The Battle of Fallen Timbers
9781467159692
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Author Dave Westrick shares the forgotten stories of the defenders, invaders and all the people caught in the middle. On a hot, humid August morning in 1794, an army representing fifteen quarreling states met an alliance of Native American tribes at a place called Fallen Timbers. The battle lasted less than two hours, with fewer than one hundred killed. For the United States, it was the beginning of greatness and the birth of a proud military tradition. For the Native Americans, it was the end of the life they had led for thousands of years.
Hidden History of Northeast Ohio
9781467150682
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Explore forgotten corners of local history
Northeast Ohio is awash with nearly forgotten historical events. In 1780, American scout Captain Samuel Brady leaped across the Cuyahoga River where Kent now stands to evade a party of Native Americans aiming to take his scalp. During the Civil War, Confederates tried to free their compatriots from the Johnson’s Island prisoner of war camp by capturing two ferries and attempting to poison the crew of the Union’s only gunboat in Lake Erie. The town of Kirtland was briefly the national headquarters of the Mormons and the location one of the Church of Latter-day Saints’ most revered temples.
Mark Strecker has unearthed a hidden gem of local history for each of Northeast Ohio’s twenty-two counties.
Milwaukee Oddities
9781467155861
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Milwaukee is full of weird borders, streets that do not line up right, creepy cemeteries and other curious things.
Many locals have heard about the crooked bridges downtown, the sewer Socialists and the attempt on Teddy Roosevelt’s life. Not as many know about the time Josette Juneau saved Milwaukee, the city’s link to The Exorcist or its ghost towns like Oakwood, Saint Martin’s and Root Creek. And yes, a lion really lived inside the library. Employees used bowling balls to play fetch with it.
Milwaukee-based historian James Nelsen shares joyous and amazing stories of the Cream City’s strange history.
Columbia Tusculum
9781467158558
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%With a history dating back 2000 years, Columbia Tusculum stands as a vital contributor to the region’s development.
The lush, strategically located land provided essential resources for native hunting and trade as well as for pioneer farming. Positioned at the convergence of the Little Miami and Ohio Rivers, the young community became a hub for transporting people and goods. Over time, streetcars, railroads, and Columbia Parkway facilitated transportation, fostering migration and growth. Columbia's Lunken Airport, a major municipal airport in the early twentieth century, also enhanced Cincinnati’s connectivity.
Author Dinese Young unfolds the story of Cincinnati’s oldest neighborhood and its role in the city’s evolution.
Revolutionary War Patriots of South Central Michigan
9781467171434
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Meet the New England revolutionary Patriots who became Michigan pioneers.
The counties of South Central Michigan are the resting place of more than forty Revolutionary War Patriots. These men fought pivotal battles like Ticonderoga, Princeton, Bennington, Saratoga, and Yorktown, and when the fighting was done, they pioneered through western New York and across the Ohio Valley before claiming Michigan as their final home. Moses Cook of Massachusetts fought in some of the most lethal battles of the Revolution and endured a deadly winter in Valley Forge. Massachusetts native Lothario Danielson helped to squash a homegrown rebellion and authored a report on meningitis. Only one month after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Connecticut native William Maples was inspired to join the Connecticut militia.
Exploring the lives of these men before and after the war, local authors David Van Hoof and Linda Hass tell the stories of these unsung heroes of the indomitable American spirit.
Missouri Revolutionaries
9781467171229
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%A revolutionary ethos serves as the bedrock of the Show-Me State.
Although Missouri wasn’t even part of the United States in 1776, its destiny was shaped by Patriot soldiers and their descendants. From the 1780 Battle of St. Louis through the Louisiana Purchase, veterans of the Revolutionary War settled in the Spanish- and French-run territory to build homes, families, and communities. Drummer boys and militiamen who fought from Lexington to Yorktown in their youth lived to fight again in the West alongside their adult sons in the War of 1812. Veterans of Washington’s armies served in the Missouri Territorial and State Assemblies then drew their pensions and watched their grandchildren play in the state they had helped build. Their stories started in battles east of the Mississippi but came to fruition in the Show-Me State.
Join author Paul Kirkman as he digs through 250 years of history to uncover the story of Missouri’s Revolutionary roots.