Non-Fiction

 

HAUNTED OLD WEST: Phantom Cowboys, Spirit-Filled Saloons, Mystical Mine Camps, and Spectral Indians

By Matthew P. Mayo
(Globe Pequot Press; August 21, 2012)
(Softcover, 6 x 9; 280 pages; $14.95)

From romance and robberies to cowboys and Indians, the Old West is filled with phenomenal happenings, curious mysteries, and ghastly ghosts that are sure to send a chill down any spine.

Haunted Old West is the petrifyingly perfect collection for any campfire gathering. Grab a copy … if you dare!

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SOURDOUGHS, CLAIM JUMPERS & DRY GULCHERS:
Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Frontier Prospecting

By Matthew P. Mayo

(TwoDot; June 5, 2012)
(Softcover; 6 x 9; 320 pages; 28 historic photos; $16.95)

These 50 moments are truly gritty, sometimes humorous, often shocking and brutal, and always all-too-true.

Sourdoughs, Claim Jumpers & Dry Gulchers offers half-a-hundred tales of hard-bitten sourdoughs, petty bandits, outright outlaws, guilt-free gunmen, and murderous money-grubbers as they scrabbled to gain the lands, foodstuffs, and fortunes of wide-eyed greenhorns, gullible and trusting tenderfoots, and slow-on-the-draw gold panners.

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VERMONT ICONS:
50 Classic Symbols of the Green Mountain State

By Jennifer Smith-Mayo and Matthew P. Mayo

(Globe Pequot Press; July 3, 2012)
(Hardcover w/ dust sleeve; Square format; 112 full-color pages)

Vermont Icons illustrates the quintessential symbols that make the Green Mountain State so singularly fascinating. Profiled within these pages are fifty classic symbols of this extraordinary state, revealing little-known facts, longtime secrets, and historical legends. Readers will be delighted by the hundreds of full-color-photographs of the people, places, events, foods, animals, and traditions that make Vermont the state that it is. From back roads to Bag Balm, from fiddleheads to fall foliage, Vermont Icons offers up the inside story about the very things that help give this state its unique character.

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NEW HAMPSHIRE ICONS:
50 Classic Symbols of the Granite State

By Jennifer Smith-Mayo and Matthew P. Mayo

(Globe Pequot Press; July 3, 2012)
(Hardcover w/ dust sleeve; Square format; 112 full-color pages)

New Hampshire Icons illustrates fifty quintessential symbols that make the Granite State so singularly fascinating, revealing little-known facts, longtime secrets, and historical legends. Readers will be delighted by the hundreds of full-color-photographs of the people, places, events, foods, animals, and traditions that make New Hampshire the state that it is. From frost heaves to Robert Frost, from Stonyfield Yogurt to the NH State House, from Mt. Washington to Mt. Monadnock, New Hampshire Icons offers up the inside story about the very things that help give this state its unique character.

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MAINE ICONS:
50 Classic Symbols of the Pine Tree State

By Jennifer Smith-Mayo and Matthew P. Mayo

(Globe Pequot Press; May, 2011)
(Hardcover w/ dust sleeve; Square format; 112 full-color pages; ISBN: 978-0762759989.)

A handsome visual tour of Maine, this book consists of 50 classic symbols of the Pine Tree State. Maine Icons profiles the likely suspects—lobster, blueberries, lighthouses, whoopie pies—but you’ll find a whole lot of surprises in these pages, too (Raye’s Mustard, Renys, Fog, and so many more!).

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BOOTLEGGERS, LOBSTERMEN & LUMBERJACKS:
Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Hardscrabble New England

By Matthew P. Mayo
(Globe Pequot Press; October, 2010)
(Softcover; 6 x 9; 320 pages; 28 historic photos; $16.95; ISBN: 978-0-7627-5968-2)

“American history at its most violent and authentic.” —Howard Frank Mosher, award-winning author

In Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Hardscrabble New England, author Matthew P. Mayo presents 50 narrative-driven tales covering hundreds of years of incredible, true accounts of Indian abductions and all-out wars; of timber-tough men in the golden age of New England logging; of suspected witches being hung and crushed by stones; of savage storms, fantastic shipwrecks, ruthless pirates, and half-starved castaways; of train wrecks, blizzards, and nor’easters; of the hair-raising exploits of rumrunners, smugglers, and bootleggers; of hardworking lobstermen driven to settle their differences any way they can; of hill farmers with fast cars during Prohibition doing their best to survive in the challenging and unique locale that is New England—as much a place as a state of mind.

Here’s a taste of what’s inside:

• The Pilgrims’ first winter is a time of disease, starvation, and death

• Giles Corey is pressed to death with stones during the Salem Witch Trials

• Hannah Duston’s scalping spree leaves 14 Indians dead

• Every month in 1816 saw a killing frost, and famine swept through New England

• Big Jim Cullen gets his neck stretched in New England’s only lynching

• A R.I. girl’s corpse is mutilated, then her family inhales the fumes of her burning organs

• The mother of all logjams rips apart a Vermont town

• Two-million gallons of molasses in a 40-foot wall roars through Boston

• A high-speed Vermont booze-run ends in a shooting, a car wreck, and a dead boy

• FBI’s most-wanted, the Al Brady Gang, are outwitted by savvy Mainers

• Nazis from a submarine use a small Maine town as their entry to sabotage the US

• Lobstermen cut trap lines, burn docks, sink boats, and then the shooting starts

(Read the reviews here.)

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COWBOYS, MOUNTAIN MEN & GRIZZLY BEARS:
Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of the Wild West

By Matthew P. Mayo
(Globe Pequot Press/TwoDot; December, 2009)
(Softcover; 6 x 9; 264 pages; 27 historic photos; $16.95)

From the first bloody battles between mountain men and Indians to shootouts between famous gunslingers, Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears targets what draws people to the history and literature of the Wild West. Matthew P. Mayo, noted author of Western novels, takes the fifty wildest episodes in the region’s history‚ including John Colter’s harrowing escape from the Blackfeet, Hugh Glass’s six-week crawl to civilization after a grizzly attack, and Custer’s last moments‚ and presents them in one unputdownable, action-packed volume!

Read all about:
· John Colter’s harrowing escape from the Blackfeet

· Hugh Glass’s six-week crawl to civilization after a grizzly attack

· Janette Riker’s brutal winter in the Rockies

· John Wesley Powell’s treacherous run through the rapids of the Grand Canyon

· The Earp Brothers’ hot-tempered gun battle at Tombstone

· General Custer’s ill advised final clash with the Sioux

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(Read an excerpted chapter here.)

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