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States of Legend · The First Edition

Every state has a legend.

Three monumental illustrated hardcovers: the history of a nation, its lost treasures and folk heroes, and the things that still walk its back roads at night.

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Why we made these books

Long before there were highways, there were stories. Of men who rowed across a frozen river on Christmas night. Of gold that was found once and never again. Of things with red eyes that wait on bridges. We gathered them into three books worthy of the legends themselves.

States of Legend · Est. 2026
The Collection

Three books. One nation of legends.

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IThe history
AMERICA: Land of the Brave

AMERICA: Land of the Brave

People, battles, presidents and all fifty states, from the first ships to America at 250.

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IIThe wonder
The Lost Legends of America

The Lost Legends of America

Lost mines, tall tales, outlaws and mysteries, and the truth behind every one.

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IIIThe dark
Dark Legends of America

Dark Legends of America

Monsters, hauntings and curses, from the Pine Barrens to Mount St. Helens.

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Mothman on the girders of a bridge over the Ohio River in fog
Book III · Dark Legends of America

America gets older at night.

On November 15, 1966, two young couples driving past the old munitions bunkers outside Point Pleasant, West Virginia, saw something standing in their headlights. It was taller than a man. It had wings. Its eyes were red.

Every legend in Dark Legends of America comes with a date, a place and the first record of it. The hoaxes are labeled as hoaxes. The rest you'll have to decide for yourself.

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A woman in a black mourning veil standing in a dark Victorian hallway
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Some stories are only told after dark.

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An old prospector holding gold-laced quartz in a mine shaft by lantern light
Book II · The Lost Legends of America

Gold that was found once. And never again.

When Jacob Waltz died in Phoenix in 1891, the old prospector the locals called the Dutchman left behind the story of a gold mine somewhere in the Superstition Mountains. People have been looking for it ever since.

The Lost Legends of America follows the treasures, tall tales, outlaws and mysteries that made the country, and for each one shows where the truth ends and the legend begins.

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…that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham LincolnGettysburg, Pennsylvania · November 19, 1863
Delegates around the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, 1776
Book I · AMERICA: Land of the Brave

The whole story. Told as it deserves.

Sixteen chapters, from Cahokia and Jamestown to the 250th Fourth of July. All 47 presidencies. Fifteen great battles. More than eighty Americans who built the nation, and all fifty states that make it.

Proud, never whitewashed, and checked fact by fact against the National Archives, the Library of Congress and the National Park Service.

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The First Edition

Built to fill a shelf, and a lifetime.

3
Illustrated hardcovers
760
Pages of history and legend
50
States, every one
47
Presidencies
The complete collection

All three legends. One shelf.

The history, the wonder and the dark, together. The Collector's Edition arrives in a black linen slipcase stamped in gold.

  • AMERICA: Land of the BraveHardcover · 280 pages
  • The Lost Legends of AmericaHardcover
  • Dark Legends of AmericaHardcover
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Add-ons

Complete the experience.

The Dark Legends Map of America · Art Print
The Dark Legends Map of America · Art Print

Where they are said to walk. A dark vintage-style map of the United States in bone-white ink on black, with the legends...

€34,00
Legend Bookmarks · Set of Three
Legend Bookmarks · Set of Three

Three engraved metal bookmarks with silk tassels, one for each book: the Eagle, the Watcher and the Rider. Made to live between...

€24,00
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Are the facts real?

Yes. Dates, places and quotations are checked against primary sources such as the National Archives, the Library of Congress, the National Park Service and state historical societies. Legends are presented as legends, and hoaxes are labeled as hoaxes.

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