Publisher's Synopsis
Did you know that an angel wrote a history of the future on a series of silver tablets, and buried them in Alaska? That Thomas Edison designed a machine to communicate with the dead, Ben Franklin built a robot, and Teddy Roosevelt carried a big stick that allowed him to summon an army of moose? Do you know why occultists are willing to pay top dollar for a shard of the plane Buddy Holly died in?You can learn all these things and more in The Handbook of American Artifacts. This volume includes 55 evocative entries describing magical items native to the USA. A detailed timeline, from 1732 to 2412, is also included. This book is not a user's manual. Instead, we offer these listings up to you as small, glittering pieces of the vast mosaic that is the secret magical history of America.
