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  • Milwaukee

    A City Built on Water

    by John Gurda ...
    Paddle through the watery history of the Midwest’s Cream City.The success and survival of Milwaukee lies in the rivers that meander through its streets and the great lake at its eastern boundary. The Indigenous peoples of the region recognized the value of an abundant, clean water supply for food and transportation. Generations of immigrants, entrepreneurs, innovators, and recreationists used the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Poles in Wisconsin

    Series series People of Wisconsin
    In this all-new addition to the People of Wisconsin series, author Susan Mikos traces the history of Polish immigrants as they settled in America’s northern heartland. The second largest immigrant population after Germans, Poles put down roots in all corners of the state, from the industrial center of Milwaukee to the farmland around Stevens Point, in the Cutover, and beyond. In each locale, they ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Brewtown Tales

    More Stories from Milwaukee and Beyond

    by John Gurda ...
    John Gurda’s South Side Milwaukee family loved potluck dinners. “From the Jell-O salads at the start of the line through the hot dishes in the middle and on to the pumpkin bars at the end, the food was always hearty, abundant, and certifiably homemade,” he writes. Drawing from Gurda’s long-running Sunday Milwaukee Journal Sentinel column, Brewtown Tales was prepared in the spirit of those fondly ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Cream City Chronicles

    Stories of Milwaukee’s Past

    by John Gurda ...
    Cream City Chronicles is a collection of lively stories about the people, the events, the landmarks, and the institutions that have made Milwaukee a unique American community. These stories represent the best of historian John Gurda’s popular Sunday columns that have appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel since 1994*.* Find yourself transported back to another time, when the village of ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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    Series series Plunges Into
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  • Silk Parachute

    by John McPhee ...
    A WONDROUS NEW BOOK OF MCPHEE'S PROSE PIECES—IN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADESThe brief, brilliant essay "Silk Parachute," which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces here— highly varied in length and theme—McPhee ranges with his characteristic humor and intensity through lacrosse, long ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into Michigan

    Series series Plunges Into
    The ultimate guide to Michigan, all the way from Yooper territory (Upper Peninsula) down to Loper land (Lower Peninsula).What do Yoopers and Trolls have in common? Not much to hear them tell it, but both types of Michigander appreciate great bathroom reading. And they’re proud to call Michigan home! Celebrate the state that brought us Motown, Henry Ford, and the world’s only floating post office. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Bronx River in History & Folklore

    From Jonas Bronck to today, discover stories and legends of New York's Bronx River.The Bronx River flows for twenty-three miles through Westchester County and the heart of the Bronx. It is New York City's only freshwater river, and it is exceptionally rich in history, folklore and environmental wonder. From Revolutionary War battlefields to native forests and lost villages, its lore and remarkable ... Read more

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  • Look Up, Milwaukee! A Walking Tour of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    by Doug Gelbert ...
    There is no better way to see America than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour. Whether you are preparing for a road trip or just out to look at your own town in a new way, a downloadable walking tour is ready to explore when you are.Each walking tour describes historical and architectural landmarks and provides pictures to help out ... Read more

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  • The Great Lakes at Ten Miles an Hour

    One Cyclist's Journey along the Shores of the Inland Seas

    The Great Lakes are a remarkable repository of millions of years of complex geological transformations and of a considerably shorter, crowded span of human history. Over the course of four summers, Thomas Shevory rode a bicycle along their shores, taking in the stories the lakes tell—of nature’s grandeur and decay, of economic might and squandered promise, of exploration, colonization, migration, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Tulsa

    Where the Streets Were Paved With Gold

    Series series Images of America
    Tulsa, Oklahoma, "the oil capital of the world," has a long and varied history. Evidence of a possible Norse presence dates to 1000 AD. An ancient people known as the Mound Builders populated the area, then disappeared just prior to the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the 1540s. Osage Indians, as well as other members of the Five Tribes, called this part of Oklahoma home. French trappers made ... Read more

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