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The Beartooth Highway: A History of America’s Most Beautiful Drive
$21.99 Add to cartTraversing the spectacular Beartooth Highway in Montana and Wyoming is an unforgettable experience. The unspoiled mountain scenery along the highway inspired famed news correspondent Charles Kuralt to… [more below]
- Series: Transportation
- Author: Axline, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1467135798
- Language: English
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Murder in Chisago County: The Unsolved Johnson Family Mystery
$21.99 Add to cartAt 3:30 a.m. on April 11, 1933, neighbors and firefighters arrived at the farmhouse of Albin and Alvira Johnson to find a smoldering heap where a seemingly happy home once stood. Beneath the ruins, in… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Johnson, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1467142336
- Language: English
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Governors Island
$31.99 Add to cartPurchased from the Manhattan tribe of the Wappinger
Confederacy by the Dutch, Governors Island has long been
the secret island in New York’s harbor. Although this pristine island has appeared on maps … [more below]- Author: Glen, Susan L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 10 2006
- ISBN10: 1531623174
- Language: English
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Opryland USA
$32.99 Add to cartBy the late 1960s, the Ryman Auditorium the fifth home of the Grand Ole Opry was a deteriorating firetrap in a seedy part of Nashville, yet it still attracted thousands of people each weekend to the s… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Stephen W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: August 22 2016
- ISBN10: 1531699782
- Language: English
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Fort Niagara: The Key to the Inland Oceans and the French Movement to Dominate North America
$28.99 Add to cartFort Niagara is located twelve miles downriver from the world-renowned Niagara Falls, yet few visitors to either site know this was once Iroquois territory and claimed by France. This volume summarize… [more below]
- Author: Utley, William Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1532070659
- Language: English
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Gilded Age Murder & Mayhem in the Berkshires
$31.99 Add to cartMurder and dark deeds shadowed the extravagance of the Gilded Age in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. In the summer of 1893, a tall and well-dressed burglar plundered the massive summer mansions of th… [more below]
- Author: Amelinckx, Andrew K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: October 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1540212483
- Language: English
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Lost Plantations of the South
$40.00 Add to cartThe great majority of the South’s plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diar… [more below]
- Author: Matrana, Marc R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 11 2009
- ISBN10: 1578069424
- Language: English
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The Gritty Berkshires: A People’s History from the Hoosac Tunnel to Mass MoCA
$34.00 Add to cartAs The Gritty Berkshires makes clear, Massachusetts’ westernmost county is not just art museums, music festivals and beautiful scenery. For generations of working class families who have lived in the
- Author: Seider, Maynard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 652
- Publish Date: April 13 2019
- ISBN10: 188704339X
- Language: English
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44 Years in Darkness: A True Story of Madness, Tragedy and Shattered Love
$15.00 Add to cart44 YEARS IN DARKNESS
A TRUE STORY OF MADNESS, TRAGEDY AND SHATTERED LOVE
BY SYLVIA SHULTSLost in the shadows of Illinois asylums in the nineteenth century is the strange story of Rhoda Derry. Left at
- Author: Shults, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: October 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1892523477
- Language: English
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True Crime Stories of Eastern North Carolina
$21.99 Add to cartEastern North Carolina is a land of contrasts, and its crime stories bear this out. A lovelorn war hero or a stalker? Conniving wife or consummate homemaker? Murder or suicide? The answers can be as p… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Pickens, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1467145114
- Language: English
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The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans
$22.99 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question.
What does it mean to be an American? The story of t- Author: Holloway, Jonathan Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0190915196
- Language: English
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Spirits Along the Columbia River
$21.99 Add to cartThe breathtaking scenery of the Pacific Northwest hides a myriad of dark secrets.
From sightings of the Columbia River Sea Serpent, nicknamed Colossal Claude, to tales of Bigfoot encounters dating back
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Kitmacher, Ira Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1467150568
- Language: English
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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
$17.95 Add to cartOn May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that c… [more below]
- Author: Green, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1400033225
- Language: English
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Picturing the Space Shuttle: The Early Years
$45.00 Add to cartRare views of the beginnings of the historic space program, selected and presented by two leading space flight authorities
After the excitement of the first Moon landing, the U.S. space program took a
- Author: Bisney, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1683402057
- Language: English
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Democracy in America
$24.99 Add to cartOriginally penned in the mid-eighteenth century by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America remains one of the most penetrating and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals e
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: de Tocqueville, Alexis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: August 29 2006
- ISBN10: 0061127922
- Language: English
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The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910
$38.00 Add to cartAn expansive exploration of The Gilded Age in New York City, from of the extravagant lifestyles and magnificent mansions of the ultra-rich to the daily doings of the wretchedly poor who lived in the s
- Author: Crain, Esther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0316353663
- Language: English
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Outlaw Trail: A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch
$24.95 Add to cartThe Wild Bunch, the confederation of western outlaws headed by Butch Cassidy, found sanctuary on the rugged Outlaw Trail. Stretching across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, an… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803277784
- Language: English
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Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City
$19.00 Read moreFrom an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memories of those who experienced it
Between October 8-10,
- Author: Smith, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0802159125
- Language: English
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The Pig War: Standoff at Griffin Bay
$19.95 Read moreIn 1859 Great Britain and the United States almost went to war over the Northwest boundary when an American farmer shot a British pig. That July, U.S. Army Captain George E. Pickett looked down the gu
- Author: Vouri, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: May 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1638640025
- Language: English
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The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800, 197: War, Migration, and the Survival of an Indian People
$21.95 Add to cartBefore European incursions began in the seventeenth century, the Western Abenaki Indians inhabited present-day Vermont and New Hampshire, particularly the Lake Champlain and Connecticut River valleys.
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #197
- Author: Calloway, Colin G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: March 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0806125683
- Language: English
