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 CONSOLIDATED CRAZY CRATES JP01 THROUGH JP43.

 

Updated through January 1, 2009

 

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CRAZY CRATE JP01: SOLD OUT!  Thank you very much!

 

CRAZY CRATE JP 02: CRAZY CRATE JP02 BOOK 1:  CENSUS RETURNS, 1841-1891.  A DIRECTORY TO LOCAL HOLDINGS IN GREAT BRITAIN, CHANNEL ISLANDS, ISLE OF MAN.  By Jeremy Gibson. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1998. Sixth edition. 56 pages. Softcover. The census for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1881 for England, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man are at the Public Records Office in London and they have all been microfilmed. The census was organized in Registration Districts, based on Poor Law unions, and Sub-Districts, often overlapping county boundaries. Thus, straight-forward seemingly complete-county entries may hide missing places on county borders or include those in neighboring counties. Price: $8.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP02 BOOK 6: LOCAL NEWSPAPERS, 1750-1920. ENGLAND AND WALES, CHANNEL ISLANDS, ISLE OF MAN.  A SELECTED LOCATION LIST. Compiled by Jeremy Gibson. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1987. 64 pages. Softcover. This guide is designed to tell family historians what newspapers have been published in any specific place and where they can be consulted. No differentiation is made, therefore, between the original paper copies and microfilms of originals elsewhere. This guide can be used only as a starting point. The basis for this guide has been the British Library eight-volume Catalogue of the Newspaper Library Colindale published in 1975. The listing is arranged alphabetically by county and then alphabetically by the towns within the county. Information includes the name of the newspaper. Dates shown are covering dates of the holdings of the British Library (Colindale) between 1750 and 1920. Price: $8.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP02 BOOK 7: MILITIA LISTS AND MUSTERS, 1757-1876.  A DIRECTORY OF HOLDINGS IN THE BRITISH ISLES.  By Jeremy Gibson and Mervyn Medlycott. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. Third edition. 1998. 48 pages. Softcover. Lists naming officers only are not mentioned in this pamphlet. The records mentioned in this guide are of the reconstituted militia from 1757 on, and various others engendered by the Napoleonic Wars between 1797 and 1815. Price: $8.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP02 BOOK 8: POLL BOOKS, Ca. 1696-1872. A DIRECTORY TO LOCAL HOLDINGS IN GREAT BRITAIN.  By Jeremy Gibson and Colin Rogers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Third edition. 1990. 56 pages. Softcover. Poll (voters) books offer an extraordinary and anachronistic window onto the electoral practice of our predecessors because they record the name of the candidate for whom they voted. From the early eighteenth century, it is normal to find only the name and parish of each voter, especially in the original manuscript poll books. Price: $8.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP03: CRAZY CRATE JP03 BOOK 2: ALL IN A CENTURY. THE FIRST 100 YEARS OF ELI LILLY AND COMPANY.  By E. J. Kahn, Jr. Indianapolis, Indiana.  Eli Lilly and Company.1976. 211 pages. This book is an amiable look, by an outsider, at a corporation as it concluded a century of highly complex and diversified operations. On May 10, 1876, Col. Eli Lilly opened a small establishment for the principal purpose of producing medications to be dispensed by physicians rather than carnival sideshow barkers.  It was a desperate gamble, but he had nothing to lose. As a Yankee army officer, he had been captured during the Civil War and interred in a Confederate prison.  In 1866 his wife died from complications resulting from pregnancy, leaving him with a 5-year-old son.  Lilly tried to make a living as a cotton planter in Mississippi, but he went bankrupt. Returning north, he started two other businesses which failed. Beginning the pharmaceutical company with two employees, his sales were modest - less than a $1,000 a year. But the company did grow - slowly. At the time of his death in 1898, the company was selling over 2,000 products and sales came to over $300,000 per year. By 1974, when this book was written, the company had 23,000 employees and yearly sales were over $1 billion. Over a dozen photographs accompany the text. We have (2) multiple copies. Price: $10  

 

CRAZY CRATE JP03 BOOK 3: ELI LILLY: A LIFE, 1885-1977. By James H. Madison. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society. 1989. 342 pages. Hardcover. Eli Lilly’s long life extended over a wide range of endeavors in which he made major contributions. Under his active leadership, the company which his grandfather had created flourished and led the way in developing biomedical breakthroughs, including the development of insulin. Hard working, he developed other interests, including prehistoric archaeology, which he helped to financially support; history and historic preservation; and art. Later in life, he gave away millions of dollars through the Lilly Endowment. In addition to financial involvement, Lilly also actively explored historical locations and led archaeological investigations as well as writing books and articles on the results his investigations found. Nearly 70 photographs enhance the text. Multiple copies are available. Price: $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP03 BOOK 4: A HISTORY OF THE INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 1830-1980.  By Lana Ruegamer. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society. 1980. 383 pages. Hardcover. Using her unlimited access to the records of the society, the author has compiled a detailed but very readable history of the society, from its feeble beginnings, near death in its infancy, and its struggle to mature into an institution of real consequence to Indiana history during most of its 150 years, and especially within the past 50 years when it has made occasional noteworthy contributions to the national historical community. This ten-chapter history reveals how rare and valuable were the persons who concerned themselves about state and local history. It discusses its beginnings as a fledgling historical society, entry into the publishing world, transformation and new life, the Christopher Coleman years, Eli Lilly and Glenn Black, and its continued growing presence as a major historical institution. Nearly 130 photographs accompany the text. Included are a complete listing of officers and staff from 1830 to 1980, a complete listing of the publications of the Indiana Historical Society, its charter and by-laws. A 13-page index has nearly 750 names. Price: $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP03 BOOK 5: NINETY YEARS AND GROWING.  THE STORY OF LINCOLN NATIONAL CORPORATION. By Michael C. Hawfield. Indianapolis, Indiana. Guild Press of Indiana. 1995. 161 pages. Hardcover. This book examines the Lincoln National Corporation from its modest beginnings as that little company above the grocery store to today's success as a $50 billion financial services corporation with global operations. It focuses on the people whose hard work and shared values have brought about the company's success. Contains hundreds of photographs. Price: $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP03 BOOK 9: DR. MILES. THE LIFE OF DR. FRANKLIN LAWRENCE MILES (1845-1929). By Martha M. Pickrell. Carmel, IN: Guild Press of Indiana. 1997. 131 pages. Softcover. Franklin Lawrence Miles was born in Olmstead Falls, Ohio, in 1845, and was one of three children of Charles Julius Miles and Electa Lawrence. Charles Julius Miles was gone from the family for long periods of time, leaving Electa to cope with three young children. Between May 1856 and January 1857, when he was 11 years old, Franklin's brother, sister and mother all died of various diseases. On her death bed, his mother made Lawrence promise to study science. Julius returned to the family in 1860 and took Franklin to Elkhart, Indiana, where some relatives of Charles had become successful merchants. An inquiring, inventive and practical person with a compassionate spirit, Franklin found Elkhart too confining and, after three years, attended various schools in the East, finally enrolling in the University of Michigan's medical school in Ann Arbor in the 1871/1872 academic year and graduating from Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1874. Later returning to Elkhart, he became a hard-working physician, stressing health education, writing many pamphlets on healthy living. He experimented with medical remedies, finally inventing a nerve tranquilizer, which he originally prepared on a stove in his home in Elkhart. His discoveries led to criticism of him by other physicians as a medical quack. But he never gave up on his experiments, finally discovering several remedies that helped him make his fame and fortune. His hometown experiments developed into Miles Laboratories, one of the major pharmaceutical manufacturers in the world.  Multiple copies are available. Price: $12

 

CRAZY CRATE JP03 BOOK 12: TURNING WHEELS: THE STUDEBAKER STORY. South Bend, Indiana: Studebaker Corporation. 1954. Reprinted 2002 by Michiana History Publications. 16 pages. Softcover (comic book format). "This is the story of a great American corporation, of blueprints and tools, of wheels and engines, of sleek automobiles and sturdy trucks. It is a story, too, of a community and of the men who keep the plant humming told though the life of a typical employee and his family. Let's pick out one of these men and hear what he has to say. Let's hear his story." This full-color comic book was a great promotional tool for the corporation, following the life of old Joe Powell (fictional character) and his family, beginning as a youngster visiting his father at the factory and following through his own life working for the company, his retirement, and the final joy of seeing his grandson join the company, where he would have a long, steady job. (In reality the plant was on its last legs and closed ten years later). Multiple copies are available. Price: $8

 

CRAZY CRATE JP03 BOOK 13: FROM CRYSTAL TO COLOR: WFBM. Research by George S. Madden. Text by Burk Friedersdorf. Edited by Gene Vaughn and the Staff of the WFBM Stations. Indianapolis: WFBM Stations. 189 pages. Hardcover. Note: Inscribed: "Given to Clarence and Irene Elbert on the Occasion of the 40th Anniversary Celebration of WFBM Radio at Clowes Hall. Nov. 6, 1964". Tells the intimate, behind-the-scenes story of local radio and television in Indianapolis, Indiana. This book was written to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the station. Nearly 100 photographs accompany the text, most of which are the memories of the people who worked there. Price: $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP04:  SOLD OUT!  Thank you very much!

 

CRAZY CRATE JP05:  CRAZY CRATE JP05 BOOK 4: GHOSTS OF CLEOPATRA HILL. MEN AND LEGENDS OF OLD JEROME, AZ.  By Herbert V. Young. Jerome, AZ: Jerome Historical Society. 1964. Fourth printing 1974. 183 pages. Softcover. During a period of 70 years the men who ruled Jerome, Arizona, mined and smelted more than a billion dollars worth of metals. At the peak of its prosperity, the proud citizens of Jerome called this sprawling mining camp The Billion Dollar Copper Camp and The Most Unique City in America. Then, with the closing of the last of its known commercial ore deposits, Jerome suddenly ceased its existence as a mining center, and as described by its remaining handful of residents became “The Largest Ghost City in America.”  The 23 chapters discuss the early Spanish explorers, the American Pioneers, the United Verde Copper Company, Frederick Everest Murray, Frederick Augustus Tritle, William Andrews Clark, Henry James Allen, George William Hull, Thomas Taylor, Robert Emmet Talley, James Franklin Roberts, John Hudgens, and many others. Over sixty historic photographs and illustrations enhance the book. Price: $12

 

CRAZY CRATE JP05 BOOK 7: ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS. VOLUME 2: PENN TOWNSHIP. PART 1. (Mishawaka City, St. Joseph, St. Francis, Laing, Smith, and First Mishawaka Cemeteries).  Published for the South Bend Area Genealogical Society by McDowell Publications. 1995. 312 pages. Softcover. This book contains tombstone inscriptions which appear on cemeteries in part of Penn Township. It is not a listing of all of the people who are buried in the cemeteries, only those with tombstones. However, the information provided is extremely helpful. The index is 49 pages long and contains nearly 10,000 names. Price: $35

 

CRAZY CRATE JP05 BOOK 8: ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS. VOLUME 3: PENN TOWNSHIP, PART 2. (Fairview - partial, Pleasant Valley, Hebrew Orthodox, Eutzler-Hollingshead, Byrkit, and Ferrisville Cemeteries.). Published for the South Bend Area Genealogical Society by McDowell Publications. 1995. 353 pages. Softcover. This book contains tombstone inscriptions which appear in cemeteries in part of Penn Township. It is not a listing of all of the people who are buried in the cemeteries, only those with tombstones. However, the information provided is extremely helpful. The index is 57 pages long and contains over 10,000 names. Price: $35

 

CRAZY CRATE JP05 BOOK 9: ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS. VOLUME 4: HARRIS, CLAY, GERMAN TOWNSHIPS.  Published for the South Bend Area Genealogical Society by McDowell Publications. 1997. 322 pages. Softcover. This book contains tombstone inscriptions which appear in cemeteries in Harris, Clay, and German Townships. It is not a listing of all of the people who are buried in the cemeteries, only those with tombstones. However, the information provided is extremely helpful. The index is 46 pages long and contains nearly 10,000 names. Price: $35

 

CRAZY CRATE JP06 & JP07: These crates included John Palmer’s wonderful collection of early map reproductions in their lovely clear archival displays.  You will find Indiana with seven, Kentucky with four, Ohio with one, Pennsylvania with one and fifteen reproductions of old maps of Germany.  These may be seen in full color on this “YOGS” Website under the heading of Main Catalog – then look for “Atlases, Gazetteers and Maps. There are fifteen different German maps, of different parts and different times which are found a little over half-way through that category. You will also see a full-color map of Ireland and one of Scotland all in full color and enclosed in archival protection and all for just $9 each.  These are highly suitable for framing and displaying in your home or office.

 

CRAZY CRATE JP08: CRAZY CRATE JP08 BOOK 2: THE BUILDERS BEHIND THE CASTLES. GEORGE LOORZ AND THE F. C. STOLTE CO.  By Taylor Coffman.  San Luis Obispo, Ca:  San Luis Obispo County Historical Society.  1990.  223 pages.  Softcover.   [Note: The name Jerry Giolitto is written in the lower-right-hand corner of the half-title page.  Over forty large boxes of George Loorz's papers enabled the author to compile an edition of letters which provides insight into the life of one of California's most ingenious construction engineers.  In 1938, six years after he began working at San Simeon as construction superintendent, George Loorz received a letter from William Randolph Hearst complimenting him on the mansion's construction and offering to provide a reference to anyone who wished to use Loorz for future projects.  This book begins with 1932 when Loorz arrived at San Simeon and continues through 1937 concentrating on his work at the Hearst mansion.  Nearly fifty photographs and illustrations enhance the book, showing such projects as the Roman Pool Building, the Gables, Brown Bear, the Nacimiento River Bridge, the Neptune Pool, Cinderella House, and more.   Price:  $7.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP09: CRAZY CRATE JP09 BOOK 6:  DEVANE'S EARLY FLORIDA HISTORY. VOLUME 2. Sebring.  Sebring Historical Society. 398 pages plus unpaged index: September 1979. Reprinted in 2000 by Evansville Bindery. Softcover. Note: One page of the index has a light streak running from the top to the bottom of the page. Distinguished historians George Albert DeVane and Park DeVane collected much information on the early history of Florida, especially the central and southern areas of the state and the Seminole Indians as well as genealogies of many early Florida families. George Albert DeVane contributed hundreds of historical articles to local newspapers and periodicals for many years as well as gave many lectures to organizations. His primary studies were with intimate relations with the Seminoles and to an equal degree in the study of the genealogy of many Florida families. He collected everything he could find that had been published about the Seminoles, especially about the three Seminole Wars as well as oral stories passed down from generation to generation. Park DeVane contributed heavily to much of the research done by his brother. His major interests lay in the area of early military roads, trails and engagements as well as forts and other military equipment. Their source materials were comprehensive and varied, much of it coming from personal contact with pioneers and sons and daughters of originals settlers. They were, themselves, either first- or second-generation descendants of original settlers and had the advantage of talking to their grandfathers and their contemporaries. Not content to accept approximate locations for settlements, battle sites and military installations, from verbal descriptions or notations on maps, they armed themselves with original field notes of surveyors and delicate metal detectors that revealed the presence of old gun parts, horseshoes, utensils, military uniform buttons, etc. This volume contains nearly 100 articles, including battle reports, diaries, treaties, the post office and mail delivery in early Florida, Seminoles, biographies on various pioneers, and more. The unpaged index (roughly 44 pages) covers nearly 2,000 entries of individuals and locations. 32 illustrations accompany the volume. Price: $20

 

CRAZY CRATE JP10: SOLD OUT! Thank you very much!

 

CRAZY CRATE JP11: CRAZY CRATE JP11 BOOK 4: DIPLOMATIC RECORDS. A SELECT CATALOG OF NATIONAL ARCHIVES MICROFILM PUBLICATIONS.  STATE DEPARTMENT. Washington, D.C. National Archive and Records Administration. 1986. 245 pages. Softcover. This select catalog lists National Archives microfilm publications of records that relate to the history of the U.S. diplomatic relations. It includes records dealing specifically with the internal affairs of other countries and with the personnel and operations of the U.S. Foreign Service. The catalog is divided into four parts, each arranged differently. Part 1 is arranged by record group and thereunder by subgroup or series, with publications of the same type listed either chronologically or alphabetically. Part 2 describes the State Department decimal file (1910-63) and lists the publications that reproduced decimal file documents. Part 3 lists publications dealing with specific countries, alphabetically by country name. Part 4 lists all publications in numerical order by publication number, with complete titles and roll-by-roll lists of the microfilm. Most of the microfilmed records described in this catalog are among General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59. This record group contains all correspondence of the Department of State, as well as records of administrative units, records relating to various functions of the department, and records relating to special subjects. Price: $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP13: CRAZY CRATE JP13 BOOK 2: SCHLEIMMANN IN INDIANAPOLIS.  Edited by Eli Lilly. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society. 1961. 95 pages. This book discusses the short time in which Heinrich Schleimman lived in Indianapolis. . Born in 1822 in Germany, he had been an adventurer, gold miner, sailor, and merchant. He had gathered a small fortune and married a Russian woman, who unfortunately, did not share his passion for travel and excitement. She remained in St. Petersburg. Schleimman was passionate about learning languages, and had easily mastered Dutch, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese in only a few months. Later he learned Swedish and Polish. Then he learned Greek and became interested in archaeology. After compiling a major fortune, he liquidated his business career and devoted most of his time to archaeology. In 1869, Schleimman moved to Indianapolis to establish American citizenship and also to divorce his Russian wife. After divorcing her, Schleimman vowed to leave American women alone and find a good Greek wife. He moved to Greece, found a Greek wife, pursued his archaeological hobby - and found the famous Greek Lost City of Troy! Price: $5.

 

CRAZY CRATE JP13 BOOK 8: MICHIANA ROOTS. VOLUME 1.  By Carol Collins. South Bend, IN. South Bend Tribune. 1982. 220 pages. For nearly 20 years Carol Collins provided a genealogical column in the South Bend Tribune newspaper. Information in her column included useful general research information on books, conferences, libraries, research trips, handy tips, and thousands of queries. This volume covers the first five years of her column and covers the first 1,060 inquiries. Some inquiries received answers; some did not. Although many of the inquiries concerned Indiana and Michigan names, many of the names were also from other states. A 27-page index covers nearly 20,000 names listed in the inquiries. A two-page subject index covers the various topics discussed in her column. Price: $15.00

 

CRAZY CRATE JP14: CRAZY CRATE JP14 BOOK 1: SOUTH BEND, CROSSROADS OF COMMERCE. By John Palmer. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. 2003. 160 pages. Softcover. $25. South Bend, Indiana, stood at the crossroads of several major Native American trading routes long before the Europeans, led by the French, arrived from Canada and the East Coast to trade their furs. The city on the southern bend of the St. Joseph River soon became an important commercial center for settlers moving west. Eventually, the University of Notre Dame and the Studebaker Corporation would call the growing community home.  This book provides a general overview of South Bend from the time of the Ice Age, then chronologically through the early Native American settlements, conflict between Europeans and Native Americans over control of the fur trade and the eventual rise of Little Turtle and Tecumseh, who attempted to stop the American invasion of Native American lands, the first settlers in South Bend, the Civil War, rise of industrialization in South Bend which resulted in the need for thousands of immigrant workers, the slums, World War I, resentment against immigrants which resulted in the Ku Klux Klan rally in South Bend, Knute Rockne, John Dillinger's last bank robbery, World War II, the rise and fall of the Studebaker and Oliver companies, urban renewal, and new hope for the coming century. 

John Palmer helped develop the Local History/Genealogy Room of the St. Joseph County Library and worked in it for ten years. He is a member of the Northern Indiana Center for History and the South Bend Area Genealogical Society. His compelling narrative, complemented by David Blodgett's sketches of early pioneer life and vivid historic images, is an enlightening and entertaining portrayal of this important Indiana city.  The author, John Palmer [the writer of all the JP crates] will personally sign the book for you. Please let us know how you would want it signed. Price: $25.

 

CRAZY CRATE JP14 BOOK 5: THE BRIDE AND THE BANDIT.  THE STORY OF MATTIE READY OF MURFREESBORO, TENNESSEE, WARTIME BRIDE OF GENERAL JOHN HUNT MORGAN. By Dr. Robert O. Neff and Edith Elizabeth Pollitz. Evansville: Printed by Evansville Bindery for private publication by Robert O. Neff and Edith Elizabeth Pollitz. 1998. 394 pages. Hardcover. $25.  Mattie Ready came from a well-known Tennessee family and married dashing Confederate General John Hunt Morgan in 1862. We are grateful to Mattie's younger sister, Alice, for including information on her in her own diary. Alice's faithful recordings of exciting and dramatic events as they unfolded in her little hometown of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, have allowed Mattie's dramatic and tragic story to be told in some detail. Morgan, the daring cavalry leader, captured the young woman's love soon after he met her in 1862.  He was 37 years old.  She was 21. They were married on December 14, 1862.  Shortly after their marriage Morgan invaded Indiana and Ohio. Information is given on Mattie's parents, Murfreesboro during the War, Morgan's war-time activities, his capture, his escape, his return to Mattie, more raids, his second capture and his death. Tragically the marriage was short-lived and only one daughter was born to them.  Mattie's life after his death, her marriage to Judge William H. Williamson in 1873, and their life together are also discussed. Some information is also given on other family members. Nine photographs enhance the text.  Price: $25.

 

CRAZY CRATE JP14 BOOK 6: FIRST BLOOD.  THE STORY OF FORT SUMTER.  By W. A. Swanberg. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1957. Book of the Month Club Printing. 373 pages. Hardcover. $10. [NOTE: Inscription "To Dad from Bob, Jr. Christmas, 1972".  Also there is a book plate belonging to R. A. Clark.] $10.  The attack on Fort Sumter started the greatest war that the American nation had ever seen. It had far more causative significance than Pearl Harbor. It was not a point selected for a surprise attack. It represented the North-South quarrel in miniature, and the crisis sizzled there for months, gradually gaining intensity until the explosion came. The author explores the story of the truly extraordinary episodes in American military history, a half year of mounting tension that broke into actual war with the surrender of the fort. At the center of the narrative stands the defender of Sumter, Major Robert Anderson, a man trained for war who fought against it and yet, was fated to start it; a Southerner who did his duty as a Union officer while Buchanan's administration withheld any real support. The book vividly depicts the plight of the tiny garrison at Sumter during these months of 1860 - 1861, and it conveys the spirit ashore in Charleston, South Carolina, in a way that makes one understand how the fires of secession were kindled. The siege is discussed in detail. Despite the nearly 33 hours of heavy bombardment, there were no Union or Confederate deaths, and only a few slight wounds were received. Ironically, the only soldiers killed at Sumter were killed after the battle, when the Union flag was being saluted and the cannon blew up!  Photographs of the fort, officers and men accompany the text. Price: $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP14 BOOK 7: SORIN OF NOTRE DAME. EDWARD SORIN, C. S. C., 1814 - 1893, AN ANTHOLOGY IN MEMORIAM.  Edited by M. Myers. Introduction by Rev. Anthony R. Grasso. Bristol Banner Books. 1991. 211 pages. Softcover. $6. Father Sorin founded the University of Notre Dame in 1842. The eleven-page introduction provides a brief biography of Fr. Sorin. The remaining pages are a compilation of many short poems, most of which neither discuss Sorin, nor refer to him. No reason is given for the selection of any of the poems and no information is given about the identity of the editor, "M. Myers". Price: $6

 

CRAZY CRATE JP14 BOOK 9: UNGENTLEMANLY ACTS.  THE ARMY'S NOTORIOUS INCEST TRIAL. By Louise Barnett. New York: Hill and Wang. 2000. 287 pages. Hardcover. $12. In April 1879, on a remote military base in west Texas, Captain Geddes, a decorated Army officer of dubious moral reputation, faced a court-martial. The trial unearthed some shocking tales of seduction, incest, and abduction. The highest figures in the United States Army got involved, and General William T. Sherman made it his personal mission to see that Geddes was punished for his alleged crime. But what had Geddes done? He had accused a fellow officer, Louis Orleman, of incest with his teenage daughter Lillie. The Army quickly charged not Orleman, but Geddes with "conduct unbecoming a gentleman," for his accusation had come about because Orleman was preparing to charge Geddes with attempting to seduce and abduct the same young lady. The author's compelling examination of the Geddes drama is, at once a suspenseful narrative of a very important trial, and a study of the then prevailing attitudes toward sexuality, parental discipline, the Army, and the appropriate division between public and private life. It will enrich any reader's understanding of the tumultuous post-Civil War period, when Americans were striving to define their moral codes anew. Price: $12

 

CRAZY CRATE JP14 BOOK 13: COTTAGES AND CASTLES OF MAUMEE. By Marilyn Van Voorhis Wendler. Chicago: Arcadia Publishers. 2002. 95 pages. Softcover. (Part of the Then and Now Series). [NOTE: The pages have a slight "bend" on the lower outside corner.] $18. The original plat of Maumee was laid out in 1817, when Easterners were just beginning to discover the economic potential of the Maumee Valley. Within a decade, entrepreneurs were flocking to the area and building "Mansions" in the wilderness. Many of these early homes are still standing in Maumee, alongside other 19th century structures which reflect the changing lifestyles, economic fortunes, and architectural styles that defined the era. This book provides a guide to the historic architecture of Maumee, with nearly 170 examples and descriptions of the various styles from Greek Revival temple forms to Second Empire mansions and the simpler middle-class cottages that proliferated after the Civil War. Some homes are included because of their distinct architectural characteristics and others because of their association with prominent people or events. Together, they provide a look back at the evolution of small town architecture in this historic northwest Ohio community. Price: $18.

