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"A modern retelling of 20 sensational true crimes, No Place Like Murder reveals the inside details behind nefarious acts that shocked the Midwest between 1869 and 1950. The stories chronicle the misdeeds, examining the perpetrators' mindsets, motives, lives, apprehensions, and trials, as well as what became of them long after."--Back cover.

Justin Wells, a once-respected clergyman from Boston, attempts to start his life anew by resettling in Texas, but along the way Justin encounters outlaw Sarah Prescott in handcuffs alongside a dying U.S. Marshall and decides to bring her--and an orphaned infant--with him to Rocky Creek.

In the century preceding World War I, the American Middle West drew thousands of migrants both from Europe and from the northeastern United States. In the American mind, the region represented a place where social differences could be muted and a distinctly American culture created. Many of the European groups, however, viewed the Midwest as an area of opportunity because it allowed them to retain cultural and religious traditions from their homelands....

"In graphic novel format, tells the gripping story of the devastating 1888 blizzard that suddenly exploded across the Great Plains, killing hundreds of children as they walked home from school"--Provided by publisher.

Parading Patriotism covers a critical fifty-year period in the nineteenth-century when the American nation was starting to expand and cities across the Midwest were experiencing rapid urbanization and industrialization. Historian Adam Criblez offers a unique and fascinating study of five midwestern cities-Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and Indianapolis-and how celebrations of the Fourth of July in each of them formed a microcosm for the...