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  • Remembering Zionsville

    Series series American Chronicles
    Although William Zion never lived in Zionsville, it was his business acuity that led to the railway station being built on Elijah and Polly Cross�s plot of land�the beginnings of a burgeoning town. This strategic location brought development and prosperity to Zionsville as people traveling through Indiana stopped to discover the distinctive flair of this small but industrious community. Local ... Read more

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  • Monster Fire at Minong

    Wisconsin’s Five Mile Tower Fire of 1977

    by Bill Matthias ...
    Ignited by a single match on April 30, 1977, the Five Mile Tower Fire raged out of control for 17 hours. It would be one of the largest wildland fires in Wisconsin history, ultimately destroying more than 13,000 acres of land and 63 buildings. As a column of black pine smoke reached high in the sky, citizens from Minong, Chicog, Webster, Gordon, Wascott, Hayward, Spooner, Solon Springs, and other ... Read more

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  • Limping through Life

    A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir

    by Jerry Apps ...
    Limping through LifeA Farm Boy’s Polio MemoirJerry Apps“Families throughout the United States lived in fear of polio throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, and now the disease had come to our farm. I can still remember that short winter day and the chilly night when I first showed symptoms. My life would never be the same.”—from the IntroductionPolio was epidemic in the United States starting ... Read more

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  • The Voyageur's Highway

    Minnesota's Border Lake Land

    The voyageur's highway was the route from Lake Superior along inland waterways to the Minnesota North Country. Countless people—explorers, fur traders, missionaries, map makers, lumberjacks, miners, naturalists—were drawn to the region's woods and lakeshores. Indians, French Canadians,Scandinavians, and Slavs all used the rich resources of the land to follow an old way of life or to find a new one ... Read more

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  • A Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards

    A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle

    This compelling history chronicles some of the most intense and tragic fires in Chicago's storied meatpacking district.Chicago's Union Stock Yards made the city "the hog butcher of the world," but the notoriety came at a grievous cost. From their opening on Christmas Day of 1865 to their final closure in July of 1971, The Yards were the site of nearly three hundred extra-alarm fires. That infamous ... Read more

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  • Ottawa

    Series series Images of America
    Ottawa was founded in 1864. Located in the Marais des Cygnes River Valley, the area�s rich soil and lush grass made it well suited for growing crops and pasturing livestock. The community�s first cultural center was Ottawa University, which was chartered in 1865 and built on land exchanged by the Ottawa Indians for the promise of an education for their children. Two railroads later arrived, the ... Read more

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  • Danes in Wisconsin

    Revised and Expanded Edition

    Series series People of Wisconsin
    Wisconsin Territory's first Dane arrived in 1829, and by 1860 the state's Danish-born population had reached 1,150. Yet these newcomers remained only a small segment of Wisconsin's increasingly complex cultural mosaic, and the challenges of adapting to life in this new land shaped the Danish experience in the state. In this popular book, now revised and expanded with additional historical photos ... Read more

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  • The WPA Guide to The Minnesota Arrowhead Country

    The Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s Minnesota

    First published in 1941 as part of the American Guide Series, this lively book describes Minnesota's popular northern region. Special features include fifteen canoe trips; five maps; thirty-seven photographs; forty-seven city, town, and village profiles; four road tours; a chronology; a glossary; and a bibliography with updated suggestions for further reading in fiction and nonfiction about the ... Read more

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  • Crazy, With the Papers to Prove It: Stories About the Most Unusual, Eccentric and Outlandish People I've Known in 45 Years as a Sports Journalist

    by Dan Coughlin ...
    “Fascinating and fun . . . If you love Cleveland sports—in spite of the records—you will love this book.” — The Morning JournalDan Coughlin isn’t crazy, but for 45 years he covered sports in Cleveland, which means he lived life under a full moon. In this book, the award-winning Plain Dealer and WJW-TV reporter reflects on the most unusual, eccentric and outlandish people and events he covered. “I ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Chasing the Light

    The Cloud Cult Story

    by Mark Allister ...
    “Cloud Cult’s grand, unkempt indie rock is at once jam band, emo, and avant-garde. Their songs, born out of personal tragedy, are otherworldly lessons in being human.” —Pitchfork During the past decade, Minnesota-grown band Cloud Cult has become one of the most inspirational indie bands, with a deeply devoted fan base and an approach to music and the environment that is hard not to admire. Beyond ... Read more

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  • Living a Country Year

    Wit and Wisdom from the Good Old Days

    by Jerry Apps ...
    Jerry App’s farm stories open the barn door to understanding life in the country.“Even with the all the hard work, we had more time (perhaps we took more time) to enjoy what was all around us: nights filled with starlight, days with clear blue skies and puffy clouds. Wonderful smells everywhere—fresh mown hay, wildflowers, and apple blossoms. Interesting sounds—the rumble of distant thunder, an ... Read more

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  • Shipwrecks of Lake Erie

    Tragedy in the Quadrangle

    by David Frew ...
    A history of Lake Erie's most mysterious and notorious wrecks and disappearances.The great lakes have seen many ships meet their end, but none so much as Lake Erie. As the shallowest of the Great Lakes, Lake Erie is prone to sudden waves and wildly shifting sandbars. The steamer Atlantic succumbed to these conditions when, in 1852, a late-night collision brought sixty-eight of its weary immigrant ... Read more

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