Where the Herring Run

Albert Crosby, a shrewd and industrious Yankee gentleman travels to Chicago in a prairie schooner with $10,000 worth of mercantile goods to pursue his lifelong quest for financial independence. His business venture becomes so successful family members are summoned to the Midwest to help him. Despite his financial success, Albert's

The Run, first published in 1959 and a classic in nature-writing, describes the life-history of the alewife, a small type of herring that spawns in freshwater, travels to the ocean when a fingerling, and then returns to its freshwater birthplace in impressive swarms as an adult. Author John Hay (1915-2011)

A guide to the history of the Massachusetts region for visitors, locals and armchair tourists alike. The South Shore is an intriguing mix of antiquity and modernity. The region’s first settlement, Plymouth, is a top tourist destination, as more than one million visitors flock to it annually. Quincy showcases the

Books about Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the Fiscal Year ... with Appendixes

Books about Annual Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce for the Fiscal Year Ended ...