Overview :The promise of free land brought many people westward. While Jim Munn came west on the Canadian National Railroad from eastern Canada alone,... Read More
Overview :Chicago has been called by many names--that Toddlin' Town, the Windy City (for its politicians, not weather) and Chi-town, to name a few. To... Read More
Overview :This is the first study devoted exclusively to the life and work of Jim Harrison, author of Sundog, Farmer, and Legends of the Fall . Edward... Read More
Overview :North Aurora: 1834-1940 is a quintessential study of what happened when settlers arrived in the Midwest in the 1830s. The village's location... Read More
Overview :Since the late 1800s, Chicago has been a mecca for aviation. Chicago's Octave Chanute kept the skies filled with revolutionary gliders and h... Read More
Overview :Living and Breathing Hebrews to Jude is an easy reading amplified paraphrase of these Epistles. Here are letters written to us from those wh... Read More
Overview :My Friend Jim is a novel written by William Edward Norris and first published in 1886. The story revolves around two friends, Jim and Dick, ... Read More
Overview :Rich land at the edge of a great prairie with the wonderful Fox River flowing through it, providing a source of power-this is what the settl... Read More
Overview :I stand an impressive six feet four inches and am slight of build. I have eyes that will bore into your very being, and if ya pick a fight, ... Read More
Overview :The history of Aurora, Illinois is one of diversity.This is the first book to trace the city s early daysof its first white settlement throu... Read More
Overview :The fires that destroyed Chicago in the 1870s just happened to be events that have led to the city's importance today. Chicago, after the de... Read More
Overview :His mother dies when he is born, and Henry Edwards suffers through a troubled childhood as the adopted son of a Jewish junkyard owner. Abe a... Read More
Overview :Situated directly west of Chicago is Batavia, Illinois, world famous as the home of Fermilab, a center of nuclear research that hosts scient... Read More
Overview :For more than 3,000 years, people have used the famous I Ching oracle, otherwise known as the Book of Changes and it permeates every aspect ... Read More