 

CRAZY CRATE JP14 BOOK 15: AROUND UNION CITY, PA. By Jeffrey R. Nelson. Dover, NH: Arcadia Publishing. 1999. 128 pages. Softcover.  (Part of the Images of America Series.)  This intriguing visual history contains over 200 photographs which bring to life the rich cultural heritage of the Union City region of Pennsylvania from the 1850s through the 1920s. A sleepy pre-railroad town, Union City was lifted to a place of prominence as one of the business and transport centers of the early oil industry. The photographs presented here represent the entire community at all social levels - a rare accomplishment, as photography was usually too expensive for the rural and working classes. We view rare scenes of Mill Village, Wattsburg, Corry and Lake Pleasant in Erie County and the communities of Spartansburg, Lincolnville, Riceville, and Lake Canadohta from Crawford County - towns that ushered in a new age with the oil and railroad era, and then fell into decline as the pace of modern life accelerated and changed. Photographs come from private collections, the Union City Area Historical Society Museum, and the glass-plate negatives of this century-old family photography business.   PRICE:  $17

 

CRAZY CRATE JP15: CRAZY CRATE JP15 BOOK 9: THE TRAIL OF THE GOLDSEEKERS.  A RECORD OF TRAVEL IN PROSE AND VERSE.  By Hamlin Garland. New York: Macmillan Company. 1899, reprinted January, 1906. 264 pages. Hardcover. [NOTE: this is an ex-library copy, with book plates, pasted-in book pocket for check-out card, etc. Four or five pages have some sentences underlined in pencil.]  Between August 1897 and June 1898 the discovery of gold in Alaska and the Yukon set off an explosion of gold-hungry-immigrants from around the world, especially the United States. Garland, curious about this mass exodus of miners and adventurers, followed them northward, not as another gold miner, but as a master of the pen who sought to capture the mood of the men and the times. Leaving from a Seattle wharf in 1898, Garland's journal provides a visual description of the land and keen insight into the world of gold and the men who seek it. He returned to Seattle to find rusted signs offering supplies to gold hunters, and newspaper headlines discussing the War in Cuba. Chapters are separated by short prose works or poems.  PRICE: $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP16:  CRAZY CRATE JP16 BOOK 2  EXECUTIVE PROCEEDINGS OF THE STATE OF INDIANA, 1816 - 1836.  Edited by Dorothy Riker.  Indianapolis:  Indiana Historical Bureau.  1947.  911 pages.  Hardcover.  [NOTE:  ex library copy.  Binding is still tight and the pages are clean.]  Never before published, this Record of Executive Proceedings in the present volume comprises commissions to both state and county officials and writs for special elections issued by the governors of Indiana from the beginning of statehood to the close of the year 1836.  There are a few commissions which extend beyond this period. Names and appointment dates for Justices of the Peace, Judges, surveyors, and others are listed. There is a 230 page section of appointments of militia officers, their ranks and dates of appointments from 1818 through 1823; a 45-page listing of pardons and remissions from 1823 through 1830 including dates and names of the people; a 350-page section of appointments of officials for each Indiana county, arranged alphabetically by county and chronologically within each county; listings of judicial circuits, dates established and transfers to new districts and more.  The 190-page index covers nearly 500 entries.  Price:  $35

 

CRAZY CRATE JP16 BOOK 3:  GOVERNORS’ MESSAGES AND LETTERS.  VOLUME  III:  MESSAGES AND PAPERS OF JONATHAN JENNINGS, RATLIFF BOON, AND WILLIAM HENDRICKS.  1816 - 1825.    Edited by Logan Esaray.  Indianapolis:  Indiana Historical Commission.  1924.  544 pages.  Hardcover.  [NOTE: ex-library copy. Binding is still tight, but the front hinge is beginning to crack.  The photograph of Jonathan Jennings (between pages 26 and 27 is present but nearly torn in half.] This book is the third in a series of volumes which reprinted the messages and papers of Indiana's early governors.  Although Indiana had been a territory since the creation of the Northwest Ordnance, Indiana entered the union as a state in 1816.  These papers represent the earliest attempts of the Hoosier government to function as a state.  Jonathan Jennings was elected as the first governor, but he resigned in 1822 to take his place as the Indiana state’s representative in Washington, D. C.  The Lieutenant Governor, Ratcliff Boon filled out the un-expired term of three months, while waiting for the newly elected governor, William Hendricks, to take office.  In 1825 Hendricks resigned to take a seat as the Indiana state representative in Washington D. C.  Indiana, like other young western states, had many intimate and important relations with the federal government.  The citizens owed the federal government several million dollars for land.  The land offices were the most important business centers in the state.  A large part of the state was occupied by Indians over whom the General Assembly had no control, and necessarily, had to look to the federal government for relief.  By compact the federal government had agreed, on consideration of the state foregoing certain rights of taxation, to help the state build roads.  The state had no sufficient circulating medium and consequently had to look to the federal government for assistance.  One of the most persistent difficulties of the young state was that of fugitives from justice, or slavery, crossing the Ohio River and this waterway was controlled by the federal government.   Letters and messages include correspondence with the Kentucky governor concerning Kentucky's lack of returning fugitives who had stolen free Negroes and taken them into slavery in Kentucky; correspondence between Jennings, Lieutenant Governor Christopher Harrison, the Indiana Senate and House of Representatives over Jennings role in the treaty of St. Mary's with the Wea Indians, several messages concerning Kentucky kidnappers of Indiana Negroes; Jennings proclamation (in 1822) that the second Friday of December "be observed as a day of Publick supplication and prayer to Almighty God, that he may avert the just judgments impending upon our land, and that in his manifold mercies our country may “be blessed with fruitful seasons and our citizens with health and peace."  Correspondence for Hendricks includes messages on sales of public lands, the Black Hawk War, the Ohio-Michigan boundary dispute, internal improvements, and more.  The 13-page index contains nearly 1,300 names.  Price:   $30

 

CRAZY CRATE JP16 BOOK 4: MESSAGES AND PAPERS RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF JAMES BROWN RAY, GOVERNOR OF INDIANA, 1825 - 1831. Edited by Dorothy Riker and Gayle Thornbrough.  Indiana Historical Bureau.  1954.  726 pages.  Hardcover.   Ray was elected to the sixteen-member State Senate in 1821 and was elected president pro tem of the Senate, after Ratcliff Boon resigned his lieutenant governorship to go to Congress in 1824.   Ray became acting governor after the resignation of William Hendricks, who had been elected to the United States Senate.  He was just thirty years old.  He was elected to the governorship in 1825 and 1828, but after his term of office was over, he was unable to win another elective office.  In state and local matters the legislation sought by Ray and considered by the General Assembly concerned internal improvements, revision of the penal code, education, care, care of the poor and handicapped, militia, county and township government, the judiciary, matters concerning Indians etc. but no significant body of legislation was passed during his administration.  His correspondence indicates a generous, sympathetic attitude toward the writers who requested favors or information and a sense of the responsibility of his trust as a public officer.   Price:  $17.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP16 BOOK 5:  MESSAGES AND PAPERS RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF NOAH NOBLE, GOVERNOR OF INDIANA, 1831 - 1837.  Edited by Dorothy Riker and Gayle Thornbrough.  Indiana Historical Bureau.  1958.  645 pages.  Hardcover. The third son of Doctor Thomas Noble and Elizabeth Claire Sedwick, Noah Noble was born in Frederick County (now Clarke County) Virginia in 1794.  After several moves, Thomas and his family settled in Boone County, Kentucky, around 1807.  In 1808, Noah's older brother, James, moved to Brookville, in Indiana Territory.  In 1811 James was commissioned a colonel of the Seventh Regiment of Indiana’s territorial militia.  It appears that Noah came to Brookville in 1811 and shortly thereafter joined the same militia.  In 1820 he ran for county sheriff and won.  He was re-elected two years later, receiving all but nine votes in the entire county.  Two years later he was elected to the lower house of the General Assembly.  In 1830 he was elected governor.  At the beginning of his administration, the Potawatomi and Miami Indians were still in possession of more than half of the land north of the Wabash River. During his administration, Indians ceded their lands, and the Wabash and Erie Canal as well as the Michigan Road were built.  He served in various committees after his term of office expired.  Price:  $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP 16 BOOK 6:  MESSAGES AND PAPERS RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF DAVID WALLACE, GOVERNOR OF INDIANA, 1837 - 1840.  Edited by Dorothy Riker.  Indiana Historical Bureau.  1963.  501 pages.   Wallace was born in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, in 1799.  His mother was a niece of John Paul Jones. Civil War General Lew Wallace was the son of David Wallace. In his youth, David Wallace moved to Indiana, studied law, and became a competent lawyer.  In 1828 he was chosen to the lower house of the Indiana General Assembly.  He was Noah Noble's Lieutenant Governor.  Wallace's administration was involved with continuing to obtain land grants to extend the Wabash and Erie Canal to Terre Haute, the construction of macadamized roads instead of railroads between Jeffersonville and Crawfordsville and between Indianapolis and Lafayette, and continued removal of the Indians.  Following his term in office, he returned to private law practice.  Price:  $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP 16 BOOK 7:  MESSAGES AND PAPERS RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF SAMUEL BIGGER, GOVERNOR OF INDIANA, 1840 - 1843.  Edited by Gayle Thornbrough.  Indiana Historical Bureau.  1964.  669 pages.   Hardcover.  Bigger was born in Warren County, Ohio, in 1802, and in 1829 moved to Indiana.  In 1833 and 1834 he was elected to the General Assembly.  In 1836 the Assembly elected him as presiding judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit.  He resigned after being elected governor in 1840. He was Indiana's last Whig governor. The internal improvements advocated by previous governors Noah Noble and David Wallace had brought Indiana into a desperate financial situation.  Bigger supported continuation of  internal improvements, but said that they should be prioritized, or classified into levels of importance.  Public debt was a major concern of his administration and the General Assembly created many committees to investigate previous expenditures for internal improvements.  Investigations were also made into the State Bank.  Other reports covered the care of the insane, education and the state prison.  He was not re-elected, and he moved to Ft. Wayne, Indiana, where he practiced private law and died in 1846.   Price:  $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP 16 BOOK 8: REMEMBERING DELHI MILLS. MICHIGAN - NINETY YEARS OF FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 1827 - 1917.  By Nicholas A. Marsh.  Ann Arbor:  Braun-Brumfield, Inc.  1984.   96 pages.  Softcover.  Based upon the recollections of the town's oldest citizens and documented by deeds, court records, cemetery and other information, the author has compiled the first detailed history of this small Michigan town, only five miles from Ann Arbor. The book begins with early land speculation and investment, religious institutions, mill construction, decline of the town in the 1880's and partial destruction of the town in a 1917 storm.  The book contains many photographs and illustrations.  Price:  $15

 

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CRAZY CRATE JP 16 BOOK 9:  JOURNAL OF A TRAPPER IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 1834 AND 1843.  COMPRISING A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY, CLIMATE, RIVERS, LAKES, MOUNTAINS, ETC. THE NATURE AND HABIT OF ANIMALS, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF INDIANS AND A COMPLETE VIEW OF THE LIFE LED BY A HUNTER IN THOSE REGIONS. By Osborne Russell.  Edited by Aubrey L. Haines.  Santa Barbara, CA:  The Narrative Press. 2001 reprint of a book published in 1914 and 1921 under the title of Journal of a Trapper, or, Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains: 1834 - 1848.  248 pages.  Softcover. If you are looking for a lost relative from Maine by the name of Osborne Russell, this may be the man.  Osborne Russell was born in June 1814, at the little village or Bowdoinham, Maine.  He was one of nine children in the family of George G. and Eleanor (Power) Russell.  He was a typical farm boy, but at the age of 16 he was lured away by the dreams of a life at sea.  Quickly disillusioned, he deserted his ship in New York, then spent three years in the service of the Northwest Fur Trapping and Trading Company.  He later joined Nathaniel J. Wyeth's expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1834.  After meeting his obligation to Wyeth, Russell joined Jim Bridger's brigade.  When Bridger's brigade merged with the American Fur Company, Russell became an independent trapper working out of Fort Hall.   Borrowing books from the Fort Hall Library and from friends, he became a well learned man.  After an accident in which he lost his right eye, he turned to politics and became a judge on the Provisional Government Oregon Supreme Court.  Some time around 1845, he began correspondence with his family, who had not heard from him since he had run away to sea in 1830.  In 1848 Russell moved to California and became an owner of a provisions store in Placerville and two trading vessels.  The company went well until his partner absconded with the money and one of the vessels.  Russell spent the remainder of his life trying to pay off his debts.  He never returned to Oregon, but turned to mining for an income.  In 1855 he became estranged from his family in Maine and he never wrote to them again.  He died in Placerville in 1892.  He never married.  Russell's book abounds with details about hunting and trapping in the Rockies.  He traveled along the Yellowstone, Snake and Sweetwater rivers (among others) and recent readers have retraced his steps using this book.  Russell encountered numerous Indian tribes, and took care to portray them accurately.  Some encounters were not friendly and he was shot with arrows   His journal reflects the complex character of many of the independent men of that era; adventurous, tough, and resourceful.  He was a politician, living in Oregon, when he decided to write about his earlier life as a trapper in the Rocky Mountains.  Price:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP16 BOOK 11: COMMERCE OF THE PRAIRIES.  LIFE ON THE GREAT PLAINS IN THE 1830'S AND 1840'S.  By Josiah Gregg.  Santa Barbara, CA:  The Narrative Press.  2001 reprint of a two-volume set first published in 1844.  Both volumes are reprinted together in this book.  278 pages.  Softcover.  Josiah Gregg was born in Overton County, Tennessee, in 1806.  He was the youngest son in a family of six children.  Sickly, shy, and studious, he taught school in his early adulthood, and later studied law and surveying, but was crippled by consumption and chronic dyspepsia in 1830.  On the advice of his doctors, Gregg made his first trip west in the spring of 1831, across the plains to Santa Fe with a merchant caravan.  His health quickly improved.  Over the next nine years, Gregg traversed the plains four times as an explorer and a trader, taking Chihuahua Trail into the interior of Mexico, later pioneering a more southerly route from Santa Fe to the Mississippi Valley.  He also toured Indian Territory as far west as Cache Creek in the Comanche country.  In the summer of 1841, and again in the winter of 1841-42, he traveled through Texas, up the Red River Valley, and later from Galveston to Austin and by way of Nacogdoches to Arkansas.  All of it was wide-open territory. All the while Gregg was taking measurements and compiling notes, and in the summer of 1843 he went to New York, found a publisher and his book was published the following year.  It was an immediate success.  In part, the book was a success because of its encyclopedic wealth of information - from buffalo hunting and Indian customs to gold mining and Mexican agriculture - but it is also a great adventure.  This book is one of the most valuable and most often-cited contemporary chronicles of early southwestern history.  Price:  $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP16 BOOK 15: SON OF THE MORNING STAR.  [GENERAL GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER] By Evan S. Connell.  New  York. Promontory Press. 1993 printing of an edition originally published in 1984 by North Point Press.  441 pages.  Hardcover.  Dust Jacket.  [NOTE: the dust jacket shows one of several artists’ ideas of the Battle of the Little Big Horn.]  During the 1860s and 1870s the westward movement of white settlers brought them into contact with the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho and other northern Great Plains Native American nations.  The inevitable clash resulted in a bitter series of wars in which settlers with the aid of the United States Army fought to destroy many Indian nations, while the nations fought to destroy the invaders.  Dashing George Armstrong Custer was one of many Army officers who brought constant warfare against the Indians.  As commanding officer of the Seventh Cavalry, he had actively fought Indians in Kansas and the Dakotas.  Then he pitted his band of slightly over 200 soldiers against a combined force of nearly 10,000 Indians at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.  This carefully researched book is partly a biography of Custer and partly a history of the Plains Indians Wars.  Connell tells the human story of the battle, of the Federal and Indian antagonists, and of the battle's place in the context of the Plains Indian Wars.  He explores deeply the personalities of Custer and the other federal and Indian leaders.  Although the Indian forces won the battle on the field, in the greater context of their struggle to retain their land and culture, in the face of westward expansion the victory was a great defeat, followed by death, exile, humiliation, relentless pursuit, and betrayal. Also included in the book are four-color reproductions of several artists’ interpretations of the battle.  Price:  $15

 

CRAZY CRATE 17: CRAZY CRATE 17 BOOK 9: FORT LIMHI. THE MORMON ADVENTURE IN OREGON TERRITORY, 1855 - 1858.  By David L. Bigler.  Logan, UT.  Utah State University Press.  2004.  372 pages.  Softcover.   In May1855, twenty-seven men set out from the young Mormon settlements in Utah to establish the northernmost colony of the Kingdom of God.  Building a fort in the Lemhi Valley, four hundred miles to the north and at the foot of the pass by which Lewis and Clark had crossed the Continental Divide, they began to proselyte among Sacagawea's Shoshone relatives as well as members of the Bannock, Nez Perce, and other tribes.  Three years later some of their expected, and actual, Indian converts violently drove the colonists out and destroyed Fort Limhi.  Bigler shows that the colony, known as the Salmon River Mission, played a pivotal role in the Utah War of 1847 - 1858 and that the catastrophic end of the mission was critical in preventing all out war between Mormon Utah and the United States.  Over 200 entries are covered in the six-page index.     Price:  $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP 18: CRAZY CRATE JP18 BOOK 3: FIRE ON THE BEACH.  RECOVERING THE LOST STORY OF RICHARD ETHERIDGE AND THE PEA ISLAND LIVESAVERS.   By David Wright and David Zoby.  New York:  Scribner.  2000.  335 pages.  Hardcover.  This book tells the story of the U. S. Life-Saving Service, formed in 1871 to assure the safe passage of American and international shipping and to save lives and salvage cargo.  A century ago, the now-forgotten "surfmen" who, in crews of seven, bore the brunt of this dangerous but vital duty.  This is also the story of Station 17, located on the desolate beaches of Pea Island, North Carolina, and of its Captain - Richard Etheridge - the only black man to lead a life-saving crew.  A former slave and Civil War veteran, Etheridge recruited and trained a crew of African-Americans, forming the only all-black station in the nation.    Price:  $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP18 BOOK 5: LAKE MATTAMUSKEE, NEW HOLLAND AND HYDE COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA.  By Lewis C. Forrest.  Charleston, SC:  Arcadia Publishing.  1999.  128 pages.  Softcover.  (part of the Images of America Series).   [NOTE; The back outside bottom corner has a crease in it.]  Located in the mainland of Eastern North Carolina, Hyde County is a fascinating blend of beautiful wetlands - with an incredible assortment of wildlife - and rich, sweeping farmlands, which have played the principal role in yielding the economic prosperity for the county.  Lake Mattamuskeet, the center and heart of Hyde County, has enjoyed a long and interesting history that has included early American Indian tribes, national business interests, New Deal government projects and many generations of hunters and fishermen.  Through an impressive collection of photographs, this volume will take you on a visual tour through the history of Lake Mattamuskeet, New Holland and Hyde County over the past 100 years.  Because the farmland around the lake was so rich, early businessmen, even back into the colonial days, had the ambition of draining the lake to provide more rich soil acreage and thus, create a profitable real estate venture. In this book, you will see first-hand all the intensive labor, both mental and physical, that went into the lake; from the first plans for drainage, the huge floating dipper dredge excavating the canals, the creation of the world's largest pumping plant, a company's city planning of New Holland, the introduction of the railroad, the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps in making the lake a waterfowl refuge, and throughout, the farming that has sustained Hyde County over the years.  Price:  $19

 

CRAZY CRATE JP18 BOOK 14: THE ROLE OF WOMEN ON INDIANA NEWSPAPERS (AND OTHER MEDIA):  1876 - 1976.  Published by the Women's Press Club of Indiana.  1977.  240 pages. Hardcover.  This book provides a brief history of journalism, and then ten geographic areas providing in depth information or interviews with noted journalists including Margaret Stephenson Moore Post, who was one of the first reporters to follow the John Dillinger story from its beginning. Contains a separate longer section arranged alphabetically with very short notations on many other women journalists.  Price:  $7.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP19: CRAZY CRATE JP19 BOOK 3: Two Books for One Great Price:  See below:

1)  AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PREHISTORY OF INDIANA.  By James. H. Kellar.  Indiana Historical Society.  Indianapolis.  1983.  78 pages. Softcover.  This book contains a summary of various early Native American groups who inhabited Indiana.   The book is aimed at helping to create greater awareness of the richness of the American  past and to increase an appreciation of the diminishing resources for understanding that past.  The major portion of the text summarizes in a brief form what is currently known of the prehistoric Indian occupation in our state.  Also included is a brief discussion concerning the history of archaeological research in the state, a bibliography for those desiring to pursue some of the topics in greater depth, a statement regarding university degree programs and a list of prehistoric sites and museums accessible by the public.  Eight photographs and nearly 50 line drawings of artifacts enhance the text.

2)  GLENN A. BLACK LABORATORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON, (IN).  No date  (1971?).  No pagination.  40 pages. Softcover.  [NOTE: The cover shows a little war along the front spine and cover.]   This booklet is the booklet that was given away at the dedication of the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology on April 21, 1971.  The date marks a major milestone in Indiana archaeology.  This book contains a chapter on the accomplishments of Mr. Black., whom the laboratory specifically honors, a commentary on the development of archaeological interest in Indiana, and a description of the building itself.  Over two dozen photographs of the building and some of its artifacts enhance the text.

Price for the set of two books:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP19 BOOK 6: ORANGE, CONNECTICUT.  By Harry W. Jones and Marvin A. Jamron.  Dover, NH:  Arcadia Publishing.  First published in 1998.  128 pages.  Softcover.  (Part of the Images of America Series).  [NOTE: There are several small creases on the back cover and two that run from the top to the bottom of the front cover, apparently made when people were reading through the book.]   The history of Orange, Connecticut, can be traced to 1639 when the Reverend Peter Prudden and a group of his followers from Wethersfield Colony founded a settlement in this remarkable area.  Separated from Milford and incorporated in 1822, the town was named after William of Orange in gratitude for his assistance to early American colonists.  In its early years the town was a rural farm community and remained so until after World War II.  Many of the families who reside in this town are descendants of the earliest European settlers.  These families have been instrumental in preserving the charm of an open-space, rural community whose spirit remains refreshing.  In the over two-hundred photographs included in this book are the faces from many generations and time periods.  Price:  $10 This book was originally published at $17, but we are pricing it to you for only $10 because of its condition. 

 

CRAZY CRATE 19 BOOK 7:  FAIR  HAVEN, NEW JERSEY.  THE MAKING OF A MODERN TOWN.  By Randall Gabrielan.  Charleston, SC:  Arcadia Publishing.  1999.  128 pages.  (Part of their Images of America Series)  [Note:  there are several creases on the back cover, apparently made when people were browsing through the book.]   In over 200 photographs in this book, the author explores the Fair Haven, New Jersey’s development from the small seasonal community it once was to the suburban borough that it has become.  The early town of Fair Haven was little more than a waterfront - a passage between the neighboring towns of Red Bank and Rumson.  As the town developed, churches, schools, shops, and traditional houses sprang up everywhere.  Although the public places have been changed or replaced, many of the town's early homes are well preserved.  Fair Haven's casual quality and comfortable style is said to have made the town appeal to the actors and performers of the vaudevillian community who congregated here in the early 1900s.  These same aspects of Fair Haven life continue to appeal to visitors and new residents  Price:  This book was originally published at $19, but we are pricing it to you at $12 because of its condition. 

 

          CRAZY CRATE 19 BOOK 9:  PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND.   By Elizabeth J. Johnson, James L. Wheaton and Susan L. Reed.  Dover, NH:  Arcadia Publishing.  First published in 1995.  128 pages.  Softcover.  (Part of their Images of America series).  Pawtucket is a thriving and proud community with a rich history that spans over one hundred years.  For decades, the Pawtucket Public Library and the Spaulding House Research Library have built up two remarkable archives chronicling the vivid history of Pawtucket from the 1820s to the 1990s.  Now, these institutions have published over two hundred of the most fascinating images from their archives, bringing to life over one hundred and seventy years of Pawtucket's history - the people, places, landmarks, and events that have shaped this vibrant city.  Accompanied by the authors’ lively and authoritative text, these images invite us to journey back into the past and meet legendary Pawtucket characters such as Peter Palagi, aviator Jack McGee, and Fanny the elephant.  We can try to experience the bustle of Main Street or Broad Street in the 1870s and 1920s and to rediscover the landmarks; such as The Music Hall Building and Shartenberg's Department Store.  Price:  $17

 

CRAZY CRATE JP19 BOOK 10: PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND   VOLUME ll.  By Elizabeth J. Johnson, James L. Wheaton and Susan L. Reed.  Dover, NH:  Arcadia Publishing.  First published 1996.  128 pages.  Softcover.  (Part of their Images of America series).  [NOTE: The upper outer corner of the back cover page and the last fifteen pages have a slight bend.  It is not yet a crease.]  The authors of the first book have worked together again to produce an all-new second book on the city that incorporates many important images not found in the first book.  This book covers the history of this city from 1864 to 1996, and highlights the accomplishments of its citizens.  Famous Pawtucket native like singer, Nelson Eddy, and major-leaguer Chester "Chet" Nichols are spotlighted, as well as less well-known but equally significant contributors to the civic and social history of the city.    Price:  The normal cost of this book is $17, but we are pricing it to you at $12 because of the bend in the last few pages.

 

CRAZY CRATE  JP20: CRAZY CRATE  JP20 BOOK 1:  ELIZABETHAN LIFE:  WILLS OF ESSEX [COUNTY, ENGLAND] GENTRY AND MERCHANTS PROVED IN THE PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY.  By F. G. Emmison.  Chelmsford:  Essex County Council.  1978.  361 pages.  Hardcover.    [Note: Signed on the title page by the author.  The dust jacket has some tears and crinkles at the top and bottom.  The outside corners are bumped, but the body of the book is tight and the pages are clean.]  In 1968 the Essex County Council began preparing and publishing materials which fully document the life of people living in Elizabethan England.  This book comprises detailed abstracts of 339 wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.  These abstracts do not omit a single person or place name nor do they leave out any clause apart from normal repetitive language and legal phraseology, often very lengthy.  The wills are not printed either in alphabetical or chronological order but are  grouped by status - Peers, Knights, Esquires, Gentlemen, and Merchants (and their wives or widows.)   While this brings together the wills of testators of much the same class, it has the slight disadvantage of separating those of a few of the same family not sharing that class, so cross references have been made.  Price:  $20

 

CRAZY CRATE JP20 BOOK 3:  BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE.  By Fitzroy MacLean.  New York:  Atheneum.  1989.  386 pages.  Hardcover.   This authoritative biography - published to mark the two hundredth anniversary of the death of Bonnie Prince Charlie - throws new light on the life and character of the notoriously charismatic prince on whom the hopes and dreams of the Jacobites were first raised and then dashed.  Vividly portrayed accounts of his hitherto little-known love affair with his cousin, Louise de Montbazon, his adventures in France and Italy, his valiant attempt to restore his family to the British throne, and the bloody battles of the 1745 Rising, which culminated in Culloden, succeed in bringing this legendary figure to surprising life.    The chance discovery in an old deed box of a unique relic that directly linked his family with the Prince and the Rising fired Sir Fitzroy Maclean's imagination.  During two decades of research into contemporary accounts, he followed in the Prince's footsteps from Frascati to the Isle of Eriskay, from Glen Corradale to Essex Street in London and to the Place des Vosges in Paris.  The nine-page index covers nearly 1.000 names.  Price:  $25

 

CRAZY CRATE JP20 BOOK 11: WILDERNESS  EMPIRE.  A NARRATIVE.  By Allan W. Eckert.  Boston:  Little, Brown and Company.  1969.  653 pages.  Hardcover. [ NOTE: ex-library copy, with possession stamps, labels, and check out card.  The binding is getting a little loose but the pages are clean.]  For over 20 years no Indian force in America was as powerful and feared as the Iroquois League.  Throughout two thirds of this continent, the cry of "the Iroquois are coming!" was enough to demoralize entire tribes.  But these Iroquois occupied and controlled a vast wilderness empire which beckoned like a precious gem to foreign powers.  France and England secured toeholds and suddenly each was claiming as its own this land of the Iroquois.  Alliance with the Indians was the key; whichever power controlled them could destroy the other.  This book is the gripping narrative of the eighteenth-century struggle of these two powers to win for themselves the allegiance of the Indians in a war for territorial dominance, yet without letting these Indians know that the prize of the war would be this very Iroquois land.  It is the story of English strength hamstrung by incredible incompetence, of French power sapped by devastating corruption. The author has molded the raw facts of history into a moving, perceptive and penetrating narrative filled with the grace and pathos, action and beauty, humanity and savagery of which survival of the American frontier was all a part.    The 15-page index covers over 750 entries.    Price:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE  JP20 BOOK 12: THE WELLS FARGO BOOK OF THE GOLD RUSH.  By Margaret Rau.  Illustrations from the Wells Fargo Historical Archives.  New York:  Atheneum Books for Young Readers.   2001.  143 pages.  Hardcover.  [Note:  the words "young readers" may be deceiving.  This is a thoroughly enjoyable text for adults of any age.]  The author takes readers on a thrilling journey through the California gold rush, from its dawning moments in 1848 in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada through the riotous days of its height, to the 1855 recession that signaled the end of an incredible era in American history.  This account is illustrated with prints and photographs of the people, places and events of the gold rush from the Wells Fargo Archives.  The author brings alive he prospectors' fervor as they left jobs and families to follow the lure of gold, arriving in surges by land and sea.  In the ramshackle mining towns that sprung up across the foothills some set up makeshift shops and saloons to support the other prospectors.  Most followed their dream to the "diggings", spending backbreaking days searching the mountain streams for the fabled glimmer of gold.  As more and more prospectors flooded into California, it became clear that reliable systems were needed to handle all the gold, mail, and cargo traveling back and forth across the country.  Wells, Fargo and Company, as well as other banks and freight companies, rose to meet this demand, employing conscientious agents and speedy messengers to manage the valuable freight of the gold rush and escort it on its journey.  Founded in 1852, at the height of the Gold Rush Era, Wells Fargo brought banking services to the western frontier.  With offices in every large town and mining camp in California, as well as overseas, Wells Fargo was able to cater to miners and entrepreneurs from the eastern United States and to immigrants from China, Europe, Mexico, and Canada.  Price:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP21:  CRAZY CRATE JP21 BOOK 2: THE CONFEDERATION GENERATION.   By Mary Fallis Jones.  Toronto:  Royal Ontario Museum.  1978.  128 pages.  Softcover.  [NOTE: black  letters "NA" written  at top of front cover.]  This is a book about the people who lived in Canada a hundred years ago when Great Britain released Canada from its colonial administration.  It was a time of great joy and frustrations for everyone.  The book contains reprints and illustrations from the Canadian Illustrated News, a weekly journal published in Montreal from 1869 to 1883.  The text consists almost entirely of excerpts taken from newspapers, journals, weeklies, and private papers of the period.  Together the words and pictures highlight some of the things Confederation Canadians said, did and cared about.  Not all Canadian voices are heard in these excerpts.  The daily experiences of immigrants, urban laborers, and farmers, and to a large extent of French Canadians, are missing.  The views printed here reflect rather the ideals and rhetoric of the times as they were expressed by influential and articulate community leaders, editorial writers, and churchmen, especially in Ontario.  Price:  $7.50

 

THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ARE ALL ABOUT CANADA AND ITS PROVINCES.  OUR NORTHERN NEIGHBOR IS IN THE SPOTLIGHT!  IT IS TIME TO GET TO KNOW THEM BETTER!

