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Roadside History of Montana
$20.00 Add to cartRoadside History of Montana goes well beyond cowboy stories to tell of the struggles of dryland farmers, the rowdy antics of mining- town denizens, and the heroism of smoke jumpers and park rangers. A… [more below]
- Series: Roadside History (Paperback)
- Author: Spritzer Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 449
- Publish Date: June 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0878423958
- Language: English
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Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco
$32.00 Add to cartThe sensational, forgotten true story of a woman who murdered her married lover in Gilded Age San Francisco and the trial that epitomized the city’s transformation from raucous frontier town into mode… [more below]
- Author: Krist, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0593444213
- Language: English
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No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
$22.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY - A “sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive” portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from “a gifted practitioner of labo… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1541607023
- Language: English
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Murder of the Jujube Candy Heiress: A Coronado Cold Case
$24.99 Add to cartOne candy heiress, two bullets and three suspects.
The small Southern California island of Coronado rarely makes news for violent crime. But in the spring of 1975, World War II widow and retired libra
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Kiland, Taylor Baldwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1467150584
- Language: English
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Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836
$29.95 Add to cartWinner, T. R. Fehrenbach Book Award, Texas Historical Commission
Summerfield G. Roberts Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas
Honorable Mention, Certificate of Commendation, American Association for- Series: Texas Classics
- Author: Hardin, Stephen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0292731027
- Language: English
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Love Letter to Ramah: Living Beside New Mexico’s Trail of the Ancients
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1998 Tim and Lucia Amsden left their familiar lives in Kansas City and moved to the Ramah Valley in northwestern New Mexico. Love Letter to Ramah recounts their two decades of experiences there, ne
- Author: Amsden, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0826366589
- Language: English
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Hats
$14.95 Add to cartAlthough a short read of only seven chapters in his first book debut, Hats will go down in history as the most informative and controversial book in modern times. As a pure-blooded artist, author, war
- Author: Morales, J. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: November 13 2024
- ISBN10: 9798894850931
- Language: English
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I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
$19.99 Read moreLonglisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction
A “power
Shortlisted for the Museum of African American History’s Stone Book Award * National Council on Public History Book Award Honorable Mention- Series: Wolf Brother
- Author: Williams, Kidada E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1639734090
- Language: English
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Bartleby and Me: Reflections of an Old Scrivener
$18.99 Add to cart“Literary Legend” (New York) Gay Talese retraces his pioneering career, marked by his fascination with the world’s hidden characters.
In the concluding act of this “incomparable” (Air Mail) capstone bo
- Author: Talese, Gay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063350645
- Language: English
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Protecting Paradise in the Driftless: How the Kickapoo Valley Reserve Came to Be
$18.00 Add to cartProtecting Paradise takes the reader through the saga of how the US Army Corps of Engineers removed 149 families from their property in southwest Wisconsin to construct a dam on the Kickapoo River-a d
- Author: West, Marcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: September 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1955656835
- Language: English
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Lumberjack: Inside an Era in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan – 70th Anniversary Edition
$21.95 Add to cartWinner–Best Biography/Memoir of 2002, Midwest Book Awards (St. Paul, MN)
A firsthand account of the lumbering era during the white pine boom years of the late 1800s – early 1900s in the northern U.S.
- Author: Crowe, William S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0965057739
- Language: English
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The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America’s Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town
$24.00 Add to cart“A marvelous, compelling tale”(Rocky Mountain News) from the New York Times bestselling author of Salt and Cod.
Gloucester, Massachusetts, America’s oldest fishing port, is defined by the culture of c- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 1594483744
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson and the Kentucky Constitution
$24.99 Read moreA Major Influence in Kentucky Life
Founding Father Thomas Jefferson had a strong but little-known connection with the constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He had personal and politically motiv
- Author: Fleming, Denis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158283
- Language: English
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Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car
$44.95 Add to cartInsideHook: The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This November
A gripping account of how the automobile has failed NYC and how mass transit and a revitalized streetscape are vital to its post-pandemic re- Author: Gelinas, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1531508219
- Language: English
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Johnson Space Center: The First 50 Years
$31.99 Add to cartNASA ‘s Johnson Space Center (JSC ) in Houston, Texas, has been the home of human spaceflight operations since its inception in 1961. The first US manned spaceflight controlled from its iconic Mission… [more below]
- Author: Bruns, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: February 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1531664237
- Language: English
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The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America’s Forgotten Origin Story
$35.00 Add to cartA radical work of history that re-centers the American story around El Paso, Texas, gateway between north and south, center of indigenous power and resistance, locus of European colonization of North
- Author: Parker, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063161915
- Language: English
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Radical Atlas of Ferguson, USA
$34.00 Add to cartFerguson, Missouri, became the epicenter of America’s racial tensions after the 2014 murder of Michael Brown and the protests that followed in its wake.
Though this suburb just outside St. Louis might
- Author: Heyda, Patty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1953368751
- Language: English
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The Coit Tower Murals: New Deal Art and Political Controversy in San Francisco
$22.95 Add to cartCreated in 1934, the Coit Tower murals were sponsored by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first of the New Deal art programs. Twenty-five master artists and their assistants worked there,
- Author: Cherny, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0252088352
- Language: English
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The Chief Rabbi’s Funeral: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Antisemitic Riot
$34.95 Add to cart2024 American Book Fest Award Finalist in U.S. History
On July 30, 1902, tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of New York’s Lower East Side to bid farewell to the city’s chief rabbi, the e- Author: Seligman, Scott D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 164012618X
- Language: English
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Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World: Chief Charlo and Father de Smet in the Rocky Mountains
$36.95 Add to cartBlack Robes Enter Coyote’s World brings to life the complicated history of Jesuit missionaries among Montana’s Native peoples–a saga of encounter, accommodation, and resistance during the transformat… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Sally
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 149623961X
- Language: English
