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Hollywoodland
$24.99 Read moreEstablished by real estate developers Tracy E. Shoults and S. H. Woodruff in 1923, Hollywoodland was one of the first hillside developments built in Hollywood. Touting its class and sophistication, th… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Mallory, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0738574783
- Language: English
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This Week in Estes Park: The Story of Our Town
$17.00 Add to cartEstes Park, Colorado has a fascinating history. The Estes family, first pioneer settlers; Lord Dunraven and Isabella Bird; Griff Evans and “Rocky Mountain Jim;” naturalist Enos Mills; Longs Peak, Rock
- Author: Busch, Mel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: December 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0692181830
- Language: English
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Montana Historic Places on the National Register: From Banks and Barns to Bridges and Battlefields
$20.00 Read moreMore than one thousand locations in Montana are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, from venerable mansions and hotels to less traditional sites of battlefields and buffalo jumps. This… [more below]
- Author: Ober, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0878427066
- Language: English
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Humbled: How California’s Monterey Bay Escaped Industrial Ruin
$36.00 Add to cartIn early 1965, Humble Oil and Refining Company Co. (now ExxonMobil) planned to expand to the West Coast by building an oil refinery in the heart of some of California’s most beautiful scenic coastline
- Author: Church, Glenn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: September 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1735109207
- Language: English
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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
$17.95 Read moreOn March 6, 1900, the bubonic plague took its first victim on American soil: Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown–but when cor
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358151
- Language: English
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Haunted Helena:: Montana’s Queen City Ghosts
$21.99 Add to cartHelena was born of the gold rush, nurtured by the wealth of its financiers and raised on its political struggles. The lawless gold camp and its vigilante hangings left an indelible imprint on the mode… [more below]
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Baumler, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1609499344
- Language: English
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Betting Booze and Brothels: Vice, Corruption, and Justice in Jefferson County, Texas
$24.95 Add to cartBy the turn of the twentieth century, Beaumont, Texas had acquired a reputation as a rough place. Situated in the oil-soaked chaos of Spindletop, Jefferson County was a hotbed of vice. For decades, ga
- Author: Landrey, Wanda a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1571689176
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Utah
$31.99 Add to cartIn the 1840s, land west of the Missouri River was a new frontier for courage, adventure, freedom and true grit. During this era and the decades that followed, Utah became the focal point for many brav… [more below]
- Author: Stone, Eileen Hallet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: November 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1540209555
- Language: English
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The 1959 Yellowstone Earthquake
$21.99 Add to cart- Series: Disaster
- Author: Morris, Larry E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1467119962
- Language: English
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California’s Channel Islands: A History
$21.95 Add to cartPrehistoric foragers, conquistadors, missionaries, adventurers, hunters, and rugged agriculturalists parade across the histories of these little-known islands on the horizon of twenty-first century So
- Author: Chiles, Frederic C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: September 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0806146877
- Language: English
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History of the Sierra Nevada, Revised and Updated
$37.43 Add to cartFrom the time it was sighted by Spanish explorers in the eighteenth century through the creation of the John Muir trail, the building of the Hetch Hetchy Dam, and the founding of the Sierra Club, the … [more below]
- Author: Farquhar, Francis P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: October 15 2007
- ISBN10: 520253957
- Language: English
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The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State: A History of Montana’s Cemeteries
$19.95 Add to cartThe Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State is a groundbreaking history of death in Montana. It offers a unique, reflective, and sensitive perspective on the evolution of customs and burial grounds… [more below]
- Author: Baumler, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496214803
- Language: English
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The Heart of California: Exploring the San Joaquin Valley
$24.95 Add to cart2022 Oregon Book Award Finalist
Aaron Gilbreath uses his keen eye and environmental consciousness, historical records, and the occasional imaginative flight to give us an invaluable portrait of an over
- Author: Gilbreath, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496218639
- Language: English
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Tascosa: Its Life and Gaudy Times
$24.95 Add to cartAs well as being the center of ranching activity in the Panhandle, Tascosa also became the last best hiding place in Texas for killers on the run, horse thieves, tinhorn gamblers, hair-trigger shootis… [more below]
- Author: Nolan, Frederick W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 361
- Publish Date: September 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1682830284
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Fort Collins
$21.99 Add to cartFrom its Wild West days to the early twentieth century, Fort Collins boasted its share of colorful characters. British import Edith Boothroyd saved a mare from meeting a tragic fate after the bridge s… [more below]
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Fleming, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 23 2017
- ISBN10: 1625858949
- Language: English
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Highway 99: The History of California’s Main Street
$22.95 Add to cartBefore it was a modern freeway, California’s State Highway 99 was “the main street of California,” a simple two-lane road that passed through the downtowns of every city between the Mexican border and… [more below]
- Series: California’s Historic Highways #1
- Author: Provost, Stephen H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1610352963
- Language: English
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Lost Restaurants of Sacramento and Their Recipes
$23.99 Add to cartFrom saloons and tamale vendors to greasy spoons and neon-lit drive-ins, Sacramento natives Maryellen Burns and Keith Burns trace the trends of California’s capital city through 150 years of dining ou… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Burns, Maryellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1609499735
- Language: English
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Surfing Newport Beach: The Glory Days of Corona del Mar
$31.99 Add to cartCorona del Mar was once California’s premier surfing spot, holding the sport’s first Pacific Coast competition in 1928. Attempts to tame Corona and to make the Newport Beach harbor mouth safe for wate… [more below]
- Author: Burnett, Claudine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: July 16 2013
- ISBN10: 1540232654
- Language: English
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Lost Restaurants of Sacramento and Their Recipes
$33.99 Add to cartFrom saloons and tamale vendors to greasy spoons and neon-lit drive-ins, Sacramento natives Maryellen Burns and Keith Burns trace the trends of California’s capital city through 150 years of dining ou… [more below]
- Author: Burns, Maryellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1540208249
- Language: English
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Vail: The First 50 Years
$31.99 Add to cartPrior to 1962, sheep ranchers and homesteaders occupied Gore Creek Valley. A sleepy place studded with aspen and pine groves, the valley lay ripe for discovery. Two men, Pete Seibert and Earl Eaton, h… [more below]
- Author: Welch, Shirley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 27 2012
- ISBN10: 1531664431
- Language: English
