Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made It

This is American history theydon’tteach you in class: Discover the “fascinating, funny” stories of the states that never were, from Texlahoma to West Florida (TheNew Yorker)

Everyone knows the fifty nifty united states—but what about the hundreds of other statehood proposals that never came to pass? Lost States is a tribute to such great unrealized dreams as West Florida, Texlahoma, Montezuma, Rough and Ready, and Yazoo. Some of these states came remarkably close to joining the Union. Others...