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Racial Beachhead: Diversity and Democracy in a Military Town by Carol Lynn McKibben
RRP: $46.18$40.30In 1917, Fort Ord was established in the tiny subdivision of Seaside, California. Over the course of the 20th century, it held great national and military importance-a major launching point for World War II operations, the first base in the military to... -
Modern Blackfeet: Montanans on a Reservation by Malcolm McFee
RRP: $41.98$36.83Modern Blackfeet sheds light on the politics, economics, society, and especially the acculturation of the Blackfeet Indians of Montana. The Blackfeet Reservation has an established government and an active and diverse population that has long supported... -
Gateway State: Hawai'i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire by Sarah Miller-Davenport
RRP: $88.20$69.38How 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... -
Empire Maker: Aleksandr Baranov and Russian Colonial Expansion into Alaska and Northern California by Kenneth N. Owens
RRP: $191.10$166.57A native of northern Russia, Alexander Baranov was a middle-aged merchant trader with no prior experience in the fur trade when, in 1790, he arrived in North America to assume command over Russia's highly profitable sea otter business. With the title of... -
Puget's Sound: A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound by Murray Morgan
RRP: $50.38$42.23With the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road, Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of Tacoma, "the City of Destiny," and southern Puget Sound, where many major events of... -
Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies by Michael D. Wise
$50.17In 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. The... -
The Settler Sea: California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism by Traci Brynne Voyles
RRP: $105.00$91.162022 WHA Caughey Western History Prize for the most distinguished book on the American West Can a sea be a settler? What if it is a sea that exists only in the form of incongruous, head-scratching contradictions: a wetland in a desert, a wildlife refuge... -
Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country by William Philpott
RRP: $81.90$72.49Winner of the Western Writers of America 2014 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction, Contemporary Mention the Colorado high country today and vacation imagery springs immediately to mind: mountain scenery, camping, hiking, skiing, and world-renowned... -
San Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval, Punk Rock and a Third-Place Baseball Team by Lincoln A. Mitchell
RRP: $69.30$61.01San Francisco is a city of contradictions. It is one of the most socially liberal cities in America, but it also has some of the nation's worst income inequality. It is a playground for tech millionaires, with an outrageously high cost of living, yet it... -
Glacier National Park: A Culmination of Giants by George Bristol
RRP: $58.70$33.12Bristol takes readers on a journey through the history of Glacier National Park, beginning over a billion years ago from the formation of the Belt Sea, to the present day climate-changing extinction of the very glaciers that sculpted most of the wonders... -
Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff by Anthony McCann
RRP: $39.88$31.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635571202Author Anthony McCannFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 778g -
Highway 101: The History of El Camino Real Stephen H Provost 9781610353526
RRP: $46.18$30.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610353526Author Stephen H ProvostFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co Inc -
Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i by Hokulani K. Aikau
RRP: $199.50$173.73Many people first encounter Hawai'i through the imagination-a postcard picture of hula girls, lu'aus, and plenty of sun, surf, and sea. While Hawai'i is indeed beautiful, Native Hawaiians struggle with the problems brought about by colonialism, military... -
The Father of Glacier National Park: Discoveries and Explorations in His Own Words by George Bird Grinell
RRP: $52.48$33.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467143240Author George Bird GrinellFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 18g -
Empire: The Pioneer Legacy of an American Ranch Family by Jefferson Glass
RRP: $41.98$32.38A collage of characters shaped the west of the nineteenth century. Large and powerful cattlemen, backed by eastern and European investors, flooded the prairie with herds often numbering 50-80 thousand head. They had visions of doubling or tripling... -
Salinas: A History of Race and Resilience in an Agricultural City by Carol Lynn McKibben
RRP: $50.38$43.76An 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... -
The Napa Murder of Anita Fagiani Andrews: A Cold Case That Caught a Serial Killer by Raymond a Guadagni
RRP: $52.48$33.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467147415Author Raymond a GuadagniFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Finding the Wild West: The Pacific West: California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Alaska by Mike Cox
RRP: $31.48$24.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493064175Author Mike CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint TwoDot BooksPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 152g -
The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles by Scott Kurashige
RRP: $94.50$74.17Los Angeles has attracted intense attention as a "world city" characterized by multiculturalism and globalization. Yet, little is known about the historical transformation of a place whose leaders proudly proclaimed themselves white... -
Wilderburbs: Communities on Nature's Edge by Lincoln Bramwell
RRP: $50.38$43.76Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the West that historian Lincoln Bramwell calls "wilderburbs" have offered residents both the pleasures of living in nature and the creature comforts of the suburbs. Remote from cities but still... -
Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast by Connie Y. Chiang
RRP: $50.38$43.76The Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck's classic novel Cannery Row, was also the stage for a historical junction of industry and tourism. Shaping the Shoreline looks at the ways in which Monterey has formed,... -
