Cultural Region/Western U.S.
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Blood in the Borderlands: Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821-1920
$29.95 Add to cartHistorical Society of New Mexico’s Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award
The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American W
Santa Fe Trail Association’s Louise Barry Writing Award- Author: Beyreis, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496234650
- 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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Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1786
$16.00 Add to cartOn the afternoon of September 14, 1786, two French ships appeared off the coast of Monterey, the first foreign vessels to visit Spain’s California colonies. Aboard was a party of eminent scientists, n… [more below]
- Author: de la P?rouse, Jean Fran?ois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0930588398
- Language: English
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Last Letters from Attu: The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese POW
$18.99 Add to cartEtta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She was a school teacher whose life changed forever on that Sunday morning in June 1942 when the Japanese military invaded Attu Island an
- Author: Breu, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0882408100
- Language: English
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Farallon: Shipwreck and Survival on the Alaska Shore
$18.95 Add to cartOn a snowy morning in January 1910, the Alaska Steamship Company liner Farallon ran aground on Black Reef in lower Cook Inlet, Alaska. Thirty-eight men escaped in the ship’s lifeboats and reached the
- Author: Lloyd, Steve K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0874221943
- Language: English
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Rocky Mountain Boom Town: A History of Durango, Colorado
$27.95 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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Idaho Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
$18.95 Read more- Author: Ballard, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 0870046470
- Language: English
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After Lewis and Clark: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1807, a year after Lewis and Clark returned from the shores of the Pacific, groups of trappers and hunters began to drift West to tap the rich stocks of beaver and to trade with the Native nations…. [more below]
- Author: Utley, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803295642
- Language: English
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Old North Trail
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1886 Walter McClintock went to northwestern Montana as a member of a U.S. Forest Service expedition. He was adopted as a son by Chief Mad Dog, the high priest of the Sun Dance, and spent the next f… [more below]
- Author: McClintock, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 539
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803282583
- Language: English
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Famous Firearms of the Old West: From Wild Bill Hickok’s Colt Revolvers To Geronimo’s Winchester, Twelve Guns That Shaped Our History
$19.95 Add to cartFrom Buffalo Bill to Wild Bill and from Chief Joseph to Geronimo, the most famous guns in the West and the history behind them.
- Author: Herring, Hal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0762773499
- Language: English
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Drama High: Keep It Movin’
$15.00 Add to cartA YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
South Bay High’s Jayd Jackson finally has her own ride, but that sure doesn’t mean her troubles are over. . . These days, Jayd just can’t seem to g- Series: Drama High #8
- Author: Divine, L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0758231075
- Language: English
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Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place
$17.99 Add to cartPart autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulx’s piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there.”Bird Cloud” is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres o… [more below]
- Author: Proulx, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0743288815
- Language: English
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Uplake: Restless Essays of Coming and Going
$18.95 Read moreFor many years, Ana Maria Spagna has stayed put, mostly, in a small mountain valley at the head of a glacier-carved lake. You’re so lucky to live there, people say. She is lucky. But she is also restl
- Author: Spagna, Ana Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0295743220
- 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
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Rocky Mountain National Park: The Complete Guide: (Color Travel Guide)
$21.99 Add to cartDiscover the best of Rocky Mountain National Park in this full-color travel guidebook.
* Winner – 2022 National Outdoor Book Award (Guidebook) *
From hiking to biking to rock climbing, Rocky Mountain N
- Series: Color Travel Guide
- Author: Kaiser, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 194075447X
- Language: English
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The Creaky Knees Guide Northern California, 2nd Edition: The 80 Best Easy Hikes
$19.95 Add to cartExplore the beauty of Northern California’s natural landscape with this guide to 80 of the best easy-to-walk day hikes located throughout Northern California.
From hikes just outside of San Francisco- Series: Creaky Knees
- Author: Brown, Ann Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1632173581
- Language: English
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Best Tent Camping: New Mexico: Your Car-Camping Guide to Scenic Beauty, the Sounds of Nature, and an Escape from Civilization
$16.95 Add to cartOffering essential details and easy-to-read maps, Best Tent Camping: New Mexico presents 50 of the state’s best campgrounds for car campers.
- Series: Best Tent Camping
- Author: Ketcham, Amaris Feland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1634042794
- Language: English
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Hiking Colorado’s Hidden Gems: 40 Undiscovered Trails
$24.95 Read moreFrom the Front Range to Summit County and the Western Slope, this guide reveals 40 of the best hidden and little-known trails scattered around Colorado. Most of the hikes have not appeared in any prev
- Series: State Hiking Guides
- Author: Green, Stewart M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493046667
- Language: English
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In the Country of Women: A Memoir
$26.00 Read moreOne of NPR’s Best Books of the Year
“Straight’s memoir is a lyric social history of her multiracial clan in Riverside that explores the bonds of love and survival that bind them, with a particular emp- Author: Straight, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1948226227
- Language: English
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The Columbia
$18.95 Add to cartTHE COLUMBIA commemorates the disciplining and conversion of a wilderness river from a water passageway to a powerhouse and source of irrigation. Here is the story of its explorers who came by boat an
- Author: Holbrook, Stewart H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: June 16 2017
- ISBN10: 1941890083
- Language: English
