This indispensable guide includes more than 300 photographs, descriptions, easy-to-follow directions, and contact information for nearly 500 attractions across Alberta and Montana.<BR> ...

These extraordinary collections of photographs and narrative captions have wide appeal for anyone interested in Maine's past. Bunting has a knack for spotting the unusual in a photograph, or some minor detail that, in fact, tells a major story about the how and why. From granite quarry operations to an itinerant cobbler in a sailing scow to hootchie-kootchie dancers at the state fair to deepwater ships, his page-long captions place these images ...

This newest addition to the state almanac series is a mile-high must read full of interesting factoids and fascinating bits on the geography, economy, history, and people of Colorado. 50 photos. 12 maps. ...

In The Confederate Carpetbaggers, Daniel E. Sutherland examines the lives of southern men and women who moved north in search of opportunity in the aftermath of the Civil War. As he considers their various motives for moving north, problems of adaptation to northern society, attempts to find new identities, and 'efforts to maintain relations with other Confederates in the North as well as with old friends in the South, Sutherland provides an ...

This church is one of the most widely recognized buildings in the United States. Since its original construction in the early nineteenth century, it has gone through many remodelings. ...

'Born A Chief' records the boyhood of Edmund Nequatewa, born around 1880 and designated to be a hereditary society chief in the village of Shipaulovi on Second Mesa. ...

What kind of relationship between the human being and nature will best serve the interests of both? Using a fascinating national park in California as an example, the author explores these issues, and gives an absorbing, controversial and ultimately tragic story. ...

Birthplace of the state's canned salmon industry and the cooperative extension movement, Wahkiakum County has a historic significance extending beyond its borders. Today it stands at the cusp of change as the rural occupations of fishing, farming, and logging, upon which the county has depended, suffer from outside influences and demographic shifts. ...

Covering Anne Arundel, Howard, Montgomery, and Prince George's counties, this volume is designed especially for elementary school students studying the counties, but parents and grandparents will find it an appealing educational gift as well. The first few chapters deal with the region's geography, climate, wildlife, plants, and history. Subsequent chapters describe what is unique about each county: establishment, growth, government, major towns, ...

This book tells the stories of the Jewish women who came of age in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in the 1940s and 1950s. Through in-depth interviews with more than forty women, Carole Bell Ford explores the choices these women made and the boundaries within which they made them, offering fresh insights into the culture and values of Jewish women in the postwar period. Not content to remain in the past, The Girls is also a story of women who live in the ...