United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Historic Photos of Las Vegas
$42.99 Add to cartLas Vegas-a Spanish word meaning “The Meadows” or “The Grasslands”–was established as a railroad town in 1905 and was officially incorporated in 1911. It is the largest city in the United States foun
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Burbank, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 168336967X
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Utah
$23.99 Add to cartIn the 1840s, land west of the Missouri River was a new frontier for courage, adventure, freedom and true grit. During this era and the decades that followed, Utah became the focal point for many brav… [more below]
- Series: Hidden History Of…
- Author: Stone, Eileen Hallet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1626193479
- Language: English
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Notorious San Juans:: Wicked Tales from Ouray, San Juan and La Plata Counties
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the shooting of a Secret Service agent in the wilds near Hesperus to the grave misfortune”? of Kid Adams, a not-so-successful highwayman, these tales from the lofty heights of the San Juans are p… [more below]
- Series: Wicked
- Author: Turner, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 1609492609
- Language: English
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Selling Sex in the Silver Valley: A Business Doing Pleasure
$24.99 Add to cartOnce the largest silver producer in the world, Wallace became notorious for labor uprisings, hard drinking, gambling and prostitution. As late as 1991, illegal brothels openly flourished because local… [more below]
- Author: Branstetter, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1467136565
- Language: English
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The Rise of Napa Valley Wineries: How the Judgment of Paris Put California Wine on the Map
$23.99 Read moreA wine country odyssey.
In 1976, the picturesque, agrarian Napa Valley was all but unknown to those who didn’t live there. That changed dramatically when Steven Spurrier and Patricia Gallagher decide- Series: American Palate
- Author: Gudgel, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 08, 2023
- ISBN10: 1467151858
- Language: English
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Location Filming in Los Angeles
$24.99 Read moreLos Angeles has reigned for more than a century as the world capital of the film industry, a unique and ever-changing city that has been molded and recast thousands of times through the artistic visio… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Bible, Karie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0738581321
- Language: English
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Hellacious California!: Tales of Rascality, Revelry, Dissipation, and Depravity, and the Birth of the Golden State
$18.00 Add to cartIn 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California “can and does furnish the best bad things,” including “purer liquors…finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie kni… [more below]
- Author: Noy, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1597144991
- Language: English
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Colorado Myths and Legends: The True Stories behind History’s Mysteries
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the Anasazi cliff dwellings to tales of Buffalo Bill’s bravado, and from an unsolved bank robbery in Denver to the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey, Colorado Myths and Legends examines a fascinating ar… [more below]
- Series: Legends of the West
- Author: Murphy, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1493023187
- Language: English
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California’s Haunted Central Coast
$21.99 Add to cartEerie haunts and stories of apparitions stretch along the California coast from Monterey Bay to the Channel Islands. James Dean’s presence lingers at the site of his deadly car crash on Highway 46, an… [more below]
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Ybarra, Evie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1467140937
- Language: English
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Wicked Sacramento
$24.99 Add to cartIn the early 1900s, Sacramento became a battleground in a statewide struggle. On one side were Progressive political reformers and suffragettes. Opposing them were bars, dance halls, brothels and powe… [more below]
- Series: Wicked
- Author: Burg, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1467140597
- Language: English
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East Bay Hills: A Brief History
$24.99 Add to cartLike the mist rising from San Francisco Bay encircles the towering redwoods, the little-known legends of the East Bay Hills enrich a glorious history. Follow the trails of Saclan and Jalquin-Yrgin peo… [more below]
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Marshall, Amelia Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 30 2017
- ISBN10: 1467137251
- Language: English
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It Happened on the Oregon Trail
$16.95 Add to cartIt Happened on the Oregon Trail 2 takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Oregon Trail’s storied past. Including both famous tales, and fa… [more below]
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: Wagner, Tricia Martineau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0762772204
- Language: English
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Joshua Tree National Park
$31.99 Add to cartHuman use of Joshua Tree National Park may extend as far back in time as 10,000 years. From the early Pinto Culture to modern tribes, native peoples have lived and hunted here for centuries. Indian tr… [more below]
- Author: Zarki, Joseph W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1531677290
- Language: English
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The Lady and the Mountain Man: Isabella Bird, Rocky Mountain Jim, and their Unlikely Friendship
$19.95 Add to cart**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Gold Winner for Western Biographies and Memoirs**
Isabella Bird was a proper Victorian lady, a minster’s daughter, a writer who traveled the globe. She was expected t… [more below]
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 149304592X
- Language: English
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Minidoka National Historic Site
$23.99 Add to cartIn the vast sagebrush desert of Southern Idaho, Minidoka War Relocation Center had a short-lived and painful existence. The wartime operation incarcerated over 13,000 American citizens and legal resid… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Wakatsuki, Hanako
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1467129402
- Language: English
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Pacific Coast Highway in California
$23.99 Add to cartMore commonly known as Pacific Coast Highway, State Route 1 ribbons along or near the Pacific Ocean from Northern California at Leggett in Mendocino down to Southern California at San Juan Capistrano … [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Forsythe, Carina Monica Montoya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1467127515
- Language: English
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Beyond Mile Zero: The Vanishing Alaska Highway Lodge Community
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1942, the west coast of North America was under threat after the attack on Pearl Harbor, prompting the US government to build a military road from Dawson Creek, BC, to Delta Junction, AK. Renowned
- Author: Gontard, Lily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1550177974
- Language: English
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Knott’s Berry Farm: The Early Years
$31.99 Add to cartBefore there was a Disneyland, there was Knott’s Berry Farm. What started out in the early 1920s as a small, roadside berry stand in Buena Park, California, grew over the next 60 years into one of the… [more below]
- Author: Jennings, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 12 2009
- ISBN10: 1531645542
- Language: English
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Field Trip: My Years on a Johns Island Farm: The story of why one end of Johns Island was so special at one point in time.
$31.95 Add to cartField Trip will enable readers to see crops and fresh food with significantly more appreciation. Author Lee Glover provides his audience with firsthand experiences that span decades, revealing Johns I
- Author: Glover, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798891127487
- Language: English
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Idaho Myths and Legends: The True Stories Behind History’s Mysteries
$30.00 Add to cartFrom President Cleveland’s alleged love child to the UFO highway, Idaho Myths and Legends of makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the Gem State’s most fascinating and compelling sto… [more below]
- Series: Myths and Mysteries
- Author: Stapilus, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493040375
- Language: English
