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Electric Indiana: The Rise and Fall of the World’s Greatest Interurban Railway Center, 1893-1941
$40.00 Read moreIn the early twentieth century, an epic battle was waged across America between the interurban railway and the automobile, two technologies that arose at roughly the same time in the late 1890s. Nowhe
- Series: Railroads Past and Present
- Author: Schwantes, Carlos Arnaldo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 025306712X
- Language: English
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Haunted Dearborn County, Indiana
$35.99 Add to cartStrange and unusual things lurk behind the calm fa軋de of Dearborn County.
Several legends surround Hillforest Mansion, the home of one of Aurora’s founding families. Many have seen the ghost of a fa
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Quigley, Mary Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: August 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1540258033
- Language: English
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Tavern Talk: Old Taverns and Tales in Springfield Illinois
$27.95 Add to cartSpringfield Illinois has a rich history of locally owned and family operated neighborhood taverns. The tavern business was an honorable one; husband and wife worked it together and everyone respected
- Author: Orr, Bobby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: April 19 2019
- ISBN10: 147878038X
- Language: English
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Into the Sunset: Emmett Dalton and the End of the Dalton Gang
$22.99 Add to cartOn October 5, 1892, the last of the major outlaw gangs of the Old West was destroyed in a gun battle in Coffeyville, a small town in southeastern Kansas. When the smoke cleared, eight men were dead an
- Author: Shaw, Ian W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0700635505
- Language: English
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Minnesota Trivia Don’tcha Know!
$14.95 Add to cartIt’s amazing, outrageous, unbelievable . . . it’s Minnesota
Minnesota may be known for Paul Bunyan and hot dish, but there’s so much more to the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Did you know that pirates once pr
- Author: Ortler, Brett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 04 2014
- ISBN10: 159193463X
- Language: English
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The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families
$19.95 Add to cartSpanning 150 years, Steven R. Hoffbeck’s The Haymakers tells a story of the labor and heartbreak suffered by five families in five different eras struggling to make the hay that fed their livestock, a… [more below]
- Series: Minnesota
- Author: Hoffbeck, Steven R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: March 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0873513959
- Language: English
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Germans in Minnesota
$17.95 Add to cartA concise history of Germans in Minnesota including immigration patterns, the Catholic and Lutheran churches, cultural organizations, businesses, and politics, especially in the World War I years.
Ger- Series: People of Minnesota
- Author: Conzen, Kathleen Neils
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0873514548
- Language: English
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Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862
$22.95 Add to cartThis collection of thirty-six narratives presents the Dakota Indians’ experiences during a conflict previously known chiefly from the viewpoints of non-Indians.
- Author: Anderson, Gary Clayton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0873512162
- Language: English
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Duluth: An Urban Biography
$18.95 Add to cartDuluth, the beautiful city at the head of the world’s largest freshwater lake, has gone from boom to bust to boom and back again.
In this richly textured urban biography, author Tony Dierckins highlig… [more below]- Author: Dierckins, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 168134159X
- Language: English
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A Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time
$21.99 Add to cartTeasing out the history of a place celebrated for timelessness where countless paddle strokes have disappeared into clear waters requires a sure and attentive hand. Stephen Wilbers s account reaches b… [more below]
- Author: Wilbers, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 15 2011
- ISBN10: 1596299703
- Language: English
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My Omaha Obsession: Searching for the City
$24.95 Add to cart2021 Nebraska Book Award
My Omaha Obsession takes the reader on an idiosyncratic tour through some of Omaha’s neighborhoods, buildings, architecture, and people, celebrating the city’s unusual history- Author: Cassette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496207610
- Language: English
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Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade
$21.95 Read moreThe journals of two clerks of the American Fur Company recall a lost moment in the history of the fur trade and the Anishinaabeg along Lake Superior’s North Shore
Long after the Anishinaabeg first i
- Author: Cochrane, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1517905931
- Language: English
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Murder in Minnesota: A Collection of True Cases
$19.95 Add to cartThis treasury of vintage crime offers a vivid picture of Minnesota from the time it achieved statehood in 1858 through 1917. It also traces the gradual changes in social attitudes from the days of fro… [more below]
- Series: Minnesota
- Author: Trenerry, Walter N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 15 1962
- ISBN10: 0873511808
- Language: English
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Minnesota: A History
$25.99 Add to cartIn this volume, William Lass tells the story of Minnesota, a state that evolved from many cultures, from its beginnings to the present. This history not only provides descriptions of the essential eve
- Series: States and the Nation #0
- Author: Lass, William E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393319717
- Language: English
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Michigan: A Bicentennial History
$22.99 Add to cartThe idea that abundance was “inexhaustible–that fatal Michigan word,” as the author calls it–dominated thinking about the state from the days when Commandant Cadillac’s soldiers arrived at Detroit u
- Series: States and the Nation
- Author: Catton, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: March 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0393301753
- Language: English
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Minnesota, 1918: When Flu, Fire, and War Ravaged the State
$18.95 Add to cartIn 1918, Minnesota and its residents were confronted with a series of devastating events that put communities to the test, forcing them to persevere through untold hardship. First, as the nation immer… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Curt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1681341476
- Language: English
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Sand and Fire: Exploring a Rare Pine Barrens Landscape
$22.95 Add to cart“While many people are familiar with the pristine and federally protected Namekagon and St. Croix Rivers of northwestern Wisconsin, few know much about the Namekagon Barrens, a rare pine and oak barre… [more below]
- Author: Peters, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1976600057
- Language: English
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The Cadottes: A Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior
$26.95 Read more- Author: Silbernagel, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1976600235
- Language: English
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Janesville: An American Story
$17.00 Add to cart* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post… [more below]
- Author: Goldstein, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1501102265
- Language: English
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Ohio Indian Trails: Third Edition
$24.95 Add to cartA facsimile edition of Wilcox’s classic 1933 pictorial survey of the Indian trails of Ohio
Shawnee, Miami, Delaware, Wyandot, Ottawa, Iroquois, and Mingo–tribes great and small, loosely confederated
- Author: Wilcox, Frank N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1606352598
- Language: English
