Local interest, family history & nostalgia books

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Indianapolis – A Concise History

Indianapolis – A Concise History

Author: Jon C. Teaford
ISBN: 9780253068958
Format: Hardback
$82.99

As its name denotes, Indianapolis is without question Indiana's city. Known as the Crossroads of America, Indianapolis...  Read More >>

Midwest Bedrock – The Search for Nature`s Soul in America`s Heartland

Midwest Bedrock – The Search for Nature`s Soul in America`s...

Author: Kevin J. Koch
ISBN: 9780253068835
Format: Hardback
$124.99

To know a place deeply means to understand it on several levels, layered almost as if from bedrock to topsoil. Midwest...  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 >>

Mortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers

Mortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Marie Carter
ISBN: 9781531506247
Format: Hardback
$59.99

"The neglected histories of 19th century NYC's maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to...  Read More >>

Where We Live: Environmental Activists' Fight to Save Their Communities

Where We Live: Environmental Activists' Fight to Save...

Author: Randy Cunningham
ISBN: 9780829802153
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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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 >>

Mam�, Quiero Escuchar tu Historia: Diario Guiado Y Recuerdo

Mam�, Quiero Escuchar tu Historia: Diario Guiado Y Recuerdo...

Author: Lulu and Bell
ISBN: 9781839904264
Format: Paperback
$31.65

"""Mam�, Quiero Escuchar tu Historia"" es un diario guiado conmovedor que ofrece una oportunidad �nica para profundizar...  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 >>

Pablo Abeita: The Life and Times of a Native Statesman of Isleta Pueblo, 1871–1940

Pablo Abeita: The Life and Times of a Native Statesman...

Author: Malcolm Ebright ,  Rick Hendricks
ISBN: 9780826366313
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The first biography of a Pueblo leader, Pablo Abeita, a man considered the most important Native leader in the Southwest...  Read More >>

History of New York City: A Captivating Guide to Historical Events and Facts You Should Know About NYC

History of New York City: A Captivating Guide to Historical...

Author: Captivating History
ISBN: 9798893580143
Format: Hardback
$68.61

Dive into the heart of New York City with this captivating guide. Discover the captivating saga of one of the world's...  Read More >>

Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain: Networks, Power, and Everyday Life

Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain: Networks, Power,...

Author: Saara Kekki
ISBN: 9780806193908
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Firearms of the Texas Rangers: From the Frontier Era to the Modern Age

Firearms of the Texas Rangers: From the Frontier Era...

Author: Doug Dukes
ISBN: 9781574419344
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Conifers of the New England–Acadian Forest: A Cultural History

Conifers of the New England–Acadian Forest: A Cultural...

Author: Steve Keating
ISBN: 9781625347879
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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Navigating Rocky Terrains: Stories from a Texas Hill Country Landscape

Navigating Rocky Terrains: Stories from a Texas Hill...

Author: Laurie Roath Frazier
ISBN: 9781595342881
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Personal, nature, and travel essays set in the karst ecosystem of the Texas Hill Country  Read More >>

Shrimping West Texas: The Rise and Fall of the Permian Sea Shrimp Company

Shrimping West Texas: The Rise and Fall of the Permian...

Author: Bart Reid
ISBN: 9781682832110
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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The Old Franciscan Missions of Caifornia

The Old Franciscan Missions of Caifornia

Author: George Wharton James
ISBN: 9798869290465
Format: Paperback
$36.93

Step into the captivating history of California's iconic Franciscan missions with George Wharton James. In this...  Read More >>

Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties: Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway

Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties: Prohibition on...

Author: Philip P. Mason
ISBN: 9780814351048
Format: Paperback
$68.61

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The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930

The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration...

Author: John Bardes
ISBN: 9781469678184
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders inflicted...  Read More >>

The Amusement Park at Sloan's Lake: The Lost History of Denver's Manhattan Beach

The Amusement Park at Sloan's Lake: The Lost History...

Author: David Forsyth
ISBN: 9781493076970
Format: Paperback
$50.99

Operating from 1890 to 1914, Manhattan Beach Amusement Park was the first true amusement park in Denver and was...  Read More >>

Going North: Memorabilia of Tourism in Alaska, Yukon, and Northern British Columbia

Going North: Memorabilia of Tourism in Alaska, Yukon,...

Author: Stan Cohen
ISBN: 9780878427161
Format: Paperback
$63.36

Alaska and the Yukon have captured Americans' imaginations since the days of the Klondike Gold Rush. Since the early...  Read More >>

Heart Mountain Chronicles: The History of a Japanese Relocation Center

Heart Mountain Chronicles: The History of a Japanese...

Author: Bernard Murphy ,  James Murphy
ISBN: 9781733489720
Format: Paperback
$95.04

The Heart Mountian Relocation Center was built in just 60 days to house 11,000 persons of Japanese ancestry forceably...  Read More >>

Pineys: The People of the New Jersey Pine Barrens

Pineys: The People of the New Jersey Pine Barrens

Author: Yael Aravah
ISBN: 9781947889248
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Yael Aravah's Pineys gives readers a glimpse into the world of the Pine Barrens of New Jersey through her beautiful...  Read More >>

Travels and Trails: A Historical Tour Guide to East Las Vegas and Storrie Lake, New Mexico

Travels and Trails: A Historical Tour Guide to East...

Author: Patricia Halverson
ISBN: 9781632936288
Format: Paperback
$52.67

A tour guide of East Las Vegas, New Mexico and the people who helped to develop the area.  Read More >>

Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom: Faith & Liberty in Fredericksburg

Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Statute for Religious...

Author: Michael Aubrecht
ISBN: 9781467156585
Format: Paperback
$65.97

"Jefferson's Legacy of Freedom for the Old Dominion Prior to his death Thomas Jefferson left behind specific instructions...  Read More >>

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