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Visions from San Francisco Bay
$20.00 Add to cartInterrelated essays by the Nobel Laureate on his adopted home of California, which Lewis Hyde, writing in The Nation, called “remarkable, morally serious and thought-provoking essays, which strive to
- Author: Milosz, Czeslaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0374517630
- Language: English
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Historic Yellowstone National Park: The Stories Behind the World’s First National Park
$19.95 Add to cartHistoric Yellowstone National Park captures the most interesting moments in the park’s history, the slices of life in Montana and Wyoming that provide an idea of what life was like for those who chose
- Author: Gourley, Bruce T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493059211
- Language: English
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Galveston: A History of the Island Volume 18
$21.95 Add to cartGalveston–a small, flat island off the Texas Gulf coast–has seen some of the state’s most amazing history and fascinating people. First settled by the Karankawa Indians, long suspected of cannibalis… [more below]
- Series: Chisholm Trail #18
- Author: Cartwright, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0875651909
- Language: English
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Fragile Democracy: The Struggle Over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina
$25.50 Add to cartAmerica is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and under what circumstances. Conservatives speak in ominous tones of vot… [more below]
- Author: Leloudis, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 21 2020
- ISBN10: 146966139X
- Language: English
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Writers Guide To Everyday Life In The Wild West 1840-1900 Pod Ed
$22.00 Add to cartEveryday Life in the Wild West shows you firsthand what it was like to tame the praries, fight the battles and build the boomtowns. From the vittles people ate (including boudins and buffalo humps) to… [more below]
- Author: Moulton, Candy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1582972117
- Language: English
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South Carolina a History
$46.99 Add to cartThe authoritative source for the Palmetto State’s dramatic history
In this comprehensive history of South Carolina, Walter Edgar presents a sweeping chronicle of a state with an illustrious, sometimes
- Author: Edgar, Walter B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 776
- Publish Date: October 02 1999
- ISBN10: 1570032556
- Language: English
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Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State
$45.99 Read moreThis standard textbook on Michigan history covers the entire scope of the Wolverine State’s historical record — from when humankind first arrived in the area around 9,000 B.C. up to 1995. This third… [more below]
- Author: Dunbar, Willis F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 781
- Publish Date: September 05 1995
- ISBN10: 0802870554
- Language: English
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The Spell of New Mexico
$16.95 Add to cartA rich gathering of essays that evoke the unique and mysterious appeal New Mexico has had for some of the twentieth century’s best-known writers. Included are selections by Mary Austin, Oliver La Farg
- Author: Hillerman, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 113
- Publish Date: May 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0826307760
- Language: English
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Step It Up and Go: The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk
$25.00 Add to cartThis book is a love letter to the artists, scenes, and sounds defining North Carolina’s extraordinary contributions to American popular music. David Menconi spent three decades immersed in the state’s… [more below]
- Author: Menconi, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1469676788
- Language: English
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Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome
$24.95 Add to cartIn these pages you will come to fall in love with a ruggedly diverse and strikingly beautiful state, a land that takes hold and won’t let go. Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome is widely recognized as … [more below]
- Author: Howard, Joseph Kinsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 349
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803273398
- Language: English
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Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, Enlarged Edition
$12.95 Add to cartA classic of ethnobotany, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region has been enlarged for this Bison Book edition with thirty drawings, by Bellamy Parks Jansen, of plants discussed by… [more below]
- Author: Gilmore, Melvin R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 165
- Publish Date: April 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0803270348
- Language: English
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Welcome to Florida (Welcome To)
$10.99 Add to cartWelcome to Florida! Whether they’re locals or visitors, young readers will love this bright, cheerful, fact-filled picture book celebration of “The Sunshine State.”
With information about the state’s- Series: Welcome to
- Author: Gilland, Asa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0593178254
- Language: English
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Mojave Desert Trails
$13.95 Add to cartFlorine Lawlor, author of the book, Out From Las Vegas, and columnist for the Las Vegas Sun for 40 years, introduces us to some of her favorite desert haunts and lesser-traveled jeep trails in her boo… [more below]
- Author: Lawlor, Florine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1893343030
- Language: English
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Martha’s Vineyard Tales: From Pirates on Lake Tashmoo to Baxter’s Saloon
$22.00 Add to cartStep back in island time into a time-capsule of Martha’s Vineyard history–the quirky, the gritty, the whimsical, and the hard-to-believe. This collection of stories and unique historical photographs … [more below]
- Author: Baer, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1493034693
- Language: English
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Asylum Scandals: Abuse, Torture, Corruption and Murder in Minnesota’s State Hospitals
$19.95 Add to cartInsane asylums have a horrific history. Originally intended to provide a place to keep away “madness” within society, asylums eventually paved the way for medical professionals to study patients with … [more below]
- Author: Lubeck, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1977256902
- Language: English
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The Blackfeet, Volume 49: Raiders on the Northwestern Plains
$24.95 Add to cartThe Blackfeet were the strongest military power on the northwestern plains throughout the eighteenth century. But the near extinction of buffalo in the late nineteenth century brought dire poverty to
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #49
- Author: Ewers, John C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: May 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0806118369
- Language: English
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Tales Along El Camino Sierra
$13.99 Add to cart“Iconic Highway 395. Originally known as El Camino Sierra, this magical ribbon of blacktop has been taking people on a sentimental journey for over 100 years. Rarely does a roadway invoke such nostalg
- Author: Woodruff, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: February 17 2017
- ISBN10: 069268073X
- Language: English
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Prairyerth: A Deep Map
$24.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. By the author of Blue Highways, PrairyErth is “a majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plains” (Hungry Mind Review).
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- Author: Heat Moon, William Least
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 634
- Publish Date: February 15 1999
- ISBN10: 039592569X
- Language: English
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Rites of Conquest: The History and Culture of Michigan’s Native Americans
$24.95 Read moreA comprehensive and readable history of Native Americans in the Upper Great Lakes region
- Author: Cleland, Charles E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 29 1992
- ISBN10: 0472064479
- Language: English
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Names of New York: Discovering the City’s Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names
$24.00 Read more“A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet.” –Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror
In place-names lie stories. That’s the truth that animates this f- Author: Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1524748927
- Language: English
