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  • Becoming the Twin Cities

    Swindles, Schemes, and Enduring Rivalries

    by Drew M. Ross ...
    Whether motivated by visionary ideals or commercial gain or political ambition, many have tried to unite Minneapolis and St. Paul into one city, and all have failed. This book explains why.Why haven’t Minneapolis and St. Paul merged into one city? In Becoming the Twin Cities, award-winning writer Drew M. Ross uncovers the nineteenth-century history of scheming and self-dealing, social rivalries ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • The Broken Heart of America

    St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

    by Walter Johnson ...
    **A history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St. Louis“A magisterial book… A searing history.” —Eddie S. Glaude, author of Begin Again**From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how ... Read more

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  • Colorado

    A History of the Centennial State, Fifth Edition

    by Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, Thomas J. Noel ...
    Since 1976, newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In the fifth edition, coauthors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate recent events, scholarship, and insights about the state in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy.The fifth ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Union Pacific: America's Largest Railroad

    by Eugene Weiser ...
    The Union Pacific is the largest and the most powerful railroad in the country. The railroad has been in service since 1862, some 151 years. The Union Pacific is older than any other American Class I railroad today with the Kansas City Southern coming in at second at 116 years. In that time the railroad has become not only one of the most highly respected institutions in the nation but also has ... Read more

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  • Creating Minnesota

    A History from the Inside Out

    by Annette Atkins ...
    Winner of a Spur Award, presented by the Western Writers of America (WWA), for the Best Western Nonfiction Historical Book.Renowned historian Annette Atkins presents a fresh understanding of how a complex and modern Minnesota came into being in Creating Minnesota. Each chapter of this innovative state history focuses on a telling detail, a revealing incident, or a meaningful issue that illuminates ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Relentless Business of Treaties

    How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property

    by Martin Case ...
    The story of "western expansion" is a familiar one: U.S. government agents, through duplicity and force, persuaded Native Americans to sign treaties that gave away their rights to the land. But this framing, argues Martin Case, hides a deeper story. Land cession treaties were essentially the act of supplanting indigenous kinship relationships to the land with a property relationship. And property ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • After Promontory

    One Hundred and Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading

    by Drake Hokanson, Don L. Hofsommer, Maury Klein, Keith L. Bryant ...
    "Some of the most accomplished scholars of railroad history…tell the story of these enterprises which totally re-shaped the western landscape."— The Michigan RailfanAfter Promontory profiles the history and heritage behind the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. Starting with the original Union Pacific—Central Pacific lines that met at Promontory Summit, Utah, ... Read more

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  • James J. Hill

    Empire Builder of the Northwest

    by Michael P. Malone ...
    Series series The Oklahoma Western Biographies
    In this volume, Michael P. Malone provides a succinct interpretive biography of James J. Hill, the "Empire Builder"-so called for his work in developing the region of the United States between the Great Lakes and the Pacific Northwest.Malone explores Hill’s complex life and personality, his activities and interests, and recreates both the story of the railroad race to the Pacific and the complex ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Vermont

    by Charles T. Morrissey ...
    For many Americans, Vermont still seems what the United States at least in myth once was--a bucolic landscape of wooded hills, neat farms, and handsome villages--before modern forces transformed our agrarian nation into an urban-industrial giant.Vermonters have long been respected as sturdy Americans who prize hard work, honest dealing, town-meeting government, and dry humor. Their way of life, ... Read more

    $15.69 USD

  • Little Crow

    Spokesman for the Sioux

    by Gary Clayton Anderson ...
    Government officials and missionaries wanted all Sioux men to become self-sufficient farmers, wear pants, and cut their hair. The Indians, confronted by a land-hungry white population and a loss of hunting grounds, sought to exchange title to their homeland for annuities of cash and food, schools and teachers, and farms and agricultural knowledge. By 1862 the Sioux realized that their extensive ... Read more

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  • A Mighty Fine Road

    A History of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company

    by H. Roger Grant ...
    "Grant has once again hit a home run . . . a detailed but readable history of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, a major Midwestern railroad." —Carlos A. Schwantes, St. Louis Mercantile Library Professor EmeritusThe Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's history is one of big booms and bigger busts. When it became the first railroad to reach and then cross the Mississippi River in 1856, it ... Read more

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  • Land Too Good for Indians

    Northern Indian Removal

    by John P. Bowes ...
    Series series New Directions in Native American Studies Series
    The history of Indian removal has often followed a single narrative arc, one that begins with President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 and follows the Cherokee Trail of Tears. In that conventional account, the Black Hawk War of 1832 encapsulates the experience of tribes in the territories north of the Ohio River. But Indian removal in the Old Northwest was much more complicated ... Read more

    $17.99 USD