State Local category: 1635 books
War in Kanawha County
School Textbook Protest in West Virginia in 1974
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
In 1974, the Board of Education in Kanawha County West Virginia introduced a set of new textbooks into the standard curriculum. These textbooks contained offensive language, compared Bible stories to well-known myths and fables, and also, in the opinion of some citizens, lacked the basic ideals of...
The Greatest and Deadliest Hurricanes of the Caribbean and the Americas
The Stories Behind the Great Storms of the North Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
With modern weather forecasting, we can monitor, track, and predict the path of hurricanes like never before. But all you have to do is look at pictures of the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina or research the massive cleanup costs of Hurricane Sandy to realize that these storms can still have devastating...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2004
Tennessee History Book Award Finalist The Upper Cumberland region of Kentucky and Tennessee, often regarded as isolated and out of pace with the rest of the country, has a far richer history and culture than has been documented. The contributors to Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland discuss...
Calamity Jane
The Life and Legend of Martha Jane Cannary
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Young Martha Jane Cannary began life as a camp follower and street urchin. Parentless by the age of twelve, she morphed into the mother of two who just as often took employment as a waitress, laundress, or dance hall girl as she did an Indian scout or bullwhacker. Just as likely to wear a dress as...
by Steve Barry
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
For the century after 1865 all the largest railroad companies had flagship luxury trains, spectacularly appointed steamliners offering unrivaled standards of service and thoughtful amenities including ladies' perfume and carnations for gentlemen. These luxury trains transported well-heeled passengers...
Restless Souls
The Making of American Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Yoga classes and Zen meditation, New-Age retreats and nature mysticism—all are part of an ongoing religious experimentation that has surprisingly deep roots in American history. Tracing out the country’s Transcendentalist and cosmopolitan religious impulses over the last two centuries, Restless...
by James W. Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Romantic, history-filled names have long fired the imagination of every reader and visitor to the Northland. In Alaska-Yukon Place Names, author James W. Phillips takes the vacationing tourist, historian, and armchair traveler through the most memorable places in the Alaska-Yukon region. Since...
Washington Disasters
True Stories of Tragedy and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
True accounts of major disasters in Washington history are retold in this engagingly written collection. From The Seattle fire of 1889, the 1910 train avalanche on Stevens Pass, and the 1915 Ravensdale Coal Mine explosion, the 1955 airliner crash in residential Riverton, to the 1980 Mount St. Helens...
Washington Myths and Legends
The True Stories behind History’s Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Tales of intrigue in this book include unusual unsolved crimes, legends of lost treasure, spine-tingling ghost stories, well-documented sea creature sightings, and more. Based on historic accounts from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, author Lynn Bragg recounts fifteen myths and mysteries...
by George R. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The large number of immigrants traveling along the Oregon Trail bypassed Grant County because of its location. Most wagon trains used the northern route to the Columbia River. A few used the southern route toward southern Oregon. Grant County was left in between. When gold was discovered in the Canyon...
Bayou Salado
The Story of South Park, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2002
First published in 1966, Bayou Salado is an engaging look at the history of a high cool valley in the Rocky Mountains. Now known as South Park, Bayou Salado once attracted Ute and Arapaho hunters as well as European and American explorers and trappers. Virginia McConnell Simmons's colorful accounts...
The Queen of Heartbreak Trail
The Life and Times of Harriet Smith Pullen, Pioneering Woman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The story of Harriet Smith Pullen’s early life, from her childhood journeys by covered wagon to her family’s subsistence in sod houses on the Dakota prairie where they survived grasshopper plagues, floods, fires, blizzards, and droughts is a narrative of American migration and adventure that still...
Big Muddy Blues
True Tales and Twisted Politics Along Lewis and Clark's Missouri River
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
America's Missouri River may be the nation's longest and most historically significant river, encompassing many of America's natural wonders between Missouri and Montana, draining almost 600,000 square miles in ten states and part of Canada, and, after Lewis and Clark's expedition 200 years ago, opening...
by George Gillis
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOKEven 65 years after it happened, the murder of Elizabeth Short remains one of Americas most notorious unsolved mysteries. The utterly gruesome nature of the murder, combined with the incidents connection to the very in-vogue (at the time) Los Angeles art scene, make this a murder...