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Robert Montgomery Bird

Nick of the Woods (Illustrated)

KENTUCKY, 1782. THE DARK AND BLOODY GROUND. In the East, the war for American independence is nearly won. Beyond the mountains, it has merely changed its shape. Kentucky is not yet a state. It is border country: forest, river, scattered stations behind timber walls—and between them a wilderness in which law, news, and rescue may lie days away.

440 print pages · Updated edition submitted to KDP; review in progress.

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Robert Montgomery Bird

The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow

In Pennsylvania, the Revolution has left loyalties divided and old injuries unsettled. The return of a dispossessed family draws love, inheritance and revenge into the same conflict. A mysterious stranger and the outlaw reputation of the Hawks turn a quiet valley into a place where every allegiance has a price.

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Francis Parkman

The Oregon Trail (Illustrated)

The Great Plains in 1846: emigrant trains, buffalo hunts, trading posts, and weeks in an Oglala camp. Parkman’s first book records a journey into a West still being travelled and contested.

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James Hall

The Harpe’s Head (Illustrated)

Virginia in the 1790s: a young stranger rides into the settled world of the planter aristocracy, while in the mountains and canebrakes of Kentucky the Harpe brothers make the borderlands a place where no traveller rides safe. Hall sets a romance of planters and pioneers against the darkest legend of the Kentucky frontier.

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Charles Brockden Brown

Edgar Huntly (Illustrated)

Published in 1799, Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker is one of the formative works of American Gothic fiction.

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William Gilmore Simms

The Yemassee (Annotated)

Along the southern frontier, an old alliance is breaking apart. Trade, debt, settlement and the surrender of land have driven relations between the English colony and the Yamasee toward war. Beyond the scattered plantations and blockhouses lie forests in which rumor, diplomacy and violence move faster than authority.

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Edwin Tappan Adney

The Klondike Stampede

There are moments in history when a distant name acquires the force of a summons. In the closing years of the nineteenth century, Klondike became such a name.

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Francis Parkman

The Discovery of the Great West

Before the wagon roads, before the frontier towns and before the rails, the great western road of New France into the heart of North America ran by water.

Forthcoming in paperback and hardcover.

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Francis Parkman

The Conspiracy of Pontiac (Annotated)

Parkman’s history of Pontiac’s war of 1763 against the British posts of the Great Lakes and the Ohio, in the complete text of the first edition of 1851.

Forthcoming in paperback and hardcover.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Tales

There are mysteries which the keenest intellect may unravel, and others which lie buried so deeply within the human soul that reason itself recoils before them.

Coming 4 November 2026

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Charles Brockden Brown

Wieland (Illustrated)

On a quiet estate above the Schuylkill, a brother and sister live among books, music and friends. Then a voice begins to speak where no speaker can be seen.

Forthcoming