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True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made it
Quirk Books
March 2010
On Sale: March 3, 2010
160 pages
ISBN: 1594744106
EAN: 9781594744105
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Everyone knows the fifty winners but what about the
hundreds of other statehood proposals that never worked
out? Lost States is a tribute to such great unrealized
states as West Florida, South California, Half-Breed
Tracts, Rough and Ready, and others. History buffs will be
entertained and enlightened by these bizarre-but-true
stories: Frontier legend Daniel Boone once proposed a state of
Transylvania on the borders of Indiana and Illinois. (His
plan was resurrected a few years later with the new name of
Kentucky.)
Residents of bucolic South Jersey wanted to secede from
their 'filthy' north Jersey neighbors and form their own
union.
The Gold Rush territory of Nataqua could have made a fine
state but since no women were willing to live there, they
had to settle for being part of California. Accompanying the stories are beautiful full-color original
maps detailing how these states' boundaries might have
looked, along with images of real-life artifacts and
ephemera. Lost States is a quirky reference book for
history buffs, geography geeks, and anyone who enjoys lush,
fascinating cartography.
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