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Chicago: Portrait of a City ( Portrait of a Place )
Graphic Arts Center Publishing 2006 1558689516 / 9781558689510 Hardcover New
Award-winning photographers have combined their talents in this photographic tour de force which features many Chicago icons including the Sears Tower, Buckingham Fountain, Wrigley Field, the Lincoln Park Zoo, and Lake Michigan. 001952
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Minneapolis/St. Paul: Portrait of the Twin Cities ( Portrait of a Place )
Graphic Arts Center Publishing 2008 0882407333 / 9780882407333 Hardcover New
Take a stunning, full-color photographic journey down the Mississippi River into the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Tour the state capitol in the political center of St. Paul, enjoy theater, music, and art in cosmopolitan Minneapolis, visit famous Minnehaha Falls, the celebrated Minnesota State Fair, and the Mall of America, the largest indoor mall in the United States. 001964
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Aadland, Dan Women and Warriors of the Plains
Mountain Press Publishing 2002 0878424172 / 9780878424177 Softcover New
In 1906 teenage bride Julia Tuell arrived at Lame Deer, Montana, on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation with her schoolmaster husband. Seven years later the Tuells moved to the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and lived among the Sioux (primarily the Brule tribe of the Teton Lakota) until 1929. An Eastman Kodak camera became her constant companion when Tuell realized that the Plains Indian culture was changing before her eyes. 001700
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Aron, Stephen American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State
Indiana University Press 209 0253200113 / 9780253200112 Softcover New
In the heart of North America, the Missouri, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers come together, uniting waters from west, north, and east on a journey to the south. This is the region that Stephen Aron calls the American Confluence. Aron's innovative book examines the history of that region -- a home to the Osage, a colony exploited by the French, a new frontier explored by Lewis and Clark -- and focuses on the region's transition from a place of overlapping borderlands to one of oppositional border states. 001583
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Beck, Bill and C. Patrick LaBadie Pride of the Inland Seas: An Illustrated History of the Port of Duluth-Superior
Afton Historical Press 2004 1890434558 / 9781890434557 Hardcover New
Set against a backdrop of the key industries that helped build North America: iron and steel, forest products, grain, and coal, Pride of the Inland Seas tells the fascinating tale of the development of the Twin Ports during three centuries of economic, technological, political, and social change. This is the story of the people at the Head of the Lakes who built, loaded, and sailed the ships that have made Duluth-Superior synonymous with Great Lakes maritime commerce. 001871
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Burns, Virginia Law Bold Women in Michigan History ( Bold Women in History series)
Mountain Press Publishing 2006 087842525X / 9780878425259 Softcover New
Written for young adults, Bold Women in Michigan History tells the stories of thirteen extraordinary women. Long before the existence of high-tech weatherproof gear, Madame de Cadillac paddled a canoe across two great lakes to help her husband found Detroit. Magdelaine LaFramboise grew rich as a fur trader. Disguised as a man, Emma Edmonds fought for two years in the Civil War. Lucy Thurman, Waunetta Dominic, and Delia Villegas Vorhauer fought other battles-for rights and social justice for their families and communities. Myra Wolfgang, the "Battling Belle of Detroit," picketed and struck. Sippie Wallace-sang-and lived-the blues. And Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering labored over a vaccine that would save millions of lives. The DPT (diptheria, pertussis, and tetanus) shot is still used today. 001645
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Camp, Mark J. Roadside Geology of Ohio
Mountain Press Publishing 2006 0878425241 / 9780878425242 Softcover New
The 25 road guides of Roadside Geology of Ohio, complete with 59 maps and figures and 172 photographs, lead you from one corner of the state to the other-from the flat till plains of the west to the hilly eastern Allegheny Plateau, and from the Ohio River valley to the Lake Erie shoreline. Mark Camp's clear writing explains how caverns and disappearing streams form in karst; why mud cracks, ripple marks, and cross-bedding layers are entombed in sedimentary rock; and how grooves up to 10 feet deep were gouged into the limestone of Kelleys Island. From deserted boomtowns to Ohio's big cities, Roadside Geology of Ohio thoroughly reveals the Buckeye State's fascinating and dynamic geology. 001680
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Camp, Mark J. and Graham T. Richardson Roadside Geology of Indiana
Mountain Press Publishing 2003 0878423966 / 9780878423965 Softcover New
