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Secret Upper Peninsula: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$20.95 Read more- Series: Secret
- Author: Usitalo, Kath
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1681062232
- Language: English
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Haunted Bars & Pubs of Michigan
$21.99 Read moreExplore the spirits of Michigan’s watering holes
From the picturesque shores of Manistique to the crystalline waters of Diamond Lake in Cassopolis, Michigan overflows with pubs and bars swirling with
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Beauchamp, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 14 2023
- ISBN10: 146715430X
- Language: English
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Mississippi River Festival
$31.99 Add to cartIn 1969, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville initiated a remarkable performing arts series called the Mississippi River Festival. Over 12 summer seasons, between 1969 and 1980, the festival pres… [more below]
- Author: Bahr-Evola, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 29 2006
- ISBN10: 1531624936
- Language: English
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An Open Secret: The Story of Deadwood’s Most Notorious Bordellos
$21.95 Add to cartA colorful history of the famous Soiled Doves of Deadwood, South Dakota, during the heyday of the wild west.
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493061461
- Language: English
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Drury University
$37.99 Add to cartOn 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, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: July 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1540257657
- Language: English
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
$19.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that’s “as resonant today as ever” (The Wall Street Journal… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 588
- Publish Date: May 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1432873806
- Language: English
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Haunted Wausau: The Ghostly History of Big Bull Falls
$21.99 Add to cartWalk through the Gateway to the Northwoods into a place teeming with apparitions, electrical disturbances, physical manifestations and veiled forces. Glide among the praying whispers in the basement o… [more below]
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Blaschka, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 16 2011
- ISBN10: 1609491106
- Language: English
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Jacobson’s: I Miss It So!: The Story of a Michigan Fashion Institution
$31.99 Add to cartWinner of the Michigan Notable Book Award for 2012
Join department store historian Bruce Allen Kopytek in this return to the elegance of Jacobson’s, a beloved Michigan institution for well over 100 ye
- Author: Kopytek, Bruce Allen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 1540206068
- Language: English
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Electric Indiana: The Rise and Fall of the World’s Greatest Interurban Railway Center, 1893-1941
$40.00 Read moreIn the early twentieth century, an epic battle was waged across America between the interurban railway and the automobile, two technologies that arose at roughly the same time in the late 1890s. Nowhe
- Series: Railroads Past and Present
- Author: Schwantes, Carlos Arnaldo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 025306712X
- Language: English
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Haunted Dearborn County, Indiana
$35.99 Add to cartStrange and unusual things lurk behind the calm fa軋de of Dearborn County.
Several legends surround Hillforest Mansion, the home of one of Aurora’s founding families. Many have seen the ghost of a fa
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Quigley, Mary Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: August 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1540258033
- Language: English
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Tavern Talk: Old Taverns and Tales in Springfield Illinois
$27.95 Add to cartSpringfield Illinois has a rich history of locally owned and family operated neighborhood taverns. The tavern business was an honorable one; husband and wife worked it together and everyone respected
- Author: Orr, Bobby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: April 19 2019
- ISBN10: 147878038X
- Language: English
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Into the Sunset: Emmett Dalton and the End of the Dalton Gang
$22.99 Add to cartOn October 5, 1892, the last of the major outlaw gangs of the Old West was destroyed in a gun battle in Coffeyville, a small town in southeastern Kansas. When the smoke cleared, eight men were dead an
- Author: Shaw, Ian W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0700635505
- Language: English
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Minnesota Trivia Don’tcha Know!
$14.95 Add to cartIt’s amazing, outrageous, unbelievable . . . it’s Minnesota
Minnesota may be known for Paul Bunyan and hot dish, but there’s so much more to the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Did you know that pirates once pr
- Author: Ortler, Brett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 04 2014
- ISBN10: 159193463X
- Language: English
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The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families
$19.95 Add to cartSpanning 150 years, Steven R. Hoffbeck’s The Haymakers tells a story of the labor and heartbreak suffered by five families in five different eras struggling to make the hay that fed their livestock, a… [more below]
- Series: Minnesota
- Author: Hoffbeck, Steven R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: March 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0873513959
- Language: English
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Germans in Minnesota
$17.95 Add to cartA concise history of Germans in Minnesota including immigration patterns, the Catholic and Lutheran churches, cultural organizations, businesses, and politics, especially in the World War I years.
Ger- Series: People of Minnesota
- Author: Conzen, Kathleen Neils
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0873514548
- Language: English
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Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862
$22.95 Add to cartThis collection of thirty-six narratives presents the Dakota Indians’ experiences during a conflict previously known chiefly from the viewpoints of non-Indians.
- Author: Anderson, Gary Clayton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0873512162
- Language: English
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Duluth: An Urban Biography
$18.95 Add to cartDuluth, the beautiful city at the head of the world’s largest freshwater lake, has gone from boom to bust to boom and back again.
In this richly textured urban biography, author Tony Dierckins highlig… [more below]- Author: Dierckins, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 168134159X
- Language: English
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A Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time
$21.99 Add to cartTeasing out the history of a place celebrated for timelessness where countless paddle strokes have disappeared into clear waters requires a sure and attentive hand. Stephen Wilbers s account reaches b… [more below]
- Author: Wilbers, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 15 2011
- ISBN10: 1596299703
- Language: English
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My Omaha Obsession: Searching for the City
$24.95 Add to cart2021 Nebraska Book Award
My Omaha Obsession takes the reader on an idiosyncratic tour through some of Omaha’s neighborhoods, buildings, architecture, and people, celebrating the city’s unusual history- Author: Cassette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496207610
- Language: English
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Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade
$21.95 Add to cartThe journals of two clerks of the American Fur Company recall a lost moment in the history of the fur trade and the Anishinaabeg along Lake Superior’s North Shore
Long after the Anishinaabeg first i
- Author: Cochrane, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1517905931
- Language: English
