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Set in a region of northern New Hampshire that for several years in the 1830s declared itself an independent nation, Joshua Harmon's debut novel traces the real and imagined travels of Martha Hennessy, a girl wishing for a life beyond her family s farm. In language as varied and musical as the Connecticut River the title invokes, Quinnehtukqut interweaves Martha's story with those of the dreamers and drifters whose lives intersect hers: an American soldier scarred by the first World War, a mythical and murderous tramp seeking lost Indian gold, a man haunted by his memories of Byrd's expeditions to Antarctica, an industrialist longing to become a woodsman, and an old woman forced to leave her home due to the planned flooding of a valley. Elegiac and lyrical, evocative and visionary, Quinnehtukqut reveals how people inhabit place and how place inhabits people through its vivid study of the New England landscape..
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In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, while governments, politicians, and entrepreneurs argued about the boundary between northern New England and British Canada, a group of hardy individuals were otherwise occupied, carving a life in the wooded frontier that would come to be known as Indian Stream. The Treaty of Paris ending the American Revolution set the US boundary at "the northwesternmost head of the Connecticut River," but with three streams feeding into that head, conflict was inevitable.

For nearly 60 years residents of this wild northern outpost were caught in a dispute that ren-dered both land titles and international boundaries uncertain. As squabbling increased among the US, Canada, New Hampshire legislators, and two companies claiming land rights, the settlers decided to take matters into their own hands. In 1832, they declared themselves the independent Indian Stream Republic, establishing a constitution, a bicameral legislature, courts, laws, and a militia. But New Hampshire and Canada were not impressed. The state tried to enforce its laws, the jurisdictional battle escalated, the Indian Stream militia "invaded" Canada, and blood"though only a trickle -- was shed..
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The first World Series was a best-of-nine series between the Boston Americans and the Pittsburg Pirates, with the first three games to be played in Boston starting at the Huntington Avenue Grounds on October 1, 1903. The series started with baseball's winningest pitcher, Cy Young, throwing the first pitch, and ended with baseball's greatest hitter, Honus Wagner, striking out on the last pitch. Boston won the series, five games to three.

Each game of the 1903 World Series and its key plays and players are thoroughly covered here, and the authors also pay special attention to the great significance that first World Series held for the future of baseball. Not only was the survival of the American League at stake, but baseball's place as the preeminent sport in America. The 1903 World Series drew more than 100,000 people to the ballparks, and there was no doubt about the popularity of the game. It was, as the authors point out, played by men, who, had they not been baseball players, would have been among the working class that made up most of the audience..
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The Steelers had to find a man to replace the only coach in NFL history to win four Super Bowl championships Less than a month later the Steelers settled on a native son, Crafton native and Carlynton High School graduate Bill Cowher, and gave him an assignment that was as simple as it was awesome: Revive one of the league's cornerstone franchises and return it to the glory of the 1970s when Noll's black and gold ruled the world of pro football. It didn't take long for Steelers fans to realize that Cowher was the right man for the job.

His team immediately reflected his own thundering, swaggering personality. The Steelers took chances and played with a renewed vigor that caught the NFL by surprise. Cowher's first team gave Pittsburgh its first AFC Central championship in eight years and he was named NFL coach of the year for 1992. The 11-5 record that season was the Steelers' best since their last trip to the Super Bowl in January 1980.

And the winning didn't stop there. Cowher took the Steelers to pro football's pinnacle - Super Bowl XXX - in the 1995 season, this despite stumbling to a 3-4 start and losing defensive star Rod Woodson for the season to a torn knee ligament in the opening game. At 38, Cowher became the youngest coach to lead his team to a Super Bowl and, despite a less-than-satisfying outcome against Dallas in the Super Bowl, he had firmly established himself as one of the league's premier coaches.

Ten years into his reign, Cowher remains at the top of the game. After a three-year absence from the playoffs, the Steelers returned to prominence in 2001 and came within one win of playing again in the Super Bowl. And Cowher reminded Steelers fans not to count him out - or count story-of-the-year ballots - before his team has its final say..
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North of the thick pine and oak forests of the Ouachitas Mountains, in the foothills beyond the Kiamichi and the Winding Stair Mountains, two trails crossed in the rolling valley nestled between the Shawnee Hills and the Sans Bois Mountains. In the early 1800s, that valley became the home of the Mississippi Choctaw tribe, part of the U.S.-designated Indian Territory. When the railroad boom of the late 1800s occurred, the tracks followed the same cattle trails and pioneer roads, creating a transportation hub at the point where rail lines intersected, a place that later became the county seat of Pittsburg County..
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