 

CRAZY CRATE JP21 BOOK 3: THE PRAIRIE WEST.  Historical Readings.  Edited by R. Douglas Francis and Howard Palmer.  Pica Pica Press.  1985.  660 pages.  Hardcover.  A collection of thirty-two articles on Canadian prairie history written by Canada's leading historians, political scientists, and economists.  This book discusses Native Americans, the fur trade, settlement, Indian treaties, politics, and much more.  Price:  $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP21 BOOK 4: MARITIME CAPITAL.  THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY IN ATLANTIC CANADA, 1820 - 1914.   By Eric W. Wager and Gerald E. Panting.  Montreal and Kingston:  McGill-Queen's University Press..  1990.  289 pages.  Hardcover.  Drawing upon the data base of the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project and important secondary sources, this book details the growth of the shipping industry and the economic context in which the shipping merchants operated.  Ship-owning and ship-building were a central part of the mercantile economy of the Atlantic colonies of British North America.  Price:  $20

 

CRAZY CRATE JP21 BOOK 5: THE STRUGGLE FOR THE BORDER.  By Bruce Hutchison.  New York:  Longmans, Green and Co.  1955.  500 pages.   Hardcover.  This book is a magnificent account of the struggle for the border between Canada and the United States in terms of the men who influenced its events: Champlain, Wolfe, Montcalm, Frontenac, Sir Guy Carleton, Benedict Arnold, Montgomery, and Benjamin Franklin in colonial times.  In later years:  Brock, Tecumseh, William Henry Harrison, Daniel Webster, and Lord Ashburton.  And in our own times:  Sir John MacDonald, Theodore Roosevelt, Mackenczie King, Franklin Roosevelt, and Louis St. Laurent.  These men and many others did their deeds, large and small, good and bad, in the struggle for the undefended boundary between two real peoples - the 49th parallel, which marks where Canada ends and the United States begins.  This is a story without parallel in the world's history.  Price:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP21 BOOK 8: MONTREAL: SEAPORT AND CITY.  By Stephen Leacock.  Toronto:  McLelland and Stewart. 1940. 340 pages.  Hardcover.  W. Stein.]  Although it is a thousand miles from the sea, Montreal is one of the most important seaports in the world.  The history of the city begins with the founding of New France, then rose to prominence as the city became an important fur trading center, was the focus of invasions during the American Revolution and the War of 1812, and became the financial capital of Canada.   Price:  $25

 

CRAZY CRATE JP21 BOOK 9: BELLEVILLE, [ONTARIO, CANADA] FRIENDLY CITY.  Compiled by Nick and Helma Mika.  Bellville, Ontario, Canada:  Mika Publishing.  1973.  260 pages.  Hardcover.  [NOTE: Inscription: "May 28, 1976.  Sir I do hope that you or someone in your family finds time to read this interesting book.  Our Centennial is in 1978 and you may know more about Belleville when you re invited to share in our celebrations.  J. B. Clarke, Mayor"]  Located halfway between Montreal and Toronto, with easy access by road and water, Belleville today is a city on the move.  The city's traditions go back to Loyalist days, and some of its rich and colorful history is still preserved in stately old houses and landmarks that blend harmoniously with the new.   Over 500 photographs enhance a text which discusses Belleville in the 1890's, industries,  store fronts in 1924, places of worship, business, education, religion, sports, lodges, river floods, Belleville General Hospital, men and women in uniform,  and much more.  The seven-page index covers nearly 12,000 entries.  Price:  $35

 

CRAZY CRATE JP21 BOOK 10: SASKATCHEWAN.  By Edward McCourt.  New York:  St. Martin's Press. 1968.  238 pages. Hardcover.  [Note:  Ex-library copy.]  The author traveled the whole area for this book, visiting the Cypress Hills and Great Plains regions, where the hog-nosed viper, prairie antelope, and cactus live, among other strange and beautiful things.  Also covered are the Qu'Appelle Valley, the major cities and towns, Lac La Ronge, the lake and hill country of the Canadian Shield, and Cumberland House.  The author brings the province alive from his own deep knowledge of its history and through talks with men who remember how it was after Batoche, how it was when the steam combines first threshed the wheat, as well as through his own feelings and observations visiting the changing Saskatchewan of today.  Price: $5

 

CRAZY CRATE JP21 BOOK 11:  MAKING VANCOUVER.  CLASS, STATUS, AND SOCIAL BOUNDARIES,  1863 - 1913.    By Robert A. J. McDonald.  Vancouver.   UBC Press.  Vancouver.  1996.  316 pages.  Softcover.  This is a book about the people of Vancouver.  It traces the social transformation of the city and points out how Shaughnessy Heights lumber barons, Mount Pleasant trades people, and East End laborers were part of a complex society whose members exhibited sharp differences in attitudes and behavior.  The book starts with the early years, when settlement on Burrard Inlet centered around two lumber mills and the elite dominated local institutions.  Periods of social and political conflict then followed in the wake of the railway, heightening class tensions at the turn of the century.   During the boom years before the First World War, Vancouver experienced tremendous growth, and status became an important factor in defining its social structure.  The author depicts a western city that was neither egalitarian nor closed to opportunity.  Vancouver up to the crash of 1913 was a dynamic center.  The rapidity of growth, easy access to resources, a narrow industrial base, and the homogenous nature of its population, the majority of which was of British birth, softened the thrust towards class division inherent in capitalism.   The book both confirms and challenges our understanding of the city's early history.  Class tensions still emerge as a central feature of city life, and racism still divides Vancouverites from one another.  But conventional wisdom also gives way to new understanding when status is recognized as an important but overlooked aspect of urban experience.  Price:  12.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP21 BOOK 12: WINNIPEG.  WHERE THE NEW WEST BEGINS.  AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY.  By Eric Wells.  Burlington, Ontario:  Windsor Publications.  1982.  288 pages.  Hardcover.  [NOTE:  Inscription on title page:  "You helped us think about the larger problem and gave us guidance toward the resolves.  Thank you. Sincerely, Shirley Serdel.  June 27, 1983".] Short, readable chapters, highlight the events, personalities, and trends in Winnipeg's history, beginning with Henry Hudson's ill-fated voyage in 1610, through the French and British fur trading industry, then the agricultural colony founded by Lord Selkirk in 1812, and the modern industrial development of the city.  Price:  $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP21 BOOK 13: RESEARCHING CANADIAN RELIGIOUS RECORDS.  By Ryan Taylor.  Toronto:  Heritage Productions.  2001.  190 pages.  Plastic comb binding.  While most of us probably think we know a great deal about church records, in fact these records are very complex.  This book discusses the backgrounds of 19 various religious denominations, where their archives can be found, baptismal, marriage, burial and death records and the differences in these records found in various religious denominations.   Financial information, where to find denominational histories.  Yearbooks and annual reports are also discussed.   Price:  $17

 

CRAZY CRATE  JP22:  CRAZY CRATE JP22 BOOK 4: SONS OF PROVIDENCE.  THE BROWN BROTHERS, THE SLAVE TRADE, AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.  By Carles Raappleye.  New York.  Simon and Schuster.  2006.  400 pages. Hardcover.  [Note:  there is a black mark on the bottom of the book, but the mark does not bleed into the book's pages.]  In 1774, as the new world simmered with tensions that would lead to the violent birth of a new nation, two Rhode Island brothers were heading toward their own war over the issue that haunts America to this day: slavery.  Set against a colonial backdrop teeming with radicals and reactionaries, visionaries, spies, and salty sea captains, this book is the biography of John and Moses Brown, two classic American archetypes bound by blood yet divided by the specter of more than half a million Africans enslaved throughout the colonies.  John is a profit-driven robber baron running slave galleys from his wharf on the Providence waterfront.  His younger brother Moses, is an idealist, a conscientious Quaker hungry for social reform who - with blood on his own hands - strikes out against the hypocrisy of slavery in a land of liberty.  Their story spans a century, from John's birth in 1736 through the Revolution, to Moses' death in 1836.  The brothers were partners in business and politics and in founding the university that bears their name.  They joined in the struggle against England, attending secret sessions of the Sons of Liberty and, in John's case, leading a midnight pirate raid against a British revenue cutter.  But for the Browns, as for the nation, the institution of slavery was the one question that admitted no middle ground.  Moses became an early abolitionist while John defended the slave trade and broke the laws written to stop it. This dual biography is drawn from voluminous family papers and other primary sources and is a dramatic story of an epic struggle for primacy between two very different brothers. 23 paintings, photographs and illustrations enhance the text.  The 17-page index covers over 1,000 entries.   Price:  $17.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP22 BOOK 8: LAND OF THE INLAND SEAS.  THE HISTORIC AND BEAUTIFUL GREAT LAKES COUNTRY.  By William Donohue Ellis.  Palo Alto, CA:  American West Publishing Company.  1974.  285 pages.  Hardcover.  Here is the entire sweep of the Great Lakes country - from the western tip of Lake Superior eastward some 800 miles to the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River at the northeast end of Lake Ontario - all of it carefully researched, described in the colorful style of William Donohue Ellis, and illustrated lavishly with nearly 300 beautiful photographs, paintings, maps and drawings, many of them in full color.  This book tells of the massive Wisconsin Glacier, slowly melting and leaving as its legacy the greatest system of lakes and waterways in the world.  It tells of the earliest inhabitants, the explorers and Jesuits who brought to the land European civilization.  It tells of the wars setting white against red and white against white for control of these vast waterways.  This volume also traces the settlement and the development of the region, too, from the emigrant era of the nineteenth century to the industrialization and overpopulation, the paradox of problems and promises ushered in by the twentieth century.  The five-page index coves over 700 entries.  Price:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP 22 BOOK 11:  LONE STAR.  A HISTORY OF TEXAS AND THE TEXANS.  By T. R Fehrenbach.  New York:  Tess Press, an imprint of Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers. Inc.  1968, 2000.  767 pages.  Hardcover.  Texas has always been larger than life, legendary, sprawling, and rich in history, characters, and personality.  The author, a renowned historian and native Texan, offers here a vital, immediate and comprehensive history of the Lone Star State.  Ten thousand years ago, man hunted mastodons and mammoths on its vast plains and plateaus.  From that time on, Texas history has been shaped by being part of six independent countries:  Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederacy, and the United States.  The author chronicles the extensive travels of the tribes that once lived inside the boundaries of present-day Texas, the events of the Texas Revolution, its Declaration of Independence, the Battle of the Alamo and the ensuing Battle of San Jacinto, with passion and immediacy.  He proceeds through the brief history of Texas as a Republic and its annexation as a state in 1845.  The elaborate sagas of the cotton and oil empires are presented here in vivid language that fills the pages with colorful characters and epic dynasties.  The 28-page index covers nearly 2,000 entries.   Price: $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP 23:  CRAZY CRATE JP 23 BOOK 7:  AMERICAN AND BRITISH  GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY.  A SELECTED LIST OF BOOKS.   Compiled by P. William Filby.  Boston:  New England Historical Genealogical Society.  Third edition.  1983.  736 pages.  Hardcover.  [Note:  the binding is tight and the pages are clean, but the dust jacket has several wrinkles and shows signs of wear.]   This third and definitive edition for some time to come contains 9800 entries, nearly doubling the number found in the second edition, and offers greatly expanded treatment of black genealogy and Canadian works, plus substantial increases under all subject headings.  Also included is a completely new section concerning genealogy, in English, in foreign countries.  This volume is divided geographically for works on regional and ethnic groups in the United States and notable works for Latin America, Canada, and Great Britain.  Family histories and general county histories are not included.  The 155-page index covers over 9,000 entries.  Price:  $30

 

CRAZY CRATE JP 23 BOOK 8:  INDIAN ARTIFACTS OF THE MIDWEST.    IDENTIFICATION AND VALUE GUIDE.   BOOK III.  By Lar Hothem.  Paducah, KY: Collectors Books.  1997. 344 pages.  Softcover.  [Note:  Ex library copy with labels and bar code.]   This is a great book for identifying Native American artifacts.  Nearly 2,000 black and white photographs show spear points,  arrowheads,  drills,  knives, axes, gorgets, celts, and effigy bowls.  There are very few bowls shown.  Each photograph has a caption, explaining the historic period of the artifact, the ,size, color, place of discovery and current owner.  A value is also given for each artifact. Photographs are organized into five periods:  Paleo Period, Archaic Period, Woodland Period, Mississippian Period and Historic Period.  Price:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP 23 BOOK 9:  MICHIGANA INDEX, 1965 – 1974.   Grand Rapids.  Western Michigan Genealogical Society.   1981.  126 pages.  Softcover.  Michigana, the quarterly publication of the Western Michigan Genealogical Society, began publication in 1955.  This index covers ten years of the publication, from 1965 to 1974.   The 125-page index covers nearly 12,000 entries.  Cross references for name variations and women’s maiden names are also given.  Price:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP 23 BOOK 10:  NEW HOMES IN THE WEST.  By Catherine Stewart.   Readex Microprint.   Nashville:  Cameron and Fall.  1843.   198 pages.  Hardcover.   Reprinted 1966 by Readex  Microprint.   [Note:  ex library copy with labels.  The top ¾ inch of the spine has been torn off.]  Reactions to the West were as varied as the people who experienced it.  For some the West was the scene of disappointment and personal tragedy; for others it was a place of opportunity and promise.  Catherine Stewart’s book is an extreme example of the latter point of view.    Almost everything the author had observed in over a decade of travel in the Midwest filled her with overpowering enthusiasm.  Although she acknowledged that “those who have never witnessed the picturesque scenery described might object that an ideal beauty is thrown around it”, yet she continued in unrestrained praise of the West.  Many of the author’s prose commentaries are in the form of letters addressed to a friend in Buffalo, New York.  Most concern the Michigan and Illinois country, although some are given over to descriptions of Tennessee and Missouri.  The author wrote with affection about the Indians whom she had encountered, and she described with avid interest their folkways.    Little is known about the author other than what may be gleaned from her book.  Price:  $10

 

[NOTE FOR BOOK BELOW:  YES, WISCONSIN IS SPELLED AS WISKONSIN.]

CRAZY CRATE JP23 BOOK 11: A JOURNAL OF A MISSIONARY TOUR THROUGH PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO, INDIANA, ILLINOIS, IOWA, WISKONSIN AND MICHIGAN;  COMPRISING A CONCISE DESCRIPTION OF DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF COUNTRY;  HEALTH OF CLIMATE;  INDUCEMENTS FOR EMIGRATION WITH THE EMBARRASSMENTS;  THE RELIGIOUS CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE; MEETING CONNECTED WITH THE MISSION;  AND OF THE GREAT WESTERN PRAIRIES.  By Rev. James L. Scott.  Providence: Published by the Author.  1843.  203 pages.  Reprinted 1966 by Readex Microprint.   Hardcover.   This book records Scott’s journal to the Western frontier in 1842.  Scott, pastor of a Seventh-Day Baptist church in Richburg, New York, had been asked by the Executive of the Baptist Home Missionary Society to undertake a trip to distribute tracts, convert unbelievers, and establish churches, where possible, in the new settlements.  Residents of the civilized seaboard communities were greatly concerned about the twin evils of godlessness and Romanism, as Scott called it, in the pioneer lands where few churches had yet been organized.  In the 1840s, the increased emigration of Catholic peoples, particularly from Ireland and southern Germany, caused considerable alarm in Protestants.  Scott probably expressed the fears of many of his coreligionists when he described the dangerous situation:  “Emigrants from the old world are swarming those western plains, permanently settling the cities and towns, and spreading all over the land.  The great Roman usurper, and blood-thirsty monster, is sweeping over this, our beloved country.  The Roman Inquisition may soon rear its fiendish head.”   In the intervals between lengthy evangelical meetings, baptisms, conversions of drunkards, and formation of churches, Scott noted with a sharp practical eye the state of civilization in the new cities such as Cleveland, Cincinnati and Iowa City and took particular note of the fertility of the soil, the healthfulness of the climate, and the availability of good building material in specific areas.    Price:  $12

 

CRAZY CRATE JP23 BOOK 12: MICHIGAN:  THE GREAT LAKES STATE.  AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY.  By George S. May and Joellen Vinyard.  Sun Valley, CA:  American Historical Press.  2005.  303 pages.  Hardcover. This book covers the history of Michigan, from the prehistoric period, relating what is known about the Native Americans who roamed the great peninsulas.  After chronicling European exploration and settlement, the story turns to the American era and Michigan’s early industries – farming, lumbering, and mining.  The manufactured products that made Michigan world famous including, of course, the automobile, are discussed as well as the state’s attempts to diversify its economy.  Illuminating the text are more than 350 vintage black and white photographs and illustrations, and many brilliant color images featuring artists’ views of Michigan, its people, and its products.  Price:  $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP23 BOOK 13: OUR TOWNS.  REMEMBERING COMMUNITY IN INDIANA.  By John Bodnar.  Indianapolis:  Indiana Historical Society.  2001.  218 pages.  Hardcover. This book’s foundation is based upon a series of interviews conducted for more than twenty years by the Oral History Research Center at Indiana University.  The center interviewed residents in six Indiana towns - Paoli, Evansville, Indianapolis, Anderson, South Bend, and Whiting.  The book is an interpretive history of Indiana in the twentieth century told and remembered by people who lived in the nineteenth state.   The book contains discussions of a wide assortment of issues that have been crucial to the history of the state and its people since 1900:  family, community relations, economic change, migration from Kentucky and Tennessee, emigration from Europe, race relations, industrial expansion, rural life, the impact of new cultural forms such as television, changing notions of religion, and much more.  Multiple copies of this book (3) are available.  Price:  $29.95

 

CRAZY CRATE JP23 BOOK 14: DESTINATION INDIANA.  TRAVELS THROUGH HOOSIER HISTORY.  Text by Ray E. Boomhower.  Photographs by Darryl Jones.  Indianapolis:  Indiana Historical Society.  2000.  203 pages.  Hardcover.  With over 200 full color photographs accompanying the text, this book highlights 25 historic Indiana sites open to the public.  These public sites include the homes of Governor William Henry Harrison, President Benjamin Harrison, writers George Ade, James Whitcomb Riley, Gene Stratton-Porter, General Lew Wallace and Ernie Pyle, Socialist Eugene V. Debs, the Indiana Medical History Museum, the Old Lighthouse Museum, Corydon Capital State Historic Site, Lanier Mansion, T. C. Steele state home and more.  The text informs readers of the life and times of the people who inhabited the architectural wonders and breathed life into their homes.  Multiple copies of this book (3) are available.  Price:  $24.95

 

CRAZY CRATE JP 24: CRAZY CRATE  JP24 BOOK 1: A TRAVELER’S GUIDE TO 116 MICHIGAN LIGHTHOUSES.  Text by Laurie Penrose, Maps by Bill T. Penrose. Black-and-White Photos by Ruth Penrose and Color Photos by Bill J. Penrose.  Davison, MI:  1992.  122 pages.  Softcover.  The goal of this book is not to try to bring history to life.  Rather, the purpose is to make it as easy as possible to get you out to see these majestic, colorful and historical buildings, so that your own senses and imagination can do the rest.  The authors traveled more than 20,000 miles, including 1,000 by boat, to personally view and photograph every Michigan lighthouse.  Their diverse settings make lighthouses outstanding destinations for all travelers.  Lighthouses are not only architecturally beautiful and structurally unique.  They also are fascinating monuments to a way of life that has vanished.  The “tour” begins in southwest Michigan with the North Pier Lights at St. Joseph and runs clockwise up the western side of Michigan, then the Upper Peninsula, across the top of the state, and ends with the Light House in Detroit.  Each lighthouse has a photograph, a brief history of the lighthouse, a map to show its location, and written directions.  Price:  $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP24 BOOK 4: A Wilderness So Immense.  The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America.  By Jon Kukla.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf.  2003.  Hardcover.  The remarkable story of the land purchase that doubled the size of our young nation, set the stage for its expansion across the continent, and confronted Americans with new challenges of ethnic and religious diversity.  In a saga that stretches from Paris and Madrid to Haiti, Virginia, New York, and New Orleans, the author shows us how rivalries over the Mississippi River and its vast watershed brought France, Spain, Great Britain and the Unite States to the brink of war and shaped the destiny of the new American republic.  We see American leaders Jefferson, Jay, Monroe, and Pickering clashing over the opening of the west ands its implications of sectional balance of power.  We see these disagreements nearly derailing the Constitutional   Convention of 1787 and the spawning of a series of separatist  conspiracies long before the dispute over slavery in the territory set the stage for the Missouri Compromise.  The French Revolution and Napoleon’s empire-building rocked the Atlantic community, Spain’s New World Empire grew increasingly vulnerable to American and European rivals.  Jefferson hoped to take Spain’s territories “piece by piece” while Napoleon schemed to reestablish a French colonial empire in the Caribbean and North America.  Price:  $20

 

CRAZY CRATE  JP24 BOOK 11: Finding Answers in U. S. Census Records.  By Loretto Dennis Szucs and Matthew Wright.  Orem, UT:  Ancestry.  2001.  165 pages.  Softcover. Article 1, Section 2 of the U. S. Constitution instructed the Federal Government to conduct a decennial census in an effort to fairly apportion the number of federal representatives from each state as well as to decide on the amount of direct taxes to be levied.  The information derived from this census has become one of the greatest sources of genealogical information available in the United States.  This book is a comprehensive guide to help researchers effectively locate and use the abundant and valuable U. S. Census records, whether it is the population schedules state and local census schedules, or special census schedules.  The extraordinary developments in technology and vastly increased accessibility to census records in the past several years have made this book necessary.    Price:  $17

 

CRAZY CRATE JP26:  CRAZY CRATE JP26 BOOK 1:   Around Chillicothe, Illinois.  By Chillicothe Historical Society.  Chicago:  Arcadia Publishing.  2000.  128 pages.  Softcover.  (Part of the Images of America series.)  Underneath the brick and gravel of Second Street and beneath the soil of the surrounding farmland lies over a century and a half of Chillicothe, Hallock, and Medina township history.  The story of these three townships is not just a tale of one community, but is rather a chapter in the larger chronicle of 19th century Midwestern settlement.  Price:  $19.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP26 BOOK 2: Camp Grant [ILLINOIS].  By  Gregory S. Jacobs. Charleston, S. C.:  Arcadia Publishing.  2003.  128 pages.  Softcover.  (part of the Images of America series)  "Good old Camp Grant, right close to home." Those words, true at the time they were written during World War II, applied to Camp Grant from the beginning. Tracks were laid in what was a farm field in northwest Illinois, and within the span of 90 days a small city was built.  During its use as a post, thousands of soldiers were trained at what became Camp Grant.  Local businesses showed loyal support for the troops and those working at the station hospital did their best for the returning wounded. The story of Camp Grant cannot be told simply through the forming of the camp, the training that took place, or the camp's eventual demise. Each part is a story unto itself, retold through the memories and photographs from the World War I troops, Illinois National Guardsmen, World War II draftees, medical personnel, and German POWs that passed through. Those photographs are gathered together here, narrating and preserving the story of Camp Grant.   Price:  $19.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP26 BOOK 3: Chicago’s Italians:    Immigrants, Ethnics, Americans.  By Dominic Candeloro Charleston, SC:  Arcadia Publishing.  2003. 160 pages.  Softcover.  (part of the “Making of America” Series)  Since 1850, Chicago has felt the benefits of a vital Italian presence.  These immigrants formed much of the unskilled workforce employed to build up this and many other major U. S. cities.  From often meager and humble beginnings, Italians built and congregated in neighborhoods that came to define the Chicago landscape.  Post-World War II development threatened this communal lifestyle, and subsequent generations of Italian Americans have been forced to face new challenges to retain their ethnic heritage and identity in a changing world.  With the city’s support, they are succeeding.  The two-page index covers nearly 80 entries.  Fifty photographs enhance the text.  Price:  $24.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP26 BOOK 4: Douglas/Grand Boulevard.  A Chicago Neighborhood.  By Olivia Mahoney.  For the Chicago Historical Society.  Chicago:  Arcadia Publishing.  2001. 128 pages. Softcover. (Part of the Images of America series.)  The history of Chicago can be told through its neighborhoods, and perhaps none is more telling than Douglas/Grand Boulevard on the city's south side.  In the early 1850's Stephen A. Douglas purchase land to develop a residential subdivision for the wealthy.  Originally a white neighborhood, the area became an African American community during the Great Migration when thousands of southern blacks moved north seeking better economic opportunities.   Price:  $19.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP26 BOOK 5: german chicago revisited By Raymond Lohne.  Chicago:  Arcadia Publishing Co.  2001.  128 pages.  Softcover.  (Part of the Images of America series.)  Over 200 contemporary photographs give the reader a glimpse into the life of the second half of the twentieth century’s close-knit and highly active community, revealing groups like the Kernier Pleasure Club, the American Aid Society, and the Society of the Danube Swabians.  The German musical life of the city is featured, as is the Karneval season and other year-round festivities and celebrations of the Deutsch-Americans of Chicago and its suburbs.  Price:  $19.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP26 BOOK 6: Irish Chicago.  By John Gerard  McLaughlin.  Charleston, SC:  Arcadia Publishing Co. 2003. 128 pages.  Softcover.  (Part of the Images of America series)    The history of the Irish in Chicago goes back to the days when the city was little more than an outpost on the prairie shores of Lake Michigan.  Drawn by opportunities in the growing frontier town, Irish men and women who were fleeing economic hardship and famine in Ireland were quick to make their mark on Chicago’s political, religious, and economic life.  The unique position of the Irish among immigrant groups – English speaking and more culturally attuned to Anglo-American institutions, yet Catholic – allowed them to flourish in occupations and social positions for which they have become known.  Most notably, The Irish in Chicago have produced eight mayors and many bishops.  But this book is also the story of those who built and cultivated the city - the policemen, firemen, priests, nuns and brothers, tavern owners, educators, transit workers, musicians, and ward politicians made good, and the north, south, and west-side neighborhoods and parishes they inhabited.  Nearly 200 photographs capture the vitality of this highly visible community.  Price:  $19.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP26 BOOK 7: Italians in Chicago.  By Dominic Candeloro.  Chicago:  Arcadia Publishing Co.  2001.  128 pages.  Softcover.  (Part of the Voices of America series.)  Over 200 images provide an exciting view of Italian life in Chicago.  This intriguing narrative record shows the rich and diverse Italian communities, beginning with the earliest communities in Chicago going back to the 1850s.  The city's Italian immigration peaked in 1914, and many of these new residents settled in neighborhoods on the north, west, and south sides of the Loop and in the industrial suburbs of Chicago.  This book explores the lives of ten significant members of the Italian-American community, including Father Armando Pierini, Anthony Scariano, Joe Bruno, the Aragona Club and the Maria Santissima Laurentana Society.   Price:  $19.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP26 BOOK 8: Japanese Americans in Chicago.  By Alice Murata.  Chicago:  Arcadia Publishing.  2002.  128 pages.  Softcover.  (Part of the Images of America series.)  The first Japanese arrived in Chicago to prepare for the 1893 Columbian Exposition and the building of the Ho-o-den Pavilion.  Prior to World War II, only a few hundred Japanese-Americans lived in Chicago;  however, during the War many were brought from concentration camps to help with the war effort.  The number of Japanese-American residents peaked at more than 20,000 by 1945, with half of them returning to their west coast homes when permitted to do so.  For those who remained, the acceptance and employment opportunities found in Chicago offered a chance to begin a new life in a more ethnically diverse city. More than 200 vintage images provide an exciting glimpse into Japanese-American life   Price:  $19.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP26 BOOK 9: Jewish Chicago.  A Pictorial History.  By Irving Cutler.  Chicago:  Arcadia Publishing.  2000.  128 pages.  Softcover.  (Part of the Images of America series)  For many years Chicago had the third largest Jewish population of any city in the world.  Through the medium of historic photographs, this book captures the remarkable evolution of the Jewish people of Chicago, from their immigrant beginnings in the 1640s to their present-day communities.  It is a story of the culture, religious, economic and everyday life of Chicago's Jews.  These pages bring to life the people, events, neighborhoods, and institutions that helped shape and transform today’s Jewish community.  The photos and maps, culled from the author’s and other collections, paint a vivid and informative picture of Chicago Jewry.  In addition to recalling the early immigrant German and later Eastern European Jews, this book delves into Jewish neighborhoods including the West side, South Side, North Side, sub urban communities and Maxwell Street, a neighborhood which produced such prominent Jews as musician Benny Goodman, U. S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, Admiral Hyman Richover, a community organizer Saul Alinsky, and CBS founder William Paley.  The images show Jews as peddlers and sweatshop workers as well as successful business entrepreneurs and professionals.   Price:  $19.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP26 BOOK 11: Matteson.  By Paul W. Jaenicke.  Charleston, S. C.:  Arcadia Publishing.  2006.  128 pages.  Softcover.  (Part of the Images of America series.)  The village of Matteson was founded in 1855 and named after the tenth governor of Illinois, Joel Matteson. German immigrants were the area's first settlers, seeking agriculture and business opportunities. The Illinois Central and Michigan Central Railroads provided the stimulus for the growth of one of the first communities to the south of Chicago. The area became popular in the 1890s, when Chicago residents rode special trains to visit the amusement park run by Moses and Freeman Elliott. By the mid-20th century, the town had established itself as a growing bedroom community due to the electrification of the Illinois Central suburban service in 1926 and an increase in residential housing designed for American GIs returning home after World War II. Transportation has always played a key role in the development of the village, which sits at the crossroads of America's first land grant railroad, the Illinois Central, and the country's first transcontinental road, the Lincoln Highway. Since the 1970s, Matteson has grown into a vibrant retail and commercial area for Chicago's south suburbs.  Price:   $19.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP26 BOOK 13: A View from Chicago's City Hall.  Mid-Century to Millennium.  By Melvin G. Holli and Paul M. Green.  Charleston, SC:  Arcadia Publishing.  1999.  128 pages.  Softcover.  (Part of the Images of America series.)  A richly detailed visual road of Chicago as viewed from the Mayor's office in City Hall.  Witness the excitement as politicians roll out the red carpet for kings, queens, presidents, and entertainers.  With over 200 photographs,  accompanied by informative captions, this volume high-lights a variety  of Chicago's ethnic festivals, parades, and political campaigns, skillfully bringing each scene to life.  Price:  $19.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP27:  CRAZY CRATE JP27 BOOK 1:  FINDING INDIANA ANCESTORS.  A GUIDE TO HISTORICAL RESEARCH.  Edited by M. Teresa Baer and Geneil Breeze.  Indianapolis:  Indiana Historical Society Press.  2007.  289 pages. Softcover.  This book is the latest resource guide for researching Indiana history and genealogy.  Although it concentrates on Indiana sources, much of the basic research techniques are applicable to every state and situation. It is a powerful tool, providing an overview of historical research while focusing on Indiana-specific sources.  Each of the 53 chapters is written by an authority on Indiana genealogy, archives, and history, including Betty L. Warren, Amy Johnson Crow, Barbara Truesdell, William DuBois, Jr., Curt B. Witcher, Linda Herrick Swisher, Judith Q. McMullen, Leigh Darbee, and many others.  The 53 chapters are divided into six separate parts: Getting Started, Identifying Resources, Researching Records, Researching with Maps, Researching Ethnic Groups, and Providing Context and Accuracy.  The articles include dating photographs using women’s clothing styles and preserving photographs; information on 11 major Indiana research libraries and societies; how to research 11 types of civil, court, and military records; 14 articles on various kinds of maps; articles on researching German, African and Native American heritage; and 6 articles on using resources to provide accuracy in verifying your research.

