Travels Into Our Past
Subtitle: America's Living History Museums & Historical Sites
By: Wayne P. and Carla Lee Anderson
Contributors: Anderson, Carla Lee, author
Publisher: AKA-Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Columbia, Missouri
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781936688623
Subjects: Historical museums; Guidebooks; Historic sites; Museums
Description: When you delve into the pages of this book, you'll find yourself on an investigation of your ancestors' legacy on the different farms at Old World Wisconsin, each originally settled by a Norwegian, Dane, German, Pole, Finn, and a rich Yankee. Discover the Arabia Steamboat Museum near Kansas City and learn the unusual story of the ship which sank in the Missouri River in 1856. Because of one of the many course changes of the "Big Muddy," the Arabia was later found buried deep in a farmer's field and was excavated with its cargo, a virtual "floating Wal-Mart." In Fort Smith, Arkansas, you'll read read of a fire that became known as "the night of the lingerie parade."
Notes: Volume One"--Cover.