemized Data on Central Figures and 15 States with Union Admission Dates. Nominated for Pulitzer Prize in U.S. History

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FEMMES FATALES, GAMBLERS, YANKEES AND REBELS IN THE GOLD FIELDS [1859-1869] features the survivors of The Blackjack Queen who dash to gold and silver strikes in Nevada (The Comstock Lode), Colorado, Idaho and Montana. It introduces Wild Bill Hickok hurled into gunslinger fame by dime novels and young Martha Jane Canary (Calamity Jane) riding in Madame Moustache's rambling wagonload of "entertaining girls" following railroad crews. Civil War passion rages in the West causing furious battles, one between Idaho southern sympathizer Cherokee Bob and northern troops. Bombastic Civil War battles change course as charming southern spy Rose Greenhow, confidante to future President Buchanan, vows she'll use "everything with which God endowed her" to elicit secrets from high ranking Union officers while northern spy Bet Van Lew cunningly slips her own spy, Mary Bowser, into Jefferson Davis' home. Posing as a maid, Mary memorizes troop strategies lying on Davis' desk, then reveals all to Bet who risks her life to pass information on to Union Generals. Unbreakable bonds are forged in hell between bald, married lawyer Alex Crittenden and his shapely young actress/mistress, Laura Fair. 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 profoundly change America forever. General Grant gallops into the Presidency to run the most scandalous administration in United States history.

360 pages. 10 full page Maps. 123 Illustrations. Chron in Table of Cont. Time frame atop each page. Dialogue is from Diaries, Letters etc. 157 Reference Biblio.. Research Notes with pages from each reference.. 8,450 word Index on 547 Per- sons. Itemized Data on Central Figures, 32 States & Union Admission Dates. Nominated for Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft & Miles History Awards

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BOLD WOMEN, COLD GOLD, HARD MEN & HOT LEAD [1869-1879] The third book of our Gold Rush Trilogy continues The Blackjack Queen and Femmes Fatales survivors' saga as they storm the Black Hills, Colorado and California mining camps. Among others, you'll discover George Armstrong Custer and his adoring wife, Libbie who share a magnificent love affair as told through their letters; David Shirk who arrives in Idaho with 50 cents in his moccasins; and, through honesty and hard work becomes a wealthy Cattle Baron in eastern Oregon; Madam Mattie Silks who, in love with a pink-tighted foot-racer instigates the first known American duel between two women. "Bill Hickok taught me how to shoot," she yells, pointing her pistol at Kate Fulton, also enamored with the pink-tighted dandy. Guess who gets shot! (See adjacent cover.) Meet Belle Siddons again. Another of Femmes Fatales' Civil War spies, she journeys to Deadwood where she's carried around town on welcoming miners' shoulders. Learning the dates of gold shipments from Deadwood to Cheyenne, she divulges them to her new love, stagecoach robber, Archie Cummings. Bill Hikok plays his last poker hand while Calamity Jane cavorts through deadwood spinning tall tales of how Custer never would have died if he'd listened to her advice. 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!

312 pages. 11 Maps. 143 Illustrations. Chron in Table of Cont.. Time frame atop each page. Dialogue from Diaries, Letters, etc. 133 Ref Biblio. Research Notes with pages from each reference support every Chapter. 7,830 word Index on 409 Real People and 11 Indian Nations with Itemized Data on Central Figures & 33 States listing Union Admission Dates. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in U.S. History and a Finalist in the Best Book Award in History.

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PLEASE NOTE: Our books have no profanity nor explicit sex. Although these books are written for adults, they are suitable for young-adult, general and collegiate readers.

"Hear" our forefathers speak in their own words and see insightful quotes that let you right into their minds and hearts. Dialogue is based on journals, diaries, newspapers and National Archive and court documents. A total of 926 references were read and annotated to produce our six books. Read Captain Bonneville's letters that prove he was spying in the West, not fur trapping. Read Davy Crockett's last words as he wrote them in his journal at the Alamo. Enjoy Libbie Custer's descriptive words of her love affair and, then, devastating loss of her dear husband, George Armstrong Custer.

A Table of Contents Chronology previews every chapter's precise historical period, and a time frame sign post stands atop every page. Instead of the garden variety footnotes that confirm only a few propositions, our Gold Rush Trilogy features an innovative system invented by the authors that includes research notes with pages used from each and every reference supporting all portions of the text. See Bold Women, Cold Gold, Hard Men & Hot Lead [1869-1879] Bibliography Reference Key

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. Learn how they knew each other and times when their paths crossed.

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