Montana: A Bicentennial History (States and the Nation)
Montana: A Bicentennial History (States and the Nation)

Author: Clark C. Spence

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1978-06-17

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0393348563

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At three times the size of Pennsylvania, with a county bigger than the whole state of Connecticut, Montana is a large place, once described as "bounded on the west by the Japan current, on the north by the aurora borealis, on the south by Price's Army, and on the east by the Day of Judgement." Montana has a rich story, in which different people have sought both great fortune and modest prosperity. How well they succeeded is part of the story told in this engaging history.

Montana
Montana

Author: Clark C. Spence

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 9780393056792

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Surveys the development of the state, bringing into view Montana's historical role as a key producer of furs, metals, cattle, and agricultural products and the contemporary concern with conservation of resources

Michigan: A Bicentennial History (States and the Nation)
Michigan: A Bicentennial History (States and the Nation)

Author: Bruce Catton

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1984-12-17

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0393301753

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The late Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian Bruce Catton is known to millions of readers for his absorbing works on the Civil War. In this book, he turns to his native Michigan to tell a story of what happened when a primitive wilderness changed into a bustling industrial center so fast that it was as if the old French explorer Etienne Brule "should step up to shake hands with Henry Ford." The idea that abundance was "inexhaustible--that fatal Michigan word," as the author calls it--dominated thinking about the state from the days when Commandant Cadillac's soldiers arrived at Detroit until his name became a brand of car. Viewed in this light, Michigan is a case study of all America, and Americans in any state will be fascinated. In a colorful, dramatic past, Mr. Catton finds understanding of where we are in the present and what the future will make us face.

Missouri: A Bicentennial History
Missouri: A Bicentennial History

Author: Paul C. Nagel

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1977-08-17

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 039333385X

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Missourians could hardly have made a more appropriate decision than to name their capital city after Thomas Jefferson. A meeting-place of major rivers, Missouri became a gateway to the promised land--the beckoning West opened up to Americans by Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. In the era of overland traders and steamboat pilots, of Thomas Hart Benton and Mark Twain, life in Missouri was strongly flavored by the Jeffersonian spirit, expressed in a suspicion of large cities, a belief that mankind flourished best in a rural setting, and a faith in the free individual as the guardian of liberty.

Nevada: A Bicentennial History
Nevada: A Bicentennial History

Author: Robert Laxalt

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1977-08-17

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 0393334066

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Sagebrush and neon, shepherds and gangsters, a crossroads and a refuge, Nevada is a state that "didn't deserve to be." Through a turbulent history, Nevada has searched for an identity to call its own. How well it has succeeded is the subject of Robert Laxalt's evocative portrait of the state and its people.

Mississippi: A Bicentennial History (States and the Nation)
Mississippi: A Bicentennial History (States and the Nation)

Author: John Ray Skates

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1979-04-17

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0393348555

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What life has really been like for most Mississippians is the story told in this intriguing history. To many Americans, Mississippi means Natchez and Vicksburg, white columns and cotton. For the people who have lived there, however, Mississippi has been a decidedly different place. Depending on who you were, and where and when you lived, Mississippi could be a much worse or far better place than that portrayed by its romantic image.

Ohio: A Bicentennial History
Ohio: A Bicentennial History

Author: Walter Havighurst

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1976-11-17

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 039333435X

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Historically, Ohio seems to have had everything--great physical beauty; rich resources of coal, oil, gas, and fertile soil; a central location with easy means of transportation by land and water; inventive and dynamic people; and the kind of national political influence that wealth and a large population can give a state. It was no accident that eight of the nation's presidents had an Ohio connection. In character, the first Ohioans exhibited qualities that seemed typical of Americans in general. "The spirit of the place was large, vigorous, and buoyant," Walter Havighurst writes of the colorful early days when settlers attached forests with ax and fire. "Keep the ball rolling" and "Give it a try" became Ohio slogans as boosterism surged, fields were planted, towns were founded, and canals were dug. Steamboats, steel plants, and the rubber industry brought growth to Cleveland, Cincinnati, and other major cities, making Ohio a commercial and industrial as well as an agricultural heartland.

New York: A Bicentennial History
New York: A Bicentennial History

Author: Bruce Bliven Jr.

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1981-03-17

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0393333922

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From the Big Apple to Niagara Falls, the state of New York has always had enormous fascination for Americans. From the Empire State have come major influences on almost every aspect of American life. Particularly advantageous landforms and waterways enabled the explorers and settlers and entrepreneurs of early New York to move ahead of others, and the strategic location of New York City with its outstanding harbor also helped the state reach dominance. But as the author of this book shows, almost from the beginning on the tip of Manhattan Island, New York has benefited from the varied talents of successive influxes of diverse ethnic and racial groups. In conflict though they often were, they have also been a source of hte state's cultural richness and economic strength.

South Carolina: A Bicentennial History (States and the Nation)
South Carolina: A Bicentennial History (States and the Nation)

Author: Louis B. Wright

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1976-02-17

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0393348679

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Louis Wright's masterful telling of South Carolina's story will fascinate residents and non-residents alike. A land whose people knew the joy of great victories and the sadness of bitter defeats, South Carolina gave us the first Americans cowboys, the cotton gin, and a long list of colorful military and political figures, from Swamp-Fox Marion to Pitchfork Ben Tillman and Cotton Ed Smith. Louis Wright's masterful telling of the story will fascinate residents and non-residents alike.

Yellowstone
Yellowstone

Author: Richard A. Bartlett

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 1988-10-01

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780816510986

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"A detailed, well documented history of the extablishment (in 1872), growth, and maturation of Yellowstone National Park . . . America's (and the world's) first national park." ÑWildlife Book Review "Without question the best and most thought-provoking volume on America's first national park that has been written in the last half-century." ÑJournal of the West "Broad ranging, informative, thoughtful, and simply fun to read." ÑWestern Historical Quarterly