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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467108782Author Andrew BrandonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 318g

A Negotiated Landscape examines the transformation of San Francisco's iconic waterfront from the eve of its decline in 1950 to the turn of the millennium. What was once a major shipping port is now best known for leisure and entertainment. To...

Nineteen-year-old Burmah Adams, a hairdresser and former Santa Ana High School student, spent her honeymoon on a crime spree. She and her husband of less than one week, White, an ex-con, robbed at least twenty people in and around downtown L.A. at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570980138Author Jean Goodwin MessingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Roberts Rinehart PublishersPublisher Roberts Rinehart PublishersWeight(grams)...

The Revenger: The Life and Times of Wild Bill Hickok examines Wild Bill's life in the context of 19th Century American history, from his birth, through his early manhood, and to his eventual demise. Woven into his life story are the significant role...

With a selection of fine historic images from his bestselling book Historic Photos of Dallas, Michael V. Hazel provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Dallas. During the mid nineteenth century, Dallas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646423019Author Leigh Campbell-HaleFormat HardbackPage Count 332Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646421916Author William WeiFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646422500Author Alan J M NoonanFormat HardbackPage Count 388Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647790684Author John BriscoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University of Nevada PressPublisher University of Nevada PressWeight(grams) 152g

When Pittsburgh socialite Laura Corey rolled into Reno, Nevada, in 1905 for a six-month stay, her goal was a divorce from the president of U.S. Steel. Her visit also provided a provocative glimpse into the city's future.With its rugged landscape and...

Over 157 years ago-before there was a Reno, Nevada; before there was a state of Nevada; and even before there was a Nevada Territory-there was a bridge over the Truckee River at a narrow, deeply rutted cattle and wagon trail that would one day become...

No American state is more antistatist than Alaska. And no state takes in more federal money per capita, which accounts for a full third of Alaska’s economy. This seeming paradox underlies the story Stephen Haycox tells in Battleground Alaska, a history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596527072Author Gary GlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint TurnerPublisher TurnerWeight(grams) 544g

Minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, sending more than twelve billion gallons of water surging through Southern California's Santa Clara Valley, killing some four hundred people and causing the greatest civil...

Distinguished historian Richard W. Etulain brings together a generous selection of essays from his sixty-year career as a specialist on the US West in this essential volume. Each essay provides an invaluable overview of the rise of western literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560377757Author Phyllis PerryFormat PaperbackImprint Sweetgrass BooksPublisher Sweetgrass Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870622571Author David Archer WhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 524Imprint Arthur H. Clark CompanyPublisher Arthur H. Clark Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646422043Author John F FreemanFormat HardbackPage Count 298Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646422364Author Virginia SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

The United States has a long and unfortunate history of exposing employees, the public, and the environment to dangerous work. But in April 2009, the spotlight was on Las Vegas when the Pulitzer committee awarded its public service prize to the Las Vegas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467108973Author Penny HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646423651Author Michael a AmundsonFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint University of Wyoming PressPublisher University of Wyoming PressWeight(grams) 1338g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646423279Author Robert R CrifasiFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467146579Author Jon AxlineFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 386g

The arrival of Spaniards in 1769 served as a defining moment for California's future. They described the First Peoples and their cultures and provided a window into the evolution of California's Camino Real. In an effort to establish the Camino Real de...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816540662Author Enrique M. BuelnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806159041Author Erika PerezFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 794g

Three Wasatch canyons - Mill Creek, Big Cottonwood, and Little Cottonwood - tantalise with what they suggest about the history of settlement in the canyons. Charles Keller has extracted a wealth of information to create The Lady in the Ore Bucket, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635001068Author Frank MuzzyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 295g

Winner of the Western History Association's 2009 Hal K. Rothman AwardFinalist in the Western Writers of America Spur Award for the Western Nonfiction Contemporary category (2008).The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the world's most beautiful cities...

A fond recollection of the West’s one-room school houses, this book celebrates an American institution with stories of heroism and perseverance. Illustrated with archival images of classrooms and students, One Room reflects the earnest striving and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467106405Author Mary KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 295g

Beyond the Golden Gate and hills, the quirky and forward-thinking urban melting pot of characters, ideas, and ethnicities has blazed its path through history with an emperor, an earthquake, and epiphanies of rebirth. From Gold Rush prospectors to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646421961Author Julie McCownFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646422272Author Fawn-Amber MontoyaFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams)...

Snow explores and untangles the costs and benefits of a century of mining, milling, and smelting in the Coeur D'Alenes, a twenty-five mile portion of the Idaho panhandle. More than one hundred mines and mills spewed waste laced with lead and other heavy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870624346Author Michael L TateFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Arthur H. Clark CompanyPublisher Arthur H. Clark Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684730131Author Gregory N ZompolisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 318g

A Short History of Denver covers more than 150 years of Denver’s rich history. The book recounts the takeover of Native American lands, the founding of small towns on the South Platte River at the base of the Rocky Mountains, and the creation of a city,...