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Edward Everett Hale was an American author, historian, and minister. Hale was also notable for his support of the Union during the American Civil War and he was elected as a Third Class Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
This is a collection of 11 short stories that were published in 1891. The book features the classic short story The Man Without a Country which tells the story of Philip Nolan, an Army
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After running away from home, Angel Woolsack, a preacher's son, settles on the rough frontier of West Florida where he is swept up in a violent new world as would-be revolutionaries plot to break away from the young United States and create a new country under the leadership of renegade Aaron Burr.
"The Blood of Heaven is the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher's son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic...
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Chapman Billies
Pub. Date
c1994
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In Hales' 1897 edition of "The Man Without a Country" he includes a fascinating introduction in which he explains the details of his original ideas for writing the bestseller and the story of its initial publication in The Atlantic. It is this introduction along with the story itself that has been republished here for the interested reader.
In beginning his introduction Hale writes:
"The publisher of this edition of THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY asks...
6) Flintlock
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Flintlock volume 1
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Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2021.
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"In 1806 Aaron Burr is plotting to carve out his own empire by detaching the western states from the Union. President Thomas Jefferson suspects Burr but needs evidence. he turns to Flintlock Jones, a young Kentucky frontiersman. Enlisting a young naval officer, Lieutenant Jonathan Groves, Flintlock embarks on a mission of epic proportions as he pursues Burr and the man's army of ruffians across the bloody ground of Kentucky and down the deadly Natchez...
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