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  • Nikkei in the Interior West

    Japanese Immigration and Community Building, 1882–1945

    by Eric Walz ...
    Eric Walz's Nikkei in the Interior West tells the story of more than twelve thousand Japanese immigrants who settled in the interior West--Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah. They came inland not as fugitives forced to relocate after Pearl Harbor but arrived decades before World War II as workers searching for a job or as picture brides looking to join husbands they had never met.Despite ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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    Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine

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  • Blackfoot Redemption

    A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice

    by William E. Farr ...
    In 1879, a Canadian Blackfoot known as Spopee, or Turtle, shot and killed a white man. Captured as a fugitive, Spopee narrowly escaped execution, instead landing in an insane asylum in Washington, D.C., where he fell silent. Spopee thus “disappeared” for more than thirty years, until a delegation of American Blackfeet discovered him and, aided by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, exacted a ... Read more

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  • The Silver State, 3rd Edition

    Nevada'S Heritage Reinterpreted

    by James W. Hulse ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    Nevada has changed dramatically over the past quarter century, and in this third edition of The Silver State, renowned historian James W. Hulse recounts the major events—historical, political, and social—that have shaped our state. Hulse’s cohesive approach offers students and general readers an accessible account of Nevada’s colorful history. The new edition highlights the social and political ... Read more

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  • Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones

    The American Medicine Show

    by Ann Anderson ...
    Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and promised cures for everything from corns to cancer. Combining elements of the circus, theater, vaudeville, and good old-fashioned entrepreneurship, the showmen of the American medicine show sold tonics, ointments, pills, extracts and a host of other "wonder-cures," ... Read more

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  • The World Rushed In

    The California Gold Rush Experience

    by J. S. Holliday ...
    When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment, and the book has gained recognition as a classic. As the San Francisco Examiner noted, “It is not often that a work of history can be said to supplant every ... Read more

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  • Country Editor's Boy

    A Memoir

    by Hal Borland ...
    A memoir of youthful years spent in Colorado as the American West was transformed, by the author of High, Wide, and Lonesome and The Dog Who Came to Stay.Country Editor's Boy picks up where Hal Borland's classic memoir High, Wide and Lonesome left off: with Borland, on the cusp of adulthood in the early twentieth century, making his way in an eastern Colorado town that still retained all the ... Read more

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  • Billy the Kid on Film, 1911-2012

    by Johnny D. Boggs ...
    A comprehensive filmography, this book is composed of lengthy entries on about 75 films depicting legendary New Mexico outlaw Billy the Kid--from the lost Billy the Kid (1911) to the blockbuster Young Guns (1988) to the direct-to-video 1313: Billy the Kid(2012) and everything in between. Each entry gives a synopsis, cast and credits, critical reception, and a discussion of the events of the films ... Read more

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  • Denver's Sixteenth Street

    by Mark Barnhouse ...
    Series series Images of America
    The beloved thoroughfare at the heart of Denver, Sixteenth Street has always been the Mile-High City�s �Main Street.� Sixteenth Street got its jump start in 1879 when Leadville�s Silver King and Colorado�s richest man, Horace Austin Warner Tabor, came to town and built the city�s first five-story skyscraper at the corner of Sixteenth and Larimer Streets. In coming years, Sixteenth Street became ... Read more

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  • The Creation of the Cowboy Hero

    Fiction, Film and Fact

    by Jeremy Agnew ...
    As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero. This book describes the evolution of the cowboy hero as a mythic persona created by dime novels, television and Hollywood. Much of our concept of the cowboy comes to us from movies and ... Read more

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  • KGO Radio Jumps The Shark: More News, Less Talk (Essay)

    by C.D. Reimer ...
    After Cumulus Media switched KGO Radio (810AM) from an all talk format to an all news format in December 2011, laying off the best radio talent in the San Francisco Bay Area and throwing away 40 years of broadcasting history in a desperate bid to improve ratings, the lost of familiar voices over the airwaves was heartbreaking.An original 3,660-word essay being published for the first time."When ... Read more

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  • River Master

    John Wesley Powell's Legendary Exploration of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon

    by Cecil Kuhne ...
    Series series American Grit
    Experience John Wesley Powell’s now-famous expedition through the Grand CanyonIn 1869, Civil War veteran and amputee Major John Powell led an expedition down the uncharted Colorado River through the then-nameless Grand Canyon. This is the story of what started as a geological survey, but ended in danger, chaos, and blood. The men were unexperienced and ill-equipped, and they faced unimaginable ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD