Wide Rivers Crossed: The South Platte and the Illinois of the American Prairie 9781607322313, 9781607322306

Wicked Northern Illinois - The Dark Side of the Prairie State [1 ed.] 9781614232209, 9781596292789, 2010031975

From the secrets of Joliet Penitentiary to the ferocious gunfights between the Ku Klux Klan and the Shelton Gang, Troy T

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Prairie Imperialists: The Indian Country Origins of American Empire 9780812295641

In Prairie Imperialists, Katharine Bjork examines how the experiences of American Army officers on the domestic frontier

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An Illinois Sampler : Teaching and Research on the Prairie [1 ed.] 9780252096570, 9780252038648

An Illinois Sampler presents personal accounts from faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign an

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The Conquest of The Illinois

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Utopian Communities of Illinois: Heaven on the Prairie 9781439661666, 2017934942, 1439661669

The Prairie State became a crucial testing ground for the grand American thought experiment on how a society should be c

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Rivers of empire : water, aridity, and the growth of the American West. 9780195078060

Donald Worster examines the development history of the American West, identifying the élite of technology and wealth who

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Rivers of Sand : Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and Ethnic Cleansing in the American South [1 ed.] 9780803284906, 9780803273924

2017 James F. Sulzby Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association At its height the Creek Nation comprised a colle

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Rivers of the Anthropocene 9780520967939

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing

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Of Rock and Rivers: Seeking a Sense of Place in the American West 9780520943216, 9780520257030

This beautifully written and deeply personal collection of essays paints a progressive view of the American West as seen

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The Book of Mountains and Rivers 9781627741149

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