Adventure - Nonfiction

 

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1. Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West

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Clavin, Tom, 1954-
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Fuquay-Varina Community - Adult Non-Fiction
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Holly Springs Community - Adult Non-Fiction
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Middlecreek Community - Adult Non-Fiction
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"Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through ... Before long, Dodge City's streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes ... By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent and turbulent town in the West. Enter...

2. Imperfect union: how Jessie and John Frémont mapped the West, invented celebrity, and helped cause the Civil War

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Inskeep, Steve
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Cary Regional - Adult Non-Fiction has 2
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Non-Fiction has 2
910.922 INSKE
Green Road Community - Adult Non-Fiction
910.922 INSKE
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"Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple."--

3. River of the gods: genius, courage, and betrayal in the search for the source of the Nile

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Millard, Candice
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"For millennia the location of the Nile River's headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th century, ... European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe-- and extend their colonial empires. Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke were sent by the Royal Geographical Society to claim the prize for England. Burton spoke twenty-nine languages, and was a decorated soldier ... Speke was a young aristocrat...