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Hometown Revelations - How America's cities, towns, and states acquired their names
by Mark Usler
from DM Enterprises Inc.
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Interesting topic 
This is a pretty good book. Easy to read in one afternoon or while traveling down the road in the passenger seat.
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disappointing 
So often I felt that there was more to the story. In fact, in a couple of instances I KNEW there was more to the story. And there are so many curiously named cities that were completely ignored. Learning that yet another town was named after a person got to be boring after awhile. I got the impression that very little actual research was done.
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Light Hearted Read
Every one journeys down a road past a town with a funny or unusal name and thinks in the back of their mind how a community came up with such a name. This is a great book for answering some of those questions and might spark an interest in doing a little research on your own. You might be surprised how many people don't know how there hometown got it's name.
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Lightweight Fluffery
This publication reminds me of those publications you see at the counter of a Stuckey's checkout. I call it that because it's too slim to be an actual book. At 95 large-type pages its more like a thick pamphlet.
It reads like the author spent a few afternoons gleaming information from Wikipedia.com. There's no real scholarly research here and each entry is barely a paragraph long. Fine if you need something to read during a long car trip but otherwise totally unsatisfying.
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