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 Lincoln's Rail-Splitter: GOVERNOR RICHARD J. OGLESBYBest Price: $26.99 Richard James Oglesby is best known for introducing the rail-splitter image into Abraham... |  James Whitcomb Riley: A Life (Indiana)Best Price: $10.95 There was a time when I thought I was the last American still reading James Whitcomb Riley's... |  Wendell Willkie: Hoosier InternationalistBest Price: $22.50 "The 12 assessments of Wendell Willkie in this book are exceptionally well done. They are... |  Albion Fellows Bacon: Indiana's Municipal Housekeeper (Midwestern History and Culture)Best Price: $24.95 It's good to see Albion Fellows Bacon get some well deserved credit and attention for her... |  Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the PlanetBest Price: $4.45 This book gives a whole new meaning to the word "sheepish." No, seriously. The... |
 Shattered Lives: Anatomy of an Oil SpillBest Price: $16.37 DECADE OF GRIEF From 1989 until 1999, we nearly lost our home. We were also threatened with... |  Webb CityBest Price: $18.49 A perky red-haired boy of the Ozarks takes in all that a small town upbringing offers to mold... |  The Guinness Book of Me: A Memoir of RecordBest Price: $0.80 I read this book (indeed, I became aware of this book) because Steven Church is my husband's... |  Amazing Women of West MichiganBest Price: $2.94 I love this book, great read wonderful photography by Tim Priest. To see more of his... |  My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert FranklinBest Price: $14.00 |
 Stories from the Round BarnBest Price: $26.24 In an era of urban sprawl and corporate farming, this is a gentle reminder of a world of small... |  River Home: Memoir (Ohio Bicentennial)Best Price: $18.89 |  Tale of a Comet and Other StoriesBest Price: $20.46 Eight extraordinary tales prove Helen White's conviction that true stories about real people... |  Crusaders: The Radical Legacy Of Marian And Arthur Lesueur (Borealis Books)Best Price: $6.94 |  The Life of A.D. Brown: The History of the Greatest Shoe Merchant in the WorldBest Price: $19.95 A fascinating and inspirational biography of Alanson D. Brown, who through years of struggle and... |
 Children of the Dust: An Okie Family Story (Plains Histories)Best Price: $14.42 Everyone should read this book. This is about a man & woman trying to survive the dust bowl... |  Crunching GravelBest Price: $48.74 |  Coya Come Home |  Windbreak: A Woman Rancher on the Northern PlainsBest Price: $7.98 This book is about people living strenuous lives in an environment of extremes -- drought and... |  The Biggest City in America: A Fifties Boyhood in Ohio (Ohio History and Culture)Best Price: $16.19 In a series of stories drawn from his own experiences coming of age during the 1950s, Richard B.... |
 A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by HBest Price: $7.13 This memoir is about Clancy Sigal's intense attachment to his fast-talking, redhaired, sexy,... |  I Love You, Miss Huddleston: And Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana ChildhoodBest Price: $6.05 Gulley is a master of "right word at the right place" getting an audible laugh from... |  The Summer of Ordinary WaysPracticing baseball with Dad, then watching him go after a cow with a pitchfork in a fit of... |  The Great Depression: A DiaryBest Price: $10.27 This was an excellent read. This was not an exciting novel, but a chance to learn from... |  The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked?Awjeezma!? was the universal dissent, whined?repeatedly if necessary?at an unreasonable mother... |
 Mysteries of the Hopewell: Astronomers, Geometers, and Magicians of the Eastern Woodlands (Ohio History and Culture)Buried beneath today's Midwestern towns, under several layers of earth and the accumulated... |  American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the NationBest Price: $8.00 "American Pharaoh" is an exhaustively researched and insightfully detailed portrait of... |  Deckhand: Life on Freighters of the Great LakesBest Price: $15.33 This is a very quick read and an entertaining one too. I enjoyed his stories of what it was like... |  Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My YouthBest Price: $55.00 In the captivating art of the oral tradition-told in the author's own voice-Keewaydinoquay, ... |  Cowboy Life: The Letters of George PhilipBest Price: $17.70 Philip's tales emphasize the simple pleasures and hard work of cowboy life. His writing... |
