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Outlaw Tales of Idaho: True Stories Of The Gem State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats by Randy Stapilus 9780762772360
RRP: $25.18$18.73The frontier towns of Idaho were populated by some of the toughest and most dangerous characters in the West. Serial killer Lyda Lewis poisoned her unsuspecting husbands to cash in on their life insurance. The Eddy and Splawn families created counterfeit... -
Outlaw Tales of Colorado: True Stories Of The Centennial State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats by Jan Murphy 9780762772353
RRP: $25.18$18.73Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Colorado, with compelling legends of the Centennial State's most despicable desperadoes. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with... -
Outlaw Tales of Montana: True Stories Of The Treasure State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats by Gary A. Wilson 9780762772186
RRP: $25.18$18.73A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the West and Midwest.Book InformationISBN 9780762772186Author Gary A. WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint TwoDot BooksPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 21g -
Montana Cowboy: An Anthology Of Western Life by Wanda Rosseland 9780762772131
RRP: $31.48$24.21The Montana Cowboy brings together true stories of real cowboys and cowgirls from across the Treasure State. Cowboys who have chased wild horses in the Missouri River badlands, ridden through freezing blizzards, and followed the roundup wagons while... -
Crime Buff's Guide to the Outlaw Rockies by Ron Franscell 9780762771639
RRP: $25.18$20.39A fascinating journey through the Rockies' unruly past-with maps, photos, and more.Book InformationISBN 9780762771639Author Ron FranscellFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Globe Pequot PressPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 18g -
It Happened In Nevada: Remarkable Events That Shaped History by Elizabeth Gibson 9780762758715
RRP: $25.18$18.73From Las Vegas to Carson City to Reno and beyond, Nevada has seen more than its share of remarkable events over the centuries, many stranger than fiction. It Happened in Nevada goes behind the scenes to tell its story, in short episodes that reveal the... -
It Happened in Hollywood: Remarkable Events That Shaped History by Gerald A. Schiller 9780762754496
RRP: $25.18$19.61From the day in 1893 that Gigi and Hobart Johnstone Whitley stood on a hill overlooking the areathey christened "Hollywood," to modern-day tales of murder and mayhem, It Happened in Hollywood recounts in thirty short episodes the... -
It Happened in Denver by Stephen Grace 9780762741298
RRP: $20.98$15.83A fascinating collection of twenty-five compelling stories about events that shaped the Mile High City, It Happened in Denver describes everything from a nineteenth-century gold rush that turned a tent city into a bustling frontier outpost to the... -
Butte by Matt Vincent 9780738581828
RRP: $46.18$32.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738581828Author Matt VincentFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 163g -
Galveston: A City on Stilts by Jodi Wright-gidley 9780738558806
RRP: $56.68$38.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738558806Author Jodi Wright-gidleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 635g -
Gateway State: Hawai'i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire by Sarah Miller-Davenport 9780691217352
RRP: $46.20$36.46How Hawai'i became an emblem of multiculturalism during its journey to statehood in the mid-twentieth centuryGateway State explores the development of Hawai'i as a model for liberal multiculturalism and a tool of American global power in the era of... -
A People's History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport by Eric Porter 9780520402331
RRP: $44.10$33.92An illuminating profile of the San Francisco Bay Area, and its regional and global influence, as seen from the focal point of San Francisco International Airport (SFO).A People's History of SFO uses the history of San Francisco International Airport... -
Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy by George J. Sanchez 9780520391642
RRP: $44.10$34.25The radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood. "When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters in this country, I often think of Boyle Heights."-George J. Sanchez The vision for America's... -
Down by the Bay: San Francisco's History between the Tides by Matthew Morse Booker 9780520355569
RRP: $44.10$34.92San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America. It is also home to the oldest and densest urban settlements in the American West. Focusing on human inhabitation of the Bay since Ohlone times, Down by... -
An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration by Adria L. Imada 9780520343849
RRP: $168.00$129.97What was the longest and harshest medical quarantine in modern history and how did people survive it? Beginning in 1866, men, women, and children in Hawai'i suspected of having leprosy were removed from their families. Most were sentenced over the next... -
Braided Waters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii by Wade Graham 9780520298590
RRP: $123.90$96.47Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii's Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with... -
The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands by Veronica Castillo-Munoz 9780520291638
RRP: $123.90$96.47The Other California is the story of working-class communities and how they constituted the racially and ethnically diverse landscape of Baja California. Packed with new and transformative stories, the book examines the interplay of land reform and... -
Squatter's Republic by Tamara Venit Shelton 9780520289093
RRP: $79.80$63.02Who should have the right to own land, and how much of it? A Squatter's Republic follows the rise and fall of the land question in the Gilded Age - and the rise and fall of a particularly nineteenth-century vision of landed independence. More... -
Alta California: Peoples in Motion, Identities in Formation by Steven W. Hackel 9780520289048
RRP: $149.10$116.45Spanish California - with its diverse mix of Indians, soldiers, settlers, and missionaries - provides a fascinating site for the investigation of individual and collective identity in colonial America. Through innovative methodologies and extensive... -
From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement by Fred Glass 9780520288416
RRP: $63.00$49.75There is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and the rollback of workers' rights, California unions are embracing working immigrants, and voters are... -
David Brower: The Making of the Environmental Movement by Tom Turner 9780520278363
