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Don Rauf - Breaking History: Lost America: Vanished Civilizations, Abandoned Towns, and Roadside Attractions

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Breaking History books offer a front row seat to history as it broke (like breaking news) and give the blow-by-blow ofhistorical discoverywhat we learned, when we learned it, who made the discovery, and how. Lost America is an illustrated look at fascinating places in the United States that have existed only in myth and have never been found, those that were abandoned and why, and those that were lost to social upheaval or natural disaster.The book reviews the history behind these placeshow they began, how long they endured, why they were lost, and how many have been rediscovered. Included are accounts of the mysterious disappearance of the Anasazi from the Southwest, the abandonment of the Roanoke Colony in 1590, the environmental disaster that caused the population of Centralia, Pennsylvania to evacuate the town in the 1980s, and the nearly-intact ghost town of Bodie, California. The book also includes places that were thought to exist, but did notor not yet, anyway: legendary Norse settlements, lost cities of gold, and The Fountain of Youth.

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SECTION 1 LOST KINGDOMS OF EARLY AMERICA: THE MYTHICAL AND THE REAL

Cahokia: North Americas First Great City

Allen, David W. Israelite and Egyptian Connections to Ancient Earthworks near Newark, OH, USA. Its About Time. https://itsabouttimebook.com/newark-ohio-earthworks/

Berg, Emmett. The Lost City of Cahokia. Humanities. September/October 2004. https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2004/septemberoctober/feature/the-lost-city-cahokia

Gidwitz, Tom. Cities Upon Cities. Archaeology. July/August 2010. https://archive.archaeology.org/1007/abstracts/huasteca.html

Henderson, Harold. The Rise and the Fall of the Mound People. Chicago Reader. June 29, 2000. https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-mound-people/Content?oid=902673

Hodges, Glenn. Americas Forgotten City. National Geographic. January 2011. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2011/01/

Janus, Owen. Cahokia: North Americas First City. LiveScience. January 11, 2018. https://www.livescience.com/22737-cahokia.html

Pauketet, Timothy. Cahokia: Ancient Americas Great City on the Mississippi. New York: Penguin Library of American Indian History, 2010.

Paulson, Amanda. The Inca, Maya, and - Cahokian? The Christian Science Monitor. December 31, 2004. https://www.csmonitor.com/csm/contentmap/articles/2004-12-31

Seppa, Nathan. Metropolitan Life on the Mississippi. The Washington Post. March 12, 1997. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/march/12/cahokia.htm

Thornton, Richard. Who Build Cahokia. PeopleofoneFire.com. November 27, 2013. https://peopleofonefire.com/who-built-cahokia.html

Quivira and the Seven Golden Cities of Cibola

The Fountain of Youth

Coronados Journey Through New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu/about/staff/hartmann/coronado/coronadosjourney2.html

The Coronado Expedition. The Arizona Experience. http://arizonaexperience.org/remember/coronado-expedition

Francisco Vazquez de Coronado. History.com https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/francisco-vazquez-de-coronado

Juan Ponce de Len. Encyclopedia Brittanica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Juan-Ponce-de-Leon

Radioactive Fountain of Youth. RoadsideAmerica.com. June 17, 2018. https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/47431

Anderson, Sam. Searching for the Fountain of Youth. The New York Times. October 24, 2014. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/magazine/my-search-for-the-fountain-of-youth.html

Drye, Willie. Seven Cities of Cibola. National Geographic. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-and-history/archaeology/seven-cities-of-cibola/

Greenspan, Jesse. The Myth of Ponce de Leon and the Fountain of Youth. History.com. April 2, 2013. https://www.history.com/news/the-myth-of-ponce-de-leon-and-the-fountain-of-youth

ONeill, Natalie. Teen accidentally helps discover lost 16th-century civilization in Kansas. The New York Post. April 18, 2017. https://nypost.com/2017/04/18/teen-accidentally-helps-discover-lost-16th-century-civilization/

Sharp, Jay W. Coronado Expedition: From Cibola to Quivira.

