Cultural Region/Midwest
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Spirits of Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes
$24.95 Add to cartBetween A.D. 700 and 1100 Native Americans built more effigy mounds in Wisconsin than anywhere else in North America, with an estimated 1,300 mounds–including the world’s largest known bird effigy–a… [more below]
- Series: Wisconsin Land and Life (Paperback)
- Author: Birmingham, Robert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: December 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0299232646
- Language: English
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This Is Our City: The St. Louis City SC and the Revival of America’s First Soccer Capital
$19.95 Read moreSt. Louis has been the heartbeat of American soccer for years, dominating in club, high school, and college soccer. To this day, St. Louis University has the most NCAA Division I men’s soccer national
- Author: Stay, Shane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 1782552278
- Language: English
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Michigan Myths and Legends: The True Stories behind History’s Mysteries
$18.95 Add to cartThis selection of 14 stories from Michigan’s past explores some of the Great Lakes State’s most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.
- Series: Myths and Mysteries
- Author: Barber, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493040081
- Language: English
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The Creaky Knees Guide Northern California, 2nd Edition: The 80 Best Easy Hikes
$19.95 Read moreExplore the beauty of Northern California’s natural landscape with this guide to 80 of the best easy-to-walk day hikes located throughout Northern California.
From hikes just outside of San Francisco- Series: Creaky Knees
- Author: Brown, Ann Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1632173581
- Language: English
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A Round Indiana: Round Barns in the Hoosier State, Second Edition
$34.99 Add to cartRounds barns are architectural phenomena that have graced rural America for over a century. Today the few that survive stand as symbols of another generation’s innovation and ingenuity. To understand
- Author: Hanou, John T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1557539944
- Language: English
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Cleveland’s Colorful Characters
$28.95 Add to cart“Cleveland’s Colorful Characters” is an easy to read, insightful book on some of Cleveland’s most influential individuals. These individuals helped create the grand and unique city which at one time w
- Author: Whipple, Kit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: December 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1645593266
- Language: English
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Fort Snelling at Bdote Updated Edition: A Brief History
$14.95 Add to cartFor millennia, the place where the Minnesota River joins the Mississippi has been a crossroads, a place of strategic power. In the 1820s, the newly arriving U.S. troops built Fort Snelling on the bluf… [more below]
- Author: DeCarlo, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1681341719
- Language: English
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Michigan POW Camps in World War II
$21.99 Add to cartDuring World War II, Michigan became a temporary home to six thousand German and Italian POWs.
At a time of homefront labor shortages, they picked fruit in Berrien County, harvested sugar beets in the
- Series: Military
- Author: Sumner, Gregory D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 05 2018
- ISBN10: 162585837X
- Language: English
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The Authentic History of Cincinnati Chili
$21.99 Add to cartCincinnati chili is its own special creation with a unique flavor and style. Uncover the essential parlors originating and serving this unique Cincinnati specialty in this thorough history of its root
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Woellert, Dann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 16 2013
- ISBN10: 1609499921
- Language: English
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Michigan and the Civil War: A Great and Bloody Sacrifice
$21.99 Add to cartMichigan undertook a rapid and robust response to Lincoln’s call to arms during the Civil War and in many of its great battles. Read the much overlooked history in this volume.
With lively narration, t
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Dempsey, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 02 2011
- ISBN10: 1609491734
- Language: English
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Michigan Birds: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species
$8.95 Read moreMichigan is a bird-finding mecca, owing to its position in the heart of the Great Lakes Basin and along a major migration flyway. Over 440 species have been seen in the Great Lakes State, about 300 of… [more below]
- Series: Pocket Naturalist Guide
- Author: Kavanagh, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 12
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1583550704
- Language: English
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The Farmer and the Chef: Farm Fresh Minnesota Recipes and Stories
$27.95 Read moreOver 90 recipes reflecting Minnesota’s revered farm-to-table values.
The Farmer and the Chef: Farm Fresh Minnesota Recipes and Stories is a collection of farmer-forward writings and chef-driven recipes
- Author: Minnesota Farmers Union
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1493046586
- Language: English
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The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory
$23.99 Read moreThe saga of The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory embodies the violence and vigilantism of the Old West
In the early 1880s, desperate characters left over from the fur trade began robbing arrivin
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Berget, Ron N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 1467149713
- Language: English
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At the Lake: A Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartOne year when asked around the campfire what their favorite vacation memories were, Jim Landwehr’s kids replied, “trips to the cabin.” In At the Lake, stories of fishing and kayaking, a single mother
- Author: Landwehr, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 9798986144740
- Language: English
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Portrait of a City: Lincoln, Nebraska, at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
$29.95 Add to cartOnce just a scattering of houses on the open prairie, by the late nineteenth century the city of Lincoln, Nebraska, had evolved into a modern metropolis. The changes ushered in by the Industrial Revol… [more below]
- Author: Pauley, Bruce F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 149623412X
- Language: English
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The St. Elizabeth Hospital Fire in Iowa
$24.99 Read moreOne of the Largest Tragedies in Iowa History. On January 7, 1950, a fire erupted at St. Elizabeth’s Mental Health Facility for women. The disaster garnered state-wide and national attention as the sec… [more below]
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Grimes, Bret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1467155578
- Language: English
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Detroit Style Pizza: A Doughtown History
$35.99 Add to cartI love Detroit Style Pizza, especially when you see the look on somebody’s face the first time that they try it. As soon as they taste it, they’re ‘Oh, my God. Where has this been all my life?’ Mike S… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Dybis, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: May 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1540257029
- Language: English
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Kodachrome Milwaukee
$39.99 Add to cartExplore long-lost and never-before-seen images of downtown, Mayfair Mall’s Ice Chalet, Brady Street, the Mitchell Park Domes, Milwaukee County Stadium, and much, much more. Introduced by Kodak in 1935… [more below]
- Author: Levin, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: July 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1540257479
- Language: English
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The Big Water: A History of Michigan’s Lower Au Sable River
$16.95 Add to cartAs one of the country’s most popular recreational streams – with an international reputation for fly fishing – the Au Sable River is a crown jewel of Michigan waterways. However, underneath its surfac
- Author: Buhr, Thomas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1961302314
- Language: English
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Shipwrecks Along Lake Superior’s North Shore: A Diver’s Guide
$24.95 Add to cartAn in-depth tour of the many sunken ships submerged in the waters of our great inland sea, Lake Superior.
- Author: Daniel, Stephen B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0873516184
- Language: English
