Cultural Region/Midwest
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In Winter’s Kitchen: Growing Roots and Breaking Bread in the Northern Heartland
$20.00 Add to cartBeth Dooley arrived in Minnesota from New Jersey with preconceptions about the Midwestern food scene. Having learned to cook in her grandmother’s kitchen, shopping at farm stands and making preserves,
- Author: Dooley, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 375
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1571313613
- 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
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The Big Book of Missouri Ghost Stories
$19.95 Add to cartTurn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where ghosts and ghouls alike creep just out of sight. Author Troy Taylor shines a light in the dark corners of Missouri and scares those spirit… [more below]
- Series: Big Book of Ghost Stories
- Author: Taylor, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1493043846
- Language: English
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100 Things to Do in Ohio Before You Die
$22.50 Add to cart- Author: Gleason, Brandy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1681065177
- Language: English
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How to Speak Midwestern
$18.95 Add to cart“A dictionary wrapped in some serious dialectology inside a gift book trailing a serious whiff of Relevance.”―The New York Times
In this book on Midwestern accents and sayings, Edward McClelland
- Author: McClelland, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0997774274
- Language: English
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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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Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing the American Dream
$39.95 Add to cartFor millions of Americans, Solomon D. Butcher’s photographs epitomize the sod-house frontier. His images from western Nebraska constitute the most extensive photographic record of the generation that … [more below]
- Author: Carter, John E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0803260385
- Language: English
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Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills
$32.99 Add to cartLong before the coming of Euro-Americans, native inhabitants of what is now Kansas left their mark on the land: carvings in the soft orange and red sandstone of the state&fsquo;s Smoky Hills. Though n… [more below]
- Author: Buchanan, Rex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0700628428
- 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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Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
$16.95 Read moreThe Edmund Fitzgerald, a colossal ore carrier, had been fighting her way through a pounding November storm on Lake Superior. Then the Fitz‘s radar went out, and she started to take on water. Despite g
- Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0816680817
- 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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Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of the Midwest
$22.99 Add to cartThe only field guide to bring along to identify the birds, mammals, trees, wildflowers, insects, reptiles, amphibians, fish, spiders, mushrooms, ferns, rocks, and sky of the Midwest
Even if we focus o- Series: Kaufman Field Guides
- Author: Kaufman, Kenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0618456945
- Language: English
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Wisconsin State Parks: Extraordinary Stories of Geology and Natural History
$26.95 Read moreHit the trail for a dramatic look at Wisconsin’s geologic past.
The impressive bluffs, valleys, waterfalls, and lakes of Wisconsin’s state parks provide more than beautiful scenery and recreational o- Author: Spoolman, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: April 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0870208497
- Language: English
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Hiking Waterfalls Wisconsin: A Guide to the State’s Best Waterfall Hikes
$24.95 Read moreWisconsin truly is a water-saturated nature-lovers paradise: a land of many lakes, rivers and forests. It is known for free-flowing beer and lots of free-flowing water. Most of the year Wisconsin is a
- Author: Turner, Chad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 149306682X
- Language: English
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Hiking Michigan’s Upper Peninsula: A Guide to the Area’s Greatest Hikes
$24.95 Add to cartHiking Michigan’s Upper Peninsula features fifty of the best hikes in Michigan’s beautiful Upper Peninsula. Detailed maps and trail descriptions make navigating these wonderful trails easy, from famil
- Series: State Hiking Guides
- Author: Hansen, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1493053450
- Language: English
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Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year
$14.95 Add to cartLong before it came to be known as Duluth, the land at the western tip of Lake Superior was known to the Ojibwe as Onigamiising, “the place of the small portage.” There the Ojibwe lived in keeping wit
- Author: Grover, Linda Legarde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1517903440
- Language: English
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A Traveler’s Guide to Michigan Wineries, Cideries and Meaderies
$22.95 Read moreThis book lists the locations and contact information for every winery, cidery, and meadery in Michigan. It also includes a brief description of options available to visitors, from outdoor seating, fo… [more below]
- Author: Rose, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1933272708
- 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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Reptiles & Amphibians of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan Field Guide
$14.95 Add to cartLearn to identify all the turtles, snakes, lizards, salamanders, frogs, and toads in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
Get to know the amphibians and reptiles of the Upper Midwest! With Stan Tekiela’
- Author: Tekiela, Stan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1591932807
- Language: English
