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Italians in the Pacific Northwest
$24.99 Read moreFrom hardscrabble days as homesteaders and farmers in the 1880s to becoming successful entrepreneurs of the postwar boom generation, Italians settled and later thrived in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Floreano, Tessa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1467160466
- Language: English
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Mark Twain’s Hawaii: A Humorous Romp Through History
$26.95 Add to cartMark Twain’s Hawaii: A Humorous Romp through History, combines Twain’s own writings on Hawaii with personal reminiscences by others who met him at that time, and traces Twain’s journey through the reg
- Author: Stephens, John Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493053124
- Language: English
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Rincon Point
$23.99 Read moreRincon Point is renowned as the Queen of the Coast, one of the premier surfing spots in the world, but that is only a fragment of its rich history. Before the arrival of Europeans, it was a Chumash vi… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Burns, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1467108707
- Language: English
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Wildsam Field Guides: Big Sur & Highway 1
$24.00 Read moreWildsam Field Guides: Big Sur & Highway 1 leads travelers into one of the West Coast’s most iconic landscape, with guidance from trusted local writers, researchers and restaurateurs. Contributors incl… [more below]
- Series: Wildsam American Pursuits
- Author: Bruce, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1467199796
- Language: English
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Death at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles
$21.99 Read moreBuilt during Los Angeles’s rapid growth in the Roaring Twenties, the Beaux Arts-style Cecil Hotel was briefly a glimmering downtown landmark until it became one of the most infamous sites of violence … [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Perelman, Dale Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1467150185
- Language: English
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The Western Horse: A Popular History of the Wild and Working Animal
$36.33 Add to cartThis book celebrates the history and culture of the western horse, its ability to capture the popular imagination, and the means by which it has come to symbolize the American West.
Beginning in the 1
- Author: Samuelson-Brown, Randi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1493073842
- Language: English
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Letters Home from Stanford
$24.00 Add to cart- Author: Davis, Alison Carpenter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1681065495
- Language: English
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La Plata County
$24.99 Read moreEstablished in 1874 as an agricultural lifeline, La Plata County, Colorado, has played many roles.
European Americans were drawn to the region by the promise of mineral wealth and the mining industry
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Horvat, Ed Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: July 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1467161098
- Language: English
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Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles
$29.95 Add to cartInventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visionaries who had outsize influence on the city’s growth
- Author: Haddad, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1595801278
- Language: English
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A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America
$35.00 Add to cartThe Port of Los Angeles is all around us. Objects we use on a daily basis pass through it: furniture, apparel, electronics, automobiles, and much more. The busiest container port in the Western hemisp
- Author: Tejani, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1324093552
- Language: English
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Dr. Martha Cannon of Utah: The Unexpected Victorian Life of America’s First Female State Senator
$24.99 Read morePrudery, Polygamy and Politics
Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon was no hands-on-the-plow pioneer. She was no stereotypical polygamous wife. Nor was she a prim lady who blushed at the word “legs.” Victorian Mo
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Jacobson, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1467155071
- Language: English
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Remarkable Colorado Women
$18.95 Add to cartRemarkable Colorado Women celebrates the women who shaped the Centennial State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state w
- Series: More Than Petticoats
- Author: Shirley, Gayle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493068733
- Language: English
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Texas: A Compact History
$27.95 Add to cartTexas “a whole other country”-a slogan that promotes tourism as much within the Lone Star State as elsewhere-is familiar to native Texans and those adopted sons and daughters who “got here just as qui… [more below]
- Author: McDonald, Archie P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: November 15 2011
- ISBN10: 193333715X
- Language: English
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Two Dot Ranch, A Biography of Place
$26.95 Add to cartThis is the history of the Two Dot, at one time recognized by many as the largest ranch in the world. So begins the story of a unique part of the vast landscape of the state of Wyoming, a privately he… [more below]
- Author: Ruskowsky, Nancy Heyl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1932636471
- Language: English
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On This Day in Wyoming History
$14.99 Read moreWyoming might be known as the least populous state, but this land of mountains and prairies is home to enough history to provide an entertaining footnote for each day of the year. On September 6, 1870… [more below]
- Author: Holscher, Patrick T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1626192235
- Language: English
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Area 51
$31.99 Add to cartArea 51, a top secret military installation for testing unacknowledged, or black, projects, lies in a desert valley northwest of Las Vegas. During the Cold War, CIA and Air Force officials chose this … [more below]
- Author: Merlin, Peter W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 21 2011
- ISBN10: 1531650376
- Language: English
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Carmel: A History in Architecture
$31.99 Add to cartCarmel is a microcosm of California’s architectural heritage, sited at one of the most scenic meetings of land and sea in the world. Mission San Carlos Borromeo became a root building for California’s… [more below]
- Author: Seavey, Kent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1531628672
- Language: English
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Voyage of No Return
$27.99 Add to cartAs a boy raised in rural Germany, Thomas Clay enjoyed the quiet farm life but dreamed of someday traveling to the Great America. Now as a teen, still grieving his father’s death, he’s faced with not o
- Author: Clay, Dorian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 11 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218181673
- Language: English
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Rocky Mountain Boom Town: A History of Durango, Colorado
$25.95 Add to cart- Author: Smith, Duane a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: April 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0870812572
- Language: English
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Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles
$21.95 Add to cartFreewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles explores how social, economic, political, and cultural demands created the web of freeways whose very form–futuristic, majestic, and progressive–perfect
- Author: Haddad, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1595801014
- Language: English
