Ill-Fated Frontier

What happened in between--a cautionary tale of greed, incompetence, and hubris--lies at the center of this fascinating account by Harvard historian Samuel A. Forman. Endorsed by New York Times best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick, it is a startling and frank portrait of a young America that examines the dream of an

Ill-Fated Frontier is at once a pioneer adventure and a compelling narrative of the frictions that emerged among entrepreneurial pioneers and their sixty slaves, Indians fighting to preserve their land, and Spanish colonials with their own agenda. Here is a lively and visceral portrait of the wild and enduring American

In 1755, the British Colonies in the new world are embroiled in a war against the French and their Indian allies. A young woodsman named Daniel Boone wants to prove he can support a wife. He signs on as a teamster with General Edward Braddock's ill-fated army that is destroyed

Cyrus S. Eaton was born on December 27, 1883, in the quiet Nova Scotian village of Pugwash. He often visited Cleveland, Ohio, spending summer vacations from college with his uncle and was employed in 1905 by his first teacher, John D. Rockefeller Sr., as a clerk and troubleshooter for the

This treatise of current and future airline management examines early airline strategy and development, and looks at different ways of developing and projecting air transport strategies in the light of the new industrial environment of privatization and deregulation.