Historic Photos of San Francisco Crime by Hannah Clayborn
RRP: $62.98$43.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596525344Author Hannah ClaybornFormat HardbackPage Count 205Imprint TurnerPublisher TurnerWeight(grams) 1266g -
California and Hawai'i Bound: U.S. Settler Colonialism and the Pacific West, 1848-1959 by Henry Knight Lozano
RRP: $113.40$99.10Beginning in the era of Manifest Destiny, U.S. settlers, writers, politicians, and boosters worked to bind California and Hawai'i together in the American imagination, emphasizing white settlement and capitalist enterprise. In California and Hawai'i... -
Buffalo Bill and the Birth of American Celebrity by Kellen Cutsforth
RRP: $52.50$40.89Buffalo Bill and the Birth of American Celebrity commemorates the rise of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and tells the tale of a visionary whose real-life experiences (and embellishments) created an entertainment phenomenon that became a worldwide... -
The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism by James A. Aho 9780295974941
RRP: $50.38$43.76From their home bases in Idaho and neighboring areas of the Northwest, organizations such as the Order, the Aryan Nations Church, the Posse Comitatus, and the Golden Mean Society have drawn national attention and spread the gospel of a "constitutionally... -
Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawai'i by Tom Coffman 9780822361978
RRP: $50.38$43.76In 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai'i and established a government modeled on the Jim Crow South. In Nation Within Tom Coffman tells the complex history of the... -
An Alaska Anthology: Interpreting the Past by Stephen W. Haycox 9780295974958
RRP: $62.98$56.49Alaska, with its Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut heritage, its century of Russian colonization, its peoples' formidable struggles to wrest a living (or a fortune) from the North's isolated and harsh environment, and its relatively recent achievement of... -
Surfing Corpus Christi and Port Aransas by Dan Parker 9780738584560
RRP: $46.18$32.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738584560Author Dan ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 241mm *... -
My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting by William T. Hamilton 9781629143835
RRP: $23.08$20.20In these days, when the experience of living right up against nature is fast becoming a thing of the past, the story of the mountain men is of special interest. These pioneers as a class were unique. Life itself had little value in their estimation. They... -
Bunker Hill in the Rearview Mirror: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of an Urban Neighborhood by Emma Roberts 9780692703427
RRP: $31.50$26.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692703427Author Emma RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Photo Friends PublicationsPublisher Photo Friends PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
The Santa Fe Ring Versus Billy The Kid: The Making of an American Monster by Gale Cooper 9780986070754
RRP: $45.13$41.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986070754Author Gale CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 888Imprint Gelcour BooksPublisher Gelcour BooksWeight(grams) 1161gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Badasses of the Old West: True Stories Of Outlaws On The Edge by Erin H. Turner 9780762754663
RRP: $27.28$20.18Badasses of the Old West brings together thirty-six tales of the worst (and best) robbers, rustlers, and bandits who shaped the history of the Wild West in one compelling volume. From the famous, such as Billy the Kid and the Wild Bunch, to the... -
Myths and Mysteries of Alaska: True Stories Of The Unsolved And Unexplained by Cherry Lyon Jones 9780762772223
RRP: $25.18$18.73Myths & Mysteries of Alaska explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in the Last Frontier's history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general... -
Early Warner Bros. Studios by E. j. Stephens 9780738580913
RRP: $46.18$32.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738580913Author E. j. StephensFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm... -
Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History by Richard Edwards 9781496213945
RRP: $41.98$34.08Homesteading 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 the striking disparity between the public's perception of homesteading as a... -
Lakota Portraits: Lives Of The Legendary Plains People by Joseph Agonito 9780762772124
RRP: $31.48$24.21A moving, thoughtful, beautifully illustrated look at the lives of men and women who helped shape the history of the Lakota people and the American West Lakota Portraits weaves together vignettes of Lakotas, including both prominent and ordinary... -
The Bears Ears: A Human History of America's Most Endangered Wilderness by David Roberts 9781324035961
RRP: $29.38$24.57The Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, created by President Obama in 2016 and eviscerated by the Trump administration in 2017, contains more archaeological sites than any other region in the United States. It's also a spectacularly... -
Standoff at High Noon: Another Battle over the Truth in the Mythic Wild West by Bill Markley
RRP: $39.88$30.07Where is the head of Pancho Villa really buried? Did Butch Cassidy die the way mainstream history says he did? Was the real Davy Crocket a hero of historic proportions during the Battle of the Alamo or a sniveling coward? Is the Lost Dutchman Mine... -
White Indian Boy: My Life Among the Shoshones by Elijah Nicholas Wilson 9780941599719
RRP: $27.20$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941599719Author Elijah Nicholas WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Piccadilly BooksPublisher Piccadilly BooksWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm)... -
San Francisco Then and Now by Eric J. Kos 9781607107484 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.18$5.10There's no denying the charm of San Francisco, a city perched on rolling hills, where "little cable cars climb half-way to the stars." With dramatic vistas at every turn, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Bay to the east, its cityscape is...