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

By Michael J. Trinklein.

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

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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 fe...

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1594744106, 9781594744105

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