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THE RISE OF SPORT by FREDERIC L. PAXSON. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 1917.
FREDERIC L. PAXSON Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER IN HISTORY 1925. He had undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a master’s from Harvard University. He taught at Wisconsin (1910 to 1932) as successor to Frederick Jackson Turner and the University of California-Berkeley from 1932 to 1947. As a historian he was an authority on the American frontier. (Wikipedia)
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Audio cover picture - Photos of America the first America’s Cup winner; John L. Sullivan in 1882; 1896 Baltimore Orioles baseball club. All from Wikipedia.
Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from history. If today’s technology had been available when first printed, they would be audio books already. I am grateful for the opportunity to record them now. Read online at archive.org
Narrator’s Note: I read only as written. These old books were once solid sellers for bookmen of their time. I believe they can shed light on their times and ours. Loving obscure and remote literature, they are a distinct pleasure for me to read to you. These turn out to be distant and unknown only so long as they remain unread or unheard. Aloha.
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Official Guidebook of the San Diego Zoo by Zoological Society of San Diego, 1927.
It is in the public domain.
This is a lovely piece of history of the renowned zoo. Easily noted are the magnificent donations of Ellen B. Scripps and the great time and energy of Dr. Harry Wegeforth among others.
Narrated by Joseph Tabler
Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from history. If today’s technology had been available when first printed, they would be audio books already. I am grateful for the opportunity to record them now. Read online at archive.org
Narrator’s Note: I read only as written. These old books were once solid sellers for bookmen of their time. I believe they can shed light on their times and ours. Loving obscure and remote literature, they are a distinct pleasure for me to read to you. These turn out to be distant and unknown only so long as they remain unread or unheard. Aloha.
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History of the Great American Fortunes Volume One of Three Volumes by Gustavus Myers. Charles H. Kerr 1909.
Note - This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1889. It is in the public domain.Contents:Preface
Part I: Conditions in Colonial and Settlement TimesChapter:I. The Great Proprietary EstatesII. The Sway of the LandgravesIII. The Rise of the Trading ClassIV. The Shipping FortunesV. The Shippers and Their TimesVI. Girard—The Richest of the Shippers
Part II: The Great Land FortunesI. The Origin of Huge City EstatesII. The Inception of the Astor FortuneIII. The Growth of the Astor FortuneIV. The Ramifications of the Astor Fortune V. The Momentum of the Astor FortuneVI. The Propulsion of the Astor FortuneVII. The Climax of the Astor FortuneVIII. Other Land Fortunes ConsideredIX. The Field Fortune in ExtensoX. Further Vistas of the Field Fortune
Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from history. If today’s technology had been available when first printed, they would be audio books already. I am grateful for the opportunity to record them now. Read online at archive.org
Narrator’s Note: I read only as written. These old books were once solid sellers for bookmen of their time. I believe they can shed light on their times and ours. Loving obscure and remote literature, they are a distinct pleasure for me to read to you. These turn out to be distant and unknown only so long as they remain unread or unheard. Aloha.
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The Last American Frontier by Frederic Logan Paxson. The MacMillan Company, 1910.
From the Author’s Preface: I have told here the story of the last frontier within the United States, trying at once to preserve the picturesque atmosphere that has given to the “Far West” a definite and well-understood meaning and to indicate those forces which have shaped the history of the country beyond the Mississippi. In doing it I have had to rely largely upon my own investigations among sources little used and relatively inaccessible. The exact citations of authority, with which I might have crowded my pages, would have been out of place in a book not primarily intended for the use of scholars. But I hope, before many years, to exploit in a larger and more elaborate form the mass of detailed information upon which this sketch is based.
Chapter I. The Westward MovementChapter II. The Indian FrontierChapter III. Iowa and the New NorthwestChapter IV. The Santa Fe TrailChapter V. The Oregon TrailChapter VI. Overland with the MormonsChapter VII. California and the Forty-ninersChapter VIII. Kansas and the Indian FrontierChapter IX. “Pike’s Peak or Bust!'Chapter X. From Arizona to MontanaChapter XI. The Overland MailChapter XII. The Engineers’ FrontierChapter XIII. The Union Pacific RailroadChapter XIV. The Plains in the Civil WarChapter XV. The Cheyenne WarChapter XVI. The Sioux WarChapter XVII. The Peace Commission and the Open WayChapter XVIII. Black Kettle’s Last RaidChapter XIX. The First of the RailwaysChapter XX. The New Indian PolicyChapter XXI. The Last Stand: Chief Joseph and Sitting BullChapter XXII. Letting in the PopulationChapter XXIII. Bibliographical Note
Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from history. If today’s technology had been available when first printed, they would be audio books already. I am grateful for the opportunity to record them now. Read online at archive.org
Narrator’s Note: I read only as written. These old books were once solid sellers for bookmen of their time. I believe they can shed light on their times and ours. Loving obscure and remote literature, they are a distinct pleasure for me to read to you. These turn out to be distant and unknown only so long as they remain unread or unheard. Aloha.
