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It Happened on the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Erin H. Turner 9781493023462
RRP: $27.28$23.04It Happened on the Lewis and Clark Expedition features fascinating events from Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's 1803-1805 expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean and back, including the first democratic vote west of the Mississippi, the... -
When Women Ruled the Pacific: Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai‘i by Joy Schulz 9781496231802
RRP: $81.90$71.65Throughout the nineteenth century British and American imperialists advanced into the Pacific, with catastrophic effects for Polynesian peoples and cultures. In both Tahiti and Hawai'i, women rulers attempted to mitigate the effects of these encounters,... -
Rollins Pass by B Travis Wright 9781467107952
RRP: $50.38$30.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467107952Author B Travis WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 295g -
Salinas: A History of Race and Resilience in an Agricultural City by Carol Lynn McKibben 9781503629455
RRP: $207.90$180.05An ambitious history of a California city that epitomizes the history of race relations in modern America. Although much has been written about the urban-rural divide in America, the city of Salinas, California, like so many other places in the state... -
Buffalo Soldiers in Alaska: Company L, Twenty-Fourth Infantry by Brian G Shellum 9781496228444
RRP: $50.38$39.69The town of Skagway was born in 1897 after its population quintupled in under a year due to the Klondike gold rush. Balanced on the edge of anarchy, the U.S. Army stationed Company L, a unit of Buffalo Soldiers, there near the end of the gold rush... -
It Happened in Las Vegas: Remarkable Events That Shaped History by Paul Papa 9780762750177
RRP: $25.18$18.73A 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... -
The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky: A History of the Chinese Experience in Montana by Mark T. Johnson 9781496230997
RRP: $94.50$82.28From 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... -
Black Lives in Alaska: A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest by Ian C. Hartman 9780295750934
RRP: $41.98$36.83The 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,... -
Black Lives in Alaska: A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest by Ian C. Hartman 9780295750927
RRP: $191.10$166.57The 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: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles by John Mack Faragher 9780393051360
RRP: $58.78$50.95Eternity 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... -
Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy by Karl Boyd Brooks 9780295989129
RRP: $50.38$43.76In 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... -
A Pacific Industry: The History of Pineapple Canning in Hawaii by Richard A. Hawkins 9781848855960
RRP: $252.00$250.99The 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... -
Other Avenues Are Possible: Legacy of the People's Food System of the San Francisco Bay Area by Shanta Nimbark Sacharoff 9781629632322
RRP: $31.48$20.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629632322Author Shanta Nimbark SacharoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Hollywood Celebrity Playground Howard Johns 9781569803035
RRP: $71.38$47.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569803035Author Howard JohnsFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Barricade Books IncPublisher Barricade Books IncWeight(grams) 936g -
Old West Showdown: Two Authors Wrangle over the Truth about the Mythic Old West by Kellen Cutsforth 9781493032167
RRP: $37.78$28.64Drawing 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 Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History by Lynn Bragg 9781493023202
RRP: $27.28$23.21Idaho'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... -
Garden of the Sun: A History of the San Joaquin Valley 1772-1939, 2nd Edition by Wallace Smith 9780941936774
RRP: $86.08$56.85Apologies 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 -
California History: A Topical Approach by Gordon Morris Bakken 9780882959719
RRP: $52.40$45.74This 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 Is Home: Race and the Power of Community Investment in Los Angeles by Abigail Rosas 9780804799812
RRP: $191.10$116.36South 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... -
Legacies of Dust: Land Use and Labor on the Colorado Plains by Douglas Sheflin 9780803285538
RRP: $94.50$83.12A 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... -
Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies by Michael D. Wise 9780803249813
RRP: $73.50$64.55In 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... -
Flashback L Angeles: Ptcard Views: Then and Now by Michael Oldham 9780764345869
RRP: $48.28$31.61This 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... -
Water and Los Angeles: A Tale of Three Rivers, 1900-1941 by William Deverell 9780520292420
RRP: $63.00$48.91A 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... -
Delano John Gregory Dunne 9780520254336
RRP: $56.70$50.65In 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... -
On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest by David Wallace Adams 9780520272385
RRP: $123.90$111.24Embracing 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... -
Six Gun Sound: The Early History of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Sven Crongeyer 9781933502007
RRP: $41.98$27.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933502007Author Sven CrongeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co IncWeight(grams) 406g -
California Justice: Shootouts, Lynchings and Assassinations in the Golden State by David Kulczyk 9781884995545
RRP: $35.68$23.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884995545Author David KulczykFormat PaperbackPage Count 155Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co Inc -
California's Day of the Grizzly: The Exciting, Tragic Story of the Mighty California Grizzly by William B. Secrest, Jr. 9781884995538
RRP: $54.58$34.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884995538Author William B. Secrest, Jr.Format HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Word Dancer PressPublisher Word Dancer Press -
California Badmen: Mean Men with Guns on the Old West Coast by ,William,B. Secrest 9781884995514
RRP: $35.68$22.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884995514Author William B SecrestFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co IncDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
California Disasters 1800-1900: Firsthand Accounts of Fires, Shipwrecks, Floods, Earthquakes, and Other Historic California Tragedies William B Secrest 9781884995491
RRP: $35.68$23.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884995491Author William B SecrestFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co IncDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Legends of the California Bandidos Angus MacLean 9781884995453
RRP: $33.58$22.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884995453Author Angus MacLeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Linden PublishingPublisher Linden PublishingWeight(grams) 402g -
Showdown!: Lionhearted Lawmen of Old California by William B. Secrest, Jr. 9781884995651
RRP: $35.68$23.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884995651Author William B. Secrest, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co IncWeight(grams) 386g -
Remembering the California Missions by Janice Stevens 9781884995644
RRP: $58.78$37.84Apologies 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 -
Remembering Houston by Betty Trapp Chapman 9781684422982
RRP: $27.28$18.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684422982Author Betty Trapp ChapmanFormat PaperbackImprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 215g -
Historic Photos of Honolulu by Clifford Kapono 9781684420360
RRP: $56.68$38.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684420360Author Clifford KaponoFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing Company -
Remembering Honolulu by Clifford Kapono 9781683368380
RRP: $27.28$18.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683368380Author Clifford KaponoFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint TurnerPublisher Turner -
A Guide to the Gold Rush Country of California by Frank Lorey 9781634990257
RRP: $39.88$30.07The 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... -
Song Of The Stubborn One Thousand: The Watsonville Canning Strike, 1985-7 by Peter Shapiro 9781608466801
RRP: $35.68$24.51The 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... -
Highway 99: The History of California's Main Street by ,Stephen,H. Provost 9781610352963
RRP: $46.18$35.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610352963Author ,Stephen,H. ProvostFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co Inc -
Choose Your Weapon: The Duel in California, 1847-1882 by ,Christopher Burchfield 9781610352772
RRP: $37.78$24.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610352772Author ,Christopher BurchfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co Inc