United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO,ND,NE,OH,SD,WI
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To Banish Forever: A Secret Society, the Ho-Chunk, and Ethnic Cleansing in Minnesota
$19.95 Add to cartThe largely untold story of the Ho-Chunk exile from Minnesota, in which local white residents sought to expel all indigenous people from the region and deny Native claims to some of the richest farmla
- Author: Coats, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1681342553
- Language: English
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Missouri Weird and Wonderful
$22.50 Read moreMissouri Weird and Wonderful is a fast-paced, fact-filled collection of the most fascinating parts of life in our state, with a kid’s-eye point of view. Learn the many wild nicknames of our famous nat… [more below]
- Author: Zettwoch, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064820
- Language: English
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
$32.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The true tale of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.
Two men, each- Series: Illinois
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 11, 2003
- ISBN10: 0609608444
- Language: English
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Country and Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival
$35.00 Read moreThe untold story of Chicago’s pivotal role as a country and folk music capital.
Chicago is revered as a musical breeding ground, having launched major figures like blues legend Muddy Waters, gospel s- Author: Guarino, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 524
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 022611094X
- Language: English
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Stumped: The Legacy of the Great Pine Harvest in Mid-Michigan
$15.95 Add to cartWhen Michigan joined the Union, in 1837, it acquired nearly 14 million acres of land from the 1836 treaty. It took several years to survey the land, at which point the complex process of land “disposa
- Author: Schupbach, Thomas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1961302101
- Language: English
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
$19.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that’s “as resonant today as ever” (The Wall Street Journal… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1501168703
- Language: English
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl: A National Book Award Winner
$18.99 Add to cartThis National Book Award-winning story, a tour de force of historical reportage, rescues an iconic chapter of American history–the Dust Bowl that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of th
- Author: Egan, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0618773479
- Language: English
