Lost States
True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made It
$39.20
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2010
Summary
Everyone knows the fifty winners—but what about the hundreds of other statehood proposals that never worked out? Lost States is a tribute to such great unrealized states as West Florida, South California, Half-Breed Tracts, Rough and Ready, and others.
History buffs will be entertained and enlightened by these bizarre-but-true stories:
- Frontier legend Daniel Boone once proposed a state of Transylvania on the borders of Indiana and Illinois. (His plan was resurre…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781594744105 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1594744106 |
| Author: | Michael J. Trinklein |
| Publisher: | Andrews McMeel Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quirk Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2010 |
| Weight: | 51g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 264mm x 211mm |
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Critics Review
“We all know the 50 states, but how much do you know about the hundreds of statehood proposals that never came to pass? These fascinating maps of states that might have been are from Michael J. Trinklein’s Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made It.”
—Country Magazine
“Fascinating, funny book.”
—The New Yorker, Book Bench
“This book is geared to the general reader and has a larger format that encourages perusal. It is recommended for history, geography, and general trivia buffs.”
—Library Journal
“Amusing and lavishly illustrated book.”
—Christian Science Monitor
“Complete with maps, Lost States is an interesting travel guide to the world of ‘what-if history.’”
—McClatchy Newspapers
“Trinklein is hilarious in his own right. I laughed out loud before I even got to the book’s main content … it [covers] more states-that-never-were than any other source I’ve seen.”
—Jenny Bristol, GeekDad.com
Michael J. Trinklein
Michael J. Trinklein is the writer and producer of the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary Pioneers of Television (2008), as well as The Gold Rush (1998) and The Oregon Trail (1993). His work has been consistently praised in the national media, including USA Today, Washington Post, Parade, Chicago Tribune, and the New York Times. He lives in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.
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