Unlike previous guides, this book does not concentrate on providing long listings of addresses of institutions or research facilities, but concentrates on how to use those facilities and the internet.   Research techniques at county court houses, archives and national repositories are provided.  Over one hundred illustrations and historic photographs enhance this book.   Multiple copies (4) are available.  PRICE:  $29.95

 

CRAZY CRATE JP27 BOOK 5: EVANSVILLE [INDIANA]: THE WORLD WAR II YEARS.  By Darrel E. Bigham.  Charleston, S. C.:  Arcadia Publishing.  2005.  128 pages.  Softcover.  (Part of the Images of America Series.)  World War II changed the face of Evansville, Indiana. In December 1941, the city was still recovering from the Great Depression, yet within three months, a series of blockbuster announcements transformed the region. Several corporations received major defense contracts to manufacture parts and ammunitions, while two new installations were launched: a shipyard to construct Landing Ship Tanks and a factory to manufacture P-47 airplanes. Industrial employment rose dramatically, producing social, economic, and racial tensions as thousands of newcomers poured into a city that lacked adequate housing and public facilities. The citizens of Evansville persevered, and most workers stayed following the end of the war. One federal official commented that the city-not just its many defense plants-deserved the coveted Army-Navy "E" (for excellence) award. PRICE: $19.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP27 BOOK 6:  HANCOCK COUNTY, INDIANA.  by Joseph L. Skvarenina.  Charleston, SC:  Arcadia Publishing.  1998.  127 pages.  Softcover.  (Part of the Images of America Series.)   Over the past 100 years, Hancock County, Indiana has experienced much growth and change.  This extensive photographic essay compiled by Joseph L. Skvarenina chronicles the years from 1880 to the present, providing the reader with a visual viewpoint of local heritage, culture, and institutions.  Using over 200 photographs from both private and public archives, this book offers the reader an opportunity to journey down the dusty road of the past, revisiting the rich traditions of the community that have made it unique in the annals of Indiana history.    Many of these images, which have never been published before, illustrate significant moments from the county's history, including scenes of schools, churches, natural and manmade disasters, small towns and armed conflict.  Enhanced by informative text, the images included in this book truly capture the spirit of the people of this Hoosier County. PRICE: $19.99  

 

CRAZY CRATE JP27 BOOK 7: HANCOCK COUNTY, [INDIANA] THEN AND NOW.  By Joseph L. Skvarenina and Larry L. Fox.  Chicago:  Arcadia Publishing Co.  2001.  96 pages.  Softcover.  This book captures the evolution of Hancock County from the opening of the National Road to its industrial boom in 1887, with the discovery of natural gas in the area, and into more modern times. The changing face of Hancock County is captured here with a fascinating collection of over 90 vintage images, each paired with their modern equivalent.  This display allows us a glimpse into the past and an opportunity to recognize the often radical changes that have occurred.  PRICE: $19.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP27 BOOK 8: INDIANAPOLIS: A CITY CIRCLE HISTORY.  By Jeffrey Tenuth.  Arcadia Publishing.  2004.  160 pages.  Softcover.  With its selection as Indiana's capital in 1821, Indianapolis was destined to become a major Midwestern hub. Through the decades that followed, the Circle City led Indiana into its golden age, when the state was one of the largest industrial and agricultural producers in the nation. Forced to reinvent itself after the decline of heavy industry, Indianapolis now supports a diverse technology and service-based economy and proudly proclaims itself the amateur sports capital of the world. PRICE: $24.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP27 BOOK 9: INDIANAPOLIS ITALIANS.  By James J. Divita.  Charleston, S. C.:  Arcadia Publishing.  2006.  128 pages.  Softcover.  (Part of the Images of America Series).  In 1910, Indianapolis had the smallest foreign stock population of any city north of the Ohio River, and city historians merely ignored the presence of the ethnic communities. In the 1920s, the Hoosier capital supposedly lacked a cosmopolitan character, and the Ku Klux Klan gloried in the slogan "100% American." However, the size of a community does not indicate its significance in municipal life. Rather, immigrants and their descendants make a difference because of their talents and available local opportunities. Residents of Italian origin have contributed mightily to Indianapolis's economy, culture, and professional and religious life. The first to arrive were the Sicilians who developed the city's fruit and vegetable trade and the Friulani who engaged in terrazzo-mosaic tile work. Early immigrants became grocers, shoemakers, tailors, and barbers. Later, primarily after World War II, many Americans, born of Italian descent, moved into Indianapolis, excelling in business and professional fields, including law, medicine, and education. The community has continued to grow, adding to its numbers the Italian-born, and now married to American military; or those engaged in skilled labor in carpentry, tailoring, salesmanship, and food preparation. PRICE: $19.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP27 BOOK 10: KENDALLVILLE AND NOBLE COUNTY IN VINTAGE POSTCARDS.  By John Martin Smith. Charleston. S. C. :  Arcadia Publishing.  2001.  128 pages.  Softcover.   The fleeting scenes of Sylvan Lake and Kneipp Sanitarium have often been captured in postcards sent or collected by Noble County's residents and visitors. Captured here in over 200 vintage postcards is the history of Noble County, chosen by local merchants, depicting the thriving downtown areas, booming industries, and quiet, pleasant residential sections.  Kendallville and Noble County provides a visual history of Noble County. This vast collection provides a wide range of fascinating images and poignant messages preserved on 1¢ postcards, including the socials, events, buildings, homes, and residents of the past from the towns of Noble County, including Albion, Ligonier, Wolf Lakes, and Wolcottville. PRICE: $19.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP27 BOOK 14: VALPARAISO: LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD.  By Lanette Mullins.  Charleston, S. C.  Arcadia Publishing.  2002.  128 pages.  Softcover.  (Part of the Images of America series.)  The rich history of Valparaiso spans centuries. Originally home to the Potawatomi Indians, the area was a centralized meeting place for many Native American tribes. The land was sold to the U.S. in 1832, and in 1836, Porter County was formed when the area was separated from La Porte County. The new county was named in honor of Comdr. David Porter, who played a significant role in the War of 1812 at the Battle of Valparaiso, Chile. The county seat was named Portersville. In 1837, Portersville was proudly renamed Valparaiso, which literally means "vale of paradise," to further honor Commodore Porter. In Valparaiso, Indiana: Looking Back, Moving Forward author Lanette Mullins chronicles the history and development of the city, with its small-town charm, in over 200 vintage images. The book features photographs of the historic homes that grace the city streets, the famous individuals who walked them, the influential history of Valparaiso University, and the cultural institutions throughout the city. PRICE: $19.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP27 BOOK 15: VINCENNES, [INDIANA]: 1930-1960.  By Richard Day, Garry Hall and William Hopper.   Charleston, S. C.:  Arcadia Publishing.  2006.  128 pages.  Softcover.  (Part of the Images of America series).   As the first and oldest town in Indiana, Vincennes is rich in history. It had an important role in the American Revolution and later was the capital of the Indiana Territory. This book focuses on a more recent time, the years between 1930 and 1960-the period of the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, and the post-war years. Fascinating views of stores, clubs, theaters, churches, factories, groceries, and gas stations, many of which are gone or greatly changed, are captured in Vincennes: 1930-1960. Some events in Vincennes remain the same, such as the Fourth of July fireworks display at the Clark Memorial and the high-school homecoming parade, and these images are displayed within these pages as well. PRICE: $19.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP28:  CRAZY CRATE JP28 BOOK 2: James Dean:  Rebel with a Cause.  By Wes D. Gehring.  Indianapolis:  Indiana Historical Society Press.  2005.  303 pages.  Hardcover.   On September 30, 1955, a budding movie star who had just completed a rigorous schedule that included three films, set out on a trip to participate in a sports-car race in Salinas, California.  James Dean never made it to his destination.  Instead, Dean's silver Porsche 550 Spyder was hit head-on by another motorist.  Dean, the actor from Fairmount, Indiana, had died.  Dean, the legend, was born.  Even today, fans of the actor make annual pilgrimages to Dean's Indiana grave site.  This book takes a fresh look at Dean's life, exploring the actor's early days growing up on his beloved aunt and uncle's farm in Fairmount to his struggle for success as an actor in television and on  Broadway to his meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood.  The real life of Dean has often been confused with the confused and trouble teenage character which he portrayed in his hit, Rebel Without a Cause.  Those who knew him, his friends, family and teachers, knew him for the talented actor that he really was and as the fun loving young man who could easily imitate Charlie Chaplin and Marlon Brando.  Price:  $19.95

 

CRAZY CRATE JP28 BOOK 3: Carole Lombard, the Hoosier Tornado.   By Wes D. Gehring.  Indianapolis:  Indiana Historical Society Press.  2003.  264 pages.  Hardcover.  For millions of movie fans during the 1930s, an actress from Fort Wayne, Indiana personified the madcap adventures of their favorite form of screen comedy - the screwball comedy.  Nicknamed the "The Hoosier Tornado" for her energetic personality, Carole Lombard did as much as anyone to define the genre, delighting audiences with her zany antics in such films as Twentieth Century, My Man Godfrey, Nothing Sacred, and To Be or Not to Be.  She also captured America's attention through her romance with screen idol Clark Gable, whom she later married.  The author focuses on both Lombard's legacy as a film actress as well as her private life to her tragic death in a January 1942 plane crash, following a successful war-bond rally in Indianapolis.  Price:  $19.95

 

CRAZY CRATE JP28 BOOK 4: On the Banks of the Wabash.  The Life and Music of Paul Dresser.  By Clayton W. Henderson.  Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press.  2003.  481 pages.  Hardcover.  During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Americans felt overwhelmed with the rush of changing times, especially increasing industrialization and the abandonment of small towns for life in the big cities.  For comfort, people turned to popular songs that glorified small town values of home.  Perhaps no songwriter of the time reached more people through his music than did Paul Dresser of Terre Haute, Indiana, who produced such sentimental hits as "My Gal Sal,", "Just Tell Them that You Saw Me," and "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away."  This full-length biography shows the rags-to-riches-to-rags story of the songwriter's life as the oldest of ten children of a German immigrant family to his life as a medicine-wagon showman, minstrel, comic actor and singer, composer and playwright.  It also discusses his relationship with his brother, the famed novelist Theodore Dreiser, whom the songwriter aided financially and spiritually, and Dresser's eventual fall into poverty and obscurity.   Price:  $29.95

 

CRAZY CRATE JP28 BOOK 5: Genealogy is More Than Charts.  By Lorna Duane Smith.  Ellicott City, Maryland.  Lifetimes.  1991.  Third printing 1993.  329 pages.  Softcover.  An excellent source for presenting hundreds of ideas on how to enhance your genealogical research and make family history more meaningful.  Discusses oral histories and family reunions; archival protection for your photographs and other important documents; how to use craft skills to  make samplers, blankets, etc.; learning  crafts of your ethnic background;  do's and don'ts for researching in libraries and interacting with librarians; researching cemeteries, and much more.   Multiple copies (10                                    ) of this book are available.  Price:  $14.95

 

CRAZY CRATE JP28 BOOK 9: Old Indianapolis. A  Postcard Book.  Indianapolis:  Indiana Historical Society Press.  2006.  31 pages.  Softcover.,  Drawn from the Indiana Historical Society’s extensive postcard and photograph collection these 30 black and white postcards provide a journey through Indianapolis’s past and document how the city has grown.  Postcards  include aerial views of the city; individual buildings including the Athaenum,  Indiana Trust  Building; Broad Ripple; the Lincoln Hotel, Indianapolis Motor Speedway; Union Station; the Wholesale District, the corner of Illinois  and Washington Streets; various churches and various hotels.  None of the scenes are repeated.  Each scene is shown only once in the book.   The postcards are printed on heavy card stock and are perforated on the binding edge so that they can be removed from the collection and sent as regular postcards.  Multiple copies (2) are available.  Price:  $9.95 

 

CRAZY CRATE JP28 BOOK 10: Retro Indiana. A Postcard Book from the Indiana Historical Society.  Indianapolis:  2006.  Indiana Historical Society.  2006.   31 pages.  Softcover.    Testifying in a libel case in 1919, industrialist Henry Ford proudly proclaimed he did not know much about history calling it “more or less bunk.”  People, Ford said, preferred to live in the present.  What Ford neglected to realize was the passion people hold for those places in their youth that represent fond memories.  The retro postcards in this book are drawn from the collection of the Indiana Historical Society and repositories from around the state and offer a window into the pursuits of Hoosiers from years gone by – marveling at the four-ton Santa Claus made out of Styrofoam, stepping inside the giant Coffee Pot restaurant to enjoy a steaming cup of java, or pulling into Perle Wolfe’s Sinclair Service Station to have the tank filled, windshield cleaned, and oil checked by smiling uniformed attendants.  The scenes include Boxman’s Restaurant (Bloomington);  Circle Theater (Indianapolis); the A and W Root Beer Stand ( South Bend); Hill’s Snappy Service (Terre Haute); Tee Pee Restaurant (Indianapolis); and more.  Nearly half of the postcards represent scenes and buildings in Indianapolis.  None of the scenes are repeated.  Each scene is shown only once in the book.  The postcards are printed on heavy cardstock  paper and are perforated on the binding edge so that they can be removed from the collection and sent as regular postcards.  Multiple copies (2) are available.  Price:  $9.95 

 

CRAZY CRATE JP28 BOOK 11: Occasionally Yours.  A Book of Postcards from the Collection of the IndianA Historical Society.  Indianapolis:  Indiana Historical Society Press.  2006.  31 pages.  Softcover.  This book of postcards from the Indiana Historical Society postcard collection honors special occasions of all kinds.  Each postcard is a snapshot of how special events such as birthdays, holidays, births, and other occasion were marked in the days before the advent of instant communication.  In every season, those who mailed these simple cards used them to express their joys and sorrows, always seeking to keep friends and family informed about their lives.  The cards include sympathy cards,  Christmas cards, St. Patrick’s Day card, birthday card, Easter cards, Thanksgiving card,  New Year’s cards;  a patriotic card, and more.   Multiple copies (3) are available.  Price:  $9.95

 

CRAZY CRATE JP28 ITEM 12: CLIPBOARD: Just right for taking notes: We’ve come across a great clipboard, designed with the genealogist in mind.  The clipboard is made of heavy plastic, white with dark green lettering.  Wording on the clip reads "So many ancestors, so little time". Text on the board gives detail showing Roman Numerals, Miracode system, Citizenship status, state abbreviations and statehood date, Congressional Township numbering system, the Soundex system coding and more. The clipboard is legal size and measures 9" x 16". What a great thing to have at the library!  Order as many as you want!  We know where to get more!  Price:  $16

 

CRAZY CRATE JP28 ITEM 13: MOUSE PAD 1: A mouse pad just for genealogists: This full-color mouse pad features a wonderful collection of photos and memorabilia to brighten your desk and comes with the slogan. "Genealogy, So many ancestors, So little time!" The mouse pad is 9 ¼" wide x 7 ¾" high, 1/4" thick, and is rubber backed, with a fabric surface.  They make great thank-you gifts.  We have a nice supply of these, so order as many as you want! PRICE $9

 

CRAZY CRATE JP28 ITEM 14: MOUSE PAD 2:A great mouse pad for Ford car lovers of all ages.  This full color mouse pad features  keys, old Ford papers and stationery, photographs, a River Rouge plant badge and the cover sheet for the lyrics  "Henry's Made a Lady Out of Lizzie". The pad is 9 1/4" wide x 7 3/4”  high, 1/4" thick, and is  rubber backed, with a  fabric surface.  We have lots of these, so order as many as you want!  Price:  $9 

 

CRAZY CRATE JP28 ITEM 15: "Cite your Sources!" Sticky-notes.  "Cite your Sources" sticky notes are designed for you to take along to the library, use at home or even in the library or court house! Here is what you do with them. After making or receiving a photocopy of a book, photograph, a web site, e-mail, court house record or anything else you might find, simply fill out this tag and then stick it to your copy. This tag is like a sticky-note, and can be removed. You have no excuse now not to "cite your sources"! Spaces headings include: Title/Name, Author, Publisher/address, Date, Repository, Call #, Page etc., ISBN#, Web/E-mail address and a large space for "Misc. info." Printed on yellow paper so it jumps out at you and does not blend in with the white copies you just made. Size: 3" tall x 4" wide.  This special offer contains 3 full packs of pads. Each pack contains 3 pads of 150 sheets each, for a grand total of 1,350  sheets.  Use all of the pads yourself or use them as ”stocking stuffers”  or party gifts for your genealogy friends.  We have lots of these, so order as many as you want. When you run out, and you will, you can order from us again!   Price:  $15.00 for the whole thing. 

 

CRAZY CRATE JP29: CRAZY CRATE 29 BOOK 1: Poor Cousins.  By Ande Manners.  Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, Inc.  New York.  1972.  318 pages.  Hardcover.  German Jews who had arrived in America in the early nineteenth century   had become almost wholly Americanized in customs and language by the end of the century, and had economic and political influence.   But the last half of the century saw another large influx of Jews both from Germany and from countries east of Germany.  The Americanized Jews saw these new arrivals as "poor cousins" and set about to Americanize them.  At the same time, the newly arriving Jews tried to retain the customs of their old countries and fought vigorously against their Americanization.  Price:  $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP29 BOOK 3: The Life of Billy Yank, the Common Soldier of the Union. By Bell Irvin Wiley.  Indianapolis:  Bobbs-Merrill Company  1952.  454 pages.  This book was written as a companion volume to the author’s award-winning The Life of Johnny Reb.   It attempts to provide a social history of the war rather than a military history.  Many types of material have been used to create this volume, but the basic source has been the undoctored writings of the soldiers themselves, especially the manuscripts and letters. The experience of looking at “the war” from the Northern point of view and through the eyes of the men who wore the blue has been enormously interesting and stimulating to one who was nurtured in Confederate tradition and whose focus had been on the Southern side.   As I came to know the Northern soldier through his diaries and letters, I came to respect him,  and as the acquaintance ripened, I developed a genuine affection for him.  I mean to pay him a high compliment when I state that he was no less admirable than the man he fought.    Thirteen chapters cover the Union soldier’s life, including Reveille to Taps, the Supreme Test, in Dixie Land, The Depths of Suffering, Toeing the Mark, Hardtack, Evil and Goodness, the Men who wore the Blue, and more.  The seven-page index covers over 400 entries.  Price:  $12.59

 

CRAZY CRATE JP29 BOOK 4: The Franco-Prussian War.  The German Invasion of France, 1870 - 1871.  By Michael Howard.  MacMillan Company.  1961. Second impression 1962.  512 pages.  Hardcover.  [Note: The dust jacket shows a little wear, and there are small sections of it missing at the bottom, near the spine.  Pages 326-344 are slightly curled at the top.] This is the first complete study of the war by a British historian.  The author describes the military organization and armament of the belligerents, the battles of the first seven weeks which culminated in the French surrender at Sedan, and the subsequent siege of Paris.  The problems of organization, of civil-military relations and of international law which this raised for both sides foreshadowed with great precision those which were later to be encountered in two world wars.  Twelve photographs and illustrations enhance the book.  The 34-page index covers nearly 600 detailed subjects.  Price:  $20

 

CRAZY CRATE JP29 BOOK 6: Honoring Our Ancestors.  Inspiring Stories of the Quest for Our Roots.  By Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak.  Orem, UT:  Ancestry.  2002.  First printing.  218 pages.  Softcover.  This book provides fifty stories that hold one common thread - the seemingly endless ways to creatively pay tribute to those who came before us.  One man built a Viking ship and sailed across the Atlantic; another devoted decades to collecting slavery memorabilia.  One family passed a diaper down through four generations, while another staged a scavenger hunt that helped family members get to know their ancestral hometown.  The heartwarming stories are just what the family historian has always needed.   And it just may be the spark that inspires you in your own quest if you have yet to join the more than forty million American heritage-hunters seeking their roots.    Price:  $12.95

 

CRAZY CRATE JP29 BOOK 7: Our Family, Our Town.  Essays on Family and Local History Sources in the National Archives.  Compiled by Timothy Walch.  Washington, D. C.:  National Archives and Records Administration.  1987.  223 pages.  Hardcover.  This book is a collaborative effort by many archivists and researchers at the National Archives and presents a series of  essays divided into seven sections.  The sections are:

1) Family and Local History at the National Archives (including state and local history sources in the Civil Archives and the Military Archives Divisions); 

2) the Citizen Soldier and His Family (including Revolutionary War Pension Applications and Pension Records and Local History); 

3)  Citizenship in the Early American Republic (including Philadelphia Seamen's Protection Certificate Applications and the War of 1812 papers of the State Department); 

4)  Families and Communities on the American Frontier (including Federal Records of the American Frontier and Military Bounty-Land Warrants);  

5)  Counting American Families and communities (including the Census and Community History, Urban Finding Aids for the Federal Census  and Income Tax Records of the Civil War Years); 

6)  Discovering American minorities (including Ship Passenger Lists, Perspective from the Texas Freedmen's Bureau Records and Selected Sources on the Eastern Cherokee);  and ]

7)  Redressing Grievances (including the Records of the Southern Claims Commission, Court Records, and Interstate Commerce Commission Case files).   The 11 pages of the index covers over 1,000 entries.  Price:  $10

 

And here’s a few non book items: If you’re loaded up on a full meal or just munching on leftovers, you might not want to pick up a book or newspaper.  So we’ve added a few non-book items.  These are a great alternative to sitting around watching your favorite football team losing yet more games this season.

 

CRAZY CRATE JP29 VIDEO 1: The War of 1812.   By George Schweitzer.  Video.  Genealogical Sources.  2001.  62 minutes.  Often overlooked in its importance, the War of 1812 was the war that allowed the future expansion westward of American settlers.  Until this time, migration had been along a narrow corridor that included Tennessee, Kentucky, lower Indiana and lower Ohio.  The successful Battle of the Thames (in Canada) and the Battle of the Horseshoe (in Arkansas) defeated the British and their Indian allies, opening up two thirds of the United States east of the Mississippi River.  Dressed in the guise of a War of 1812 soldier, Dr. Schweitzer explains the war, its importance to us, and where to find state, national, Canadian and English records.  He discusses militia records, bounty lands, the importance of searching the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections [the famed NUCMUC] and ends with a powerful statement concerning war and peace.  Price:  $25

 

CRAZY CRATE JP29 VIDEO 2: Migration Routes and Settlement Patterns, 1607 - 1890.  Presented by Dr. George K. Schweitzer.  Video.  Knoxville, TN:  Genealogical Sources.  2000.  61 minutes.  Donning the guise of a French settler, Dr. Schweitzer presents an entertaining overview of the settlement of the United States, east of the Mississippi River.  Beginning with the French establishment of settlements in Canada, then down along the Mississippi River to New Orleans, the French controlled the land west of the big mountains in the eastern section of this country.  Then English settlements beginning at Jamestown, Virginia and Plymouth, Massachusetts began to expand north and south and then west to those same mountains.  He provides details concerning religious reasons for migration to the colonies, settlement patterns based upon religious denominations, the pushing of the frontier into Indian and French territories, and the colonial wars with Indians which eventually led to the French and Indian War.  Scotch-Irish migration is touched upon, as well as German migration, both moving westward into western Virginia and western Pennsylvania, then into Kentucky and Tennessee, the reasons for the War of 1812, the opening of northern and southern migration routes after the War of 1812, all eventually converging in Missouri and Iowa, which advanced westward as the Oregon and California trails.  No details are given on trails west of the Mississippi.  This lecture was given in front of a live audience, who learned much and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.  Price:  $25

 

CRAZY CRATE JP29 VIDEO 3: From Rivers to Trails to Roads to Canals to Trains.  How Transportation Set Genealogical Patterns.  Presented by Dr. George K. Schweitzer.  Video.  Knoxville, TN:  Genealogical Sources.  2000.  61 minutes.  Donning the guise of a railroad engineer, Dr. Schweitzer discusses the importance of railroad and other forms of transportation, not as they aided in westward migration but, rather how they enabled western pioneers to send their crops and products eastward and use the proceeds to buy more property located to the west.  [Note from Pat:  My father, a very smart man, once said to me, “Anytime you can sell what property you have and buy twice as much property elsewhere, do it.  They aren’t making any more of it!”  He discusses the problems encountered by various forms of transportation and how each one of them determined where pioneers were able to settle.  This program was taped before a live audience who, judging by their reactions, saw their own world through new and different eyes that day.   Price:  $25

 

CRAZY CRATE JP29 VIDEO 5: The Franco Prussian War, 1870 – 1871.  Video. Note: ex library copy.  This fifty minute video covers the epic struggle between France and Prussia, the fall of Paris, the political division of France, the fall of the Second French Empire, the establishment of the German Empire, and the deadly riots in Paris.  Using contemporary illustrations and paintings, historical re-enactors, and interviews with knowledgeable, historians, this video discusses the principal adversaries use of railroads, the electric telegraph, modern rifles, breech-loading artillery, technical innovations, and the lessons learned or not learned from this war, which would prove so deadly forty years later in World War I.   Price:  $5

 

CRAZY CRATE JP29 ITEM 1: PROJECT FOLDERS:  Cardstock Project Folders.    These tan folders are great for holding loose papers.  Enclosed on all four sides by wide, easy-opening flaps, each flap opens completely for a wide flat surface.   When closed, the folders measure   9½ inches wide and 12½ inches tall and ¼ inch thick.  But the flaps have indentations in them for expansion and offer enough expansion to allow for a nearly 1 inch thick folder.  The front 9 x 12 ½ inch flap contains blank lines for a Reference Number, a Project Name, a Project Description and a Target Completion Date.  The inside of the front flap has 24 lines for Action Steps and Follow Up.  The top and bottom flaps are each 3 ½ inches tall x 8 inches wide, with blank space for notes.  The inside back of the folder has 23 lines for notes.  The right hand flap is 3 ½ inches wide  x 12 ½ inches  tall and has eight spaces for Contacts, including Names, Addresses, Emails, Phone and Fax numbers.   The outside back of the folder has 23 lines for additional notes. The folders are made of thick card stock, designed to last, and held together with two elastic bands.  Each package contains five project folders.  Price:  $10  per package.   We only have 11 packages so order them as quickly as possible. 

 

 

Crazy Crate JP30: CRAZY CRATE JP30 BOOK 5: Annals of Evangelical Nonconformity in the County of Essex, From the Time of Wycliffe to the Restoration;  With Memorials of the Essex Ministers Who Were Ejected or Silenced in 1660 - 1662.  And Brief  Notices of the Essex Churches which Organized With their Labours.  By T. W. Davids.  London:  Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.  1863.  641 pages.  Hardcover.  [Note: This is an original edition; not a reprint.    The outside spine is missing, but shows that the binding is splitting in four or five places.   The front cover is missing; the back cover is still present, but detached.  Inscription on inside flyleaf is: “Tabor Finnes”.]    The prominence of Essex in the annals of Evangelical Nonconformity is second to that of no other county in the kingdom.    The book contains two parts.  Part I begins with a review of  persecutions against those who did not agree with the Catholic Church prior to the Reformation or to the Church of England after the Reformation, or Oliver Cromwell’s administration.  Hundreds of names of ministers, dissenters, cities and villages are listed in this section. Part II is a 290 page collection of memorials of Ministers Silenced or Ejected in the County of Essex.   The seven-page index is not comprehensive but does cover over 420 names. Price:  $30

 

CRAZY CRATE JP30 BOOK 6: History of Congregationalism and Memorials of the Churches in Norfolk and Suffolk.  By John Browne, B. A.  London: Jarrold and Sons.  1887.  627 pages.  Hardcover.  [NOTE:  this is an original edition, not a reprint.  Inscription on inside flyleaf:  “ex libris G. Montague Barber, PSA.  1925.” Mailing label on inside of front cover: “Mrs. Emily Swaim”.  The body of the book is still tight, but the original covers are getting loose and the outside spine has been reinforced with scotch tape and book binding tape.  There is sporadic foxing throughout the book.  Some pages have a little foxing, many pages do not.  Pages 1 through 9 have some names underlined.]  Norfolk and Suffolk have long been distinguished by the zeal for Protestantism cherished and manifested in their towns and villages.  This book is arranged in two parts.  Part I discusses the historic background of Puritanism, Congregationalism, persecutions by the Church of England, and the evolution of religion through the nineteenth century.  Part II discusses churches formed in the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, with each town and church given individual attention.   There is also a section on Baptist Churches in Norfolk and Suffolk, a listing of Ministers Ejected or Silenced in Norfolk and Suffolk, and several appendices.

