The following pages represent some of the results of four journeys into the interior of Peru and also many explorations into the labyrinth of early writings which treat of the Incas and their Land....

Martha Finley (1828-1909) who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Martha Farquharson, was the author of Black Steve (1865), Elsie Dinsmore (1867), Casella (1869), Holidays at Roselands (1873), Elsie's Girlhood (1873), Elsie's Womanhood (1875), Elsie's Motherhood (1876), Elsie's Children (1877), Gran...

Point of Rocks features the Satterfield family of Alexandria, Virginia, as participants in the bitter 1820-1840 competition between the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Goaded by the success of the Erie Canal in New York State, a group of ruthless and adventuro...