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Journey's end : relics and ruins of Indiana's transportation legacy

John Bower - Studio Indiana
Format: Print book

The Crosswords of America is a fitting motto for the Hoosier state. For here, thousands of miles of roads, rails, canals, lake frontage, rivers, and runways have allowed people and products to move from one corner of Indiana to another and beyond. No wonder Hoosiers have so many transportation...
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Jungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood

William Carlsen - William Morrow
Format: Print book

New York Times Bestseller (Expeditions) "Thrilling. ... A captivating history of two men who dramatically changed their contemporaries' view of the past." - Kirkus (starred review) "[An] adventure tale that make[s] Indiana Jones seem tame." - Library JournalIn...
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The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Germanic Ancestry in Europe

James M. Beidler - Family Tree Books
Format: Paperback

Explore Your German Ancestry!Follow your family tree back to its roots in Bavaria, Baden, Prussia, Hesse, Saxony, Wurttemburg and beyond. This in-depth genealogy guide will walk you step by step through the exciting journey of researching your German heritage, whether your ancestors came...
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Folks on the Home Front: Letters from the First World War

MARGARET PORTER GRIFFIN - Dog Ear Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback

People living in the Midwest in the years 1916-1919 were experiencing rapid change: the first automobiles, the first airplanes, modern weaponry, and a massive, unified war movement that was nothing like their parents or grandparents had ever seen.A young Indiana National Guardsman, Jesse...
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War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion

Jeff Guinn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Jeff Guinn, chronicler of the Southwestern US and of American undesirables (Bonnie and Clyde, Charles Manson, Jim Jones) tells the riveting story of Pancho Villa's bloody raid on a small US border town that sparked a violent conflict with the US. The "Punitive Expedition"...
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The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil

Tina Brown - Crown
Format: Hardcover

" Never again" became Queen Elizabeth II's mantra shortly after Princess Diana's tragic death. More specifically, there could never be "another Diana" - a member of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the British...
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Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (History of the American West)

Elliott West - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover

In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital role in the transformation of the nation. In the 1840s, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific, what would become the West was home to numerous...
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Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American Outlaw

Charles Leerhsen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Charles Leerhsen brings the notorious Butch Cassidy to vivid life in this surprising and entertaining biography that goes beyond the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to reveal a more fascinating and complicated man than legend provides.For more than a century the life and death...
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Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History

Dr Jeremy Brown - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

On the 100th anniversary of the devastating pandemic of 1918, Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor, explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history of the flu virus, from the origins of the Great Flu that killed millions, to vexing questions such as: are we prepared for the next epidemic,...
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