Lost States True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made It
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Fr. 36.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
03.03.2010
Verlag
Quirk BooksSeitenzahl
160
Maße (L/B/H)
26.7/21/2.9 cm
Gewicht
826 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-59474-410-5
Everyone knows the fifty nifty united states-but what about the hundreds of other statehood proposals that never came to pass? Lost States is a tribute to such great unrealized dreams as West Florida, Texlahoma, Montezuma, Rough and Ready, and Yazoo. Some of these states came remarkably close to joining the Union. Others never had a chance. Many are still trying. Consider:
• Frontier legend Daniel Boone once proposed a state of Transylvania in the Appalachian
wilderness (his plan was resurrected a few years later with the new name of Kentucky).
• Residents of bucolic South Jersey wanted to secede from their urban north Jersey
neighbors and form the fifty-first state.
• The Gold Rush territory of Nataqua could have made a fine state-but since no women
were willing to live there, the settlers gave up and joined California.
Each story offers a fascinating glimpse at the nation we might have become-along with plenty of absurd characters, bureaucratic red tape, and political gamesmanship. Accompanying these tales are beautifully rendered maps detailing the proposed state boundaries, plus images of real-life artifacts and ephemera. Welcome to the world of Lost States!
• Frontier legend Daniel Boone once proposed a state of Transylvania in the Appalachian
wilderness (his plan was resurrected a few years later with the new name of Kentucky).
• Residents of bucolic South Jersey wanted to secede from their urban north Jersey
neighbors and form the fifty-first state.
• The Gold Rush territory of Nataqua could have made a fine state-but since no women
were willing to live there, the settlers gave up and joined California.
Each story offers a fascinating glimpse at the nation we might have become-along with plenty of absurd characters, bureaucratic red tape, and political gamesmanship. Accompanying these tales are beautifully rendered maps detailing the proposed state boundaries, plus images of real-life artifacts and ephemera. Welcome to the world of Lost States!
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