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Environment and Experience: Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon by Peter Boag
RRP: £80.00£61.89The pioneer battling with a hostile environment-whether it be arid land, drought, dust storms, dense forests, or harsh winters-is a staple of western American history. In this innovative, multi-disciplinary work, Peter Boag takes issue with the image of... -
Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation by Malcolm J. Rohrbough
RRP: £29.00£22.94On the morning of January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continent, launching hundreds of ships and hitching a thousand prairie schooners filled with adventurers in search of heretofore unimagined... -
On Her Own Terms: Annie Montague Alexander and the Rise of Science in the American West by Barbara R. Stein
RRP: £53.00£41.79At a time when women could not vote and very few were involved in the world outside the home, Annie Montague Alexander (1867-1950) was an intrepid explorer, amateur naturalist, skilled markswoman, philanthropist, farmer, and founder and patron of two... -
Hotels of the Old West by Richard A Van Orman
RRP: £12.99£11.77Need a room for the night in the Old West? No problem. Hotels had sprung up everywhere, from forgotten cow towns to the bustling city of San Francisco. The farther from the railroad, the more horrifying the accommodations-your only option was likely a... -
The Cattle Kings: Legendary Ranchers of the Old West by Lewis Atherton
RRP: £15.99£14.24Cowboys, gunslingers, and superpowered marshals dominate fictionalized accounts of the American West, but they were minor figures in the true history of the region. In The Cattle Kings, Lewis Atherton restores the leading role to the cattlemen-the... -
Hawai'i: Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change by Sumner La Croix
RRP: £52.00£43.67Relative to the other habited places on our planet, Hawai'i has a very short history. The Hawaiian archipelago was the last major land area on the planet to be settled, with Polynesians making the long voyage just under a millennium ago. Our... -
World War II and the West It Wrought by Mark Brilliant
RRP: £23.99£20.84Few episodes in American history were more transformative than World War II, and in no region did it bring greater change than in the West. Having lifted the United States out of the Great Depression, World War II set in motion a massive westward... -
Hawaiian by Birth: Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific by Joy Schulz
RRP: £23.99£21.572018 Sally and Ken Owens Award from the Western History Association Twelve companies of American missionaries were sent to the Hawaiian Islands between 1819 and 1848 with the goal of spreading American Christianity and New England values. By the 1850s... -
Go West Mr. President: Theodore Roosevelt's Great Loop Tour of 1903 by Michael Blake
RRP: £19.99£15.02In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt planned a tour of the mid-West and Western states. It was dubbed the "Great Loop Tour," being careful not to call it a campaign tour, although he intended to seek re-election the following year. Theodore was adamant that his... -
Cold Case: The Assassination of Pat Garrett by W.C. Jameson
RRP: £17.99£13.64CSI the Old West! WC Jameson takes on the myths and discovers what really happened in the Old West, storytelling by consulting private investigators, using modern forensic techniques, and examining the original evidence.About the AuthorW.C. Jameson is... -
Lost Stories of West Coast Latino Boxing by Gene Aguilera
RRP: £23.99£14.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467107327Author Gene AguileraFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams)... -
On the Road Again: Montana's Changing Landscape by William Wyckoff
RRP: £23.99£20.84In On the Road Again, William Wyckoff explores Montana's changing physical and cultural landscape by pairing photographs taken by state highway engineers in the 1920s and 1930s with photographs taken at the same sites today. The older photographs,... -
Alaska: An American Colony by Stephen W. Haycox
RRP: £27.99£22.18Alaska 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... -
Unpopular Sovereignty: Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory by Brent M. Rogers
RRP: £24.99£21.67Charles Redd Center Phi Alpha Theta Book Award for the Best Book on the American West 2018 Francis Armstrong Madsen Best Book Award from the Utah State Historical Society 2018 Best First Book Award from the Mormon History Association Newly created... -
Gauchos and the Vanishing Frontier by Richard W. Slatta
RRP: £20.99£18.37Although as much romanticized as the American cowboy, the Argentine gaucho lived a persecuted, marginal existence, beleaguered by mandatory passports, vagrancy laws, and forced military service. The story of this nineteenth-century migratory ranch hand... -
The Culture Broker: Franklin D. Murphy and the Transformation of Los Angeles by Margaret Leslie Davis
RRP: £71.00£55.45Franklin Murphy? It's not a name that is widely known; even during his lifetime the public knew little of him. But for nearly thirty years, Murphy was the dominant figure in the cultural development of Los Angeles. Behind the scenes, Murphy used his role... -
Mi Raza Primero, My People First: Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978 by Ernesto Chavez
RRP: £30.00£23.29"!Mi Raza Primero!" is the first book to examine the Chicano movement's development in one locale - in this case Los Angeles, home of the largest population of people of Mexican descent outside of Mexico City. Ernesto Chavez focuses on four organizations... -
Alaska's Skyboys: Cowboy Pilots and the Myth of the Last Frontier by Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth
RRP: £19.99£16.11This fascinating account of the development of aviation in Alaska examines the daring missions of pilots who initially opened up the territory for military positioning and later for trade and tourism. Early Alaskan military and bush pilots navigated... -
The Bonanza Trail: Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of the West by Muriel Sibell Wolle
RRP: £15.99£14.64Searching for gold in the American West was not for the faint of heart. To reach the fabled gold fields of California, prospectors penetrated the boundless high Sierras and the Rockies and crossed the desert wastes of Arizona, Utah, and Nevada. Waves of... -