RRP: $52.50$41.14In this first comprehensive authorized biography of David Brower, a dynamic leader in the environmental movement over the last half of the twentieth century, Tom Turner explores Brower's impact on the movement from its beginnings until his death in 2000... -
California Coastal Access Guide, Seventh Edition by California Coastal Commission 9780520278172
RRP: $63.00$49.75From the majestic redwoods and rocky shores in the north to the palm trees and wide, sandy beaches in the south, the California coast, is an area of unsurpassed beauty and diversity. This thoroughly revised and expanded 7th edition of the California... -
Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles by Gaye Theresa Johnson 9780520275287
RRP: $52.50$41.14In "Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity", Gaye Theresa Johnson examines interracial anti-racist alliances, divisions among aggrieved minority communities, and the cultural expressions and spatial politics that emerge from the mutual... -
Building Home: Howard F. Ahmanson and the Politics of the American Dream by Eric John Abrahamson 9780520273757
RRP: $63.00$48.91"Building Home" is an innovative biography that weaves together three engrossing stories. It is one part corporate and industrial history, using the evolution of mortgage finance as a way to understand larger dynamics in the nation's political economy... -
States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of California's Juvenile Justice System by Miroslava Chavez-Garcia 9780520271722
RRP: $52.50$41.14This unique analysis of the rise of the juvenile justice system from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries uses one of the harshest states - California - as a case study for examining racism in the treatment of incarcerated young people of color. Using... -
San Francisco in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City by the Bay by Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration 9780520268807
RRP: $52.50$41.98'San Francisco has no single landmark by which the world may identify it,' according to "San Francisco in the 1930s," originally published in 1940. This would surely come as a surprise to the millions who know and love the Golden Gate Bridge or recognize... -
California Place Names, 40th Anniversary Edition: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names by Erwin G. Gudde 9780520266193
RRP: $58.80$46.62This anniversary edition concentrates on the origins of the names currently used for the cities, towns, settlements, mountains, and streams of California, with engrossing accounts of the history of their usage. The dictionary includes a glossary and a... -
The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California by Steven Stoll 9780520211728
RRP: $111.30$87.76The once arid valleys and isolated coastal plains of California are today the center of fruit production in the United States. Steven Stoll explains how a class of capitalist farmers made California the nation's leading producer of fruit and created the... -
Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles by John Mack Faragher 9780393353655
RRP: $31.48$27.36Los Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous locales in the Californian frontier. In Eternity Street:... -
Winning the West for Women: The Life of Suffragist Emma Smith DeVoe by Jennifer M. Ross-Nazzal 9780295996950
RRP: $191.10$165.73In 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... -
Saving the Reservation: Joe Garry and the Battle to Be Indian by John Fahey 9780295995373
RRP: $50.38$43.76Joseph R. Garry (1910-1975), a Coeur d'Alene Indian, served six terms as president of the National Congress of American Indians in the 1950s. He led the battles to compel the federal government to honor treaties and landownership and dominated an era in... -
The Battle for Butte: Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864-1906 by Michael P. Malone 9780295986074
RRP: $50.38$43.76First published in 1981, The Battle for Butte has remained the best treatment of the influence of copper in the political history of Montana. "Fine history: rich in detail, full of finely drawn people, masterfully clear where the subject matter is... -
Hard Times in Paradise: Coos Bay, Oregon by William G. Robbins 9780295985480
RRP: $41.98$36.83Blessed with vast expanses of virgin timber, a good harbor, and a San Francisco market for its lumber, the Coos Bay area once dubbed itself "a poor man's paradise." A new Prologue and Epilogue by the author bring this story of gyppo loggers,... -
Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California by Lawrence Brooks De Graaf 9780295980836
$96.37From the 18th century, African Americans, like many others, have migrated to California to seek fortunes or, often, the more modest goals of being able to find work, own a home, and raise a family relatively free of discrimination. Not only their search... -
The Atomic West by Bruce W. Hevly 9780295977164
RRP: $50.38$43.76The Manhattan Project-the World War II race to produce an atomic bomb-transformed the entire country in myriad ways, but it did not affect each region equally. Acting on an enduring perception of the American West as an "empty" place, the U.S... -
Alaska: An American Colony by Stephen W. Haycox 9780295746869
RRP: $191.10$166.57Alaska often looms large as a remote, wild place with endless resources and endlessly independent, resourceful people. Yet it has always been part of larger stories: the movement of Indigenous peoples from Asia into the Americas and their contact with... -
Outriders: Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West by Rebecca Scofield 9780295746067
$216.76Rodeo is a dangerous and painful performance in which only the strongest and most skilled riders succeed. In the popular imagination, the western rodeo hero is often a stoic white man who embodies the toughness and independence of America's frontier past... -
Death of Celilo Falls by Katrine Barber 9780295744605
$213.47For thousands of years, Pacific Northwest Indians fished, bartered, socialized, and honored their ancestors at Celilo Falls, part of a nine-mile stretch of the Long Narrows on the Columbia River. Although the Indian community of Celilo Village survives... -
Counterpunch: The Cultural Battles over Heavyweight Prizefighting in the American West by Meg Frisbee 9780295744322
$56.93Boxing was popular in the American West long before Las Vegas became its epicenter. However, not everyone in the region was a fan. Counterpunch examines how the sport's meteoric rise in popularity in the West ran concurrently with a growing backlash... -
Olympic National Park: A Natural History by Tim McNulty 9780295743288
RRP: $50.38$40.59Renowned for its old-growth rain forest, wilderness coast, and glaciated peaks, Olympic National Park is a living laboratory for ecological renewal, especially as the historic Elwha River basin regenerates in the wake of dam removal. In this classic...