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

There have been many bizarre and true stories of states that almost made it into the union. The state of the union would not be a smaller fare if other states were created. Forgotten history as proposals from politicians to crackpots wanting to create their own states. Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made it is a farcical history based on truth.

Everyone knows the fifty winners but what about the hundreds of other statehood proposals that never worked out? Lost States is a tribute to such great unrealized states as West Florida, South California, Half-Breed Tracts, Rough and Ready, and others. History buffs will be entertained and enlightened by these bizarre-but-true stories:

Frontier legend Daniel Boone once proposed a state of Transylvania on the borders of Indiana and Illinois. (His plan was resurrected a few years later with the new name of Kentucky.)

Residents of bucolic South Jersey wanted to secede from their “filthy” north Jersey neighbors and form their own union.

The Gold Rush territory of Nataqua could have made a fine state . . . but since no women were willing to live there, they had to settle for being part of California.