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Area 51
$31.99 Add to cartArea 51, a top secret military installation for testing unacknowledged, or black, projects, lies in a desert valley northwest of Las Vegas. During the Cold War, CIA and Air Force officials chose this … [more below]
- Author: Merlin, Peter W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 21 2011
- ISBN10: 1531650376
- Language: English
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Carmel: A History in Architecture
$31.99 Add to cartCarmel is a microcosm of California’s architectural heritage, sited at one of the most scenic meetings of land and sea in the world. Mission San Carlos Borromeo became a root building for California’s… [more below]
- Author: Seavey, Kent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1531628672
- Language: English
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Voyage of No Return
$27.99 Add to cartAs a boy raised in rural Germany, Thomas Clay enjoyed the quiet farm life but dreamed of someday traveling to the Great America. Now as a teen, still grieving his father’s death, he’s faced with not o
- Author: Clay, Dorian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 11 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218181673
- Language: English
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Rocky Mountain Boom Town: A History of Durango, Colorado
$27.95 Add to cart- Author: Smith, Duane a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: April 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0870812572
- Language: English
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Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles
$21.95 Add to cartFreewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles explores how social, economic, political, and cultural demands created the web of freeways whose very form–futuristic, majestic, and progressive–perfect
- Author: Haddad, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1595801014
- Language: English
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The Columbia
$18.95 Add to cartTHE COLUMBIA commemorates the disciplining and conversion of a wilderness river from a water passageway to a powerhouse and source of irrigation. Here is the story of its explorers who came by boat an
- Author: Holbrook, Stewart H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: June 16 2017
- ISBN10: 1941890083
- Language: English
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San Diego Lowriders: A History of Cars and Cruising
$33.99 Add to cartSan Diego’s unique lowrider culture and community has a long history of “low and slow.” Cruising the streets from 1950 to 1985, twenty-eight lowrider car clubs made their marks in the San Diego neighb… [more below]
- Author: Pulido, Alberto Lopez
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: April 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1540215865
- Language: English
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Legends, Lore & True Tales in Mormon Country
$31.99 Add to cartUtah’s Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area offers breathtaking natural resources, powerful historical drama and intriguing cultural traditions. This rich legacy is built on old-world values of coope… [more below]
- Author: Bona, Monte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: May 18 2015
- ISBN10: 1540213579
- Language: English
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Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody: Plainsmen of the Legendary West
$39.50 Add to cartTwo soldiers, scouts, and showmen who left a lasting legacy, Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody. Author Bill Markley offers a thoughtful and entertaining examination of these legendary lives in th
- Author: Markley, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 502
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1493048422
- Language: English
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Grand Teton National Park
$24.99 Add to cartThe majestic beauty of Grand Teton National Park has moved people throughout time. Native Americans believed in the spiritual power of the towering mountain peaks and journeyed there to gain special p… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Fuller, Kendra Leah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1467131482
- 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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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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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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The Texas Rangers
$24.99 Add to cartThe Texas Rangers. The words evoke exciting images of daring, courage, high adventure. The Rangers began as a handful of men protecting their homes from savage raiding parties; now in their third cent… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Parsons, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 02 2011
- ISBN10: 0738579823
- Language: English
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Mount Shasta
$24.99 Read moreFor thousands of years, native inhabitants revered this snowcapped volcano, its craggy peaks, thick forests, crystal waters, and abundant wildlife. “Lonely as god and white as a winter moon, Mount Sha… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Greb Mazariegos, Darla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 073855572X
- Language: English
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Puget’s Sound: A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound
$29.95 Add to cartWith the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road, Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of Tacoma, “the City of Destiny,” and southern P
- Author: Morgan, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0295744235
- Language: English
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The American West: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPart geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popular culture has carved out a short and specific time a… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Aron, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0199858934
- Language: English
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La Quinta
$39.99 Add to cartLa Quinta lies nestled in the beautiful Santa Rosa mountain range of Southern California. Unique landforms and Cahuilla cultural heritage, combined with early agricultural and commercial endeavors and… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: La Quinta Historical Society
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: January 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1540245535
- Language: English
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Guardians of Angels: A History of the Los Angeles Police Department Anniversary Edition
$29.95 Add to cartFor 150 years, LAPD officers have pinned on a badge, holstered a gun and traveled the corridors of history, leaving behind the rich traditions that are today’s LAPD. Guardians of Angels is a penetrati
- Author: Bultema, James a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0997425148
- Language: English
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Decent, Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes
$24.95 Add to cartThe deadliest campaign of vigilante justice in American history erupted in the Rocky Mountains during the Civil War when a private army hanged twenty-one troublemakers. Hailed as great heroes at the t
- Author: Allen, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: March 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0806140380
- Language: English
