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Native American legends, ghosts, river mysteries, and more populate the pages of Spooky Great Lakes.

The swoon-worthy sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller, The Davenports. Perfect for fans of Bridgerton and The Gilded Age.Newly engaged Ruby Tremaine is eagerly planning her wedding to the love of her life when a nasty rumour threatens her reputation and her marriage.Charming socialite, Olivia Davenport secretly hopes for a reunion with the dashing lawyer from her past - until her parents decide she's to marry someone else.Amy-Rose Shepherd is making her lifelong wishes come true, but when an incident forces her to return to Freeport, she's back in the path of John Davenport, who still holds her heart.Determined to get over her own heartbreak, Helen Davenport's sole focus is working on her father's company, even if it means teaming up with a thrill-seeking race car driver who just loves to get under her skin.PRAISE FOR THE DAVENPORTS:'A dazzling debut.' - Kirkus (starred review)'The perfect read for fans of escapist historical fiction.' - NBC's TODAY'If this whole series existed right now, I'd tear through it to the exclusion of everything else in my life.' - Teen Librarian Toolbox

Surveying the sensational newspaper accounts as events unfolded, author and historian Chris Flook recounts this grisly tale of political intrigue and conspiracy. In the fall of 1902, Indianapolis police uncovered a prolific graverobbing ring operating across the city. At the time, cemeteries across central Indiana were relieved of their dead by ghouls, as they were called, seeking fresh corpses desperately needed by the city's medical colleges. The ring was also accused of multiple murders. In Hamilton County, a former Confederate soldier named Wade West delivered stolen corpses by floating them down the White River. His counterpart in Indianapolis, Rufus Cantrell, an itinerant preacher and full-time graverobber known as the "King of the Ghouls," ransacked Indy's cemeteries for years before being caught.

This hardcover, coffee table book will take you on a journey to view some of the most beautiful lighthouses that line the coast of the Lower Peninsula in Michigan. Each page features a stunning image taken by photographer, Danielle Jorae, along with a location map and details about each lighthouse. With a focus on beautiful images, this portfolio of Danielle Jorae's work will leave you wanting to plan your next visit to see these beautiful beacons of Michigan history.

Nearly one thousand years ago, Native peoples built a satellite suburb of America's great metropolis on the site that later became St. Louis. At its height, as many as 30,000 people lived in and around present-day Cahokia, Illinois. While the mounds around Cahokia survive today (as part of a state historic site and UNESCO world heritage site), the monumental earthworks that stood on the western shore of the Mississippi were razed in the 1800s. But before and after they fell, the mounds held an important place in St. Louis history, earning it the nickname "Mound City." For decades, the city had an Indigenous reputation. Tourists came to marvel at the mounds and to see tribal delegations in town for trade and diplomacy. As the city grew, St. Louisans repurposed the mounds--for a reservoir, a restaurant, and railroad landfill--in the process destroying cultural artifacts and sacred burial sites. Despite evidence to the contrary, some white Americans declared the mounds natural features, not built ones, and cheered their leveling. Others espoused far-fetched theories about a lost race of Mound Builders killed by the ancestors of contemporary tribes. Ignoring Indigenous people's connections to the mounds, white Americans positioned themselves as the legitimate inheritors of the land and asserted that modern Native peoples were destined to vanish. Such views underpinned coerced treaties and forced removals, and--when Indigenous peoples resisted--military action. The idea of the "Vanishing Indian" also fueled the erasure of Indigenous peoples' histories, a practice that continued in the 1900s in civic celebrations that featured white St. Louisans "playing Indian" and heritage groups claiming the mounds as part of their own history. Yet Native peoples endured and in recent years, have successfully begun to reclaim the sole monumental mound remaining within city limits. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Patricia Cleary explores the layers of St. Louis's Indigenous history. Along with the first in-depth overview of the life, death, and afterlife of the mounds, Mound City offers a gripping account of how Indigenous histories have shaped the city's growth, landscape, and civic culture.

