United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO,ND,NE,OH,SD,WI
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Leavenworth Seven: The Deadly 1931 Prison Break
$21.99 Add to cartOn December 11, 1931, chaos erupted behind Leavenworth’s limestone penitentiary walls as seven desperate men put months of planning into action. Aided by notorious gangsters Frank Nash, George Machine… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Lamaster, Kenneth M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1467140406
- Language: English
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Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice
$21.99 Add to cartLike most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizing reformers. But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Simonson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1467138711
- Language: English
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Muskegon
$23.99 Add to cartOttawa and Pottawatomi Indians called Muskegon home at least 200 years before Jean Baptiste Recollect opened his trading post in 1836. Michigan’s abundant forests created the logging industry.
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- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Lewis, Norma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1467129291
- Language: English
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Logging in Wisconsin
$24.99 Add to cartLogging in Wisconsin explores the 70 years when logging ruled the state, covering the characters who worked in forests and on rivers, the tools they used, and the places where they lived and worked.
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- Series: Images of America
- Author: Peterson, Diana L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1467125326
- Language: English
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Wicked Women of Missouri
$23.99 Add to cartMarauders like Jesse James and the Younger gang earned Missouri the title of “Outlaw State,” but the male desperadoes had nothing on their female counterparts. Belle “Queen of the Bandits” Starr and C… [more below]
- Series: Wicked
- Author: Wood, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1467119660
- Language: English
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Minneapolis: An Urban Biography
$18.95 Add to cartNewly updated with reflections on the city at the center of a global social uprising, this concise history of Minneapolis features stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you… [more below]
- Author: Weber, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 168134260X
- Language: English
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Roadside History of Illinois
$20.00 Read moreDid you know that Chicago was named for a wild onion? Or that the only president born in Illinois was Ronald Reagan? Or that the Ferris Wheel, processed cheese, the game of softball, the fly swatter, … [more below]
- Author: Banash, Stan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 475
- Publish Date: June 15 2013
- ISBN10: 878425993
- Language: English
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Floating Palaces of the Great Lakes: A History of Passenger Steamships on the Inland Seas
$26.95 Read moreThrough much of the nineteenth century, steam-powered ships provided one of the most reliable and comfortable transportation options in the United States, becoming a critical partner in railroad expan… [more below]
- Author: Stone, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 29 2015
- ISBN10: 047205175X
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of University of Michigan
$41.99 Add to cartFounded in Detroit, Michigan, in 1817 as one of the first public universities in the nation, the University of Michigan moved to Ann Arbor in 1837. What started as a forty-acre campus with four buildi
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Chmura, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: November 02 2007
- ISBN10: 1683369823
- Language: English
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Minnesota Mysteries: A History of Unexplained Wonders, Eccentric Characters, Preposterous Claims & Baffling Occurrences in the Land of 10,0
$23.99 Add to cartAny Minnesotan worth his lutefisk has heard of the Kensington Runestone. But have you heard of Victor Setterlund? In 1949, he uncovered another runestone less than ten miles away. How about Newmann th… [more below]
- Author: Welter, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1626193622
- Language: English
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A People’s History of Detroit
$27.95 Add to cartRecent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile, activists point to the city’s cuts to public services, w… [more below]
- Author: Jay, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1478008342
- Language: English
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Finns of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
$24.99 Add to cartExplore the lasting influence of the Finnish people in the Upper Peninsula.
At the time, Hancock consisted of nothing more than a small cluster of humble buildings, but it was here, on the outskirts of
- Series: Images of America
- Author: The Finnish American Heritage Center
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 19 2018
- ISBN10: 146712978X
- Language: English
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Historic Shipwrecks and Rescues on Lake Michigan
$23.99 Read moreFacing the fury and danger of Lake Michigan
Ever since French explorers first cast their eyes on Lake Michigan, this huge inland sea has been the scene of thousands of shipwreck rescues and tragedies.
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Passwater, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1467151963
- Language: English
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Norwegians in Minnesota
$17.95 Add to cartThe images of the Vikings professional football team, the stereotype of the “Norwegian bachelor farmer,” and even Minnesotans’ speech patterns proclaim the state’s Norwegian heritage. But Norwegian se… [more below]
- Series: People of Minnesota
- Author: Gjerde, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0873514211
- Language: English
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A History Lover’s Guide to Chicago
$23.99 Add to cartFounded next to a great lake and a sluggish river, Chicago grew faster than any city ever has. Splendid department stores created modern retailing, and the skyscraper was invented to handle the needs … [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Borzo, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 146714570X
- Language: English
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Only in St. Louis!
$24.95 Add to cartIn Only in St. Louis , Charlie Brennan shares the most incredible, strange and inspiring stories he has come across in his three decades talking about the Gateway City. Readers will learn:
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- Author: Brennan, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1735815403
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of University of Georgia Football
$42.99 Add to cartOn January 30, 1892, on a field adjacent a small university’s quadrangle, just behind its New College, a mascot-the university goat–was paraded before approximately 1,500 spectators. The goat was fol
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Garbin, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: August 28 2010
- ISBN10: 1684421160
- Language: English
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Minnesota Mayhem: A History of Calamitous Events, Horrific Accidents, Dastardly Crime & Dreadful Behavior in the Land of Ten Thousand La
$23.99 Add to cartTurn back the yellowing pages of Minnesota’s past and explore the best of the state’s worst moments, as chronicled in the Minneapolis Tribune and its successor newspapers. These stories and photos, cu… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Welter, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 1609495977
- Language: English
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Door County Tales: Shipwrecks, Cherries and Goats on the Roof
$21.99 Add to cartBefitting its role as Wisconsin’s thumb, Door County has its own unique pulse. It is the “Door of the Dead,” which some historians blame for more shipwrecks than any other body of freshwater in the wo
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Soucek, Gayle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 03 2011
- ISBN10: 160949234X
- Language: English
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Lost Chicago Department Stores
$21.99 Read moreWithin thirty years of the Great Chicago Fire, the revitalized city was boasting some of America’s grandest department stores. The retail corridor on State Street was a crowded canyon of innovation an… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Goddard, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1467147710
- Language: English
