"It was Sunday and an unusually warm evening for October eighth, so Daniel 'Peg Leg' Sullivan left his stifling little house in the West Side of Chicago and went to visit neighbors. One of his stops was at the shingled cottage of Patrick and Catherine O'...

Illustrated with black-and-white reproductions. Murphy draws readers into the adventure of train travel in the late nineteenth century by recreating the trip Scotsman Robert Louis Stevenson took in 1879 as he traveled from Glasgow to New York to Monterey, California, to see the...

THE EMIGRANTS to Australia "have generally consisted of the pick of the labouring classes, male and female, of the United Kingdom, and in this respect they compare favourably with the unselected and heterogeneous masses who have gone to America of their own free...