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William Henry Rand (May 2, 1828 – June 20, 1915) was an American printer and co-founder of the Rand McNally publishing company. He was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, and as a young man was an apprentice at his brothers' print shop in Boston. He was enticed west in September 1849, by the California Gold Rush.
Rand McNally began publishing educational maps in 1880 with its first line of maps, globes, and geography textbooks, soon followed by a world atlas. The company began publishing general literature in 1884 with its first title, The Secret of Success, and the Textbook department was established in 1894 with The Rand McNally Primary School Geography.
Rand McNally Encyclopedia of World Rivers (1980), Rand McNally; Pitzl, Gerald R. (2004). Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-32010-1. Sachs, Moshe Y. Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. 7th ed., Wiley, 1988. [2] [9] Shapiro, William E. The Young People's Encyclopedia of the United States. Millbrook ...
Rand McNally Student Encyclopedia in Color. Rand McNally, 1972. [138] Rand McNally's Children's Encyclopedia. Rand McNally, 1977. [139] The Random House Children's Encyclopedia. Troll Associates. 1991. [140] Random House Electronic Encyclopedia. SelecTronics. 1990. [141] The Random House Encyclopedia. Random House. 1977. [142]
He had coined the term to refer to small, forgotten, out-of-the-way roads connecting rural America, which were drawn in blue on the Rand McNally road atlases of the time. He outfitted his van with a bunk, a camping stove, a portable toilet and a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks.
A printer by trade, he moved to Chicago in 1858 and got a job in a print shop owned by William H. Rand at a wage of $9 per week. In 1873, McNally and William H. Rand incorporated Rand, McNally & Co. With William H. Rand as President and McNally as Vice President. [2] Rand, McNally & Co. becoming one of the largest and best-known map publishers ...
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William Least Heat-Moon Papers at the University of Missouri Libraries Special Collections and Rare Books. 1983, 1984, 1991 Real Audio interviews with William Least Heat-Moon at Wired for Books.org by Don Swaim; 1 January, 2010 interview with William Least Heat-Moon by Tom Ashbrook for National Public Radio, On Point; Appearances on C-SPAN