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Galloping Gourmet: Eating and Drinking with Buffalo Bill
$24.95 Add to cartGalloping Gourmet explores an unfamiliar side of a familiar character in American history, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. In this entertaining narrative Steve Friesen explores the evolving role of ea… [more below]
- Author: Friesen, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236807
- Language: English
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The Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines
$24.00 Add to cartWith an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps–the last all-white branch of the U.S. military–was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African … [more below]
- Author: McLaurin, Melton A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0807861766
- Language: English
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River Notes: Drought and the Twilight of the American West — A Natural and Human History of the Colorado
$17.95 Add to cartAt a time when the Colorado River and all those who depend on it are in peril, this urgent book offers “both a love song and a paean of regret to America’s most spectacular river” (Denver Post) and “a
- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1778401422
- Language: English
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Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide
$17.95 Add to cartOne of America’s most esteemed natural history writers takes to the hills of the Pacific Northwest in search of Bigfoot–and finds the wildness within ourselves.
“A unique book in the bigfoot literatu- Author: Pyle, Robert Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1619029375
- Language: English
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In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas
$16.95 Add to cartBefore embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American literature, spanning decades and indelibly shaping the nation’s perception of the West, Larry McMurtry knew … [more below]
- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1631493531
- Language: English
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Heaven on the Half Shell: The Story of the Oyster in the Pacific Northwest
$29.95 Add to cartHeaven on the Half Shell offers a thoroughly researched and richly illustrated history of the Pacific Northwest’s beloved bivalve, the oyster. Starting with the earliest evidence of sea gardens and c
- Author: Gordon, David George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0295750782
- Language: English
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When the Smoke Cleared: The 1968 Rebellions and the Unfinished Battle for Civil Rights in the Nation’s Capital
$33.82 Add to cartEchoing James Forman Jr.’s Locking Up Our Own, a riveting story of race, civil rights, and rebellion in Washington, DC
In April 1968, following the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., a wave of uprising- Author: Sommers, Kyla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977478
- Language: English
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The Women Who Built Omaha: A Bold and Remarkable History
$22.95 Add to cart2023 Nebraska Book Award
During the 1930s the Federal Writers’ Project described Omaha as a “man’s town,” and histories of the city have all but ignored women. However, women have played major roles- Author: Wirth, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496228642
- Language: English
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Sexing Chickens
$22.50 Add to cartThe Town of Enfield, Connecticut is rich with the kind of stories other towns can only dream about – from a purported shark attack in a Freshwater Swimming Hole (called Twenty-Foot) to a California Mi
- Author: Sorenson, Peter F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987773918
- Language: English
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Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio
$24.99 Add to cartFrom Derf Backderf, the bestselling author of My Friend Dahmer, comes the Eisner and ALA/YALSA Alex Award-winning tragic and unforgettable story of the Kent State shootings, told in graphic novel form… [more below]
- Author: Backderf, Derf
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1419734849
- Language: English
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Tanum: A Story of Bumping Lake and the William O. Douglas Wilderness
$36.99 Add to cartThe riotous abundance of an ancient forest can hide many secrets. In the remote Bumping River Valley, a surprisingly rich past is quietly disappearing as the artifacts marking bygone lives and labors
- Author: Summit Cyr, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: February 23 2022
- ISBN10: 0578985306
- Language: English
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Bayocean: Atlantis of Oregon
$25.00 Add to cartLike Plato’s fictional island kingdom, most of Bayocean sank below the sea long ago. The rest lies buried beneath the shore pine, salal, and beach grass covering the four-mile-long spit that protects
- Author: Sutherland, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: February 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987346303
- Language: English
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Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story
$19.95 Add to cartThese days, hot chicken is a “must-try” Southern food. Restaurants in New York, Detroit, Cambridge, and even Australia advertise that they fry their chicken “Nashville-style.” Thousands of people atte… [more below]
- Author: Martin, Rachel Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0826501761
- Language: English
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The Empire State Building
$25.95 Add to cartThe Empire State Building is the landmark book on one of the world’s most notable landmarks. Since its publication in 1995, John Tauranac’s book, focused on the inception and construction of the build
- Author: Tauranac, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0801479398
- Language: English
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Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story
$29.99 Read moreA modern epic about the most consequential music culture today, Atlanta rap–a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation from acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscar… [more below]
- Author: Coscarelli, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 198210788X
- Language: English
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Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
$45.50 Read moreA story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big league city.
Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond base… [more below]- Author: Nusbaum, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1541742214
- Language: English
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The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America’s Forgotten Capital of Vice
$20.00 Add to cartA 2020 New York Times notable book One of the Chicago Tribune‘s best nonfiction books of 2020
Complex, turbulent, as haunting as a pedal steel solo –Jonathan Miles, The New York Times Book Review (Edi- Author: Hill, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1250782740
- Language: English
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I Love(ish) New York City: Tales of City Life
$16.95 Add to cartA humorous and relatable look into the joys and pitfalls of living in New York City.
There is no city quite like New York City, for better or worse. I Love(ish) New York is a hilarious relatable colle- Author: Solomon, Ali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1797216554
- Language: English
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Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West
$28.99 Add to cart“Beautifully observed. . . This jewel of a book belongs on the shelf with our best Western writers–Norman MacLean, Pam Houston, and Annie Proulx.”–John Vaillant, bestselling author of The Tiger and
- Author: Andrews, Bryce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0358468272
- Language: English
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All Present and Accounted For: The 1972 Alaska Grounding of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis and the Heroic Efforts that Saved the Ship
$19.95 Add to cartIt was late November–one of the coldest periods to be on a ship near Alaska. The Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis had run aground during a severe storm and was taking on water. The engine room flooded, disa
- Author: Craig, Steven J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1555719643
- Language: English
