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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: grizzly in the mail and other adventures in American history
  name:
    name part: Grove, Tim
    name part: 1967-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nbu
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: For more than twenty years, Tim Grove has worked at the most popular history museums in the United States, helping millions of people get acquainted with the past. This book translates that experience into an insider's tour of some of the most interesting moments in American history. Grove's stories are populated with well-known historical figures such as John Brown, Charles Lindbergh, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and Sacagawea, as well as the not-so-famous. Have you heard of Mary Pickersgill, seamstress of the Star-Spangled Banner flag? Grove also has something to say about a few of our cherished myths, for instance, the lore surrounding Betsy Ross and Eli Whitney. Grove takes readers to historic sites such as Harpers Ferry, Fort McHenry, the Ulm Pishkun buffalo jump and the Lemhi Pass on the Lewis and Clark Trail and traverses time and space from eighteenth-century Williamsburg to the twenty-first-century Kennedy Space Center. En route from Cape Canaveral on the Atlantic to Cape Disappointment on the Pacific, we learn about planting a cotton patch on the National Mall, riding a high wheel bicycle, flying the transcontinental airmail route and harnessing a mule. Is history relevant? This book answers with a resounding yes and, in the most entertaining fashion, shows us why.
  table of contents: Why History? -- Stepping Back in Time, Almost -- Challenging History -- The Everest of Museums -- Conquering the High Wheeler -- Does This Make Cotton or Gin? -- Mary, Not Betsy -- That Strange Creature the Mule -- When Houses Talk -- Water Battle on the Missouri -- You Can't Write My History -- A Grizzly in the Mail -- Tracking the Buffalo -- The Cathedral and the Cemetery -- We're Flying over Hell Stretch? -- How Lucky Was Lindy? -- Passionate Pretenders -- Epilogue.
  note: Tim Grove.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    genre: Anecdotes
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
    genre: Anecdotes
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / General
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
  classification: E179 .G84 2014
  classification: 973
  identifier: 9780803249721 (paperback : alkaline paper)
  identifier: 0803249721 (paperback : alkaline paper)
  identifier: 9780803254053 (epub)
  identifier: 9780803254060 (mobi)
  identifier: 9780803254046 (pdf)
  identifier: 2013039704
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 131126
    record change date: 20151206100502.0
    record identifier: in00003471847