Where Critters Get the Jitters - Prijzen

History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain. by William H. Prescott ...Vol. 2

The Pig War

With a plot to grace any comic opera, the 1859-72 'Pig War' broke out when an American living on a quietly disputed small island in the Gulf of Georgia shot a British pig he found rooting up his garde...

The Poetry of Travelling in the United States. by Caroline Gilman. With Additional Sketches, by A Few Friends; and A Week Among Autographs, by Rev. S. Gilamn.

Canary Islanders of San Antonio

Acting on a decree from the king of Spain, the first Canary Islanders arrived in San Antonio in 1731, just thirteen years after the city's founding. In the intervening centuries, the descendants of th...