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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874219173Author Merina SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams)...

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...

Thomas F. Walsh tells the story of one of the West's wealthiest mining magnates - an Irish American prospector and lifelong philanthropist who struck it rich in Ouray County, Colorado. In the first complete biography of Thomas Walsh, John Stewart...

Whether fulfilling subsistence needs or featured in stories of grand adventure, hunting loomed large in the material and the imagined landscape of the nineteenth-century West. Epiphany in the Wilderness explores the social, political, economic, and...

TIME FOR PEACE, historian Duane Smiths chronicle of southwest Colorados Fort Lewis, belies the Western myth of soldiers riding out from isolated posts to rescue wagon trains and protect pioneer towns. Long on daily routine and blissfully short on action,...

Chronicling the negotiations of Progressive groups and the obstacles that constrained them, The Gospel of Progressivism details the fight against corporate and political corruption in Colorado during the early twentieth century. While the various groups...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874218633Author Erin Ann ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams)...

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...

An ethnographic study based on decades of field research, Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain explores five sacred journeys to the peaks of venerated mountains undertaken by Nahua people living in northern Veracruz, Mexico. Punctuated with elaborate ritual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Idaho Library Association Book Award 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780874218428Author Susan H. SwetnamFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Utah State University...

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 untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict laborers to victims of modern trafficking "A...

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.AwardsWinner of San Diego Book Awards (Local) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781609499761Author Richard W. CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint History PressPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609499969Author Bob KeisserFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467137157Author Paul W. PapaFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467125895Author Loralee SpradlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626196070Author Bruce MegowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467151146Author Colleen Marie DelaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914740346Author Stephen L. CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Western EpicsPublisher Western EpicsWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609499396Author William BurgFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 222mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467133999Author James L. FairchildFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467132978Author Cynthia HinesFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...