Local interest, family history & nostalgia books

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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: 9781615998029
Format: Paperback
$60.59

"The impact of Indian boarding schools has been devastating for generations of Native Americans, and the aftershocks...  Read More >>

The Kidney Quest: A Journey to Health

The Kidney Quest: A Journey to Health

Author: Anero Orleans
ISBN: 9798224587810
Format: Paperback
$39.57

"Experience a compelling exploration of perseverance, optimism, and the profound ability of the human soul to change...  Read More >>

Indians of Coo-Yu-Ee Pah (Pyramid Lake): The History of the Pyramid Lake Indians in Nevada

Indians of Coo-Yu-Ee Pah (Pyramid Lake): The History...

Author: Nellie Shaw Harnar
ISBN: 9781953055323
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Nellie Shaw Harnar offers this unique insight into the history of the Pyramid Lake tribe and its beautiful culture...  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

"The impact of Indian boarding schools has been devastating for generations of Native Americans, and the aftershocks...  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 >>

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

In Navigating Rocky Terrainheal following a disturbance? How does life flourish in the shadow of an uncertain future?...  Read More >>

Thomas Jefferson From Boy to Man: Revised Edition

Thomas Jefferson From Boy to Man: Revised Edition

Author: Jayne D'Alessandro-Cox
ISBN: 9798822929432
Format: Paperback
$63.33

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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 >>

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

Timely in its implications for debates over immigration and assimilation, Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain presents...  Read More >>

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 >>

California Gold: Sidney Robertson and the WPA California Folk Music Project

California Gold: Sidney Robertson and the WPA California...

Author: Catherine Hiebert Kerst ,  Library of Congress
ISBN: 9780520391314
Format: Hardback
$57.95

California Gold offers a compelling cultural snapshot of a diverse California during the 1930s at the height of...  Read More >>

Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate

Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery,...

Author: Jared Ross Hardesty
ISBN: 9781479830985
Format: Paperback
$47.99

"""Mutiny on the Rising Sun is a deeply human history of smuggling that demonstrates how interconnected the future...  Read More >>

Before Ishi

Before Ishi

Author: Steve Schoonover
ISBN: 9781935807735
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This book is an attempt to reconstruct the history of the Yahi Indians of Northern California, a history the author...  Read More >>

Yooper Poetry: On Experiencing Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Yooper Poetry: On Experiencing Michigan's Upper Peninsula...

Author: Raymond Luczak
ISBN: 9781615997930
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"Sometimes the best way to learn about a unique region is to listen to the stories told by those who've actually...  Read More >>

Hell Put To Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

Hell Put To Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and...

Author: Earl Swift
ISBN: 9780063265387
Format: Hardback
$65.00

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new work of narrative...  Read More >>

Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries

Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s...

Author: Davida Siwisa James
ISBN: 9781531506148
Format: Hardback
$68.99

Explores four centuries of colonization, land divisions, and urban development around this historic landmark neighborhood...  Read More >>

Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton...

Author: Kathryn Olivarius
ISBN: 9780674295551
Format: Paperback
$38.95

In antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were...  Read More >>

Legend & Lore of the Lost Adams

Legend & Lore of the Lost Adams

Author: John Lemay
ISBN: 9781953221193
Format: Paperback
$52.77

For years, the tale of a group of miners who found a hidden canyon of gold only to be massacred by the Apache was...  Read More >>

Red Sulphur Springs, West Virginia: A Nineteenth Century Health Spa in the Allegheny Foreland

Red Sulphur Springs, West Virginia: A Nineteenth Century...

Author: Fred Ziegler
ISBN: 9798988902041
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"Red Sulphur Springs was part of a social phenomenon centered in the nineteenth century and shared by over one hundred...  Read More >>

Oregon Indians

Oregon Indians

Author: Stephen Dow Beckham
ISBN: 9780870712593
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Carolina Currents, Studies in South Carolina Culture: Volume 1. New Directions

Carolina Currents, Studies in South Carolina Culture:...

Author: Christopher Johnson
ISBN: 9781643364636
Format: Paperback
$65.97

The first in a collection of essays and book reviews devoted to vital aspects of South Carolina history and culture....  Read More >>

Becoming White Clay: A History and Archaeology of Jicarilla Apache Enclavement

Becoming White Clay: A History and Archaeology of Jicarilla...

Author: B. Sunday Eiselt
ISBN: 9781647691523
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Tells the story of one of the longest-lived and most successful nomadic enclaves in North America, providing a rare...  Read More >>

Battle for the Heart of Texas: Political Change in the Electorate

Battle for the Heart of Texas: Political Change in the...

Author: Mark Owens ,  Ken Wink
ISBN: 9780806193991
Format: Paperback
$79.07

At a critical moment, as migration, immigration, and a maturing populace alter the state’s political landscape,...  Read More >>

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