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Part of the self-image of Phoenix is that the city has no history and that anything of importance happened yesterday. Also that Phoenix is a ""clean"" city, though there is considerable evidence of a past of police corruption and social oppression. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738596976Author Livermore Heritage GuildFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975919613Author Montana Historical Society PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Montana Historical Society PressPublisher Montana Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467156905Author MS MolinaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626401297Author James HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Angel City Press,U.S.Publisher Angel City Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 850g

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Brothers Ethan and Hosea Grosh left Pennsylvania in 1849, joining young men from all over the world intent on making a fortune in the Cali-fornia Gold Rush. Their search for wealth took them across Mexico, by land and sea to San Francisco, to gold...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646425440Author Mike MilliganFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626401273Author Geraldine KnatzFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Angel City PressPublisher Angel City PressWeight(grams) 27g

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As author of the "Wilderness Letter" and major award-winning novels, histories, essays, and biographies, Wallace Stegner worked throughout his life to protect western lands, places, and peoples. His writing was and remains an inspiration and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646424122Author Judy Y KawamotoFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

Catherine Fowler chronicles a significant yet little-known program for Girl Scouts in post-WWII America. At a time when women were just beginning to enter fields traditionally dominated by men, these two-week camping caravans and archaeological...

A legend in his own lifetime, John Hance (1837-1919) was synonymous with early Grand Canyon tourism. Between the late 1880s and early 1900s, to say "John Hance" was to say "Grand Canyon." Hance was well known to travelers and visiting...

In 1932, unemployment in Utah was about 34 percent. Nearly every state west of the Mississippi River was struggling not only with unemployment but also with drought, erosion, and overgrazing. To solve these serious difficulties, President Franklin D...

As David Kennedy points out in his foreword, the West was once seen as a beacon of opportunity, and it is still a place where many ways of life can flourish. But it is also a region that leaves some people isolated both culturally and geographically. The...

Here is a look at the life and legacy of an irrepressible innovator. Pushing against both social convention and technological boundaries, L.L. Nunn left enduring marks on economic and social history, labor development, and, educational reform. The...

The canyon country of southern Utah and northern Arizona—a celebrated desert of rock and sand punctuated by gorges and mesas—is a region hotly contested among vying and disparate interests, from industrial developers to wilderness preservation advocates...

Jacob Hamblin has long been one of the most enigmatic figures in Mormon history. In this defining biography, Todd Compton reconstructs the fascinating life of the frontiersman, coloniser, missionary to the Indians, and explorer of the American West. With...

On September 11, 1857, some 120 men, women, and children from the Arkansas hills were murdered in the remote desert valley of Mountain Meadows, Utah. This notorious massacre was, in fact, a mass execution: having surrendered their weapons, the victims...

The image of the Jew solely as urbanite may stem from the period of 1880 to 1920, when two million Jews left their homes in Eastern Europe and established themselves in the urban centres of America. Lesser known are the agrarian efforts of Jewish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607325451Author Cile M. BachFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874218633Author Erin Ann ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams) 526g

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Pyramid Lake is one of the largest lakes in the Great Basin, the terminus of the Truckee River flowing from Lake Tahoe into northern Nevada. This desert oasis, with a surface area of nearly two hundred square miles, is a unique geological feature and was...

The first comprehensive study of the park, past and present, Death Valley National Park probes the environmental and human history of this most astonishing desert. Established as a national monument in 1933, Death Valley was an anomaly within the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870819551Author Karin LarkinFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 693g

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California would be a different place today without the imprint of Spanish culture and the legacy of Indian civilization. The colonial Spanish missions that dot the coast and foothills between Sonoma and San Diego are relics of a past that transformed...