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 Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great DepressionBest Price: $6.79 Certainly not an earth shaking book, but interesting and fun. After I read it for a book club,... |  The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A MemoirBest Price: $5.42 I really enjoyed this book, remembering the 50s. Brought back some fond memories. We chose... |  The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A MemoirBest Price: $5.96 I have read several of Bryson's books, the most recent being his able essay on Shakespeare, but... |  Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland AmericaBest Price: $7.00 Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America This book describes the author's family... |  The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A MemoirBest Price: $16.73 As we Boomers are pushing our kids out of the nest, we are finding time to write. And what... |
 Sunday Afternoon on the Porch: Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa, 1939-1942 (Bur Oak Book)Best Price: $18.72 This is a wonderful book to evoke those bygone memories. The pictures bring back so many... |  The Struggle for Student Rights: Tinker V. Des Moines and the 1960s (Landmark Law Cases and American Society)Best Price: $5.93 Dr. Johnson has written a moving portrait of Tinker v. Des Moines, a major 1960s Supreme Court... |  Sex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950sBest Price: $8.90 Despite its rather sensational title, "Sex-Crime Panic" tells a cautionary story about... |  A Good Day's Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great DepressionBest Price: $14.52 Dwight W. Hoover describes his boyhood on a 100-acre Iowa family farm in the 1930s. I grew up on... |  The 50 Greatest Plays in Iowa Hawkeyes Football History (50 Greatest Plays)Best Price: $12.15 Guaranteed to provide hours of entertainment--and to spark spirited debate--The 50 Greatest... |
 Battleship v. Battleship: Task Force 34's Moment of GloryBest Price: $24.11 This book, like many published by Nimble Books, should be considered as a professionally... |  Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America's Heartland (Bur Oak Book)Best Price: $12.23 I bought this book because of my love of true crime. What I came away with was much more than a... |  A Bountiful Harvest: The Midwestern Farm Photographs of Pete Wettach, 1925-1965 (Bur Oak Book)Best Price: $19.99 This is a beautiful, beautiful book. The photographs are amazing and honest and the book is... |  When the World Breaks Your Heart: Spiritual Ways to Live With TragedyBest Price: $5.29 You will find ways to cope with tradegy. Nothing is going to make the pain go away, but to find... |  Bob Artley's Cowtoons: Living with CowsBest Price: $5.35 Cowtoons: Living With Cows is an amusing anthology of cartoons depicting the lighter side of... |
 Iowa: A Guide to the Hawkeye State (American Guide Series) (American Guide Series)I love this WPA series, and the Iowa one is about the best. Iowa is the Hawkeye State. The... |  Once upon a FarmBest Price: $12.00 If you grew up on or currently live on a farm this is an interesting read. Even if a farm life... |  The Civil War Diary of Cyrus F. Boyd Fifteenth Iowa Infantry 1861-1863Best Price: $8.99 |  The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917Best Price: $24.75 Gjerde's premise is interesting--there were two groups of immigrants to the upper mid west in... |  The Indian War of 1864Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, and Nebraska around the Platte river --1864. Cheyenne, Sioux,... |
 Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland AmericaBest Price: $14.55 Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America This book describes the author's family... |  The Only Dance in Iowa: A History of Six-Player Girls' BasketballBest Price: $11.40 Iowa six-player girls’ basketball was the most successful sporting activity for girls... |  Iowa History ReaderBest Price: $35.12 I concur with Professor Kellogg. I am teaching Iowa History this spring (2006) and I have... |  Art of the State: Iowa (Art of the State)Best Price: $1.93 This book was given to me for Christmas...I loved it. The poem, Landscape-Iowa by James Hearst... |  Benjamin Shambaugh and the Intellectual Foundations of Public HistoryBest Price: $34.95 Although his name is little known today outside Iowa, during the early part of the twentieth... |
