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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