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Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School Basketball Champions of the World
Most fans of women’s basketball would be startled to learn that girls’ teams were making their mark more than a century ago—and that none was more prominent than a team from an isolated Indian boarding school in Montana. Playing like “lambent flames” across the polished floors of dance halls, armories, and gymnasiums, the girls from Fort Shaw stormed the state to emerge as Montana’s first basketball champions. Taking their game to the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, these young women introduced an international audience to the fledgling game and returned home with a trophy declaring them champions. Champions of the World! |
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Still Shining - Discovering Lost Treasures from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair In Still Shining!, Diane Rademacher tracks down the present history and location of the 1904 World's Fair most beloved buildings and structures. Rademacher's book contains original pictures of famous structures and how they look today. |
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Inside the World's Fair of 1904: Exploring the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Vol. 1 & 2 With historical references and over 540 pictures, this is a comprehensive view of the World's Fair of 1904. The reader will see inside each building and concession from a perspective never experienced except by those who actually attended the fair. |
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Legacies of the St. Louis World's Fair This is a charming collection of articles about the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. Published in conjunction with the 1904 World's Fair Society, it includes some little known facts and historic photographs. |
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St. Louis: Then and Now This book on St. Louis combines historic interest and contemporary beauty. It features fascinating archival photographs contrasted with specially commissioned, full-color images of the same scene today. A visual lesson in the historic changes of our greatest urban landscapes. |
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Beyond the Ice Cream Cone "The Whole Scoop on Food at the 1904 World's Fair." You’ll learn little known stories about what people ate and drank at the Fair and how companies like Pillsbury, Heinz andJell-O tried to influence the fairgoer through food education and lots of free samples. |
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Inuit Entertainers in
the United States From the Chicago World's Fair through the Birth of Hollywood Jim Zwick's new book documents 30 years of Inuit involvement in American entertainment before the 1922 release of Nanook of the North. Inuit from Labrador and Alaska performed at world's fairs and expositions, with Barnum & Bailey's Circus, at dime museums, at amusement parks and in Hollywood movies during the silent film era. |
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Fair America: World's
Fairs in the United States Billed by their promoters as "encyclopedias of civilization" expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Illustrated with archival photographs of fair buildings, exhibits, and souvenirs, this book surveys 150 years of these dazzling, culturally revealing events. |
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The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 The Exposition honored the 400th anniversary of Columbus' voyage to America. Abundantly illustrated with historical photographs, this account tells of the fair's planning and construction and describes the exhibits, giving a sense of its extraordinary scale and the meaning it had for those who attended. |
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A World on Display 1904 : Photographs from the St. Louis World's Fair The Fair's organizers brought some 2,000 native people to St. Louis to take part in the most extensive anthropological exhibits ever assembled for a world's fair. The author has assembled seventy-five photographs of these "living exhibits" and explores what the photographs represented when they were made, how they were used and what significance they hold for viewers today. |
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St. Louis: The 1904 World's
Fair For seven months in 1904, St. Louis was the greatest city on earth. Millions flocked to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to behold the inventions of the early 20th century. St. Louis: The 1904 World's Fair 
tells the story of the greatest Victorian-era world’s
fair since the lights of the fair faded over a century ago,
while also examining the fair’s legacies and legends. |
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Celebrating the New World: Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 (The American Ways Series) "A lively survey of Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and how the Great Fair mirrored American values and tastes at the turn of the century." |
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World's Fairs and the
End of Progress: An Insider's View This book provides an overview of world's fairs at the turn of the millennium. It describes the nature of fairs, shows how they have evolved, and considers where our fairs may be headed. The author demonstrates how in varying degrees fairs have tried to cope with the progress/environment issue, and suggests how they (and by implication the society as a whole) can do a better job of it in the future. |
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