Cultural Region/Western U.S.
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Alaska’s Totem Poles
$14.99 Add to cartIn this newly revised edition of ALASKA’S TOTEM POLES, readers learn about the history and use of totems, clan crests, symbolism, and much more. A special section describes where to go to view totems…. [more below]
- Author: Kramer, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0882407317
- Language: English
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Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
$26.99 Add to cart“Trespass might as well be Desert Solitaire‘s literary heir . . . It’s hard to imagine a personal history more transporting that this one.”–Judith Lewis, Los Angels Times Book Review
Trespass is the
- Author: Irvine, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0865477450
- Language: English
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Voices of the Buffalo Soldier: Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the West
$24.95 Add to cartThe Buffalo Soldiers were African Americans who served in the Regular Army between the Civil War and World War I and fought in some of the most difficult wars against western Indians. Examining their
- Author: Schubert, Frank N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 16 2009
- ISBN10: 0826323103
- Language: English
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California’s Channel Islands: A History
$21.95 Add to cartPrehistoric foragers, conquistadors, missionaries, adventurers, hunters, and rugged agriculturalists parade across the histories of these little-known islands on the horizon of twenty-first century So
- Author: Chiles, Frederic C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: September 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0806146877
- Language: English
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Pioneer Days in the Black Hills: By One of the Early Day Pioneers
$24.95 Add to cartPioneer Days in the Black Hills is a rough-and-tumble account of the early days of Deadwood, Dakota Territory. In 1874, after leading an expedition into the Black Hills, George Armstrong Custer announ
- Author: McClintock, John S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0806131918
- Language: English
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Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
$20.00 Add to cartIn this wise and lyrical book about landscapes of the desert and the mind, Edward Abbey guides us beyond the wall of the city and asphalt belting of superhighways to special pockets of wilderness that
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 15 1984
- ISBN10: 0805008209
- Language: English
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Lewis and Clark among the Indians (Bicentennial Edition)
$21.95 Add to cart“Particularly valuable for Ronda’s inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An appendix also places the Sacagawea myth in its proper pe
- Series: Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Author: Ronda, James P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803289901
- Language: English
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Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition
$19.95 Add to cartHere, for the first time in paperback, is a fascinating daily record of Ferdinand Hayden’s historic 1871 scientific expedition through Utah, Idaho, and Montana Territories to the Yellowstone Basin. Th… [more below]
- Author: Merrill, Marlene Deahl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 315
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803282893
- Language: English
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Wildflowers of the Western Plains: A Field Guide
$29.95 Add to cartStretching from western Texas and eastern New Mexico up through Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, and into Canada, the vast western plains often appear sparse and dr… [more below]
- Author: Kirkpatrick, Zoe Merriman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803219059
- Language: English
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The Voyeur’s Motel
$16.00 Read moreOn January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous handwritten letter from a man in Colorado. “Since learning of your… [more below]
- Author: Talese, Gay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 802126979
- Language: English
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Nothing to Tell: Extraordinary Stories of Montana Ranch Women
$18.95 Add to cartSitting at the kitchen tables of twelve women in their eighties who were born in or immigrated to Montana in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, between 1982 and 1988 oral historian Donna … [more below]
- Author: Gray, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0762779098
- Language: English
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Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Montana History
$16.95 Add to cartA delightfully wicked look at the badly behaved characters who shaped the history of Montana through
their deeds and misdeeds.- Series: Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Histo
- Author: Foley, Jodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0762772492
- Language: English
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Travel Route 66: A Guide to the History, Sights, and Destinations Along the Main Street of America
$26.99 Read moreLong one of America’s most cherished byways, Route 66 remains a popular tourist attraction and travel route for thousands of travelers every year. While stretches of the once-glorious road have been p… [more below]
- Author: Hinckley, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0760344302
- Language: English
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History of the Sierra Nevada, Revised and Updated
$37.43 Add to cartFrom the time it was sighted by Spanish explorers in the eighteenth century through the creation of the John Muir trail, the building of the Hetch Hetchy Dam, and the founding of the Sierra Club, the … [more below]
- Author: Farquhar, Francis P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: October 15 2007
- ISBN10: 520253957
- Language: English
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Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
$43.68 Add to cartWhat makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit’s brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay … [more below]
- Series: Chairman’s Circle Books
- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: November 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0520262492
- Language: English
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Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
$16.95 Read moreSan Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been reshaped by
- Author: McClelland, Cary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0393357430
- Language: English
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Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
$32.95 Add to cartLearning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of “common” people and less immodest in their erec… [more below]
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Venturi, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 15 1977
- ISBN10: 026272006X
- Language: English
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Expedition Whydah
$19.99 Add to cartA Captivating Account of the Golden Age of Piracy, the Search for Sunken Treasure, and the Business of Underwater Exploration
Bored by his successful life and obsessed with a boyhood dream of lost pira
- Author: Clifford, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0060929715
- Language: English
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Northwest Epic
$29.95 Add to cartThis is a story about 1,500 miles of gravel road. Quickly built by the U.S. Army over an unmapped stretch of the Canadian Rockies in the tense aftermath of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, the Alask… [more below]
- Author: Twichell, Heath
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1684920183
- Language: English
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Casino Gambling for Dummies
$24.99 Add to cartMaximize your odds on the casino floor
Casinos are designed for distraction, so it helps to know a bit about when the odds are in your favor and when they’re not before you push a stack of chips onto
- Author: Blackwood, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1119873126
- Language: English