The ten-page index is not comprehensive, but contains separate indexes for over 200 Matters, nearly 360 places, nearly 1,000 names, and a listing of over 250 names of Baptist ministers.  Price:  $30

 

CRAZY CRATE JP30 BOOK 9: The Genealogist - New Series Volume IX.  [NOTE: The title page is missing so I cannot provide editor, date of publication or publisher.  288 pages.  Hardcover.  Note: this is an original edition, not a reprint.  ex - library copy, with stamps.  The binding is getting very loose.  Some of the pages are loose. Others are cracking along the inside spine.  The spine and outside edges of the covers have been re-reinforced with bookbinder’s tape.   Like the other volumes, this is a treasure of information for genealogists researching English ancestors.  Among the articles included are the Dormant Barony of Somerville; Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls;   Dugdale’s Visitations of Yorkshire;  Topham’s Index to Chancery Proceedings;  Extracts from the Burial Records of St. James, Bath; The Parish Register of St. Mary Magdelene, Bermondsey, County Surrey and much more. [NOTE: The thirty pages of the  Index of Names and Index of Places are nearly torn from the book.]  The 22 page Index of Names covers over 3,000 names.  The ten-page Index of Places covers nearly 1,500 places.  [Note: Pages 287 and 288 of the Index of Places has been torn from the book and re-set between pages 264 and 265 of the Index of Names.    Price:  $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP30 BOOK 10: The Heraldic Journal:  Recording the Armorial Bearings and Genealogies of American Families.  Volumes III and IV.  Boston:  Wiggin and Lunt, Publishers.  1867 and 1868.   Various paginations. (about  384 pages).  This volume contains all of the loose issues from January 1867 through October 1868.  [Note:  This is an original edition.  Not a reprint.  Ex-library copy.  The binding is tight and the original covers are still attached.  This comes in an archival box.  Contains family genealogies, obituaries, coats of arms, book plates, official seals and wills.  Families include Tylor,  Fiske, Schuyler, Campbell, Winthrop, Penn, Wallace, Fitzpen, Cotton, Worthington, Lawrence, Sheaffer, and many more.  Price:  $45

 

Crazy Crate JP 31: CRAZY CRATE JP31 BOOK 2: Civil War Books.  A Priced Checklist.  Edited by Tom Broadfoot.  Compiled by Ann Sterling and Marianne Pair, General Books and Regiments and Stuart Wright, Confederate Imprints.  Wendell, N. C.  1978.  Avera Press.   503 pages.  Hardback.  Although the prices in the book are outdated, this is a good starting place to see what Civil War books were available in 1978 when this book was published.  It covers new and used books.  General books, regimental histories, and Confederate imprints are all listed.  Regimental history information includes narratives by soldiers, memorials and funeral sermons for soldiers, annual reunions and veterans' reports.  Confederate imprints are materials printed in the Confederate States during the war.   The editor used eleven major book dealers to compile his list.  Price:  $20

 

CRAZY CRATE JP31 BOOK 4: Genealogical Sources.  Reprinted from the Genealogical Section of the Indiana Magazine of History.  Compiled by Dorothy Riker .  Indianapolis:  Indiana Historical Society. 456 pp. 1979. Cloth. Index   Beginning with the September 1936 issue of the Indiana Magazine of History, a new section was added entitled "Indiana Genealogy", first edited by Martha Tucker Morris.  The section continued to appear in the Magazine until 1961 when the Indiana Historical Society  began to issue the Hoosier Genealogist.    Although the content varied from issue to issue, a great deal of valuable genealogical information was published in the Indiana Magazine of History and few items were reprinted in the Hoosier Genealogist.  The greater part of the information has been available only in back issues of the Indiana Magazine of History.  This book compiles many of the articles first found in the Magazine.  They are divided into five categories:   Marriage and Will Records, Church and Cemetery Records, Miscellaneous Records, Bible Records and Family Genealogies.  Information can be found for the following counties: Brown, Clark, Clay, Fayette, Harrison, Hendricks, Henry, Jackson, Jefferson,  Lawrence, Monroe, Orange, Pike, Posey, Sullivan, Switzerland, Tippecanoe, Union, Vigo, Warrick, Washington and Wayne Counties.    There are no records for counties in northern Indiana in this book.   Price:  $35

 

CRAZY CRATE JP31 BOOK 10: The Valley of Democracy.  By Meredith Nicholson.  With Illustrations by Walter Tuttle.  New York:  Charles Scribner’s Sons.  Published September 1918, Reprinted November, December, 1919.  284 pages.  Hardcover.  [NOTE:  This is an original edition, not a reprint.  Ex library copy with labels, check out cards, etc.  The binding is tight and the pages are clean, except where library markings occur.]  Nicholson was an important Indiana writer at the turn of the century and his books were highly popular.  This book is the fourth edition of his down to earth book on the Mid West.  The six chapters cover the Folks and Their Folksiness, Types and Diversions, The Farmer of the Middle West, Chicago, The Middle West in Politics, and the Spirit of the West.  The 16 illustrations include Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Ten Days of New York, Art Exhibits, The Municipal Recreation Pier in Chicago, Types and Diversions, The Perry Monument at Put-in Bay, a Typical Old Homestead of the Middle West, Students of Agriculture in a Pageant, Judging Graded Shorthorn Herds, the Ham Fair in Paris, and more.   Price:  $7.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP32:  CRAZY CRATE JP32 BOOK 1: tWO books by William Lowe Bryan, former president of I. U. 

1) Farewells. By William Lowe Bryan. Indiana University. 1938. 166 pages. Hardcover.  Bryan was professor of philosophy at Indiana University from 1885 to 1902, acted as vice-president 1893 to 1902, and President of Indiana University for thirty five years. This book contains 18 commencement addresses and reprints of 156 newspaper columns.

2) Last Words. By William Lowe Bryan and Charlotte Lowe Bryan. Indiana University Foundation. 1951. 87 pages. Hardcover.  This book contains selected articles from previously published books and several addresses by William and Charlotte Lowe Bryan. Charlotte Lowe married William Bryan in 1889. She was an outstanding graduate of Indiana University, majoring in Greek and Mathematics. She translated several Greek plays and mathematical books into English with critical acclaim.   Price:  $15.00 for the set.

 

CRAZY CRATE JP32 BOOK 2: Indiana University, Midwestern Pioneer.  Volume 1:    The Early Years.  By Thomas D. Clark.. Bloomington:  Indiana University Press.  1970. 371 pages.  Hardcover.  [Note:  Page 244 has some smudge marks.]  When the doors of Indiana Seminary were opened to classes in 1825 the central challenge became at once the broadening of its instructional base in such a way as to shatter the narrow parochialism of the classical academy curriculum which prevailed in America.  There had to be developed a practical educational program and philosophy which unlettered people in the throes of pioneering in virgin country could understand and accept.  The earliest curriculum of Indiana Seminary and University was formulated within the context of two eras of American higher education, 1825 - 1902.  The decades down to 1880 witnessed an eternal struggle to survive, in which little change or innovation could be made.   The post-Civil War era took Indiana University headlong into the vortex of the American intellectual revolution.  In 1883 the University took another philosophical and educational change.  Over thirty photographs enhance the text. Price:  $20

 

CRAZY CRATE JP32 BOOK 3: Indiana University, Midwestern Pioneer.  Vol. 3: Years of Fulfillment.  By Thomas D. Clark Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1977, 678 pages. [Note:  Inscription "Rive Todd, 1977".]  In 1937 an old era ended for Indiana University when a new president,  dynamic Herman B. Wells, came into office.  Determined that Indiana University was not to remain at the foot of the Big Ten ladder, Wells restructured both the faculty and the aims of the University, hiring outstanding research-oriented professors, reorganizing traditional departments, and securing increased appropriations.  New major and graduate courses were developed, and an extensive counseling system was added.  War brought many changes to the campus, and with the influx of veterans at the war's end, the narrow provincialisms of rural Indiana were once and for all destroyed.  The university community experienced more fundamental change in the first postwar years than had occurred in more than a century and a quarter of institutional history.  Thirty-five photographs accompany the text.  Price:  $30

 

CRAZY CRATE JP32 BOOK 4: Rose: The First One Hundred Years. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.  By John L. Bloxsome.  Terre Haute. 1973. 197 pages. Hardcover.  Dust jacket is present but has some wear.  This book is a chronicle of the history of the oldest privately supported engineering college west of the Allegheny Mountains.  One chapter is devoted to each of the ten presidents who have served the college during its one hundred years of service to the nation.   During the approximately first half century of the existence of Rose, 48 years, Rose was located in the city of Terre Haute at the northwest corner of thirteenth and Locust streets.  Five presidents served Rose during this period.  During the second half century, 52 years, the physical plant of Rose has been located on the 123 acre campus, five miles east of downtown Terre Haute.  Also, during the second half century, five presidents have served Rose.    Nearly 170 historic photographs of buildings, faculty and students, enhance the text.   Price: $17.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP32 BOOK 5: A Vine of God's Own Planting".   The Story of Fort Wayne Bible College.  Upon the Commemoration of its 75th Anniversary, 1904 - 1979.   A Venture of Faith in Biblical Higher Education.  By Jared. F. Gerig.  Fort Wayne:  Fort Wayne Bible College.  1980.  232 pages.  Softcover.  Note: Inscription:  Julie Ann Ziegler, 1996".  For 75 years Fort Wayne Bible College has been in the business of helping men and women prepare to impact their world for Jesus Christ.  The education of leaders for the church as it carries out the commission given by our Lord is one of its most important functions.  Originally starting in Bluffton, Ohio, as a small-town bible school, the college was transplanted to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where it took deep root and grew and is now a world leader in Bible college education.  Its influence through the spiritual ministries of its graduates has literally reached the ends of the earth.  The author begins with a review of Bible college education in the 1800s, then the beginnings of Bethany House and its expansion.  Each of the presidents is profiled and information is given on various organizations and departments.  Price: $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP32 BOOK 9: From the Attic to the Military Museums.  How to Honor Your Family By Donating and Preserving Military History.  By Robert Parker Fondes. No place of publication.  1st books.  2001.  119 pages.  Softcover. Written in an informal, personal, and sometimes emotional style, this book details how the author, with no children or other immediate family, donated his family military memorabilia and artifacts from the Revolutionary War era, World War I and World War II to various United States museums.  Over forty photographs and illustrations, and a guide for preserving and donating military history with tax information and museum data are included.  The intent of the book is to challenge readers to realize that they, too, can contribute to military history before items are lost forever.   Price:  $15.

 

CRAZY CRATE JP32 BOOK 12: Art of the Gold Rush.  By Janice T. Driesbach, Harvey L. Jones, and Katherine Church Holland.  Oakland and Sacramento, CA:  Oakland Museum of California, Crocker Art Museum, and University of California Press.  148 pages.  Softcover.  Few events in American history have epitomized the hopeful imaginings of people around the world as did the California Gold Rush of 1849.  Word of the discovery of golden nuggets in January 1848 spread like wildfire and brought an estimated 80,000 people, mostly men, to California in search of fortune.  Among the throngs were artists and writers.  Though there is scant visual record of California before the Gold Rush, the arrival of the “forty-niners” produced an outpouring of drawings, watercolors, and ambitious oil paintings that offer significant insight into Gold rush events and personages.  In this sumptuously illustrated book the authors present the first detailed examination of these works of art, most of which are little known and have never been given serious scholarly attention.  Although only a few views of the Gold Rush were produced by established artists of the day, surviving examples by artists who traveled to California testify that several were skilled, some with the advantage of art school training, others apparently self-taught.  They created engrossing images of the scenery, people, and activity around them.  In images ranging from casually rendered drawings of mining camp scenes to large oil paintings of sweeping mountain vistas, cityscapes, and portraits commissioned by wealthy patrons, artists created a visual narrative of Gold Rush events.  Nearly 90 paintings and illustrations, more than half of them in color, cover the full range of Gold Rush activities.  The seven-page index covers over 500 entries.  Price:  $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP32 BOOK 13: The Year of Liberty.  The Great Irish Rebellion of 1798.  By Thomas Pakenham.  Times Books.  Special Bicentennial  Edition.  1997.  120 pages.  Hardcover.  In May 1798, 100,000 people rose in revolt against the British Government in Ireland.  In that short space of time nearly 30,000 were killed, many of them peasants armed with only pikes and pitchforks, as well as defenseless women and children.  This rebellion was the most violent and tragic event in Irish history between the Jacobite wars and the Great Famine of the 1840s.  Using contemporary accounts and a wide variety of illustrated sources, the author provides a riveting account of the unfolding drama of that fateful year.  He sets the events in the context of war between Britain and France and the wave of revolutions that swept through Europe at that time:  A successful revolution in Ireland, it was thought, and Britain would be the next to go.  The author shows that the rebellion was the result of Pitt’s failure to have ANY policy for Ireland; the misplaced optimism of Wolfe Tone and the ”United Irishmen”, and the tragic illusions of  the Irish peasantry.  The result of the rebellion was no less disastrous:  Britain imposed a Union on terms that proved unacceptable to the majority of the Irish people; and there was a legacy of violence and hatred that has persisted to the present day.  The revolt failed partly because of sectarian civil war.  In the North, the rebels were mainly Presbyterian and in the South mainly Catholic.  Most Protestants of the established church stayed loyal to the British Crown.  More than 80 contemporary paintings and illustrations, more than half of them in color, enhance the text.  The two-page index covers more than 250 entries.   Price:  $25

 

CRAZY CRATE JP33: CRAZY CRATE JP33 BOOK 2: The Oregon Trail.  Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life.  By Francis Parkman.  Boston:  Little, Brown and Company.   1872.  Fourth edition.  Reprinted 1890.  381 pages.  Hardcover.  [Note:  ex library copy, with library check out pocket, call numbers, etc.  The original cover shows some wear, but is present and still attached to the book.  The binding is tight and the pages are clean. The name of the previous owner is listed on inside of the front cover.]  This is an original edition, not a reprint.  The following sketches first appeared in 1847.  Fresh out of college, Parkman and a close friend chose to follow the Oregon trail and make a record of their summer adventure.  27 chapters cover their experiences, including Fort Leavenworth, The “Big Blue”, the Platte, the buffalo, scenes at Fort Laramie, scenes at the camp, hunting Indians, the Ogillallah Village, trappers, the Black Hills, the pueblo, Bent’s fort, Indian alarms, and more.  Price:  $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP33 BOOK 6: Cinders and Smoke. A Mile- by-Mile Guide for the Durango to Silverton Narrow Gauge Trip.  By Doris B. Osterwald.  Lakewood, CO.  Western Guideways, Ltd.  First edition, 1965.   17th printing 1984.   141 pages.  Softcover.  [NOTE: on front cover: C A. Lutton, 9/13/84.]   This edition commemorates the 100th anniversary of the railroad’s arrival in Silverton and the first anniversary of the D&SNG R. R.  For those inquisitive people who wonder how and why a railroad was built through this wild country, or wonder why some of the rocks along the Animas River are a bright red color and abruptly disappear, or how in thunder the early settlers ever survived a winter in these mountains - this guidebook is written for you.  It is an attempt to combine the fascinating history of the area with an explanation of the geology and natural beauty visible from the train.  92 black-and-white historic photographs and six hand drawn maps show train engines, train wrecks, passenger cars, passengers, ghost towns and the scenery.  This is a great book for railroad enthusiasts. This train is still a great tourist attraction and I highly recommend that you take a tour on it.  I sure enjoyed my tour.  Price $6

 

CRAZY CRATE JP33 BOOK 7: Finding Your Dutch Ancestors.  By Esther Perry.  Toronto, Canada:  Heritage Productions.  Second edition, March, 2004.  93 pages.  Plastic comb binding.  This book is intended as a beginning step for children and grandchildren of Dutch immigrants who left the Netherlands in the late 1840's to settle in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Many of these immigrants did not pass along their Dutch language or customs to their children and it is difficult for the younger generation to research their Dutch roots without knowing some of the language and customs.  Information includes naming patterns, family personal cards, how to use the LDS Family History Catalog, Dutch municipal boundaries, marriage documents, military records, church records, and a listing of internet links for further research.  Multiple copies (4) are available.  Price $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP33 BOOK 8: Two Books for one Great Price: 1)  FRENCH THROUGH PICTURES.  By I. A. Richards, M. H. Ilsley, and Christine Gibson.  New York:  Pocket Books, 1959.  270 pages.  Softcover.   [Note: The cover shows a little wear, but it still has a long life.  The binding is tight and the pages are clean.   Here is a book for learning French in the quickest and clearest way – through pictures.  The French words in this book are chosen for their wide usefulness and clarity of exposition.  For those with no knowledge of French at all, or for anyone in the early stages of reading, this book makes learning seem more like amusement than hard work.    

 2)  WEBSTER’S FRENCH –ENGLISH, ENGLISH-FRENCH DICTIONARY.  CONCISE EDITION FOR SCHOOL, HOME AND OFFICE.   Toronto, CA:  Strathearn Books, Ltd.  2000.  Canadian Edition. 320 pages.  A new, concise French-English dictionary, particularly useful for students of language and for business purposes.  With clear, comprehensive content – lists of verb structures, auxiliary verbs, irregular verbs – and quick and easy reference to over 36,000 entries.  You can use these books to help you with the next book.   Price for the set of 2 books:  $7.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP 33 BOOK 9:  Armorial General.  Precede d’un Dictionnaire Des Termes du Blason. Par J. B. Rietstap.  Baltimore:  Genealogical Publishing Co.  1972.  2 volumes.  [Note:  ex library copy, with labels, etc.  The binding of the body is tight, but the hinges holding the body to the covers are very loose.  Pages 463 through 494 were never published in the book.]  If you don’t need information on anything from Corfini through Cuenod, these books will be helpful.  Des multiples et anciennes attributions de heraut, peu ont survecu a l’evolution sociale et politque.  Si ceux-ci, naguere, conjuaient assez volontieres le blazon avec l’etude- voire la – fabrication – des genealogies, la giguer scientique et l’tilite.  Well,  by now,  you get the idea.  The book is in French.  But if you buy the two books listed above, you can easily use these books.  They provide detailed information for coats of arms used in France.  No photographs and only one page of line illustrations.   Price for the set of 2 books:  $50

 

Crazy Crate JP34: CRAZY CRATE JP34 BOOK 8: More Than Petticoats.  Remarkable Montana Women.  By Gayle C. Shirley. Guilford, CT: Twodot Press., an imprint of Globe-Pequot Press.  1995.  First edition, tenth printing.  142 pages.  Softcover.  In this book, the author has gathered the stories of fourteen remarkable women from Montana’s past.  While readers may be familiar with the lives of some of these women, such as peace activist Jeannette Rankin, Crow healer Pretty Shield, and frontier photographer Evelyn Cameron, many of these women are little known.  Now, for the first time, their lasting contributions are chronicled as a part of Montana’s history.  Discover Mattie Castner, entrepreneur and founder of Belt;  Maria Dean, first female physician licensed in the state of Montana;  Ella Knowles Haskell, first female lawyer admitted to the Montana bar;  Fanny Cory Cooney, illustrator and internationally syndicated cartoonist; and Fannie Sperry Steele, world champion bronc rider.  All fourteen women, born before the turn of the century, faced incredible challenges.  Read about their triumphs in this collection of absorbing biographies.  Price $8.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP34 BOOK 10: Smoke Screen.  By Samuel B. Pettengill. New York:  Southern Publishers, Inc.  1940.  126 pages.  Hardcover.  Pettengill was a former United States Congressman from Indiana.  His book was written to demonstrate that the country was moving forward toward National Socialism, and that it was time to move away from it.  He focuses his examples on how banking was now nationalized, the development of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932, government control of oil reserves, federal control of radio stations (i.e. licensing requirements), and other actions.  On the balance side, he provides a listing of actions which he felt were good for the country - the Lindbergh Kidnapping Act, the CCC camps, the WPA projects, guarantee of bank deposits, truck and busing legislation and many more.  On the bad side were the still large unemployment of the population, increasing debt, attitudes toward sit down strikes, the fanning of class hatred, and dozens more. [A Note from Pat:  It would be interesting to see what he would think of what our political system is doing now, wouldn’t it?]  Price: $7.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP34 BOOK 12: The Flintlock.  Its Origin, Development and Use.  By Torsten Lenk.  Translated by G. A. Urquhart.  Edited by J. F. Hayward.  Skyhorse Publishing.  2007.  188 pages.  Softcover.  (Originally published in Sweden in 1939).    A groundbreaking treatise based on fifteen years of research, this classic is the essential book on the subject of flintlocks.  From his post as Director of the Swedish Armory, Torsten Lenk traveled throughout Europe inspecting thousands of firearms in private collections, enabling him to detail the construction, evolution, and decoration of the flintlock from the period of its, origin in the seventeenth century.  Included are an illustrated section on definitions, terminology, and types of locks; descriptions of the flintlock’s precursors, the “Mediterranean lock”, and the Netherlands snaphance; a thorough discussion of French flintlocks; a comparison of the Thuraine and Le Hollandois style, the Classical Louis XIV style, and the Berain style; and three comprehensive chapters on pattern books and decorations.  With hundreds of photographs and illustrations, this reference is without equal for collectors, dealers, or owners – or for anyone with an interest in these weapons and their history.    Price:  $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP34 BOOK 13: List of Cartographic Records of the General Land Office.  (Record Group 49).  Compiled by Laura E. Kelsay.  Washington:  National Archives.  General Services Administration.  1964.  202 pages.  Hardcover.  The General Land Office, established as a bureau of the Department of the Treasury and later transferred to the Department of the Interior, was engaged chiefly in the survey, management, and disposal of public lands.  Although many of its functions were strictly legal and administrative in character, the surveying and mapping of the public lands were among its most important activities.  As the functions of the Land Office changed overtime, it was reorganized to meet current needs.  The records described in this list constitute four closely related series, three of which are records of the Division of Surveys of the General Land Office.  The fourth series is composed of published records issued by the offices of the Surveyors General and the General Land Office, usually without reference to a division.  The records in the four series date from about 1790 to about 1946.  The four series consist of 1)  the manuscript and annotated maps unofficially referred to as the “Old Map File,” 2)  boundary survey maps and diagrams, 3)  field notes and related records known as “Old Case ‘F’ File, and 4)  published records.  The forty-page index covers over 3,500 entries.  Price:  $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP35: CRAZY CRATE JP 35 BOOK 2: Valley Forge.  [PENNSYLVANIA].  By Stacy A. Swigart.  Charleston, SC:  Arcadia.  2002.  128 pages.  Softcover.  (Part of the Images of America Series.)  Valley Forge is a name that many Americans associate with George Washington and the American Revolution.  As the site of the 1777-1778 encampment of the Continental Army, it has come to symbolize determination and triumph.  Using the rich historical collections of The National Center for the American Revolution and the Valley Forge Historical Society, this book shares the early twentieth century history of the area through nearly two hundred images, the majority of which are published for the first time.  A variety of historical views and background make this an excellent source of light reading.  Highlights include Washington's Headquarters and the patriotic and inspiring Washington Memorial Chapel, as well as Revolutionary War artifacts, (such as the tent Washington used on many of his encampments) that have found a home in Valley Forge.  This is a behind-the-scenes look at the work done by W. Herbert Burk and a dedicated group of men and women who set out to preserve this important historical site as a symbol of our ancestor's struggle to gain freedom.    Price:  $19.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP35 BOOK 3: Columbus, Indiana in Vintage Postcards.  By Tamara Stone Iorio. Charleston. S. C. :  Arcadia Publishing.  2005.  128 pages.  Softcover.  Founded in 1821, Columbus, Indiana, had grown into a thriving manufacturing region by the end of the 19th century. Columbus might have remained a community like most other small towns, but a group of citizens with an extraordinary vision developed a program to bring world-renowned architects to the city. Beginning in the mid-20th century, Columbus was transformed into a center of modern architecture-ranked sixth in the United States in architectural innovation by the American Institute of Architects (after Chicago, New York, Washington, San Francisco, and Boston). This collection of more than 200 vintage postcards features some of Columbus's earliest important buildings and its later architectural gems.  Price:  $19.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP35 BOOK 5: South Bend [indiana] in Vintage Postcards.  By John Palmer.  Charleston, S. C.  Arcadia Publishing Co.  128 pages.  Softcover.  In the early 20th century, South Bend, Indiana's population more than tripled.  Established industries like Studebaker and the Singer Sewing Company rose to unprecedented heights of production, new businesses took root, and immigrants flooded into the area.  Photo postcards, originally a quick and inexpensive form of communication, became key documents in South Bend's growth, recording events, businesses, landmarks and people. Through nearly 200 vintage postcards, this book details South Bend's story from the turn of the 20th Century to the aftermath of World War II.  These images give a glimpse of lost glamour, representing the city as past generations witnessed it.  Price:  $19.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP35 BOOK 6: South Bend, [indiana] Remembered.  Volume 2. South Bend, IN:  South Bend Tribune.  2004.  160 pages.  Hardcover.  This second volume contains an excellent collection of local color and provides an excellent resource on South Bend, Indiana history.  This book contains mostly photographs of individuals or families, with short captions.  The earliest photograph is 1899 and the latest is 1976.  Photographs are not arranged in chapters, but there is a loose arrangement by decades.  Price:  $29.95

 

CRAZY CRATE JP35 BOOK 8: Los Angeles, [california] Then and Now.  By Rosemary Lord.  San Diego, CA:  Thunder Bay Press.  2002.  144 pages.  Hardcover.  The Native Americans called Los Angeles the “Land of Smoke” because of the haze that often hangs over the basin early in the morning.  The first Portuguese explorer, Juan Cabrillo, sailed into the bay and called it the “Bay of Smokes”.  Later, the Spanish Governor, Felipe de Neve, brought 44 settlers from Mexico and re-named the area “La Reina de los Angeles.” Today, settlers from every nation on earth have found their way to Los Angeles, and the city has grown from a small hamlet to a major city.  Kansas prohibitionist Harvey Wilcox sold parcels of his tiny ranch for a development to be called “Figwood”.  But his wife changed the name to “Hollywood”.  The small train stop called “Morocco” became the elegant Beverly Hills area.  At the turn of the twentieth century movie producers discovered Hollywood and made it the film capital of the world.  Many of the early beautiful buildings were torn down in the 1960’s to “modernize” the area, but historical societies managed to save many buildings from destruction and have restored them.  Surviving disastrous floods, fires, riots and, of course, earthquakes, Los Angeles continues to charm residents and visitors alike.  138 full-page photographs match historic nineteenth and early twentieth century black-and-white images with full-color photographs of modern Los Angeles, showing how the multifaceted, multicultural “Dream City” has evolved.    The index covers over 180 entries.    Price:  $15 

 

CRAZY CRATE JP35 BOOK 9: East Bay Then and Now. [SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA.]  By Dennis Evanosky and Eric J. Kos.  San Diego, CA:  Thunder Bay Press.  2004.  144 pages.  Hardcover.  History has divided the East Bay, the San Francisco Bay’s Eastern shore, into three parts.  In its agricultural south, farms once helped feed the larger northern and western cities.  An urban heart beats from the center, which is home to the flagship of one of the world’s greatest university systems, the University of California.  International industry and shipping dominated the economy in the north, where oil – the lifeblood of industry – is still refined.    The East Bay was first known as Contra Costa – the opposite shore.  Native Americans first inhabited the area.  The Spanish visited the region in the 18th century and settled at Mission San Jose and awarded veterans of their army huge land grants in the area.  When gold was discovered in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1848, men and women came from all over the world to make their fortunes.  Most were unsuccessful, but they founded new cities.  These cities are celebrated here:  Mission San Jose, Niles, and Irvington – all of which became part of the city of Fremont in 1956 – Hayward, San Leandro, Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley, Albany, el Cerrito, and Richmond.  This fascinating book looks back at the way things were and shows how dynamics have shaped things into what they are today. 138 full-page photographs match historic nineteenth and early twentieth century black-and-white images with full color photographs of modern East Bay.  The index covers nearly 400 entries.  Price:  $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP35 BOOK 10: New England Churches and Meetinghouses, 1680 - 1830. By Peter T. Malery.   Secaucus, New Jersey:  Chartwell Books, Inc.    1985.  Hardcover.   [Note: There is a red dot on the top of the pages, but it does not bleed into the pages.]  The meeting houses on this northern frontier formed the religious and secular centers of early communities.  Pete Mallary examines more than thirty buildings, ranging from the early and simple Old Ship at Hingham (1681) to the massive Greek Revival meeting house at Quincy.  He traces the origins of each building, its construction, the restorations and unravels the complicated roles of architects and builders.    Price:  $25

 

CRAZY CRATE JP35 BOOK 14: Around Burnt Hills.  [SARATOGA COUNTY, NEW YORK]  By Katherine Q. Briaddy.  Charleston, SC:  Arcadia Publishers. 1998.  126 pages.  Softcover.  (Part of the Images of America Series).  [Note: This book has a slight crease on the lower outside corner of the front cover.]  This book offers a unique glimpse into the history of this Saratoga County, New York, community and evokes a nostalgic feeling for the way things used to be.  This volume is made up of a series of love letters found in the attic of a Burnt Hills home that reveal much about the heritage of the town.  They were written between 1926 and 1931, and the engaging stories within them are complemented by nearly 170  carefully preserved images  of people, buildings, and landmarks.  All aspects of life are covered, from the schools to Prohibition to politics and beyond.  What a delightful and historically accurate picture of this charming area.  170 photographs and sketches enhance the text.  Price:  $17

 

CRAZY CRATE JP36: CRAZY CRATE JP36 BOOK 2: The Union that  Shaped the Confederacy.  Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens.  By William C. Davis.  Lawrence, KS:  University Press of Kansas.  2001.  284 pages.  Hardcover. [ Note:  ex-library copy.]  With style and authority that has made him one of our most popular historians of the Civil War, William C. Davis has written a biography of a friendship that captures the Confederacy in microcosm.  He tells how two  Georgians - one a robust charmer given  to fits of passion and the other a frail, melancholy man of quiet intellect forged a friendship that  dominated the formation of the new  nation as Vice President and Secretary of State.  Davis traces the unlikely relationship from their early days in the Georgia state legislature, through the trials of secession and war, revealing how both men persevered during the war and developed a deep animosity toward Jefferson Davis.  He then chronicles their postwar lives up to the death of Stephens, who died only four months after being elected the Governor of Georgia.  Toombs died in 1885.    Price:  $7.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP36 BOOK 5: Bloody Mary’s Martyrs.  The Story of England’s Terror.  By Jasper Ridley.  New York:  Carrol and Graf Publishers.  First Carrol and Graf edition, 2001.  246 pages.  Hardcover.  Note:  ex-library copy.]  Mary was proclaimed Queen of England on 20 July 1553, and as an essential part of what she saw as her God-given mission to restore Catholicism and papal supremacy in England, she set about the burning at the stake of Protestant heretics with a ruthlessness that earned her the name Bloody Mary. In her short reign - she died in 1558 - almost 300 Protestants were burned.  They chose to suffer an agonizing death rather than recant and embrace the Catholic faith. Some of the martyrs suffered more than others.  This book captures the fierce  brutality of Tudor times and grips the reader with the narrative of England’s reign of terror. Nearly twenty illustrations and paintings enhance the text.  The six-page index covers nearly 600 entries,. Price: $8

 

CRAZY CRATE JP36 BOOK 7: Black Roots.  A Beginner's Guide to Tracing the African American Family Tree.  By Tony Burroughs.  New York:  Fireside Books/Simon and Schuster.  2001.  464 pages.  Softcover.  Written by the leading African American professional genealogist in the United States who teaches and lectures widely, this book highlights some of the special problems, solutions, and sources unique to African Americans.  Based on solid genealogical principles and designed for those who have little or no experience researching their family's past, but valuable to any genealogist, this book explains everything you need to get started.  Price:  $16

 

CRAZY CRATE JP36 BOOK 9: The Issei.  The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885 - 1924.  By Juyi Ichioka.   New York:  The Free Press. 1988.  317 pages.  Hardcover.  [NOTE: ex-library copy.] The first history of the first generation of Japanese immigrants - the Issei - and the deep hostility they encountered in the United States.  This book explores the political circumstances, working conditions, their social and family lives.  Organized American labor, the small white farmers, and a racist press all combined to put pressure on politicians to pass anti-Japanese laws, including the 1924 Immigration Act.   Unlike the millions of Europeans who arrived during the same period, these non-Western immigrants, like the Chinese who arrived before them, were legally barred from becoming naturalized citizens.  Without legal or political power and facing fierce resentment, in particular from organized American labor, as well as from white small farmers and a racist press, the Japanese immigrants struggled to survive in America.   After the passage of the Immigration Act, the Issei felt total rejection by the United States and could imagine no real future in America.  This left an enduring legacy of bitterness and resentment.  Yet, the Issei continued to hold out hope for their American-born children, the Nisei.  That hope, in the end, turned out to be legitimate and justified.  The seven-page index contains over 500 entries.  Price:  $6

 

CRAZY CRATE JP36 BOOK 10: Centennial Farms of Indiana.  Edited by M. Teresa Baer, Kathleen M. Breen and Judith O. McMullen.  With Genealogical Indexes by Ruth Dorrel.   Indianapolis:  Indiana Historical Society.  2003.  122 pages.  Softcover.  In 1947, in conjunction with Purdue University, the Indiana Historical Society began a program, originally called Pioneer Farms, to honor families who had owned a particular farm for one hundred years or longer.  At that time about 45 percent of Indiana’s population was still rural.    Nearly 700 family farms were identified in this study.  This book takes the results of that survey and makes the information available to everyone.  Genealogists will especially like the format, which includes three detailed alphabetical indexes, including an index to the name of the original land owners of the farms and the dates they purchased the property, an index to the descendants currently owning the farm, and an index to the counties in which the farms are located.    Over sixty historic farm photographs accompany this book.  Price:  $24.95

 

CRAZY CRATE JP36 BOOK 11: A Simple and Vital Design.  The Story of the Indiana Post Office Murals.  By John C. Carlisle.  Photography by Darryl Jones.  Indianapolis:  Indiana Historical Society.  1995.  93 pages.  Softcover.  In 1933, at the height of the depression, the Treasury Department’s Advisory Committee on Fine Arts, along with its invited guests Eleanor Roosevelt and the directors of eight of the major art museums in the country, met in Washington, D. C. to develop plans for the employment of  unemployed artists.  By the end of the meeting, the Public Work of Art Project was a reality. The Civil Works Administration allocated money to employ artists to decorate public buildings and parks.  One of the major construction projects funded by the New Deal Congress included the erection of new post office buildings in many communities throughout the country.  The Post Office served as the most public of all public buildings, and this program of painting murals in post offices would allow the people all over the country to view at least one thing of beauty.  Thirty-seven mural commissions were executed for Indiana post offices, with thirty-six of them remaining today.   The art program gave artists the exposure and experience, as well as income, during difficult times.  When the federal patronage ended, some artists were still able to earn a livelihood.  Many disappeared from the art scene and are virtually unknown. This volume gives a brief history of the federal arts programs and then focuses on the histories of the thirty-six murals still evident in Indiana.  The color photography of Darryl Jones brings the murals to life and shows the detail and workmanship of these artists.  Close up details are shows on several of the murals, making a total of 71 color photographs of these historic treasures.  This is an excellent addition for anyone who collects Post Office materials or is interested in 1930’s art.  Price:  $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP36 BOOK 12: In Search of Your Asian Roots.  Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames.  By Sheau-yueh J. Chao.  Baltimore:  Clearfield Company Inc.  2000.  323 pages.  Softcover.  The Chinese people possess one of the oldest and richest genealogical traditions in the world.  Genealogical roots are found in ancient China.  So far, there is no basic tool available in English which traces the origin of Chinese surnames.  This book is offered as a reference guide to assist East Asian researchers, librarians, bibliographers, students, and scholars in genealogical research on Chinese names.  This book is divided into three major chapters:  Chapter 1 details the history and origin of Chinese surnames, the research on Chinese surnames in literature, and the reasons for changes of surnames in Chinese history.  Chapter 2 provides the genealogical analysis of popular Chinese surnames found in “Surnames of a Hundred Families”.  It is arranged alphabetically, disregarding marks.  Chapter 3 is an annotated bibliography, in Chinese and English, that covers materials dating from the Imperial China era to the Republican era.  It is compiled for further research and reference.  This present publication reflects the translation and interpretation of nearly 200 books in ancient Chinese literature.  Price: $25

 

CRAZY CRATE JP37: CRAZY CRATE JP37 BOOK 1:  Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne’s Descendants.  Compiled by Marcellus Donald Alexander R. von Redlich. Baltimore:  Genealogical Publishing Company.  2002 reprint of a book originally published by the Order of the Crown of Charlemagne, 1941.  320 pages.  Hardcover.  [Note:  All of the pages show a wave near the bottom, as though they had absorbed some humidity.  They are not water stains and do not detract from the book.]  This book is not a superficial collection of elaborate pedigrees.  It contains the true facts in regard to names known to history and of many families who have contributed in some way, great or small, to the development of our culture, progress and government.  The search for a proved descent from Charlemagne has the interest of an historical quest and demands the use of all we know of the history of Western Europe through the centuries and all we can learn of sources and methods of historical research.  The working out of a descent from the great progenitor of European royalty, for practically all the royalty at least of Europe descend from him,, gives one a cross section of the whole scope and sweep of mediaeval and modern history to be gained hardly in any other way.  Information in the first section (104 pages) is listed separately by country and then by descent.  The second section (188 pages) is arranged by surname and then by descent.  The 25-page index covers over 750 names.  Price: $35

 

CRAZY CRATE JP37  BOOK 2: Forensic Genealogy.  By Colleen Fitzpatrick.  Fountain Valley, CA:  Rice Book Press.  2005.  230 pages.  Softcover. So much fascinating information is locked in old family photographs, documents, or stories that are often overlooked by researchers.  However, with a few simple tools and a little education, researchers can unlock the information.  The biggest research tool you need is curiosity. Every fan of CSI and Medical Detectives knows that investigative techniques are not limited to conventional methods such as fingerprints and eyewitness accounts, but rely on the little things that, when put together like a puzzle, present a solution.  Forensic genealogists make use of hard copy, digital and microfilmed reference materials, weather records, hospital admission records, breeding cycles of insects, old company catalogs,  family genealogies, photographs, databases and DNA analysis.  Chapters cover using digital analysis, using databases, and using DNA.  Price:  $26.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP37 BOOK 4: Researching Canadian Land Records.  By Sharon L. Murphy.  Toronto:  Heritage Productions.  2001.  164 pages.  Plastic comb binding.  This book discusses land record terminology, land measurement, various land systems, and land records available for each province.  Each province is listed separately.  Information provided for each province differs, but usually includes information on conveyances, crown deeds, township ledgers, leases, maps and plans, rent books, petitions, warrants of survey, court records, and land registry offices.    Price:  $16

 

CRAZY CRATE JP37 BOOK 5: Researching American Cemetery Records.  By Scott Andrew Bartley. Toronto, Canada:  Heritage Productions.  2004.  153 pages.  Plastic comb binding.  Have you ever wondered abut the history of cemeteries, the various types of cemeteries or the symbols used on gravestones?  This book discusses burials in the British colonies, representative examples of early gravestones, burials in the United States, types of cemeteries such as potters’ fields, town burying grounds, state and national cemeteries, where to find cemetery records, caring for gravestones and a selected listing of cemetery books for each state.    Price:  $14

 

CRAZY CRATE JP37 BOOK 6: Researching American Census Records.  By Scott Andrew Bartley. Toronto, Canada:  Heritage Productions.  2002.  124 pages.  Plastic comb binding.  Vital records are the most important source for genealogical research.  Census records are the second most important source of information.  They provide a snapshot view of a family and community through their statistical information. Virginia took the first colonial census in February 1623/4 and many other colonies followed their lead.  After the establishment of the United States, census information was collected every ten years, beginning with 1790.  The book provides a brief history of the census from 1790 through 1930.  A chapter contains 61 paragraphs on missing counties or sections from the census from 1790 through 1870.  A five-page chapter lists abbreviations used in the census.  Non population census (manufacturing, pensioners, agriculture, mortality, etc.) are also discussed.  The Soundex code, and a seven-page listing of non-federal census schedules complete the book.  Price:  $12

 

CRAZY CRATE JP37 BOOK 7: Researching American Land Records.  By Kyle Betit. Toronto, Canada:  Heritage Productions.  2002.   184 pages.  Plastic comb binding.  This book provides an overview of the history and types of land documents in the United States including: land grants, homestead records; development bounty lands, deeds and maps.  It provides information on English, French, Mexican and Spanish Colonial records, as well as an overview of the availability of statewide and internet land record sources and resources.  Information shows how to use land records, provides a listing of state archives holding land records, an overview of the land grant process, the Bureau of Land Management Indexes, homesteading claims, discusses various types of deeds and what to look for in deeds.  A 23-pages section coves important statewide and internet land record resources.  Price: $16

 

CRAZY CRATE JP37 BOOK 8: Researching American Vital Statistics Records.  By Scott Andrew Bartley. Toronto, Canada:  Heritage Productions.  Revised first edition, 2003.   162  pages.  Plastic comb binding.  This book explores the history of birth, marriage and death records in the United States, examining them for both the information which they contain and the accuracy of the information.  It provides a state-by-state listing of repositories of state offices covering vital statistics as well as some information where local records may be found.  (The amount of information varies from state to state).  A chapter covers substitutes for vital records.  The final chapter provides a 22-page listing of statewide indexes for vital records on the internet.  Price:  $12

 

CRAZY CRATE JP37 BOOK 9: Midwestern Roots.  2003 Family History and Genealogy Conference.  July 11 and 12, 2003.  Indianapolis, Indiana.  Presented by the Indiana Historical Society and Indiana Genealogical Society.   Syllabus.  Indianapolis:  Indiana Historical Society. 2003.  120 pages.  Softcover.  Seventeen speakers, including Tony Burroughs, Amy Johnson Crow, Michael John Neill, Loretto D. Szucs and Marianne S. Wokeck, covered a wide variety of topics at this great conference.  Conference topics included Passenger Arrival Records, Organizing Your Research Materials, the 1930 Census, Lutheran Archives, the Freedmen's Bureau Research, Using State and Local Records for Civil War Research, Researching Native Americans, Using Criminal Records in Genealogical Research, and much more.  Also includes a ten-page Program for the Conference.  Price:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP37 BOOK 10: Midwestern Roots.  2005 Family History and Genealogy Conference.  August 19 and 20, 2005.  Indianapolis, Indiana.  Presented by the Indiana Historical Society and Indiana Genealogical Society.   Syllabus.  Indianapolis:  Indiana Historical Society. 2005.  115 pages.  Softcover.    Seventeen speakers, including Kandi Adkinson, Vicki Casteel, Diane VanSkiver Gagel, John T. Humphrey, Elizabeth Kelley Kerstens, and Betty Warren covered a wide variety of topics at this great conference.  Conference topics included Kentucky Tax Lists; Improving Archival Skills; Census Substitutes for the In-Between Years; Kentucky Land Search; Pioneer Migration into the Midwest; Baptismal Records and Practices; German SS Records; Indentures, Infirmaries and Orphanages, and more.    Price:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP37 BOOKS 11 A AND B: Two books for the price of one: 

 A)  The Forty-Niners.  By the Editors of Time-Life Books.  With Text by William Weber Johnson.  New York:  Time-Life Books.  1974. Reprinted 1975.  240 pages.  Hardcover.  (Time-Life Series of the Old West).  [Note: Ex-library copy.] It was a great, perilous adventure – crossing the American continent to California in search of gold.  Men and women of all races and nationalities came to California to make their fortunes.  Most found hardship and disappointment.  Using contemporary photographs, drawings and illustrations, letters and diaries, the author presents a highly-readable  history of the California Gold strike.  130 photographs and illustrations enhance the text.  The three-page index covers nearly 500 entries. 

B)  The Women.  By the Editors of Time-Life Books.  With Text by Joan Swallow Reiter.  Alexandria, VA:  Time-Life Books.  1978.  240 pages.  Hardcover. (Time-Life Series of the Old West).   [Note:  Ex- library copy.]  They came from everywhere, from all walks of life – some to escape dreary lives, some seeking adventure, some seeking gold, some seeking husbands.  They faced the same trials and dangers as the men with whom they shared the good times and the bad times. Using contemporary photographs, drawings and illustrations, letters and diaries, the author presents a highly-readable history of women’s lives in the American West.  Over 150 photographs and illustrations enhance the text.  The three-page index covers nearly 500 entries.   Price for the set:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP37 BOOKS 12 A AND B: Two books for the price of one:  A)  The Indians.  By the Editors of Time-Life Books.  With Text by Benjamin Capps.  1973.  Revised, 1974.  240 pages.  Hardcover.  (Time Life Series of the Old West).  [NOTE:  Ex-library copy.  The binding is getting loose.]  More than thirty distinct Native American nations lived in the lands between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean.  Each nation was different.  Some were hunters and warriors.  Some were farmers, some lived on the land preying on neighboring tribes.  But they all shared a common destiny – the continued thrusting westward of their homes and lands as white invaders took over their lands and their crops.  Poorly armed and unable to keep a united front against the invaders, Native Americans died fighting for their freedom or ended up on reservations. Using contemporary photographs, drawings and illustrations, letters and diaries, the author presents a highly-readable history of Native American life in the American West.  Over 100 photographs and illustrations enhance the text.  The three-page index covers nearly 500 entries. 

B)  The Buffalo Hunters.  By the Editors of Time-Life Books.  Alexandria, VA:  Time-Life Books.  1993.  192 pages.  Hardcover.  (Time-Life American Indians Series).  NOTE:  Ex-library copy.  Using contemporary and modern photographs and illustrations, this highly readable book chronicles the culture of Native American nations who lived on the American Great Plains.  Chapters explore the nomadic life of the various nations, the culture of Family and Clan life, daily lives and co-existence with nature and animals, Indian ceremonies, the Sacred Hills, Indian shelters and tipis, and much more.  130 photographs and illustrations enhance the text.  The four-page index covers over 600 entries.   Price for the set:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP37 BOOKS 13 A AND B: TWO BOOKS FOR THE ONE PRICE.

A)  The Chroniclers.  By the Editors of Time-Life Books.  With Text by Keith Wheeler.  Alexandria, VA:  Time-Life Books.  1976.  240 pages.  Hardcover.  (Time-Life Series of the Old West.)  [Note:  Ex library copy.]  In 1832, when the immense wilderness beyond the Mississippi was inhabited by fewer than 20,000 Americans, the novelist Washington Irving headed west on horseback.  His purpose was to observe and write of “those great Indian tribes, which are now about to disappear as independent nations.”  Irving was followed by hundreds of other writers, artists, newspaper reporters, and photographers, who chronicled daily life in small towns and lonely ranches, wild majestic landscapes and more. Using contemporary photographs, drawings and illustrations, letters and diaries, the author presents a highly-readable history of the American West from those who saw it first hand.  150 photographs and illustrations enhance the text.  The three-page index covers nearly 500 entries.   

B)  The Soldiers.  By the Editors of Time-Life Books.  With Text by David Nevin.  Alexandria, VA:  Time-Life Books.  1974.  239 pages.  Hardcover.  (Time-Life Series of the Old West.).  [Note:  Ex-library copy.]  Fear, fatigue, poor rations and little appreciation from his countrymen – that was the lot of the U. S. soldier whose job it was to enforce the nation’s arrogant and often muddleheaded Indian policies.  In 1845 the territory from the Mississippi to the Pacific Coast was the home of more than 300.000 proud, possessive Indians.  Less than 50 years later, the Army had established complete control over the West, and not a single truly free Indian was left. Using contemporary photographs, drawings and illustrations, letters and diaries, the author presents a highly-readable  history of the United States Army in the American West.  130 photographs and illustrations enhance the text.  The three-page index covers nearly 500 entries.  Price for the set:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP38: CRAZY CRATE JP38 BOOK 1: YOUR CHOICE OF FAMILY GENEALOGIES BY J. MONTGOMERY SEAVER.  While helping to clean out one of Pat’s storage buildings we   found a cache of  original books of some interesting family genealogical research.  None of these books are reprints. In the late 1920’s Jesse Montgomery Seaver began to compile information on 49 prominent American families, offering his research findings in book form to interested genealogists.  Located in Philadelphia, Seaver created the American Historical-Genealogical Society, which published most of these books in 1929.   The length of the books varied from 32 to 94 pages.  According to the author, the data collected for each volume was gathered from reliable sources.     A check of each book shows that the number of sources varied in each book from 27 to 51 titles.  Most of these references are standard works that can still be found in large genealogical libraries.  Each of the books followed a standard format which includes the family coat of arms, a record of ancient families of the name, a list of prominent members of the family past and present (1929) in both England and America, a record of those of the name tracing descent from royalty, a record of the first emigrants to America and the first few generations descended from them, Revolutionary War veterans from the family, census information, and religious affiliations of the family.  A check of the internet shows that many people who have used these books consider them to be a good starting point for beginning genealogists; but, because they follow so many different lines, they are not definite and information needs to be further researched.  No one who has used these books has indicated that the information within them is inaccurate or wrong.  In fact, many researchers who have used these books say that were able to establish their correct family lineage by following up on the information provided in the books. All of the books have paper covers. Because of their age, most of the books show a little discoloration, but the binding is tight and the pages are clean.  We have multiple copies of the following 17 family genealogies for sale:

 

Davis Family History (82 pages), 

Gordon Family Records (52 pages), 

Henry Family  Records (32 pages),

Hunt Family Records (38 pages),

Jackson Genealogy (61 pages),

Kennedy Family Records (34 pages), 

Long Family Records (32 pages),

MacDonald/McDonald Genealogy (52 pages),

Mitchell Genealogy (40 pages),

Moore Family History (94 pages),

Nelson Family Records (34 pages),

Reed Family History (65 pages),

Roberts Family Records (44 pages), 

Scott Family Records (46 pages),

Stone Family Records (58 pages),

Taylor Family Records (79 pages),

Thomas Family Records 52 pages)

Young Family History (48 pages). 

Price:  $6 each or any 2 copies for $10. 

 

And now!  The Rest of the Story!  (You DID know there was more, DIDN’T you?)  J. Montgomery Seaver was one heck of a crackerjack salesman.  Using lists of names from telephone books and other sources, he scoured the country sending out postcards, indicating that he had a family history of their surname.  His announcements indicated that he would provide family genealogies for ten dollars a copy, with the name of the owner embossed in gold on the front cover.   He was so good at his work that he often received as many as 300 or 400 letters a day, asking for copies of his books.  But there were complaints from people who were not satisfied because he had not provided a complete history of their particular branches of their family.  (Just like today, some genealogists wanted all of their work done for them, and they wanted a book that all you had to do was open the book, and you would find everything you ever wanted to know about your particular family.  We all know genealogists that still think that way today.  But, we all know that is not likely to happen!  No genealogical book ever written has everybody of that bloodline in it, because, I suspect, all families have secrets they do not share with anyone from one generation to another.)

In August 1930, State and Federal charges of fraud were filed against Seaver by George C. Baker, Superintendent of Mails for the United States Post Office.  Inspectors investigating Seaver’s activities reported that he had arranged a plan for selling books purporting to give the records of various families back to the time of William the Conqueror.  After the investigation, Horace J. Donnelly, solicitor of the Post Office Department at Washington, reported the plan to be "a scheme for obtaining money through the mails by means of false and fraudulent promises."  Mr. Baker said the fraud order provided that all mail sent to the Society's office was to be returned to senders stamped "Fraudulent: Mail to this address returned by order of the Postmaster General. "The inspectors denied Seaver lived up to his promise to refund money if the genealogical books were returned as unsatisfactory.  Was Seaver a con artist or a genealogical entrepreneur?  Or both?  Unfortunately, I was not able to find out if he was convicted. 

[Pat’s Notes: Still, many of those who have used his books have not complained about inaccuracies in the book’s information, which is culled mostly from standard genealogical reference sources found in most genealogical libraries today.  These books are listed as genealogical sources in each of his books.  

Some of these surname books have been reprinted by the Genealogical Research Institute in the 1970s, and again by Clearfield Publishing Company in the 1990s at higher prices, due probably to higher production costs. 

The books are a way of checking 27 to 51 sources of genealogical information compiled for you in one booklet including, many pages of references to those 27 to 51 sources for that family surname. 

I bought one of these for the BELL surname early in our hobby days, and I found some very good information, that with some additional work on our own lines to get back to the printed information in the book, turned out to be helpful.  So we make no claims that you will find your family records in any of these books, but this, like the Internet, is a clue that needs to be followed up with good research techniques – one generation at a time.

 

CRAZY CRATE JP38 BOOK 4: Give Your Family a Gift that Money Can't Buy.  Record and Preserve Your Family's History.  By Jeffrey A. Bockman.  Naperville, IL:  Alenjes Publishing.  Fourth Edition with major revisions. 2007. 42 pages plus sample forms.  Softcover Wrappers,  This book can help everyone to record and preserve their family's history.  It is also the perfect starting point for those people who already have an interest in researching their family's history.  It covers:  Family facts (forms to record the basic facts), Home Sources, Photographs, Preservation, Family Stories, and Research.  Sample sheets include eight family group sheets, three ancestor charts, and two timeline charts.  Price $7.95

 

CRAZY CRATE JP38 BOOK 5: A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Immigrant and Ethnic Ancestors.  How to Find and Record Your Unique Heritage.  By Sharon DeBartolo Carmack.  Cincinnati:  Betterway Books.  2000.  260 pages.  Softcover.  Like most Americans, you probably have a diverse cultural background.  This book shows you how to collect your family's oral history, understand historical trends, develop strategies for tracing your ancestors back to their arrival in America and successfully locate records.  The book also covers 42 distinct ethnic groups, including Native American Indians and African Americans.   Price:  $18.99

 

CRAZY CRATE JP38 BOOK 6: A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Italian Ancestors.  How to Find and Record Your Unique Heritage.  By Lynn Nelson.  Cincinnati:  Betterway Books.  1997.  146 pages.  Softcover.  This practical guide takes beginners step-by-step through the research process, and includes advanced tips for more experienced researchers.  Information includes how to use major American records such as census and naturalization, ship passenger lists, passport applications, family letters, church records, cemetery information, how to interview relatives, and how to research Italian records, including civil documents and the marginal notes of many records.  Price $16.99: 

 

CRAZY CRATE JP38 BOOK 9: Bibliography of African American Family History at the Newberry Library.  By Jack Simpson and Matt Rutherford.  Chicago:  Newberry Library. 2005.  92 pages.  Softcover.  This bibliography is not intended to be an exhaustive list of every African-American family history source in the Newberry Library but it is a selective guide to materials in the library.  Information is arranged into four major categories plus three appendices.  The major categories are:  General Sources;  Special Topics (including church history, census, biographies, and slave narratives);  Military Sources (including Revolutionary War, War of 1812,  Civil War, Spanish American War and World War I);  and Records by Location (United States - each state is listed separately, and Canada).  Appendices include Pullman Employees Records, Reconstruction Era Records, Freedmen’s Bureau Records, Freedman’s Bank Records, and a Freedmen’s Bureau Holdings Chart.  Price: $7.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP38 BOOK 10: Reference Guide to  Minnesota  History.   A Subject Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets, and Articles in English.  By Minnesota  Historical Society.  1974.  132  pages.  Softcover.  Information is grouped into 28 categories, including  Indians, Discovery and Exploration, Beginnings of White Settlement, Population, Government, Local History, County and City Histories, the Arts, Business, and much more.  The 17-page index covers over 3,600 entries.  Price:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP38 BOOK 11: Genealogical Resources of the Minnesota Historical Society.  A Guide.  By the Minnesota Historical Society Library and Archives Division.  St. Paul: Minnesota historical Society Press.  1989.  63 pages.  Softcover.  This guide is the first overall view of the vast and varied resources for genealogy research in the holdings of the Minnesota Historical Society. it was compiled for use by genealogists and historians.  While ambitious, it is not complete, but can serve as a guide to many of the resources available in the society.  The main feature of this book is an alphabetical, annotated listing of resources in over 100 name or subject areas.  The entry for each resource describes content, location, and means of access.  This book is an essential too for researching Minnesota family and local history.  Price:  $10.00

 

CRAZY CRATE JP38 BOOK 12: Finding Your Chicago Ancestors.  A Beginner's Guide to Family History in the City [OF CHICAGO] and Cook County.  By Grace DuMelle.   Chicago:  Lake Claremont Press.  2005.  321 pages.  Softcover. For almost 175 years, the bustling city of Chicago has brought hundreds of thousands of Americans and immigrants to the Windy City for business, entertainment, and living.  Whether your ancestors came from New England in the early days of settlement, or north from Mississippi in the Great Migration; whether they sailed from Sweden or Sicily, or flew in from Budapest or Prague; whether they settled here permanently or temporarily, this easy-to-use reference guide will help you to document them.   Family historian Grace DuMelle provides the means to trace your Chicago connections like a pro.  She shows you not just what to research, but how to research.  Without wading through lots of preliminaries, choose any of the self-contained chapters that focus on the questions beginners most want answered and jump right in!  Where do I Start?  When and where was my ancestor born?  When did my ancestor come to America?  What did my ancestor do for a living?  Where did my ancestor live?  Where is my ancestor buried?   Other chapters cover the nuts and bolts of the mechanics that are the key to making your family's past come alive, with highlights summarizing important points: Examples of documents such as death certificates, church registers, and U.S. census entries.  Chicago-area research facilities: what they have and how to access it; and Researching using Newspapers, Machines, and Catalogs.  Sources for specific ethnic research are listed, along with sources for long-distance research.  The author founded Heartland Historical Research Service, which has specialized in house, family, and oral histories since 1995.  Price:  $16.95

 

