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A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped Sin City, It Happened in Las Vegas describes everything from a nineteenth-century land deal that almost created two competing cities to the torrential rainstorm that flooded...

From the earliest days of non-Native settlement of Montana, when Chinese immigrants made up more than 10 percent of the territory's population, Chinese pioneers played a key role in the region's development. But this population, so crucial to Montana's...

The history of Black Alaskans runs deep and spans generations. Decades before statehood and earlier even than the Klondike gold rush of the 1890s, Black men and women participated in Alaska's politics and culture. They hunted whales, patrolled the seas,...

The history of Black Alaskans runs deep and spans generations. Decades before statehood and earlier even than the Klondike gold rush of the 1890s, Black men and women participated in Alaska's politics and culture. They hunted whales, patrolled the seas,...

Eternity Street tells the story of a violent place in a violent time: the rise of Los Angeles from its origins as a small Mexican pueblo. In a masterful narrative, John Mack Faragher relates a dramatic history of conquest and ethnic suppression, of...

In the years following World War II, the world's biggest dam was almost built in Hells Canyon on the Snake River in Idaho. Karl Boyd Brooks tells the story of the dam controversy, which became a referendum not only on public-power expansion but also on...

The Hawaiian pineapple industry emerged in the late nineteenth century as part of an attempt to diversify the Hawaiian economy from dependence on sugar cane as its only staple industry. Here, economic historian Richard A. Hawkins presents a definitive...

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Drawing on fact and folklore, dueling authors Bill Markley and Kellen Cutsforth present opposing viewpoints pertaining to controversies surrounding some of the most well-known characters and events in the history of the Old West. In an entertaining...

Idaho's Remarakble Women 2 tells the history of the Gem State through the stories of fifteen pioneering women, all born before 1900, who made a profound impact on Idaho. Meet Sacajawea, Lewis and Clark's Shoshone guide; Jo Monaghan, who lived as a man...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941936774Author Wallace SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 860Imprint Craven Street BooksPublisher Craven Street BooksWeight(grams) 1335g

This fresh departure from other California history readers offers students a compilation of engaging essays designed to complement any standard California history textbook or stand on its own as a progressive core text. The work of ten experts, this book...

South Central Los Angeles is often characterized as an African American community beset by poverty and economic neglect. But this depiction obscures the significant Latina/o population that has called South Central home since the 1970s. More...

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2020 Center for the Study of the American West (CSAW) Award for Outstanding Western Book Finalist The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was the worst ecological disaster in American history. When the rains stopped and the land...

In Producing Predators, Michael D. Wise argues that contestations between Native and non-Native people over hunting, labor, and the livestock industry drove the development of predator eradication programs in Montana and Alberta from the 1880s onward...

This book juxtaposes landmark buildings, homes, restaurants, and parks in greater Los Angeles, from past and present, using vintage postcards and 21st century photographs of the scenes portrayed in the originals. Enjoy a view of the Los Angeles Biltmore...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Los Angeles rose to significance in the first half of the twentieth...

In September 1965, Filipino and Mexican American farm workers went on strike against grape growers in and around Delano, California. More than a labor dispute, the strike became a movement for social justice that helped redefine Latino and American...

Embracing the crossroads that made the region distinctive this book reveals how American families have always been characterized by greater diversity than idealizations of the traditional family have allowed. The essays show how family life figured...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884995644Author Janice StevensFormat HardbackPage Count 118Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co IncWeight(grams) 820g

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The discovery of gold on the magical date of January 24, 1848, when James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill near Coloma, started a rush that was unprecedented in all of the world's history. The discovery started a boom period to the state that...

The Watsonville Canning strike was a dramatic show of the power by women workers whose struggle became a rallying point for the Chicano movement. In the course of the strike, a virtually moribund local union was revitalised, and Watsonville's Latino...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897278451Author John DatersFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Blue Bike BooksPublisher Blue Bike BooksWeight(grams) 220gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 55mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610352451Author Douglas L GistFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co IncWeight(grams) 508g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941936903Author Wallace SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint Craven Street BooksPublisher Craven Street BooksWeight(grams) 652g