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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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We Fought the Road
$19.95 Add to cartWe Fought the Road is the story of the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway during World War II. More than one third of the 10,607 builders were black; thought to be incapable of performing on a war
- Author: McClure, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1935347772
- Language: English
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Crafty Bastards: Beer in New England from the Mayflower to Modern Day
$29.30 Add to cartThe region that defined Yankee ingenuity has a beer heritage in keeping with its character. Brewing in New England goes back four centuries beginning with the Pilgrims who dropped anchor in Plymouth b… [more below]
- Author: Clark, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1934598119
- Language: English
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John Chisum: Frontier Cattle King
$26.60 Add to cartJohn Chisum was a legendary figure of the Old West cattle frontier. At thirteen he migrated with his family from Tennessee to the Republic of Texas. During the 1850s Chisum recognized opportunity in t
- Author: O’Neal, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: March 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1681791137
- Language: English
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Zora Neale Hurston on Florida Food:: Recipes, Remedies & Simple Pleasures
$23.99 Add to cartFlorida native Zora Neale Hurston’s early twentieth-century ethnographic research and writing emphasizes the essentials of food in Florida through simple dishes and recipes.
It considers foods prepared
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Opie, Frederick Douglass
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 19 2015
- ISBN10: 1626198721
- Language: English
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Historic Haunts of Long Island: Ghosts and Legends from the Gold Coast to Montauk Point
$24.99 Add to cartExplore the mysterious past of Long Island and learn about the spirits that haunt the historic American island.
Take a ghostly journey through Long Island’s history, from Native American legends and be
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Brosky, Kerriann Flanagan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2015
- ISBN10: 1626196680
- Language: English
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New Hampshire Beer:: Brewing from Sea to Summit
$21.99 Add to cartIn 1859, the legendary Frank Jones Brewery was founded in Portsmouth, paving the way for the booming craft beer scene of today. The surge of budding breweries is bringing exciting styles and flavors t… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Aldrich, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 17 2014
- ISBN10: 1626194254
- Language: English
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A History of the New Hampshire Abenaki
$21.99 Add to cartThe native Penacook, Winnipesaukee, Pigwacket, Sokoki, Cowasuck and Ossipee tribes, collectively known as the Abenaki, once thrived along the Granite State’s great rivers. Influences of these “men of … [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Heald Phd, Bruce D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 162619422X
- Language: English
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Lost Restaurants of Chicago
$24.99 Add to cartChicago author, Greg Borzo, recalls the city’s celebrated lost restaurants.
Many of Chicago’s greatest or most unusual restaurants are no longer taking reservations, but they’re definitely not forgotte
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Borzo, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1625859333
- 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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Hidden History of Maine
$23.99 Add to cartDiscover four hundred years of Maine’s history through the tales of its unique residents.
Maine history would be bare but for the contributions of hardy and impassioned individuals whose lives make up
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Gratwick, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 10 2010
- ISBN10: 1596298154
- Language: English
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Red Scare in the Green Mountains: The McCarthy Era in Vermont 1946-1960
$16.95 Add to cartIPPY Award for Best Regional History
Reader’s Favorite Award
What happened in Vermont when the anti-Communist fear known as the “Red Scare” swept the country? Quite a bit, as it turns out. Rick Winston
- Author: Winston, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: July 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1578690072
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Rhode Island: Not-To-Be-Forgotten Tales of the Ocean State
$31.99 Add to cartSurprising tales and unexpected anecdotes color Rhode Island s legacy, from the accounts of its three brave Titanic survivors to the whirlwind Revolutionary War romance between a Smithfield girl and a… [more below]
- Author: Laxton, Glenn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: November 27 2009
- ISBN10: 1540220230
- Language: English
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San Diego Lowriders: A History of Cars and Cruising
$33.99 Add to cartSan Diego’s unique lowrider culture and community has a long history of “low and slow.” Cruising the streets from 1950 to 1985, twenty-eight lowrider car clubs made their marks in the San Diego neighb… [more below]
- Author: Pulido, Alberto Lopez
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: April 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1540215865
- Language: English
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Legends, Lore & True Tales in Mormon Country
$31.99 Add to cartUtah’s Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area offers breathtaking natural resources, powerful historical drama and intriguing cultural traditions. This rich legacy is built on old-world values of coope… [more below]
- Author: Bona, Monte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: May 18 2015
- ISBN10: 1540213579
- Language: English
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Long Island’s Gold Coast
$31.99 Add to cartIn the spotlight with the publication of The Great Gatsby, the North Shore’s Gold Coast boasted perhaps the greatest concentration of wealth in the country during the first half of the 20th century. I… [more below]
- Author: Mateyunas, Paul J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 07 2012
- ISBN10: 1531661610
- Language: English
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Around Ebarb and the Toledo Bend
$31.99 Add to cartThe Ebarb and Toledo Bend area of Louisiana has a fascinating and colorful history. Founded in 1716, the French Fort St. Jean Baptiste was the first settlement in the area, followed soon after by the … [more below]
- Author: Rivers, Mary Lucille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 02 2007
- ISBN10: 1531626874
- Language: English
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Creating Connecticut: Critical Moments That Shaped a Great State
$26.95 Add to cartWalt Woodward, a gifted story-teller, brings the history we thought we knew to life in new ways, from the nearly forgotten early presence of the Dutch, to the time when Connecticut was New England’s f… [more below]
- Author: Woodward, Walter W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493047027
- Language: English
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Across the Great Divide: Robert Stuart and the Discovery of the Oregon Trail
$19.99 Add to cartResurrecting a pivotal moment in American history, Across the Great Divide tells the triumphant never-before-told story of the young Scottish fur trader and explorer who discovered the way West, chang… [more below]
- Author: McCartney, Laton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1476730032
- Language: English
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Grand Teton National Park
$24.99 Add to cartThe majestic beauty of Grand Teton National Park has moved people throughout time. Native Americans believed in the spiritual power of the towering mountain peaks and journeyed there to gain special p… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Fuller, Kendra Leah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1467131482
- Language: English
