The Shelby County Historical Society is pleased to offer a variety of publications on various segments of Shelby County, Ohio's history. Written by local historians, these books tell the community's most interesting stories.
NOTE: Many of the authors of the listed books have
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Korn Field Revisited By: Judy Finkenbine Fisher
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This community history records the story of many small plane pilots who touched down at the Korn Flying Field amid the corn fields of Midwest Ohio in the mid-20th century. This Korn airfield, one of the first open in Ohio in 1910, was the research base and flight strip for the Early Bird aviator, Edward Korn, and plane designer-mechanic, Milton Korn. Both brothers contributed to early aviation’s advances in the 1907-1916 decade.
Subsequently, the Korn Field near Montra, Ohio, gained a reputation as the oldest operational airstrip in the first fifty years of Ohio aviation history. It was certainly the oldest one to remain in public use. The airfield’s length of survival is credited largely to the management of a younger brother, Arlington Korn, and his wife Marvel.
After World War II, many private airmen and local citizens gathered at the Korn Field. Some signed up for flight training; others converted from military to commercial pilots under the G.I. Bill. A number tied down their small planes at the airport. They shared the camaraderie as members of the Korn Field Pilots Club. Flying Farmers from the area checked out the countryside from above.
The Korn Field remained a significant hub until Arl’s death in 1957, influencing both aviation in the area and impacting on the lives and contribution of pilots who flew further afield. While the airfield was dismantled in 1968, the site continues to carry historical aviation importance within the Mid-West region.
Spiral Bound—115 pages
The Churches of Shelby County Past & Present - Second Edition 2022
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This second edition church directory is part of the 2019 Shelby County and 2020 Sidney Bicentennial Celebrations.
Faith has played an important role in the history and development of the county. The goal of this publication is to provide a listing and history of all current and former (bygone) churches in the area. Additional demographic information is also included.
This publication was made possible through the efforts of the following:
Steve and Peggy Baker
Creative Marketing Strategies
Shelby County Historical Society
Jane Bailey
Greg and Priscilla Wilt
Softbound
120 pages
Round Barns of America - 75 Icons of History By: Robert Kroeger
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Though rare, round barns are found from New Jersey to California and they provide a fascinating look into early America. Author and artist Robert Kroeger has captured 75 of these gems – spanning 32 states – in paintings and essays.
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192 pages
The Great Miami Valley Railroad Realignment Projects on the CH&D and Big Four Railroads in Shelby County
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As the 20th century opened, the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, on its important Cincinnati-Toledo main line found a problem at Sidney, Ohio, with a single-track railroad crossing the Miami River Valley.
Softbound 90 pages
The Churches of Shelby County Past and Present - 1st Edition
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This church directory is part of the 2019 Shelby County and 2020 Sidney Bicentennial celebrations.
Faith has played an important role in the history and development of the county. The goal of this publication is to provide a listing and history of all current and former (Bygone) churches in the area. Additional demographic information is also included.
This publication was made possible through the efforts of the following:
Steve and Peggy Baker, Creative Marketing Strategies, the Shelby County Historical Society, Jane Bailey, Greg and Priscilla Wilt-editors.
Softbound 108 pages
Tawawa Civic Park: A Historical Overview
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Tawawa Civic Park and the ctitzens behind all of its areas, bridges, trails, waterways and landmarks.
Research was taken from the City of Sidney Parks and Recreation website completed by Cheryl Michael and janet Ross in 2009 with additional contributions from Patrick Milligan and SCHS.
This book was compiled in 2018 for the Tawawa Park 70th Anniversary Celebration by the Shelby County Historical Society.
Softbound, 27 pages
And Through The Black Night of Terror: The 1913 Flood in the Northern Miami Valley
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In this dramatic volume discover the stories of destruction and death across a five county region during the Great Flood of 1913. Told are the stories of the rescues, tragic deaths, and the massive destruction across an entire region. Four men received the Carnegie medal for Heroism as a result of their efforts to aid in the rescue of flood victims, one of those men also having given his life. Entire families drowned, children were left without parents and parents left without children as the torrents raged throughout the night.
