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  • KAISA: A Historical Novel of Michigan’s Copper Mining & Oil and Gas Exploration Industries

    de Jack R. Westbrook ...
    A sweeping tale of a Holland, Michigan, Dutch schoolteacher and an Upper Peninsula Finnish copper miner during the turbulent times of the 1913 Keweenaw Peninsula copper miner's strike and their daughter Kiasa, named for a victim of Calumet's Italian Hall Tragedy. Born of the Michigan copper mines, Kaisa's saga traces her life to the 1930s oil boomtown of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, where her life is ... Leer más

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  • Michigan Oil and Gas

    de Jack R. Westbrook ...
    Series series Images of America
    Michigan is commonly recognized as a manufacturing center and for its splendid tourist attractions. Lesser known is Michigan�s role as a leader in the production of oil and gas. Since the discovery of commercial quantities of oil in Saginaw in 1925, Michigan has grown to become the 12th-largest natural gas and 17th-largest crude oil producer of the 34 states producing oil and gas. Michigan�s ... Leer más

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  • Mount Pleasant

    de Jack R. Westbrook ...
    Series series Then and Now
    Since 1860, Mount Pleasant has been a center for Native American culture, lumbering, agriculture, oil and gas production, collegiate learning, and retail shopping; Mount Pleasant now boasts one of the largest gaming casino resorts in Midwest America. ... Leer más

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  • Central Michigan University

    de Jack R. Westbrook ...
    Series series Campus History
    From a humble 1892 beginning upstairs over a downtown store in the village of Mount Pleasant to the fourth-largest university in the state, Central Michigan University's growth is tribute to the determination of visionaries who saw the Lower Michigan crossroads town as a potential home to a world-class learning center. First a private enterprise, then a state school, Central Michigan Normal School ... Leer más

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  • Isabella County

    1859 - 2009

    de Jack R. Westbrook ...
    Series series Images of America
    Once an ancient revered hunting and gathering site for Chippewa Indians, Isabella County today is home to one of the nation's largest Native American tribal-owned casino/resort complexes. Incorporated in 1859, during the turbulent times just ahead of the Civil War and birth year of the United States oil industry, the area became a modern-day commerce center. A rough-and-tumble timbering center saw ... Leer más

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  • The American Home Front, 1941–1942

    de Alistair Cooke ...
    A New York Times bestseller: This portrait of the United States at the beginning of World War II is "an unexpected and welcome discovery in a time capsule" ( The Washington Post).In nearly three thousand BBC broadcasts over fifty-eight years, Alistair Cooke reported on America, illuminating our country for a global audience. Shortly before he passed away, a long-forgotten manuscript resurfaced in ... Leer más

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  • THE ONLY THING TO FEAR

    A Novel of 1945

    de David Poyer ...
    "A flight of the historical imagination that will leave readers dazzled " -- Thomas Fleming"Solid research buttresses Poyer's latest, a consistently engrossing WWII novel featuring FDR and skinny naval officer John Fitzgerald Kennedy. " - Publisher's Weekly"A consistently readable, fast-paced, intelligent tour of the elite politics of the U.S. as World War II drew to a close." - BooklistIt is the ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Roads

    Driving America's Great Highways

    de Larry McMurtry ...
    As he crisscrosses America—driving in search of the present, the past, and himself—Larry McMurtry shares his fascination with this nation's great trails and the culture that has developed around them.Ever since he was a boy growing up in Texas only a mile from Highway 281, Larry McMurtry has felt the pull of the road. His town was thoroughly landlocked, making the highway his "river, its hidden ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Meet Me in St. Louis

    The 1904 St. Louis World's Fair

    de Robert Jackson ...

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  • Never Give Up

    A Prairie Family's Story

    de Tom Brokaw ...
    In this moving story, the New York Times bestselling author of The Greatest Generation chronicles the values and lessons he absorbed from his parents and other people who worked hard to build lives on the prairie during the first half of the twentieth century.“A spare, elegant masterpiece.”—Ken BurnsTom’s father, Red, left school in the second grade to work in the family hotel—the Brokaw House, ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • Dunkirk

    de Diane Andrasik ...
    Series series Images of America
    On the shores of Lake Erie, the city of Dunkirk rose into a commercial fishing center, lake port, and successful industrial city. The lake provided an invaluable natural resource and allowed the coastal community to flourish. The inspired leadership of individual residents, coupled with the arrival of waves of hardworking immigrants, contributed to Dunkirk�s place in the industrial movement of the ... Leer más

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  • Secret Heroes

    Everyday Americans Who Shaped Our World

    de Paul Martin ...
    Secret Heroes is a remarkable compendium by Paul Martin, former Executive Editor of National Geographic Traveler, that illuminates the lives of thirty forgotten American heroes. Gathering together remarkable stories about unknown champions, explorers, inventors, and innovators who never made the pages of American history textbooks—not George Washington, but the tailor who saved his life…twice; the ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD