Rural Route Bookstore - Geographic & Regional

Books about Farm Life, Small Town Life, the Midwest, and Scandinavian-Americans

Featuring the Heartwarming Humor of "Those Lutheran Ladies"

Subtitled "Memories of 75 years in the Great Plains", this is a delightful and informative book that will let the reader be a witness to the fabric of Nebraska life one hundred years ago. It contains such interesting chapter titles as "The Baseburner and a Hot Brick", "Riding the Train", "Omaha's Easter Tornado" and "Seeing Halley's Comet".

Because this book is now 25 years old, the reader gets a first-hand perspective of life a few decades earlier than those contained in more recent nostalgia books. As Roger L. Welsch, Nebraska author and folklorist writes, "In these pages the reader will find the flow of family and tradition, the story of the common man and woman in Nebraska during the early years of the [last] century.

Shipwrecks Along Lake Superior's North Shore by Stephen B. Daniel

According to information provided by the Minnesota Historical Society, publisher of this brand new book, "beneath the icy waters of Lake Superior lies a vast museum of maritime treasures, relics, and souls that in years past were lost to the crashing waves of this massive body of water." Many of those souls were, of course, Scandinavian immigrants who, because of their earlier fishing experiences in the North Sea, found work on the Great Lakes.

When writing this book author Stephen B. Daniel collaborated with the Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society and, although it is defined as "a diver's guide", one doesn't have to go under the chilly waters of Lake Superior to enjoy this book.

Daniel, a veteran diver, has designed the book for those of us in "dry dock". He provides in-depth tours and 40 locational maps, details on the construction of these submerged vessels, descriptions of the circumstances, and histories of many of the sunken ships in Lake Superior. He supplements his text with 300 black and white photographs, charts, and 75 drawings or diagrams, and informs readers of the efforts being taken today to preserve these mysterious nautical sites.

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Scandinavian-American and Rural Humor Books