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Beyond Mile Zero: The Vanishing Alaska Highway Lodge Community
$24.95 Read moreIn 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
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Colorado in the Civil War
$23.99 Read moreColorado troops were vitally important for the Union in the quest to win the Civil War. They served throughout the American West from Missouri to Utah, and their enemies were not only ordinary Confede… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Steinle, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1467109711
- Language: English
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Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
$35.00 Add to cartIn 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university
- Author: White, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324004339
- Language: English
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California Apricots: The Lost Orchards of Silicon Valley
$21.99 Add to cartPicked warm from a tree, a California apricot opens into halves as easily as if it came with a dotted line down its center. The seed infuses the core with a hint of almond; the fruit carries the scent… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Chapman, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 16 2013
- ISBN10: 1609497953
- Language: English
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Boom and Bust Colorado: From the 1859 Gold Rush to the 2020 Pandemic
$22.95 Add to cartThis is the history of Colorado through the lens of its uniquely mythic economy, from boom to boom and into the future.
- Author: Noel, Thomas J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493040936
- Language: English
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San Francisco’s Sunset District
$24.99 Add to cartLocated in the southwestern part of San Francisco, the Sunset District developed late because of its distance from downtown and because of the sand dunes that covered it for thousands of years. After … [more below]
- Series: Then & Now (Arcadia)
- Author: Ungaretti, Lorri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0738589039
- Language: English
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Haunted San Jose
$21.99 Read moreThe long history of San Jose has accumulated a remarkable amount of ghostly tales, from things that go bump in the night to its most famous haunt, the Winchester Mystery House.
A ghostly bride stalks
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Kile, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1467150819
- Language: English
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Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy Volume 59
$31.18 Add to cartThe radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood.
“When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters in this country, I often think of Boyle Heights.”–- Series: American Crossroads
- Author: S?nchez, George J
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 520391640
- Language: English
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A History Lover’s Guide to Denver
$23.99 Add to cartFounded in an unlikely spot where dry prairies meet formidable mountains, Denver overcame its doubtful beginning to become the largest and most important city within a thousand miles. This tour of the… [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Barnhouse, Mark A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1467142123
- Language: English
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San Luis Obispo County Outlaws: Desperados, Vigilantes and Bootleggers
$21.99 Add to cartCalifornia was a wild and lawless place in the 1850s, and San Luis Obispo County was no exception. Outlaws and bandits passed along the El Camino Real, now Highway 101, leaving a trail of victims. Des… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Gregory, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1625859260
- Language: English
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Columbia
$31.99 Add to cartColumbia started life in 1850 when Dr. Thaddeus Hildreth and his brother set up the camp known as Hildreth’s Diggins in the lovely Sierra foothills. More than 150 tumultuous years later, Columbia is a… [more below]
- Author: Friends of Columbia State Historic Park
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 24 2005
- ISBN10: 1531616399
- Language: English
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Tsunami!: Hawai’i’s Amazing History of the Monster Waves
$14.95 Read more- Author: Dudley, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1949307166
- Language: English
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Bakersfield
$37.99 Add to cartBakersfield was established in 1863 in the western shadow of the Sierra Nevada at the intersection of two of the country’s defining events: the California Gold Rush and the Civil War. Bakersfield’s fi… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Price, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: June 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1540256928
- Language: English
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Made in California, Volume 1: The California-Born Diners, Burger Joints, Restaurants & Fast Food That Changed America, 1915-1966
$40.00 Add to cartA&W Root Beer. Foster’s Freeze. IHOP. Der Wienerschnitzel. See’s Candy. Jack in the Box. You name the American food icon, and chances are its roots are in California. Food historian and chef George Ge… [more below]
- Series: Made in California
- Author: Geary, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1945551917
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of Texas Oil
$41.99 Add to cartOn January 10, 1901, near Beaumont, Texas, an unremarkable knoll of earth the world would soon call Spindletop shot a geyser of oil a hundred feet into the air, confirming the belief of Pattillo Higgi
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Cox, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1684420865
- Language: English
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Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism
$28.32 Add to cart“Olmsted’s vivid, accomplished narrative really belongs to the historiography of the left… as her strong research shows, race and gender prejudice informed or deformed, almost the whole of American … [more below]
- Author: Olmsted, Kathryn S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1620973065
- Language: English
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Myths and Legends of Yellowstone: The True Stories behind History’s Mysteries
$17.95 Add to cartEach episode included in this book explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Yellowstone National Park’s history. From ghosts in Old Faithful Inn to Bigfoot sightings, Myths and Leg… [more below]
- Series: Legends of the West
- Author: Therriault, Ednor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: December 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1493032143
- Language: English
