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Historically, it is the land of the bison. But the land across which these powerful herds once thundered has been transformed. We know it today by such names as Montana, Wyoming, Dakota, western Iowa, and Nebraska--but it is really buffalo country, the...

In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of myth-making to reveal some surprising truths about the Texas Revolution-truths often obscured by both racism and "political correctness," as history has been...

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...

How Catholic religious activism shaped the language and outcome of San Francisco's debates about over the common good and the public interestBook InformationISBN 9781439909928Author William IsselFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Temple University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602232518Author Alexey PostnikovFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressWeight(grams) 1332g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607324744Author Clark C. SpenceFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 615g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607323976Author Karen R. JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 681g

The delightful and touching stories in Christmas in Nevada tell how Nevadans have celebrated the holiday, from 1858 to the present day. Some are told by well-known Nevadans, such as Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Robert Laxalt, and former governors Bob...

Founded in 1859, Virginia City quickly became world famous for its extraordinary prosperity. Over the next two decades, the mines of "the Richest City on Earth" yielded millions in gold and silver. The newly wealthy built mansions and churches,...

Nevada has always been different from other states. Almost from its beginning, Nevada sanctioned behaviors considered immoral elsewhere-gambling, prize-fighting, brothels, easy divorce-and embraced a culture of individualism and disdain for the...

Nevada's capital city is today a charming, modern community, with an unusually eventful past. A Short History of Carson City traces its history from its origin as a mid-nineteenth-century trading post to its rise as the political center of Nevada. Here...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874219197Author Mark C. DillonFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams) 817g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874219173Author Merina SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870818325Author Duane A. SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 439g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870813061Author Duane A. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 331g

In January 1969, the blowout on an offshore oil platform off the coast of Santa Barbara, California and the resulting oil spill proved to be a transformative event in pollution control and the nascent environmental activism movement. It accelerated the...

This copious collection of reminiscences, reports, letters, and documents allows readers to experience the vast and varied landscape of early California from the viewpoint of its inhabitants. What emerges is not the Spanish California depicted by casual...

The majestic beauty of Mount Rainier, which dominates the Seattle and Tacoma skyscapes, has in many ways defined the Pacific Northwest. At the same time, those two major cities have strongly influenced the development of Rainier as a national park. From...

Sara Walsh was born in 1919 in the west of Ireland, in a land of storytellers. In prose that is neither history nor memoir but something larger and brighter than both, Remembering Ahanagran captures her memories of her early years in Ireland, her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948908801Author David StillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Nevada PressPublisher University of Nevada PressWeight(grams) 152g

Of all economic recessions experienced by the United States in the postwar period, the Great Recession that began in 2008 was the deepest, longest, and most destructive. Nevada was among the hardest hit states, its people reeling from the aftereffects,...

California's history is rich and diverse, with numerous fascinating stories hidden in its past. Before the discovery of gold in the Sierras, San Francisco (Yerba Buena) and its surroundings comprised a sparsely populated frontier on the edge of the old...

In 1965, soil and climatic studies indicated that the Santa Ynez and Santa Maria valleys of Santa Barbara County, California, offered suitable conditions for growing high-quality wine grapes. Thus was launched a revival of the area's two-centuries-old...

The Nevada of lesser-known cities, towns, and outposts deserve their separate chronicles, and here Hulse fills a wide gap. He contributes in a text rich with memories tramping through rural Nevada as a child, then as a journalist seeking news and gossip,...

Look. Smell. Taste. Judge. Crush is the 200-year story of the heady dream that wines as good as the greatest of France could be made in California. A dream dashed four times in merciless succession until it was ultimately realized in a stunning blind...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647790288Author Michael AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Nevada PressPublisher University of Nevada PressWeight(grams) 163g

During the California Gold Rush, many of the miners and merchants who hoped to strike it rich in California left behind letters and journals that provide valuable insights into one of the great migrations in American history. Of all the journals and...

In 1955 photographer Charles Eggert and renowned river guide Don Hatch set off down the Green River with six others to duplicate the 1870s journey of John Wesley Powell. With dams soon to be built at Flaming Gorge and Glen Canyon, they planned to film...

Although unions are by no means entirely gone or lacking in lobbying power, their membership in traditional industries is on the decline and their influence continues to diminish. Only a generation ago, large unions such as the United Mine Workers of...

Harold Leich set out on a westward journey in the summer of 1933. His travel narrative details his river trip down the Yellowstone River and the first descent by boat of the upper Colorado River from Grand Lake, Colorado, through Cataract Canyon, Utah...

During the winter of 1846-1847, members of the Donner Party found themselves stuck in the snows of the Sierra Nevada on their journey to California, losing many in their group to severe cold and starvation. Those who survived did so by cannibalizing...

In time for the centennial of the United States' entry into World War I, this collection of essays explores the war experience in Utah from the multiple perspectives of soldiers, nurses, and ambulance drivers who experienced the horror of the conflict...

In the 1800s, when California was captivated by gold fever, a small group of Chinese immigrants recognized the fortune to be made from the untapped resources along the Pacific coast, particularly from harvesting the black abalone of southern and Baja...

The half century between statehood in 1896 and the end of World War II in 1945 was a period of transformation and transition for Utah. This book interprets those profound changes, revealing sweeping impacts on both institutions and ordinary people...

Zion National Park is one of North America's most-visited and best-loved national parks. For the first time, lovers of the park have in one volume the best that has been written about the canyon. A Zion Canyon Reader is a collection of historical and...

The history of Mexican Americans in Utah is complex, but it is a history that is neither well represented in the mainstream literature nor well recognised in the mainstream understanding of Utah's past. Convoluted interactions among Native Americans,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607322429Author Andrew Scott JohnstonFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607322269Author Carl AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 833g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607321873Author John StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646425051Author Ken J WardFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado