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The Black Garden
by John S. McFarland
The year is 1882, and Perdita Badon-Reed, a sheltered Boston esthete, has just made the most momentous decision of her life. Having spurned a respectable suitor, she finds herself on a riverboat on the Mississippi River, steaming toward the strange French Colonial village of Ste. Odile to accept a teaching position at a girls' academy and pursue her dream of becoming a stone sculptor. Of the many hardships that await her, the one she least expects looms in the form of Orien Bastide, an incubus who has conducted his seductive and parasitic existence for two millennia. Perdita soon realizes the full horror of Bastide's intentions, and that she alone has the will to stop him. In order to defeat the treacherous Bastide and save future generations from his advances, Perdita must abandon her personal ambitions and, perhaps, her life.
Paperback $7.99 (ISBN 1-880397-69-2)
Hardcover $18.95 (ISBN 1-880397-70-6)
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Rising on the River: St. Louis 1822 to 1850, Explosive Growth from Town to City
by Frederick A. Hodes, Ph.D.
914 pages; index; bibliography; illustrations; notes
The second part in a multi-volume history of St. Louis, Rising on the River tells the story of the boomtown that rose to become the commercial hub and cultural capital of the American frontier. While the book is the authoritative and thoroughly researched result of more than thirty years of scholarship, it's also a work of vivid storytelling that will excite anyone interested in nineteenth century St. Louis.
See Volume 1, Beyond the Frontier: A History of St. Louis.
ISBN 1-880397-67-6 for paperback, $29.95
ISBN 1-880397-68-4 for hardcover, $49.95
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The Lincoln Highway: Illinois
Gregory M. Franzwa
108 pp., 128
photographs, 37 maps, Index
This volume begins in Clinton, Iowa, a city that enthusiastically proclaims its Lincoln Highway presence. From there, you will travel east to follow the Lincoln across Illinois to the Indiana state line. The location of the rickety old bridge that carried Alice Ramsey across the Mississippi River in 1909 is pointed out as you enter the state. Portions of the original road are driven on or walked on wherever they may be found. Colorful murals and painted signs depicting the Lincoln Highway era, as well as an arch, concrete Lincoln Highway posts, old bridge abutments, a restored gas station, plus a unique fountain and other artifacts will be seen as you traverse the beautiful Illinois countryside. One hundred twenty-eight photographs enhance this book, many dating from Lincoln Highway days, and many taken in the summer of 2008. Three days were spent in the newspaper archives in Springfield, gleaning stories pertaining to the old highway. The text includes the customary driving directions interwoven with the era’s history, plus a portfolio of maps prepared by Jess Petersen.
Don’t miss out on owning a copy of Gregory M. Franzwa’s final book, The Lincoln Highway: Illinois.
Leather, $150.00, ISBN 1-880397-61-7
Cloth, $37.95, ISBN 1-880397-61-9
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Seven Months to Oregon: 1853
Harold J. Peters
443 pp., 51 illustrations (maps,
photos, charts), Foreword by Mark O. Hatfield, Bibliography,
Index
A remarkable new book of diary and
reminiscent accounts of several missionary families who
traveled from Upstate New York to Oregon. Gustavus Hines,
two of his brothers, their families, and trail companions
wrote extensively of the trip. They traveled by horseback,
overland stage, and train to the Ohio and Mississippi
Rivers, steamboats to Westport, and by covered wagons on the
well-beaten Oregon Trail. Remarkably literate journalists,
they wrote almost nightly, and although they traveled
together their accounts are surprisingly diverse. The oldest
brother drowned while fording the Snake River west of Fort
Boise. A fourth brother applied for missionary service too
late to accompany the overlanders and traveled to the
Willamette Valley by sea, crossing to the Pacific Ocean over
the Isthmus of Panama.
John Mack Faragher, author of Women
and Men on the Overland Trails, wrote this about the new
book: “Bringing together several firsthand accounts of a
family’s overland migration in 1853, Peters vividly
recaptures the excitement, the drudgery, the hope, and the
heartbreak of ordinary people in extraordinary times.”
This book is a must for those who love the history of the
Oregon Trail.
Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 1-880397-66-8
Paperback, $24.95, ISBN 1-880397-65-X
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The
Mormon Trail Revisited
Gregory M. Franzwa
The Mormon Trail Revisited directs
today's motorists to the exact route of the 1846-47 Mormon Pioneer
Trail, as closely as possible over today's roadways, more than 90
percent gravel and in excellent condition. The 284-page book
combines driving directions, historical vignettes, and more than 200
photographs of the trail and historic sites along the 1,400-mile
trek. The route extends from Nauvoo, Ill., on the east bank of the
Mississippi River, across southern Iowa to Council Bluffs; across
Nebraska from Omaha to Scotts Bluff; across Wyoming (mostly on the
route of the Oregon Trail) to Fort Bridger, and from the
Utah-Wyoming border to downtown Salt Lake City, where the first plow
bit into the virgin soil on July 23, 1847. It's thrilling, every
inch of the way.
Paperback ISBN 1-880397-64-1, $24.95
Hardcover ISBN 1-880397-63-3, $39.95
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My Life As a Jarhead
Ralph Walker-Willis, 2000, Tucson, The Patrice Press,
137 pp.,
15 photographs, $12.95, pb only.
ISBN 1-880397-37-4
"A terrific blast to my rear slammed me flat on my face. Debris
fell all over and around me. A very large something slammed down beside
me. I realized it was, until a minute before, a human being. Now it was
almost beyond recognition, burned black and bloated, its arms and legs
still jerking like a puppet."
