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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250070395Author James L HaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984880093Author Bryan BurroughFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult

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Jonathan Raban's enthralling journey into the history of the Great Plains of Montana - the least populated, most uncharted region of the United States - to uncover the heart and soul of the country.Bringing to life the extraordinary landscape of the...

"WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!" In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped would be the most rewarding journey of a lifetime. But in...

An incisive, evocative history of the experience of empire in the Oceanic world This compelling book explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain...

In June of 1876, on a hill above a river called the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this stunning defeat caused an uproar, and those involved...

Borderwall as Architecture is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest...

The definitive, fully illustrated state-by-state atlas of the shifting alignments, historic sites, and current points of interest along the United States' beloved Route 66.Route 66 changed immensely in the six decades between its opening in 1926 and its...

James Ellroy, the undisputed master of crime writing, has teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Museum to present a stunning text on 1953 LA. While combing the museum's photo archives, Ellroy discovered that the year featured a wide array of stark and...

"So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles."-Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling authorFrom Spur Award-winning author Mark Lee Gardner, his classic dual biography of Billy the Kid and Sheriff Pat Garrett,...

In 1978, San Francisco, a city that has seen more than its share of trauma, plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it seemed almost demonic. The battles over property taxes and...

In 1769, Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portola dedicated the new town: Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles - Our Lady the Queen of the Angels. Since then the city has been a colorful melting pot of cultures. Wagon trains brought pioneers in...

From the first wagon trains to the building of the railroads, the story of the American West is epic in scope, full of amazing stories of grit, tragedy, and triumph. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and maps, this is the definitive history of a time...

This first full-length biography of the Nobel Laureate to appear in a quarter century explores John Steinbeck's long apprenticeship as a writer struggling through the depths of the Great Depression, and his rise to greatness with masterpieces such as The...

Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Few studies since have been able to match its scope and magnitude, offering one of the most comprehensive looks at black life in America...

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious expedition leader and three amateur boatmen. With its churning rapids, sheer cliffs and boat-shattering boulders, the Colorado...

Since its introduction to Hawai'i in 1879, the 'ukulele has been many things: a symbol of an island paradise; a tool of political protest; an instrument central to a rich musical culture; a musical joke; a highly sought-after collectible; a cheap airport...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156899826Author Ivan DoigFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467142120Author Mark A BarnhouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm...

On December 11, 1966, a mysterious assassin shot Henry Stockton to death, set his house on fire, and left the scene without a trace. A year later, when a woman was found brutally killed, shreds of evidence suggested a connection between the two murders...

** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **** AN AMAZON "BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH" FOR AUGUST 2023 (Biographies & Memoirs) ** As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led search and rescue missions in some of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250801555Author Tom ClavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 188mm *...

Water and Power in West Maui draws our attention to the ways control of water resources, in West Maui and across Hawai'i, has been key to the creation and perpetuation of political and economic power and privilege. This volume, by two leading advocates...

By the time he became president in 1801, Thomas Jefferson had already been looking west for decades. He saw the country's population expanding and he judged that America's territory must expand too, lest America become as crowded and conflict-prone as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915316059Author Will YorkFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress

Many people first encounter Hawai'i through the imagination-a postcard picture of hula girls, lu'aus, and plenty of sun, surf, and sea. While Hawai'i is indeed beautiful, Native Hawaiians struggle with the problems brought about by colonialism, military...

This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled doves, and other wicked women by award-winning Western history author Chris Enss offers a glimpse into Western Women's...

Travel along the Oregon Trail with the pioneers who dared to "face the elephant" as they moved west in search of a new life. Compiled from the trail diaries and memoirs that document this momentous period in American history, Oregon Trail Stories is a...

Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed,"When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West," and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State to explore its singular place in the world. This is California...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780770435837Author Paul Andrew HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)...

Celebrity gossip meets history in this compulsively readable collection from Buzzfeed reporter Anne Helen Peterson. This guide to film stars and their deepest secrets is sure to top your list for movie gifts and appeal to fans of classic cinema and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593199657Author Robert GraysmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Histories of the US sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an epicenter of that decade's political and social earthquake. L.A. was a launchpad for Black Power-where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816500864Author John H.M. LaslettFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 330g

Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star is a biography of John B. "Texas Jack" Omohundro, the first well-known cowboy in America. A Confederate scout and spy from Virginia, Jack left for Texas within weeks of Lee's surrender at Appomattox. In Texas, he...

From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be racially almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean...

Part 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 and place for the region, author and longtime...

Set in a wild and immaculate landscape threatened by industry and environmental degradation, a compassionate and gripping exploration of one of the world's most baffling mysteries-the existence of the Sasquatch On the central and north coast of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812977530Author Kevin StarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...