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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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The Old Leather Man: Historical Accounts of a Connecticut and New York Legend
$35.00 Read moreFascinating documentation of a mysterious figure
In 1883, wearing a sixty-pound suit sewn from leather boot-tops, a wanderer known only as the Leather Man began to walk a 365 mile loop between the Conn
- Series: Garnet Books
- Author: DeLuca, Dan W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0819568627
- Language: English
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Shipwrecks of Lake Erie: Tragedy in the Quadrangle
$21.99 Add to cartLake Erie has seen its share of disasters, claiming more ships per square mile than any other body of freshwater. Read the mysteries of its most mysterious and notorious wrecks and disappearances.
The
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Frew, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 162619551X
- Language: English
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A History Lover’s Guide to Baltimore
$23.99 Read moreNeither southern nor northern, Baltimore has charted its own course through the American experience. The spires of the nation’s first cathedral rose into its sky, and the first blood of the Civil War … [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Jensen, Brennen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1467145769
- Language: English
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Haunted Graveyard of the Pacific
$21.99 Add to cartDespite its idyllic setting, the coast of the Pacific Northwest has another, darker name by which it is known: the Graveyard of the Pacific. Two thousand ships and countless lives have been lost to th… [more below]
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Kitmacher, Ira Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1467149500
- Language: English
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Tall Trees, Tough Men
$26.99 Add to cartThe New England loggers and river drivers were a unique breed of men. Working with their axes and peaveys through Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, they contributed mightily to the development of the… [more below]
- Series: Vivid, Anecdotal History of Logging and Log-Driving in New E
- Author: Pike, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319172
- Language: English
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An Illustrated History of New Mexico
$24.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1992 and available now only from UNM Press, An Illustrated History of New Mexico combines more than two hundred photographs and a concise history to create an engaging, panoram
- Author: Chavez, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 267
- Publish Date: July 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0826330517
- Language: English
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Hardship to Homeland: Pacific Northwest Volga Germans (Revised, Expanded)
$24.95 Add to cartHardship to Homeland recounts Volga Germans’ unique story in a saga that stretches from Germany to Russia and across the Atlantic. Burdened by war and debt, life was extremely difficult for impoverish
- Author: Scheuerman, Richard D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0874223628
- 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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Katrina: A History, 1915-2015
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the Bancroft Prize
“The main thrust of Horowitz’s account is to make us understand Katrina–the civ
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year- Author: Horowitz, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271076
- 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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And Hell Followed with It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado
$24.95 Read moreColossal trees snap like matchsticks. A gigantic orange fireball explodes in the funnel’s black core. Horses are sucked up and spit out alive by 200-mile-per-hour winds. These were just a few of the s… [more below]
- Author: Menninger, Bonar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 327
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1934572497
- Language: English
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Snake Eyes: Murder in a Southern Town
$25.95 Add to cartBy 1966, Hot Springs, Arkansas wasn’t your typical sleepy little Southern town. Once a favorite destination for mobsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, illegal activities continued to lure out-of-s
- Author: Martin, Bitty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1633887766
- 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 Read moreCome 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
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An Eye for Injustice: Robert C. Sims and Minidoka
$21.95 Add to cartAs wartime hysteria mounted following the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, and the U.S. government began forcibly relocating all West
- Author: Stacy, Susan M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0874223768
- Language: English
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A Short History of Sonoma
$21.95 Add to cartSonoma is one of Northern California’s most desirable places to live and a popular tourist destination, combining small-town charm, a colorful past, and its current role as the hub of one of the world… [more below]
- Author: Downey, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0874179122
- Language: English
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Bathroom Book of Wisconsin Trivia: Weird, Wacky and Wild
$14.95 Add to cartThis entertaining collection of trivia includes such tidbits as the reason why Wisconsin is really called the Badger State, the state’s claim to being the milk capital of the US, the amazing record of… [more below]
- Series: Bathroom Book
- Author: Conard, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1897278349
- Language: English
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False Start: How the New Browns Were Set Up to Fail
$15.95 Add to cart” A book] NFL fans in general and Browns’ fans in particular will definitely want to read … a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at how the new Browns were created and what’s kept them from making
- Author: Pluto, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 161
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1938441966
- Language: English
