Hitting the military history trail
Subtitle: VFW's travel guide to battlefields, museums & historic sites
By: by Shannon L. W. Hanson.
Contributors: Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.
Publisher: Veterans of Foreign Wars
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Kansas City, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780974364339
Subjects: Battlefields -- United States -- Guidebooks.; Military parks -- United States -- Guidebooks.; Military museums -- United States -- Guidebooks.; Historic sites -- United States -- Guidebooks.; United States -- History, Military.
Genres: Guidebooks.
Other titles: Travel guide to battlefields, museums & historic sites; Veterans of Foreign Wars travel guide to battlefields, museums and historic sites
Description: Profiled are national parks and memorials, historic forts, Indian-settler conflict sites, military museums, homes of famous veterans [more than 900 sites are included].  The actions and events covered in this book span 400 years of history from the first fighting at Jamestown, Va., in May 1607, where our military traditions originated.
Notes: Originally published: VFW magazine, 15 part series, August 2003 through March 2006. Articles were reformatted, updated and expanded.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-182) and index.
Table of contents: title: Get moving; title: Alabama; title: Alaska; title: Arizona; title: Arkansas; title: California; title: Colorado; title: Connecticut; title: Delaware; title: Florida; title: Georgia; title: Hawaii; title: Idaho; title: Illinois; title: Indiana; title: Iowa; title: Kansas; title: Kentucky; title: Louisiana; title: Maine; title: Maryland; title: Massachusetts; title: Michigan; title: Minnesota; title: Mississippi; title: Missouri; title: Montana; title: Nebraska; title: Nevada; title: New Hampshire; title: New Jersey; title: New Mexico; title: New York; title: North Carolina; title: North Dakota; title: Ohio; title: Oklahoma; title: Oregon; title: Pennsylvania; title: Rhode Island; title: South Carolina; title: South Dakota; title: Tennessee; title: Texas; title: Utah; title: Vermont; title: Virginia; title: Washington; title: Washington, D.C.; title: West Virginia; title: Wisconsin; title: Wyoming; title: Canada; title: New Brunswick; title: Newfoundland/Labrador; title: Nova Scotia; title: Ontario; title: Quebec; title: Learn more; title: Find sites.