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  • Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri

    Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice

    par John Simonson ...
    Collections series American Palate
    Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizing reformers. But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed, Kansas City had been singled out by one observer as one of the wettest cities, as well as the wickedest. A grocer managed a still in the basement of his store. A raid on the Tingle Oil ... En savoir plus

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  • Paris of the Plains

    Kansas City from Doughboys to Expressways

    par John Simonson ...
    From the end of the Great War to the final years of the 1950s, Kansas Citians lived in a manner worthy of a place called Paris of the Plains. The title did more than nod to the perfumed ladies who shopped at Harzfeld's Parisian or the one-thousand-foot television antenna nicknamed the "Eye-full Tower." It spoke to the character of a town that worked for Boss Tom and danced for Count Basie but ... En savoir plus

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  • A Jazz Age Murder in Northwest Indiana

    The Tragic Betrayal of Nettie Diamond

    Gold digging, adultery, and a slaying on Valentine's Day, 1923, in this "juicy . . . page-turner" of a true crime story ( Chicago Tribune).It was a Roaring Twenties fatal attraction. Nettie Herskovitz was wealthy and widowed when she met Harry Diamond. The attentive, irresistibly sexy twenty-three-year-old suitor would become Nettie's fifth husband. He was also a bootlegger, pimp, and first-class ... En savoir plus

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  • Ladies of the Lights

    Michigan Women in the U.S. Lighthouse Service

    par Patricia Majher ...
    "A great read about some great ladies, Pat Majher's Ladies of the Lights pays long overdue homage to an overlooked part of Great Lakes maritime history in which a select group of stalwart women beat the odds to succeed in a field historically reserved for men."---Terry Pepper, Executive Director of Great Lakes Lighthouse Keeper's AssociationMichigan once led the country in the number of ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Hannibal

    The Otis Howell Collection

    par Steve Chou ...
    Collections series Images of America
    Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi River, prides itself as "America's Hometown." This book is a photo journey through Hannibal's postwar years as captured through the lens of Otis Howell, news photographer for the Hannibal Courier-Post. The years between the end of World War II and Vietnam were exciting and nostalgic ones. They were the days of Elvis, Howdy Doody, "I Like Ike," ... En savoir plus

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  • Great Plains Literature

    par Linda Ray Pratt ...
    Collections series Discover the Great Plains
    Great Plains Literature is an exploration of influential literature of the Plains region in both the United States and Canada. It reflects the destruction of the culture of the first people who lived there, the attempts of settlers to conquer the land, and the tragic losses and successes of settlement that are still shaping our modern world of environmental threat, ethnic and racial hostilities, ... En savoir plus

    $18.69 CAD

  • Milwaukee Food

    A History of Cream City Cuisine

    A local food writer explores how a humble Midwest town developed a food scene unlike any other American city and became a culinary destination of its own.Milwaukee's culinary scene boasts more than the iconic beer and bratwurst. It possesses a unique food culture as adventurous as any dining destination in the country. Sample the spreads at landmark hotels like the Pfister that established the ... En savoir plus

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  • Wisconsin Quilts

    History In The Stitches

    par Ellen Kort ...
    Provides a new "state" quilt books to add to your collection, while you enjoy the projects and historical inspiration it provides Only book to cover quilts documented by the Wisconsin Quilt History Project - part of a nationwide effort to preserve quilting Storytelling - is as old as humanity, and quilting is among the most prolific mediums. Wisconsin Quilts brings readers 100 antique quilts ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Just Call Me Orville

    The Story of Orville Redenbacher

    Collections series The Founders Series
    Based on extensive interviews and archival research, this book traces the career of Orville Redenbacher, the "popcorn king," from his agricultural studies at Purdue University to his emergence as an American advertising icon. Born in Brazil, Indiana, in 1907, Orville began his lifelong obsession with the development of new strains of seed at Purdue where he earned a degree in agronomy while also ... En savoir plus

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  • Lake Shore Electric Railway

    Collections series Images of Rail
    The Lake Shore Electric Railway commenced operation in 1893 on the north coast of Ohio, providing transportation to Cleveland, Lorain, Sandusky, Toledo, and on to Detroit, Michigan. The Lake Shore Electric Railway connected with many other electric railroads to offer a comprehensive quilt of transportation. This allowed increased commerce, ease of transportation, and access for the industrial-era ... En savoir plus

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  • Hinkle Fieldhouse

    Indiana's Basketball Cathedral

    par Eric Angevine ...
    Walk into Hinkle Fieldhouse, and you feel it--that palpable sense of history known as the Hinkle mystique. Indiana's basketball cathedral has stood in all its glory at Butler University since 1928. John Wooden, Oscar Robertson and Larry Bird played on its floor. Jesse Owens sprinted to a record at Hinkle, and athletes from around the globe have brought Olympic-level competition to crowds gathered ... En savoir plus

    $15.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Archaeological Guide to Iowa

    Collections series Iowa and the Midwest Experience
    Iowa has the reputation of being one big corn field, so you may be surprised to learn it boasts a rich crop of recorded archaeological sites as well—approximately 27,000 at last count. Some are spectacular, such as the one hundred mounds at Sny Magill in Effigy Mounds National Monument, while others consist of old abandoned farmsteads or small scatters of prehistoric flakes and heated rocks. ... En savoir plus

    $38.49 CAD