Twodot: 177 books
Elusive State of Jefferson
A Journey through the 51st State
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
By 1941, a nascent statehood movement began to coalesce into an active and explicit secession campaign seeking to carve from Northern California and Southern Oregon a new State of Jefferson. Yreka, California, home of the secession movement, was named the temporary state capital. Local proponents,...
Spooky Southwest
Tales Of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, And Other Local Lore
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
A collection of folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous Southwestern ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world.
Here we have a collection of unnerving tales of events that happened—and still do happen—in the collective back yard of the...
It Happened in Iowa
Remarkable Events That Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
For most Americans, Iowa brings to mind endless acres of corn fields, one of the country’s longest-running state fairs, and American Gothic, but few may know how it serendipitously became the birthplace of the most iconic apple, why thousands of cyclists brave the Midwestern heat and humidity to...
by James A. Crutchfield
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Author James A . Crutchfield has mined thirty-seven of the most colorful episodes from Montana's provocative past--from the first glimpse of French explorers of the "Shining Mountains" in 1743 to the attempt to round up the wild horses of the Pryor Mountains. These episodes are a lively look at life in the Wild West.
by Randy Stapilus
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Idaho History features fourteen short profiles of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of the Gem State. It reveals the dark side of some well-known and even revered characters...
Hope Amid Hardship
Pioneer Voices from Kansas Territory
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Why did they stay? Despite the challenges of loneliness, drought, and political turmoil Kansas pioneers faced, many found and wrote about joy and beauty in their adopted communities. Letters and diaries describe the times that gave them reason to sing, dance, and celebrate – moments when their burdens...
Lewis and Clark among the Grizzlies
Legend and Legacy in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Lewis and Clark's expedition was full of adventures, but few were as exhilarating as their moments with grizzly bears. The author has combed the journals to provide readers with Lewis and Clark's own words on the Ursus horribles and offers new insight into the role of the grizzly bear in this tale of Western exploration and discovery.
The Lost Canyon of Gold
The Discovery of the Legendary Lost Adams Diggings
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Join the Search for Lost Treasure
First popularized by folklorist and author J. Frank Dobie in his book Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver in 1928, the legend of the Lost Adams Diggings is one of the most mythologized tales of lost treasure on the continent. In the 1860s, Gold was taken from Adams’...
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
One year after her successful trip across Glacier National Park with Howard Eaton, chronicled in Through Glacier Park, mystery novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart was back in the saddle, heading into the rugged Western portion of the park with her family and ready for more adventure. Rinehart's humor and...
Outlaw Tales of South Dakota
True Stories Of The Mount Rushmore State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of South Dakota. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach, and train robbers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws. A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Great Plains.
New Mexico Myths and Legends
The True Stories behind History’s Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Part of our new and growing Myths, Mysteries and Legends series, Myths, Mysteries and Legends of New Mexico explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in the Land of Enchantment's history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is...
Two Six Shooters Beat Four Aces
Stories of a Young Arizona
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Taken from the interviews conducted by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Arizona during the Great Depression,this regional history offers more than facts, figures, and stilted portraits of “important history.” This glimpse into the lives of regional lifestyles—particularly in the relatively...
Arizona Myths and Legends
The True Stories behind History's Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Arizona Myths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Arizona’s history, like the story of Pearl Hart or the ghosts that live in the Hotel Vendome. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in Arizona history.
Cold Case: Billy the Kid
Investigating History's Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
**In this series, private investigators pick up where the historians left off, taking on a series of major cold cases in history, starting with the mishandling of evidence relating to the life and times of Billy the Kid.**Cold Case: Billy the Kid tackles the myths and legends about the notorious outlaw...