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The story of the Welsh who emigrated to North America on the Mormon Trail. Between 1847 and 1869, about 4,500 Welsh people crossed the Great Plains and the Rockies by ox-cart, through the history of the early West. The Indian Wars, the Civil War, Buffalo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385341592Author Joseph WambaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Delta (imprint of Dell Publishing)Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford co-founded a university to honour their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738581323Author Karie BibleFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The word cowboy conjures up vivid images of rugged men on saddled horses-men lassoing cattle, riding bulls, or brandishing guns in a shoot-out. White men, as Hollywood remembers them. What is woefully missing from these scenes is their counterparts: the...

It's hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders, the region glitters with the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation. But behind this image lies another Silicon Valley, one segregated by...

Religion and the American West offers a lavishly illustrated and comprehensive overview of the ways religion has shaped the idea of the American West and how the region has influenced broader religious and racial categories. Starting when the concept of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738530857Author Stephen R. NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 291g

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...

A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox history of America's West has been updated to incorporate new research, including recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626401259Author Kathy KikkertFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Angel City Press,U.S.Publisher Angel City Press,U.S.

Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco's portal to the world-the terminus of the transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In silent films and World's Fair postcards, nothing said "San Francisco"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626194595Author Linda J. BottjerFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm)...

Crafts and Skills of the Mountain Man is a fascinating, practical guide to the skills that have made the mountain men famous worldwide as outdoorsmen and craftsmen. Readers can replicate outdoor living by trying a hand at making rafts and canoes,...

In the years between 1940 and 2000, the American Far West went from being a relative backwater of the United States to a considerably more developed, modern, and prosperous region-one capable of influencing not just the nation but the world. By the dawn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9781890834036Author Jim StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Palm...

A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for WILLA Literary Award (Scholarly Nonfiction) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781560374497Author Sarah CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 295Imprint Farcountry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250178169Author Tom ClavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

This comprehensive treatment of the smelting industry of Colorado, originally published in 1979, is now back in print with a new preface by the author. Packed with fascinating statistics and mining data, Ores to Metals details the people, technologies,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931832045Author Writers Project of MontanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Riverbend PublishingPublisher Riverbend Publishing

Denver's Lakeside Amusement Park details the history of Lakeside, exploring how it has managed to remain in business for more than a century (something fewer than thirty amusement parks have accomplished) and offers a unique view on larger changes in...

Whether they were utopian communitarians, sun-seeking gurus, or Protestant health reformers, Southern California's spiritual seekers drew on the United States' deepening global encounters and consumer cultures to pair religious and personal reinvention...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733489720Author Bernard MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 678Imprint Wordsworth LLCPublisher Wordsworth LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781462120567Author Stephan ShafferFormat PaperbackImprint Plain Sight PublishingPublisher Plain Sight PublishingWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609495930Author Ruth WallachFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 227g

A multiracial history of civil rights coalitions beyond the farm worker movement in twentieth-century Bakersfield, California. In Civil Rights in Bakersfield, Oliver Rosales uncovers the role of the multiracial west in shaping the course of US civil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954118171Author Katie HickmanFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Spiegel & GrauPublisher Spiegel & Grau

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943829347Author Eric SwabFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Rhyolite Press LLCPublisher Rhyolite Press LLCWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634993760Author Mary Katherine Doyle RsmFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams)...

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 9781626400269Author Tom ZimmermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Angel City PressPublisher Angel City PressWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970253262Author Kay TurnbaughFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Perigo PressPublisher Perigo PressWeight(grams) 630g

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In 1932, 60 percent of Washington State voters approved a state income tax. Within less than a year, the measure was struck down as unconstitutional by the state supreme court. Over half a century later, Washington remains one of only eight states...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620973066Author Kathryn S. OlmstedFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint The New PressPublisher The New Press

In Seattle's Women Teachers of the Interwar Years, Doris Pieroth describes the contributions of a remarkable group of women who dominated the Seattle public school system in the early years of the twentieth century and helped to produce well-educated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874223293Author Kris Runberg SmithFormat PaperbackImprint Washington State University PressPublisher Washington State University PressWeight(grams) 885g

Essential aspects about the prehistory, history, geography, and architecture of the Inland Pacific Northwest are presented here in one succinct volume. This landmark collection features essays by noted national and regional scholars, such as Donald W...