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Wisconsin’s Lost Towns
$28.00 Read moreWisconsin has over 200 lost, long ago, and nearly gone places. Why they began, why they faded or died encompasses many issues, many reasons. For Rhonda, her love of lost towns and long ago places bega
- Author: Fochs, Rhonda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1682010589
- Language: English
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The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre: The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath That Brought Down Al Capone
$20.95 Add to cartThe machine-gun murders of seven men on the morning of February 14, 1929, by killers dressed as cops became the gangland crime of the century. Or so the story went. Since then it has been featured in … [more below]
- Author: Helmer, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 317
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1581825498
- Language: English
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Lost Omaha
$31.99 Add to cartThe landmarks of Omaha’s past reveal a history of industry, innovation and change. The Hotel Fontenelle, the Omaha Athletic Club and the Medical Arts Building disappeared in the wake of changes remaki… [more below]
- Author: Bednarek, Janet R. Daly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: April 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1540228649
- Language: English
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Shocking Stories of the Cleveland Mob
$31.99 Add to cartThey are the dirty little secrets of Cleveland’s past, mob guys so good–or so bad–that you rarely hear their stories. Men such as Micky McBride turned newsboys into sluggers, gave bookies a run for … [more below]
- Author: Schwarz, Ted
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: December 03 2010
- ISBN10: 154022404X
- Language: English
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Lost Cincinnati
$31.99 Add to cartCincinnati earned its nickname of “Queen City of the West” with a wealth of fine theaters and hotels, a burgeoning brewery district and the birth of professional baseball. Though many of these treasur… [more below]
- Author: Suess, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: June 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1540210669
- Language: English
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Ste. Genevieve
$31.99 Add to cartIn the late 1600s and early 1700s, the French established forts, such as Fort de Chartres, in the mid-Mississippi Valley, as well as villages, such as River des Peres and Mine la Motte. Ste. Genevieve… [more below]
- Author: Deposki, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 26 2008
- ISBN10: 1531632335
- Language: English
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Storied & Scandalous Kansas City: A History of Corruption, Mischief and a Whole Lot of Booze
$19.95 Add to cartThis collection celebrates a storied history of one notorious city. Meet the mobsters and victims, bootleggers, madams, political bosses and raucous entertainers who brought the party to the plains. W… [more below]
- Author: Deel, Karla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1493042432
- Language: English
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Leavenworth Seven: The Deadly 1931 Prison Break
$21.99 Add to cartOn December 11, 1931, chaos erupted behind Leavenworth’s limestone penitentiary walls as seven desperate men put months of planning into action. Aided by notorious gangsters Frank Nash, George Machine… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Lamaster, Kenneth M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1467140406
- Language: English
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Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice
$21.99 Add to cartLike most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizing reformers. But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Simonson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1467138711
- Language: English
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Muskegon
$23.99 Add to cartOttawa and Pottawatomi Indians called Muskegon home at least 200 years before Jean Baptiste Recollect opened his trading post in 1836. Michigan’s abundant forests created the logging industry.
Lumber m
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Lewis, Norma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1467129291
- Language: English
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Logging in Wisconsin
$24.99 Add to cartLogging in Wisconsin explores the 70 years when logging ruled the state, covering the characters who worked in forests and on rivers, the tools they used, and the places where they lived and worked.
Wi
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Peterson, Diana L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1467125326
- Language: English
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Wicked Women of Missouri
$23.99 Add to cartMarauders like Jesse James and the Younger gang earned Missouri the title of “Outlaw State,” but the male desperadoes had nothing on their female counterparts. Belle “Queen of the Bandits” Starr and C… [more below]
- Series: Wicked
- Author: Wood, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1467119660
- Language: English
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Minneapolis: An Urban Biography
$18.95 Add to cartNewly updated with reflections on the city at the center of a global social uprising, this concise history of Minneapolis features stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you… [more below]
- Author: Weber, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 168134260X
- Language: English
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Roadside History of Illinois
$20.00 Read moreDid you know that Chicago was named for a wild onion? Or that the only president born in Illinois was Ronald Reagan? Or that the Ferris Wheel, processed cheese, the game of softball, the fly swatter, … [more below]
- Author: Banash, Stan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 475
- Publish Date: June 15 2013
- ISBN10: 878425993
- Language: English
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Floating Palaces of the Great Lakes: A History of Passenger Steamships on the Inland Seas
$26.95 Add to cartThrough much of the nineteenth century, steam-powered ships provided one of the most reliable and comfortable transportation options in the United States, becoming a critical partner in railroad expan… [more below]
- Author: Stone, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 29 2015
- ISBN10: 047205175X
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of University of Michigan
$41.99 Add to cartFounded in Detroit, Michigan, in 1817 as one of the first public universities in the nation, the University of Michigan moved to Ann Arbor in 1837. What started as a forty-acre campus with four buildi
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Chmura, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: November 02 2007
- ISBN10: 1683369823
- Language: English
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Minnesota Mysteries: A History of Unexplained Wonders, Eccentric Characters, Preposterous Claims & Baffling Occurrences in the Land of 10,0
$23.99 Add to cartAny Minnesotan worth his lutefisk has heard of the Kensington Runestone. But have you heard of Victor Setterlund? In 1949, he uncovered another runestone less than ten miles away. How about Newmann th… [more below]
- Author: Welter, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1626193622
- Language: English
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A People’s History of Detroit
$27.95 Add to cartRecent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile, activists point to the city’s cuts to public services, w… [more below]
- Author: Jay, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1478008342
- Language: English
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Finns of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
$24.99 Add to cartExplore the lasting influence of the Finnish people in the Upper Peninsula.
At the time, Hancock consisted of nothing more than a small cluster of humble buildings, but it was here, on the outskirts of
- Series: Images of America
- Author: The Finnish American Heritage Center
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 19 2018
- ISBN10: 146712978X
- Language: English
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Historic Shipwrecks and Rescues on Lake Michigan
$23.99 Read moreFacing the fury and danger of Lake Michigan
Ever since French explorers first cast their eyes on Lake Michigan, this huge inland sea has been the scene of thousands of shipwreck rescues and tragedies.
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Passwater, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1467151963
- Language: English
