Local history

A Kansas Notable BookIn 1854, after recently arriving from England, twenty-two-year-old Reuben Smith traveled west, eventually making his way to Kansas Territory.

William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history.

New College School is one of the oldest continually functioning schools in the United Kingdom and, indeed, the world.

New College School is one of the oldest continually functioning schools in the United Kingdom and, indeed, the world.

Originally among the smallest secondary schools in Oxford, and without much of a reputation, by 2013 The Cherwell School had grown fourfold and established a national reputation for quality.

Originally among the smallest secondary schools in Oxford, and without much of a reputation, by 2013 The Cherwell School had grown fourfold and established a national reputation for quality.

Over the centuries Britain's soil has yielded countless spectacular hoards of ancient coins and other artefacts, affording us priceless insights into our ancestors' lives and it is not only such large finds that await discovery but also many thousands of individual pieces.

Over the centuries Britain's soil has yielded countless spectacular hoards of ancient coins and other artefacts, affording us priceless insights into our ancestors' lives and it is not only such large finds that await discovery but also many thousands of individual pieces.

London's buildings are dotted with commemorative plaques.

It is Edwardian England, and a delightful flower garden and fruitful allotment are matters of personal pride, boons for the family dinner table, and even 'important acts of local patriotism'.

It is Edwardian England, and a delightful flower garden and fruitful allotment are matters of personal pride, boons for the family dinner table, and even 'important acts of local patriotism'.

London's buildings are dotted with commemorative plaques.

In this first comprehensive authorized biography of David Brower, a dynamic leader in the environmental movement over the last half of the twentieth century, Tom Turner explores Brower's impact on the movement from its beginnings until his death in 2000.

Winner: Ullr AwardDownhill skiing is a vital economic engine for many communities in the Rocky Mountain states, attracting 20 million skier days per season.

Winner: Ralph Emerson Twitchell AwardThey all came to Taos: Georgia OKeefe, D.

On September 4, 1915, hundreds of people gathered in Estes Park, Colorado, to celebrate the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park.

A COLLECTION OF THE FUNNIEST, CRAZIEST, WITTIEST, MOST MEMORABLE FRONT PAGES FROM THE NT NEWS.

An illustrated city walking guide like no other.

Southern First Ladies explores the ways in which geographical and cultural backgrounds molded a group of influential first ladies.

Winner: Dorothy Schwieder Excellence in Research AwardTucked into the files of Iowa State Universitys Cooperative Extension Service is a small, innocuous looking pamphlet with the title Lenders: Working through the Farmer-Lender Crisis.

This is the new story of the Old West, told by ten historians who dare to reenvision the American West and knock the field of Western history on its ear.

Over the course of a year, in just one national forest in California, raids on illegal marijuana growing operations yielded 19,710 pounds of infrastructure, 138 ounces of restricted poisons, 4,595 pounds of fertilizer, 12 gallons of common pesticides, 5.

Raised on Gunsmoke, Bat Masterson, and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, we know what it means to get outta Dodgeto make a hasty escape from a dangerous place, like the Dodge City of Wild West lore.

A Kansas Notable BookFinalist: High Plains Book AwardAt the long-term care facility where Robert Rebeins father lands after a horrific car crash, a shadow box hangs next to each room, its contents suggesting something of the occupants life.

Winner: Ferguson Kansas History Book AwardA Kansas Notable BookAs baseball was becoming the national pastime, Kansas was settling into statehood, with hundreds of towns growing up with the game.

In the winter of 199697, state and federal authorities shot or shipped to slaughter more than 1,100 Yellowstone National Park bison.

Winner: Ullr AwardDownhill skiing is a vital economic engine for many communities in the Rocky Mountain states, attracting 20 million skier days per season.

Winner: Fletcher Pratt Award Winner: McLemore PrizeIn the spring of 1862, there was no more important place in the western Confederacyperhaps in all the Souththan the tiny town of Corinth, Mississippi.

It was the third week of May 1863, and after seven months and six attempts, Ulysses S.

Wars ravage Iraq and Afghanistan.

Inspired by the mystique of a uniquely American tree, the pecan, Oklahoma writer John Gifford set out to explore the US pecan industry, which provides 80 percent of the world's supply of this special tree nut.

Though calling itself The Bloody Seventh after only a few minor skirmishes, the Seventh West Virginia Infantry earned its nickname many times over during the course of the Civil War.

Winner: Missouri Conference on History Book AwardErrata: Click here to read the missing page (110) from the book.

World War I propelled the United States into the twentieth century and served as a powerful catalyst for the making of modern California.

A Kansas Notable BookIn 1854, after recently arriving from England, twenty-two-year-old Reuben Smith traveled west, eventually making his way to Kansas Territory.

Winner: National Outdoor Book AwardA Kansas Notable BookThe upper Arkansas River courses through the heart of America from its headwaters near the Continental Divide above Leadville, Colorado, to Arkansas City, just above the Kansas-Oklahoma border.

In the wake of the 2016 presidential election there was widespread shock that the Midwest, the Democrats so-called blue wall, had been so effectively breached by Donald Trump.

The Harvard-educated, Jewish American philosopher Horace Meyer Kallen (18821974) is commonly credited with the concept of cultural pluralism, which envisioned immigrant and minority groups cultivating their distinctive social worlds and interacting to create an inclusive, ever-changing true American culture.

Kansas Boy: The Memoir of A.

After Ross Benes left Nebraska for New York, he witnessed his polite home state become synonymous with Trump country.

Southern First Ladies explores the ways in which geographical and cultural backgrounds molded a group of influential first ladies.

Winner: Byron Caldwell Smith AwardBetween the Nebraska border and Osage County, Oklahoma, are the Flint Hills of Kansas, and growing on those hills the last of the tallgrass prairie that once ranged from Canada to Texas, and on those fields of bluestem, cattle grazeand tending the cattle, someone like Jim Hoy, whose people have ranched there from, well, not quite time immemorial, but pretty darn close.

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When prospector Ed Schieffelin set out from Fort Huachuca in 1877 in search of silver, skeptics told him all hed find would be his own tombstone.

No American state is more antistatist than Alaska.

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Winner: Ralph Emerson Twitchell AwardThey all came to Taos: Georgia OKeefe, D.

When Isaac Goodnow and five fellow New Englanders arrived at the junction of the Kansas and Big Blue rivers in March of 1855, they pitched a tent and launched a town.

A Kansas Notable BookNearing 60, William D.

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