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Duck Hunting on Currituck Sound: Tales from a Native Gunner - Travis Morris

Duck Hunting on Currituck Sound: Tales from a Native Gunner - Travis Morris

Few areas in the country can compare to Currituck County when it comes to duck hunting. Since the late 1800s, hunters have traveled to the county for the abundunt wildfowl and outstanding hunting conditions, and for many gunners it has been the defintion of a sportsman's paradise. One such gunner is Travis Morris, whose family has lived in Currituck County for generations. For more than sixty years, Morris has plied the county's waters in search of mallards, widgeons, teal, coot and more, all the..

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World War II Cincinnati: From the Front Lines to the Home Front - Robert Earnest Miller

World War II Cincinnati: From the Front Lines to the Home Front - Robert Earnest Miller

World War II transformed Cincinnati from a relatively important but parochial midwestern city into a teeming bastion of military might. While thousands served in the nation's armed forces, others contributed to rationing programs, salvage drives, blackouts and war bond rallies. Scores of community-based programs blossomed as Cincinnatians on the home front threw themselves wholeheartedly into the total war\ that Washington believed necessary for victory. After answering the call to treat domestic..

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Ghosts and Legends of Colorado's Front Range - Cindy Brick

Ghosts and Legends of Colorado's Front Range - Cindy Brick

Stunning natural wonders and bustling cities make Colorado's Front Range one of the country's best places to live, but its rowdy past left some residents unable to quit the state--even in death. Outside Fort Collins, many a startled visitor spies grisly shadows hanging from the notorious Hell Tree. A reputed murderer stalks the Greeley Courthouse near where he was lynched for his alleged crimes. The disembodied heads of two vengeful banditos float through the basement of the Capitol Building in Denver...

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Currituck: Ducks, Politics & Outlaw Gunners - Travis Morris

Currituck: Ducks, Politics & Outlaw Gunners - Travis Morris

In this insider account, Currituck native Travis Morris takes readers into the blind and regales them with stories of powerful men and their guns in a bygone era when duck hunting clubs flourished and featured prominently in local politics, neighbors feuded over duck hunters rights and interloping men of industry swept in to build lodges. Senators, governors and presidents came, and these are the untold stories of their hunts. From the duck hunting vacation that John F. Kennedy planned but never..

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On the Front Lines of Pennsylvania Politics: Twenty-Five Years of Keystone Reporting - John Baer

On the Front Lines of Pennsylvania Politics: Twenty-Five Years of Keystone Reporting - John Baer

Pennsylvania, first home of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, has a tradition of political progress. However, along with the good, the political playground of Pennsylvania has also seen the brazenly bad behavior of its political leaders. For over twenty-five years, political columnist John Baer has had a front-row seat to the foibles and follies of the Keystone State's political system. Baer takes readers through his memories of covering state politics for the last quarter century,..

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Currituck Memories and Adventures: More Tales from a Native Gunner - Travis Morris

Currituck Memories and Adventures: More Tales from a Native Gunner - Travis Morris

Currituck County, North Carolina, is famed as a place where hunters count down every hour until the opening of duck season. Land of the hunter, farmer and fisherman?all terms that have defined author Travis Morris Currituck is the well-loved home and stage to this latest collection of hunting and fishing exploits. Currituck native Travis Morris returns with a follow-up to the best-selling Duck Hunting on Currituck Sound with more tales of hunting, fishing and adventure. Complete with humorous stories..

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More University of Kansas Basketball Legends - Kenneth N. Johnson

More University of Kansas Basketball Legends - Kenneth N. Johnson

-KU alumnus and Jayhawk enthusiast Kenn Johnson is back with even more legends and firsts. Notable coaches like Danny Manning, who won the national championship as a player in 1988 and again as part of the coaching staff in 2008, have shaped and molded the team throughout the decades. Players like Raef LaFrentz, who became the first Jayhawks player in twenty-seven years to average a double-double over an entire season, keep the fans coming back for more. From the history of the famous Allen Fieldhouse..

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Cincinnati's Savage Seamstress: The Shocking Edythe Klumpp Murder Scandal - Richard O. Jones

Cincinnati's Savage Seamstress: The Shocking Edythe Klumpp Murder Scandal - Richard O. Jones

\On a cold, drizzly fall afternoon in 1958, a trio of duck hunters stumbled on the charred remains of Cincinnati resident Louise Bergen. When investigators learned that her estranged husband was living with an older divorcee, Edythe Klumpp, they wasted no time in questioning her.When she failed a lie detector test, Edythe spilled out a confession. Although it did not fit the physical evidence, she was found guilty and sentenced to death in the electric chair. Governor Michael V. DiSalle put his..

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Johnny White's Sports Bar: The Tiny Joint That Never Closed--Until It Did - Marita Woywod Crandle

Johnny White's Sports Bar: The Tiny Joint That Never Closed--Until It Did - Marita Woywod Crandle

Johnny White's Sports Bar was a French Quarter institution. Often called \the locals' living room,\ Johnny White's was the only twenty-four-hour bar on Bourbon Street and attracted a colorful cast of regulars, local characters and tourists looking for a good time. Memorable French Quarter personalities like Ruthie the Duck Girl and Perri the Hobo frequented the bar in their rounds. During Hurricane Katrina, the bar remained a refuge to those who'd stayed in the city, despite authorities ordering..