Read about a humanitarian effort to restore some sense of normalcy without government intervention. Creeks overflowed into rivers and rivers burst through levees, sweeping bridges away like toothpicks, lifting homes off their foundations, smashing them against bridge piers and reigning death to almost everyone caught on the torrents.
By Scott D. Trostel
Softbound, 188 pages
Historic Barns of Ohio
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From the glacier-flattened northwest to the Appalachian hills and valleys to the east and south, barns dot the Ohio landscape.
Built with wooden nails and mortise-and-tenon joints and assembled with beams hand-hewn from nearby trees, some of these magnificent structures have witnessed three centuries. Many display the unique carpentry of masterful barn builders, including “mystery” wooden spikes and tongue-and-groove two-inch flooring. Sadly, a number of these barns, neglected for years, risk crumbling any day.
Join artist and author Robert Kroeger on a trip to each of Ohio’s eighty-eight counties to view some of the state’s oldest and most historic barns before they’re gone.
By Robert Kroeger
Softbound, 206 pages
MIA, an untold story
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As a young girl, Jen, baby boomer and daughter of the Greatest Generation, often asked her father for stories of his experiences in WWII.
For his own reasons, her father was hesitant to share his recollections with her. So the mystery remained until after Harold Boyer passed in November of 2000. Then, quite unexpectedly, a number of events occurred which would lead the author to his stories and her answers. Jen’s daughter, Brittany, discovered declassified information on the internet regarding Harold’s experiences, his letters from 1940-1946 were found in the family’s attic, and finally, Jen made a pilgrimage to Europe to discover many places and people that had been part of Harold’s MIA experience.
This book is a daughter’s labor of love to make known her father’s untold story.
By Jen Martz
About the author:
Jen Martz lives in Anna, Ohio with her husband, Mike. They have a family of 5 children and 11 grandchildren. Jen graduated Magna Cum Laude from Wright State University, Dayton, OH earning a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music education with a concentration in piano. She retired from teaching in the Sidney City School system after 30 years.
In her retirement she enjoys traveling, reading, writing, piano teaching, and playing the organ for her local church.
Jen dedicated this WWII biography of her father’s MIA experience to all veterans held in captivity as MIA or POW. May they all live or rest in peace.
93 pages, Soft Bound
L’Archevéque
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North America was divided. The French and British battled over land and trade. Men judged and condemned others based on religion, race, and nationality. Yet, many brave individuals headed west in hopes of making their fortune in the fur trade. One such man was Paul L’Archevéque. Determined to succeed in the French fur trade, he abandoned the comforts of home for the wild frontier. His life was often interrupted by hardship and tragedy. Difficult sacrifices were made for the sake of survival. Still, Paul L’Archevéque remained a true frontiersman who led his life through his own daring and rugged individualism. L’Archevéque is a compelling novel based on a true story. Paul L’Archevéque was a real person and much of this book is based on real events from history.
By: William Allen Larsh
192 pages, Soft Bound
Fiction
Lois Lenski: Storycatcher
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For generations of children, including a young Oprah Winfrey, opening a Lois Lenski book has meant opening a world. This was just what the author wanted: to help children “see beyond the rim of their own world.”
In Lois Lenski: Storycatcher, historian and educator Bobbie Malone takes us into Lenski’s own world to tell the story of how a girl from a small Ohio town became a beloved literary icon.
Author and illustrator of the Newbery Award-winning Strawberry Girl and numerous other tales of children from America’s diverse regions and cultures, Lenski spent five decades creating stories for young readers. Lois Lenski: Storycatcher follows her development as a writer and as an artist, and it traces the evolution of her passionate belief in the power of empathy conveyed in children’s books. Understanding that youngsters responded instinctively to narratives rich in reality, Lenski turned her extensive study of hardworking families into books that accurately and movingly depicted the lives of the children of a sharecroppers, coal miners, and migrant field workers. Linski’s books mirrored the cultural energy and concerns of the times.
This first full-length biography tells how Lenski traveled throughout the country, gathering the stories that brought the life in words and pictures whole worlds that had for so long been invisible in children’s literature. In the process, her work became a source of delight, inspiration, and insight for generations of readers.
