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Badasses of the Old West brings together thirty-six tales of the worst (and best) robbers, rustlers, and bandits who shaped the history of the Wild West in one compelling volume. From the famous, such as Billy the Kid and the Wild Bunch, to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738580531Author Starley TalbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

This is not your grandfather's history of Texas. Portraying nineteenth-century Texas as a cauldron of racist violence, Gary Clayton Anderson shows that the ethnic warfare dominating the Texas frontier can best be described as ethnic cleansing. The...

Laurie Mercier's look at "community unionism" examines the distinctive culture of cooperation and activism fostered by residents in Anaconda, Montana, home to the world's largest copper smelter and the namesake of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company...

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The mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in United States history. Removed from their homes on the temperate Pacific Coast, Japanese Americans spent...

Mann Gulch, Montana, 1949. Sixteen men ventured into hell to fight a raging wildfire; only three came out alive. Searing the fire into the nation's consciousness, Norman Maclean chronicled the Mann Gulch tragedy in his award-winning book Young Men and...

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Dame Shirley's insightful narrative of life in new mining communities at the height of the California Gold Rush are lively and poignant, shedding light on the social life that accompanied this famous chapter in history. Collected and republished, these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978588120Author MR Harry KelseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Liber Apertus PressPublisher Liber Apertus PressWeight(grams) 213g

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Boundaries - lines imposed on the landscape - shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the communities with which we identify. In Creating the American West, historian Derek R. Everett...

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The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelectricity. Their construction also put thousands of people to work during the...

During the spring semester of 1975, Wayne Woodward, a popular young English teacher at La Plata Junior High School in Hereford, Texas, was unceremoniously fired. His offense? Founding a local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)...

At 14,259 feet, Longs Peak towers over Colorado’s northern Front Range. A prized location for mountaineering since the 1870s, Longs has been a place of astonishing climbing feats—and, unsurprisingly, of significant risk and harm. Careless and unlucky...

Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888395375Author Maximilian WernerFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Hancock House PublishersPublisher Hancock House PublishersWeight(grams) 140g

Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Utah, 2nd Edition. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach, and train robbers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned...

This is not your grandfather's history of Texas. Portraying nineteenth-century Texas as a cauldron of racist violence, Gary Clayton Anderson shows that the ethnic warfare dominating the Texas frontier can best be described as ethnic cleansing. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983067269Author ML TiernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Maryleetiernan.comPublisher Maryleetiernan.comWeight(grams) 54g

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A cultural history of America's red rock desert landmarks The Colorado River Plateau is home to two of the best-known landscapes in the world: Rainbow Bridge in southern Utah and Monument Valley on the Utah-Arizona border. Twentieth-century popular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997425130Author James a BultemaFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint P.D. PublishingPublisher P.D. PublishingWeight(grams) 1411g

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The cattleman didn't vanish with the fencing of the open range. He is very much with us today--this two-fisted, hard-driving citizen of the pastures from El Paso to Butte. He is a very special kind of American, not solely because of the romantic history...

Colorado's Ten Mile Mining District was north of Leadville and south of Copper Mountain. Sandwiched between two mountain ranges, fully two miles above sea level, the district had a remarkable history that was a microcosm of the mining West. The first...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788407017Author Ed FerrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 413g

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Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of California 2, with compelling legends of the Golden State's most despicable desperadoes. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with...

Following "The Texas Rangers", his magnificent history of the nineteenth century Texas Rangers, Mike Cox now takes readers from 1900 to the present, from horseback to helicopters, from the frontier cattle days through the crime-ridden boom or bust...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983067214Author ML TiernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Maryleetiernan.comPublisher Maryleetiernan.comWeight(grams) 54g

Prostitution, gambling, and saloons were a vital, if not universally welcome, part of life in frontier boomtowns. In Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory, Catherine Holder Spude explores the rise and fall of these enterprises in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997558210Author Jerald PopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Hare Brand Ideas, LLCPublisher Hare Brand Ideas, LLCWeight(grams) 151g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788453571Author Sonoma Co Genealogical SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 216g

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