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This book contains 50 clue-based questions that will send you on a scavenger hunt throughout the city. If you want to add a little bit of history into your travels, then you won’t want to miss this book! This book contains four different scavenger-based trivia hunts; they may also be purchased separately.

This book contains 200 clue-based questions that will send you on a scavenger hunt throughout the city. If you want to add a little bit of history into your relationship, then you won’t want to miss this book! This book contains four different scavenger-based trivia hunts; they may also be purchased separately.

Chapters Include: The Canyons Sedona Vortex Sites Understanding, Experiencing, and Enjoying the Vortexes Channeling Sedona: The Re-Emergence of Lemuria Spaceships and Paranormal Occurrences Sedona and the Days Ahead

Witches who fly down chimneys. A chair that won’t release its occupant until a drop of blood stains the floor. A mountain that grew—and continues to grow—from the grave of a woman who was larger than life. The ghost of a woman who jumps on the bumpers of cars driving past the graveyard where...

Based on the multiple lives and tumultuous times of Vance Moran, Ghosts of Time takes the reader on an extraordinary, often unbelievable real-life adventure. An abusive childhood in the swamps of Louisiana, a family breadwinner at age six, alone by the age of twelve and being a professional boxer...

This provocative reanalysis of one of the most famous Early Archaic archaeological sites in the southeastern United States provides a new model for understanding prehistoric settlement patterns. Since the early 1970s, southeastern archaeologists have focused their attention on identifying the...

Between 1873 and 1935, reformers in Chicago used the power of music to unify the diverse peoples of the metropolis. These musical progressives emphasized the capacity of music to transcend differences among various groups. Sounds of Reform looks at the history of efforts to propagate this vision and...

Participation, Community, and Public Policy in a Virginia Suburb: Of Our Own Making challenges the conventional wisdom about participation in modern American communities through the story of Pimmit Hills, Virginia—one of the first federally-financed subdivisions built for World War II veterans....

Against all oddes Boston revived itself to become one of the leading centers of the global economy. This book captures how rogue politicians, passionate neighborhood activists, new immigrants, and old time residents fought each other over issues large and small and in the process, preserved and...

Realizing the need of a manual on citizenship for the new voters in Kentucky, the author has endeavored to compile such information on the government and its workings, as will be of use to all voters, especially the ones just entering political life. A strong appeal is made to the women voters of...

The purpose of this little book is to present, in story form, the most important facts in Nebraska history in such language that a child able to read may get the story and a grown man or woman may find interest in both fact and story.  ~ A.E. Sheldon

This handsome, illustrated book chronicles the history of the Lower Chattahoochee River and the people who lived along its banks from prehistoric Indian settlement to the present day.   In highly accessible, energetic prose, Lynn Willoughby takes readers down the Lower Chattahoochee...

Fort Gibson was not only the oldest and most celebrated military establishment in the annals of Oklahoma but in its early days it was the farthest west outpost of the United States, and in many respects continued for years to be one of the most important on that frontier. It was one of the chain of...

This book reveals how powerful undercurrents of sex, gender, and culture helped shape the history of the American frontier from the 1760s to the 1850s. Looking at California under three flags--those of Spain, Mexico, and the United States--Hurtado resurrects daily life in the missions, at mining camps,...