Great Plains Originals: Historic documents from America's Heartland
SKU N-01-GPORIGINALS
From wild Westerners to patriots and protesters, the National Archives opens its storehouse of American history in the pages of Great Plains Originals: Historic Documents from America's Heartland.
This colorful new book boasts a parade of the choicest items held by the Archives' Central Plains Region in Kansas City. You will find Buffalo Bill and Walt Disney, tarred-and-feathered farmers, aging Civil War veterans who had to register as enemy aliens, and scores of more gems of Americana.
In the 200 full-color pages of Great Plains Originals, author Brian Burnes tells the story of each photograph, illustration, document and artifact, all assembled by the archives from Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and the Dakotas.
By Brian Burnes, author of other Kansas City Star Books, including Harry S. Truman: His Life and Times, High and Rising and Walt Disney's Missouri. With a foreword by Allen Weinstein, ninth archivist of the United States.
Includes an autographed bookplate signed by author Brian Burnes.
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