Bøger om West North Central States

Tales of famous folk, innovative industries, and picturesque landscapes will inspire you to slow down and savor the journey the next time you travel Minnesota's storied Highway 61.

Savvy dad Michael Hartford describes top spots to play, learn, and explore as a family in the Twin Cities, from celebrated landmarks to inconspicuous gems.

The Vintage Journal Girl Skiing, Lake Tahoe pocket journal features a travel poster illustration of a girl in skiing on a hill with the words Lake Tahoe on it. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on the cover, and is the perfect companion for your next trip, writing project, to-do list, or any occasion where a handy notebook is needed. Found Image Press Vintage Journals feature vintage art that celebrates your favorite places, hobbies and interests. The front cover design features a classic piece of art from the Found Image Press collection of over 60,000 pictures. - 4 x 6 inches - 100 lined opaque pages - Soft matte finish

By now, many of you are well versed in the Secret side of Kansas City, all that is weird, wonderful, and obscure: the murderous museum doll, the castle just for prisoners, ill-conceived Egyptian décor, etc. But you long for more, don't you? Once you've gained a fresh perspective on familiar locales, you're also likely to develop a knack for spotting details--which is exactly what scavenging is all about. For instance, just where in Shawnee is a time capsule buried? Can you find the toilet paper holder on the exterior of a Harrisonville building? Have you stepped on the marker for the world's shortest St. Patrick's Day parade in Blue Springs a hundred times but never stopped to read it? Kansas City Scavenger will have you looking way up high, way down low, and around every corner as you puzzle through each rhyme to find the features along the hunt. Local authors and sisters Anne and Leslie Kniggendorf lead you through their hometown while helping you catch some truly odd details along the way. Is every part of town included? Absolutely not! But what's for sure is that with this book in hand and some sensible shoes on your feet, you'll get to explore areas you've probably only passed through. And we want to see you hard at work! #kcscavenger to show us your adventure.

Driving across the North American Heartland, surrounded by prairie, it is almost impossible to imagine that once this was once a huge inland sea. The Western Interior Seaway, which split the entire continent of North America in half, once teemed with predatory creatures - fanged fish and turtles the size of small cars; prowling sharks and giant squid; hungry plesiosaurs and immense crocodiles. At the top of this prehistoric food chain, stretching up to nearly 15 metres (50 feet) and weighing a hefty 50,000 kilograms (50 tonnes), ruled the mighty mosasaur, the T-Rex of the sea. Through a cooperative partnership with the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre (CFDC), home to 'Bruce', the world's largest mosasaur skeleton, author Larry Verstraete and illustrator Julius Csotonyi combine fascinating facts, astonishing discoveries, and the latest paleontological information to bring the ancient marine creatures of the Seaway to vivid life.

Wildsam Field Guides: Iowa Prarie is a story based travel guide for the best experience of the Hawkeye State.

A moving memoir of a lost African American community in St. Louis

When a suicidal Native American teen leaves her reservation to join a large-scale oil-pipeline protest, she gets caught up in a dangerous situation and goes through a life-changing transformation that sets her on a new path to become a Water Protector.

Wichita aka "Doo Dah," is a mid-size city with attractions that easily rival the nation's largest metropolises in entertainment value. Fun awaits for all who come to discover it! 100 Things to Do in Wichita Before You Die is a bucket-list book filled cover to cover with timeless destinations and lesser-known places. Dig into the burgeoning arts scene with tips for the First Friday Gallery Crawl or the Tallgrass Film Festival, founded by a Wichita native in 2003. Find out the story behind the 44-foot-tall Keeper of the Plains statue in downtown. Root, root, root for the home team, the Wichita Wind Surge at Riverfront Stadium. Outdoor activities, delicious dining, shopping, concerts, and a thriving arts scene scratch the surface. As they say, "Wichita is what you make it," and around every corner is an experience waiting for you. Wichita native and travel writer Vanessa Whiteside is your personal guide to her favorite parts of her much beloved hometown. Crack the spine on this book and choose an adventure in the Magic City!

