In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the continent in just...

"The Death of Tecumseh" ist ein Teil der Reihe "Adventures in Canadian History: The Battles of the War of 1812" von Pierre Berton. Das Buch konzentriert sich auf die Schlacht von Thames und den Tod von Tecumseh, einem berühmten Anführer...

With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism,...