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Oregon Coast Highway
$24.99 Add to cartBy the time the final links in the Oregon Coast Highway were made in 1936, the highway stretched 394 miles from Astoria to the border of California. It had taken 12 years to complete the construction … [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Wilt, Laura E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1467103373
- Language: English
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A Renegade History of the United States
$20.00 Add to cartThis provocative perspective on America’s history claims that the country’s personality was defined not by the ideals of the elites and intellectuals, but by those who throughout have lived on the fri… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Thaddeus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1416576134
- Language: English
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Devil’s Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy
$17.00 Add to cartThe revelatory story, now in paperback, of the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrations–and how Brigham Young made it a parable of the indomitable Mormon spirit. – Dramatic re-telling … [more below]
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 11 2009
- ISBN10: 1416539891
- Language: English
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The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory
$23.99 Read moreThe saga of The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory embodies the violence and vigilantism of the Old West
In the early 1880s, desperate characters left over from the fur trade began robbing arrivin
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Berget, Ron N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 1467149713
- Language: English
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Portrait of a City: Lincoln, Nebraska, at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
$29.95 Add to cartOnce just a scattering of houses on the open prairie, by the late nineteenth century the city of Lincoln, Nebraska, had evolved into a modern metropolis. The changes ushered in by the Industrial Revol… [more below]
- Author: Pauley, Bruce F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 149623412X
- Language: English
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Black Cowboys and Early Cattle Drives: On the Trails from Texas to Montana
$23.99 Read moreDust and Determination After the Civil War, emancipated slaves who didn’t want to pick cotton or operate an elevator headed west to find work and a new life. Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving drove … [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Williams, Mrs Nancy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153648
- Language: English
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Oregon Search & Rescue: Answering the Call
$24.99 Read moreOregon’s long tradition of volunteer search and rescue dates back to the territorial days, when Good Samaritans and mountain men came to aid those in need. On the coast, surfmen of the U.S. Life-Savin
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Voelz, Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 146715525X
- Language: English
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The St. Elizabeth Hospital Fire in Iowa
$24.99 Read moreOne of the Largest Tragedies in Iowa History. On January 7, 1950, a fire erupted at St. Elizabeth’s Mental Health Facility for women. The disaster garnered state-wide and national attention as the sec… [more below]
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Grimes, Bret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1467155578
- Language: English
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Detroit Style Pizza: A Doughtown History
$35.99 Add to cartI love Detroit Style Pizza, especially when you see the look on somebody’s face the first time that they try it. As soon as they taste it, they’re ‘Oh, my God. Where has this been all my life?’ Mike S… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Dybis, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: May 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1540257029
- Language: English
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Kodachrome Milwaukee
$39.99 Add to cartExplore long-lost and never-before-seen images of downtown, Mayfair Mall’s Ice Chalet, Brady Street, the Mitchell Park Domes, Milwaukee County Stadium, and much, much more. Introduced by Kodak in 1935… [more below]
- Author: Levin, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: July 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1540257479
- Language: English
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The Big Water: A History of Michigan’s Lower Au Sable River
$16.95 Add to cartAs one of the country’s most popular recreational streams – with an international reputation for fly fishing – the Au Sable River is a crown jewel of Michigan waterways. However, underneath its surfac
- Author: Buhr, Thomas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1961302314
- Language: English
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Timber: Toil and Trouble in the Big Woods
$14.99 Read moreHas anyone today any conception of the grandeur, the extent, the million board feet a day production…the entire meaning of the forests of the Pacific Northwest-the “Big Woods”? The photographs alone… [more below]
- Author: Andrews, Ralph W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: January 20 1997
- ISBN10: 0887400361
- Language: English
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Roadside History of Texas
$24.00 Add to cartTexas history reaches far back in time by North American standards. It is fascinating by anyone’s measure. Modern Texas is woven from the frayed but still firm-and always colorful-strands of its rich … [more below]
- Series: Roadside History (Paperback)
- Author: Metz, C. Leon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: January 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0878422943
- Language: English
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Biscuits Across the Brazos
$14.95 Add to cartThe small boy watched as loving hands wrapped two biscuits in wax paper. He refused to eat Aunt Minnie’s biscuits the next day, sensing that they represented a part of his life that was over. He conti… [more below]
- Author: Ainsworth, Jim H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0865347549
- Language: English
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The First Colonists: Documents on the Planting of the First English Settlements in North America, 1584-1590
$16.00 Add to cartSixteenth-century narratives collected by Richard Hakluyt and drawings by John White offer remarkable firsthand evidence of the first voyages and attempts at colonization of the New World by the Engli… [more below]
- Author: Quinn, David Beers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: January 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0865261954
- Language: English
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Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed: The Struggle for the Powder River Country in 1866 and the Making of the Fetterman Myth
$29.95 Add to cartThe Powder River country of what is now north central Wyoming was one of the most resource-rich regions of the northern plains in the nineteenth century. As U.S. mining interests and white settlement
- Author: Monnett, John H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: July 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0826345042
- Language: English
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High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartHere is the most detailed and most engagingly narrated history to date of the legendary two-year facedown and shootout in Lincoln. Until now, New Mexico’s late nineteenth-century Lincoln County War ha
- Author: Utley, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: February 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0826312012
- Language: English
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The American Dream: A Cultural History
$24.95 Add to cartThere is no better way to understand America than by understanding the cultural history of the American Dream. Rather than just a powerful philosophy or ideology, the Dream is thoroughly woven into th
- Author: Samuel, Lawrence R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 241
- Publish Date: August 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0815610076
- Language: English
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The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People
$24.95 Add to cart“A powerful and stirring story.”–San Antonio Express-News
“An epic tale of desperate, unwitting fugitives who would–without exaggeration–defeat armed forces both white and Indian, make possible set… [more below]
- Author: Porter, Kenneth W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: May 21 2013
- ISBN10: 081304488X
- Language: English
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It Happened in Indiana: Remarkable Events That Shaped History
$14.95 Add to cartThis book offers an inside look at over 25 interesting and unusual episodes that shaped the history of the Hoosier State.
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: Finch, Jackie Sheckler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0762760230
- Language: English