 The Reel Adventures of a Marion County AnglerBest Price: $10.36 The true stories of a midwestern fisherman make you connect with this honest memoir. Jeff does... |  In For The Long Haul: The Life of John RuanDriven by grit and determination during the Depression, John Ruan parlayed a one-truck business... |  Widow of the WavesBest Price: $15.95 Bev Jamison's 33 years of marriage to a Great Lakes sailor was not what your might expect. ... |  And the Wilderness shall Blossom: Henry Benjamin Whipple, Churchman, Educator, Advocate for the IndiansBest Price: $45.00 When he died in 1902, Henry Benjamin Whipple was one of Minnesota s best-known citizens. In his... |  Land of the Burnt Thigh (Borealis Books)I really enjoyed reading this story. I loved the detail of every day life of the homesteaders. I... |
 The Face of a Naked Lady: An Omaha Family MysteryBest Price: $2.58 In a strangely fascinating memoir that could be described as Middle American gothic, Michael... |  Ghost of a Chance: A Memoir of War and LoveBill Somers grew up in a family of six children in southeast Iowa. His father was a small-town... |  Sweet and Sour Pie: A Wisconsin BoyhoodAs a young boy, Dave Crehore moved with his parents from northern Ohio to the shipbuilding town... |  Of Time and Place: A Farm in Wisconsin (Borderland Books)Best Price: $15.58 The farm has belonged to Richard Quinney?s family for generations, since it was first settled by... |  Harvest Journal: Memoir of a Minnesota Farmer, Part II: 1904-1938 (v. II)Best Price: $12.93 HARVEST JOURNAL, PART I (1846-1903), introduced Fred Cummings and his family. Adopted by an aunt... |
 Stand TallBest Price: $3.47 "Stand Tall" was probably the most self-serving autobiography I've ever read. On... |  Ignatius Donnelly : the portrait of a politicianThe only full-length biography of one of the Midwest's most important, 19th-century... |  She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, IndianaBest Price: $3.71 When I read books to review, I put little markers on the pages to note where something stood out... |  Hapa Girl: A MemoirIn the mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants, married an... |  Forty Acres and a Fool: How to Live in the Country and Still Keep Your SanityBest Price: $18.49 At a time when so much manliness is played out on computer keyboards and TV or... |
 I Love You, Miss Huddleston: and Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana ChildhoodBest Price: $5.20 With his ear for the small town and his knack for finding the needle of humor in life's... |  Kelvin Sampson: OU Basketball StoryBest Price: $0.99 Kelvin can coach the great ones, but he doesn't have to have great ones to win. Chicago... |  St. Hedwig and Me: Life in a Chicago OrphanageI AM THE AUTHOR'S SON AND RIGHT NOW YOU MAY THINK MY OPINION IS BIASED. BUT IT'S NOT... |  David Frakes Day, Civil War Hero and Notorious Frontier NewspapermanSoon after the start of the Civil War, 14-year-old runaway David Frakes Day told the so-called... |  White Field, Black Sheep: A Lithuanian-American LifeBest Price: $13.89 "White Field, Black Sheep" is a crystalline memoir capturing the experience of a Baby... |
 Urban Tapestry: Indianapolis StoriesBest Price: $12.99 Definitely worth more than the minimal cost of this paperback. A nice collection of stories... |  Safe at HomeBest Price: $2.69 I never knew Bob Muzikowski ... nor did I know of the book prior to last month (April 2004).... |  The Nishimutas: An Oral History of a Japanese and Spanish FamilyBest Price: $12.64 This excellent family history was written by my younger sister. As Catholic Japanese-Americans... |  Heaven, Iron and I - The Ron Martinelli StoryI used to watch Ron Martinelli wrestle on T.V. and at Cobo Arena when I was a boy. But I never... |  I Love You, Miss Huddleston: and Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana ChildhoodBest Price: $5.55 If you loved the movie A Christmas Story (and who dosen't?), you'll love I Love You Miss... |
 A Hoosier HolidayBest Price: $6.19 Theodore Dreiser is one of America's great authors, but he is also an enigma wrapped inside... |  The Memoirs of Jean LaffiteAssuming that the text is authentically the work of Jean Laffite, then this is a great case... |  Westhope: Life as a Former Farm BoyGrowing up in Westhope, North Dakota, during the 1960s and 1970s, Dean Hulse was surrounded by a... |  Holy Joe: Joseph W. Folk and the Missouri Idea (MISSOURI BIOGRAPHY SERIES)Best Price: $23.00 One of Missouri's best-known leaders of the Progressive Era, Joseph W. Folk epitomized the... |  Who's Who in the Midwest 2002 (Who's Who in the Midwest, 28th ed)Best Price: $245.00 |
