THE LIFE STORY OF Gertrude Cassady Dickerson 1 am eighty six years old presently enrolled in a class in Glen Oaks Community College close b ... more>>
The Story Of Gertrude Levandowski & Five Other Surgical Miracles On June 11, a 6-year-old Texas girl had the entire right half of her brain removed to ... more>>
Chapter I IPrice Ruyler knew that many secrets had been inhumed by theearthquake and fire of San Francisco and wondered if his wife's hadbeen one of t ... more>>
Explanation It was my original intention to write a biography of AlexanderHamilton in a more flexible manner than is customary with thatmethod of rein ... more>>
Chapter I. It was at Governor Alvarado's house in Monterey that Chonitafirst knew of Diego Estenega. I had told him much of her, but hadnever cared ... more>>
On her fourteenth birthday they had married her to an old man,and at sixteen she had met and loved a fire-hearted young vaquero.The old husband had ... more>>
IThe Senor Capitan Don Luis de la Torre walked impatiently up anddown before the grist-mill wherein were quartered the soldiers sentby Mexico to prote ... more>>
IA forest of willows cut by a forking creek, and held apart hereand there by fields of yellow mustard blossoms fluttering in theirpale green nests, or ... more>>
I"God of my soul! Do not speak of hope to me. Hope? For what arethose three frigates, swarming with a horde of foreign bandits,creeping about our ... more>>
I"Dona Concepcion had the greatest romance of us all; so sheshould not chide too bitterly." "But she has such a sense of her duty! Such a sense of ... more>>
IThe good priests of Santa Barbara sat in grave conference on thelong corridor of their mission. It was a winter's day, and theybasked in the sun. ... more>>
"Ay, senor! So terreeblay thing! It is many years before--1837,I theenk, is the year; the Americanos no have come to takeCalifornia; but I remember li ... more>>
IWithin memory of the most gnarled and coffee-coloured Monterenonever had there been so exciting a race day. All essentialconditions seemed to have ... more>>