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Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado by Michael Weeks 9781496208415
RRP: $64.50$56.00In 1870 several hundred settlers arrived at a patch of land at the confluence of the South Platte and Cache la Poudre Rivers in Colorado territory. Their planned agricultural community, which they named Greeley, was centered around small landholdings,... -
Fascinating True Tales from Old California: Crooked Con Men, Eccentric Immigrants, and Fearless Females Who Shaped the Golden State by Colleen Adair Fliedner 9781493063239
RRP: $23.21$17.60For over four centuries, California has been an ever-changing landscape of innovation and revolution, triumph and tragedy. In Fascinating True Tales from Old California, author Colleen Adair Fliedner mines the history of the Golden State to collect more... -
Colorado's Historic Schools by Linda Wommack 9781493062904
RRP: $23.21$17.60People love getting nostalgic and what better way than the history of school days of yesteryear? Over six hundred school buildings are scattered across the Centennial State-and some were still operating in rural communities through the 1950s. A... -
It Happened in Northern California: Remarkable Events That Shaped History by Erin H Turner 9781493060283
RRP: $16.76$12.40It Happened in Northern California takes readers on a rollicking, behind the scene look at some of the characters and episodes from the state's storied past. Including famous tales, famous names as well as little known heroes, heroines, and happenings... -
It Happened in Southern California: Remarkable Events That Shaped History by Noelle Sullivan 9781493060269
RRP: $16.76$12.40Best known for its movie industry, surfing, and amusement parks, Southern California boasts an environment of glamour, both natural and manmade. It Happened in Southern California tells the stories of intriguing people and events from the history of this... -
Audacious Scoundrels: Stories of the Wicked West by Steven L. Piott 9781493058648
RRP: $19.34$14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493058648Author Steven L. PiottFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint TwoDot BooksPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 152g -
Sidesaddles and Geysers: Women's Adventures in Old Yellowstone 1874 to 1903 by M. Mark Miller 9781493055456
RRP: $19.34$14.87This anthology of first person-accounts by women who toured Yellowstone Park more than a century ago includes tales of high adventure, raucous humor, and glorious sights of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Including a wide range of... -
Good Time Girls of California: A Red-Light History of the Golden State by Jan MacKell Collins 9781493050963
RRP: $19.34$14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493050963Author Jan MacKell CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint TwoDot BooksPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 152g -
Please, General Custer, I Don't Want to Go: True Tales of the Old West by Russell W. Estlack 9781493042555
RRP: $19.34$14.87These entertaining stories from Old West history include cowboys, Indians, lawmen, lawbreakers, entertainers, prostitutes, priests, and politicians. They all helped shape the myth and legend of the American West. This book reveals the stories of... -
California Myths and Legends: The True Stories Behind History's Mysteries by Ray Jones 9781493040292
RRP: $19.34$14.87California Myths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in California's history. From the head of Zorro to the shadow god of California, this book makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the state's most... -
Good Time Girls of the Rocky Mountains: A Red-Light History of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming by Jan MacKell Collins 9781493038077
RRP: $19.34$14.87While settlers were drawn out West by the often empty promises of the Gold Rush, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountain region. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by... -
Good Time Girls of Colorado: A Red-Light History of the Centennial State by Jan MacKell Collins 9781493038053
RRP: $19.34$14.87Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of nineteenth-century Colorado. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their... -
Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped Build the Railroad by Chris Enss 9781493037759
RRP: $19.34$14.87When the last spike was hammered into the steel track of the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Point, Utah, Western Union lines sounded the glorious news of the railroad’s completion from New York to San Francisco. For more than... -
