Full name: Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made It

Author: Michael J. Trinklein Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Humor, Historical fiction, Travel Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781594744105 1594744106

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! Similar books: How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein How the States Got Their Shapes Too by Mark Stein Measuring America by Andro Linklater The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester I Wish I'd Been There by Byron Hollinshead These Truths by Jill Lepore Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History by Richard Shenkman Lies Across America by James W. Loewen Don't Know Much About History by Kenneth C. Davis U.S. History For Dummies by Steve Wiegand If You Lived 100 Years Ago by Ann McGovern Enemies by Tim Weiner Pacific by Simon Winchester A Short History of the United States by Robert V. Remini Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen Made in America by Bill Bryson Holy Sh*t by Melissa Mohr Terry Jones' Barbarians by Terry Jones A Visitor's Companion to Tudor England by Suzannah Lipscomb Under Another Sky by Charlotte Higgins