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Hardcover reprint of the original 1892 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Towner, Ausburn. Our County And Its People: A History Of The Valley And County Of Chemung, From The Closing Years Of The Eighteenth Century. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Towner, Ausburn. Our County And Its People: A History Of The Valley And County Of Chemung, From The Closing Years Of The Eighteenth Century, . Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason & Co., 1892.
"Don't scold me, Livy—let me pay my due homage to your worth; let me honor you above all women; let me love you with a love that knows no doubt, no question—for you are my world, my life, my pride, my all of earth that is worth the having." These are the words of Samuel Clemens in love. Playful and reverential, jubilant and despondent, they are filled with tributes to his fiancée Olivia Langdon and with promises faithfully kept during a thirty-four-year marriage. The 188 superbly edited letters gathered here show Samuel Clemens having few idle moments in 1869. When he was not relentlessly "banged about from town to town" on the lecture circuit or busily revising The Innocents Abroad, th...
We live in a world of laws. Most protect us from others and ourselves. Some laws make you scratch your head. This book is a reprint of the 1899 laws of Elmira, New York. Remember, don't throw banana peels on the ground!
“Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the fourteenth day of the present month.” With these words to the assembled members of the Senate and House of Representatives on April 30, 1789, George Washington inaugurated the American experiment. It was a momentous occasion and an immensely important moment for the nation. Never before had a people dared to invent a system of government quite like the one that Washington was preparing to lead, and the tensions between hope and skepticism ran high. In this book, distinguished scholar of early America Stephen ...