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Meetings With Poe from Recollections, Personal and Literary by Richard Henry Stoddard
Narrated by Joseph Tabler
A. S. Barnes and Company 1903.
Editor’s Note: Living as he did through several distinct periods of American literary history, Mr. Stoddard’s recollections inevitably represented a range and a richness that made their preservation essential.
From the Introduction by Edmund Clarence Stedman: (Richard Henry Stoddard) began long enough ago to have had his early poetry refused by Poe because it was too good to be the work of an obscure stripling.
From 1870 to 1873, he was a confidential clerk to George B. McClellan in the New York dock department, and from 1874 to 1875 city librarian of New York. He was a literary reviewer for the New York World (1860–1870); one of the editors of Vanity Fair; editor of The Aldine (1869–1879), and literary editor of the Mail and the Mail and Express (1880–1903).
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Frederick Jackson Turner by Carl Becker. John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. Extracted from American Masters of Social Science edited by Howard W. Odum. Henry Holt and Company 1927.
Narrated by Joseph TablerNote - This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1827. It is in the public domain.
Frederick Jackson Turner, American historian during the early twentieth century, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison until 1910, and then at Harvard University. He was known primarily for his frontier thesis. He trained many PhDs who went on to become well-known historians. He promoted interdisciplinary and quantitative methods, often with an emphasis on the Midwestern United States.
Turner’s essay “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” included ideas that formed the frontier thesis. Turner’s sectionalism essays are collected in The Significance of Sections in American History, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1933.
Author Carl Becker (A pupil of Turner) was an American historian who studied the American Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment in America and Europe. Cornell has recognized his work as an educator by naming one of its five new residential colleges the Carl Becker House.Becker is best known for The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (1932), four lectures on The Enlightenment delivered at Yale University.
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The Winning of the West, Vol. 4: Louisiana and the Northwest 1791–1807 by Theodore Roosevelt. A Major US History Series in four volumes. G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1889.
This is the final volume of the series. It was later reprinted in six volumes. My apologies for any misunderstanding. Aloha.
Narrated by Joseph TablerNote - This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1889. It is in the public domain.
We all know of Theodore Roosevelt the US president from 1901 to 1909, an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, and naturalist. But few know of him being an acclaimed historian. Roosevelt’s The Winning of the West quickly became a bestseller. The first edition of his book sold out in little more than a month and helped establish Roosevelt as a literary man and scholar, placing him on a path toward future greatness.
CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME:
CHAPTER I. St. Clair’s Defeat, 1791CHAPTER II. Mad Anthony Wayne; And the Fight of the Fallen Timbers, 1792–1795CHAPTER III. Tennessee Becomes a State, 1791–1796CHAPTER IV. Intrigues and Land Speculations—The Treaties of Jay and Pinckney, 1793–1796CHAPTER V. The Men of the Western Waters, 1798–1802CHAPTER VI. The Purchase of Louisiana; And Burr’s Conspiracy, 1803–1807CHAPTER VII. The Explorers of the Far West, 1804–1807
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The Slave in Canada by The Honorable William Renwick Riddell LL.D, F. R. Hist. Soc; F. R. Soc. Can.; &c, &c. JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF ONTARIO from The Journal of Negro History, Vol. V, No. 3, July, 1920, Carter G. Woodson, Editor.
Narrated by Joseph TablerNote—This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1920. It is in the public domain. Read on the Internet Archive at Archive.org. Lengthy footnotes not read.
Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875–April 3, 1950) was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). He was one of the first scholars to study the history of the African diaspora, including African American history. A founder of The Journal of Negro History in 1916, Woodson has been called the “father of black history.'
Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from the ravages of time; Available as never before, as audio books, for your edification, pleasure, and consideration.
This Dusty Tomes audio book was Read Online at Internet Archive. ( https://archive.org/ ) It is replete with footnotes (not read into the audio).
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Slavery and Abolition 1831–1841 by Albert Bushnell Hart, LLD. Professor of History at Harvard University. Published in 1906 by Harper and Brothers.
Narrated by Joseph Tabler. This book is in the public domain. It is read ‘as written.'
Narrator’s Note: an excellent book! Quite smart and thorough. Well written by the Editor of the Series.
Volume 16 of 27 in The American Nation: A History From Original Sources by Associated Scholars published by Harper Brothers (1904–1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University.
In the Editor’s Introduction to the series: That a new history of the United States is needed, extending from the discovery down to the present time, hardly needs a statement. No such comprehensive work by a competent writer is now in existence. Individual writers have treated only limited chronological fields. Meantime there is a rapid increase of published sources and of serviceable monographs based on material hitherto unused. On the one side, there is a necessity for an intelligent summarizing of the present knowledge of American history by trained specialists; on the other hand, there is a need for a complete work, written in an untechnical style, which shall serve the instruction and the entertainment of the general reader.
From the Author’s Preface: Except perhaps the struggle between patriots and tories at the outbreak of the Revolution, no controversy in the history of the United States has aroused such passion and led to such momentous results as that between the advocates and the opponents of slavery … The book has the double purpose of describing the conditions of slavery and the state of mind of those interested in it or against it, and at the same time recording the events which mark the anti-slavery agitation.
