Local history books

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Oil Cities: The Making of North Louisiana’s Boomtowns, 1901-1930

Oil Cities: The Making of North Louisiana’s Boomtowns,...

Author: Henry Alexander Wiencek
ISBN: 9781477329177
Format: Hardback
$118.80

How international oil companies navigated the local, segregated landscape of north Louisiana in the first decades...  Read More >>

Home, Heat, Money, God: Texas and Modern Architecture

Home, Heat, Money, God: Texas and Modern Architecture...

Author: Kathryn E. O'Rourke ,  Ben Koush
ISBN: 9781477328927
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Thematically focused analaysis of modern architecture throughout Texas with gorgeous photographs illustrating works...  Read More >>

Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas

Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball...

Author: Chris Holaday
ISBN: 9781469678856
Format: Paperback
$42.90

Offers readers the first book-length history of baseball’s integration in the Carolinas, showing its slow and unsteady...  Read More >>

The Victorio Peak Mystery: A Search for the Greatest Lost Treasure Cache in America

The Victorio Peak Mystery: A Search for the Greatest...

Author: W.C. Jameson
ISBN: 9781493076390
Format: Paperback
$59.99

In a little-known mountain range in southern New Mexico is an unremarkable mountain called Victorio Peak. In a cavern...  Read More >>

Iñupiat of the Sii: Historical Ethnography and Arctic Challenges

Iñupiat of the Sii: Historical Ethnography and Arctic...

Author: Wanni W. Anderson ,  Douglas D. Anderson
ISBN: 9781646426058
Format: Paperback
$55.31

""First-hand account of the authors' lived experiences and archaeological and ethnographic research during eight...  Read More >>

Abstracts from the North Carolina Journal, Halifax County North Carolina, 1806-1810. (Volume #5)

Abstracts from the North Carolina Journal, Halifax County...

Author: Raymond Parker Fouts
ISBN: 9781639141944
Format: Paperback
$79.20

"By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1994, reprinted 2024, 142 pages, 8 1/2"" x 11"" soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-194-4....  Read More >>

Abstracts from the North Carolina Journal, Halifax County, North Carolina, 1798-1800. (Volume #3)

Abstracts from the North Carolina Journal, Halifax County,...

Author: Raymond Parker Fouts
ISBN: 9781639141920
Format: Paperback
$79.20

"By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1990, reprinted 2024, 138 pages, 8 1/2"" x 11"" soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-192-0....  Read More >>

Abstracts from the North Carolina Journal, Halifax County North Carolina, 1792-1794. (Volume #1)

Abstracts from the North Carolina Journal, Halifax County...

Author: Raymond Parker Fouts
ISBN: 9781639141906
Format: Paperback
$79.20

"By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1987, reprinted 2024, 166 page, 8 1/2"" x 11"" soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-190-6....  Read More >>

Abstracts from the North Carolina Journal, Halifax County, North Carolina, 1795-1797. (Volume #2)

Abstracts from the North Carolina Journal, Halifax County,...

Author: Raymond Parker Fouts
ISBN: 9781639141913
Format: Paperback
$92.40

"By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1989, Pub. 2024, 228 pages, 8 1/2"" x 11"" soft cover, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-191-3....  Read More >>

Pubs and Breweries of the Black Country

Pubs and Breweries of the Black Country

Author: Steve James
ISBN: 9781858587691
Format: Paperback
$38.68

The Black Country has a wealth of pubs and breweries serving the local population of its many towns and settlements....  Read More >>

Vampire's Grasp: The Hidden History of Consumption in New England

Vampire's Grasp: The Hidden History of Consumption in...

Author: Michael E Bell
ISBN: 9798893723526
Format: Paperback
$131.97

"The story of New England's vampires begins with a scourge whose tragic trail is visible in cemeteries throughout...  Read More >>

Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her

Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the...

