Cultural Region/Midwest
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Remembering University of Michigan Football
$19.99 Add to cartThe first football team at the University of Michigan was established in 1879. From winning the first ever Tournament of Roses game, to back-to-back national championships, Michigan football created a
- Series: Remembering
- Author: O’Brien, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 1683369009
- Language: English
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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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Best Tent Camping: Ohio: Your Car-Camping Guide to Scenic Beauty, the Sounds of Nature, and an Escape from Civilization
$16.95 Add to cartOffering essential details and easy-to-read maps, Best Tent Camping: Ohio presents 50 of the state’s best campgrounds for car campers.
- Series: Best Tent Camping
- Author: Loewendick, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1634042891
- Language: English
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Minnesota Adventure Weekends: Your Guide to the Best Outdoor Getaways
$16.95 Add to cartMinnesota Adventure Weekends takes readers to the state’s 12 best destinations for 48 hours of hiking, cycling, climbing, and paddling.
- Series: Adventure Weekends
- Author: Moravec, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1634041569
- Language: English
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60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: St. Louis: Including Sullivan, Potosi, and Farmington
$22.95 Add to cartThis guide to 60 of the best hikes in the St. Louis area leads you to scenic overlooks, wildlife hot spots, and historical settings.
- Series: 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles
- Author: Henry, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1634041062
- Language: English
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Cuyahoga Valley National Park Handbook: Revised and Updated
$16.95 Add to cartStretching between Cleveland and Akron in heavily urban northeastern Ohio, Cuyahoga Valley National Park has been called a “Green-Shrouded Miracle,” preserving precious green space and offering a retr
- Author: Platt, Carolyn V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: July 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1606352857
- Language: English
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The Serial Killer’s Apprentice: And 12 Other True Stories of Cleveland’s Most Intriguing Unsolved Crimes
$16.95 Read morePresenting the most notorious unsolved crimes in Northeast Ohio …
Investigative reporter James Renner reopens cold cases and delves into dark secrets that have baffled Clevelanders for years, inclu
- Author: Renner, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1598510460
- Language: English
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Cahokia Mounds: America’s First City
$23.99 Add to cartAbout one thousand years ago, a phenomenon occurred in a fertile tract of Mississippi River flood plain known today as the “American Bottom.” This phenomenon came to be called Cahokia Mounds, America’
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Iseminger, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 03 2010
- ISBN10: 1596297344
- 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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Ever True: 150 Years of Giant Leaps at Purdue University
$44.95 Add to cartIn 1869 the State of Indiana founded Purdue University as Indiana’s land-grant university dedicated to agriculture and engineering. Today, Purdue stands as one of the elite research and education inst
- Series: Founders
- Author: Norberg, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1557538220
- 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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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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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.
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- 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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The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age
$19.99 Add to cart“Both a pleasure and a revelation.”–Daniel Okrent, author of Nine Innings
In 1968, two astounding pitchers would dominate the game as never before. One was black, the other white. The stoic Bob Gibs- Author: Pappu, Sridhar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1328557286
- Language: English
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Last Entry Point: Stories of Danger and Death in the Boundary Waters
$19.95 Add to cartHypothermia, lightning strikes, high winds, medical emergencies, miscalculations–the dangers are real in canoe country. Last Entry Point shares tales of tragedy and near-tragedy in the Boundary Water… [more below]
- Author: Friedrichs, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1681342863
- Language: English