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Historic Disasters in Southeast Minnesota - Steve Gardiner

Historic Disasters in Southeast Minnesota - Steve Gardiner

Southeast Minnesota has regularly felt the wrath of nature.In 1890, a driving straight-line wind on Lake Pepin overturned the Sea Wing, killing ninety-eight people within minutes in the worst marine tragedy in Minnesota history. In 1940, a raging blizzard trapped duck hunters on islands in the Mississippi River and left motorists stranded across the region, leaving dozens injured or dead. Then, in 1965, flood waters of the Mississippi River and its vast network of tributaries kept area residents..

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Machine Guns in Narragansett Bay - Christian M McBurney

Machine Guns in Narragansett Bay - Christian M McBurney

During World War I and World War II, Rhode Island was dotted with coastal forts filled with large caliber guns. Yet they were never fired in anger. By contrast, from 1929 to 1933, during Prohibition, U.S. Coast Guard vessels frequently fired machine guns at rumrunners in Narragansett Bay. Machine gun fire killed three rumrunners and wounded another on the notorious Black Duck. Despite the incident drawing national protests, the carnage continued. The Coast Guard fired machine guns at dozens more..

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Texas Panhandle Tales - Mike Cox

Texas Panhandle Tales - Mike Cox

The Texas Panhandle is like a whole 'nother country. The area stretching from just south of Lubbock all the way north to Oklahoma is filled with ranch land, oil fields, windy plains and some of the Lone Star State's most unique history. Read about the duck that started a gun battle in Oldham County and find out how Kate Polly's pancake flipping saved her life. Or witness Gene Autry's days as a performer in Childress and a different sort of \gold rush\ in Palo Duro Canyon as historian Mike Cox shares..

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Fort Collins Beer: A History of Brewing on the Front Range - Brea D. Hoffman

Fort Collins Beer: A History of Brewing on the Front Range - Brea D. Hoffman

Although alcohol arrived with the first settlers in Fort Collins, Prohibition lingered until 1969. But the city was one of the first to latch onto the burgeoning craft beer movement. In 1989, Old Colorado Brewing Company paved the way as the city's first microbrewery. And with the inception of breweries like Odell and New Belgium, local beer soon saw a strong resurgence followed by popularity nationwide. By 2010, a new generation of breweries, like Funkwerks and Equinox Brewing, emerged. Brea D...

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The Seneca Army Depot: Fighting Wars from the New York Home Front - Walter Gable

The Seneca Army Depot: Fighting Wars from the New York Home Front - Walter Gable

Even before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States began to prepare to enter World War II. When the army decided to build a depot in Seneca County in 1941, dozens of families were given only days to vacate the homes they loved and land they had farmed for generations. The depot provided vital jobs for residents, but it also continued to cause controversy even after it was established--all while providing critical support for the army through the Persian Gulf War. Since the base closed in 2000,..

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Fading Ads of Detroit - Robert C Allen

Fading Ads of Detroit - Robert C Allen

Across Detroit, fleeting symbols of the past hide in plain sight, behind weeds and under veneers of paint. Demolishing a vacant building among empty storefronts on the west side uncovered the telltale gold and green of a Vernors Ginger Ale sign, preserved almost as vibrantly as the artist intended. In faded red, white and blue, Mac-O-Lac Paint makes an expired pitch to passersby on Gratiot near Eastern Market. On the east side, Mohawk Rock and Rye still declares itself the \World's Finest!\ Carhartt,..

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Sunset Lodge in Georgetown: The Story of a Madam - David Gregg Hodges

Sunset Lodge in Georgetown: The Story of a Madam - David Gregg Hodges

Hazel Weisse moved to Georgetown in 1936 and opened a brothel three miles south of Front Street. Despite being illegal, the business remained open for thirty-three years until Weisse's retirement in 1969. She was well known, shopping every week on Front Street and appearing in the newspaper as a donor to charitable causes. She sent her \sporting ladies\ to town for their weekly doctor visits, banking deposits and shopping trips. Weisse was also aware of the community around her business. She did..

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South Dakota's Cowboy Governor Tom Berry: Leadership During the Depression - Paul S. Higbee

South Dakota's Cowboy Governor Tom Berry: Leadership During the Depression - Paul S. Higbee

As South Dakotans endured the Great Depression and developing Dust Bowl in 1932, they elected a cowboy as their governor. Tom Berry rode in the great, iconic 1902 cattle roundup ordered by President Theodore Roosevelt. He established the successful Double X ranch next to the Badlands. Big voiced and tireless, Berry commanded the attention of all, including President Franklin Roosevelt, who broke protocol and called him \Tom\ or \Cowboy\ in White House meetings. Berry faced bitter political rivalries..

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