Cultural Region/Upper Midwest
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Fort Snelling at Bdote Updated Edition: A Brief History
$14.95 Add to cartFor millennia, the place where the Minnesota River joins the Mississippi has been a crossroads, a place of strategic power. In the 1820s, the newly arriving U.S. troops built Fort Snelling on the bluf… [more below]
- Author: DeCarlo, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1681341719
- Language: English
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Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
A Best Book of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News
“The Cubs against the Cardinals in the heat of August and of a pennant race–this is ba
- Author: Bissinger, Buzz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618710531
- Language: English
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The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City
$15.00 Add to cartArguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of C
- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Smith, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0226764729
- Language: English
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Butterflies of the North Woods: Minnesota, Wisconsin & Michigan
$18.95 Read moreThis is your guide to all 120 species of butterflies of the North Woods. Features include easy-to-use red bar phenograms, a phenology flight chart, habitat guide and binocular buying guide. The innova… [more below]
- Series: Naturalist
- Author: Weber, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0967379350
- Language: English
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Kom League Remembered
$31.99 Add to cartThe late 1940s and early 1950s was the Golden Age for minor league baseball. The National Pastime thrived in small town America with hundreds of professional teams in over 50 leagues playing at every … [more below]
- Author: Hall, John G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: September 08 2004
- ISBN10: 1531619010
- Language: English
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life
$14.95 Read more254 pages, 4 3/4 x 8 inches, paperback, first volume in the South Dakota Biography Series
- Series: South Dakota Biography
- Author: Hill, Pamela Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 097779556X
- Language: English
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Lakota Society
$24.95 Add to cartAs agency physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896 to 1914, Dr. James R. Walker recorded a wealth of information on the traditional lifeways of the Oglala Sioux. Lakota Society presents the p… [more below]
- Author: Walker, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: February 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0803297378
- 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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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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What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
$19.99 Add to cartWith a New Afterword by the Author
The New York Times bestseller, praised as “hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic a- Author: Frank, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 080507774X
- Language: English
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The Mayans Among Us: Migrant Women and Meatpacking on the Great Plains
$29.95 Add to cartThe Mayans Among Us conveys the unique experiences of Central American indigenous immigrants to the Great Plains, many of whom are political refugees from repressive, war-torn countries. Ann L. Sittig
- Author: Sittig, Ann L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0803284616
- Language: English
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The Revolution of Birdie Randolph
$16.99 Add to cartFrom Stonewall Award winner Brandy Colbert comes a novel about first love, family, and hidden secrets that will stay with you long after turning the last page.
Dove “Birdie” Randolph works hard to be- Author: Colbert, Brandy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0316448540
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of Kansas City
$42.99 Add to cartBy the mid nineteenth century, Kansas City was an important trading center for the westward movement. Through the late 1800s, two World Wars, and into the modern era, Kansas City has continued to grow
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Copeland, Lara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1683369181
- Language: English
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The Chicago 77: A Community Area Handbook
$19.99 Read moreWith over two hundred neighborhoods divided into seventy-seven community areas, Chicago offers a dazzling and daunting challenge to ambitious tourists and lifelong citizens.
Anyone who’s never been to
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Zangs, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1626196125
- Language: English
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An Explorer’s Guide: South Dakota
$20.99 Add to cartSouth Dakota offers travelers some wonderful destinations to explore, among them the Black Hills, the Badlands, and Mount Rushmore, but there’s so much more to the state than merely those famous sites… [more below]
- Series: Explorer’s Guide South Dakota #0
- Author: Head, Marion L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0881508381
- Language: English
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Wildflowers of the Western Plains: A Field Guide
$29.95 Add to cartStretching from western Texas and eastern New Mexico up through Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, and into Canada, the vast western plains often appear sparse and dr… [more below]
- Author: Kirkpatrick, Zoe Merriman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803219059
- Language: English
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City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
$22.99 Add to cartThe epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America. Here, witness Chicago’s growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world’s most explosively alive cities by… [more below]
- Series: Illinois
- Author: Miller, Donald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 03 1997
- ISBN10: 0684831384
- Language: English
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You Were Never in Chicago
$18.00 Add to cartIn 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the “Second City.” From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling’s withering gaze. A
- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Steinberg, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 22 2013
- ISBN10: 022610415X
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of the Chicago World’s Fair
$42.99 Add to cartChicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition, popularly called the Chicago World’s Fair, or the White City, was the largest and most spectacular world’s fair ever built. The Columbian Exposition opened on M
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Lewis, Russell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: May 28 2010
- ISBN10: 1684421101
- Language: English