By: Bobbie Malone
323 Pages,
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PASSAGES II: An Oncore Anthology of Shelby County History
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In 2013, Albert Dickas published Passages, An Anthology of Shelby County History, a compilation of fifty articles that he had written over a ten-year period for Historical Highlights, the newsletter published by the Shelby County (Ohio) Historical Society. In updating and preparing his articles for that book, Dickas realized that there were other stories, as yet unwritten, that would serve to create a more accurate and comprehensive narrative of the history of Sidney and Shelby County.
Another year of research and writing has resulted in this volume, a companion to the first that both enhances the information in the original volume and introduces entirely new subjects.
While the volumes stand alone, they are complementary in the best sense of that word. The author is quick to point out that in more than one case, it is the interest of a reader, or a story he or she may have shared that has provided impetus for this work.
Dickas’ childhood in Sidney, his professional career as a geophysicist and university professor and his abiding interests in history together create the nexus of enthusiasm from which this work springs.
By: Albert Binkley Dickas, Ph. D.
Softbound 231 pages
PASSAGES: An Anthology of Shelby County History
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In November 2001, Albert Dickas received his first issue of Historical Highlights, the newsletter published by the Shelby County (Ohio) Historical Society. To his surprise, he found inside a story on I. H. Thedieck, a name he knew quite well, for two reasons. First, having been a lifelong student of history and also a native of Shelby County, he was quite familiar with the contributions Mr. Thedieck had made to the local community. Second, sitting on a shelf next to his desk as he read was a shaving mug he had inherited, and on it was Mr. Thedieck's name -- a testimony both to the gentleman's position in Sidney and to the profession of Dickas' forbears as prominent owners of local barber shops.
Aware that the mug might be of interest to other local historians, Dickas called the newsletter editor, who encouraged him to write his own account of the mug and its owner. A dozen years and 50 stories followed.
This book is a compilation of those stories, each of which relates to the years Dickas spent growing up in Shelby County, and at the same time captures his other interests as a professional geophysicist, an enthusiastic historian, and an admirer of community leaders, and a natural story teller.
By: Albert Binkley Dickas, Ph. D.
Softbound 437 pages
101 American GEO-SITES You’ve Gotta See - A Tourism Book
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Rocks racing across a lakebed in Death Valley. Perfectly preserved 36-million-year-old tsetse flies in Colorado. Dinosaur track-ways cemented into ancient floodplains in Connecticut. A gaping rift in the Idaho desert. What do these enigmatic geologic phenomena have in common? Besides initiating a profusion of head-scratching over the years, these sites of geologic wonder appear side by side, for the first time, in a single publication.
Examining in detail at least one amazing site for all fifty states, Albert Dickas clearly explains the geologic forced behind each one’s origin in 101 American Geo-Sites You’ve Gotta See. Dickas discusses not only iconic landforms such as Devil’s Tower in Wyoming but also locals that are often overlooked yet have fascinating stories. Consider the Reel-foot scarp in Tennessee: to the casual observer it is nothing more than a slight rise in a farm field. Yet this subtle slope represents a rift formed during an 1812 earthquake that forced the mighty Mississippi to flow upstream. Or Louisiana’s unassuming, low-lying Avery Island, which actually caps an 8.5-mile-high column of salt. Amply illustrated with full-color photographs and illustrations and written in clear yet playful prose, 101 American Geo-Sites You’ve Gotta See will entertain and inform amateur and seasoned geology buffs whether from an armchair or in the field.
By Albert Dickas
Softbound 264 pages, 176 Color Photographs, 151 Color Illustrations,
The Eclectic Pen of William Binkley
William Binkley was the editor of The Sidney Journal from 1869 - 1905. He used the power of his pen to influence the direction and character of this community for over 35 years. This book, written by his great-grandson, Albert Dickas, captures the essential qualities and life story of one of Sidney's most influential leaders.
By Albert Dickas
It is soft bound and contains 431 pages.
