Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made It - Hardcover

Trinklein, Michael J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594744106 ISBN 13: 9781594744105

Publisher: Quirk Books, 2010

Synopsis

Everyone knows the fifty nifty united states—but what about the hundreds of other statehood proposals that never came to pass? Lost States is a tribute to such great unrealized dreams as West Florida, Texlahoma, Montezuma, Rough and Ready, and Yazoo. Some of these states came remarkably close to joining the Union. Others never had a chance. Many are still trying. Consider:
 
     ·  Frontier legend Daniel Boone once proposed a state of Transylvania in the Appalachian
        wilderness (his plan was resurrected a few years later with the new name of Kentucky).
     ·  Residents of bucolic South Jersey wanted to secede from their urban north Jersey
        neighbors and form the fifty-first state.
     ·  The Gold Rush territory of Nataqua could have made a fine state—but since no women
         were willing to live there, the settlers gave up and joined California.
 
Each story offers a fascinating glimpse at the nation we might have become—along with plenty of absurd characters, bureaucratic red tape, and political gamesmanship. Accompanying these tales are beautifully rendered maps detailing the proposed state boundaries, plus images of real-life artifacts and ephemera. Welcome to the world of Lost States!

About this title

About the Author:

Michael J. Trinklein wrote and produced the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary Pioneers of Television (2008), as well as The Gold Rush (1998) and The Oregon Trail (1993). His work has been consistently praised in the national media, including USA Today, Washington Post, Parade, Chicago Tribune, and the New York Times. He lives in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
About the Maps
Absaroka
Acadia
Adelsverein
Albania
Alberta and British Columbia
(Baja) Arizona
Boston
Charlotina
Chesapeake
Chicago
Chippewa
Comancheria
Cuba
Dakota
Deseret
England, et al.
Forgottonia
Franklin
Greenland
Guyana
Half-Breed Tracts
Hazard
Howland
Iceland
Jacinto
Jefferson
Lincoln
Long Island
Lost Dakota
Lower California
McDonald
Minnesota
Montezuma
Muskogee
Nataqua
Navajo
Navassa
New Connecticut
New Sweden
New York City
Newfoundland
Nickajack
No Man’s Land
North Slope
Panama
Philippines
Popham
Potomac
Puerto Rico
Rio Rico
Rough and Ready
Saipan
Sequoyah
Shasta
Sicily
Sonora
South California
South Florida
South Jersey
South Texas
State “X”
Superior
Sylvania
Taiwan
Texlahoma
Trans-Oconee
Transylvania
Vandalia
Washington
West Florida
West Kansas
Wyoming
Yazoo
Yucatan
Bibliography

About this edition

• Publisher: Quirk Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1594744106
• ISBN 13: 9781594744105
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160