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  Robinson, Peter. “Why the Wright Brothers Came to Kitty Hawk.” at http://www.nc-climate.ncsu.edu/flight/.

  Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company Web site, at http://www.first-to-fly.com.

  NORTH DAKOTA

  Hornaday, William T. The Extermination of the American Bison. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.

  Lott, Dale F. American Bison: A Natural History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

  OHIO

  “John Herschel Glenn, Jr.,” at http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/glenn-j.html.

  “Neil A. Armstrong,” at http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/armstrong-na.html.

  Newcott, William R. “John Glenn: Man with a Mission.” National Geographic, June 1999.

  Pyle, Rod. Destination Moon: The Apollo Missions in the Astronauts’ Own Words. New York: Collins, 2005.

  Sparrow, Giles. Spaceflight: The Complete Story from Sputnik to Shuttle—and Beyond. New York: DK Publishing, 2007.

  OKLAHOMA

  Maxwell, Amos. “The Sequoyah Convention, Parts I and II.” Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol. 28, Nos. 2 and 3 (1950): 161–192, 299–340.

  Mullin, Jeff. “Quarter Design Shortchanges Oklahoma.” Enid Eagle, May 23, 2007.

  Nesbitt, Paul. “Governor Haskell Tells of Two Conventions.” Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol. 14, No. 2 (1936): 189–217.

  Office of the Governor. “Gov. Henry Announces Design of State Commemorative Quarter,” at http://www.ok.gov/governor/display_article.php?article_id=927&article_type=1&print=true.

  “Pioneer Woman Not to Appear on State Quarter With or Without Book.” Tulsa World, April 30, 2007.

  “Why Is the Pioneer Woman’s Bible Not on the Quarter?” Tulsa World, April 26, 2007.

  OREGON

  “Crater Lake National Park: Park History,”at http://www.nps.gov/archive/crla/crlacr.htm.

  Crater Lake National Park Web site, at http://www.nps.gov/crla.

  Haines, Aubrey L. Yellowstone National Park: Its Exploration and Establishment. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1974.

  Office of the Governor. “Governor Kulongoski Announces Oregon Commemorative Quarter Design,” at http://www.oregon.gov/Gov/quarter.shtml#drafts.

  Unrau, Harlan D. “Crater Lake National Park Administrative History,” at http://www.nps.gov/archive/crla/adhi/adhi.htm.

  “The Yellowstone Expedition.” New York Times, September 18, 1871.

  PENNSYLVANIA

  Ferling, John E. Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

  Gnazzo, Lucy. Phone interview with author, June 7, 2007.

  McCullough, David. John Adams. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001.

  Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee. “History,” at http://cpc.state.pa.us/main/cpcweb/history/index.html.

  Rosenfeld, Richard N. American Aurora. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1998. Waddell, Louis. E-mail correspondence with author, July 18, 2005.

  RHODE ISLAND

  “America’s Cup History,” at http://www.sportsline.com/sailing/americascup/history.

  America’s Cup Web site, at http://www.americascup.com/en.

  Herreshoff Marine Museum Web site, at http://00002vw.previewcoxhosting.com/Tops/index.htm.

  Thompson, Tim. The Story of the America’s Cup: 1851–2000. Los Angeles: Warwick, 2000.

  SOUTH CAROLINA

  Fort Moultrie Web site, at http://www.nps.gov/fosu/historyculture/fort_moultrie.htm.

  Fortescue, John W. The War of Independence: The British Army in North America, 1775–1783. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001.

  Kaufmann, H. W. Fortress America: The Forts That Defended America, 1600 to the Present. New York: Da Capo Press, 2004.

  South Carolina Historical Society. “Carolina Day,” at http://www.southcarolinahistoricalsociety.org/wire/RevWar/CarolinaDay/bdesc.html.

  United States Department of Agriculture. “Sabal Palmetto,” at http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SAPA.

  Ward, Harry M. “Moultrie, William,” at http://www.anb.org/articles/01/01–00640.html; American National Biography Online (February 2000).

