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There'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...

An unprecedented analysis of the origin story of New Mexico’s modern water management system. Maria Lane’s Fluid Geographies traces New Mexico’s transition from a community-based to an expert-led system of water management during the pre-statehood era...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626401334Author Arthur HylenFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Angel City Press,U.S.Publisher Angel City Press,U.S.

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Forthcoming Fall 2024Book InformationISBN 9781439925508Author Pacharee SudhinarasetFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 454g

Forthcoming Fall 2024Book InformationISBN 9781439925515Author Pacharee SudhinarasetFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 454g

The story of twenty schoolchildren on the southeastern plains of Colorado, fighting for lives that had just begun...Imagine being one of twenty children, ages seven to fourteen, stranded in a makeshift school bus for thirty-three hours, during the worst...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626401198Author Todd LerewFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Angel City Press,U.S.Publisher Angel City Press,U.S.

When Captain Charles Young and the Ninth U.S. Cavalry stepped ashore in San Francisco in 1902, Young was only one of three Black officers serving in the U.S. Army. He had graduated from West Point as its third Black graduate, established the first Black...

He was steely eyed, hard riding and straight shooting; a soft-spoken, tee-totaling lawman who never drew his gun...unless he meant to use it. Among other things he was also a buffalo hunter, Indian fighter, rancher horse breeder, saloon keeper,...

Investigating History's Mysteries The assassination of Sheriff Pat Garrett, one of the most notorious lawmen of the American West, remained one of the most puzzling and perplexing unsolved mysteries for more than a century. As a result of sophisticated...

2022 Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters An in-depth history of the Civil War in the Texas Hill Country that examines patterns of violence on the Texas frontier to illuminate white Americans’ cultural and...

In August 1889, the five states that were once part of the Dakota 1861 Territory—North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho—drafted their state constitutions in preparation for inclusion in the United States. These constitutions were models...

2023 Winner of the WHA W. Turrentine Jackson Award2023 Winner of the Caroline Bancroft History Prize 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...

This book series will feature the stories of pioneer cemeteries in the western states, written by local authors, revealing the tales behind the intriguing, lost, abandoned, forgotten, and earlies pioneer cemeteries. Each book will include photos, essays,...

Twisting in Air chronicles the gritty and glittery era when an extraordinary group of horses made Western movies come alive and explores how one of them, Cocaine, overcame a debilitating injury to become the fastest falling horse of all. Falling horses...