Iowa is home to rolling hills, beautiful state parks, lush cornfields, and architecture that is unique to the state. With more than a dozen scenic highways & byways, and with 100 Things to Do in Iowa Before You Die as your guide, your next road trip will be an epic one for the record books. Did you know that you can stay in the last known hotel in the world designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Mason City? Hop on the Historic Hills Scenic Byway in southeast Iowa and enjoy glass blowing at Bloom & Bark, LLC. Visit Effigy Mounds National Monument where you can view more than 200 prehistoric mounds built by Native Americans. Check out Pella, home to all things Dutch, including a Dutch windmill, museums, Dutch pastries, homemade chocolates, and unique shops. or international treats that strike your fancy, all four corners of Iowa have something to offer even the most seasoned traveler. Author and lifelong Iowan SaraWhether it's views, variety stores, A visit to northeast Iowa would not be complete without a stop in Horsfall's, a variety store that attracts visitors from hundreds of miles around. Decorah is home to Nordic Fest and all things Scandinavian. When visiting this charming community, a treat that is not to be missed is lefse, slathered in butter, sugar, and cinnamon. Experience Iowa in a day, week, month, or a lifetime. You will be greeted with friendly people and find a new experience around every corner.

"Lavina Eastlick's story is one episode in the history of the bloodiest massacre of the West." - Captured by the Indians (1985) "The resolute mother, badly wounded and left for dead, revived...and with sublime courage started for a place of safety." -A Thrilling Narrative of the Minnesota Massacre (1896)"Eastlick's story is seen by whites as the prototypical heroic story of a woman during the war." - Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees (2002)"John Eastlick handed his wife a large butcher's knife and told her not to hesitate to use it if necessary." -Over The Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 (1993)How did this heroic Minnesota pioneer woman survive four musket ball wounds and being beaten and left for dead, to eventually reunite with her two surviving children after a harrowing journey?In 1864, Lake Shetek Massacre survivor Lavina Day Eastlick (1833-1923) would publish a chilling first-hand narrative of her fight for survival in her book titled "Thrilling Incidents of the Indian War of 1862: Being a Personal Narrative of the Outrages and Horrors Witnessed by Mrs. L. Eastlick in Minnesota."In what would eventually be known as the Lake Shetek Massacre, on August 20, 1862, about 40 Dakota Sioux men and at least one woman attacked Minnesota settlers living nearby, killing 15 and taking a dozen women and children captive. In introducing her book, Eastlick writes: "I have given merely a plain, unvarnished statement of all the facts that came under my own observation, during the dreadful massacre of the settlers in Minnesota. Mine was only a single case among hundreds of similar instances. It is only from explicit and minute accounts from the pen of the sufferers themselves, that people living at this distance from the scene of those atrocities can arrive at any just and adequate conception of the...the extremities of pain, terror and distress endured by the victims."Interestingly, Eastlick describes a paranormal encounter with a red orb that occurred right after the attack.

Finalist for the 2023 Minnesota Book AwardA sublimely elegant, fractured reckoning with the legacy and inheritance of suicide in one American family. In 2009, Juliet Patterson was recovering from a serious car accident when she learned her father had died by suicide. His death was part of a disturbing pattern in her family. Her father‿s father had taken his own life; so had her mother‿s. Over the weeks and months that followed, grieving and in physical pain, Patterson kept returning to one question: Why? Why had her family lost so many men, so many fathers, and what lay beneath the silence that had taken hold?In three graceful movements, Patterson explores these questions. In the winter of her father‿s death, she struggles to make sense of the loss‿sifting through the few belongings he left behind, looking to signs and symbols for meaning. As the spring thaw comes, she and her mother depart Minnesota for her father‿s burial in her parents‿ hometown of Pittsburg, Kansas. A once-prosperous town of promise and of violence, against people and the land, Pittsburg is now literally undermined by abandoned claims and sinkholes. There, Patterson carefully gathers evidence and radically imagines the final days of the grandfathers‿one a fiery pro-labor politician, the other a melancholy businessman‿she never knew. And finally, she returns to her father: to the haunting subjects of goodbyes, of loss, and of how to break the cycle. A stunning elegy that vividly enacts Emily Dickinson‿s dictum to “tell it slant,â€? Sinkhole richly layers personal, familial, political, and environmental histories to provide not answers but essential, heartbreaking truth.

Thoroughly researched, meticulously written,and featuring more than 250 architectural structures of wide-ranging styles, these guidebooks will enhance your enjoyment and understanding of the built history of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Thoroughly researched, meticulously written,and featuring more than 250 architectural structures of wide-ranging styles, these guidebooks will enhance your enjoyment and understanding of the built history of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Nebraska Trees & Wildflowers features beautiful illustrations of 140 common trees, shrubs, and wildflowers, as well as a map showing over 20 botanical sanctuaries and learning sites where you can find iconic species like state flower goldenrod. Laminated for durability, this lightweight, 12-panel folding pocket guide is the perfect companion for educators, learners, naturalists, and botanists who wish to connect more deeply and meaningfully with the land through its flora. Made in the USA.