  Wood, W. J. Battles of the Revolutionary War. New York: Da Capo Press, 2003.

  SOUTH DAKOTA

  Daly, Dan. “U.S. Mint Director to Unveil S.D. Quarter.” Rapid City Journal, November 11, 2006.

  Mount Rushmore National Memorial Web site, at http://www.nps.gov/moru.

  Smith, Rex A. The Carving of Mount Rushmore. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985.

  Taliaferro, John. Great White Fathers: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mount Rushmore. New York: PublicAffairs, 2002.

  TENNESSEE

  “The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” Public Broadcasting System, at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carterfamily.

  Kosser, Michael. How Nashville Became Music City U.S.A.: Fifty Years of Music Row. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard, 2006.

  McKee, Margaret. Beale Black and Blue: Life and Music on Black America’s Main Street. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.

  “Music,” The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, at http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/showcat.php?cat=Music&dcat=Music.

  TEXAS

  Dobie, J. Frank. Up the Trail from Texas. New York: Random House, 1955.

  Handbook of Texas Online, at http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online.

  Worchester, Donald E. The Chisholm Trail: High Road of the Cattle Kingdom. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1980.

  UTAH

  Ambrose, Stephen E. Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000.

  Public Broadcasting System. “The West. Episode 5: The Grandest Enterprise Under God,” at http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/five.

  Utley, Robert M., and Francis A. Ketterson, Jr. Golden Spike: National Historic Site, Utah. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1969.

  VERMONT

  Belluck, Pam. “Warming Trends: Warm Winters Upset Rhythms of Maple Sugar.” New York Times, March 3, 2007.

  Marsh, Rick. E-mail correspondence with author, June 13, 2007.

  “Vermont Maple Sugar Makers’ Association and Vermont Maple Foundation,” at http://www.vermontmaple.org.

  VIRGINIA

  Historic Jamestowne Web site, at http://www.nps.gov/jame/index.html.

  Hoobler, Dorothy. Captain John Smith: Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream. Hoboken, NJ: Thomas Wiley and Sons, 2006.

  Price, David. Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation. New York: Knopf, 2003.

  Woolley, Benjamin. Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.

  WASHINGTON

  Green, Sara Jean. “Washington Quarter Makes Debut.” Seattle Times, April 12, 2007.

  Jones, Tricia. “State of Change.” Columbia, May 21, 2007.

  Meeker, Ezra. The Tragedy of Leschi. Everett, WA: The Printers, 1980.

  The Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History, at http://www.historylink.org/This_week/index.cfm.

  Remarks of Representative Jim McDermott at Washington State Quarter Unveiling, at http://www.house.gov/mcdermott/sp070411.shtml.

  WEST VIRGINIA

  “Bridge Day,” at http://www.officialbridgeday.com.

  Keenan, Steve. “Bridge Day BASE Jump Accident Report Released.” Register-Herald, April 10, 2007.

  “New River Gorge Bridge,” at http://www.nps.gov/neri/planyourvisit/nrgbridge.htm.

  Outside Magazine Online. “Legendary BASE Jumper Dies at West Virginia Bridge Day Event” (October 24, 2006), at http://outside.away.com/outside/news/20061024_1.html.

  WISCONSIN

  “Cheese.” In “Cheesemaking in Wisconsin,” Dictionary of Wisconsin History, at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org.

  Heller, Patrick. E-mail correspondence with author, July 16,
2007.

  “Wisconsin Commemorative Quarter,” at http://www.wdfi.org/newsroom/wi_quarter.

  WYOMING

  Massie, Michael A. “Reform Is Where You Find It,” at http://wyoarchives.state.wy.us/articles/massie/page1.htm.

  “Wyoming Unveils Quarter This Fall.” Jackson Hole Star Tribune, June 13, 2007.

  INDEX

  Adams, John

  Alabama

  Alapai, King

  Alaska

  Aldrin, Edwin “Buzz,”

  Ambrose, Stephen

  American Prairie Foundation (APF)

  American Revolution

  America’s Cup

  Anderson, Michael P./family

  Andros, Sir Edmund

  Apollo I disaster

  Arizona

  Arkansas

  Armes, George

  Armstrong, Neil

  Ashbury, James

  Astor, John Jacob

  Audubon, John James

  Aurora, Philadelphia newspaper

  Auto racing

  Bailey, Sarah

  Baldacci, John

  Banner, John C.

