BIRTH OF AMERICA BOOKS (tm)

BIRTH OF AMERICA BOOKS™

P.O. Box 8568, Surprise AZ 85374 (623-440-1948

FIVE TIME PULITZER PRIZE NOMINEE

AUTHOR DELORES BROWN WILES

LIMITED EDITIONS - HISTORY AS IT HAPPENS™

REAL PEOPLE - TRUE STORIES

BASED ON DIARIES, JOURNALS & NEWSPAPERS

AS PENNED AFTER IN-DEPTH RESEARCH GLEANED DURING

10,000 TRAVEL MILES, HISTORIAN INTERVIEWS, NATIONAL

ARCHIVE SEARCHES, LIBRARY & MUSEUM SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

by DELORES BROWN & GARY H. WILES

STRIKE IT RICH in Gold Rush & Silver Stampedes With Miners, Entertainers, Madams, Outlaws, and Gamblers Desperately Seeking Gold at A Card's Flip Or Under the Next Rock. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PICK IT UP!!

RISK CAPTURE & HANGING - Reverse Battle Strategies Spying For Civil War Generals!

DARE TO JOIN Mountain Men Fighting Arctic Cold, Grizzlies, Blackfeet, Bad Whiskey & Each Other For Vast Fur Trade Fortunes While Carving Trails West!

Meet Madame Moustache, Rattlesnake Dick, Grant, Sherman, Calamity Jane, Hickok, Crockett, Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger, Andrew Jackson & MORE!

GOLD RUSH TRILOGY [1849--1879]

BOOK #1:

THE BLACKJACK QUEEN, CUTTHROATS AND GOOD TIME GIRLS OF THE GOLD RUSH [1849--1859] reveals what set off the gold and silver mania that hurled vast masses of people of every race from their homes, farms and foreign countries into western America to claw riverbanks and wade icy streams. By New Years 1849 San Francisco exploded from a mere 459 population to over 100,000 with enough gold lusting sailors deserting their arriving ships to litter its bay with 300 rotting vessels. In 1849 Simone Jules arrives destitute and desperate in a San Francisco that has no women running gaming tables. The Bella Union boss's face blanches when she pulls two pistols on him in her interview for roulette croupier. But does she get the job? Gambler Charles Cora's love affair with San Francisco's top madam Belle Ryan is jolted when he's tried for murdering a U.S. Marshal. What happens next to their great love is unimaginable. Bewitching Bavaria's King into elevating her from mistress to Countess, actress Lola Montez costs him his crown. Arrested in Britain for bigamy, Lola flees to America's Gold Rush. Bad reviews incite Lola to whip a Grass Valley, California editor in a saloon yelling, "I was forced to use a whip that never touched the back of a horse to whip an ass!" Will he retaliate? Meet savage outlaws Cherokee Bob who collects other people's horses, stagecoach robber Tom Bell who collects others' wallets, and tarnished Sheriff Henry Plummer who slyly gains his own release from San Quentin Prison by faking the symptoms of tuberculosis. Amid southern threats of civil war, California's 1850 sprint into the Union is aided by William Tecumseh Sherman. Some say this future Civil War General married his sister and lived his adult life under an assumed name. But is this true? U.S. Army Captain Ulysses S. Grant boozes big and is drummed out of the service. After pawning his watch to buy family Christmas presents, a disconsolate Ulysses Grant huddles on a cold St. Louis street corner attempting to sell firewood by the stick.

"This book is a treasure for the educator and the individual interested in the formation of California and the loves, struggles and sacrifices of its founders. The pages of our past fly by in a pleasurable read that will satisfy the appetite of the most ardent reader for the rugged essence of those who lived and died for gold." Stephen C. Kucharik, Antelope Valley, California Historian.

