Cultural Region/Midwest
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Come, You Taste: Family Recipes from the Iron Range
$27.95 Add to cartThis cookbook brings together eclectic cuisines and enticing tales to honor the Iron Range of yesteryear through traditional dishes preserved and shared over the course of a century.
Potica or kolache- Author: Carpenter, B. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0873519698
- Language: English
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Crazy Dave
$24.95 Add to cartThe unflinching and marvelously humane story of a man born with Down syndrome in an Ojibway community.
- Series: Native Voices
- Author: Johnston, Basil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0873514238
- Language: English
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The Chisholm Trail: Joseph McCoy’s Great Gamble Volume 3
$61.58 Add to cartOne hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, the… [more below]
- Series: Public Lands History #3
- Author: Sherow, James E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0806160535
- Language: English
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Ohio Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff
$16.95 Add to cartThe definitive collection of Ohio’s odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for Ohio residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.
- Series: Curiosities
- Author: Gurvis, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0762764082
- Language: English
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Border War Tour: A Traveler’s Guide to Civil War Sites on the Missouri/Kansas Border
$14.99 Add to cartThe Missouri/Kansas Border is full of sites where Civil War events occurred. Some of these locations are well-known, while others are just spots on the road where key events in the Civil War took plac… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Jonathan a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1736463330
- Language: English
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The 1965 Palm Sunday Tornadoes in Indiana
$21.99 Add to cartAuthor Janis Thornton reveals the stories of a day in Indiana like no other.
Palm Sunday 1965 started as the nicest day of the year, the kind of weather that encouraged Hoosiers to get out in the sun,
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Thornton, Janis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1467149977
- Language: English
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Still Burning: Half a Century of Chicago, from the Streets to the Corridors of Power: A Memoir
$22.95 Add to cartIn this lively and insightful memoir, Jeremiah Joyce recounts a wide-ranging career that in many way tracks the history of Chicago over the last half century. During the late sixties and early seventi
- Author: Joyce, Jeremiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1955656061
- Language: English
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Wisconsin Legends & Lore
$21.99 Add to cartWisconsin is a land rich with stories. It was the mother of all circuses, a place of buried treasure and home to eerie ghosts and monsters. Native American legends, tall tales told at lumberjack camps… [more below]
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Krulos, Tea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1467143448
- Language: English
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The Loop: The “L” Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago
$26.95 Read moreThe structure that anchors Chicago
Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city’s downtown. But how much do they know about th- Author: Reardon, Patrick T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0809338106
- Language: English
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Best Tent Camping: Michigan: Your Car-Camping Guide to Scenic Beauty, the Sounds of Nature, and an Escape from Civilization
$16.95 Add to cartOffering essential details and easy-to-read maps, Best Tent Camping: Michigan presents 50 of the state’s best campgrounds for car campers.
- Series: Best Tent Camping
- Author: Forster, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1634042964
- Language: English
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If These Walls Could Talk: Nebraska Cornhuskers: Stories from the Nebraska Cornhuskers Sideline, Locker Room, and Press Box
$18.95 Read moreFirsthand tales of the most memorable moments in Cornhusker football history
A traditional powerhouse, the Nebraska Cornhuskers are one of the most successful NCAA football teams, with five national- Series: If These Walls Could Talk
- Author: Murtaugh, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01, 2015
- ISBN10: 162937153X
- Language: English
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The Ku Klux Klan in Minnesota
$21.99 Add to cartMinnesota might not seem like an obvious place to look for traces of Ku Klux Klan parade grounds, but this northern state was once home to fifty-one chapters of the KKK. Elizabeth Hatle tracks down th… [more below]
- Author: Hatle, Elizabeth Dorsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 1626191891
- Language: English
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The Boys in Chicago Heights: The Forgotten Crew of the Chicago Outfit
$21.99 Add to cartChicago Heights was long the seat of one of the major street crews of the Chicago Outfit, but its importance has often been overlooked and misunderstood.
The crew’s origins predate Prohibition, when Ch
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Luzi, Matthew J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 1609497333
- Language: English
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100 Things Packers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
$18.95 Add to cartPulling from Packers history since the team’s inception in 1919, this guide to all things gold and green offers dedicated fans all of the stats, trivia, and miscellaneous, fun-filled information crave… [more below]
- Series: 100 Things… Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
- Author: Reischel, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 2013
- ISBN10: 160078870X
- Language: English
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Wisconsin Underground: A Guide to Caves, Mines, and Tunnels In and Around the Badger State
$19.95 Add to cartWith the first edition out of print, readers–and libraries–have had to resort to searching for copies online to replace their old, much-used, dog-eared copies. No more. This second edition of Wiscon
- Author: Green, Doris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1595986456
- Language: English
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Buckeye Madness: Great Eras in Ohio State Football
$15.99 Add to cartColumbus, Ohio, may be the closest thing to college football’s epicenter, situated as it is in the sport’s “cradle.” And Ohio State football fans have been rocking that cradle for 114 years, exhorting
- Author: Sharpe, Wilton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 15 2005
- ISBN10: 1581824521
- Language: English
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To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire
$23.93 Add to cartThe story of one of the deadliest fires in American history that took the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago. “An absorbing account…a tale of terr… [more below]
- Series: Illinois
- Author: Cowan, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 1998
- ISBN10: 156663217X
- Language: English
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Diana of the Dunes: The True Story of Alice Gray
$31.99 Add to cartIn the fall of 1915, Alice Gray traded her life in Chicago for a solitary journey in the remote sand hills of northwest Indiana along Lake Michigan. Living in a fisherman’s shack, she measured herself… [more below]
- Author: Edwards, Janet Zenke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1540224376
- Language: English
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Alexandria
$31.99 Add to cartAlexandria is situated near the center of Douglas County, surrounded by a chain of beautiful lakes. These lakes brought pioneer settlers to the area as early as 1858, when Minnesota achieved statehood… [more below]
- Author: Grover, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: March 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1531666531
- Language: English
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St. Louis: The 1904 World’s Fair
$40.99 Add to cartFor seven months in 1904, St. Louis was the greatest city on earth. Millions flocked to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to behold the inventions of the early 20th century. Many saw electric lights, … [more below]
- Author: Sonderman, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 26 2008
- ISBN10: 153163981X
- Language: English
