Broyles Auto & Wrecker Service Inc – Glen Allen, VA
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Joshua Norton: American Emperor and Protector of Mexico $1.99 California and New York have had their share of titans, moguls and tycoons, but only California can boast of having been the home of an emperor: Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. This improbable story of Joshua Norton has captured the hearts and minds of people such as Mark Twain, David Belasco, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Herbert Asbury; Norton even made a brief appe… |
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Taking the Sea: Perilous Waters, Sunken Ships, and the True Story of the Legendary Wrecker Captains $3.99 “Kirkus Reviews” summarized: “Maritime historian Powers (Treasure Ship and others) offers a series of vignettes from the golden age of American marine salvage. It extended from the end of the Civil War to the decade following World War I. Sail was merging with steam, wooden hulls with iron ones, but as the nation expanded westward in the wake of the Forty-Niners, the burgeoning demand for co… |