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Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest: A Red-Light History of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska
$19.95 Add to cartAs more and more pioneers braved the harsh, unforgiving conditions of moving West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Pacific N… [more below]
- Author: Collins, Jan Mackell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1493038095
- Language: English
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Outlaw Tales of the Old West: Fifty True Stories of Desperados, Crooks, Criminals, and Bandits
$18.95 Add to cartOutlaws Tales of the Old West features fifty stories of rustlers and robbers, crimes of passion, and some of the wannabe outlaws who couldn’t quite pull it off, some of the most fascinating–and least… [more below]
- Author: Turner, Erin H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: June 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1493023284
- Language: English
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Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846–1890
$13.99 Add to cartA brilliant and riveting history of the famous and infamous massacres that marked the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century.
In Oh What a Slaughter, Larry McMurtry has written a uni- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1476743886
- Language: English
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Wild Women of Michigan: A History of Spunk and Tenacity
$23.99 Add to cartWild Women of Michigan commemorates the women of this state who boldly left their marks.
Countless Michiganian women performed extraordinary acts that challenged and improved the world. Madame Marie-Th
- Author: Lewis, Norma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1467137693
- Language: English
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Lost Car Companies of Detroit
$23.99 Add to cartAmong more than two hundred auto companies that tried their luck in the Motor City, just three remain: Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. But many of those lost to history have colorful stories worth
- Series: Lost
- Author: Naldrett, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1467118737
- Language: English
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The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman–and how its breakup led to the success of America’s most important social mov
- Author: Hirshman, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0063268701
- Language: English
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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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It Happened in New Mexico: Stories of Events and People That Shaped the Land of Enchantment
$16.95 Add to cartFascinating stories about thirty-three events that helped make New Mexico what it is today. Read about Pancho Villa, Charles Bent, Smokey the Bear, and many more, including little-known episodes that
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: Crutchfield, James a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493070401
- Language: English
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Akron Family Recipes: History and Traditions from Sauerkraut Balls to Sweet Potato Pie
$36.99 Add to cartCompiling more than 100 family recipes, founder of the Akron Recipe Project Judy Orr James serves up a history of home cooking in the Rubber City.
From the city’s founding in 1825 through the years fo
- Series: American Palate
- Author: James, Judy Orr
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: July 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1540252809
- 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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Making a New Deal
$29.99 Add to cartThis book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as t… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Cohen, Lizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 566
- Publish Date: November 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1107431794
- Language: English
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River of Blood: American Slavery from the People Who Lived It: Interviews & Photographs of Formerly Enslaved African Americans
$34.95 Add to cartIn the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration’s efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down… [more below]
- Author: Cahan, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0991541855
- Language: English
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Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1786
$15.00 Read moreOn 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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The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers
$24.95 Add to cartThe definitive history of the First Minnesota Volunteers in the Civil War.
- Series: Minnesota
- Author: Moe, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 367
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0873514068
- Language: English
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Rocky Mountain Boom Town: A History of Durango, Colorado
$25.95 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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Santa Fe: 400 Years, 400 Questions
$30.00 Add to cartThis question-and-answer book about Santa Fe, New Mexico contains 400 reminders of what is known and what is sometimes forgotten or misunderstood about a city that was founded more than four hundred y… [more below]
- Author: West, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: July 25 2012
- ISBN10: 0865348766
- Language: English
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When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession
$46.58 Add to cartUsing primary documents from both foreign and domestic observers, prominent scholar Charles Adams makes a powerful and convincing case that the Southern states were legitimately exercising their polit… [more below]
- Author: Adams, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0847697231
- Language: English
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Kaufmann’s: The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store
$17.00 Add to cartIn 1868, Jacob Kaufmann, the nineteen-year-old son of a German farmer, stepped off a ship onto the shores of New York. His brother Isaac soon followed, and together they joined an immigrant community
- Author: Pitz, Marylynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 263
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0822967138
- 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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The Great Hurricane: 1938
$16.00 Add to cartOn the night of September 21,1938, news on the radio was full of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. There was no mention of any severe weather. By the time oceanfront residents noticed an ominous color i… [more below]
- Author: Burns, Cherie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0802142540
- Language: English
