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Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii
$22.99 Read moreThe most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its “discovery” by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European po
- Author: Haley, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 08 2015
- ISBN10: 1250070392
- Language: English
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Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love
$21.99 Add to cartThe critically acclaimed, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller–a gripping story of the strife and tragedy that led to San Francisco’s ultimate rebirth and triumph.
Salon founder David Talbot chronicles- Author: Talbot, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 05, 2013
- ISBN10: 1439108242
- Language: English
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True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America
$21.95 Add to cart“True West disentangles reality from centuries of myth and mystique.”
–HAMPTON SIDES, New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder
From the Northern Rockies to the Southwest deserts, Betsy Ga… [more below]
- Author: Quammen, Betsy Gaines
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1948814870
- Language: English
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American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
$35.00 Add to cartThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 in the so-called “burned-over district” of upstate New York, which was producing seers and prophets daily. Most of t
- Author: Park, Benjamin E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1631498657
- Language: English
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The Library Book
$20.00 Add to cartSusan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)–a dazzling… [more below]
- Author: Orlean, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1476740194
- Language: English
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The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-Mile Horseback Journey Into the Old West
$30.00 Add to cartUSA Today Bestseller!
“Spellbinding” (Douglas Preston) and “completely fascinating” (Elizabeth Letts), cowboy and journalist Will Grant t
Selected by the Smithsonian as Best Travel Books of the Year- Author: Grant, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 0316422312
- Language: English
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Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion
$44.95 Add to cartWinner of Columbia University’s 2024 Bancroft Prize in American History
In Continental Reckoning renowned historian E
2024 Spur Award Winner
Named a Best Civil War Book of 2023 by Civil War Monitor- Series: History of the American West
- Author: West, Elliott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496233581
- Language: English
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California: An American History
$24.00 Add to cartA concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation
- Author: Faragher, John Mack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0300274238
- Language: English
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History of Alcatraz Island: 1853-2008
$24.99 Read moreAs one of America s most notorious prisons, Alcatraz has been a significant part of California s history for over 155 years. The small, lonely rock, known in sea charts by its Spanish name Isla de los
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Wellman, Gregory L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: June 02, 2008
- ISBN10: 073855815X
- Language: English
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Lost Kingdom: Hawaiia’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and Americaa’s First Imperial Venture
$20.00 Add to cart“Only one American state was formally a sovereign monarchy. In this compelling narrative, the award-winning journalist Julia Flynn Siler chronicles how this Pacific kingdom, creation of a proud Polyne
- Author: Siler, Julia Flynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 415
- Publish Date: January 08, 2013
- ISBN10: 0802120709
- Language: English
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California, a Slave State
$35.00 Add to cartThe untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and
- Author: Pfaelzer, Jean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300211643
- Language: English
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Oldest San Francisco
$22.50 Read more- Series: Oldest
- Author: Scott, Alec
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064995
- Language: English
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We Are the Land: A History of Native California
$24.95 Add to cart“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White‘s California Exposures.“–Kirkus Reviews
Before there was such a thing as “Cal
Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous.- Author: Akins, Damon B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 29, 2022
- ISBN10: 0520280504
- Language: English
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Sex, Murder, & the Unwritten Law: Gender and Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style
$29.95 Add to cartFrom the 1880s until after World War I, Texas prosecutions for adultery, fornication, rape, seduction, and sodomy were many, but formal penal code seemed much too merciful to suit most southerners, wh
- Series: American Liberty & Justice
- Author: Neal, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: September 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 0896726622
- Language: English
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Alaska: A History
$44.93 Add to cartThe largest by far of the fifty states, Alaska is also the state of greatest mystery and diversity. And, as Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick show in this comprehensive survey, the history of Alas
- Author: Naske, Claus M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: November 18 2014
- ISBN10: 0806146664
- Language: English
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Columbine
$21.99 Read more“Excellent…amazing how much still comes as a surprise.” —New York Times Book Review
“Like Capote’s In Cold Blood, this tour de force gets below the who and the what of a horrifying incident to lay b
- Author: Cullen, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 0446546925
- Language: English