 They Came from Dubuque |  Old JulesBest Price: $10.70 Old Jules is a fascinating look at life on the northern Great Plains and provides a great... |  Black Hawk's AutobiographyBlack Hawk's Autobiography is reframed in this edition to convey the true voice of the... |  Chicago Portraits: Biographies of 250 Famous ChicagoansBest Price: $10.51 |  Who's Who in the Midwest, 1994-1995Best Price: $249.95 |
 Trapping the Boundary Waters: A Tenderfoot in the Border Country 1919-1920 (Midwest Reflections)Best Price: $70.98 On 4 May 4 1919, Charlie Cook set off for a year of adventure in the Minnesota-Ontario Boundary... |  Irma: A Chicago Woman's Story, 1871-1966Best Price: $15.99 Ellen FitzSimmons Steinberg literally tripped over a collection of Irma Rosenthal... |  Every Farm Tells a Story: A tale of Family Farm ValuesBest Price: $355.96 I have just come across a book you all should read: it is called EVERY FARM TELLS A STORY, A... |  Milk Horses: A MemoirBest Price: $10.00 While Milk Horses is first and foremost a memoir, it is also the tale of a writer who knew she... |  Hat TipsA selection of the best columns written by North Dakota farmer and rancher Dean Meyer. These... |
 A Dollar the Hard Way: Growing Up in Tough Times in the Ozark FoothillsBest Price: $24.94 This book is wonderful. Mr. Wallace is excellent at giving readers a view of his childhood and... |  Sudden Death, OvertimeBest Price: $18.51 The beginning of this book is so captivating and after reading all of it, it left me feeling... |  Living and Farming in Pike CountyBest Price: $10.49 Eight-year-old Ralph Kern had been a farm boy only two years before Depression and droughts... |  Missouri's Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West (MISSOURI BIOGRAPHY SERIES)Best Price: $32.54 Driving in Jefferson City, Missouri a few years ago, I saw a man selling Confederate flags by... |  My Farm on the Mississippi: The Story of a German in Missouri, 1945-1948Best Price: $24.99 Original version published by Paul Fessler in H-Net Book Review for H-GAGCS listserv An... |
 The Farm On Nippersink Creek (American Storytelling)Best Price: $7.38 Likened by critics to Garrison Keillor only more deliberate and elegiac Jim May writes the... |  Tom Johnson: The Life and Times of Cleveland's Greatest MayorTom Johnson: The Life and Times of Cleveland's Greatest Mayor provides a rare look at the... |  Perspectives Through Black Ice: Burntside Speaks To Her PeopleBest Price: $8.92 |  Prairie WinterBest Price: $7.46 Originally published in 1903, this charming diary of an Illinois farm girl details life on the... |  Rich in Good Works: Mary M. Emery of Cincinnati (Ohio History and Culture)Best Price: $3.99 Although she was a member of Newport, Rhode Island, and Cincinnati society during the... |
| The Biggest City in America: A Fifties Boyhood in Ohio (Ohio History and Culture) Best Price: $16.19 In a series of stories drawn from his own experiences coming of age during the 1950s, Richard B.... | A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by H Best Price: $7.13 This memoir is about Clancy Sigal's intense attachment to his fast-talking, redhaired, sexy,... | I Love You, Miss Huddleston: And Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood Best Price: $6.05 Gulley is a master of "right word at the right place" getting an audible laugh from... | The Summer of Ordinary Ways Practicing baseball with Dad, then watching him go after a cow with a pitchfork in a fit of... | The Great Depression: A Diary Best Price: $10.27 This was an excellent read. This was not an exciting novel, but a chance to learn from... |
| The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked ?Awjeezma!? was the universal dissent, whined?repeatedly if necessary?at an unreasonable mother... | Mysteries of the Hopewell: Astronomers, Geometers, and Magicians of the Eastern Woodlands (Ohio History and Culture) Buried beneath today's Midwestern towns, under several layers of earth and the accumulated... | American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation Best Price: $8.00 "American Pharaoh" is an exhaustively researched and insightfully detailed portrait of... | Deckhand: Life on Freighters of the Great Lakes Best Price: $15.33 This is a very quick read and an entertaining one too. I enjoyed his stories of what it was like... | Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth Best Price: $55.00 In the captivating art of the oral tradition-told in the author's own voice-Keewaydinoquay, ... |
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