United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO,ND,NE,OH,SD,WI
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Murder in Minnesota: A Collection of True Cases
$19.95 Add to cartThis treasury of vintage crime offers a vivid picture of Minnesota from the time it achieved statehood in 1858 through 1917. It also traces the gradual changes in social attitudes from the days of fro… [more below]
- Series: Minnesota
- Author: Trenerry, Walter N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 15 1962
- ISBN10: 0873511808
- Language: English
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Minnesota: A History
$25.99 Add to cartIn this volume, William Lass tells the story of Minnesota, a state that evolved from many cultures, from its beginnings to the present. This history not only provides descriptions of the essential eve
- Series: States and the Nation #0
- Author: Lass, William E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393319717
- Language: English
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Michigan: A Bicentennial History
$22.99 Add to cartThe idea that abundance was “inexhaustible–that fatal Michigan word,” as the author calls it–dominated thinking about the state from the days when Commandant Cadillac’s soldiers arrived at Detroit u
- Series: States and the Nation
- Author: Catton, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: March 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0393301753
- Language: English
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Minnesota, 1918: When Flu, Fire, and War Ravaged the State
$18.95 Add to cartIn 1918, Minnesota and its residents were confronted with a series of devastating events that put communities to the test, forcing them to persevere through untold hardship. First, as the nation immer… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Curt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1681341476
- Language: English
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Sand and Fire: Exploring a Rare Pine Barrens Landscape
$22.95 Add to cart“While many people are familiar with the pristine and federally protected Namekagon and St. Croix Rivers of northwestern Wisconsin, few know much about the Namekagon Barrens, a rare pine and oak barre… [more below]
- Author: Peters, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1976600057
- Language: English
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The Cadottes: A Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior
$26.95 Add to cart- Author: Silbernagel, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1976600235
- Language: English
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Janesville: An American Story
$17.00 Add to cart* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post… [more below]
- Author: Goldstein, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1501102265
- Language: English
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Ohio Indian Trails: Third Edition
$24.95 Add to cartA facsimile edition of Wilcox’s classic 1933 pictorial survey of the Indian trails of Ohio
Shawnee, Miami, Delaware, Wyandot, Ottawa, Iroquois, and Mingo–tribes great and small, loosely confederated
- Author: Wilcox, Frank N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1606352598
- Language: English
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Better Homes of South Bend: An American Story of Courage
$31.99 Add to cart- Author: Robinson, Gabrielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: September 07 2015
- ISBN10: 154020278X
- Language: English
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Murder in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
$23.99 Add to cartThis collection of twenty-four legendary murders spans 160 years of Upper Michigan’s history and dispels the notion that murder in the Upper Peninsula is an anomaly.
Residents of the idyllic villages s
- Series: Murder & Mayhem
- Author: Longtine, Sonny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 04 2014
- ISBN10: 162619355X
- Language: English
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Made in Ohio: A History of Buckeye Invention & Ingenuity
$23.99 Read moreAmerican Know How in the Heart of It All Ohio was and remains tailor made for commerce, transportation, invention, and manufacturing. Located between Lake Erie and the Ohio River, it was perfect for c… [more below]
- Author: Hinds, Conrade C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152943
- Language: English
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Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains
$24.95 Add to cartReading the West Longlist for Nonfiction
Childbirth defines families, communities, and nations. In Birthing the West, Jennifer J. Hill fills the silences around historical reproduction with copious- Author: Hill, Jennifer J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496226852
- Language: English
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Skywalks: Robert Gordon’s Untold Story of Hallmark’s Kansas City Disaster
$34.95 Add to cartIn 1981 the suspended walkways–or “skywalks”–in Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency hotel fell and killed 114 people. It was the deadliest building collapse in the United States until the fall of New York’s… [more below]
- Author: Paul, R. Eli
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496233131
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, the Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-81
$21.95 Read moreThe Long Winter is one of the most memorable novels in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series. It beautifully details the dramatic events of The Hard Winter of 1880-81, a harrowing time with month
- Author: Wilson, Cindy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: February 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1643439057
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Grand Rapids
$23.99 Read moreRecovering the past of Furniture City More than two centuries of overlooked history flow through Grand Rapids like the river for which it is named. The first city surveyor dabbled in seances while pla… [more below]
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Ellis, Matthew A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153044
- Language: English
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A History Lover’s Guide to Cincinnati
$23.99 Read moreA tour of the Queen City’s rich heritage One of the oldest cities in the Midwest, Cincinnati has history in its bones. In the 1800s, the city was often styled the “Paris of America” due in part to amb… [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Schrage, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152889
- Language: English
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Iowa Supper Clubs
$21.99 Add to cartFrom relish trays and Old Fashioned cocktails to prime rib and fried fish, supper clubs are a quintessential part of midwestern dining culture. In Iowa, hundreds of supper clubs once dotted the state’… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Bannister, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1467145130
- Language: English
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Storied & Scandalous Wisconsin: A History of Mischief and Menace, Heroes and Heartbreak
$19.95 Add to cartTrue, shocking tales from Wisconsin’s seamy past. Author Anna Lardinois synthesizes well-researched information into cohesive tales of terrible fires, vengeful call girls, famous flim-flam men, and ey… [more below]
- Author: Lardinois, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493047574
- Language: English
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Kansas City’s Montgall Avenue: Black Leaders and the Street They Called Home
$24.99 Add to cartA few blocks southeast of the famed intersection of 18th and Vine in Kansas City, Missouri, just a stone’s throw from Charlie Parker’s old stomping grounds and the current home of the vaunted American
- Author: Carr, Margie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0700634673
- Language: English
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Lost Treasures of Omaha
$27.00 Read moreOmaha is many things: “the Gateway to the West”; the home to Indigenous peoples, from the Otoe, Pawnee, and Omaha nations; a place for Euro-American expansion and immigrant dreams; the home of Warren
- Series: Lost Treasures
- Author: Trudell, Tim And Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064324
- Language: English
