Les Standiford
-
Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
$19.99 Add to cartThe author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created–William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct–a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one
- Author: Standiford, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062251457
- Language: English
-
Battle for the Big Top: P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus
$17.99 Read moreA New York Times bestselling author writes the untold story of three Golden Age titans and the confrontations, cutthroat business strategies, and eccentric personalities that built the Ringling Bros.,… [more below]
- Author: Standiford, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1541762274
- Language: English
-
Bringing Adam Home
$19.99 Add to cart“Les Standiford’s account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I’ve ever read. A triumph in ev
- Author: Standiford, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0061983918
- Language: English
-
The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’s a Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
$17.00 Add to cartAs uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world–now a major motion picture.
Just before Christmas in 1843, a deb- Author: Standiford, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0307405796
- Language: English
-
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean
$19.00 Add to cartThe fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad–one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell… [more below]
- Author: Standiford, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 05 2003
- ISBN10: 1400049474
- Language: English
