Selected and organized by leading organic chemists.* A-to-Z coverage of acidic and basic reagents.

Handbook of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, 4 Volume Set

Science & Math

Coates, Robert M.

Chemistry

wiley

Yesterday's Burdens

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Tough Poets Press

The Natchez Trace is remarkable in American history for the legends and tales surrounding it. During the first half of the nineteenth century, travelers--traders, settlers, and the occasional war party or fugitive from justice--followed its course from the Appalachians to the lower Mississippi, from Knoxville to Natchez. 
In this vibrant and energetic account, the author has mined both history and legend for startling tales of the near-mythical thieves, cutthroats, and confidence men once reported to have stalked their unsuspecting victims along this frontier trail--the terrible Harpe brothers, who came to a satisfactorily bad end; Samuel Mason, a thief done in by other thieves; and John Murrell, whose reputed schemes threw the South into a paroxysm of fear. Robert M. Coates retells the stories of these and other "land pirates" in chilling and ominous detail, preserving for us the tales once whispered on the edges of the dark southern woods nearly two centuries ago.

The Outlaw Years: The History of the Land Pirates of the Natchez Trace

History

Americas

Bison Books

A memorable period piece, remarkable for its vivid language and thematic structure, Yesterday’s Burdens is an obsessive Story of New York life in the 1930s.
Malcolm Cowley, a close personal friend of Robert Coates, has pointed out in his Afterword to this new edition the aptness of this novel to its time. Yesterday’s Burdens is an informal story of an unconventional young man of the 1930s. The central character, Henderson, typifies the successful young New Yorker, whose life style reflects the restless, seeking, discontented mood of his time. With him, the reader crisscrosses Manhattan, visits speakeasies, crashes parties, and participates in Henderson’s sexual activities and his possible suicide (the novel has three endings).
Frankly experimental in technique, the novel attempts the universal in its appeal. Readers today no doubt will appreciate the unexpected tenderness and passion with which the author endows his very ordinary characters.

Yesterday's Burdens (Lost American Fiction)

Action & Adventure

Southern Illinois University Press

Outlaws who preyed on traffic along the Natchez Trace from Natchez to New Orleans from about 1880 until 1885, among other violent and lawless acts, planned to build an empire using the labor of stolen slaves.

The outlaw years;: The history of the land pirates of the Natchez trace

Travel

United States

Gale Research Co

1985, trade paperback edition (with an introduction by Brendan Gill) (originally published 1948), Arbor House, NY. 210 pages. Robert Coates was a contemporary of Hemingway and Stein. He never achieved their popularity, but many critics have praised him as one of our lost men of letters. In this novel, Coates writes of a mad man who is a sympathetic character. Quite a book.

Wisteria cottage (Arbor House library of contemporary Americana)

Arbor House

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The Outlaw Years the History of the Land Pirates of the Natchez Trace

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Kessinger Publishing

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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