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  • Play Me Something Quick and Devilish

    Old-Time Fiddlers in Missouri

    by Howard Wight Marshall ...
    Play Me Something Quick and Devilish explores the heritage of traditional fiddle music in Missouri. Howard Wight Marshall considers the place of homemade music in people’s lives across social and ethnic communities from the late 1700s to the World War I years and into the early 1920s. This exceptionally important and complex period provided the foundations in history and settlement for the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Dodge City

    Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West

    by Tom Clavin ...
    Series series Frontier Lawmen
    The instant New York Times bestseller!Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before long, Dodge City’s streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Sisterhood of War

    Minnesota Women in Vietnam

    by Kim Heikkila ...
    In January 1966, navy nurse Lieutenant Kay Bauer stepped off a pan am airliner into the stifling heat of Saigon and was issued a camouflage uniform, boots, and a rifle. "What am I supposed to do with this?" she said of the weapon. "I'm a nurse."Bauer was one of approximately six thousand military nurses who served in Vietnam. Historian Kim Heikkila here delves into the experiences of fifteen nurse ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Long Hard Road

    American POWs During World War II

    by Thomas Saylor ...
    Between 1941 and 1945 more than 110,000 American marines, soldiers, airmen, and sailors were taken prisoner by German, Italian, and Japanese forces. Most who fought overseas during World War II weren't prepared for capture, or for the life-altering experiences of incarceration, torture, and camaraderie bred of hardship that followed. Their harrowing story—often overlooked in Greatest Generation ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The WPA Guide to Minnesota

    The North Star State

    by Federal Writers' Project ...
    During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors-many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures-were ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • An Illini Place

    Building the University of Illinois Campus

    by Lex Tate, John Franch ...
    Series series Folklore Studies in Multicultural World
    Why does the University of Illinois campus at Urbana-Champaign look as it does today? Drawing on a wealth of research and featuring more than one hundred color photographs, An Illini Place provides an engrossing and beautiful answer to that question. Lex Tate and John Franch trace the story of the university's evolution through its buildings. Oral histories, official reports, dedication programs, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Michigan City's Washington Park

    by Jonita Davis ...
    Series series Images of America
    The sand dunes stretched higher than many skyscrapers, with the remnants of an abandoned lumber industry at their feet. The sandy, overgrown land was nothing that Michigan City residents cared to develop, let alone visit. The area was largely forgotten until Mayor Martin Krueger decided that his town would have a park and bathing beach. In a few short years, the deserted area was transformed into ... Read more

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  • The Depression Dilemmas of Rural Iowa, 1929-1933

    by Lisa L. Ossian ...
    To many rural Iowans, the stock market crash on New York’s Wall Street in October 1929 seemed an event far removed from their lives, even though the effects of the crash became all too real throughout the state. From 1929 to 1933, the enthusiastic faith that most Iowans had in Iowan President Herbert Hoover was transformed into bitter disappointment with the federal government. As a result, Iowans ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook

    Edited by Aaron Foley ...
    Series series Belt Neighborhood Guidebooks
    An anthology of essays and poetry exploring the Motor City's hidden corners—from the people who live and work there.It seems like everybody in Detroit thinks they know the city's neighborhoods, but because there are so many, their characteristics often become muddled and the stories that define them are often lost. Edited by Aaron Foley—author of How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass—this ... Read more

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  • Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities

    Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West

    Edited by Christian Utz, Frederick Lau ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Music
    Looking at musical globalization and vocal music, this collection of essays studies the complex relationship between the human voice and cultural identity in 20th- and 21st-century music in both East Asian and Western music. The authors approach musical meaning in specific case studies against the background of general trends of cultural globalization and the construction/deconstruction of ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Golf in the Ozarks

    by Monte McNew ...
    Series series Images of Sports
    In the early 1900s, southwest Missouri, also known as the Ozarks, quickly became a golfer�s retreat. Professionals such as Walter Hagen and the legendary gambler Titanic Thompson toured the area and tested their skills against locals Horton Smith, Ky Laffoon, and others. Over the years, tour professionals including Hale Irwin, Payne Stewart, and Cathy Reynolds developed their games on the Ozark ... Read more

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  • Scattering the Seeds of Knowledge

    The Words and Works of Indiana's Pioneer County Extension Agents

    by Frederick Whitford ...
    Series series The Founders Series
    Today, Purdue Extension delivers practical, research-based information that transforms lives and livelihoods. Tailored to the needs of Indiana, its current programs include Agriculture and Natural Resources, Health and Human Sciences, Economic and Community Development, and 4-H Youth Development. However, today's success is built on over a century of visionary hard work and outreach. Scattering ... Read more

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