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The Negro Cowboys
$19.95 Add to cartMore than five thousand Negro cowboys joined the round-ups and served on the ranch crews in the cattleman era of the West. Lured by the open range, the chance for regular wages, and the opportunity to… [more below]
- Author: Durham, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: October 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0803265603
- Language: English
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Eloise: Poorhouse, Farm, Asylum and Hospital 1839-1984
$31.99 Add to cartEloise, which started out as a poorhouse, later became known as Wayne County General Hospital. From only 35 residents on 280 acres in 1839, the complex grew dramatically after the Civil War until the … [more below]
- Author: Ibbotson, P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 28 2002
- ISBN10: 153161325X
- Language: English
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United States Life-Saving Service in Michigan
$39.99 Add to cartMichigan, the Great Lakes State, is full of rich maritime traditions and with these traditions comes the danger and risk of shipwreck. Author William D. Peterson has compiled in this new book a photog… [more below]
- Author: Peterson, William D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 30 2000
- ISBN10: 1531604854
- Language: English
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Another Country
$28.95 Add to cartThe southern Appalachians encompass one of the most beautiful, biologically diverse, and historically important regions of North America. In the widely acclaimed Another Country: Journeying toward the
- Author: Camuto, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 30 2000
- ISBN10: 0820322377
- Language: English
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The Park and the People: An Introduction
$32.95 Read moreThis “exemplary social history” (Kirkus Reviews) is the first full-scale account of Central Park ever published. Elizabeth Blackmar and Roy Rosenzweig tell the story of Central Park’s people–the merc
- Author: Rosenzweig, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: October 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0801497515
- Language: English
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Coronado’s Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
$16.95 Add to cartWritten in 1930, Coronado’s Children was one of J. Frank Dobie’s first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those ha
- Series: Barker Texas History Center Series
- Author: Dobie, J. Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01, 1978
- ISBN10: 0292710526
- Language: English
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The Best of Glacier National Park
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Leftridge, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1560375604
- Language: English
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Newport In Rockies: Life & Good Times Of
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1871, General William Jackson Palmer, a Civil War cavalry hero, dreamed of a Rocky Mountain resort town where sedate, temperate, wealthy folk could enjoy life in tranquil comfort. From its inceptio… [more below]
- Series: Life and Good Times of Colorado Springs Revised for the 1990
- Author: Sprague, Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 11 1988
- ISBN10: 080400899X
- Language: English
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Murder and Madness: 75 Years of Crime and Punishment in Renville County Minnesota
$18.95 Add to cartMurder is the willful killing of a human being with malice aforethought, either expressed or implied. Malice includes not only hatred and revenge, but every terrible and unjustifiable motive committed
- Author: Lubeck, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: September 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1977215483
- Language: English
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The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851-1852
$22.00 Read moreThe Shirley Letters, written from the mining camps in 1851 and 1852, are something valuable and rare–a portrait by a woman of an era dominated by men. They offer a vivid picture of gold rush life, fr… [more below]
- Author: Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: January 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1890771007
- Language: English
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Old Forts of the Great Lakes: Sentinels in the Wilderness
$19.95 Read moreThis fascinating book traces the development of Great Lakes forts from the 1600s to the American Civil War. The French, British, and Americans build military forts and established fortified trading po… [more below]
- Author: Barry, James P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1882376056
- Language: English
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Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1934, hundreds of jobless World War I veterans were sent to the remote Florida Keys to build a highway from Miami to Key West. The Roosevelt Administration was making a genuine effort to help these… [more below]
- Author: Drye, Willie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1493037978
- Language: English
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Off the Hook: Off-Beat Reporter’s Tales from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.)
$34.95 Add to cartBack in 1981, publisher Ed Danner took a chance, hiring Nancy Besonen, a rookie reporter from Chicago’s South Side, for his weekly newspaper, the L’Anse Sentinel. Her humor column, “Off the Hook,” was
- Author: Besonen, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997490
- Language: English
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wyoming place names
$16.00 Add to cartThe names of Wyoming’s cities, counties, streams, and mountains are reflections of its history. It was Lewis and Clark who in 1805 dubbed a Wyoming mountain range Big Horn, and that name soon graced a… [more below]
- Author: Urbanek, Mae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0878422048
- Language: English
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Leadville
$14.00 Add to cartLeadville is a first-rate frontier epic, with romance and excitement enough for ten cities. The real story of Leadville, Colorado is beyond the portals–it is of the men who worked the mines, of thund… [more below]
- Author: Voynick, Stephen M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 15 1984
- ISBN10: 0878421718
- Language: English
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Names on the Face of Montana
$16.00 Add to cartMontana’s place names are alive with a kind of poetry, rich in human and historical associations. In this book you can follow the prospectors to Gold Creek or Granite, honor government officials with … [more below]
- Author: Cheney, Roberta Carkeek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0878421505
- Language: English
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Sacajawea’s People: The Lemhi Shoshones and the Salmon River Country
$19.95 Add to cartOn October 20, 2001, a crowd gathered just east of Salmon, Idaho, to dedicate the site of the Sacajawea Interpretive, Cultural, and Education Center, in preparation for the Lewis and Clark Bicentennia… [more below]
- Author: Mann, John W. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: July 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803238193
- Language: English
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Celebrating Washington State: 50 States to Celebrate
$4.99 Read moreSay hello to Mr. Geo, everybody’s favorite geography teacher! He loves to explore new places. Today he’s visiting Washington, the Evergreen State. His first stop is Olympic National Park, to climb mou
- Series: Green Light Readers Level 3
- Author: Bauer, Marion Dane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 02, 2014
- ISBN10: 054428948X
- Language: English
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Boston Made: From Revolution to Robotics, Innovations That Changed the World
$24.99 Add to cartA fascinating look at how Boston became and remains a global center for innovation–told through 50 world-changing inventions.
“Robert Krim is a long-time champion of the Boston area’s history of inn… [more below]- Author: Krim, Robert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1623545358
- Language: English
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Lake of the Ozarks: The Early Years
$40.99 Add to cartSeventy years ago in the Ozarks of southern Missouri, Bagnell Dam was built across the Osage River, creating the beautiful Lake of the Ozarks. Using over 200 images and in- depth captions, author H. D… [more below]
- Author: Weaver, W. Dwight
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 09 2000
- ISBN10: 1531604544
- Language: English
