Describes consumers' shifting habits of fuel consumption, tracing how use of wood led to burning coal and coal gas, to the arrival, to the arrival of the arc lamp, and then the ...

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A sweeping history of the upper Mississippi introduces readers to the rich natural and human history of this region, from the earliest European explorers through the massive ...

Following several routes, thousands of American Indians were forced from their homelands in the Southeast. On their tortuous trek west many died. These routes, lined with ...

Most people would not consider north central Kansas' Waconda Lake to be extraordinary. The lake, completed in 1969 by the federal Bureau of Reclamation for flood control ...

Based on Marcy's own experiences, this 1863 work enables the emigrant to the American west to be self-reliant and survive.

The Tunnel under the Lake recounts the gripping story of how the young city of Chicago, under the leadership of an audacious engineer named Ellis Chesbrough, constructed a two ...

Explores the history of the Great Plains through more than three hundred full-color maps and extensive explanatory text.

2018 Nebraska Book Award The state of Nebraska has a rich and varied culture, from the eastern metropolitan cities of Omaha and Lincoln to the ranches of the western Sand Hills ...