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  • A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri

    by W.M.S. Bryan ...
    A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri is a massive history of many families of Missouri, and also includes an early history of the state and Daniel Boone. A table of contents is included. ... Read more

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    Spokesman for the Sioux

    Government officials and missionaries wanted all Sioux men to become self-sufficient farmers, wear pants, and cut their hair. The Indians, confronted by a land-hungry white population and a loss of hunting grounds, sought to exchange title to their homeland for annuities of cash and food, schools and teachers, and farms and agricultural knowledge. By 1862 the Sioux realized that their extensive ... Read more

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  • Women of the Northern Plains

    Gender and Settlement on the Homestead Frontier

    In Women of the Northern Plains, Barbara Handy-Marchello tells the stories of the unsung heroes of North Dakota's settlement era: the farm women. As the men struggled to raise and sell wheat, the women focused on barnyard labor—raising chickens and cows and selling eggs and butter—to feed and clothe their families and maintain their households through booms and busts. Handy-Marchello focuses on ... Read more

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  • Shaping the North Star State

    A History of Minnesota's Boundaries

    The history hidden in the story of Minnesota's borders. How were those borders formed, what deals were struck, and why does Minnesota looks like it does.? ... Read more

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  • The Era of Metternich

    by Carlton Hayes ...
    CERTAIN basic principles in society and in politics were proclaimed by the French Revolution. The Napoleonic Era served to communicate them to Europe. The ensuing period was marked by a bitter struggle within nearly every European state for their general acceptance or for their wholesale rejection. To all Frenchmen liberty, equality, and fraternity already meant definite facts or rights: those who ... Read more

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  • Subterranean Twin Cities

    by Greg Brick ...
    “Subterranean Twin Cities is a treasure—a book for the Tom Sawyer in all of us. Greg Brick is one of those few persons with the unique talent to write expertly about his adventures, bringing readers along with him on hands and knees.” —Steve Thayer, author of Saint Mudd and The Weatherman.We tend to send things underground that we are not interested in ever seeing again. Sewage. Garbage. In the ... Read more

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  • The Wisconsin Capitol

    Stories of a Monument and Its People

    On the occasion of the Capitol’s centennial in 2017, this book tells the remarkable story of the building—in all its incarnations—and the people who made history beneath its dome. The book covers the creation of the territorial capitol in 1837, the construction of the second capitol in the 1860s (and the fire that almost completely destroyed it in 1904), the eleven-year construction project that ... Read more

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  • Evansville

    by Darrel Bigham ...
    Series series Images of America
    From our contemporary vantage point, we should take the time to look back to how people in American communities lived at the beginning of the 20th century. The focus of this work is Evansville - in the early 1900s, the only emerging metropolis between Louisville and St. Louis, and then the radial center of a hinterland stretching in all directions for at least 100 miles. Evansville illustrates how ... Read more

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  • Wrestling in Akron

    by Dale Pierce ...
    Series series Images of Sports
    From the time it was founded in 1825, Akron was a town on the move. Once known as the �Rubber Capitol of the World,� it brought droves of new workers to downtown and the suburban areas. With expansion came a need for entertainment, and wrestling was there for the multitudes. From the contrast of high school amateurs on mats to snarling villains and heroes in the professional ring, the sport ... Read more

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  • The Siege of Lexington, Missouri

    The Battle of the Hemp Bales

    by Larry Wood ...
    Series series Civil War Sesquicentennial Series
    Following victories at Carthage and Wilson's Creek in the summer of 1861, the Confederate-allied Missouri State Guard achieved its greatest success when it advanced on Lexington in September. Former Missouri governor General Sterling Price and his men laid siege for three days against a Union garrison under the command of Colonel James Mulligan. An ingenious mobile breastwork of hemp bales soaked ... Read more

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  • The Boys in Chicago Heights

    The Forgotten Crew of the Chicago Outfit

    "Chronicles the heyday of the Chicago Heights subsidiary of Al Capone's infamous Prohibition-breaking criminal organization" ( Time Out Chicago).Chicago Heights was long the seat of one of the major street crews of the Chicago Outfit, but its importance has often been overlooked and misunderstood. The crew's origins predate Prohibition, when Chicago Heights was a developing manufacturing center ... Read more

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  • Clark County

    by Greg Furness ...
    Series series Postcard History
    Clark County was created in 1873 by an act of territorial legislature. It was named for Newton Clark, a territorial legislator. On June 27, 1878, the first white settlers arrived in Clark County. Settlers continued migrating to Clark County, and by 1880, there were enough settlers to petition for organization. On May 23, 1881, Clark County became an official county. The first courthouse was built ... Read more

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