Tales of a Vanishing River, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Circling the Wolf's Head is a series of eight loosely connected essays about the Lake Superior region that trace a clockwise route around the lake, beginning and ending in Duluth, Minnesota. While the essays circle the lake, the book is not intended to be a compendium of information about it, a comprehensive natural or cultural history of the lake and its environs, or even a travel guide to the area. Rather, it is simply the author's attempt to capture in words his personal experiences while traveling in the region over the course of several years beginning in the late 1990s. By skillfully blending accounts of his contemporary travels with historical anecdotes and descriptions of the landscape's primal power, Eaton evokes the spirit of this remarkable region.

Educator David Campbell experienced a unique time of life in American history-- growing up in industrial small town Galion, Ohio in the mid-twentieth century. He recorded some of his childhood recollections as part of a memoir for his children that he never finished.Now, with the family's permission, scholar Julian Costa brings Campbell's stories to light in their unabridged form.Explore 1950s Galion with David. Join him as he socializes with his friends, follow him from class to his after-school activities and enjoy the close bond he shares with his family. Enjoy his stories of a simpler time in America, a time and a place taken for granted. Though David's stories reflect simple aspects of his upbringing, it is moments like these that many find relatable.

Across the state of Michigan, uneasy spirits stir in what should be their final resting places. At Reynolds Cemetery in Jackson, the ghost of Eunice White, traveling from nearby Woodlawn Cemetery, can be seen visiting her father's grave. A mysterious lady in white roams the center of Lovejoy Cemetery in Durand. An apparition of the pacing man appears at Mount Joy in St. Johns. And only the bravest dare visit the Upper Peninsula's Mission Hill Cemetery, where a Native American spirit might appear to point them in the right direction. Author and paranormal investigator Bradley P. Mikulka leads a tour of some of the Wolverine State's many haunted cemeteries.

We have long been divided over how exceptional the United States is and that debate has often revolved around the frontier. In Heart of American Darkness, acclaimed historian Robert G. Parkinson presents a startling narrative of the ever-shifting encounters between white colonists and Native Americans. He reveals that the colonisation of the interior was not a rational process or heroic deed-nor the act by which American democracy was forged. Rather, it was as bewildering, violent and haphazard as European colonisation of Africa. Bringing a Conradian lens to the central episodes of the early American frontier from the 1730s through the American Revolutionary War, Parkinson follows the intertwined histories of two prominent families, one colonial and the other Native, who helped determine the fate of the empires battling for control of the Ohio River Valley. And in reclaiming the true nature and costs of imperialism, he offers nothing less than a new story of the making of the United States.

On 4 May 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protestors wearing bell-bottom jeans and long hair hurled taunts and rocks at another group of young American-National Guardsman sporting gas masks and rifles. At half past noon, violence unfolded at chaotic speed, as guardsmen-many of whom had joined the Guard to escape the draft-opened fire on the students. Two reductive narratives ensued: one, that lethal state violence targeted Americans who spoke their minds; the other, that law enforcement gave troublemakers the comeuppance they deserved. For over fifty years, little middle ground has been found due to incomplete and sometimes contradictory evidence.Kent State meticulously re-creates the divided cultural landscape of America during the Vietnam War and heightened popular anxieties around the country. On college campuses, teach-ins, sit-down strikes and demonstrations exposed the growing rift between the left and the right. Many students opposed the war as unnecessary and unjust and were uneasy over poor and working-class kids drafted and sent to Vietnam in their place. Some developed a hatred for the military, the police and everything associated with authority, while others resolved to uphold law and order at any cost.Focusing on the thirteen victims of the Kent State shooting and a painstaking reconstruction on the days surrounding it, historian Brian VanDeMark draws on crucial new research and interviews-including, for the first time, the perspective of guardsmen who were there. The result is a complete reckoning with the tragedy that marked the end of the sixties.