We Are the Land: A History of Native California by Damon B. Akins
RRP: £21.00£17.03"A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White's California Exposures."-Kirkus Reviews Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous. Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People... -
Rediscovering Wonderland: The Expedition That Launched Yellowstone National Park by M. Mark Miller
RRP: £16.99£12.94In the Nineteenth Century people could gain fame and fortune by "discovering" and documenting things that were already known to exist like the source of the Nile and the North Pole. For decades trappers and prospectors had told about the... -
City Girls: The Nisei Social World in Los Angeles, 1920-1950 by Valerie J. Matsumoto
RRP: £47.99£43.32Even before internment, Japanese largely lived in separate cultural communities from their West Coast neighbors. The first-generation American children, the Nisei, were American citizens, spoke English, and were integrated in public schools, yet were... -
The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen: Reconstructing Native Hawaiian Intellectual History by Noenoe K. Silva
RRP: £21.99£19.19In 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... -
Sunshine Was Never Enough: Los Angeles Workers, 1880-2010 by John H. M. Laslett
RRP: £24.00£18.83Delving beneath Southern California's popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease, this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labor of Los Angeles's large working class. In a sweeping narrative that takes into account more than a century... -
Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism by J. Kehaulani Kauanui
RRP: £85.00£74.21In Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty J. Kehaulani Kauanui examines contradictions of indigeneity and self-determination in U.S. domestic policy and international law. She theorizes paradoxes in the laws themselves and in nationalist assertions of... -
Hell of a Vision: Regionalism and the Modern American West by Robert L. Dorman
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Stagecoach: Views of the Old West, 1849-1915 Sandor Demlinger 9780764321245
RRP: £22.99£15.05Over 280 rare and often unpublished vintage photographs explore life in the Old West, from the Gold Rush to the First World War. Here are the stagecoaches, the horse drawn wagons, the towns, and the people who lived on the frontier of America. These are... -
Hula Girls and Surfer Boys by Mark Blackburn
RRP: £18.99£12.67Hula and surfing represent the quintessential Hawaiian experience. Over 270 original photographs and postcard images are presented chronologically from 1870 to 1940 to powerfully portray the evolving styles and popularity of these icons of Hawai`i. The... -
Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco by Judy Yung
RRP: £29.00£22.94The crippling custom of footbinding is the thematic touchstone for Judy Yung's engrossing study of Chinese American women during the first half of the twentieth century. Using this symbol of subjugation to examine social change in the lives of these... -
Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics by Darren Frederick Speece
RRP: £39.00£34.12Giant redwoods are American icons, paragons of grandeur, exceptionalism, and endurance. They are also symbols of conflict and negotiation, remnants of environmental battles over the limits of industrialization, profiteering, and globalization. Since... -
Outriders: Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West by Rebecca Scofield
RRP: £23.99£20.84Rodeo 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... -
Myths and Legends of Yellowstone: The True Stories behind History's Mysteries by Ednor Therriault
RRP: £13.99£10.84The world's first designated national park, Yellowstone is famous for its steaming geysers, bubbling mud pots, and wildlife-caused traffic jams. But few people may know about the many Native American tribes that visited the area long before John Colter... -
From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969 by Alicia Gutierrez-Romine
RRP: £45.00£39.18In From Back Alley to the Border, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of criminal abortion in California and the role abortion providers played in exposing and exploiting the faults in California's anti-abortion statute throughout the twentieth... -
A People's History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport by Eric Porter
RRP: £25.00£19.30An 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... -
Meaningful Places: Landscape Photographers in the Nineteenth-Century American West by Rachel McLean Sailor
£54.93The early history of photography in America coincided with the Euro-American settlement of the West. This thoughtful book argues that the rich history of western photography cannot be understood by focusing solely on the handful of well-known... -
Storied Land: Community and Memory in Monterey by John Walton
RRP: £27.00£21.46Storied Land is not only an important record of events--it is also a powerful and innovative investigation of how historical narratives are produced. Walton looks at how Franciscan missionaries and military governors created competing historical... -
Gold Rush Manliness: Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope by Christopher Herbert
RRP: £23.99£20.84The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. Yet many of the white men who went to the gold fields were products of the Victorian era:... -
Frontier Religion: Mormons in America, 1857-1907 by Konden Smith Hansen
RRP: £48.95£30.56At the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Mormons were deliberately excluded from one of the main attractions, the Parliament of Religions. Organizers believed that Mormonism, with its connections to polygamy, did not merit a place alongside other... -
Bonneville's Women of Land Speed Racing by Noeth
RRP: £23.99£14.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467107136Author NoethFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 231mm... -
Making a Modern U.S. West: The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940 by Sarah Deutsch
RRP: £39.00£35.12To many Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the West was simultaneously the greatest symbol of American opportunity, the greatest story of its history, and the imagined blank slate on which the country's future would be written. From the...