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Laura's Children -
The Hidden Story of a Chinese Orphanage
Laura Richards, who graduated from Sidney High School in 1911, went on to earn a nursing degree and then became a missionary in China. It was there that she opened an orphanage in a remote North China village in 1929 and took in homeless and handicapped babies and children. Despite famines, invasions and wars she saved the lives of nearly 200 destitute children. This is her story.
This soft bound book, written by Becky Cerling Powers, has 368 pages.
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Ohio Rocks!: A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Buckeye State
Ohio was born billions of years ago, during a time when ancient mini-continents crystallized and merged into larger continents. Its youth was marked by the coming and going of oceans and the advent of life. The Buckeye State matured when ice sheets scoured its landscape. This storyline is writ large and small in Ohio’s rocks, from its flat till plains to the rumpled and hollowed landscape of the Appalachian Plateau.
In Ohio Rocks!, skilled writer and geologist Albert Dickas takes you to some of the state’s most interesting geologic chapters. At Blackhand Gorge the sandy deposits of ancient sea where cut and sculpted by glacial melt-water. In Scioto County you can trace the margins of a ghost river. And you can visit the historic Buckeye Furnace, which produced enough pig iron to make Ohio an industrial giant. Ohio Rocks! is the third book in the state-by-state Geology Rocks! series, which introduces readers to some of the most compelling and accessible geologic sites in each state.
This soft-bound book contains 133 pages.
By Albert B. Dickas, Ph.D.
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History Cloaked in Mystery
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In the of Spring of 2010, the Shelby County Historical Society Youth Committee challenged the students of Shelby County to research local history. They were to create a short story with facts from history combined with an exciting “ghostly” premise. The result is this collection of original stories written by nineteen Shelby County students chosen from over 80 entries.
In this book will learn about events such as the sad story of three-year-old Evelyn Wyford, who died at the hands of her adoptive mother and about the terrible accidents while building the Big Four Bridge.
This soft cover, 108 page book, includes 19 stories written by Shelby County middle and high school students.
Voices From the Past - Volume II
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292 page hardbound volume.
Researched/Written by Rich Wallace, 2003
Volume II of "Voices From the Past" allows the reader to continue the journey through Shelby County history and unravel her mysteries. From Civil War heroes to local men who fought on the sands to Iwo Jima, at Tarawa and In Vietnam.
Learn about the colorful and controversial history of the courtsquare, Sidney's baseball legends and the downtown band tradition that began in the 1860s and continues today.
For years, Rich Wallace, prominent Sidney attorney and local historian, has been entertaining and educating county residents with his regular feature articles in the Sidney Daily News.
"Voices From the Past - Volume II" is a sequel to the author's 2001 publication, Voices From the Past" , which is in its second printing. Photographs and illustrations accompany each article, adding to the stories which come alive between the pages.
Voices From the Past - Volume I - Adventures in Shelby County History
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272 Pages with photos, soft bound. Researched/Written by Rich Wallace
History is best understood by reliving the events through those who helped create it. Voices From The Past takes the reader on a journey through a series of fascinating and unique adventures that highlight the history of Shelby County.
Sturdy Pioneers carved a community out of what was only wilderness in the 1820s. Stories will introduce you to some of the men and women who survived Indian attacks, built the canal, and began the cultural diversity that we enjoy today.
In Voices From The Past you will meet the local heroes of our nation's wars. President Lincoln's last surviving bodyguard lived here. Tales about Andersonville, the infamous Civil War prison camp, will be told by the only Shelby County soldier to survive its horrors. Learn how the 1864 Democratic candidate for Vice-President of the United States was almost assassinated in Sidney.
Shelby County's great institutions and landmarks all have a fascinating history. Discover what inspired the building of Children's home, Monumental Building, the Big Four Bridge and Bonnyconnellan Castle.
Is there a man buried in the Big Four Bridge? Did the Cincinnati Reds really play baseball games in Sidney? Who was the person who designed the controversial agnostic monument in Graceland Cemetery? Was the father of astronomy in America really born here? Whatever happened to Sidney's world champion boxer?
Voices From The Past will lead you on these and other adventures in Shelby County History.