 Iowa's Wild Places: An Exploration With Carl Kurtz (Iowa Heritage Collection)Best Price: $30.00 This book does an amazing job of telling the story that is Iowa with amazing pictures and an... |  Bob Artley's Country School Days: From the Memories of a Former KidBest Price: $7.62 With fond reminiscences and nostalgic cartoons, Bob Artley takes readers back to his little... |  Prairie ReunionBest Price: $3.12 Good content for the Middle West. My book club will read for January 08. |  Ottumwa (IA) (Images of America)Best Price: $12.21 Long one of Iowa's most important industrial cities, Ottumwa was established on the banks of the... |  Love and Valor : Intimate Civil War Letters Between Captain Jacob and Emeline RitnerBest Price: $18.95 As I read this remarkable volume I felt I was being transported back to those Civil War days,... |
| Love and Valor : Intimate Civil War Letters Between Captain Jacob and Emeline Ritner Best Price: $18.95 As I read this remarkable volume I felt I was being transported back to those Civil War days,... |  White Racism on the Western Urban Frontier: Dynamics of Race and Class in Dubuque, Iowa (1800-2000)Best Price: $24.94 As a lifelong resident of Iowa and a news junkie I remember very well the attempt by some of the... |  Black Diamonds: Life and Work in Iowa's Coal Mining Communities, 1895-1925 |  A history of the Extension Service of Iowa State College |  Buxton: A Black Utopia in the Heartland, An Expanded Edition (Bur Oak Book)Best Price: $4.66 Available September 2003 From 1900 until the early 1920s, an unusual community existed in... |
 A Fateful InheritanceBest Price: $5.35 |  Yankin' and Liftin' Their Whole Lives: A Mississippi River Commercial Fisherman (Shawnee Books)Best Price: $59.63 Younker did a wonderful job with this book. It's so interesting reading it, and knowing that I... |  Pioneer recollections;: Stories and pictures depicting the early history and development of Benton county, selected from the family albums and libraries ... or tales related to them by their parents |  Fragile Giants: A Natural History of the Loess Hills (Bur Oak Book)Best Price: $15.56 The loess hills of Iowa and Missouri are the gift of Ice Age dust storms, which deposited this... | Fragile Giants: A Natural History of the Loess Hills (Bur Oak Book) Best Price: $15.56 The loess hills of Iowa and Missouri are the gift of Ice Age dust storms, which deposited this... |
 Harker's Barns: Visions of an American Icon (Bur Oak Book)Best Price: $13.99 The ophthalmology department at the University of Iowa is full of talented individuals. One of... |  Glimpses - Iowa's Rural LegacyBest Price: $10.00 The stories of Iowans about their years in rural communities or on farms will capture both the... |  Currency of the Heart: A Year of Investing, Death, Work, and Coins (Sightline Books)Best Price: $1.11 I agree with the reviewer from Michigan. This is an amazing book -- very thoughtful, and... |  The Vascular Plants of Iowa: An Annotated Checklist and Natural History (Bur Oak Book)Best Price: $41.99 This extensive checklist is a must for every fan of native plants. I used it extensively when... |  An Illustrated Guide to Iowa Prairie PlantsBest Price: $26.95 Iowa is the only state completely within the tallgrass prairie formation. Thanks to rich soil,... |
 All Will Yet Be Well: The Diary of Sarah Gillespie Huftalen, 1873-1952 (Bur Oak Book)Best Price: $2.88 |  Hayden Fry: A High Porch PicnicBest Price: $5.96 As a long-time fan of the Iowa Hawkeye football time, I watched them get repeatedly shelled... |  Iowa Pride |  The WPA Guide to 1930s IowaBest Price: $37.95 |  Iowa's Lost Summer: The Flood of 1993Best Price: $15.00 |
 Restoring the Tallgrass Prairie: An Illustrated Manual for Iowa and the Upper Midwest (Bur Oak Book)Best Price: $16.95 Although containing good general information, this book is not very detailed. For the most... |  Letters To A Young Iowan: Good Sense From Good Folks of Iowa For Young People EverywhereBest Price: $19.95 What's the single most important piece of advice you would share with a young Iowan growing up... |  Railroads of Dubuque (IA) (Images of Rail)Best Price: $12.17 The city of Dubuque, settled on the west side of the Mississippi River in 1833, has historically... |  Hart-Parr Photo ArchiveBest Price: $14.90 Continued quality on Photo Archive sreies this time for Hart-Parr tractors. Hart-Parr and... |  Remaining Faithful: Amana Folk Art in TransitionBest Price: $3.50 |
 The Amanas : A Photographic Journey 1959-1999Best Price: $16.95 For over forty years, Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret has photographed Iowa's Amana villages and the... |  The Quad Cities and Their PeopleBest Price: $52.15 |  A Dictionary of Iowa Place-Names (Bur Oak Guide)Best Price: $10.00 Compiled and written by Iowa historian Tom Savage, "A Dictionary Of Iowa Place Names"... | ||
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