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Mysterious Michigan: The Lonely Ghost of Minnie Quay, the Marvelous Manifestations of Farmer Riley, the Devil in Detroit & More
$21.99 Add to cartEnigmatic mediums, murders, monsters, and more are all part of Michigan’s mysterious and sometimes supernatural history.
The will of Detroit’s first millionaire, Eber B. Ward, was hotly contested becau
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Hammond, Amberrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1467149926
- Language: English
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Lost Cincinnati Concert Venues of the ’50s and ’60s: From the Surf Club to Ludlow Garage
$21.99 Add to cartThe nightspots, rock clubs, arenas & more that made the city swing
Cincinnati in the ’50s and ’60s offered a stunning array of live music and entertainment venues. Though many of them no longer exist,
- Series: Lost
- Author: Rosen, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1467147214
- Language: English
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Cincinnati Curiosities: Healing Powers of the Wamsley Madstone, Nocturnal Exploits of Old Man Dead, Mazeppa’s Naked Ride & More
$23.99 Add to cartExplore the eccentric side of yesterday’s Queen City
Cincinnatians today wrap themselves in a comforting blanket of serene conformity, soothed by the myth that the Queen City has always been a bland, s
- Author: Hand, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 14 2022
- ISBN10: 146715282X
- Language: English
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Unnatural Ohio: A History of Buckeye Cryptids, Legends & Other Mysteries
$24.99 Read moreStrange things are afoot in the Buckeye State
Across city and country, Ohio echoes with tales of creatures, ghosts, and other unexplained phenomena. A monster that appeared to be half man and half d
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Smith, M. Kristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1467151440
- Language: English
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November’s Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913
$16.95 Add to cartOn Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted “moderate to brisk” winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicted a “moderately severe” storm. Hourly the warnings be
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 081668720X
- Language: English
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Oldest Twin Cities: A Guide to Historic Treasures
$22.50 Read more- Series: Oldest
- Author: Severson, Julie Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064340
- Language: English
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Broken Icarus: The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, the Golden Age of Aviation, and the Rise of Fascism
$29.95 Read more2022 History Book Festival Official Selection.
The 1930s still conjure painful images: the great want of the Depression, and overseas, the exuberant crowds motivated by self-appointed national saviors
- Author: Hanna, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 15 2022
- ISBN10: 163388676X
- Language: English
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Hillsboro
$24.99 Read moreHillsboro was carved out of the thick woods of central Highland County in 1807. The small village soon built itself up from a collection of rough log buildings to a place of considerable prominence in… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Beery, Tara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1467160865
- Language: English
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Cycling in Chicago
$24.99 Read moreIn the late 19th and early 20th century, Chicago was the center of bicycle manufacturing in the United States. As an early industrial and transportation center, two-thirds of all bicycles manufactured… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: McAuliffe, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 30 2017
- ISBN10: 1467126020
- Language: English
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Filipinos in Chicago
$24.99 Read moreThe pictorial history of Filipino immigration to Chicago encompasses 100 years, moving from the Philippines to this country of unknown landscapes and uncertainties.
The pioneering Filipinos came in the
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Alamar, Estrella Ravelo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0738518808
- Language: English
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Ironwood, Hurley, and the Gogebic Range
$24.99 Read moreSituated on the south shore of Lake Superior, the Gogebic Iron Range of Michigan and Wisconsin exudes a strong sense of place. During the 1880s, a mining boom lured settlers, investment, and controver… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Liesch, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 30 2006
- ISBN10: 738540668
- Language: English
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Deadly Voyage: The S.S. Daniel J. Morrell Tragedy
$22.80 Read moreThis is the harrowing story of one of the worst shipwrecks in Great Lakes history. In the early morning hours of November 29, 1966, the S.S. Daniel J. Morrell was caught in a deadly storm on Lake Hur
- Author: Kantar, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 109
- Publish Date: July 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0870138634
- Language: English
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Italo Balbo’s Flight to the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair
$24.99 Read moreTrace the monumental story of a transatlantic flight to the Century of Progress Exposition.
In an era when transatlantic travel was still dangerous, Italy caused a sensation by announcing its participa
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Fiore, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1467155349
- Language: English
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Cold Case Muncie
$23.99 Read moreThe coldest cases from Middletown, USA
With dozens of unsolved murders spanning decades, Muncie and surrounding Delaware County might have more killings without justice than any American community l
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Roysdon, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153974
- Language: English
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Galena, Illinois: A Brief History
$21.99 Read moreWith 85 percent of its buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, Galena truly is a place drenched in history.
From the ancient burial mounds crowding the high banks of the Mississippi to t
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Marsh, DiAnn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 20 2010
- ISBN10: 1596297301
- Language: English
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Abandoned Cincinnati
$23.99 Read moreDust, shards of glass, gravel, and grit coat heavy vines that spiral down empty stairs. They’re more than concrete and steel–as nature takes over abandoned buildings, they come alive. Through journal
- Series: America Through Time
- Author: Smith, Samuel Wright
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1634992482
- Language: English
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Chicago Stadium
$24.99 Read moreBuilt in 1929, Chicago Stadium was the crowning achievement of local sports promoter Paddy Harmon. The largest sports arena in the world when it was built, the stadium was completed at a total cost of… [more below]
- Series: Images of Sports
- Author: Peterson, Paul Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0738583073
- Language: English
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Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair
$23.99 Read moreStep into the future of the past in Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair
What came to be known as the World’s Columbian Exposition was planned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s 149
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Di Cola, Joseph M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0738594415
- Language: English
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Forest Lake
$24.99 Read moreLike so many of the places that lined the route from St. Paul to Duluth, Forest Lake came of age as a railroad town and was first incorporated as a township in 1874. Situated on a lake by the same nam… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Brink, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1467160253
- Language: English
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Drury University
$23.99 Read moreOn September 25, 1873, Dr. Nathan Jackson Morrison, the first president of Drury College, stood in the second-story window of an unfinished building and rang a borrowed boardinghouse dinner bell to an… [more below]
- Series: Campus History
- Author: Garvin, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1467109673
- Language: English
