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The World Rushed in: The California Gold Rush Experience
$26.95 Add to cartWhen The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no on
- Author: Holliday, J. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 578
- Publish Date: October 29 2018
- ISBN10: 080613464X
- Language: English
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Indeh: The Apache Odyssey
$24.95 Add to cart“A fascinating account of Apache history and ethnography. All the narratives have been carefully chosen to illustrate important facets of the Apache experience. Moreover, they make very interesting re
- Author: Ball, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0806121653
- Language: English
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Ghost Towns of Arizona
$24.95 Add to cartArizona’s ghost towns exemplify man’s courage, tenacity, and perhaps even foolishness in his search for wealth. Inevitable by-products of the development of gold, silver, copper, and other mineral dep
- Author: Sherman, James E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: February 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0806108436
- Language: English
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The Great Platte River Road
$29.95 Add to cartThe Great Platte River Road through Nebraska and Wyoming was the grand corridor of America’s westward expansion. A number of famous trails converged in the broad valley of the Platte, forming a kind o… [more below]
- Series: Great Plains Photography
- Author: Mattes, Merrill J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: November 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0803281536
- Language: English
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Indian War in the Pacific Northwest: The Journal of Lieutenant Lawrence Kip
$13.95 Add to cartThroughout the 1850s, Native peoples of the inland Northwest actively resisted white encroachments into their traditional territories. Tensions exploded in 1858 when nearly one thousand Palouses, Spok… [more below]
- Author: Kip, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 151
- Publish Date: October 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803277911
- Language: English
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The Negro Cowboys
$19.95 Add to cartMore than five thousand Negro cowboys joined the round-ups and served on the ranch crews in the cattleman era of the West. Lured by the open range, the chance for regular wages, and the opportunity to… [more below]
- Author: Durham, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: October 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0803265603
- Language: English
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The Wild Bunch at Robber’s Roost
$16.95 Add to cartRobbers Roost was a hideout for outlaws and hunted men long before Butch Cassidy found it in 1884. The impenetrable wastes and wilds of this high desert country in southeastern Utah, cut through by ca… [more below]
- Author: Baker, Pearl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 1989
- ISBN10: 080326089X
- Language: English
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Affection and Trust: The Personal Correspondence of Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, 1953-1971
$26.95 Add to cartIn this riveting collection, available for the first time in paperback, we follow Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, two giants of the post-World War II period who were primarily responsible for the Ma
- Author: Truman, Harry S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803245262
- Language: English
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To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian
$19.99 Add to cartCompleted shortly before Ambrose’s untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation’s history through the eyes of one of the twentieth century’s most influential historians.
Ambrose ro- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 07, 2003
- ISBN10: 0743252128
- Language: English
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Georgia: A State History
$26.99 Add to cartGeorgia: A State History, opens a window on our rich and sometimes tragic past and reveals to all of us the fascinating complexity of what it means to be a Georgian.
Georgia’s past has diverged from t
- Series: Making of America (Arcadia)
- Author: Sullivan, Buddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0738585890
- Language: English
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Camp Verde
$24.99 Add to cartIn February 1864, a party of 17 men and two women left the security of the territorial capital at Prescott, Arizona, and headed east into the Verde Valley, homeland of the Yavapai and Apache. Drawn by… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Ayers, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0738579122
- Language: English
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Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why
$27.99 Add to cartThe Warren Commission’s major conclusion was that Lee Harvey Oswald was the “lone assassin” of President John F. Kennedy. Gerald McKnight rebuts that view in a meticulous and devastating dissection of… [more below]
- Author: McKnight, Gerald D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0700619399
- Language: English
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Ambush on Elk Mountain: The Murders, the Manhunt, and Big Nose George Parott
$19.95 Add to cartWinner First place in The Wyoming State Historical Society’s 2014 Awards Program. Ambush on Elk Mountain is the true story of the murder of two deputies in Wyoming Territory during the late eighteen … [more below]
- Author: Atwell, Max R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0692336672
- Language: English
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City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles
$24.95 Add to cartA vivid history of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform Los Angeles
When Walter O’Malley moved his Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 with plans to construct a- Author: Podair, Jerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192790
- Language: English
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Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
$18.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Melissa Faye Greene and her award-winning Praying for Sheetrock, extraordinarily talented debut author Laura Wexler tells the story of the Moore’s Ford Lynching in Walton County, G… [more below]
- Author: Wexler, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0684868172
- Language: English
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Riot and Remembrance: America’s Worst Race Riot and Its Legacy
$18.99 Add to cartWith a new preface, a “profound, chilling, and heartbreaking, contribution to American history” that investigates the causes of the twentieth century’s deadliest race riot and how its legacy has scarr
- Author: Hirsch, James S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0618340769
- Language: English
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1959: The Year Everything Changed
$17.95 Add to cartAcclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America
While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the era of p
- Author: Kaplan, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0470602031
- Language: English
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In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990
$29.99 Add to cartA landmark history of African Americans in the West, In Search of the Racial Frontier rescues the collective American consciousness from thinking solely of European pioneers when considering the explo
- Author: Taylor, Quintard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318893
- Language: English
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The Circus Fire
$16.95 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism–the great Hartford circus fire of 1944.
It was a midsumm- Author: O’Nan, Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0385496850
- Language: English
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American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
$23.00 Add to cartIt is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre, escaped on foot, and eluded capture for twelve days until he met his fie… [more below]
- Author: Kauffman, Michael W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 18 2005
- ISBN10: 0375759743
- Language: English
