New Releases by Raymond Bial

Presents information on the past and present culture of the Arapaho Indians.

Chronicles Washington''s path from the farm he inherited at age eleven, to the forests and marshes where he battled against the British, to the halls of government where he made his political mark, and finally, to the fields of Mount Vernon, where he spent

Travel to the sites where colonial villages, longhouses, missions and presidios, frontier settlements, and cow towns once thrived. Bial''s photography captures the amazing spirit of the many different people who carved communities from our rugged land. Discover how they built homes and started businesses, made and traded goods,m and worked incredibly hard to realize their dreams.

Travel to the sites where colonial villages, longhouses, missions and presidios, frontier settlements, and cow towns once thrived. Bial''s photography captures the amazing spirit of the many different people who carved communities from our rugged land. Discover how they built homes and started businesses, made and traded goods,m and worked incredibly hard to realize their dreams.

Discusses the history, culture, beliefs, changing ways, and notable people of the Chumash.

Explains how missions came to be, and what their purpose was.

HISTORY, TRADTIONS, CULTURE AND CURRENT DAILY LIFE OF THE CHOCTAW INDIANS.

Discusses the history, culture, social structure, beliefs, and notable people of the Tlingit.

Discusses the history, culture, beliefs, changing ways, and notable people of the Mandan.

Presents an overview of the history of the Navajo Indians, with a detailed account of how the United States Government, represented by Kit Carson, forced them on a 300-mile walk from their homeland in the Southwest to a prison camp at Bosque Redondo, New Mexico, in 1864, and their eventual return home after the United States-Navajo Treaty of 1868.

In the Building American series, noted author-photographer Raymond Bail provides an absorbing account of how technology helped shape and define the American landscape from colonial through frontier times. The form and purpose of farms, forts, and mills are discussed, as is the significance of these buildings in United States history. A medley of the author''s and period photographs, archival paintings, and line drawings from artist Eric Sloane''s celebrated works further enhance a distinguished achievement of historical, architectural, and technological interest.

In Building America, noted author-photographer Raymond Bial provides an absorbing account of how technology helped shape and define the American landscape from colonial through frontier times. Under discussion are forts, mills, canals, farms and houses -- their form, purpose and significance in United States history. Of particular note are the ways in which each structure contributed to the survival and growth of America, be it as a method of defense, manufacture, transportation or housing. A medley of the author''s and period photographs, archival paintings and line drawings from artist Eric Sloane''s celebrated works further enhance a distinguished achievement of historical, architectural and technological interest.

Discusses the history of the farm and all of the changes that life style has gone through.

Grade level: 5, 6, 7, 8, e, i, s.

Photographs and text profile the history and life of the Nez Perce Indians.

Discusses the history, culture, social structure, beliefs, and customs of the Inuit people of the Arctic Circle.

Discusses the history of the mill, including sawmills, windmills, gristmills, and water mills, and describes millers and what it was like to live in a mill town.

Discusses the history, culture, social structure, beliefs, and customs of the Powhatan Indians.

Describes the history of the different types of forts, emphasizing basic architecture, building techniques, and materials.

If it is abandoned by all or most of its inhabitants, a settlement becomes a ghost town. The buildings and dirt streets may remain, but the character and soul of the place change entirely. And so it was with mining camps, lumber camps, and cowboy towns scattered across America, particularly in the West: places with names like Gregory’s Diggings, Deadwood, Bodie, Calico, Goldfield, and Tombstone, some of the over 30,000 deserted towns in the United States. Why did people come to these isolated places? Why did they leave? As Raymond Bial’s narrative explores the history of our ghost towns, his well-composed photo-graphs silently tell their stories: of bustling, muddy streets, of large mercantile stores, and, ultimately, of short-lived dreams of gold, fertile land, or simply a good place to call home.

Discusses the history, culture, beliefs, changing ways, and notable people of the Apache.

Discusses the history, culture, social structure, beliefs, and notable people of the Cheyenne.

Discusses the history, culture, social structure, beliefs, and customs of the Haida people.

Hank and his ''fraidy-cat buddy Clifford are chased by a host of ghosts through the countryside near Myrtleville and encounter a mysterious old lady who leads them to uncover the secret of the ghost of Honeymoon Creek.

Discusses the history, culture, social structure, beliefs, and customs of the Ojibwa Indians.

Discusses the nature and importance of soil and the many forms of life it supports.

Discusses the history, culture, beliefs, changing ways, and notable people of the Pueblo.

Discusses the history, culture, social structure, beliefs, and notable people of the Comanche Indians.

Discusses the history, culture, social structure, beliefs, and customs of the Ojibwa Indians.