Names on the Land : A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (Paperback)

from Hedgepeth

A very interesting account on how some of our locations were named.

from tuckerresearch

A brilliant, imaginative, and maddeningly informative book. Fun too. Stewart tells the story of how places all across the country got their name. Grand. From Indians to modern-day Americans, all nationalities and ethnicities are represented here, and on the face of the land. The stories range fro...

from tuckerresearch

A brilliant, imaginative, and maddeningly informative book. Fun too. Stewart tells the story of how places all across the country got their name. Grand. From Indians to modern-day Americans, all nationalities and ethnicities are represented here, and on the face of the land. The stories range fro...

from jjmachshev

"Names On The Land" by George R Stewart is a re-release of a book originally published in 1945. If you are a fan of language, history, or Americana, you will be fascinated and delighted by this read. Stewart (1895-1980) stated in his original forward that he wrote the book mostly due to his fasci...

from jemsw

Names on the Land isn't a book that sucks one in directly. The style of the first sections is so consciously epic that it becomes nearly laughable. But really, is there a better excuse for epic style than the naming of a new land? Stewart seems to take the tone of the first explorers and colonist...