It Happened In Rocky Mountain National Park: Stories of Events and People that Shaped a National Park by Phyllis J. Perry 9781493037209
RRP: $16.76$12.40From an out-of-control wildfire that nearly destroyed a town to a serial spouse killer in Estes Park, It Happened in Rocky Mountain National Park looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of Colorado's largest national park. Learn how two... -
It Happened in the Old West: Remarkable Events that Shaped History by Erin H. Turner 9781493028306
RRP: $16.76$12.40These are the stories of what happened in the West as the trickle then flood of Easterners and immigrants first began to flow into the plains, deserts, and mountains between the Pacific Ocean and the Mississippi River and, finally, far north into The... -
A Woman's Work: The Storied Life of Pioneer Esther Morris, the World's First Female Justice of the Peace by Marian Betancourt 9781493027293
RRP: $16.76$12.40Uncover the Story of a Remarkable Woman of the West Esther Morris (1812-1902) was a unique American woman whose life paralleled the dramatic events of the 19th century: abolition, railroads, Civil War, and suffrage. She lived on three frontiers and made... -
It Happened in Colorado by James A. Crutchfield 9781493023516
RRP: $16.76$12.40True tales from the Centennial State's past-from a prehistoric buffalo hunt to the artistic inspiration behind the Red Ryder BB rifle Colorado is known for its towering peaks, Native American culture, and rich mining history, but few may be aware of the... -
It Happened in Alaska: Remarkable Events that Shaped History by Diane Olthuis 9781493023486
RRP: $16.76$12.40The remote, unforgiving landscape and colossal-and unpredictably unstable-mountain ranges of Alaska have kept at bay many a faint-hearted outsider, but the lure of this territory's beauty, as well as its rich and vast resources, continues to entice... -
Outlaw Tales of the Old West: Fifty True Stories of Desperados, Crooks, Criminals, and Bandits by Erin H. Turner 9781493023288
RRP: $19.34$15.39This collection of fifty outlaw tales includes well-knowns such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Frank and Jesse James, Belle Starr (and her dad), and Pancho Villa, along with a fair smattering of women, organized crime bosses, smugglers, and of... -
Tinsel, Tumbleweeds, and Star-Spangled Celebrations: Holidays on the Western Frontier from New Year's to Christmas by Sherry Monahan 9781493018024
RRP: $24.50$20.89Celebrate the Holidays Old West Style Holidays on the frontier were a time for celebration, stopping work and chores, and honoring their purpose. This book includes stories of all the biggest celebrations, including traditions, food, songs, games, and... -
Lady Rode Bucking Horses: The Story of Fannie Sperry Steele, Woman of the West by Dee Marvine 9781493017300
RRP: $16.76$12.40The Lady Rode Bucking Horses depicts an era of the American West when capturing renegade horses from the hills above the homestead served as training ground for extraordinary horsemanship. It documents the life of the outstanding girl who outrode them... -
Outlaw Tales of Alaska: True Stories of the Last Frontier's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats by John W. Heaton 9781493010684
RRP: $16.76$12.40Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Alaska. Pan for gold with dry gulchers and claim jumpers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws. A refreshing new perspective on... -
Gateway to Yellowstone: The Raucous Town of Cinnabar on the Montana Frontier by Lee Whittlesey 9781493010660
RRP: $19.34$16.72By 1883 when the rail lines of the Northern Pacific reached the tiny town of Cinnabar, Montana Territory, newspaper and magazine stories of the wonders to be found in Yellowstone National Park had been firing the imaginations of eager potential visitors... -
The Lost Frontier: Momentous Moments in the Old West You May Have Missed by Rod Miller 9781493007356
RRP: $19.34$16.29This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West goes beyond the tales everyone knows of the OK Corral and the Dead Man's Hand to focus on the gunfights, massacres, and daring deeds that are the stars of local historians but not featured... -
Bad Blood: The Families Who Made the West Wild by Robert Barr Smith 9781493006137
RRP: $16.76$12.40This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously bad family-based gangs caught in the act of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery, includes famous names like the James brothers and lesser known families just... -
California's Pioneering Punjabis: An American Story by Lea Terhune 9781467148870
