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Tells of thirty-one interesting episodes in the history of New Mexico, from the days of the prehistoric Indians through 1996; arranged chronologically, and including a collection of facts about the "Land of Enchantment."

Oregon is a place with a colorful past filled with lumberjacks, sea captains, and trappers. With an easy-to-read style that's entertaining and informative, It Happened in Oregon offers readers a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most intriguing episodes in Beaver State history.

Wyatt Earp. Billy the Kid. Calamity Jane. Crazy Horse. In a land where justice was a gun and liberty knew no bounds, men and women such as these forged their lives into a legacy of heroism, villainy, and honor. With blood and courage, with passion and violence, they became Legends of the Wild West.

In It Happened in Texas, author James A. Crutchfield illuminates thirty-three lively episodes from the history of the Lone Star State. You'll kick up dust and jangle your spurs as you travel with the first explorers, chase outlaws with the Texas Rangers, and take aim with sharpshooter Billy Dixon.

First Published in 2015. This encyclopaedic collection includes Volumes 1 (A-L) and 2 (M-Z) as well as essays on the settlement of America. It can be argued that the westward expansion occurred only one week after the English landfall at Jamestown, Virginia, on May 14, 1607. Beginning on May 21, Captain John Smith, one of the colonization company’s leaders, and twenty-one companions made their way northwest up the James River for some 50 or 60 miles (80 or 96 km).

Mountain Men of the American West by James A. Crutchfield provides an easy introduction to one of the most interesting periods in American history. It includes: 1. A brief history of the fur trade era 2. Over 100 short biographies on mountain men in the American West 3. Annotated bibliography on books about the mountain man era

Coffee table book celebrating the history and 150th Anniversary of Lehigh University. Lehigh University was born in post- Civil War America, a period when the United States was both rebuilding from the turmoil of war and flexing its muscles as a new economic power. The growth of the period was driven by the dramatic increase in the utilization of iron and coal in industry, brought about by improved transportation on the nation's waterways and railroads.Asa Packer, founder of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, was one of the men who both pushed along and benefited from the dynamics of the day, and by 1865, he had acquired both the vision and the financial clout to give back to the region that had helped him amass a fortune. He would give $500,000 to create a new university, "for the intellectual and moral improvement" of the young men of the Lehigh Valley. The new institution would be called, simply, Lehigh University. Packer's Lehigh welcomed its first class in the fall of 1866, and in the the years since, Lehigh has evolved into one of the most highly regarded institutions of higher learning in the nation, educating thousands of students each year and consistently turning out graduates who go on to enjoy remarkably successful careers--and make an impact in the world.Lehigh graduates have led both the Ford and Chrysler Corporations; orchestrated the construction of the giant locks along the Panama Canal; invented the escalator; and stood as leaders in the worlds of business, engineering, politics, the arts, education, space exploration and countless other fields. Rich in traditions that date back more than a century, Lehigh also boasts a legacy of success in athletics. One of the most storied football rivalries in the United States pits Lehigh against its down-the-road neighbor Lafayette College, a spirited competition that has been played more times than any other rivalry series in the nation.

During the summer of 1914, Professor John Roy Baylor, accompanied by Coca-Cola impresario and major Baylor School benefactor, John Thomas Lupton, climbed up a narrow, briar-lined path to the top of a hill overlooking a vista dominated by the meandering Tennessee River where it creased the surrounding mountains in its westward course. Surveying the beautiful scene below them, they realized immediately, after several weeks of searching across hill and dell, that the verdant meadows and gentle knoll opposite historic Williams Island was indeed the perfect spot to relocate a the growing Baylor University school. Two previous locations near Chattanooga University had served the institution well in the formative years since its 1893 founding. A few short months later, in April 1915, a crowd of Chattanooga families and business leaders gathered at the site, called "Locust Hill," for the laying of the cornerstone for Lupton Hall, the first building to be erected on the campus of the preparatory school. Construction crews worked fervently through the summer completing the new campus in time to receive students for the 1915-16 academic year. In the one hundred years since, dedicated faculty and administrators have guided the young lives of thousands of young men and women. Through milestone events, eras, and seasons of change, these educators have instilled the traits of academic labor, humility, duty, courage, community service, reverence, athletic teamwork, and a host of other character building ideals which would serve them well as they became young adults in the greater community of mankind. The dreams of Professor Baylor and Tom Lupton as they surveyed the river plain spread below them that warm summer day in 2014, no doubt included a vision that, far into the future, "The Hill" would be the ideal and memorable site for several generations of achieving the mission of education and a greatness of spirit - "magnanimitas."

Between 1753, when he was commissioned as a major of Virginia militia, and 1775, when the Second Continental Congress named him Commander-in-Chief of all colonial military forces, George Washington rose from anonymity as a minor landowner and surveyor to become America's first national hero. With little military training he led the thirteen fledgling colonies through six years of grueling war against formidable British forces, steered the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, and served two terms as the first president of the United States. His accomplishments were so stunning and he was so revered that by the end of the war some of his generals urged him to install himself as king, an idea he looked upon with "abhorrence," calling the very thought "painful." Nor would he consider standing for a third term as president. In this revealing book, James Crutchfield writes of Washington as an enigmatic man-"No more elusive personality exists in history" as an eminent Harvard historian observed. His outward commonness concealed a quick, analytic mind, capable of learning from mistakes, gauging his successes not on winning battles but on the effect his decisions would have on the future of his country. "Washington remains an American hero, in every definition of the word," Crutchfield says. "He was a man who rose above the political uncertainty of the infant United States to chart its destiny for two centuries into the future."

In It Happened in Washington you'll sail the seas along Washington's rugged coast, explore the untamed wilderness of the U.S.-Canada border, and climb to the summit of Mount Rainier. This collection includes thirty-three extraordinary episodes from Evergreen State history.