Author: Erika Bolstad
ISBN: 9781728280349
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Beneath the windswept North Dakota plains, riches await...  Read More >>

Iñupiat of the Sii: Historical Ethnography and Arctic Challenges

Iñupiat of the Sii: Historical Ethnography and Arctic...

Author: Wanni W. Anderson ,  Douglas D. Anderson
ISBN: 9781646426041
Format: Hardback
$224.40

""First-hand account of the authors' lived experiences and archaeological and ethnographic research during eight...  Read More >>

An Historical Map of Perth: Royal burgh and county town

An Historical Map of Perth: Royal burgh and county town...

Author: Perthshire Society of Natural Science ,  John Jessop
ISBN: 9781838071974
Format: Sheet map
$31.02

The map shows the sites of Perth's many major landmarks and historical sites, lost and surviving. A comprehensive...  Read More >>

Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters

Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters

Author: Cary J Griffith ,  Jonathan Yen
ISBN: 9798874772420
Format: Audio
$121.31

On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a bizarre confluence of meteorological events resulted...  Read More >>

Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters

Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters

Author: Cary J Griffith ,  Jonathan Yen
ISBN: 9798874772413
Format: Audio
$131.97

On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a bizarre confluence of meteorological events resulted...  Read More >>

An Irish Passion for Justice: The Life of Rebel New York Attorney Paul O'Dwyer

An Irish Passion for Justice: The Life of Rebel New...

Author: Robert Polner C/O and Robert Polner ,  Michael Tubridy
ISBN: 9781501773051
Format: Hardback
$97.55

""This biography discusses Paul O'Dwyer, the brother of New York's last mayor of Irish descent, who in his own right...  Read More >>

Michigan Indian Boarding School Survivors Speak Out: A Narrative History

Michigan Indian Boarding School Survivors Speak Out:...

Author: Sharon Marie Brunner
ISBN: 9781615998029
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Brunner deftly teases out the themes from in-person interviews of Michigan Indian boarding school survivors transcribed...  Read More >>

The Soul of Pittsburgh: Essays on Life, Community and History

The Soul of Pittsburgh: Essays on Life, Community and...

Author: Ed Simon
ISBN: 9781467157315
Format: Paperback
$65.97

""Europe stretches to the Alleghenies, America lies beyond."" - Ralph Waldo Emerson ""They are my people and this...  Read More >>

War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans

War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans

Author: Alistair Moffat
ISBN: 9781780278698
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans. In twelve journeys he explores...  Read More >>

The Borders: A History of the Borders from Earliest Times

The Borders: A History of the Borders from Earliest...

Author: Alistair Moffat
ISBN: 9781780278919
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A story of the border: a place of beginnings and endings, of differences and similarities. This is also the story...  Read More >>

Richwood Revisited: More Tales from the Historic Village

Richwood Revisited: More Tales from the Historic Village...

Author: Dustin Lowe
ISBN: 9798869221834
Format: Paperback
$52.77

What do you know about Richwood, Ohio? You might think it's just another small town in the Midwest, but you'd be...  Read More >>

The Victoria History of Middlesex: St George Hanover Square

The Victoria History of Middlesex: St George Hanover...

Author: Francis Boorman (Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London)
ISBN: 9781912702848
Format: Paperback
$52.77

The parish of St George Hanover Square encompasses the wealthy neighbourhoods of Mayfair, Belgravia and Pimlico...  Read More >>

The Little History of Glasgow

The Little History of Glasgow

Author: Neil Robertson
ISBN: 9781803995021
Format: Hardback
$39.99

The Little History of Glasgow explores the city’s slow and steady economic rise, its calamitous collapse and its...  Read More >>

Michigan Indian Boarding School Survivors Speak Out: A Narrative History

Michigan Indian Boarding School Survivors Speak Out:...

Author: Sharon Marie Brunner
ISBN: 9781615998036
Format: Hardback
$100.19

Brunner deftly teases out the themes from in-person interviews of Michigan Indian boarding school survivors transcribed...  Read More >>

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