On June 20, 1985, police ignited a media frenzy when they raided a farm house just outside of Toledo, OH. They expected to find weapons, drugs, and the High Warlock of a secretive satanic cult. Then came the bulldozers.​They said they'd find 50 to 75 bodies, all alleged victims of human sacrifice. After 3 days of digging, they found nothing.​Using media reports, eyewitness interviews, and never-before-seen police files, Digging Up Devils tells the incredible true story of the Toledo Cult Investigation of 1985. Looking to similar moral panics across the nation, Digging Up Devils finally unravels the mystery behind the greatest case that never was."Digging Up Devils tells the previously untold tale of an imaginary cult dreamed up by conspiracists in rural Ohio, and the subsequent devastation that followed. Author Jack Legg has compiled original interviews and previously unreleased documentary evidence to tell a story that is both unique and indicative of the larger moral panic at the same time. For those familiar with Satanic Panic literature to date, this book is an excellent addition. For those with little familiarity with any particular cases of Satanic Panic, this is as good a place as any to start. May it help us to better navigate the rough waters ahead." - Lucien Greaves, Co-Founder of the Satanic Temple

Flyover Country no more. Fossils, badlands, and caprocks are scattered through the prairie, all there to be found with Roadside Geology of Kansas as your guide. A billion years of geologic history left zinc and lead deposits, salt beds, and oil buried beneath layers of limestone and shale, deposited in the many seas that inundated the continent. Finally, glaciers reconfigured stream drainages, left enormous boulders scattered about, and provided the windblown silt for excellent cropland. Nineteenth-century paleontologists flocked to the chalk outcrops of western Kansas to collect fossils of dinosaurs, mosasaurs, giant turtles, and more. Settlers used the rock they found at the surface to build houses, bridges, water towers, and churches, as well as stone fence posts that wouldn't burn during prairie wildfires. Guides for sixteen roads, including all the state's scenic, historic, and national byways, point out prominent landmarks such as Mushroom Rock, Pawnee Rock, Coronado Heights, and Mount Mitchell, along with more hidden geologic delights, such as kimberlite pipes, Rock City, and the source for Kansas amber. Informative sections detail the history of fossil collection in Kansas and the state's native-stone architecture, and colorful photographs, including many taken from aerial kites, illuminate the geologic history for all to see.

Tales of lonely trails, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Pilots of the Republic: The Romance of the Pioneer Promoter in the Middle West, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Tales and Trails of Wakarusa, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Seeing Lincoln, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Embark on an extraordinary journey through the heartland of America with this comprehensive South Dakota travel guide. Discover a land of awe-inspiring landscapes, rich cultural heritage, and unforgettable adventures. From the iconic granite faces of Mount Rushmore to the rugged beauty of Badlands National Park, South Dakota beckons with its natural wonders and boundless opportunities for exploration. Immerse yourself in the vibrant arts and crafts scene, where traditional Native American craftsmanship blends seamlessly with contemporary expressions of creativity. Delight your taste buds with mouthwatering local delicacies, from sizzling bison burgers to the beloved chislic. Experience the warm hospitality of small towns and the bustling energy of urban centers like Sioux Falls. Whether you seek outdoor thrills, cultural immersion, or simply a serene escape from the ordinary, South Dakota has it all. Hike through lush forests in the Black Hills, witness the stampede of bison in Custer State Park, or unearth the secrets of Native American heritage on a visit to a reservation. Attend vibrant festivals that celebrate the state's rich history and traditions. With this carefully curated guide, you'll unlock the hidden gems, uncover the local treasures, and navigate South Dakota with confidence. So, pack your sense of adventure and get ready for an unforgettable journey through the untamed beauty and authentic spirit of South Dakota. The treasures of the Great Plains await your discovery.

Full title: CLEVELAND PAST AND PRESENT Its Representative Men Comprising Biographical Sketches of Pioneer Settlers and Prominent Citizens With a History of the City and Historical Sketches of Its Commerce, Manufactures, Ship Building, Railroads, Telegraphy, Schools, Churches, Etc., Profusely Illustrated with Photographic Views and Portraits.

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