The Miami & Erie Canal in Shelby County
64 pages. Researched/Written by Rich Wallace, 1999
The history of the Miami & Erie Canal in Shelby County, Ohio, from construction starting in the mid-1830’s to its nearly total washout in the 1913 flood, is now available to the public in a new book published by the Shelby County Historical Society.
Rich Wallace, president of the society, is the author of "The Miami & Erie Canal in Shelby County," the first of eight books on local history planned by the historical group.
This book is the first to document the building and use of the canal in Shelby County, Ohio, is fully illustrated with pictures of canal boats, locks, maps, equipment diagrams, newspaper clippings, and documents relating to the canal days. Parts of the canal were used for almost 100 years.
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The Grandpa Ride: 107 More Farm Tales of Shelby County, Ohio
Written and researched by Jim Sayre, 2002
Illustrations by Allan B. Allen
This is Jim Sayre's second book about farm stories from Shelby County. The book contains personal accounts of the rural people of our county by telling short stories that are part of our history and culture.
246 pages, softbound
Jim Sayre was the past editor of the newsletter for the historical society, Historical Highlights, and was a regular contributor to the Sidney Daily News. He was a 2002 recipient of the "Individual Achievement Award" from the Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums and the author of Farm Tales, A History of Agriculture in Shelby County.
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Treasure Chest Series: Our Civil War Heroes
Written by Linda DeVelvis,2003
Illustrated by David Dorsey, Front cover by Herman Thompson
This is the second book in The Treasure Chest Series and focuses on stories about the contributions of Shelby County men to the Civil War. Jimmy and Sally also learn about their father's life growing up on a farm.
30 pages, softbound
Linda DeVelvis is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Shelby County Historical Society and is a member of the Society's youth committee. She taught history at Sidney Middle School and Sidney High School and is known for her portrayals of historical characters.
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Treasure Chest Series: Kings and Castles
Written by Linda DeVelvis,2004
Illustrated by David Dorsey, Front cover by Herman Thompson
This is the third in The Treasure Chest Series, written by Linda DeVelvis. In this 22 page softbound book, Jimmy and Sally learn about the men who built castles in Sidney and the business leaders that shaped Sidney’s industrial past.
22 pages, softbound
Linda DeVelvis is a life-long Sidney resident and she taught history at Sidney Middle School and Sidney High School and is known for her portrayals of historical characters.
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Treasure Chest Series: A Walk Around the Clock
Written by Linda DeVelvis, 2005
Illustrated by David Dorsey, Front cover by Herman Thompson
This is the fourth and last book in The Treasure Chest Series for children about the history of Shelby County. In this book Jimmy and Sally learn about their great-grandmother's life growing up in Sidney during the Great Depression and learn about the history of some of the buildings that surround our courthouse.
26 pages, softbound
Linda DeVelvis is a life-long Sidney resident and she taught history at Sidney Middle School and Sidney High School and is known for her portrayals of historical characters.
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The History of Shelby County Villages
Researched/Written by various Shelby County historians
48 pages, softbound
This brochure was compiled for the purpose of preserving a history of the many communities of Shelby County, Ohio. Some of these villages are long gone and remain only in history books, but they were an essential part of the growth of our county.
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Civil War Women: They Made a Difference
By: Cynthia Vogel
In the popularity of the Civil War, historical focus has been upon the battles, military strategy and its outcome. This book explores a critical social turning point for American Women at the time. This book explores 78 women who played a critical role in the anti-slavery movement, the underground railroad, education, medicine, nursing and various roles in the military and on the battle fields. They were black and white, rich and poor, but their beliefs and commitment made a difference. At no other time in American history were women’s lives so dramatically changed as during the Civil War. Women primarily out of necessity, became more independent, self-sufficient, and confident in their abilities and their role in American society.
This book reveals many of those women and how they played an enormous part in the social change. With the men leaving their homes to volunteer for the cause, the women were left behind to carry out the men’s duties on the home front. Others stepped forward in leading social reformation roles. They were determined, defiant, and focused on issues that had plagued a young nation since its founding.
