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A Creek, a Hill, & a Forty: The early years of Alaska’s Matanuska Colony, seen through a colonist’s letters home-Margaret Miller’s story
$19.95 Add to cartA Creek, a Hill & a Forty is a firsthand narrative of the early years of Alaska’s Matanuska Colony-with the story told through the personal letters of one colonist, Margaret Miller.
Margaret, along wi
- Author: Bonnell, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1736423665
- Language: English
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Buffalo Soldiers in California: Charles Young and the Ninth Cavalry, 1902-1904
$26.95 Add to cartWhen Captain Charles Young and the Ninth U.S. Cavalry stepped ashore in San Francisco in 1902, Young was only one of three Black officers serving in the U.S. Army. He had graduated from West Point as … [more below]
- Author: Shellum, Brian G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496238516
- Language: English
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Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of an Era 1850-1950
$45.00 Add to cartDiscover of a lost Los Angeles from an era before the freeways in this beautiful coffee table book from iconic architectural photographer Arnold Hylen.
Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of An Era
- Author: Hylen, Arnold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1626401330
- Language: English
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Pacific Palisades
$31.99 Add to cartPacific Palisades owes its name to its geography. The cliffs looming above the beach reminded the early developers of the Hudson River Palisades in New York. The name for this eventually affluent coas… [more below]
- Author: Loomis, Jan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 05 2009
- ISBN10: 1531645682
- Language: English
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Twisting in Air: The Sensational Rise of a Hollywood Falling Horse
$24.95 Add to cartTwisting in Air chronicles the gritty and glittery era when an extraordinary group of horses made Western movies come alive and explores how one of them, Cocaine, overcame a debilitating injury to bec… [more below]
- Author: Bradley, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496239008
- Language: English
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The Beartooth Highway: A History of America’s Most Beautiful Drive
$21.99 Add to cartTraversing the spectacular Beartooth Highway in Montana and Wyoming is an unforgettable experience. The unspoiled mountain scenery along the highway inspired famed news correspondent Charles Kuralt to… [more below]
- Series: Transportation
- Author: Axline, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1467135798
- Language: English
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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 War of the Copper Kings: Greed, Power, and Politics
$22.95 Add to cartThe famous account of the greedy battles between the three Copper Kings of Butte, Montana.
- Author: Glasscock, C. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1931832218
- Language: English
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The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at Uc Berkeley
$30.00 Add to cartThe incendiary story of conquest, racism, warfare, and historical amnesia at one of the world’s most celebrated and ostensibly enlightened public universities.
“This is a land acknowledgment.” —Ruth W
- Author: Platt, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1597146218
- Language: English
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Copper Camp: The Lusty Story of Butte, Montana
$22.95 Add to cartCopper Camp is a Montana classic. First published in 1943 and long out of print, Copper Camp is available again, bigger and better than ever with 25 new historical photos chosen specifically for this … [more below]
- Author: Writers Project of Montana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1931832048
- Language: English
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No Ordinary Journey: Stories of Men on the Overland Trails
$18.95 Add to cart- Author: O’Brien, Mary Barmeyer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1560378387
- Language: English
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The Red Coast: Radicalism and Anti-Radicalism in Southwest Washington
$24.95 Read moreThe Red Coast is a lively and readable informal history of the labor, left-wing, and progressive activists who lived, worked, and organized in southwest Washington State from the late nineteenth centu… [more below]
- Author: Goings, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 20 2019
- ISBN10: 087071967X
- Language: English
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The Value of Hawaiʻi 3: Hulihia, the Turning
$24.99 Read more“Hulihia” refers to massive upheavals that change the landscape, overturn the normal, reverse the flow, and sweep away the prevailing or assumed. We live in such days. Pandemics. Threats to ʻ
- Series: Biography Monographs
- Author: Goodyear-Ka’ōpua, Noelani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0824889185
- Language: English
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Spokane and the Inland Empire: An Interior Pacific Northwest Anthology
$21.95 Add to cartEssential aspects about the prehistory, history, geography, and architecture of the Inland Pacific Northwest are presented here in one succinct volume. This landmark collection features essays by note
- Author: Stratton, David H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 087422277X
- Language: English
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Death at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles
$21.99 Read moreBuilt during Los Angeles’s rapid growth in the Roaring Twenties, the Beaux Arts-style Cecil Hotel was briefly a glimmering downtown landmark until it became one of the most infamous sites of violence … [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Perelman, Dale Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1467150185
- Language: English
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Idaho Madams
$16.95 Read moreIdaho Madams uncovers the enigmatic & salacious lives of 30 women who ran brothels in the Gem State from the 1850s to the 1980s.
- Author: Marsenich, Milana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 156037750X
- Language: English
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Utah’s Hidden Treasure: Outlaw Loot in Every County
$16.99 Add to cartStrike it rich in your own backyard This comprehensive guide to treasure-hunting across Utah proves you don’t need to go far to have an adventure. With detailed maps, stories, and records from the da… [more below]
- Author: Shaffer, Stephan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1462120563
- Language: English
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Southern California Funny Cars
$23.99 Add to cartSouthern California was the birthplace of organized drag racing, with the first organized race held at the Santa Ana airport in 1949 and the subsequent founding of the National Hot Rod Association in … [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Reyes, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 146710972X
- Language: English
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Marcus Daly’s Road to Montana
$23.99 Add to cartThe Making of a Copper King! Born in 1841 to tenant farmers, Marcus Daly came from rural Ireland to New York as a boy. Having learned the big city’s harsh lessons, he traveled west to the gold… [more below]
- Author: Wahler, Brenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153591
- Language: English
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Boudoirs to Brothels: The Intimate World of Wild West Women
$14.95 Add to cartCome peek between the covers for an intimate look at the lives of women of the Old West. Once “fallen” or widowed, a woman had few options and almost none that were socially acceptable. Many turned to… [more below]
- Author: Rutter, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 189
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1560376007
- Language: English
