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City at the Edge of Forever: Los Angeles Reimagined
$18.00 Add to cartAn engaging account of the uniquely creative spirit and bustling cultural ecology of contemporary Los Angeles
How did Los Angeles start the 20th century as a dusty frontier town and end up a century l- Author: Lunenfeld, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0525561951
- Language: English
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Los Angeles Sports Memories
$21.99 Read moreFor five decades, distinguished sportswriter Doug Krikorian chronicled LA’s most transcendent sports moments. Revisit revered columns enshrining iconic achievements like when rookie Magic Johnson scor… [more below]
- Series: Sports
- Author: Krikorian, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1626199892
- Language: English
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Colorado Frontiersmen: Forts, Fights and Legacies
$23.99 Read moreEarly Icons and Landmarks As western migration came to the Colorado frontier, forts were established to protect the settlers. These forts were intertwined with the lives of the frontiersmen. Scout Tho… [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Wommack, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153656
- Language: English
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Early Hollywood
$24.99 Read moreThe image of Hollywood often translates as some otherworldly dreamscape filled with fantastic lives and fantasy fulfillment. The real deal was carved from the Southern California desert as an outpost … [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Wanamaker, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0738547921
- Language: English
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Rancho Guadalasca: Last Ranch of California’s Central Coast
$23.99 Read moreA journey through Ventura County history.
A Mexican land grant awarded in 1836, Rancho Guadalasca lay at the western end of the Santa Monica Mountains along the eastern Oxnard Plain. Grantee Ysabel Y… [more below]- Series: The History Press
- Author: Delaney, Colleen Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1467151149
- Language: English
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Bakersfield
$23.99 Read moreBakersfield was established in 1863 in the western shadow of the Sierra Nevada at the intersection of two of the country’s defining events: the California Gold Rush and the Civil War. Bakersfield’s fi… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Price, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1467109916
- Language: English
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Historic Tales of Whoop-Up Country: On the Trail from Montana’s Fort Benton to Canada’s Fort MacLeod
$23.99 Read moreWithdrawal of the mighty Hudson Bay Company from present-day Alberta and Saskatchewan created a lawless environment with new economic opportunities. A cross-border trading bond arose with growing stea… [more below]
- Series: Lost
- Author: Robison, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1467146447
- Language: English
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The Woolly West, 44: Colorado’s Hidden History of Sheepscapes
$38.00 Read moreWinner, 2019 National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Western Heritage Award for the Best Nonfiction Book
Winner, 2019 Colorado Book Awards History Category, sponsored by Colorado Center for the B… [more below]- Series: Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest
- Author: Gulliford, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: November 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1623499305
- Language: English
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Common Ground: Multi-Family Housing in Los Angeles
$50.00 Add to cartAs Los Angeles confronts a growing housing crisis, a city known for its single-family housing will inevitably shift toward a greater emphasis on apartments and other types of multi-family housing. And
- Author: Anderton, Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1626400911
- Language: English
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Hollywood Studios
$24.99 Read moreJust after the turn of the 20th century, the motion picture industry moved to the West Coast, and the largest land of make-believe was created in Hollywood, California. From the silent-era beginnings … [more below]
- Series: Postcard History
- Author: Dangcil, Tommy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0738547085
- Language: English
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Early Denver
$24.99 Read moreThe city of Denver was born out of a small mining camp established in the late 1850s. The lure of gold brought countless men and their families to the foot of the great Rocky Mountains, where the Plat… [more below]
- Series: Postcard History
- Author: Bretz, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 20 2012
- ISBN10: 738588857
- Language: English
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Hoover Tower at Stanford University
$23.99 Read moreA Stanford University landmark since 1941, the 285-foot-tall, Art Deco-style Hoover Tower provides a contrasting focal point for the horizontal lines of the Quad’s sandstone arcades. The Quad, begun i… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Danielson, Elena S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1467129208
- Language: English
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University of San Francisco
$24.99 Read moreThe University of San Francisco began in 1855 as a one-room schoolhouse named St. Ignatius Academy. Its founding is interwoven with the establishment of the Jesuit Order in California, European immigr… [more below]
- Series: Campus History
- Author: Ziajka, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 04 2015
- ISBN10: 1467133078
- Language: English
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Lost Lafayette, Colorado
$21.99 Read moreThe gold rush of the 1850s turned Colorado’s treeless prairie into platted towns with thriving centers of commerce. Lafayette’s early Main Street on East Simpson Street was once bustling with blacksmi… [more below]
- Series: Lost
- Author: Conarroe, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1467148237
- Language: English
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Legends, Lore and True Tales of Utah
$23.99 Read moreLegends, Lore and True Tales of Utah explores an eclectic past
Ordinary history books often fail to address the obscure or the unexplained, leaving questions buried in annals of yesteryear. Where were
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Arave, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1467150673
- Language: English
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The San Francisco Doodler Murders
$23.99 Read moreIn 1974, one of San Francisco’s most horrific unsolved serial murder cases began.
In less than two years, the man police called The Doodler took at least five lives, terrorized the LGBTQ community, an
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Zaliznock, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 26 2022
- ISBN10: 146714987X
- Language: English
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Historic Tales of Fort Benton
$23.99 Read more“…more romance, tragedy and vigorous life than many a city a hundred times its size and ten times its age.” – Historian Hiram M. Chittenden
Deep in the heart of Blackfoot country on the Upper Miss
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Robison, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154873
- Language: English
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House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
$14.95 Read moreOn September 11, 1857, some 120 men, women, and children from the Arkansas hills were murdered in the remote desert valley of Mountain Meadows, Utah. This notorious massacre was, in fact, a mass execu
- Author: Novak, Shannon A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 27 2008
- ISBN10: 1607811693
- Language: English
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Secret Denver: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$22.50 Read moreWhere do the tunnels under the Colorado State Capitol go and why were they dug there in the first place? What is the backstory behind Tom’s Baby, the largest piece of gold ever unearthed in Colorado? … [more below]
- Series: Secret
- Author: Peterson, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1681061058
- Language: English
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Kauai
$24.99 Add to cartExplore the beautiful island of Kauai through this magnificent collection of photographs.
Capt. James Cook stood on his ship gazing at the coastline of Kauai and the Hawaiian village of Waimea in 1778.
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Cozad, Stormy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0738556440
- Language: English