DesertUSA. https://www.desertusa.com/desert-trails/coronado-expedition-quivira.html

Weiser, Kathy. The Kingdom of Quivira, Kansas. Legends of America. July 2018 http://www.legendsofkansas.com/quivira.html

Norumbega: The Viking City of New England

Humphrey Gilbert. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Humphrey-Gilbert

Browne, Patrick. Norumbega: Did the Vikings Beat the Pilgrims to Plymouth? Historical Digression. July 24, 2014. https://historicaldigression.com/tag/norumbega/

Holloway, April. Do Spirit Pond Inscriptions show that the Holy Grail was taken to North America? Ancient Origins: Reconstructing the Story of Humanitys Past. March 15, 2014. http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/do-spirit-pond-inscriptions-show-holy-grail-was-taken-north-america-001449

Lentini, Grace. The Great Narragansett Rune Stone Debate. SORhodeIsland.com. November 24, 2015. http://sorhodeisland.com/stories/The-Great-Rune-Stoen-Debate,17149

MacKay, Art. MYSTERIES: Can you find the lost city of Norumbega... Is it somewhere in New England? Medium. April 5, 2017. https://medium.com/@artmackay/mysteries-can-you-find-the-lost-city-of-norumbegais-it-somewhere-in-new-england-67c79fb01ecb

Ogbur, Charlton. The Longest Walk: David Ingrams Amazing Journey. American Heritage. April/May 1979. https://www.americanheritage.com/content/longest-walk-david-ingram%E2%80%99s-amazing-journey

Tooohey, John. The Long, Forgotten Walk of David Ingram. The Public Domain Review. https://publicdomainreview.org/2017/06/28/the-long-forgotten-walk-of-david-ingram/

Whitney. Emmie Bailey. The Lost City of Norumbega. American History and Genealogy Project. August 2011. http://www.ahgp.org/maine/lost-city-of-norumbega.html

Woodruff, Andy. Norumbega, New Englands lost city of riches and Vikings. Andy Woodruff Cartographer/Blog. May 24, 2010. http://andywoodruff.com/blog/norumbega-new-englands-lost-city-of-riches-and-vikings/

SECTION 2 ABANDONED AMERICA: COMMUNITIES THAT FLOURISHED AND FADED

The Vast Anasazi Civilization of the Southwest

The Anasazi. Northern Arizona University. http://dana.ucc.nau.edu

The Lost City. National Park Service. https://www.nps.gov/lake/learn/the-lost-city.htm

Native American Heritage. Scholastic. http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/research-starters/native_am/

Blinman, Eric. Anasazi Potter: Evolution of a Technology. Penn Museum/Expedition Magazine 35.1 (1993). https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/anasazi-pottery/

La Porte, John. Anasazi People Did Not Mysteriously Disappear. The Fort Morgan Times. May 14, 2010. http://www.fortmorgan-times.com/ci_15083924

Wiener, James. The Mysterious Ancient Puebloan Peoples (Anasazi). Ancient History Et Cetera. September 19, 2012. http://etc.ancient.eu/interviews/interview-the-ancient-anasazi-in-focus/

Roanoke: Americas First Colony

Evans, Phillip. Amadas and Barlowe Expedition. NCPedia. 2006. https://www.ncpedia.org/amadas-and-barlowe-expedition

Horn, James. A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. New York: Basic Books/Hachette, 2011.

Horn, James. Roanokes Lost Colony Found? American Heritage. Spring 2010. https://www.americanheritage.com/content/roanokes-lost-colony-found

Jones, Justin. What Happened to Roanokes Lost Colonists? Daily Beast. August 12, 2015. https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-happened-to-roanokes-lost-colonists

Tondu, Gerard. 1584 Amadas & Barlowe. U.S. Timeline. August 20, 2013. https://sites.google.com/site/atimelineofamerica/1584---amadas-barlowe

Wolfe, Brendan. The Roanoke Colonies. Encyclopedia Virginia. June 13, 2014. https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Roanoke_Colonies_The

Bodie: One of Americas Most Famous Ghost Towns

Bodie: A Ghostly Ghost Town. Legends of America. https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ca-bodie/3/

Madame Moustache-The poignant story of the fearless woman, known to be the best blackjack dealer in the Old West. Vintage News. February 8, 2016. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/02/08/madame-moustache/

Mono Mills. The Historical Marker Database. https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=50144

Al-Othman, Hannah. A real ghost town: Inside the abandoned Wild West community of Bodie which sprung up with the Gold Rush and died again just as quickly. DailyMail.com. November 4, 2016. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3905064/A-real-ghost-town-Inside-abandoned-Wild-West-community-Bodie-sprung-Gold-Rush-died-just-quickly.html

Hausladen, Gary. Western Places, American Myths: How We Think about the West

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