CRAZY CRATE JP39: CRAZY CRATE JP39 BOOK 1:  MICHIGAN SURNAME INDEX.  VOLUME II.  Lansing:  Michigan Genealogical Council.  1989.   1,237 pages.  Hardcover.  [Note: The binding is tight.  There is a small water stain on the lower outside corner of the front flyleaf, and a small mark (drip of coffee?) on the title page and the blank page across from it.  The rest of the pages are clean.  The corners of the covers are bumped and there is a small white mark on the back of the outside cover.]  Michigan Genealogical Council acts as a clearing house of information for genealogists and genealogical societies in Michigan.  It has published several publications including this book.  The Michigan Surname Index Project is a collection of 50,000 ancestor names from individuals who are members of genealogical societies within Michigan.  The names collected are not limited to ancestors who lived in Michigan. An earlier volume was published in 1984.  Information in this volume was gathered since the publication of the first volume.  Information was gathered by the 74 member societies from their individual members.  The information was then sent to the Michigan Genealogical Council, where it was transcribed onto 3 x 5 cards, all of which were then alphabetized into one file.  The file is intended to disseminate the genealogical knowledge various contributors already had and that otherwise might not be available to researchers.  Each single-line entry in this massive book represents an abstract of information from one of the surname file cards submitted by contributors.  The abstracted information in this book is much less than the information originally received from the contributor.  The original cards should be consulted for more information.  Information requested for the card file were the name,

as well as the birth, death and marriage dates of the individual.  Names of spouses and other relationships were also provided, as well as the names of children and other information.  PRICE:  $30 

 

CRAZY CRATE JP39 BOOK 3: UNDER CUSTER'S COMMAND. THE CIVIL WAR JOURNAL OF JAMES HENRY AVERY.  Compiled by Karla Jean Husby.  Edited by Eric J. Wittenberg.  Forward by Gregory J. W. Urwin.  Brassey's.  Dulles, VA:  Potomac Books.  First paperback edition, 2002.  First Memoirs of War Editon.  2006.  185 pages.  Softcover.  [NOTE:  There is a black mark on the bottom of the book, but it does not bleed into the pages.]  The battlefield journals and postwar remembrances of Sergeant Avery offer detailed descriptions of Civil War cavalry movements and daily life in the Michigan Fifth Regiment. The text is augmented with notes that provide useful historical context for the reader. Avery eloquently describes his personal experiences in battles that included Gettysburg, The Wilderness, Yellow Tavern, and Cedar Creek. This book contains the only known account of the torturous two-week march back to friendly lines made by elements of the Fifth Regiment after they were  separated from their comrades on the first day of battle at Trevalian Station, Virginia.  The nine-page index covers over 700 entries.  Price: $7.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP39 BOOK 5: PHILADELPHIA, INCLUDING DELAWARE AND CHESTER COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA] STREET GUIDE.  Rand McNally.  2005.  Various paginations.  Metal coil binding.  This is just the guide for anyone who will soon be visiting Philadelphia.  It contains a pathfinder map, consisting of small squares which represent different map pages in the street guide.  The street guide includes separate indexes for streets, schools, parks, shopping centers, golf courses, and other points of interest, totaling an index of 114 pages.   The street section provides the block number, city, zip code, map number and grid reference.  Each map page contains a grid formed by a series of letters running across the bottom and numbers running down the side. Adjacent map pages are indicated by blue numbers that appear at the top, bottom and sides of each map.  Price: $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP39 BOOK 6: PEOPLE OF THE LAKES. A NOVEL OF PREHISTORIC AMERICA.  By Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear.  New York:  Tom Doherty Associates book. 1994. First Edition-August 1994.  608 pages.  Hardcover.  Award-winning archaeologists and master storytellers Kathleen and Michael Gear spin a provocative tale of the perils and passions of the lives of the Hopewell tribes in early North America.  Star Shell, the privileged daughter of a prominent Hopewell chief, must save her people from the corrupting influence of an evil totemic mask.  No one will be able to recover it if she carries it northward across the Great Lakes and throws it into the torrents of Niagara Falls.  Otter, one of the finest Traders on the great river of North America, finds himself in the middle of Star Shell’s race against time.  Otter aids Pearl, a beautiful runaway who has stolen his heart. She is being pursued by the vengeful chief who wants her back.  Star Shell’s lifelong enemy is almost upon her as well.  Otter, Star Shell, and their companions must brave the stormy waters of the Great Lakes, relying on the lunatic ramblings of the Contrary Green Spider.  Set against the splendor of the lands surrounding the Great Lakes two thousand years ago, this book follows the paths of Otter and Star Shell as they race across North America, carrying the fate of the Hopewell Mound Builders in their hands.  Will they lead their people to salvation or annihilation.  Sounds like an exciting story to read, doesn’t it?  PRICE:  $7.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP39 BOOK 7: WOLVES AGAINST THE MOON.  By Julia Cooley Altrocchi.  Grand Rapids, MI:  Black Letter Press.  1970.  Third printing 1972. (First published by MacMillan Company in 1940).  [Note:  stamped in red on title page:  Max and Walda Pearc (and their address).]  This book is always in demand by readers in northwest Indiana and southwest Michigan.  This fictional story of an adventurous Frenchman on the old Northwest frontier is based in part on the brief family chronicle by Joseph Bailly’s granddaughter, Frances R. Howe, The Story of a French Homestead in the Old Northwest and on references in early documents.  The scant biographical material has been expanded and cast in the form of a novel.  The present writer has spent almost thirty of her summers a few miles northeast of the old Bailly trading post, (now part of Indiana Dunes National Park) near Chesterton, Indiana.  Through the years, the personality and the significance of Joseph Bailly have grown, until he stands beside the Calumet and passes along the fur trails from Quebec to New Orleans, a symbol of the transitions between the gallant French era along the Great Lakes, the American plowshare period, and the beginnings of the rushing, commercial age. In reality, Bailly spanned all three periods successfully.  Many years of study of Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois history have served to place Bailly against the larger scenes in which he played his part, and to multiply his adventures.  Most of the events depicted in this book are real, most of the characters are real, even to the incredibly named Captain of a Great Lakes vessel, Job Fish.  In addition to being a story of adventure, a record of people and events of the early nineteenth century from Canada to the Gulf, and especially in the middle western portion of the Great Lakes region and a record of the passing of the Indian life and the French life and of the coming of the Anglo-Saxon frontiersman, the book also becomes a record of the vanishing wilderness of the Calumet marshes and the Indiana and Michigan dune country.   Price:  $15

 

We’ve gone to a lot of genealogy conferences over the years and always come back with some interesting souvenirs, so now it’s time to pass along some of them to you:

 

CRAZY CRATE JP39 CANVAS SHOPPING BAG 1:  “National Genealogical Society Conference in the States, Milwaukee, and American Sampler, 15 – 18 May 2002”   This sturdy 15 inch wide by 16 inch high canvas bag was printed by the N. G. S. for their conference in Milwaukee on May 15 -18, 2002 and was designed to carry handouts, purchases, and knick-knacks found at the conference. One side has the imprint of the conference, in a red and blue border with a red and blue sampler quilt star pattern in the center.  The other side is imprinted with the Wisconsin Historical Society name, log, and internet address.  Just the right conversation piece when you go shopping.  Save the plastic, use the bag, over and over!   Price:  $5

 

CRAZY CRATE JP39 CANVAS SHOPPING BAG 2:  2002 CALIFORNIA:  A GOLDMINE OF DIVERSITY, 7 – 10 August FGS/CSGA Ontario Convention Center, Ontario California.  A Conference for the Nation’s Genealogists.   This sturdy 14 inch wide by 16 inch high canvas bag was printed by the Federation of Genealogical Societies for its conference in Ontario, California.  One side shows a flower, “2002”,  and ”Ontario Convention Center” all in brilliant orange, while the theme is printed in solid black.  The dates are printed in white on a solid black field.  The other side of the bag is printed with “Ancestry.com  The No. 1 Source for Family History Online.”  The bag was designed to carry handouts, purchases, and knick-knacks found at the conference, but you can use it just about anywhere.  Price:  $5

 

CRAZY CRATE JP39 CANVAS SHOPPING BAG 3:  The Track:  Family Recreation Center.  Race to Read at the Sevier County Public Library.  This sturdy 15 inch by 15 inch canvas bag was used for knick-knacks and handouts at a genealogical conference held at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee about six years ago.  [Note: It has two small light brown stains near the top.]  The printing is in dark blue.  The opposite side of the bag is blank.  Price:  $4

 

CRAZY CRATE JP39 CANVAS SHOPPING BAG 4:  Indiana Library Federation.  This sturdy 14 ½ inch by 14 ½ inch canvas bag was used at a recent conference of the Indiana Library Federation held in Indianapolis, Indiana.  Librarians love to jam these bags with freebies.  One side says “Indiana Library Federation” in dark blue underlined letters and the other side says “Emery-Pratt.  The Nicest People in the Book Business. Library Book Distributor”, and their website in white printing with a dark blue background.  Price:  $5

 

CRAZY CRATE JP39 CANVAS SHOPPING BAG  5:   National Genealogical Society/Ancestry.com   This sturdy 14 inch wide by 15 inch high canvas bag is the basic N. G. S. souvenir bag.  One side displays the N. G. S. logo and words “National Genealogical Society” in dark blue while the other side says, “Ancestry.com” in dark blue.  The carrying straps are dark blue.  Price:  $5

 

CRAZY CRATE JP39 CANVAS SHOPPING BAG  6:   National Genealogical Society/My Family.com, Inc.  This sturdy 14 inch wide by 15 inch high canvas bag is the basic N. G. S. souvenir bag.  One side displays the N. G. S logo and words “National Genealogical Society” in dark blue lettering, while the other side says “MyFamily.com.Inc.” and shows a family tree for MyFamily.com, Ancestry.com, Genealogy.com and Rootsweb.com.  The carrying straps are dark blue.  Price:  $5

 

CRAZY CRATE JP39 CANVAS SHOPPING BAG 7:  “History is who we are”.   This sturdy 15 inch wide by 16 inch high canvas bag was used by the Indiana Historical Society Midwestern Roots conference in 2005. One side is printed “History is Who we are and why we are the way we are”, the Indiana Historical Society logo and “History.  Read all about it”.  And their website.   The other side is blank.  Price:  $5

 

CRAZY CRATE JP40:  CRAZY CRATE JP40 BOOK 1: The Buffalo Hunters.  By the Editors of Time-Life Books.  Alexandria, Virginia:  Time-Life Books.  1993. 192 pages.  Hardcover.  [NOTE:  Ex-library copy, with possession stamp, label, bar code, etc.]  Hundreds of black-and-white and color photographs accompany an excellent text discussing the history of Great Plains Native Americans.  Divided into information on clans and families, use of the buffalo, ceremonies, housing and culture.  Discusses, Sioux, Crow, Arapaho and Blackfeet.  Price:  $6

 

CRAZY CRATE JP40 BOOK 3: Self Publishing Tips.  By Fran Carter-Walker.  Fair Haven, CT:  Walker Publishing Company.  1996.  50 pages plus appendix.  Softcover. Here, in 12 chapters, the author provides information on choosing your subject, organizing your research materials, writing your article or book, typing, graphics, the mechanics of publishing, the printer and publisher, copyright information, indexing, editing, promotion and distribution, and the special treatment of genealogical materials and information.   Price:  $18

 

CRAZY CRATE JP40 BOOK 5: The Big Bonanza.  An Authentic Account of the Discovery, History, and Working of the World-Renowned Comstock Lode of Nevada.  Including  the Present Condition of the Various Mines Situated Thereon - Sketches of the Most Prominent Men and Interest in them - Incidents and Adventures Connected with Mining, the Indians, and the Country - Amusing Stories, Experiences, Anecdotes, etc. Etc. and a Full Exposition of the Production of Pure Silver.  By Dan de Quille (William Wright).  Las Vegas, NV: Nevada Publications.  Undated reprint.  436 pages plus eight pages of index.   Softcover.  (Originally published by the American Publishing Company at Hartford, Connecticut in 1876.)   When this book was originally published in 1876, it had a wide reading in California and the west coast, but was less successful east of the Mississippi and its total sale was disappointing to the author and the publisher.  Looking back with time, modern readers realize that it is the basic source book on the history of the Comstock Lode.  The value of this book lies in its storehouse of information about a phase of frontier life now almost forgotten, written by the man best qualified to do the job.  Wright was born in Knox County, Ohio, in 1829.  When he was twenty, his family took up a homestead near the present town of West Liberty, Iowa.  In 1853 Wright married Caroline Coleman, by whom he had five children.  His trek west began in 1857, and it was in 1859 that news of the silver discoveries along the Comstock took him into the region northeast of Lake Tahoe, an area that was to be his home for nearly forty years.  He was a failure as a miner, but he became a journalist, and was soon contributing stories about Silver City to newspapers.  In 1862 he became attached to the Territorial Enterprise (Virginia City) and he remained the chief attraction of the newspaper until it ceased publication in 1893.  During Wright’s first year on the Territorial Enterprise, the staff hired young Sam Clemens, (Later, Mark Twain) and the two became friends.  In 1875, on a trip to visit Clemens, Wright wrote his first draft of his book.  He returned to Virginia City and remained there until the late 1890’s, before he went to live with a daughter in West Liberty, Iowa.  He died in 1898.  The eight pages of index cover over 400 entries.  Price:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP40 BOOK 6: GOSHEN COLLEGE MAPLE LEAF, 1983.   Goshen, In:  Goshen College. 1983.  176 pages.  Hardcover.   This book contains nearly 1,000  photographs covering sports, departments, activities, administration, faculty and students.  The names and city of each of the students in all four undergraduate years  is listed along with photographs of each student. The five-page index lists nearly 1,000 names.  Price:  $15

 

CRAZY CRATE JP40 BOOK 7: A Panorama: 1844 - 1977.  Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana.  By Sister Mary Immaculate, C. S. C.  (Helen Creek).  Saint Mary's College.  1977.   301 pages.  Hardcover.  Sister Mary Immaculate attended St. Mary's College as a student in the class of 1930, entered the novitiate of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross before taking a degree, and a few years later received a B. A. in English from St. Mary's.  With only a few interruptions she taught at St. Mary's for more than thirty years.  This book covers the early history of the Holy Cross Order in France, the move to Bertrand, Michigan, and then to Notre Dame, Indiana, and the slow growth into a major college.  Discusses the transition into the turbulent 1960's and 1970's, the change in the college's publications, the first Priest-President of the college, and much more.   Price:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP40 BOOK 8: Studies on Indiana:  A Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations Submitted to Indiana Institutions of Higher Education for Advanced Degrees, 1902 - 1977.  Indianapolis:  Indiana Historical Bureau.  1980.  377 pages.  Softcover.  This book is an excellent source for researchers looking for lost gems on Indiana history.  Many of the theses and dissertations have never been published for commercial purposes, so their significance is often overlooked.  In no other writings has the state of Indiana been studied in such detail as in the theses and dissertations submitted to Indiana institutions of higher education.  Each Indiana institution was visited if it had a graduate program requiring a thesis or dissertation.  2,727 dissertation entries are broken down into an alphabetical list of ninety subject categories based upon the system used by Dissertation Abstracts International.  Civil War, ethnic groups, cities, counties, migrations and much more are included in the dissertations.  The entry includes the name of the author, the title, the name of the educational institution, the degree for which the dissertation was written, the date and number of pages.   The 32-page author index contains nearly 2,400 names.  The 16-page Name and Subject Index covers nearly 1,000 entries.   Price:  $12

 

CRAZY CRATE JP40 BOOK 9: Portraits and Painters of the Governors of Indiana, 1800 -1943.  By Wilbur D. Peat, Director of the John Herron Art Museum.  Indianapolis:  Indiana Historical Society.  1944.  (Indiana Historical Society Publications, Volume 14, Number 3.)  47 pages.  softcover. [ Note:  this is an original edition, not a reprint.]  In 1869 Governor Conrad Baker began to assemble a collection of the portraits of the state’s chief executives.   At the time of this writing the portraits were housed in the State House.  There was a notable group of portraits including forty canvases, and the roster is complete to date (1943).  The collection represents the works of more than a dozen painters who lived and worked in Indiana at different times, and while some of them are not very well known today, others are ranked as our country’s foremost artists.  The portraits are reproduced in this book in black and white photographs.  Each portrait identifies the governor and there are detailed but brief, biographies of the governors and the artists who painted them.   Price:  $7

 

CRAZY CRATE JP41: Shopping for those elusive presents to give to family and friends?  If you have friends or relatives who are military or Civil War buffs, this list has some interesting books that might make good gifts. 

 

CRAZY CRATE JP41 BOOK 1: [NATHANEAL] Greene.  Revolutionary General.  By Steven E. Siry.  Washington, D. C.:  Potomac Books, Inc.  First Edition, 2006.  116 pages.  Hardcover.  [Note:  there is a dark line on the bottom of the pages but it does not bleed into the pages.]  Born into a Quaker family, Nathanael Greene had nothing in his background that suggested a military career.  After abandoning the Society of Friends’ belief in pacifism, his total military training before mid-1775 consisted of serving as a private in the Rhode Island Militia for a few hours each week.  Recognizing his leadership ability, the Rhode Island Assembly in May 1775 appointed Greene commander of the Rhode Island Army of Observation at the siege of Boston.  In June, at age thirty-two, Greene became the youngest general in the Continental Army and the only general who had never held a military commission.  When the Revolutionary War ended eight years later, he was the only one of George Washington’s generals who had served continuously from its start.  Resourceful and courageous, Greene combined common sense, a keen intellect, fine organizational skills, and a remarkable aptitude for using topographical and geographical information.  Indeed, he became Washington’s most trusted adviser and eventually ranked second in the command structure of the Continental Army.  After distinguishing himself in the northern campaign and providing invaluable service as uartermaster general, Greene became commander of the Southern Department with orders to rebuild its forces following devastating losses in South Carolina in 1780.  With Georgia and South Carolina under British control and North Carolina and Virginia threatened by invasion, the situation seemed hopeless. Greene, however, combined regulars, militia, and guerillas into a force that used rapid movement and continuous pressure against the British, out-maneuvering and outguessing them.  By 1782 British forces were restricted to only two Southern seaports.  Greene’s tactics of unconventional warfare are just as significant for the wars of today as they were for undoing Great Britain’s power in North America during the War for Independence.  The eight-page index covers over 600 entries.  Price:  $12

 

CRAZY CRATE JP41 BOOK 2: At Ease. Stories I tell to Friends.  By Dwight D. Eisenhower.  New York.  TAB books.  First TAB Edition, First TAB Printing.  1988.  Originally published in 1967 by Doubleday and Company. 400 pages.  Hardcover.  [NOTE:  The name of the previous owner is listed on the inside flap of the dust jacket.  The binding is tight and the pages are clean.  The dust jacket shows a little wear and some small tears along the top and bottom of the dust jacket.]  In this book former President Eisenhower recounts stories for the simple pleasure of telling them.  In warm and personal terms, he writes about his life, his acquaintances both celebrated and little known, and the history that unfolded before his eyes.  He has revealed, in anecdote after anecdote, some of his life at West Point and in turn-of-the-century Kansas in an “ordinary” but remarkable family.  His stories tell what it was like to grow up and go to school at a time when the “Wild West” had just become the rural west, and when the frontier was his home town.  It awakened the dreams of adventure in a boy’s imagination - and carried him from the wrong side of the tracks in Abilene to the leadership of a great alliance and military expedition, a great university, and the presidency of a great nation.  In this book he remembers his tour of duty in the Canal Zone; life with his young wife Mamie; being tutored in Clausewitz, Tacitus, and Plato by his mentor, General Fox Connor; his first encounter and lifelong close friendship with George Patton and his appointment as an aide to General Douglas MacArthur.  Newly added to this volume is an eight-page photo section of twelve photographs that depicts Eisenhower family photos and Eisenhower with such well-known figures as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, and John F. Kennedy.  The ten-page index covers nearly 700 entries. Price:  $7.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP41  BOOK 3: The Promise of the New South.  Life After Reconstruction.  By Edward L. Ayers.  New York:  Oxford University Press.  1992.  572 pages.  Hardcover.  [Note: There are some light pencil marks on the inside flyleaf.  The dust jacket is protected in a plastic sleeve.]   At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine.  He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a lynching.  In this story, with the blend of new technology and old hatreds, genteel picnics and mob violence, the author captures the history of the South in the years between Reconstruction and the turn of the century - a combination of progress and reaction that defined the contradictory promise of the New South.  Ranging from the Georgia coast to the mountains of Tennessee, from the power brokers to tenant farmers, the author depicts a land of startling contrasts - a time of progress and repression, of new industries and old ways.  The author takes us from remote Southern towns, revolutionized and revitalized by the spread of the railroads, to the statehouses where Democratic “Redeemers” swept away the legacy of Reconstruction, from the small farmers, trapped into growing nothing but cotton, to the new industries of Birmingham; from abuse and intimacy in the family to tumultuous public meetings of the prohibitionists.  He explores every aspect of society, politics, and the economy, detailing the importance of each in the emerging New South.  The teeming, nineteenth century South comes to life in these pages.  And central to the entire story is the role of race relations, from alliances and friendships between blacks and whites to the spread of Jim Crow laws and disenfranchisement.  Over forty photographs and maps enhance the text. The 18-page index covers nearly 1,000 entries. Price:   $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP41 BOOK 5: The Genealogists’s Question and Answer Book.  Solutions and Advice for Maximizing Your Research Results.  By Marcia Yannizze Melnyk.  Cincinnati, OH:  Betterway Books.  2002.  227 pages.  Softcover.  Genealogy is a fast-growing, educational, and thought-provoking pastime, albeit sometimes a frustrating one.  One hundred years ago, there were few secondary sources (published books, indexes, abstracts) available, and researchers had to use the original records wherever they might find them. Today, we have the opposite problem:  too much information from too many sources.  It can be overwhelming to the beginner or the intermediate researcher as to where to begin, what to believe, and what to do next. There are probably almost as many questions regarding genealogical research as there are genealogists.  The questions in this book are designed to aid the beginning and intermediate genealogist.  They come from nearly ten years of teaching classes and lecturing in the genealogical field.  The author asked librarians, lecturers, teachers, and archivists what questions genealogists asked them most frequently.  Amazingly, the same questions showed up over and over again, indicating that they are not adequately addressed in many genealogy books.  This book provides answers to more than 150 of the most commonly asked genealogy questions in a friendly, easy-to-browse format.  The questions are arranged into twelve chapters, covering General Genealogical Questions; Oral History and Home Sources; Vital Records and Church Records; Census Records; Military Records; Immigration and Naturalization Records; Computers, the Internet, Indexes, and Computer Databases; Land, Probate, and Tax Records; Documenting Sources and Determining the Reliability of Records; Newspapers, Periodicals, and City Directories; Cemetery and Funeral Home Records;  and Terminology: Genealogical Terms and What They Mean. Multiple copies of this book are available, so feel free to order one for yourself and some for presents for your genie-buddies!  SPECIAL Price: $12

 

CRAZY CRATE JP41 BOOK 6: Secret Yankees. The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta.  By Thomas G. Dyer.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press.  1999.  383 pages.  Softcover.  [NOTE: The cover is bound upside down on this book.] A compelling story of loyalty and patriotism, this book brings to life the adventures of Atlanta Unionists during the Civil War, offering a perspective on the conflict that previous accounts have ignored.  Dyer draws on a variety of sources including a long-lost diary and the work of a purported fictional account based closely on the experience of Cyrena Stone - a Vermont native and Unionist living in Atlanta during the War - to recreate the drama, deprivation, and suspicion that marked the experience of the Union circle in the closing and increasingly desperate years of the war.  Arrested on suspicion of spying (the penalty was death), but released by Southern authorities, her house destroyed by Union shelling during the vividly rendered Fall of Atlanta, Cyrena Stone survived the war to see the triumph of the cause for which she had risked her life.  More than the story of heroic individuals, this book provides an illuminating account of personal travail in the Civil War and a thought-provoking exploration of the nature and meaning of national loyalty in wartime.  Two hand-drawn maps and seventeen photographs enhance the text.  The eleven-page index covers over 700 entries.  Price:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP41 BOOK 7: The Young Lions.  Confederate Cadets at War.  By James Lee Conrad.    Columbia: SC:  University of South Carolina Press.  2004.  198 pages.  Softcover. (Originally published in cloth, 1997 by Stackpole books.)  [NOTE: There is a small black mark on the bottom of the book, but it does not bleed into the pages.]  Focusing on the Confederacy's four major military academies - the Virginia Military Institute, the South Carolina Military Academy, the Georgia Military Institute, and the University of Alabama, this book relates the story of the cadets and their schools at war.  It is also the story of the Confederate government's lack of a cohesive policy toward military colleges and its failure to adequately support these nurseries for its officer corps. The author discusses the cadets' daily lives as well as the academic and military systems of the schools.  29 photographs enhance the text.  The eight-page index covers over 1,000 entries.  Price:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP41 BOOK 9: From the Pen of a She-Rebel.  The Civil War Diary of Emilie Riley McKinley.  Edited by Gordon A. Cotton.  Columbia:  University of South Carolina Press.  2001.  108 pages.  Softcover.  [NOTE:  There is a small black mark on the top of the book but it does not bleed into the pages.  The binding is tight and the pages are clean but the bottom corners are bumped.]    Shortly after she began her diary, Emilie Riley McKinley penned an entry to record the day she believed to be the saddest of her life.  The date was July 4, 1863, and federal troops had captured the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.  A teacher on a plantation near the city under siege, McKinley shared with others in her rural community an unwavering allegiance to the Confederate cause.  What she did not share with her Southern neighbors was her background. Emilie McKinley was a Yankee.  McKinley’s account, revealed through evocative diary entries, tells of a Northern woman who embodied sympathy for the Confederates.  During the months that federal troops occupied her hometown and county, she vented her feelings and opinions on the pages of her journal and articulated her support of the Confederate cause.  Through sharply drawn vignettes, McKinley - never one to temper her beliefs - candidly depicted her confrontations with the men in blue along with observations of explosive interactions between soldiers and civilians.  Maintaining a tone of wit and gaiety even as she encountered human pathos, she commented on major military events and reported on daily plantation life.  An eye-witness account to a turning point in the Civil War, this book chronicles not only a community’s near destruction, but also its endurance in the face of war.  Eight maps and photographs enhance the text.   The ten-page index covers nearly 700 entries.  Price:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP41 BOOK 11: Custer: The Man, the Myth, the Movies.  By John Phillip Langellier.  Mechanicsburg, PA:  Stackpole Books.  2000.  146 pages.  Softcover.  Custer’s last stand began small, with several thousand Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, defeating 650 soldiers of the 7th Cavalry - killing one contingent of 212 men, including Custer, and wounding and killing another 116 soldiers under the command of Major Marcus Reno.  Painters and illustrators soon fabricated their own versions of the gallant Custer and his men fighting their last battle along the Little Bighorn River.  These vivid images of the battle inspired the newly emerging motion picture industry, and television and films have made the name of George Armstrong Custer important to a degree not possible by the written word alone.  In this readable and well-researched study, the author establishes himself as the premier biographer of “Hollywood’s Custer”.  He skillfully shows how scriptwriters and directors have repeatedly re-invented Custer’s image, converting an historical figure into a saleable commodity with eternal appeal to America’s shifting values and sensibilities.  64 photographs enhance the text, which discusses melodramas, wildwest shows, motion pictures, television and the televised documentaries.   The book provides brief information on each of the motion pictures and television shows, provides a chronology of Custer films, serials and television programs, the name of the film, date of release, name of the actor portraying Custer, and the production company.  A twelve-page bibliography and a four-page index containing over 500 entries complete the text.  Price: $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP41 BOOK 12: Following the Greek Cross; or, Memories of the Sixth Army Corps.  By Thomas W. Hyde.  Columbia, SC:  University of South Carolina Press.  2006.  280 pages.  Softcover.  (First edition printed by Houghton-Mifflin in 1894)  [NOTE; The bottom of the book has a small black mark but it does not bleed into the pages.]  Thomas W. Hyde, a native of Maine who rose rapidly through the Union ranks and eventually received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Antietam, published his portrait of the Army of the Potomac in 1894.  This book tells the story of an illustrious army unit and offers rare glimpses into the Northern perspective on the war.  One of the most cited - and most difficult to find - Union memoirs, this volume returns to print with an expanded edition featuring new information about the author, more than a dozen photographs, and a complete index.  Hyde began his military career in 1861 as a major of the Seventh Maine Infantry Regiment.  When that unit became part of the Sixth Corps of the massive Army of the Potomac, Hyde was promoted to a staff post.  He served on the staffs of several prominent Union officers, including John Sedgwick and Horatio G. Wright, major generals who between them commanded the Sixth Corps in several important campaigns in the Virginia Theater.  Hyde’s unit was also among those who followed General Lee’s army into Pennsylvania and fought at Gettysburg.  In his correspondence Hyde writes engagingly about the war, his fellow soldiers, strategy and tactics, and daily life in the Union forces.  He elaborates on their motivation for fighting, the strength of their camaraderie, and their unflagging determination to preserve the Union.    The ten-page index covers nearly 500 entries.  Price:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP41 BOOK 13: Chancellorsville:   Lee's Greatest Battle. By Edward J. Stackpole. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. Second edition. 1998. 398 pages. Softcover.  For a century and a quarter, the battle of Chancellorsville has remained the ultimate campaign of the Army of Northern Virginia.  The army, led by General Robert E. Lee, outnumbered two to one, faced a foe better equipped and better supplied, and even lacking the presence of one of its two experienced commanders, still managed to crush and demoralize the Army of the Potomac in one of the most daring engagements in all of military history.  This book was originally published in 1958 and was widely accepted by the general public and by Civil War buffs and praised by scholars and specialists.  Over the past 30 years, new scholarship and new thought has challenged some of the conclusions made in the 1958 edition.  This second edition has been updated and the outdated, or no longer accepted, conclusions have been re-examined.  Over eighty maps, illustrations and photographs enhance the text.  Price: $12.50

 

CRAZY CRATE JP41 BOOK 14: The Fredericksburg Campaign. Drama on the Rappahannock.  By Edward J. Stackpole.  Mechanicsburg, PA.: Stackpole Books. Second edition. 1991. 312 pages.  Softcover.  Of all the battles fought between the Army of Northern Virginia and its opponents, probably less attention has been paid to this battle than to many others.  Originally published in 1957, General Stackpole drew upon his own military experience to analyze the generals and techniques they employed in this exhausting, and perhaps, hopeless battle.  A complete account, meticulously researched by Stackpole, recreates the Fredericksburg campaign, how it was fought and what it signified.  New scholarship and revisionist thinking have challenged some of General Stackpole’s conclusions.  In this 1991 edition, D. Scott Hartwig, a long-time student of Civil War history, analyzes Stackpole’s interpretations and explains why some of his conclusions are challenged by today’s historians.  Price: $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP42: An inadvertent duplicate of CRAZY CRATE JP41.  Not repeated here.  You just passed it, but you can go back and read it again if you want to!

