West

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738530338Author Glenda J. JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970253224Author Kay TurnbaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Perigo PressPublisher Perigo PressWeight(grams) 476g

When the railroad stretched its steel rails across the American West in the 1870s, it opened up a vast expanse of territory. Agriculture quickly followed the railroads, making way for Kansas wheat and Colorado sugar beets and Washington apples. With this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738580913Author E. j. StephensFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

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 9780812987935Author Jean SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

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

This new edition of Karen Blair's popular anthology originally published in 1989 includes thirteen essays, eight of which are new. Together they suggest the wide spectrum of women's experiences that make up a vital part of Northwest history.Book...

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) 229g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948814911Author Betsy Gaines QuammenFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Torrey House PressPublisher Torrey House PressWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945430657Author Dave DoughertyFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Wrong Way BooksPublisher Wrong Way BooksWeight(grams) 522g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467160094Author Alexis ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 20g

Transnational Sport in the American West is the story of how a sport can cross physical and cultural borders. Catholic missionaries first brought the sport of basketball to southern Mexico in the early twentieth century, but over time the sport has grown...

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

Some of the richest gold strikes in California history were found in the areas of Randsburg and Johannesburg, located in the Mojave Desert section of Kern County. The desert is a graveyard of abandoned mines, shafts, pits and tailing dumps. Fortunately,...

The Tenderloin District of San Francisco Through Time is a brief history of a neighborhood known to early San Franciscans as St. Ann's Valley. The story of this once-placid piece of real estate provides us with a fascinating microcosm of urban history as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597146210Author Tony PlattFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Heyday BooksPublisher Heyday BooksWeight(grams) 599g

In 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California "can and does furnish the best bad things," including "purer liquors...finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtezans...

Established in 1968 to improve conditions in the barrio of East Los Angeles, the East Los Angeles Community Union has had a pronounced impact on the area, providing social services, helping increase political representation, and, most notably, promoting...

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...

The familiar image of Los Angeles as a metropolis built for the automobile is crumbling. Traffic, air pollution, and sprawl motivated citizens to support urban rail as an alternative to driving, and the city has started to reinvent itself by developing...

Legacy is the fascinating inside story of how a great foundation touched dozens of organizations and countless people. Seattle's cultural life, notable for its intellectual verve and rich variety, received an unexpected and enduring gift through the...

In the wake of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, the city of San Francisco desperately needed reliable supplies of water and electricity. Its mayor, James Phelan, pressed for the damming of the Tuolumne River in the newly created Yosemite...

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 hijacked by...

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.Book InformationISBN 9781933502120Author William B. Secrest, Jr.Format HardbackPage Count 118Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788831403139Author Giovanni SimeoneImprint Sime BooksPublisher Sime BooksWeight(grams) 59g

Winner of the 2016 California Historical Society Book Award! The latest title from the author of A History of Wine in America recounts the beginnings of California's world renowned wine trade—a story set not in Napa but in the isolated pueblo now called...

Idyllwild, California, is an extraordinary mountain village. On weekends and holidays, it hosts a flood of visitors. Many are drawn by its reputation as an arts community; more come simply to savor the serenity of the surrounding forested wilderness...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738581996Author Jim IsaacFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 299g

Echoing a sentiment that could be expressed by many Santa Cruz residents today, Sara White wrote this about Santa Cruz to a friend in 1896: "The country is so beautifully bright and fresh … you will find many beautiful homes here and congenial people …...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634992602Author John R McNairFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 476g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738589039Author Lorri UngarettiFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 295g

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...

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

A witty, expansive narrative that reveals the real story of the people and places that make up the Golden State. Included are recommended museums, state parks, and other attractions, alongside literary excerpts from local authors who give readers a sense...

Colorado Abandoned: Capturing the Beauty of the Forgotten is a photographic art experience that captures visually alluring items, artifacts, and locations left abandoned to the elements, mostly from the high plains of Colorado. It portrays dilapidated,...

During the twentieth century, Route 66 became a national icon and was commonly associated with classic American cuisine, road trips, and the golden age of postwar American prosperity. This conception, however, is mythic. The reality of Route 66 travel...