That’s how Ralph Willis described his first moments on the beach at
Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945. After many days of ferocious combat, he
and his exhausted comrades were invigorated when they saw the American
flag being raised atop Mount Suribachi in one of the most dramatic
moments of World War II. With a clear, easy-to-read style, Willis
alternates both humor and poignancy in describing the ubiquitous K
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The Lincoln Highway: California
Gregory M. Franzwa
The sixth volume of the western state-by-state Lincoln Highway
series is now in print. The 211-page deluxe hardcover, with 120 photos and
128 full-page maps, covers all four legs of the Lincoln Highway, 1913-1928.
The text portion gives a complete history of the road, including a
driving-hiking guide.
The northern route starts just west of Verdi, Nev., loops over the Dog
Valley Road and on over Donner Pass—then down the slope to Sacramento. The
main road extends southwest of the capital, through Stockton and Oakland,
then across the bay to the Western Terminus at San Francisco.
The southern road extends from the south shore of Lake Tahoe to Sacramento.
The 1928 version proceeds southwest from Sacramento through Vacaville,
Fairfield, Vallejo, and on to Berkeley.
ISBN: 1-880397-58-7, $39.95
The other five volumes are also in print: Iowa, $34.95; Nebraska, $34.95;
Wyoming, $34.95; Utah, $39.95; and Nevada, $44.95. S/h is $4.95 for the
first book in the order; $1.50 for each additional book.
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Old Oregon Trail Wall Map
Irvin Shope
This three-color map shows the routes of 13 western trails, including the
Oregon, California, Barlow, Lewis & Clark, Santa Fe, Overland Stage, Pony
Express, and others.
High gloss, 100 lb. paper,
24¾" x 16½".
Patrice Press retailer discounts apply. $3.95 |
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History
As They Lived It
Margaret Kimball Brown
348 pp + xxii, illus., maps, appendix, references, index, paperback
only,
ISBN 1-880397-57-9, $22.95 + $4.95 s/h
Once every two or three decades a book is published casting new light
on almost forgotten towns of the middle Mississippi Valley.
Natalia Belting’s Kaskaskia Under the French Regime is one.
Carl Ekberg’s towering Colonial Ste.
Genevieve is another. Now, Margaret Kimball Brown takes us back to
1722, the founding of Prairie du Rocher, and brings us forward to the
twenty-first century. Wedding the skills of a trained and careful historian
to a delightful brand of journalism, she presents this fascinating study of a
lively little community.
The appearance of History As
They Lived It at this particular time is most welcome, for it brings
together the fully ripened thoughts of a mature scholar at the very moment
that students of the Illinois Country need such a book.
—Carl J. Ekberg, Ph.D., author of Colonial Ste. Genevieve, An Adventure in the Mississippi Valley
In History As They Lived It, Margaret
Kimball Brown displays at once the curiosity of the archaeologist, the
tenacity of the archivist, the broad view of the sociologist, and the
discipline and analysis of the historian. It returns to us the many
particulars and motifs that help us to identify (and accept with enduring
gratitude) the ethos that has made Prairie du Rocher, our second mother, a
very special community.
—Dan Franklin, coauthor of three major books published by McGraw
Hill.
Dr. Brown’s work is
unique and fills a major void in the history of Midwestern communities, as
she examines over a period of some two hundred years the long and unusual
persistence of the French cultural identity, the integration of early
American arrivals into this culture, and lastly the process of eventual
French integration into American culture.
—Pierre LeBeau, Professor of History, North
Central College,
Naperville, Ill.
About the Author
Margaret
Kimball Brown earned the Ph.D. in anthropology from Michigan State
University in 1973. She
served as site manager of Cahokia Mounds Historic Site from 1984 to 1998,
where her work earned high honors and brought international fame to the Illinois landmark. She
was staff archaeologist/chief archaeologist of the Illinois Department of
Conservation from 1975 to 1984. She has lived in Prairie du Rocher for many
years.
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Alice’s Drive
Alice Huyler Ramsey
265 pp, 161 illustrations, 108 notes, index.
ISBN 1-880397-56-0, $19.95 plus $4.95 s/h,
paperback only .
This is what leading historians have to say about Alice Ramsey:
"By being the first woman to drive a car across the United States in 1909, Alice Ramsey proved
without doubt that America’s
burgeoning love affair with the new-fangled horseless carriage and the open
road applied equally to both sexes. Alice’s
Drive puts us in the front seat of her brand new Maxwell DA to join in her
grand and historic adventure."
—Dayton Duncan, author of Horatio’s Drive: America’s First Road Trip;
Out West: A Journey through Lewis and Clark’s America; and several other
books about American history.
"Thanks to The Patrice Press, we now have Alice Ramsey’s
hard-to-find book in beautiful form, with extras spilling out of the rumble
seat. With maps, then-and-now photos and postcards, and marvelous
contemporary newspaper articles, it makes me want to follow her tire tracks
all over again, from sea to shining sea!"
—David Haward Bain, author of Empire Express and The Old Iron Road
"Ten years before women were given the right to vote, Alice Ramsey
drove her motorcar across America,
following much of the route that would become the Lincoln Highway four years later. This
Patrice Press edition not only reprints Ramsey's book, but includes more than
100 additional pages of annotations and explanatory material. A must-have for
your motoring library."
—Chris Plummer, national president, Lincoln Highway Association
"Like millions of American women before her and since, Alice
Ramsey did something brave, adventurous, and now largely forgotten. This fine
book brings her back to life, gives us context for her journey, and reminds
us that women have taken to the road with every bit as much gusto as
men."
—Drake Hokanson, writer and photographer, is the author of Lincoln Highway: Main Street
across America
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