It is hard for a son and grandson of abolitionists to approach so explosive a question with impartiality, but the book is intended to show that there was more than one side to the controversy and that both the milder form of opposition called antislavery and the extremer form called abolition were confronted by practical difficulties which to many public-spirited and conscientious men seemed insurmountable.
CONTENTS:Author’s PrefaceI. American Social Characteristics (1830–1860)II. The Intellectual Life (1830–1840)III. The Era of Transportation (1830–1850)IV. Slavery as an Economic System (1607–1860)V. The Slave-Holder and his Neighbors (1830–1860)VI. The Free Negro (1830–1860)VII. Plantation Life (1830–1860)VIII. Control of the Slaves (1830–1860)IX. The Slave-Market (1830–1860)X. The Defense of Slavery (1830–1860)XI. The Anti-Slavery Movement (1624–1840)XII. Garrisonian Abolition (1830–1845)XIII. Non-Garrisonian Abolition (1831–1860)XIV. The Abolition Propaganda (1830–1840)XV. The Abolitionist and the Slave (1830–1840)XVI. The Abolitionist and the Slave-Holder (1830–1860)XVII. Abolition and Government (1830–1840)XVIII. Anti-Slavery in Congress (1831–1840)XIX. Interstate and International Relations of Slavery (1822–1842)XX. Panic of 1837 (1837–1841)XXI. The Effects of Abolition (1830–1860)
Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from history. If today’s technology had been available when first printed, they would be audio books already. I am grateful for the opportunity to record them now. Read online at archive.org
Narrator’s Note: I read only as written. These old books were once solid sellers for bookmen of their time. I believe they can shed light on their times and ours. I love obscure and remote literature, they are a distinct pleasure for me to read to you. These turn out to be distant and unknown only so long as they remain unread, or unheard. Aloha.
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The Rise of American Civilization by Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard. In two volumes. Volume One: The Agricultural Era. The MacMillan Company 1927.
Narrated by Joseph TablerNote: This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1927. It is in the public domain.
Narrator’s note: Published as a very large book … perhaps to show how special it is, and it is that!! I was tempted to split it into two books per volume, but decided to present it as originally published.
Charles A. Beard, a proponent of the “New History', which emphasized the importance of cultural economic developments as opposed to just warfare and diplomacy.
“… synthesizing the political, economic and cultural elements in our history from the colonial days to the present … with such mastery of material, such discrimination in judgment, such vigor and charm of style as characterize Professor and Mrs. Beard’s volumes is a contribution to American historiography which can only be fitly described as epochal.
… it would be invidious to emphasize a few inevitable infelicities and a few slips in proof-reading in a work of such magnificence of conception and skill in execution. The Beards have tackled a most difficult task and achieved it with brilliant success. They have set a new standard in the writing of American history and have put every student of the institutions, the civilization, and the culture of our Republic deeply in their debt.”—David S. Muzzey (Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Sep. 1927), pp. 431–436. Published by: Oxford University Press)
Contents:I. England’s Colonial SecretII. Laying The Structural Base of the Thirteen ColoniesIII. The Growth of Economic and Political PowerIV. Provincial AmericaV. The Clash of Metropolis and ColonyVI. Independence and Civil ConflictVI. Populism and ReactionVII. The Rise of National PartiesIX. Agricultural Imperialism and the Balance of PowerX. The Young RepublicXI. New Agricultural StatesXII. Jacksonian Democracy—A Triumphant Farmer Labor PartyXII. Westward to the PacificXIV. The Sweep of Economic ForcesXV. The Politics of the Economic DriftXVI. Democracy: Romantic and Realistic
Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from history. If today’s technology had been available when first printed, they would be audio books already. I am grateful for the opportunity to record them now. Read online at archive.org
Narrator’s Note: I read only as written. These old books were once solid sellers for bookmen of their time. I believe they can shed light on their times and ours. I love obscure and remote literature, they are a distinct pleasure for me to read to you. These turn out to be distant and unknown only so long as they remain unread or unheard. Aloha.
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Lincoln in the Black Hawk War by Alfred Augustus Jackson. Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Volume XIV edited and annotated by Reuben Gold Thwaites.
Narrated by Joseph TablerNote - This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1898. It is in the public domain.
Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain writings retrieved from the ravages of time; Available as never before, as audio books, for your edification, pleasure, and consideration.
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A Major U.S. Historian Series No. 3Colonial Dames and Good Wives by Alice Morse Earle published by Houghton Mifflin 1895.
Audio copyright 2023Note - This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1895. It is in the public domain.
Alice Morse Earle’s writings, beginning in 1890, focused on small sociological details rather than grand details, and thus are invaluable for modern social historians.
CONTENTS:ChapterI. Consorts and RelictsII. Women of AffairsIII. “Double-Tongued and Naughty Women'IV. Boston NeighborsV. A Fearful Female TravaillerVI. Two Colonial AdventuressesVII. The Universal FriendVIII. Eighteenth-Century MannersIX. Their Amusements and AccomplishmentsX. Daughters of LibertyXI. A Revolutionary HousewifeXII. Fireside Industries
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