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Middle West

Here are entered works on the region of the United States between the Rocky Mountains and the Allegheny Mountains and north of the Ohio River and the southern border of Missouri and Kansas, generally including the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota.

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• African Americans -- Middle West
• American literature -- Middle West
• Archives -- Middle West
• Beadle, Erastus Flavel, 1821-1894 -- Travel -- Middle West
• Bees -- Breeding -- Middle West
• Bradbury, John, 1768-1823 -- Travel -- Middle West
• Catholic Church -- Middle West
• Christianity -- Middle West
• Earth sciences -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Middle West
• Field crops -- Middle West
• Fisheries -- Middle West
• Fishes -- Middle West
• Folklore -- Middle West
• Freshwater mussels -- Middle West
• Frontier and pioneer life -- Middle West
• Geology -- Middle West
• Human geography -- Middle West
• Indians of North America -- Middle West
• Law reports, digests, etc -- Middle West
• Racism -- Middle West
• Teenage boys -- Middle West
• Teenage girls -- Middle West
• Urbanization -- Middle West

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• No Place to Call Home: The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), by Caroline Barnes Crosby, ed. by Edward Leo Lyman, Susan Ward Payne, and S. George Ellsworth (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Miss Lulu Bett (stage play, two endings; New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1921), by Zona Gale (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Bent Twig, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Gutenberg text)
• Dark Laughter (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1925), by Sherwood Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lion of Farside, by John Dalmas (HTML at Baen Ebooks)
• Poor White, by Sherwood Anderson (Gutenberg text)
• Kingsblood Royal (1947), by Sinclair Lewis (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Midlander (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Miss Lulu Bett (novel), by Zona Gale (Gutenberg text)

• The Janitor (c2007), by Adam Decker (HTML and audio with commentary at adamdecker.com)

• Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls (written under "Edith Van Dyne" pseudonym; Chicago: Reilly and Lee, c1918), by L. Frank Baum, illust. by Alice Carsey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Western Tourist and Emigrant's Guide through the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and Wisconsin, and the Territories of Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska (New York: J. H. Colton and Co., 1855), by J. H. Colton (page images at MOA)
• The Western Tourist and Emigrant's Guide, With a Compendious Gazetteer of the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, and the Territories of Wisconsin, and Iowa (New York: J.H. Colton, 1840), by J. H. Colton and J. Calvin Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860-1930 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Jack S. Blocker (PDF at Ohio State)

• A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860-1930 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Jack S. Blocker (PDF at Ohio State)

• A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860-1930 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Jack S. Blocker (PDF at Ohio State)

• A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860-1930 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Jack S. Blocker (PDF at Ohio State)

• O-Gî-Mäw-Kwě Mit-i-Gwä-Kî (Queen of the Woods); Also, Brief Sketch of the Algaic Language (with a biography of the author by the publisher; Hartford, MI: C. H. Engle, 1899), by Simon Pokagon, contrib. by C. H. Engle (page images at HathiTrust)
• O-Gî-Mäw-Kwě Mit-i-Gwä-Kî (Queen of the Woods); Also, Brief Sketch of the Algaic Language (third edition, with a biography of the author by the publisher; Hartford, MI: C.H. Engle, 1901), by Simon Pokagon, contrib. by C. H. Engle (page images at HathiTrust)

• FOCUS/Midwest (partial serial archives)

• The Midland (partial serial archives)

• Archival Issues (full serial archives)
• The Midwestern Archivist (full serial archives)

• Shepherd of the Valley (partial serial archives)

• Hoosier Folklore (full serial archives)

• Hoosier Folklore (full serial archives)

• Cornhuskers, by Carl Sandburg
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • HTML at Michigan
• Mid-American Chants (New York and London: J. Lane, 1918), by Sherwood Anderson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• To Nebraska in 1857: A Diary of E. F. Beadle, by Erastus Flavel Beadle, contrib. by David L. Bristow (HTML at davidbristow.com)

• Bee-Breeding in the West (Cincinnati: E. Lucas, 1841), by Thomas Affleck (page images at Cornell)

• Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811 (second edition; London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1819), by John Bradbury, contrib. by Ramsay Crooks
  • HTML at xmission.com
  • page images in Germany
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• World's Cresset (partial serial archives)

• The Teacher-Friendly Guide to the Earth Science of the Midwestern US (Ithaca, NY: Paleontological Research Institution, 2014), ed. by Mark D. Lucas, Robert M. Ross, and Andrielle N. Swaby (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at teacherfriendlyguide.org)

• The Teacher-Friendly Guide to the Earth Science of the Midwestern US (Ithaca, NY: Paleontological Research Institution, 2014), ed. by Mark D. Lucas, Robert M. Ross, and Andrielle N. Swaby (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at teacherfriendlyguide.org)

• Alternative Field Crops Manual (illustrated HTML at Purdue)

• Fishes of the Middle West (Washington: G. P. O., 1943), by Rachel Carson (PDF at unl.edu)

• Fishes of the Middle West (Washington: G. P. O., 1943), by Rachel Carson (PDF at unl.edu)

• Field Guide to Freshwater Mussels of the Midwest (adapted for online presentation), by Kevin S. Cummings and Christine A. Mayer (illustrated HTML at Illinois)

• To Nebraska in 1857: A Diary of E. F. Beadle, by Erastus Flavel Beadle, contrib. by David L. Bristow (HTML at davidbristow.com)

• The Teacher-Friendly Guide to the Earth Science of the Midwestern US (Ithaca, NY: Paleontological Research Institution, 2014), ed. by Mark D. Lucas, Robert M. Ross, and Andrielle N. Swaby (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at teacherfriendlyguide.org)

• A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860-1930 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Jack S. Blocker (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Last of the Illinois, and a Sketch of the Pottawatomies (1870), by John Dean Caton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Treaty Between the United States of America and the Senecas, Mixed Senecas and Shawnees, Quapaws, Confederated Peorias, Kaskaskias, Weas, and Piankeshaws, Ottowas of Blanchard's Fork and Roche de Boeuf, and Certain Wyandottes: Concluded February 23, 1867; Ratification Advised With Amendments, June 18, 1868; Amendments Accepted September 1, 7, 8, and 15, 1868. Proclaimed October 14, 1868 (1868), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)

• Meearmeear Traditions (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1938), by C. C. Trowbridge, ed. by W. Vernon Kinietz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The National Decline of the Miami Indians (originally presented 1848; Indianapolis: Bowen-Merill Co., 1897), by John B. Dillon (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Appeal of the Pottowatomie Nation of Indians to the Congress of the United States (ca. 1868), by Potawatomi Tribe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Removal of the Pottawattomie Indians from Northern Indiana; Embracing Also a Brief Statement of the Indian Policy of the Government, and Other Historical Matter Relating to the Indian Question (Plymouth, IN: D. McDonald and Co., 1899), by Daniel McDonald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Last of the Illinois, and a Sketch of the Pottawatomies (1870), by John Dean Caton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memorial of the Chippeway, Pottawatomy and Ottawa Indians, of Walpole Island! Touching Their Claim of the Huron Reserve, Fighting, Bois Blanc, Turkey, and Point Au Pelee Islands (1869) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Western Jurist (partial serial archives)

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