Hammurabi was the ruler who chiefly established the greatness of Babylon; the world's first metropolis. Many relics of Hammurabi's reign (1795-1750 BC) have been preserved; and today we can study this remarkable King as a wise law-giver in his celebrated code.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. he does a great job of chronicling the early days of Yellowstone and ...By Susie Rae SturmanLee Whittlesey has done it again; he does a great job of chronicling the early days of Yellowstone and nearby communities.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The Town That Almost Was - Cinnabar; MontanaBy CustomerLee Whittlesey; a Yellowstone National Park historian; has created a work that will appeal to true lovers of Montana history. Cinnabar; Montana; was an almost temporary town on the Yellowstone River just north of the entrance to Yellowstone Park. It was the brainchild of an entrepreneur who almost willed the town into existence with dreams of a railhead that would serve the expected numbers of visitors in the 1880s; but had that dream die when the railroad was extended south to Gardner at the exact entrance to the Park.Whittlesey almost parallels this entrepreneur’s actions by himself willing into being a history of a place that barely existed. But he does it with enthusiasm; with remarkable dedication and truly with love; in his quest of cobbling together a fascinating history of the family and events of Cinnabar…a town that 99% of Montanans don’t even know existed. I loved the detail; the narrative and the tribute to a place that is gone….but while it lived had high hopes.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Detailed; fascinating; entertainingBy JayliaThough hundreds of newspaper articles had already been written about Yellowstone National Park; whipping up public interest around the world; before the railroad came to the town of Cinnabar; Montana in 1883 getting to the park was extremely difficult. This fascinating book tells the history of that town; which only existed for a few decades; but it also gives a picture of the whole country during the last part of the nineteenth century; a sense of what life in the West was like at that time; and through the individuals involved in the Cinnabar’s story it traces the country’s changing attitudes about wilderness areas; and what should be done with them.At just less than 200 pages of text (there are many more pages of notes; and some photos); Gateway to Yellowstone is both detailed and entertaining. It’s the only book by Lee H Whittlesey I’ve read so far; but he’s probably best known for his book Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First national Park; which is so popular that the 1995 edition was updated in 2014.I read an advanced review copy provided by the publisher through LibraryThing at no cost or obligation to me. Review opinions are mine.
