Cultural Region/Western U.S.
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Pioneer Women
$22.00 Add to cartFrom a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as “… [more below]
- Author: Stratton, Joanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 17 1982
- ISBN10: 0671447483
- Language: English
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Hard Road West: History and Geology Along the Gold Rush Trail
$21.00 Add to cartIn 1848 news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, an… [more below]
- Author: Meldahl, Keith Heyer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226519627
- Language: English
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My First Summer in the Sierra
$18.00 Add to cartFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of … [more below]
- Series: Classic, Nature, Penguin
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 03 1987
- ISBN10: 0140255702
- Language: English
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Insight Guides West Coast USA (Travel Guide with Free Ebook)
$25.99 Add to cartThis Insight Guide is a lavishly illustrated inspirational travel guide to West Coast USA and a beautiful souvenir of your trip. Perfect for travellers looking for a deeper dive into the destination’s
- Series: Insight Guides
- Author: Insight Guides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1786718316
- Language: English
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Montana Historic Places on the National Register: From Banks and Barns to Bridges and Battlefields
$20.00 Add to cartMore than one thousand locations in Montana are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, from venerable mansions and hotels to less traditional sites of battlefields and buffalo jumps. This… [more below]
- Author: Ober, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0878427066
- Language: English
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Insight Guides Arizona & Grand Canyon (Travel Guide with Free Ebook)
$24.99 Add to cartInsight Guide to Arizona and the Grand Canyon is a pictorial travel guide in a magazine style providing answers to the key questions before or during your trip: deciding when to go to Arizona and the
- Series: Insight Guides
- Author: Insight Guides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1839053127
- Language: English
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Frontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West
$22.95 Add to cartIf countless books and movies are to be believed, America’s Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men–a man’s world. Here, C
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493064770
- Language: English
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50 Best Short Hikes in Utah’s National Parks
$21.95 Add to cartGet the guide to 50 of the best short hikes in Utah’s five national parks.
Dramatic arches, natural bridges, soaring cliffs, balancing rocks, mysterious hoodoos, and slot canyons–Utah is famous for t
- Series: 50 Best Short Hikes
- Author: Witt, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1643590731
- Language: English
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Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles
$18.99 Read more“Excellent social history…an indispensable account of a time of beauty and terror.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
A modern epic of the battles between innocence and cynicism, joy and terror Los- Author: McKeen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1641605715
- Language: English
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Humbled: How California’s Monterey Bay Escaped Industrial Ruin
$36.00 Add to cartIn early 1965, Humble Oil and Refining Company Co. (now ExxonMobil) planned to expand to the West Coast by building an oil refinery in the heart of some of California’s most beautiful scenic coastline
- Author: Church, Glenn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: September 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1735109207
- Language: English
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Roadtrippers Route 66: Chicago to Santa Monica
$19.99 Add to cartThe Only Route 66 Guidebook with a Fully Integrated App!
Deviate from the norm, go a bit farther, and make your trip uniquely yours. Put discovery and wonder back into your travels. Roadtrippers Route
- Series: Great American Road Trips
- Author: Roadtrippers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1649010001
- Language: English
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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
$17.95 Add to cartOn March 6, 1900, the bubonic plague took its first victim on American soil: Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown–but when cor
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358151
- Language: English
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A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845
$13.95 Add to cartSeventeen-year-old Lovisa King leaves Missouri for the Oregon Territory in 1845. A Heart for Any Fate, based on the history of a company of real pioneers, tells the story of the King family, whose car
- Author: Crew, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1932010262
- Language: English
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Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Last Stand in Hollywood (Revised Edition)
$19.95 Add to cartOn the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles in 1965 and 1966 an electrifying scene appeared out of nowhere, exploded into creativity, and then, just as suddenly, vanished. So much remarkable music, art, and so
- Author: Priore, Domenic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1908279907
- Language: English
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Stockton to Malone: The Rise of the Utah Jazz
$8.95 Add to cartThis is the hardest working team in the NBA – the Utah Jazz. Led by iron men Karl Malone, John Stockton and coach Jerry Sloan. Go behind the scenes to reveal the unparalleled competitiveness of a coll… [more below]
- Author: Lazenby, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1886110433
- Language: English
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Haunted Helena:: Montana’s Queen City Ghosts
$21.99 Add to cartHelena was born of the gold rush, nurtured by the wealth of its financiers and raised on its political struggles. The lawless gold camp and its vigilante hangings left an indelible imprint on the mode… [more below]
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Baumler, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1609499344
- Language: English
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Betting Booze and Brothels: Vice, Corruption, and Justice in Jefferson County, Texas
$24.95 Add to cartBy the turn of the twentieth century, Beaumont, Texas had acquired a reputation as a rough place. Situated in the oil-soaked chaos of Spindletop, Jefferson County was a hotbed of vice. For decades, ga
- Author: Landrey, Wanda a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1571689176
- Language: English
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Born Wild in Montana
$12.95 Add to cartMontana is where the wild things arebaby wild things This collection of candid and comical images by respected wildlife photographer Donald M. Jones is devoted entirely to the state’s junior resident… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Donald M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 156037487X
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Utah
$31.99 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]
- Author: Stone, Eileen Hallet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: November 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1540209555
- Language: English
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Oregon Festivals: A Guide to Fun, Friends, Food & Frivolity
$24.99 Add to cartA guide book depicting the remarkable diversity of festivals held throughout Oregon. Each festival is detailed with crisp and concise information and special tidbits from the author, and is also accom
- Author: Shewey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1513261843
- Language: English
