No comments about Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil W (The American Civil War).

1 comments about George Scarborough: The Life and Death of a Lawman on the Closing Frontier.

1. Thanks to Robert K. Dearment a little recognised brave Lawman comes to life. George Scarborough was my Grandmothers uncle and as an expat American with little knowledge of my family this book has been a wonderful experience and a great help to me.
   Robert Dearment explains life and times in New Mexico and surrounding areas in such a way that you are transported back to that time. Many of the incidents which are only alluded to other Wild West biographies and stories have been investigated

   and researched and written about in detail. As there are always two sides to every story both explanations are given in an unbiased way.
   Anyone who is interested in Frontier and Wild West should make sure that they have a copy of this book in their library. The book also explains and tidies up loose ends on other stories which have done the rounds over the years.

No comments about Along with Youth: Hemingway, the Early Years.

1 comments about Fields of Toil: A Migrant Family's Journey.

1. I bought this book for a history class on immigration and migration, and it made the subject come alive for me. In the midst of political upheaval and confusion about immigration and migration of Mexican and Hispanic people in the U.S., I would recommend this book for better understanding of the lives of our neighbors. It might help us become better neighbors ourselves.

2 comments about John Tyler : A President of Many Firsts.

1. I was hoping for more family history with this book. I've been looking for years for Pres. Tyler's parents, his father's siblings and forward ancestry, in hopes to open a snag I have in my mom's Tyler line, as her ggrandfather was a first cousin to Pres. Tyler, as my grandfather and siblings often stated. Maybe this John and mom's ggranfathers were brothers or their fathers were connected. I just need a better lineage.
   Thanks,
   Bonnie



2. This expensive booklet of less than 70 pages (including many illustrations) is intended as a souvenir of Tyler's restored plantation house. (Incredibly, although Tyler was born in 1790, the restorer is a grandson, still alive at the time of publication in 2001.) The pamphlet, based completely on secondary sources, is deliberately uncritical and minimizes the more unsavory features of Tyler's presidency. The three-page sketch in American National Biography provides a far more accurate understanding of the tenth president and his administration.

No comments about The Civil War Diary of Clara Solomon: Growing Up in New Orleans, 1861-1862.

No comments about Sheriff Pat Garrett's Last Days (Western Legacy).

No comments about Medical Histories of Union Generals.

No comments about O Clouds, Unfold: Clara Ueland and Her Family.

1 comments about Davy Crockett.

1. Some have complained, over the years, that this book was more novel than biography. Okay, then... what a great NOVEL! This was in my elementary school library in Elgin, AZ, and if I'd studied my textbooks like I studied this, I might have been a MONSTER! Connie Roarke made a great book, and I bless her name for it!

   BONUS: Read how Davy was a true Small-government conservative in the Jacksonian (read that "Proto-Clintonian") big-government epoch! It's the true hero tale of the book!

   Al