RRP: $51.54$29.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467148870Author Lea TerhuneFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 989g -
Gold Country's Last Chinatown: Marysville, California by Lawrence Tom 9781467143233
RRP: $30.95$20.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467143233Author Lawrence TomFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia Publishing -
Folsom by Roberta Kludt Long 9781467132848
RRP: $29.66$18.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467132848Author Roberta Kludt LongFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 304g -
Depression-Era Sculpture of the Bay Area by Nick Veronico 9781467125741
RRP: $29.66$20.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467125741Author Nick VeronicoFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 295g -
Outlaw Women: America's Most Notorious Daughters, Wives, and Mothers by Robert Barr Smith 9781442247291
RRP: $16.76$12.40This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws is a great addition to Western author Robert Barr Smith's books on the American frontier. Pulling together stories of ladies caught in the... -
The Great Divide by Stephen Grace 9781442247253
RRP: $38.70$30.61Written by Stephen Grace, the companion book to The Great Divide, a film by Havey Productions, is a sweeping, magnificently illustrated story of Colorado water from the region’s first inhabitants to the incoming settlers and developers to modern... -
Chronicles of Old Las Vegas: Exposing Sin City's High-stakes History by James Roman 9780984633418
RRP: $21.92$18.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984633418Author James RomanFormat PaperbackPage Count 239Imprint Museyon GuidesPublisher Museyon Guides -
Making the Frontier Man: Violence, White Manhood, and Authority in the Early Western Backcountry by Matthew C. Ward 9780822947875
RRP: $72.24$65.71For western colonists in the early American backcountry, disputes often ended in bloodshed and death. Making the Frontier Man examines early life and the origins of lawless behavior in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio from 1750 to 1815. It... -
The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen: Reconstructing Native Hawaiian Intellectual History by Noenoe K. Silva 9780822363521
RRP: $109.65$95.21In The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K. Silva reconstructs the indigenous intellectual history of a culture where-using Western standards-none is presumed to exist. Silva examines the work of two lesser-known Hawaiian writers-Joseph Ho'ona'auao... -
The Coming Man from Canton: Chinese Experience in Montana, 1862-1943 by Christopher W. Merritt 9780803299788
RRP: $69.66$60.36In The Coming Man from Canton Christopher W. Merritt mines the historical and archaeological record of the Chinese immigrant experience in Montana to explore new questions and perspectives. During the 1860s Chinese immigrants arrived by the thousands,... -
Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History by Richard Edwards 9780803296794
RRP: $45.15$39.652018 Nebraska Book Award 2018 Outstanding Academic Title, selected by Choice Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting... -
Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America by Kathleen A. Cairns 9780803230095
RRP: $30.95$26.88Barbara Graham might have been a diabolical dame in a hard-boiled detective story-beautiful, sexy, and deadly. Charged alongside two male friends in the murder of an elderly widow during a botched robbery attempt, "Bloody Babs" became the third woman... -
More Frontier Justice in the Wild West: Bungled, Bizarre, and Fascinating Executions by R. Michael Wilson 9780762796021
RRP: $16.76$12.40More Frontier Justice in the Wild West; Bungled, Bizarre and Fascinating Executions reveals the details of more than two dozen instances of frontier justice from the era of the Wild West. These stories of how society dealt with the bad guys-and how the... -
The Stories of Yellowstone: Adventure Tales from the World's First National Park by Mark M. Miller 9780762792900
RRP: $16.76$12.40Covering the time period from 1807, when John Colter first discovered the wonders of the Yellowstone Plateau to the 1920s when tourists sped between luxury hotels in their automobiles, these tales of Wonderland come from the letters, journals, and... -
Outlaw Tales of Wyoming: True Stories Of The Cowboy State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats by R. Michael Wilson 9780762772377
RRP: $16.76$12.40Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Wyoming 2, with compelling legends of the Cowboy State's most despicable desperadoes. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con...