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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
$40.00 Add to cartThe dramatic and enthralling story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the world’s longest suspension bridge at the time, a tale of greed, corruption, and obstruction but also of optimism, heroism… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1451683235
- Language: English
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Wooden Boats of the St. Lawrence River
$24.99 Read moreThe Thousand Islands’ very name conjures up images of great natural beauty and nautical wonders. They are forested islands replete with storybook stone castles. Exquisite mahogany runabouts can be see… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Kunz, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 146712401X
- Language: English
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Cycling in Chicago
$24.99 Read moreIn the late 19th and early 20th century, Chicago was the center of bicycle manufacturing in the United States. As an early industrial and transportation center, two-thirds of all bicycles manufactured… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: McAuliffe, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 30 2017
- ISBN10: 1467126020
- Language: English
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Sermons in Stone: The Stone Walls of New England and New York
$16.95 Read moreWhat do we actually know about stone walls? about the people who built them, and why? Stone walls are not simply monuments to the skill of Yankee farmers. The historical record makes clear that many w… [more below]
- Author: Allport, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1581571658
- Language: English
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Moxie: Maine in a Bottle
$16.95 Add to cartIn this compendium of all things Moxie, Maine author Jim Baumer shows us why this soft drink has garnered such a loyal and vocal following. Through history, photos, festivals, and more, Moxie: Maine i… [more below]
- Author: Baumer, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 15 2019
- ISBN10: 160893683X
- Language: English
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All Hell Broke Loose: Experiences of Young People During the Armistice Day 1940 Blizzard
$15.95 Read moreHow young people coped with the storm of the century – 59 people died in Minnesota on November 11, 1940 when the worst blizzard ever hit Minnesota unexpectedly. Violet walked from Seven Corners in Min… [more below]
- Author: Hull, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: June 01 1985
- ISBN10: 188237696X
- Language: English
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A Woman’s Way West: In and Around Glacier National Park, 1925-1990
$16.95 Read moreDoris Ashley left Iowa and came to Montana as the frontier era came to a close and the hard transition to the modern West began. In 1925, already a widow at the age of twenty-four, she took a job as “… [more below]
- Author: Fraley, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1560377623
- Language: English
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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
$30.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South–and thus of America–by an esteemed daughter of
- Author: Perry, Imani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0063090767
- Language: English
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Colorado Curiosities: Rattlesnake Kate, the Crying Bridge, Kit Carson’s Last Trip and More
$21.99 Read moreColorado’s Front Range, Western Slope, eastern plains and southern approaches were home to some of the state’s stranger people, places and events. Meet Mike the Headless Chicken from Fruita and a Fort… [more below]
- Author: Brick, Cindy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1467146587
- Language: English
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Mysterious Georgia
$21.99 Read moreA plunge into Georgia history offers no shortage of bewilderment. UFOs, haunted bridges, ghost lights and monsters are just a smattering of the unexplained. At the Jekyll Island Club, a bellhop from t… [more below]
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Carmichael, Sherman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1467149268
- Language: English
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Of Time and Knoxville: Fragment of an Autobiography
$29.95 Add to cartAnne Wetzell Armstrong adored her adopted hometown. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, she moved with her family to the “West End” (Fort Sanders) area of Knoxville, Tennessee, in the 1880s, a pivotal dec
- Author: Behrend, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1621907066
- Language: English
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A New History of Lexington, Kentucky
$21.99 Read moreLexington is known as the Horse Capital of the World, but the city’s history runs much deeper. Learn about the mayor who refused the Ku Klux Klan permission to march and organize in the city. Meet one… [more below]
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Ockerman Jr, Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1467146854
- Language: English
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A History of Montana in 101 Objects: Artifacts & Essays from the Montana Historical Society
$29.95 Add to cartTreasures abound in this tour of Montana’s fascinating past. Featured objects span a breadth of time and cultures, ranging from a prehistoric petroglyph (dated 1500 AD), to famous guide and trapper Ji… [more below]
- Author: Montana Historical Society
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1940527961
- Language: English
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Denali’s Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America’s Wildest Peak
$17.00 Read moreIn the summer of 1967, twelve young men ascended Alaska’s Mount McKinley–known to the locals as Denali. Engulfed by a once-in-alifetime blizzard, only five made it back down.
Andy Hall, a journalist
- Author: Hall, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0142181951
- Language: English
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Generations of Somerset Place: From Slavery to Freedom
$24.99 Read moreLocated in the rural northeastern part of North Carolina, Somerset was cumulatively home to more than 800 enslaved blacks and four generations of a planter family.
When the institution of slavery ended
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Redford, Dorothy Spruill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 31 2005
- ISBN10: 738518034
- Language: English
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Filipinos in Chicago
$24.99 Read moreThe pictorial history of Filipino immigration to Chicago encompasses 100 years, moving from the Philippines to this country of unknown landscapes and uncertainties.
The pioneering Filipinos came in the
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Alamar, Estrella Ravelo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0738518808
- Language: English
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Ironwood, Hurley, and the Gogebic Range
$24.99 Read moreSituated on the south shore of Lake Superior, the Gogebic Iron Range of Michigan and Wisconsin exudes a strong sense of place. During the 1880s, a mining boom lured settlers, investment, and controver… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Liesch, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 30 2006
- ISBN10: 738540668
- Language: English
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Allegany County
$24.99 Read moreAllegany County was established in 1789 and is truly one of America’s historic transportation and industrial centers. The images presented here portray this heritage and were selected with care from t… [more below]
- Series: Postcard History
- Author: Feldstein, Albert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 29 2006
- ISBN10: 0738543810
- Language: English
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Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side
$37.50 Read moreSouthern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side is the first book devoted to the South Side’s rich and unfairly ignored architectural heritage. With lively, insightful text and … [more below]
- Series: Second to None: Chicago Stories
- Author: Bey, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0810140985
- Language: English
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Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
$22.00 Add to cartA rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society
Winner of the- Author: Duval, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0812981200
- Language: English