Hundreds of millions of years ago, warm coral-rich seas deposited mud on the ocean floor, and in time it became limestone --the cornerstone of Indiana geology. Layered with sandstone and shale, the limestone preserves fossils, dissolves along fractures, traps natural gas, and is the source of famous building stones. Roadside Geology of Indiana explores the geologic features visible along the state's highways from Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in the north to Wyandotte Caves in the south. As you travel across Indiana's time-worn topography, discover fossilized reefs, mastodon skeletons, geodes, ancient bedrock valleys, and the site of a mysterious meteorite impact. Authors Mark J. Camp and Graham T. Richardson divide Indiana into four geographically distinct regions: the arched limestones of the southeastern hills, the karst topography of the south, the coal-bearing rocks of the Wabash lowlands, and the glacially buried north. Numerous maps and cross sections reveal Indiana's geology for easy exploration. 001675
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Compton, Neil Battle for the Buffalo River, The: The Story of America's First National River
Ozark Society Foundation 2010 1557289352 / 9781557289353 Softcover New
Under the auspices of the 1938 Flood Control Act, the U.S. Corps of Engineers began to pursue an aggressive dam-building campaign. A grateful public generally lauded their efforts, but when they turned their attention to Arkansass Buffalo River, the vocal opposition their proposed projects generated dumbfounded them. Never before had anyone challenged the Corpss assumption that damming a river was an improvement. 001571
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Dohan, Mary Helen Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat
Pelican Publishing 2004 1589802292 / 9781589802292 Softcover New
Mr. Roosevelt’s Steamboat is an authoritative account of a twenty-five-hundred-mile voyage that significantly contributed to the United States’ transportation revolution. The dynamic main characters share tender romance and great courage. Their incredible trip down the Mississippi assured the future of steam navigation and the progress of the great westward movement. 001834
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Dott, Robert H and John W. Attig Roadside Geology of Wisconsin
Mountain Press Publishing 2004 087842492X / 9780878424924 Softcover New
Introductory sections describe the geology of each region, and thirty-five road guides locate and interpret the rocks, sediments, and landforms visible from the state's highways, including the Great River Road in the Mississippi Valley. Roadside Geology of Wisconsin delves further into the geologic history of specific sites such as Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, the Wisconsin Dells, the geologically renowned Baraboo Hills, and more than twenty-five state parks. Features of and access points to the Ice Age National Scenic Trail are noted. 001683
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Graveman, Diana and Don Missouri Wine Country:: St. Charles to Hermann
Arcadia Publishing 2010 0738577774 / 9780738577777 Softcover New
Before prohibition, Missouri was the second largest wine-producing state in the union, and for a short time during the Civil War, it was number one. Today the state's lush green area overlooking the Missouri River is officially recognized as America's first wine district. Parts of this district have produced wine since the 1830s, when German immigrants from the Rhine River Valley settled in Missouri. The historic towns of Augusta and Defiance, home of pioneer Daniel Boone, are part of this district. Other towns along the river include Dutzow, the first permanent German settlement in Missouri; Washington, which holds the state record for the most buildings on the National Register of Historic Places; and Hermann, recognized by its settlers as a German utopia. Show Less 001594
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Harington, Donald Farther Along
Toby Press 2009 1592642594 / 9781592642595 Softcover New
Despite a satisfying career as chief curator of a museum devoted to the vanishing American past, one man decides he wants to vanish, too. But after six years of living alone in the wilderness of the Ozark mountains, he realizes that what he is trying to get away from is himself. 001577
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Henry, Steve Best in Tent Camping, The: Missouri and the Ozarks: A Guide for Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos
Menasha Ridge Press 2005 0897325826 / 9780897325820 Softcover New Trade Paperback
The Best in Tent Camping: Missouri and the Ozarks guides you to the quietest, most beautiful, most secure, and best-managed campgrounds in Missouri and the Ozarks. Painstakingly selected from hundreds of campgrounds in Missouri and Arkansas, each campsite is rated for beauty, privacy, security, spaciousness, and cleanliness. Whether you are a native of the area in search of new territory or a vacationer on the lookout for that dream campground, this book unlocks the secrets to the best tent camping that Missouri and the Ozarks have to offer. 001572
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Hubbell, Sue Country Year, A: Living the Questions
Mariner Books 1999 0395967015 / 9780395967010 Softcover New
When her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small Ozarks farm. Keeping bees, she found solace in the natural world. She began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things that she cared about. The result is one of the best-loved books ever written about life on the land, about a woman finding her way in middle age. 001576
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Hunter, Carl G. Trees, Shrubs, & Vines of Arkansas
Ozark Society Foundation 2000 0912456191 / 9780912456195 Softcover New
This is a complete, illustrated guide to Arkansas's woody plants and nonwoody vines. The text for each species appears next to its photograph. In all, 325 species are described along with descriptions of sixty-eight plant families and drawings of plant parts. 001581
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