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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692703458Author Christina RiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Photo Friends PublicationsPublisher Photo Friends PublicationsWeight(grams)...

In the 1930s and 40s, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals - including Thomas Mann, Theodore W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg - who had fled Nazi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250184894Author John BoesseneckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's GriffinPublisher Thomas Dunne Book for St...

In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho...

The sixth volume in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history-Kevin Starr's monumental Americans and the California Dream-Embattled Dreams is a peerless work of cultural history following California in the years surrounding World War II...

In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford co-founded a university to honour their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into...

No book on the emergence of Los Angeles, today a metropolis of more than four million people, has been more influential or elusive than this volume by Anton Wagner. Originally published in German in 1935 as Los Angeles: Werden, Leben und Gestalt der...

Los Angeles in the 1930s returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A.'s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806146324Author University Richard W EtulainFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738530277Author Suzanne Tarbell CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams)...

Presiding from 1875 to 1896 over the United States Court for the Western Judicial District of Arkansas, Isaac Charles Parker attained notoriety as the "Hanging Judge" responsible for law and order in Indian Territory. Popular accounts have portrayed him...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250113894Author Frances DinkelspielFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 292g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637167762Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578163055Author Paul MorantzFormat PaperbackImprint Cresta PublicationsPublisher Cresta PublicationsWeight(grams) 1338g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Regional Book) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781626400917Author Frances AndertonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060572006Author Author and Historian Simon WinchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626401129Author Nikolai BlaumFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Angel City Press,U.S.Publisher Angel City Press,U.S.

Edward Zane Carroll Judson aka Ned Buntline (1821-1886) was responsible for creating a highly romantic and often misleading image of the American West, albeit one that the masses found irresistible in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Some scholars...

In the 1920s, an upstart West Coast college began to challenge the Eastern universities in the ancient sport of crew racing. Sportswriters scoffed at the "crude western boats" and their crews. But for the next forty years, the University of Washington...

This title presents Black Power politics on the campus and the street. In this nuanced and ground-breaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources,...

How much of what we know about the history of the Old West is true? In this new book, author Michael Rutter looks at the legend and lore behind such notorious figures as Billy the Kid and Calamity Jane and the stories of famous gun fights and battles,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609491956Author Jolie Anderson GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 222mm...

This new historical overview tells the dramatic story of the American West from its prehistory to the present. A narrative history, it covers the region from the North Dakota-to-Texas states to the Pacific Coast. This West has always been home to richly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467140430Author Chadd VanzantenFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 222mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931832212Author C B GlasscockFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Riverbend PublishingPublisher Riverbend Publishing

In Paradise of the Pacific, Susanna Moore, the award-winning author of In the Cut and The Life of Objects, pieces together the elusive, dramatic story of Hawai'i - a place of kings and queens, gods and goddesses, missionaries and explorers - a...

Mountains-so beautiful, the land dominated by the Colorado Rockies, that miners who "thought of returning to the comfort and dull security of their homes back east," in Marshall Sprague's words, "found themselves held by the appeal of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467133203Author John BlairFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401308896Author Michael PunkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 130mm *...

Lawman or outlaw? Black-hatted "villains" and white-hatted "good guys" of the Old West walk the streets of our imagination. Hollywood draws a convenient line in the Western dirt, differentiating between the two. But in reality, at times it was difficult,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467139441Author Janice OberdingFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

The mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in United States history. Removed from their homes on the temperate Pacific Coast, Japanese Americans spent...

The "cold war university" is the academic component of the military-industrial-academic complex, and its archetype, according to Rebecca Lowen, is Stanford University. Her book challenges the conventional wisdom that the post-World War II "multiversity"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142003831Author Marc ReisnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 128mm *...

From 1860 to 1900, many towns in Nevada sprang up to serve the mining camps in the area. These towns provided the breeding ground for a unique character known as "the mining camp gunman." This book delves into the violent and gritty lives of various...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375701269Author Sally DentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738581439Author Louise B. GabrielFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

From 1910 to 1940, over half a million people sailed through the Golden Gate, hoping to start a new life in America. But they did not all disembark in San Francisco; instead, most were ferried across the bay to the Angel Island Immigration Station. For...

Badasses 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738580531Author Starley TalbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 235mm...