  Baring, Walter S.

  Barnes, Roy

  Barr, Charlie

  Barrett, James

  Bartholdi, Frederic-Auguste

  Bartram, William

  BASE jumping

  Basham, Wesley Oley

  Basler, Kathy

  Batchelder, Ernest

  Bayard, James A.

  Bears/attacks

  Behm, Kim

  Bell, Alexander Graham

  Bell, John

  Berckmans, Prosper J. A.

  Biagini, David

  Black, William M.

  Bloor, Mother Ella Reeve

  Blues music

  Boone, Daniel

  Borglum, Gutzon/Lincoln

  Brackett, Richard N.

  Breckinridge, John

  Bright, William H.

  Bronn, Joseph

  Brown, Benjamin

  Brown, David M.

  Brucellosis

  Buckley, Len

  Buffalo/bison

  Buffalo Soldiers

  Burke, Garrett

  Burr, Aaron

  Burros and horses/protection

  Bush, Jeb

  Butler, Ralph

  Cadwalader, John

  California

  Campbell, John A.

  Campbell, Lord William

  Carr, Daniel

  Carson, Kit

  Carter Family (musicians)

  Case, J. I.

  Cass, Lewis

  Castroneves, Helio

  Catesby, Mark

  Cattle drives

  Cellucci, Paul

  Chaffee, Roger

  Challenger mission/disaster

  Challis, Bill

  Chanute, Octave

  Charbonneau, Toussaint

  Charles II, King

  Charles S. Price (freighter)

  “Charter Oak,” Connecticut

  Chawla, Kalpana “K. C."/family

  Cheese industry

  Chimney Rock ("Elk Penis")

  Nebraska

  Chisholm, Jesse

  Chisholm Trail

  Churchill, John/Henry

  Civil War

  Clagett, William H.

  Clark, Laurel Blair Salton/family

  Clark, M. Lewis

  Clark, William

  Cleveland, Grover

  Clinton, Hillary

  Clinton, Sir Henry

  Cody, James

  Cody, William F. “Buffalo Bill,”

  Coleman, Edmond T.

  Collins, Darrel

  Collins, Michael

  Colorado

  Colter, John

  Columbia mission/disaster

  Commonwealth, Pennsylvania

  Connecticut

  Conover, C. T.

  Coolidge, Calvin

  Cornwallis, Lord

  Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de

  Corps of Discovery

  Corum, Bill

  Country music

  Crater Lake/National Park

  Crocker, Charles

  Currie, Nancy

  Cuthbert, Alexander

  Dairy industry

  Dalai Lama

  Daniels, John

  Davis, Gray

  Davis, Isaac (British sailor)

  Davis, Isaac (minuteman)

  Davis, Jefferson

  Dawes, William

  DDT/effects

  Dean, Howard

  Debs, Eugene

  DeGaeta, Paul

  Delaware

  Diamonds/diamond mining, Arkansas

  Doane, Gustavus C.

  Dodge, Granville

  Douglas, Stephen

  Doyle, Jim

  Drouillard, George

  Duane, William

  Dulles, Allen

  Duluth, Sieur

  Dunham, Issac

  Dunlap, Gary

  Dunn, William H.

  Duno, Milka

  Durant, Thomas

  Dutton, Clarence E.

  Easley, Michael F.

  Eiffel, Alexandre-Gustave

  Einstein, Albert

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  Endangered/extinct species

  Endangered Species (Preservation) Act

  Environmental Protection Agency

  U.S.

  Ethanol

  Ewing, James

  Eyck, Jan van

  Falcon, peregrine

  Featherston, Winfield S.

  Ferguson, Miriam “Ma,”

  Ferrell, Jim

  States Commemorative Coin Program Act/restrictions

  Files, Richard “Kip,”

  Fiser, John C.

  Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S.

  Fisher, Carl

  Fisher, Sarah

  Fishing, Minnesota

  Fittipaldi, Emerson

  Fitzpatrick, Thomas

  Flight

  “First Flight”/Wright brothers

  space flight/program

  Florida

  Floyd, Sergeant

  Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley

  Fore, Henrietta Holsman

  Fortescue, Sir John

  Foster, Stephen C.

  Foster, Mike, Jr.

  Franchitti, Dario

  Francis, Daniel

  Franklin, Aretha

  French, Daniel Chester

  Fur trade/industry

  Gagarin, Yuri

  Gage, Margaret

  Gage, Sir Thomas

  George III, King

  Georgia

  Gilmore, James, III

  Gist, Mordecai

  Glendening, Parris

  Glenn, John

  Glover, John

  Gnazzo, Lucy

  Gone with the Wind(Mitchell)

  Goodman, Frank

  Goodnight, Charles

  Grand Canyon

  Grand Ole Opry

  Granholm, Jennifer M.

  Grant, Ulysses S.

  Grattan, Emma

  Greaney, John

  Great Lakes

  Greene, Nathaniel

  Grissom, Virgil “Gus,”

  Guthrie, Janet

  Handy, W. C.

  Hanna, Marcus

  Harroun, Ray

  Haskell, Charles N.

  Hawaii

  Hayden, Ferdinand V.

  Hayes, Isaac

  Hedges, Cornelius

  Helen Keller ‘s Journal(Keller)

  Heller, Patrick

  Hennepin, Father

  Henry, Brad

  Herreshoff, Nathanael Greene

  Hillman, John W.

  Hodges, Jim

  Holden, Bob

  Holder, W. D.

  Hoover, Herbert

  Hornish, Sam, Jr.

  Horse racing

  Horses and burros/protection

  House Committee on Un-American

  Activities

  Howland, Oramel/Seneca

  Huckabee,
Mike

  Huddleston, John W.

  Hudson Bay Company

  Hunt, James B.

  Husband, Rick Douglas/family

  Huston, Joseph Miller

  Iacocca, Lee

  Idaho

  Illinois

  Independence vote (America)

  Indiana

  Indians

  buffalo and

  Buffalo Soldiers and

  Jamestown, Virginia and

  of Minnesota

  Oklahoma and

  Washington territory war/effects

  Industrial Workers of the World

  (IWW)

  Indy 500/Indianapolis Motor Speedway

  Iowa

  Jacks, Ariston

  Jackson, Paul

  James II, King

  Jamestown, Virginia

  Jarvis, Anna

  Jarvis, Gregory B./family

  Jasper, William

  Jazz music

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jironza, Domingo

  Johnson, Lyndon

  Johnson, Thomas

  Johnston, Charlie

  Johnston, Velma

  Jones, W. Andy

  Kahn, Stan

  Kalaniopuu, King

  Kamehameha I, King

  Kansas

  Kautz, August Valentine

  Keenan, Chris

  Keller, Helen

  Kelly, Gene

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kentucky

  Kentucky Derby/Churchill Downs

  “Keystone State” theories

  King, B. B.

  Kiwalao

  Klippel, Henry

  Krawczewicz, Bill

  Kulongoski, Ted

  Langford, Nathaniel P.

  Lazarus, Emma

  LeConte, Joseph

  Lee, Charles

  Lee, Robert E.

  Leete, Andrew

  L’Enfant, Pierre Charles

  Leschi, Nisqually chief

  Leutze, Emanuel

  Lewis, Meriwether

  Lewis, Oliver

  Lighthouses Act (1789)

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Lincoln Memorial

  Linenger, Jerry

  Lingle, Linda

  Linnehan, Richard

  Lipton, Sir Thomas

  Lopez, Garraa

  Louie, Jon

  Louisiana

  Louisiana Purchase

  Loving, Oliver

  Lyles, John M.

  Lynyrd Skynyrd

  MacKenzie, Alexander

  Magnol, Pierre

  Magnolias

 

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