 

CRAZY CRATE JP43: Hello Everyone 

 

CRAZY CRATE JP41 BOOK 5: The Genealogists’s Question and Answer Book.  Solutions and Advice for Maximizing Your Research Results.  By Marcia Yannizze Melnyk.  Cincinnati, OH:  Betterway Books.  2002.  227 pages.  Softcover.  Genealogy is a fast-growing, educational, and thought-provoking pastime, albeit sometimes a frustrating one.  One hundred years ago, there were few secondary sources (published books, indexes, abstracts) available, and researchers had to use the original records wherever they might find them. Today, we have the opposite problem:  too much information from too many sources.  It can be overwhelming to the beginner or the intermediate researcher as to where to begin, what to believe, and what to do next. There are probably almost as many questions regarding genealogical research as there are genealogists.  The questions in this book are designed to aid the beginning and intermediate genealogist.  They come from nearly ten years of teaching classes and lecturing in the genealogical field.  The author asked librarians, lecturers, teachers, and archivists what questions genealogists asked them most frequently.  Amazingly, the same questions showed up over and over again, indicating that they are not adequately addressed in many genealogy books.  This book provides answers to more than 150 of the most commonly asked genealogy questions in a friendly, easy-to-browse format.  The questions are arranged into twelve chapters, covering General Genealogical Questions; Oral History and Home Sources; Vital Records and Church Records; Census Records; Military Records; Immigration and Naturalization Records; Computers, the Internet, Indexes, and Computer Databases; Land, Probate, and Tax Records; Documenting Sources and Determining the Reliability of Records; Newspapers, Periodicals, and City Directories; Cemetery and Funeral Home Records;  and Terminology: Genealogical Terms and What They Mean. Multiple copies of this book are available, so feel free to order one for yourself and some for presents for your genie-buddies!  YOUR SPECIAL Price was [and is]: $12.  So, if you were hoping you would win and you did not; it is not too late, you can order it now!

 

To win that book, you needed to email your answer to John at rockingk@michiana.org.  You had to be sure to put “western writer” in the subject area.  You are too late to participate in that trivia item, but here is what it looked like:  Okay, here we go:

 

Owen Wister is credited with writing the first American Western (The Virginian) and starting a genre quickly captured by dozens of prolific authors (Zane Grey, Max Brand, Clarence Mulford, William Colt McDonald, B. M. Bowers, and others and culminating with the very popular novels of Louis L’Amour and Larry McMurtry.  All but L’Amour and McMutry were born in the east and spent most of their lives in east (except for vacations to the west.)

 

Okay.  Who was the first popular fiction author of the first half of the 20^th century to actually live in the west and write westerns?  The author wrote over 60 books, including several  westerns and, therefore, qualifies as a western fiction writer.

 

Hints:  The author

 

A.  Wrote in several genres including writing several westerns.

B.  Was a cow puncher and miner in Idaho and Oregon before becoming a writer.

C.  Was a ranch owner in Idaho before becoming a writer.

D.  Served in the 7^th Cavalry chasing Apache Indians before becoming a writer.

E.  Moved to California

F.  According to sales statistics his popularity as a writer equaled that of Zane Grey

 

I’ve given you lots of hints and any good genealogist should be able to come up with this answer.  Well, any genealogist who reads a lot of popular western books anyway!  The answer to the above Trivia question was shared with our readers in Crazy Crate JP 44.  The author’s name was Edgar Rice Burroughs.  The winner was Darlene A. of Lebanon, IN whose answer was received on e-mail before the coffee finished perking that same morning. There were several right answers received that same day and a few the next!  To those who didn’t win this time, try again with the next trivia question coming soon.   We are planning another trivia question for a future issue.  Open your newsletter and check for a special feature!

 

Here we are again with another great selection of our books for this Crazy Crate 43. We think, and hope, you may find something in this crate!

 

CRAZY CRATE JP43 BOOK 3: Legacy.  A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Personal History.  By Linda Spence.  Athens, OH:  Swallow Press/ University of Ohio Press.  1997.  155 pages.  Hardcover.  When Linda Spence asked her mother to write her life story, her mother stared at a blank sheet of paper and asked, “How?  Where do I begin?”  In this practical guide to capturing memories that have been stored away, Linda Spence provides the keys to unlocking the recollections that make up a life.  This book is animated by the belief that every life has value and knowledge for others.  A personal history is a gift to share.  It can restore the connection between generations.  What did another time feel like, what did you do to pass the time - or to survive - and how did you feel about your choices.  Through supportive coaching, stimulating questions, shared memories, and evocative photographs, the process of producing a personal history becomes intriguing and engaging.  An introductory chapter explains that writing helps reveal and preserve, easily and comfortably, the essence of one’s life, your desire to let your friends and children know more about you, before you are gone and someone says “I wish I had known him (or her) better” or “I wish that I could go back and ask him (or her) about that.”  In ten chapters, using over sixty family photographs to stimulate the reader, the author takes us from Beginnings and Childhood, Adolescence, Early Adult Years, Marriage, Being a Parent, Middle Adult Years, Being a Grandparent, Later Adult Years, Reflections, and Sources for Questions.  As suggestions for what to include in your own legacy book, this book shows children at work and at play, siblings, family reunions, pets, grandparents and relatives, babies, birthdays, the military, and more.  Each chapter contains anywhere from thirty to as many as seventy easy questions that you can use to bring your memories to life.  This is the kind of book you can use for yourself or give as a gift to a friend or relative, to start them on their way.  Multiple copies (4) of this book are available.  Price:  $20

 

CRAZY CRATE JP43 BOOK 5: River of Forgotten Days.  A Journey down the Mississippi in search of La Salle.  By Daniel Spurr.  New York:  Henry Holt and Co.  1998.  272 pages.  Hardcover.  [Note: This is a used book.  There is an inscription on the inside front fly leaf:  “To Gery from Donna, Ray, Amanda and Sarah.”]  In 1682 the French explorer Robert de La Salle became the first European to journey from the Great Lakes down the Illinois and Mississippi rivers to the Gulf of Mexico.  There at the delta, he claimed for France the vast heartland of America.  With the passage of time, the Mississippi River has become a central part of the American psyche, a running theme in our history and folklore.  Long fascinated by the enigmatic la Salle and eager to expose his young son Steven to the country beyond his fast food and video games, Daniel Spurr - well known to cruising sailors as a writer and editor - now sets off in the rundown and underpowered Pearl to trace La Salle’s route.  From the upper Midwest, where seemingly every town has a street or park named after La Salle, they head downriver to New Orleans and beyond.  What follows is a journey of remembrance and awakening, a juxtaposition of the nation that has grown up along the banks of the Mississippi and the untamed wilderness of la Salle’s time - a ‘pre-America”, that is revealed by the journals and documents of La Salle and his contemporaries.  As Spurr, his son, and grown daughter encounter the people and culture of the region and imagine its history, he illuminates the changes that the landscape and its denizens have undergone.   Here is an author with the rare ability to weave together history, folklore, deeply felt personal memoirs, and the keenest of cultural observations into a work of singular grace and depth.  Over twenty photographs, maps and illustrations enhance the text.  The fourteen-page index covers over 800 entries.  Price:  $12

 

CRAZY CRATE JP43 BOOK 6: Commodore Ellswort P. Berthol.  First Commandant of the Coast Guard.  By C. Douglas Kroll.  Annapolis, MD:  Naval Institute Press.  2002 . First printing.  160 pages.  Hardcover.  When young Ellswort P. Bertholf was court-martialed and dismissed from the Naval Academy for a hazing incident in 1883, no one could have predicted his future greatness.  Undaunted by the experience, Bertholf pursued a career in the U. S. Revenue Cutter Service, earning a special gold medal from Congress in 1902 for his role in a dramatic relief expedition in Alaska to rescue trapped whalers.  By 1915 he had bypassed twenty-two officers senior to him to become the first commandant of the U. S. Coast Guard and went on to successfully steer his fledgling service through the trials of World War I.  This biography of the man known as “the savior of the Coast Guard” offers a revealing portrait not only of Bertholf  but also of the last years of the Revenue Cutter and Life-Saving services and the formative years of the Coast Guard.  This book chronicles Bertholf’s colorful early career with the service when he patrolled the vast reaches of the Pacific, enforced maritime laws regulating the fishing, sealing, and whaling industries, participated in daring rescues, and transported Siberian reindeer from Russia to sustain the starving Inuits in Alaska.  This work also describes Bertholf’s service as the last commandant of the Revenue Cutter Service, his contributions during the transition period to the Coast Guard, and his efforts to preserve the Coast Guard’s separate existence before and after World War I.  Thirteen   photographs and illustrations enhance the text.  The six-page index covers over 300 entries.  Price:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP43 BOOK 7: The Coast Guard Expands, 1865 - 1915.  New Roles, New Frontiers.  By Irving H. King.  Annapolis, MD:  Naval Institute Press.  1996.  First printing.  293 pages.  Hardcover.  This book covers the story of the United States Coast Guard (then known as the Revenue Cutter Service) from 1865 to 1915 when Congress united it with the U. S. Life-Saving Service to create the U. S. Coast Guard.  The book emphasizes the dual character of the service: an adjunct to the naval establishment and a servant that met U S. maritime needs.  In the former capacity, the Revenue Cutter Service fought alongside the U. S. Navy during the Spanish-American War.  In the latter, it took on the character of a humanitarian service during the years of expansion into new frontiers that included Alaska, where it rescued whalers trapped in the ice, saved native Alaskans from starvation, and went to the aid of fur seals threatened with extinction.  It also began operating an international ice patrol, assisted victims of the San Francisco earthquake, helped prevent the spread of yellow fever in the Gulf of Mexico, and provided medical care to deep-sea fishermen.  Sumner Kimball, who served as head of both the Life-Saving Service and the Revenue Cutter Service, eliminated political patronage in the organizations; thus setting a precedent for the nation to follow.  His leadership enabled the Life-Saving Service to become the best organization if it’s kind in the world and the Revenue Cutter Service to establish an academy where capable young men trained for a life of duty.  The chapter on the academy sheds new light on the service’s development, and the work as a whole presents new interpretations of the service’s history and its struggle to survive.  This volume is founded extensively on primary source materials, particularly public records of the relevant government agencies and cruise reports of the cutters.  36 photographs enhance the text. The eleven-page index covers over 500 entries.  Price:  $10

 

CRAZY CRATE JP43 BOOK 9: American and English Genealogies in the Library of Congress.  Compiled Under the Direction of the Chief of the Catalogue Division.    Baltimore:  Genealogical Publishing Company  1967 reprint of edition originally printed in 1919 by the Government Printing Office.  1,332 pages.  Hardcover.  [Note: The corners are bumped and the outside edges are dusty.  The inside hinges are discolored and the binding is good but not tight like in a new book. The inside pages are clean.]   Ex lib copy from a rental library.  This catalog contains the titles of 7,000 American and English genealogies received prior to 1919, 1910 and a few later accessions were incorporated while the work was in press.  The works are arranged alphabetically by names of families, and under each family chronologically.  The 63-page author index covers over 4,800 authors.  Price:  $25

 

CRAZY CRATE JP43 BOOK 13: The French Army in the American War for Independence.  Text by Rene Chartrand and color plates by Francis Back.   London:  Osprey, a division of Reed Consumer Books.  1997 reprint of 1991 edition. 47 pages.  Softcover.  (Osprey Men-at-Arms Series)  The American Revolution was one of the finest hours for France's military and naval forces.  This short study looks at the transformation which occurred in the French armies and navy from 1763.  Although the French were involved in the American colonies, they also had forces elsewhere around the world during the struggle.  Provides a chronology of battles in which the French participated, as well as an overview of French participation in the conflict.   The book contains color and white-and-black plates and illustrations of uniforms and battles. 

This is a quick, excellent source for getting all of the basic facts.    Price:  $14.95

 

CRAZY CRATE JP43 BOOK 13: The United States Army, 1812 - 1815.  By James L Kochan and David Rickman.    Oxford, England: 2000.  Osprey Publishing Co.  48 pages.  Softcover.  On June 17, 1812, President James Madison proclaimed war on Great Britain, throwing the armies of the United States and Great Britain against each other for the next three years. The Army of the United States consisted of around 12,000 men organized into regiments which had never seen war and were led by aging veterans of the American Revolution.  Over the next few months another 25,000 new men were added to the ranks, requiring new uniforms for everyone.  New uniforms were issued in four standard sizes (based upon height).  This book concentrates on the construction of the uniforms worn by the enlisted men and officers in the Rifle, Artillery and Light Dragoon regiments.  52 photographs of contemporary uniforms as well as eight-color illustrations show what the uniforms looked like and how they were worn,   This is a must-have book for anyone involved with living history programs, or who may have had ancestors who were involved in the War of 1812.    Price:  $15

CRAZY CRATE JP 44 BOOK 1:  The New York Mets:  A Photographic History.  Photographs From the Lens of George Kalinsky, Special Photographer to the New York Mets and Official Photographer of Madison Square Garden.  Text by Jon Scher.  Introduction by Governor Mario Cuomo.  New York:  MacMillan.  1995.  227 pages.  Hardcover.  From the lens of George Kalinsky comes this lavish look at the history of the New York Mets - from the team's first day on the field in 1962 up to the 1995 season.
Over 250 stunning photographs capture the drama of this beloved team.  From the diamond to the locker room, pictures of players, coaches and managers make this photographic journey one that will be turned to fondly time and time again.  Casey Stengel, Yogi Berra, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Willie Mays, Mookie Wilson, Dwight Gooden, Daryl Strawberry, Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter, Bobby Bonilla and the many, many others who have found their way into the history and lore of the Mets club are recorded here in a dramatic style. With Stadium Shots, Official Score Book covers, Mets memorabilia and more, Kalinsky has fashioned this volume into what is an extraordinary compilation of the baseball experience.     This book was originally published at $40.00, so our price is a great bargain for any Mets fan.  PRICE:  $20.00
 
 
CRAZY CRATE JP 44 BOOK 2:  A Great and Noble Scheme..  the Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland.   By John Mack Faragher.  New York:  W. W. Norton.  2005.  562 pages.  Hardcover.   On September 7, 1755, the Pennsylvania Gazette printed a dispatch from the maritime province of Nova Scotia reporting that the British were sending the neutral French out of Nova Scotia. "it will be one of the greatest things that ever the English did in America".  At the time these words were published, New England troops acting under the authority of the colonial governors of Nova Scotia and Massachusetts were systematically rounding up more than seven thousand Acadians, who lived along the shores of the Bay of Fundy.  Men, women, and children alike were crowded into transport vessels and deported in small groups to other British colonies across the continent of North America.  Many families were separated - wives from husbands, daughters from mothers - some never to meet again.    Another ten thousand or more fled into the forests and spent years living as homeless refugees.  Thousands of them were captured and deported to France, while others took up arms in guerrilla resistance.   Meanwhile, their property was plundered, their communities were torched, and their lands were seized.  The campaign to "extirpate"(destroy) the Acadian people lasted until the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 and cost thousands of lives.  Their lands were settled by Yankee families from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.  Some Acadians migrated to French Louisiana and became the ancestors of today's Cajuns.  Piecing together the scattered remnants of Acadian civilization in documents and sources buried deep in archives, the author provides the first comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and historically accurate account of the expulsion from both British and Acadian points of view.  It is a story of ethnic cleansing in early America.  There are six pages of detailed maps showing the settlements of Acadia and 16 pages of black-and-white historical illustrations.  PRICE:  $30.00
 
CRAZY CRATE JP 44 BOOK 3:  West Point.  The First 200 years.  The Companion to the PBS Television Special.  By John Grant, James M. Lynch, and Ronald H. Bailey.  Foreward by Buz Aldrin.  Guilford, CT:  The Globe Pequot Press.  2002.  191 pages.  Hardcover.  Established by the founding fathers of a fledgling democratic nation, the United States Military Academy has, in 200 years, trained the leaders of American land forces in every major battle from the Civil War to Afghanistan, instilling in them the creed that has become part of the American cultural fabric - duty, honor, country.  This book is a celebration in words and picture of the venerable military academy's remarkable role in our nation's history.  Published to coincide with the Academy's bicentennial, this lavish commemorative book tells the story of West Point, from its awkward beginnings to the divisiveness of the Civil War through the social challenges of the modern era - including the admission of the first African American and female cadets and the backlash of The Vietnam War.   Woven into the fabric of this extraordinary history are the stories and images of the larger-than-life characters that people the Academy's past:  Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur and H. Norman Schwarzkopf to name just a few.  Stunning full-color photographs of the campus as it looks today; archival images of the Academy; and photos of artifacts and memorabilia from the West Point Museum's collections are featured throughout the pages of this beautiful volume.   PRICE:  $20.00
 
CRAZY CRATE JP 44 BOOK 4:  Defenders of Liberty: African Americans in the Revolutionary War.  By Lt. Col. Michael Lee Lanning (ret.).  New York:  Kensington Publishing Co.  2000.  239 pages.  Hardback.  Beginning with the death of Crispus Attucks at the Boston Massacre, African Americans played a key role in the War for Independence, serving in both Colonial and Loyalist units. At first neither George Washington nor the Continental Congress approved of enlisting African Americans in the Continental Army, but by the third year of the war, manpower shortages overcame prejudices and both local militia and the Continental Army accepted Blacks and integrated them into their units.  Even Southern colonies accepted African Americans in their ranks in order to maintain their regiments fighting strength.  John Paul Jones had African American sailors on the Bonhomme Richard, and there were at least thirteen Blacks serving in the newly formed U. S. Marine Corps.  The average length of time in service for African Americans was four and a half years - eight times longer than the average period for white soldiers.  Other Blacks fought in Spanish and French regiments that allied with the Americans against the British, and the British offered "Liberty to Slaves" to African Americans who joined Loyalist regiments.  There are also appendices listing the estimated White and Black populations in each of the colonies in 1760, 1770, and 1780 as well as percentages of Blacks per colony and proclamations by various colonies and the British government aimed at getting African American support. PRICE:  $17.50
 
CRAZY CRATE JP 44 BOOK 5:  Schuyler Colfax.  The Changing Fortunes of a Political Idol.  By Willard H. Smith.  Indiana Historical Bureau.  1952.  475 pages.  Hardcover.   [Note:  This is an ex-library copy.  The binding is tight and the pages are clean.]  Few men have risen to greater heights of popularity  and then fallen to  greater  depths  of obscurity than Schuyler Colfax.  Colfax was born in New York City in 1823.  His father died of tuberculosis shortly before Schuyler's birth.  He attended school until the age of ten.  After his mother's re-marriage, the family moved to New Carlisle in St. Joseph County, Indiana.  Starting his career as a clerk in his step-father's store, Colfax moved to South Bend, Indiana when his step-father became the county auditor.  Young Colfax became interested in the law and politics, and often contributed articles to the New York Tribune, then became a reporter for the Indiana State Journal.  His journalistic interest increased and he soon found himself to be the editor/owner of the St. Joseph Valley Register, which became an influential Whig, and Republican newspaper.  Colfax was elected to Congress, where he eventually became the Speaker of the House during the Civil War, and a close friend of Abraham Lincoln.  When U. S. Grant was elected President, Colfax became his Vice President.  The Credit Mobilier scandal ruined Colfax's political career and he spent the remainder of his life as a public speaker, often discussing Abraham Lincoln.  He died of a heart attack on January 13, 1885, while on tour in Manakato, Minnesota.   PRICE:  $17.50
 
CRAZY CRATE JP 44 BOOK 6:  Minor League Baseball Towns of Michigan.  Adrial Typsilani.  The Teams and the Ballparks of the Wolverine State from the 1880's to the Present.  By Marc Okkonen.  Holt, MI:  Thunder Bay Press.  1997.  186 pages.  Softcover.  This book is as good as new. NOTE: The binding is tight and the pages are clean.]  This book provides team histories, rare photographs, and location maps for all of the Michigan communities which participated in professional baseball leagues dating back to the 1880s.  This book provides stories on the baseball heroes, pioneers and parks.    PRICE:  $16.95
 
CRAZY CRATE JP 44 BOOK 7:  The Promised Land.  The Great Black Migration and How it Changed America.   By Nicholas Lemann.   New York.  Alfred A. Knopf. 1991.  410 pages.  Hardcover.  Between the early 1940's and the late 1960's more than five million African-Americans left the agricultural fields and farms in the Deep South to find employment in large cities, where they hoped to improve their economic conditions.  This great migration changed the United States from a country where race was a regional issue and black culture existed mainly in rural isolation into one where race relations would affect the texture of life in nearly every city and suburb.  PRICE:  $20.00
 
CRAZY CRATE JP 44 BOOK 8:  God Gave Us This Country.  Tekamthi and the First American Civil War.  By Bill Gilbert.  Atheneum.  New York.  1989.  369 pages.  Hardback.  [NOTE:  ex library copy.  The binding is tight and the pages are clean.]  In the mid-eighteenth century, red and white Americans commenced a struggle to determine which race would be sovereign in the "Old Northwest." as the Great Lakes and the Ohio Valley was once known. The nearly fifty years of strife that ensued were filled with hundred of hit-and-run raids by small partisan bands, occasional battles between armies of warriors and soldiers, and innumerable acts of treachery, terrorism, and torture.  When the fighting was over, thousands of men, women, and children were dead, and the once-free Indian nations had been broken and their surviving people exiled.  In this book, the author provides an absorbing biography and chronicle of Tecumseh, providing a panoramic view of the events and people who shaped the chaotic and critical period of the Ohio Valley at the turn of the nineteenth century.   War and Peace Chiefs, presidents and generals, braves and militiamen, British agents and Canadian traders, missionaries and shamans shaped this chaotic and critical period of North American history.  In the forefront of this account is Tekamthi (often remembered as Tecumseh), the brilliant Shawnee warrior, orator, and political strategist, long renowned as the most astute and able of the red leaders.  Born along the Ohio River as the red-white hostilities were beginning, Tekamthi went to war when he was little more than a boy.  In the early 1800s he became convinced that his people could defend themselves against the United States only by forming a single racial federation.  From a base at Tippecanoe in Indiana, assisted and inspired by his younger brother, the shaman-mystic Tenskwatawa (the Prophet) he traveled between the Great Lakes and the Gulf Coast, recruiting supporters. Though there were fewer than 100,000 free reds in these territories versus the 7,000,000 whites of the United States, the westward advance of Manifest Destiny was slowed, in large part, by the formidable reputation and charismatic influence of Tekamthi.  Tekamtni's defense of his people's lands and liberties led him into the War of 1812, on the British side.  In 1813, after the British surrender in the West, Tekamthi's forces were defeated on the Thames River in southern Ontario.  it was there that Tekamthi died - and the red resistance movement in the Northwest with him.  PRICE:  $15.00
 
CRAZY CRATE JP 44 BOOK 9:  Men of the West.  Life on the American Frontier.  By Cathy Luchetti. New York: W. W. Norton and Co.  2004.  Hardcover. [Note:  Ex-library copy.]  The lure of adventure and riches brought men west. Some had dreams of a quick gold strike and a life of ease.  Some were lone explorers drawn to this vast and unknown land.  Still others were homesteaders eager to put down new roots with their families.  Although some returned back east, worn out by hardship, many more of them forged places for themselves on America's new frontier as cowboys and farmers, bachelors and fathers, outlaws and lawmen.  Cathy Luchetti, captures the great struggles of being a pioneer as well as the difficult process of settling in.  She uses the words of the men themselves, drawn from letters, diaries, and memoirs - not only the iconic cowboys of our imagination but also the doctors, teachers, farmers, and ministers who shaped the culture of the West.   With over 130 photographs that bring these men to life and quotations that come from their hard-won experience, Luchetti portrays sodbusters, six-shooters, farmers, and vendors, as well as frontiersmen from the East, the immigrants from abroad, and the Native Americans whose lives were changed forever by their arrival.  The 12-page index covers over 1,000 entries.  PRICE:  $10.00
 
CRAZY CRATE JP 44 BOOK 10:  THE GREAT SOUTHWEST.  Text by Mary Dos-Baba.  New York:  Crescent Books.   1985.  127 pages.  Hardcover.  [NOTE:  the upper right hand corner of the front of the dust jacket has a tear.  But the rest of the book looks like it was just published.]  The word "desert" usually conjures up an image of vast stretches of wind-rippled sand, a place where no life exists.  The deserts of the American Southwest and the indescribably beautiful Grand Canyon surely render such an image completely false.  As demonstrated by the contemporary photographs in this collection, these deserts are very special places indeed.  Great cities thrive in their midst; wildlife and plant life abounds.  It is an area that has supported human life for thousands of years and has stayed virtually unchanged through all of them.  The Grand Canyon, itself an unforgettable experience, often seems the most unchanged spot on earth, yet much of the change of millions of years is recorded on its walls.  The experience of the American Southwest, from the quiet beauty of the Grand Canyon to the garish lights of Las Vegas, is captured here for those who have already discovered the things there are to love about the American desert and for those who are making the pleasurable discovery for the first time. This is a beautiful book, with over 100 color photographs.  There are captions for a few of the photographs, but most don't need any explanations at all.  PRICE:  $10.00
 
CRAZY CRATE JP 44 BOOK 11:  Genealogical Information taken from the Hartford Times, Hartford, Connecticut, 1963-1964.   154 pages.  Hardbound.   Here is an unusual one-of-a-kind "book".  Whoever did this  "book" cut out  the genealogical queries and answers section of the Hartford, Connecticut newspaper for 1963 and 1964, then reorganized them in alphabetical order according to the surname of the query or answer, photocopied them onto 8 ½ x 11 inch paper and had them professionally bound.   Each query has the date of the newspaper written at the bottom.  There is no index.  PRICE:  $10.00
 
CRAZY CRATE JP 44 BOOK 12:  The Irish.  By William W. Giffin.  Indianapolis:  Indiana Historical Society Press.    2006.  127 pages.  Softcover.  (Volume 1 of the Peopling of Indiana series).  The history of the Irish in Indiana is intricately woven into the fabric of the state's history.  The Irish first arrived in Indiana along with the fur traders in the 1700s.  In the 1800s many Irish immigrants struggled to create new lives as they built Indiana's early canals, roads, and railroads.  As Indiana progressed, so did the Irish.  Today, Hoosiers of Irish origin can be found in all facets of Indiana society from business and medicine to law and politics.  From humble beginnings, Indiana's Irish have become an integral part of the state's tapestry while continuing to celebrate their Celtic past.  Nearly 30 photographs and illustrations enhance the text.  PRICE:  $13.95
 
CRAZY CRATE JP 44 BOOK 13:  Pictorial History of Gone With the Wind.  By Gerald Gardner and Harriet Modell Gardner.  New York:  Bonanza Books.  1983.  192 pages.  Hardcover.  The movie, "Gone With The Wind" has become a legend and the search for its star something of a Cinderella story.  This pictorial history is a collection of facts and artifacts, memories and memorabilia that sprang from this legend.  What is most exciting about this book is the unique and imaginative way in which it presents the facts on the making of this extraordinary film.  Is perspectives are unique and its graphics supplement the text in intriguing ways.  The book includes an extraordinary table of organization, the complex army of experts and egos that combined their talents to create the film; a picture history from the 684 scenes that comprised the movie and the turmoil and torment that dogged their shooting;  a nostalgic cornucopia as the fan magazine exploded in an orgy of gossip and glorification; a listing of the tragedies that hounded the principal actors and directors; and the unusual gallery that shows how Scarlett and Rhett would have looked if their parts had been played by the other actors considered for the roles.  PRICE: $12.00
 
CRAZY CRATE JP 44 BOOK 14:  FAMILY FINDER CHARTS.  Volume 3.  December 1991.  Yucaipa Valley Genealogical Society. 176 pages plus a ten-page index.  Loose leaf with holes for a 3 ring binder.  This volume is a compilation of the pedigree charts of selected members of the Yucaipa Valley Genealogical Society (in Yucaipa, California).  The charts were compiled by the members, from their own research, and should be taken as such.  Addresses for members are shown. The 10-page index contains over 750 surnames.  The most common surnames are Batchelder, Blakesley, Brown, Dearborn, Green/Greene, Moulton, Sanborn, Smith, Taylor, and Wright.  PRICE:  $10.00

 

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