State category: 3605 books
Montana Moments
History on the Go
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Forget dreary dates and boring facts. Montana Moments distills the most funny, bizarre, and interesting stories from Montana’s history into pure entertainment. Meet the colorful cast of the famous and not-so-famous desperadoes, vigilantes, madams, and darned good men and women (and a few critters)...
In the Shadow of Kinzua
The Seneca Nation of Indians since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
2014 Award of Merit winner from the American Association for State and Local History
The Kinzua Dam has cast a long shadow on Seneca life since World War II. The project, formally dedicated in 1966, broke the Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794, flooded approximately 10,000 acres of Seneca lands in New...
Compassionate Conservatism
What It Is, What It Does, and How It Can Transform America
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2000
Compassionate conservatism is a new political force in the land, sweeping the grassroots of people of all faiths, races, and ethnicities. In its parts it offers solutions to many of our most intractable problems; in its whole it is nothing less than an innovative philosophy of government. No author...
Tangible Memories
Californians and Their Gardens 1800-1950
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2003
California may be the golden state but it is also a garden state. Innumerable gardens have been made since the Europeans first came, starting with the Franciscan missionaries.The gold rush was the defining period, leading to immense expenditures by newly rich miners.
This book discusses many...
How the States Got Their Shapes Too
The People Behind the Borderlines
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island? Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware? How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of Colorado? All this and more is explained in Mark Stein's...
Branding Texas
Performing Culture in the Lone Star State
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Ask anyone to name an archetypal Texan, and you're likely to get a larger-than-life character from film or television (say John Wayne's Davy Crockett or J. R. Ewing of TV's Dallas) or a politician with that certain swagger (think LBJ or George W. Bush). That all of these figures are white and male...
by Albert B Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
This book is an autobiography of the 1971 Oklahoma Teacher of the Year. He details life in Oklahoma from when he was born in 1907, the year Oklahoma became a state and continues through his retirement as a teacher. The cover of the book is a photograph of his father's farm gate. ...
Embattled Dreams
California in War and Peace, 1940-1950
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2002
The sixth volume in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history--Kevin Starr's monumental Americans and the California Dream--Embattled Dreams is a peerless work of cultural history following California in the years surrounding World War II. During the 1940s California ascended to...
Kansas
In the Heart of Tornado Alley
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Back in 1915, Snowden D. Flora of the US Weather Bureau wrote, �Kansas has been so commonly considered the tornado state of the country that the term �Kansas cyclone� has almost become a part of the English language.� Flora�s words still seem to ring true. Whether called a twister, a tornado,...
by J. Evetts Haley
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Among the famous ranch brands of Texas are the T Anchor, JA, Diamond Tail, 777, Bar C, and XIT. And the greatest of these was XIT—The XIT Ranch of Texas.
It was not the first ranch in West Texas, but after its formation in the eighteen-eighties it became the largest single operation in the...
Beyond Spirit Tailings
Montana's Mysteries, Ghosts, and Haunted Places
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Montana is alive with things that go bump in the Big Sky night. A World War II serviceman who lingers in a Billings business, a dearly departed priest who still hitchhikes around Helena, and a Hamilton socialite who adorns her mansion with the scent of roses--these are a few of the creepy tales from...
Texas Warbird Survivors 2003
A Handbook on Where to Find Them
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2002
Many examples of aircraft that saw service in the various armed forces of the United States are currently being restored to flying status or preserved in museums in the state of Texas. Some of them have significant war records, and a few are currently standing as gate guardians outside their former...
by Thomas Abernethy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815-1828 is a beautifully crafted history of the evolution of the state written by Thomas Perkins Abernethy in 1922. The work shows how Alabama grew out of the Mississippi Territory and discusses the economic and political development during the years just before...
by Bob Johns
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
When the tornado roared across southern Missouri, southern Illinois, and southwestern Indiana for many hours during the afternoon on March 18th in 1925, there was now way that people along the tornado path would know it was occurring before they could see it. This was because there was no radar systems...