West

A profound reinterpretation of the Dust Bowl on the U.S. southern plains and its relevance for today The 1930s witnessed a harrowing social and ecological disaster, defined by the severe nexus of drought, erosion, and economic depression that ravaged the...

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) 291gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525435662Author Shawn LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm...

The romance of the West is built on an endless armature of shootouts and train robberies, cowboys versus Indians, white hat versus black, and everybody versus the wilderness. From John Colter's harrowing escape from the Blackfeet to Hugh Glass's six week...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250113894Author Frances DinkelspielFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 292g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738595207Author Cecile Page VargoFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003The word "violence" conjures up images of terrorism, bombings, and lynchings. Beaten Down is concerned with more prosaic acts of physical force-a husband slapping his wife, a parent taking a...

"Although Mexican migrant workers have toiled in the fields of the Pacific Northwest since the turn of the century, and although they comprise the largest work force in the region's agriculture today, they have been virtually invisible in the region's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467159210Author Adam PapaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 154mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467162371Author Latah County Historical SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467157803Author Ken RobisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467159098Author Samuel BockFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467158381Author Clem C PellettFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878427062Author Michael OberFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Mountain Press Publishing Co.Publisher Mountain Press Publishing Co.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635571202Author Anthony McCannFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 778g

East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555664725Author Caroline BancroftFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Bower HousePublisher Bower House

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878423187Author Ruth PittmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Mountain Press Publishing CompanyPublisher Mountain Press Publishing...

Western Water A to Z is the first ever field guide to Western water. Reinventing this twentieth-century genre for a twenty-first-century audience, Robert R. Crifasi answers questions about rivers, water projects, the culture of water, the ecosystems...

The Latino Big Bang in California presents a Spanish transcription and English translation of a diary written by Forty-Niner Justo Veytia, a Mexican immigrant seeking riches during California's Gold Rush. Veytia's diary offers insights into the dilemmas...

Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. Whitewashed Adobe considers six different developments in the history of the city--including...

The story of the World War II internment of 120,000 Japanese American citizens and Japanese-born permanent residents is well known by now. Less well known is the history of the small group of Seattle activists who gave birth to the national movement for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647791919Author Joxe K Mallea-OlaetxeFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint University of Nevada PressPublisher University of Nevada PressWeight(grams)...

The red rock country of southern Utah, though used for many things, has for more than a century been synonymous with livestock ranching. Federal ownership and management of public lands there have led generations of socially isolated ranchers to mistrust...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469685052Author Andrew C IsenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint University of North Carolina PressPublisher University of North Carolina Press

In 1769-1770, Spanish Catholic missionaries and soldiers traveled to Alta California, bringing along domesticated animals, like horses and cattle, for food security in the continual expansion of the Spanish empire. These rapidly increasing herds consumed...

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...

In 1856, in an opera house in Roseville, Illinois, Susan B. Anthony called for the supporters of woman suffrage to stand. The only person to rise was eight-year-old Emma Smith. And she continued to take a stand for the rest of her life. As a leader in...

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,...

An unprecedented analysis of the origin story of New Mexico's modern water management system. Maria Lane's Fluid Geographies traces New Mexico's transition from a community-based to an expert-led system of water management during the pre-statehood era...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626401334Author Arnold HylenFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Angel City Press,U.S.Publisher Angel City Press,U.S.

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467161343Author Gerrie SchipskeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams)...

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...

Worlds at the End attends to a body of literature that renders Los Angeles's infrastructure, or its material foundations, as central to the rise and consolidation of colonial life. Pacharee Sudhinaraset employs a women-of-color feminist methodology to...

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 9781626401198Author Todd LerewFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Angel City Press,U.S.Publisher Angel City Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780917298783Author Ian Campbell WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Montana Historical Society PressPublisher Montana Historical Society...