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Gold Rush Girl: Pioneer Life in the Black Hills
$19.99 Add to cartIn 2011, Betsy Quinn took it upon herself to finish a project first started by her great-grandmother in the 1920’s: publish a memoir chronicling the struggles and adventures of growing up in the Black
- Author: Taylor, Sarah Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: October 19 2018
- ISBN10: 0999809008
- Language: English
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City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago
$22.95 Add to cartCity of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago’s development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today’s robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose live
- Author: Spinney, Robert G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: May 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1501748963
- Language: English
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Movin’ On: The Legacy of Ron West and the Rock Band Missouri
$17.99 Add to cartComing of age during the British Invasion of the early 1960s, Ron West was inspired to pursue a career in music. His interest in bands like the Beatles influenced the formation of the Chesmann and Che
- Author: ?mick, Jeremy Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1960810480
- Language: English
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The Lake Michigan Triangle: Mysterious Disappearances and Haunting Tales
$23.99 Add to cartWhat disturbing secrets surround the cold, deep waters of Lake Michigan?
Sudden violent storms and rocky shoals have claimed the lives of countless mortals foolish enough to brave the treacherous surf
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Soucek, Gayle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1467148393
- Language: English
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Lost Chicago Department Stores
$41.99 Add to cartWithin thirty years of the Great Chicago Fire, the revitalized city was boasting some of America’s grandest department stores. The retail corridor on State Street was a crowded canyon of innovation an… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Goddard, Leslie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: January 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1540251276
- Language: English
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The Collinwood Tragedy: The Story of the Worst School Fire in American History
$24.95 Add to cartA devastating loss of life and a community’s response
March 4, 1908, was an ordinary morning in Collinwood, Ohio, a village about ten miles outside of Cleveland. Children at Lakeview Elementary School
- Author: Badal, James Jessen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1606353918
- Language: English
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Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa
$21.99 Add to cartSome have called Buxton a Black Utopia. In the town of five thousand residents, established in 1900, African Americans and Caucasians lived, worked and attended school together. It was a thriving, one… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Chase, Rachelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1467140465
- Language: English
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Lemont
$24.99 Read moreLocated within the Des Plaines River valley in Illinois, Lemont became a village in 1873. The Illinois and Michigan Canal opened transportation opportunities and led to the discovery of dolomite limes… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Barron, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 06 2023
- ISBN10: 146716058X
- Language: English
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When Minnehaha Flowed with Whiskey: A Spirited History of the Falls
$18.95 Add to cartThe lost history of Minnehaha Falls–featuring dance halls, secret saloons, wild behavior, lawsuits, and plenty of whiskey.
Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis has been a much-loved place for a very long t
- Author: Cooper, Karen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 168134226X
- Language: English
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Historic Barns of Ohio
$40.99 Add to cartFrom the glacier-flattened northwest to the Appalachian hills and valleys to the east and south, barns dot the Ohio landscape. Built with wooden nails and mortise-and-tenon joints and assembled with b… [more below]
- Author: Kroeger, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: March 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1540246337
- Language: English
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Death & Lighthouses on the Great Lakes: A History of Murder and Misfortune
$21.99 Add to cartThe author of Michigan’s Haunted Lighthouses shares tales of disaster and misfortune on the Great Lakes.
Losing one’s life while tending to a Great Lakes lighthouse sadly wasn’t such an unusual occurr
- Series: Murder & Mayhem
- Author: Stampfler, Dianna Higgs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1467149950
- Language: English
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Stand Up!: The Story of Minnesota’s Protest Tradition
$16.95 Add to cartA brief and readable overview of the political protest movements that have shaped Minnesota, a state of extremes.
- Author: Gilman, Rhoda R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0873518497
- Language: English
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Minnesota in the ’70s
$29.95 Add to cartReaching far beyond disco with an intriguing and entertaining look at the changes and challenges of the 1970s, the decade in which Minnesota grew into its modern identity.
- Author: Kenney, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0873518934
- Language: English
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Dark Side of the Mitten: Crimes of Power & Powerful Criminals in Michigan’s Past & Present
$16.95 Add to cartMichigan’s past has a more sinister side than what’s commonly displayed on roadside historical markers. In Dark Side of the Mitten: Crimes of the Powerful and Powerful Criminals in Michigan’s Past and
- Series: Blood on the Mitten #3
- Author: Carr, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1950659763
- Language: English
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St. Paul: An Urban Biography
$18.95 Add to cartA concise history, featuring stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you see Minnesota’s capitol city.
How did the city of St. Paul come to be where and what it is, and what- Series: Urban Biography #3
- Author: Lindeke, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1681342006
- Language: English
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Lost Lake Erie
$24.99 Read moreSerene one moment and destructive the next, Lake Erie’s moods mirror its tumultuous role in history.
As the site of Cleveland’s Great Lakes Exposition, the lake offered visitors a respite from the Gre
- Series: Lost
- Author: Boresz Engelking, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153737
- Language: English
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Historic Tales of Michigan Up North
$23.99 Add to cartCenturies ago, Europeans desperate for gold and a route to the East found a lush, green paradise populated by native tribes in the New World.
Subsequent violence and disease all but wiped out the nativ
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Rogers, D. Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1467138665
- Language: English
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The Voyageur’s Highway: Minnesota’s Border Lake Land
$17.95 Add to cartThis popular guide to Minnesota’s canoe country from Rainy Lake east to Lake Superior tells of famous explorers, the great fur traders, voyageurs, Indians, and loggers who passed that way.
- Series: Mysteries & Horror
- Author: Nute, Grace Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 129
- Publish Date: June 01 1941
- ISBN10: 0873510062
- Language: English
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Marshall Field’s: The Store That Helped Build Chicago
$31.99 Add to cartAnyone who has waited in a Christmas line for the Walnut Room’s Great Tree can attest that Chicago’s loyalty to Marshall Field’s is fierce. Dayton-Hudson even had to take out advertising around town t… [more below]
- Author: Soucek, Gayle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: September 10 2010
- ISBN10: 1540223779
- Language: English
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It Happened in Michigan: Stories of Events and People That Shaped Great Lakes State History
$16.95 Add to cartThis book offers an inside look at over 30 interesting and unusual episodes that shaped the history of the Great Lakes State.
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: Burcar, Colleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1493039458
- Language: English
