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New Jersey Hessians
9781467118101
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During the American Revolution, Great Britain hired thirty thousand German troops to fight rebellious colonists. Five thousand of those troops marched across New Jersey from Princeton and Trenton all the way to the northern tip of Sussex County. Though popular legend would cast them as cold and vicious mercenaries, many were prisoners of war with little choice. Stories of their exploits still circulate in New Jersey, from the headless Hessian of the Morristown Swamp to the mysterious Ramapo Mountain people. Join author Pete Lubrecht as he navigates the myth of Hessian troops in New Jersey to separate fiction from fact.
Milwaukee Oddities
9781467155861
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Milwaukee is full of weird borders, streets that do not line up right, creepy cemeteries and other curious things.
Many locals have heard about the crooked bridges downtown, the sewer Socialists and the attempt on Teddy Roosevelt’s life. Not as many know about the time Josette Juneau saved Milwaukee, the city’s link to The Exorcist or its ghost towns like Oakwood, Saint Martin’s and Root Creek. And yes, a lion really lived inside the library. Employees used bowling balls to play fetch with it.
Milwaukee-based historian James Nelsen shares joyous and amazing stories of the Cream City’s strange history.