240 pages. ISBN 1-889252-12-3, a 6x9 Trade Paperback with plastic lamination over front and back covers and spine for long wear. 3 Maps. 65 Illustrations. Chronology in Table of Contents. Time frame atop each page. Dialogue is from autobiographies, journals, letters, diaries, court transcripts, newspapers and quotes from reliable texts. 85 Reference Bibliography. Research Notes with pages used from each reference. 6,747 Word Index on 182 People, Itemized Data on Central Figures including date and place of birth. 15 States with their cities, towns and rivers mentioned in text and with Union Admission Dates. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in U.S. History

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Reader Letters .....About Us

Read Chapter 7 GOLD CLEANSED BY SOUTHERN BLOOD

Read Chapter 27 WHAT WAS YOUR NAME IN THE STATES?

Read Chapter 41 AUBURN'S NIGHT GUN FIGHT

Cover Price $13.95

BOOK #2:

FEMMES FATALES, GAMBLERS, YANKEES AND REBELS IN THE GOLD FIELDS [1859-1869] features the survivors of this trilogy's first book and others who rush to precious metal strikes in Nevada [Comstock Lode], Colorado, Idaho and Montana. Meet Wild Bill Hickok overblown into gunslinger fame by dime novels of the time, but as deadly as advertised. Encounter young Martha Jane Canary [Calamity Jane] displayed in Madame Moustache's rambling wagonload of "entertaining girls" following railroad crews. In addition to massive fighting in the East, furious Civil War battles rage across America's West, including one in Idaho pitting rebel Henry J. Talbot, alias Cherokee Bob, and other southerners against Yankee troops. Often, Civil War battles are won or lost by military secrets leaked in ballrooms, bedrooms or bawdy houses to charming spies like Rose Greenhow, confidante to U.S. President James Buchanan and other high officials, which Rose passes on to Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard. Confederate secrets faired no better. Northern spy "Crazy Bet" Van Lew cunningly slips her own spy, brilliant former slave and college graduate Mary Bowser, into CSA President Jefferson Davis' Richmond, Virginia home to work as an "illiterate" maid. Mary memorizes the documents on Davis' desk daily, then reveals all to Bet who furnishes the information to Union agents. Unbreakable bonds are forged, most lethally between bald, married lawyer Alex Crittenden and his young actress/mistress, Laura Fair. Witness mankind's greatest structural feat to date-- the forcing of a 2,000 mile transcontinental railroad into a defiant western wilderness. Central Pacific blasts east from Sacramento through Sierra Nevada Mountains' 60 foot snowdrifts trying to meet the Union Pacific's rail crews, battling plains tribes west from the Missouri River. Together they profoundly change America forever with the post war aid of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman supervising from a train named for him. General Ulysses S. Grant ascends into the Presidency, but will he run the then most scandalous administration in United States history?

"Through exhaustive research and commendable references, these authors have set the record straight about many colorful historical figures and events in the Civil War, the gold fields and on the transcontinental railroad. A lively style and generous use of authentic dialogue greatly enlivens these gripping histories." Joe Bone, Manager-Curator of Davy Crockett Cabin Museum, Rutherford, TN

360 pages. ISBN 1-889252-13-1, a 6x9 Trade Paperback with plastic lamination over front and back covers and spine for long wear. 10 full page Maps. 123 Illustrations. Chronology in Table of Contents. Time frame atop each page. Dialogue is from autobiographies, journals, letters, diaries, court transcripts, newspapers and quotes from reliable texts. 157 Reference Bibliography. Research Notes with actual pages used from each reference. 8,450 word Index on 547 People. Itemized Data on Central Figures including date and place of birth. 32 States with their cities, towns and rivers mentioned in text and Union Admission Dates. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft History Award and the Miles History Award.

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Reader Letters .... About Us

Read Chapter 1 TORMENTED WEDDING ............... Read Chapter 13 A FINAL ADIEU

Read Chapter 17 THE SHADOW OF DEATH.......................................

