State Local category: 1635 books
Nearly Forgotten
Seventh-day Adventists in Jamaica, Vermont, and Their Place in Vermont History
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
In Nearly Forgotten: Seventh-day Adventists in Jamaica, Vermont, and Their Place in Vermont History, Floyd Greenleaf traces the birth of not only the local Seventh-day Adventist congregation in the rural township of Jamaica but also the rise of the Seventh-day Adventist movement itself, with its roots...
Land Use Regulation
A Legal Analysis and Practical Application of Land Use Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Written by specialists in the field, Land Use Regulation provides real estate specialists, general practitioners, and planning officials with a convenient and practical resource for handling typical land use problems. It is written from the perspective of the administrative process that most often...
Local Government, Land Use, and the First Amendment
Protecting Free Speech and Expression
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
This book is an re-mastered, retooled version of the ABA publication "Protecting Free Speech and Expression: The First Amendment and Land Use Law" which was published by the ABA. The book contains some theoretical discussion of First Amendment law as it pertains to land use issues (e.g....
Beyond the Windswept Dunes
The Story of Maritime Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Beyond the Windswept Dunes takes the reader into a world of maritime adventure as it was experienced by the sailors, passengers, rescue workers, shipping magnates, industrialists, and many other people whose livelihoods revolved around Michigan’s port city of Muskegon. At one time the leading edge...
Outlaw Tales of Missouri
True Stories Of The Show Me State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
True stories of the Show Me state’s most infamous crooks, culprits, and cutthroats.
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)...
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...
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...