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  • Graceful Lives

    Family Origins, Life Story, and Descendents of William and Grace Lassey

    Graceful Lives summarizes the family history and descendents of William and Grace Lassey--parents of the authors. Th ey were both born and raised in western North Dakota, where their parents homesteaded in the early 20th Century. Th eir younger married years were a major challenge, as they tried to make a living on a farm in the depths of the Great Depression, while raising their children. Th ey ... Read more

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  • Hometown Heroes

    Real Stories of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things All Across America

    Series series American Profile
    All across America, ordinary people are going out of their way to help one another and make our country a better place. Unheralded, unrecognized, and often taken for granted, these citizens continue their good deeds, happy just to make a difference.Hometown Heroes tells the stories of fifty such people from all over America, including Moody, Alabama, Ellisville, Illinois, and Lander, Wyoming. ... Read more

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  • I Hate You, Miss Bliss

    is a story of a hyperactive child. Aspen has difficulty sitting still and paying attentionparticularly in school. She is a day-dreamer and has a different way of processing information. Aspens teacher is impatient and exasperated with her apparent lack of focus. Aspen, in turn, is upset with her teacher. Not able to deal with the tension, Aspen runs away from school. This is the story of how her ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Logical (Yet Total BS) Stories Ever Told

    by Joe Thissen ...
    Ever wondered how states got their names? Ever wonder how some sports teams got their names? Well in this book I take you on a logical yet total BS journey through the names! Example Chicago Bulls and Bears were the main dish at the great Chicago fire BBQ caused by Mrs. O'Leary's cow; so to commemorate the occasion the folks of Chicago named their future sports teams Bulls and Bears. More zany and ... Read more

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  • Blue Skies, No Fences

    A Memoir of Childhood and Family

    by Lynne Cheney ...
    In Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family, Lynne Cheney re-creates the years after World War II in a small town on the high plains of the West. Portraying an era that started with the Ink Spots on the Zenith Radio in her family's living room and ended with Elvis on the jukebox at the local canteen, she tells of coming of age in a time when the country seemed in control of its ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Golden, Colorado

    Series series Images of America
    Where The West Lives! Golden's motto sums up the colorful history of the small town set at the entrance to the storied gold fields of Colorado. The scenic valley that shelters Golden caught the notice of some of the most famed pioneers of the West: explorer Major Stephen Long, world traveler Isabella Bird, showman Buffalo Bill Cody, and brewer Adolph Coors. Chronicled here in over 200 vintage ... Read more

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  • Elk Grove

    Series series Images of America
    Elk Grove's roots go back to 1850, when the community consisted of only a stage-stop hotel. In 1876, this small farm town in the shadow of Sacramento became a crossroads along the new railroad tracks. As the railroad era progressed, it brought significant changes to Elk Grove'fields were transformed into orchards, vineyards, and eventually, residential developments. But Elk Grove remained just a ... Read more

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  • Vernonia

    Series series Images of America
    Nestled in the Upper Nehalem Valley in the foothills of the Oregon Coast Range, Vernonia still reflects its pioneer virtues of hard work and independence. The area was first homesteaded in 1874 by Clark Parker and John Van Blaricom. The earliest settlers saw the dense old-growth firs and cedars as an obstacle to overcome in establishing farms, but those big trees soon became the lifeblood of the ... Read more

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  • Hanging Off Jefferson's Nose

    Growing Up On Mount Rushmore

    Illustrated by Sally Wern Comport ...
    Growing up in the shadow of Mount RushmoreLincoln Borglum was a young boy when his father, the great sculptor Gutzon Borglum, suggested to a group of South Dakota businessmen that he should carve the faces of four presidents into a side of a mountain as an attraction for tourists. But Mount Rushmore would never be finished by Gutzon. It would be his son who would complete the fourteen-year task ... Read more

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  • Nevada City

    Series series Images of America
    Vibrant and captivating Nevada City began as a gold-mining camp called Deer Creek Dry Diggins. The large gravel deposits alongside this creek reportedly delivered a pound of pay dirt a day by the fall of 1849, when A. B. Caldwell�s general store opened to supply this haphazard collection of tents. By March 1850, somewhere between 6,000 and 16,000 boisterous souls called it home, and the new town ... Read more

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  • Prineville

    by Steve Lent ...
    Series series Images of America
    Early in 1868, Francis �Barney� Prine arrived in the Crooked River Valley of Central Oregon, established a blacksmith shop made of logs, and dispensed spirits from the back of the cabin. Prine saw the potential for development and industry along the lush banks of Crooked River and Ochoco Creek, and as more and more settlers arrived, the post office of Prine was established in 1871. The community ... Read more

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  • Sweet Home in Linn County

    New Life, New Land

    Series series Images of America
    First platted in the 1850s, and as legend tells it, named from an exclamation of settler William Clark waking to discover "what a Home, Sweet Home," this future lumber boom-town began as a stage stop on the road across the Cascade Mountains. With the arrival of the first freight train on April 1, 1932, Sweet Home became one of Linn County's most important industrialized towns. Crawfordsville, ... Read more

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