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BOOK #3:

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 revealed by their oft-quoted letters. Follow David Shirk who arrives in Idaho with 50 cents in his pocket and holes in his moccasins. Through honesty and hard work David becomes a wealthy Cattle Baron in eastern Oregon, much to the dismay of jealous cattle kingpin Pete French, who's fought Shirk every step of the way with murder as his favorite tool. Madam Mattie Silks loves a foot-racer in pink-tights forcing Mattie into 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 of the pink-tighted dandy. But guess who gets shot! [See adjacent cover.] Another of Femmes Fatales' former Civil War spies, Belle Siddons journeys to Deadwood where she's carried into town on miners' shoulders. Learning the dates of gold shipments from Deadwood to Cheyenne, she divulges them to her new love, stagecoach robber, Archie Cummings, before everything goes wrong! Bill Hickok 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 foul scandals in President 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 over-billed 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 Bristow's wife Abbie urges him to take the job as Secretary of State so he can jail the thieves! You won't believe what happens next!

"This is an historical masterpiece, lavishly illustrated, supported by solid maps and fantastic Research Notes. It injects the reader into the intimate lives of people at all societal levels from captivating painted ladies to the President of the United States. It's a great read that literally kidnaps you at every turn." Ray Glazner, Educator, Museum & Movie Consultant of Wausau, WI

312 pages. ISBN 1-889252-14-X, a 6x9 Trade Paperback with plastic lamination over front and back covers and spine for long wear. 11 Maps. 143 Illustrations. Chronology in Table of Contents. Time frame atop each page. Dialogue is from autobiographies, journals, letters, diaries, court transcripts, newspapers and quotes from reliable texts. 133 Reference Bibliography. Research Notes with pages from each reference supporting every Chapter. 7,830 word Index on 409 Real People and 11 Indian Nations with Itemized Data on Central Figures including date and place of birth. 33 States with their cities, towns and rivers mentioned in text and listing Union Admission Dates. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in U.S. History and a Finalist for the Best Book Award in U.S. History.

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Read Chapter 35 VIRGINIA CITY WILDFIRE

Read Chapter 50 DAKOTA SPY

Read Chapter 56 THE RECKLESS BUCKAROO

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Our Gold Rush Trilogy has been nominated for American literature's most prestigious award, the pulitzer Prize in U.S. History. The Trilogy's second book was also nominated for the Bancroft History Award and the Miles History Award. The third book of this Gold Rush Trilogy was also one of three Finalists for the National Best Book Award in U.S. History.

MOUNTAIN MEN AND THE FUR TRADE TRILOGY

BOOK #1:

PONDER THE PATH [1808--1830] is the stirring true account of how Bill Sublette was inspired as a boy by his famous grandfather Colonel William Whitley 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 fortunes in the Fur Trade. Will Bill Sublette be the first man to take wagons across the [road-less, bridge-less] Oregon Trail?

Muzzleloader magazine says, "Ponder The Path is inspiring, informative and just plain good reading." The Los Angeles Times called Ponder The Path "A rousing historical epic."

PONDER THE PATH [1808--1830] [Revised 2nd Edition] ISBN 1-889252-02-6, a 6x9 Trade Paperback with plastic lamination over front and back covers and spine for long wear. Large, legible spine title. 279 Pages; 2 Page Map of Fur Country. Chronology in Table of Contents. Time frame atop each page. Dialogue is from autobiographies, journals, letters, diaries, court transcripts, newspapers and quotes from reliable texts; 159 item Bibliography. 6 Page Index with Identifying Data for 173 Real People, 29 Indian Tribes and 13 Business Firms in the Fur Trade. Nominated for the FRANCIS PARKMAN AWARD.

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Rendezvous Legacy ....About Us........Find Out # of Chapters in Your State.....

Read Chapter 6 JACKSON'S THUNDER.. Read Chapter 18 SOUTH PASS AND BACK.

