Bøger af Larry Upton

Most history comes to us through the exploits of the famous and infamous. Rarely does history record the stories, legends, and folklore of the ordinary people who did the grinding, backbreaking work of building families, communities, and nations. This book is part of a journey of self-discovery as the author follows the Upton and Minton families as they establish their foothold in America long before there was a United States; in some ways it is the connecting story of all ordinary Americans. Readers may find perspective and a sense of continuity with their own families as the author follows the paths of his ordinary, yet remarkable family.

A play in two acts based on the actual trial of seven defendants who were accused of the Great Wham Paymaster Robbery, which occurred on May 11, 1889, in Pima, Graham County, Arizona Territory. The accused included gang leader Gilbert Webb, the mayor of Pima and former brother-in-law of Brigham Young, and Webb's son, W. T. Webb, later to rise to Speaker of the House of Representatives of Arizona Territory, became a member of the Arizona Constitution Convention, and was chosen to cast Arizona's first presidential electoral college ballot in 1912. Two of the defendants were grandsons of King Follett, at whose funeral in Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1844, Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, preached the famous sermon know as the "King Follett Discourse" in which many strange and wondrous Mormon doctrines were intro ducted to the Mormon Church and the world. The robbery and subsequent arrests embarrassed the Pima community, which saw itself as a stable, law-abiding Mormon colony and the jewel of the Gila Valley. Nevertheless, the Pima community rallied around its denizens in an effort to save them and the community's reputation; after all, everyone was related by blood or marriage to everyone else. In a sense, they were all in it together. The story disappeared for 100 years; only in recent years has the story surfaced again.

Bowling Green, Kentucky, a small Southern town in the 1940s and 1950s, was a wonderful place to raise children. This book describes a group of kids and their adventures who lived near Fountain Square Park, the center of Bowling Green. It was a fabulous life.

Bowling Green became the city of speed immediately after World War II as America began its love affair with the automobile. Stock car racing took the city by storm in its inaugural season of 1951, drawing crowds of up to 7,000 in a city of only 18,000. Soon thereafter, the city attracted the Chevrolet Corvette assembly plant followed by the National Corvette Museum. Images of Sports: Bowling Green Stock Car Racing documents the history of stock car racing in Bowling Green and the emergence of the raceway at Beech Bend Park.