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A River Adventure Father and Son
By: Eric Kindig
The beauty of a winding river beckons many but few answer the call. Join a father and son team as they tackle the challenges of the Great Miami River, the Ohio River, and mother nature to the confluence of the Mississippi. Find out how a small craft travelling on big rivers carries them into adventure, survival and lasting memories.
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Prepared to WIN The 1977-2008 Boys State Tournament Basketball Coaches of West Central Ohio
By Amy Zorn
Fourteen high school basketball coaches representing two of Ohio’s most successful athletic leagues have experienced the excitement of a state tournament. They describe here the reasons for that success, the regimen that builds a competitive program, and the myriad pieces that must fall into place in order for a team to have a chance to take the floor in Columbus.
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Love Happily Ever After
By: Victoria M. Lowery
How old do you have to be to understand love? School does not teach the FOUR R’s: Reading, writing, arithmetic and RELATIONSHIPS. No one enters marriage desiring divorce and no one enters a relationship desiring heartache. Who you commit to is arguably THE most important decision in life yet there is zero training for it and with 50% of first marriages ending in divorce, reality only writes the happy ending half lf the time. These are the very same odds as the random toss of a coin!
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Village of Botkins, Ohio Founder’s Day Celebration 1858-2008
The early history of Botkins, as told in history books and related by Botkins residents both current and no longer with us, paints a colorful portrait. Within this small booklet we have covered only the highlights, as we know them, describing the role of religion, school, business, community and services. Due to limited space, any omissions or oversights remain unintentional, and we welcome comments and suggestions for future publications, especially written, pictorial or copied from an original source to be used as future reference of the history of our village.
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Heart of a Warrior
The True Saga of Sweet Breeze and William Wells
By: Joe Krom
In “Heart of a Warrior” you will experience the frontier from the viewpoint of Sweet Breeze, the daughter of the acclaimed Miami Chief Little Turtle, and her husband William Wells. Known as Wild Carrot, William was raised in tribal villages after having been taken captive during his youth. You will follow his adventures as a Miami warrior, as a piece negotiator, as a scout for General Anthony Wayne, and finally as a government agent. Sweet Breeze and William are thrust into every significant event of the frontier. They ply the rivers of the Northwest Territory seeking their destiny.
You will witness LaBalme’s Defeat, Harmar’s Defeat, Wilkinson’s Raid on Eel Town, St. Clair’s Defeat, the Battle of Fort Recovery, the Battle of Fallen Timbers, the Battle of Tippecanoe, the Fort Dearborn Massacre, the sieges of Fort Wayne and Fort Harrison, expeditions against Turtle Town and Elkhart villages, and the Battle of the Mississinewa. You will sit on a war and peace councils of the Miami, Shawnee, Deleware, Pottawatomie, and their allies. You will attend Rufus Putnam’s Vincennes Treaty of 1792, Wayne’s Trety of Greenville, and William Henry Harrison’s several treaties including Fort Wayne 1803 and Grouseland 1805.
A clash of two cultures confronts Sweet Breeze and William Wells with choices to be made, sometimes enthusiastically, sometimes reluctantly. Together they embody the Miami tribe’s resistance to American’s pressing upon their lands.
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The Odyssey of the Blue Swan
By: Alwyn A. Carder
The setting for this anthology of many stories is along the towpaths of the Miami and Erie Canal in western Ohio near the Indiana border in general, but the New Bremen, “Old Brementown,” in particular. The beautiful Blue Swan packed show barge from the canals of Europe was the property of the unusual Gast family whose forebears had come to Western Ohio from Alsace near old Strasbourg. The Swan barge changed the lives of many of the staid and conservative local towpath people in Brementown, but it definitely changed the loves of the Gast and Kattmann families and nearly all the people its voyages touched.
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Wilderness to Prosperity - A History of Shelby County Prepared especially for the Shelby County Sesquicentennial (1819-1820 1969-1970)
Compiled and written by: John B. Scott
A brief history of Shelby County, Ohio. Prepared especially for the Shelby County Sesquicentennial (1819-1820 1969-1970)
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