Read Chapter 20 HENRY'S FORK RENDEZVOUS ..

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BOOK #2:

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 garbage, upstate New Yorkers Marcus Whitman and Narcissa Prentiss beg the American Board of Foreign Missions to let them minister to the heathen Indians thousands of miles Westward. 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 wolf bites render 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, rapidly followed by hoodlums who seeking their revenge. Narcissa matures into a chemistry professor with red-gold hair, a clarion soprano voice and guts every man envies. She departs for the Rockies with a husband she's known 20 minutes before his proposal and a spurned suitor, who once grated to her: "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.

ISBN 1-889252-00-X, a 6x9 Trade Paperback with plastic lamination over front and back covers and spine for long wear. Large, legible spine title. 334 Pages; 3 Maps [Fur Country, 1830 New York & Eastern U.S]. Chronology in Table of Contents. Time frame atop each page. Dialogue is from autobiographies, journals, letters, diaries, court transcripts, newspapers and quotes from reliable texts. 223 reference Bibliography. 7 Page Index with Identifying Data. Nominated for PULITZER PRIZE in U.S. History.

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Read Chapter 2 By The Grace of God and a Mountain Man

Read Chapter 48 In Heathen Lands To Dwell?

Read Excerpt from Chapter 51 The Miracle

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BOOK #3:

TRAILS OF THE WHITE SAVAGES [1813--1836] reveals how the Irish rebellion, burning for centuries, was ignited by one royal divorce in 1533 that eventually turns Europe's world upside down. This epic tells the true tale of the Scotch-Irish being forced to flee 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 Tennessee's Governor, Houston heads west and finds lovely Tiana in Oklahoma Territory. Crockett becomes a Judge before he can read, then is elected to Congress. The Walker Clan settles in Missouri and produces the most astonishing lawman 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 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 of Wausau, WI.

"Entertaining, cleverly written and historically accurate, TRAILS captures the excitement of the Scotch-Irish experience in the American West. Young readers will find mountain man Joe Walker captivating and scholars will find the extensive bibliography useful." Dr. Fred R. Gowans. History Dept. Brigham Young University

The copyrighted comments of reviewer Aaron Turpen state in part: "This is one of the best history books I've ever read. I swear. ... This is truly a great book of American History and should be read by anyone interested in the early years of our nation's development. ..."

Read Captain Bonneville's letters in TRAILS OF THE WHITE SAVAGES that prove he was spying for President Andrew Jackson on Britain, Russia, Spain and others in the West, not fur trapping as he claimed. Enjoy Libbie Custer's eloquent love letters and the tender expressions of her husband, George Armstrong Custer.

TRAILS OF THE WHITE SAVAGES [1813--1836] ISBN 1-889252-03-4 6x9, a 6x9 Trade Paperback with plastic lamination over front and back covers and spine for long wear. Large, legible spine title. 352 Pages. 16 Pinpoint Action Maps. 11 Black & White Portraits. Chronology in Table of Contents. Time frame atop each page. Dialogue is from autobiographies, journals, letters, diaries, court transcripts, newspapers and quotes from reliable texts. 169 Reference Bibliography. 8 Page Index on 326 Real People, 25 Indian Tribes, 35 States, numerous then known Trails West, with Identifying Data including dates and places of birth of all central figures and early territorial names with Union admission dates of 35 states. Nominated for the PULITZER PRIZE in U.S. History and the BANCROFT HISTORY AWARD.

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Read Chapter 4 HEROES OF HORSESHOE BEND

Read Chapter 37 THE THINNEST VENEER

Read Chapter 45 ICE, WONDERS & SKYFIRE

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Our books embroil famous and infamous contemporary figures together in the hard life and embroiling issues of their era. Learn how well they knew each other from their copious path crossings and the complex human puzzles they posed for each other.

PLEASE NOTE: Our HISTORY AS IT HAPPENS™ books are suitable for young-adult, general and university level readers.

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