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  • Huntington Beach Lifeguards

    by Kai Weisser ...
    Series series Images of America
    The Surf City USA� lifeguards and marine safety officers protect and serve one of the busiest and most famous beaches in the world. World-class surfing events, volleyball tournaments, and other activities transform Huntington Beach�s waterfront into a sea of humanity regularly each summer. The lifeguards patrol three and a half miles of beautiful wide, sandy Orange County shores, which can draw ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Fetterman Massacre

    Fort Phil Kearny and the Battle of the Hundred Slain

    by Dee Brown ...
    Dee Brown’s authoritative history of Fort Phil Kearney and the notorious Fetterman MassacreThis dark, unflinching, and fascinating book is Dee Brown’s riveting account of events leading up to the Battle of the Hundred Slain—the devastating 1866 conflict that pitted Lakota, Arapaho, and Northern Cheyenne warriors, including Oglala chief Red Cloud, against the United States cavalry under the command ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wyatt Earp

    A Vigilante Life

    by Andrew C. Isenberg ...
    This acclaimed biography separates history from myth to reveal the man behind the enduring Western legend.In popular culture, Wyatt Earp is the hero of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, and a beacon of rough cowboy justice in the tumultuous American West. The subject of dozens of films, he has been invoked in battles against everything from organized crime in the 1930s to al ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Southern California Surf Music, 1960-1966

    by John Blair ...
    Series series Images of America
    Dick Dale & the Del-Tones began holding weekend dances at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, California, in the summer of 1960. Over the next year and a half, Dale developed the sound and style that came to be known as "surf music." The result was the development of more powerful guitar amplifiers, a dramatic increase in the sales of Fender guitars and amplifiers, and a shift from New York to West ... Read more

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  • Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana

    by Kenneth Shields Jr. ...
    Series series Images of America
    For generations, the Native American people have been a society of great mystery. The Assiniboine and Sioux Indians of the Fort Peck Reservation in northeastern Montana are no exception. Althoughcenturies old, their culture is only now being rediscovered and explored. The idea to reveal some of their fascinating story stemmed from the desire,devotion, and dedication of a few individuals to embrace ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Los Angeles in the 1930s

    The WPA Guide to the City of Angels

    by Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration ...
    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 associations—and the mystique—for which the City of Angels is still known. Many books in one, Los Angeles in the 1930s is both a genial guide and an ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • California Crucible

    The Forging of Modern American Liberalism

    by Jonathan Bell ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    In the three decades following World War II, the Golden State was not only the fastest-growing state in the Union but also the site of significant political change. From the late 1940s through the mid-1970s, a generation of liberal activists transformed the political landscape of California, ending Republican dominance of state politics and eventually setting the tone for the Democratic Party ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Butterfield's Byway

    America's First Overland Mail Route Across the West

    by Melody Groves ...
    Series series Transportation
    John Butterfield's mail service connected the East and West Coasts in one of the great entrepreneurial and pioneering stories of the American West. Until 1858, California's gold fields were reached only by horseback, wagon or ship around Cape Horn. Congress decided a 2,800-mile, twenty-five-day stagecoach line would roll from St. Louis to San Francisco. Former Utica, New York mayor Butterfield ... Read more

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  • Left in the Dust

    How Race and Politics Created a Human and Environmental Tragedy in L.A.

    by Karen Piper ...
    An intensely personal story crossed with a political potboiler, Left in the Dust is a unique and passionate account of the city of Los Angeles's creation, cover-up and inadequate attempts to repair a major environmental catastrophe. Owens River, which once fed Owens Lake, was diverted away from the lake to supply the faucets and sprinklers of Los Angeles. The dry lakebed now contains a dust ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Blood Moon

    An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation

    by John Sedgwick ...
    An astonishing untold story from the nineteenth century—a “riveting…engrossing…‘American Epic’” (The Wall Street Journal) and necessary work of history that reads like Gone with the Wind for the Cherokee.“A vigorous, well-written book that distills a complex history to a clash between two men without oversimplifying” (Kirkus Reviews), Blood Moon is the story of the feud between two rival Cherokee ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • A City Beautiful Dream: The 1912 Vision for Colorado Springs

    Regional History Series, #2

    by Charles Mulford Robinson ...
    Series Book 2 - Regional History Series
    The year 1912 was an important milestone for Colorado Springs. Still a young city of only 40 years, the easy-going Little London began the journey to become a metropolitan presence on Colorado's Front Range. The city of Colorado Springs faced choices that would patently impact its future. The numerous trains created unsightly air pollution, the extremely wide streets presented challenges for ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Missile Next Door

    The Minuteman in the American Heartland

    by Gretchen Heefner ...
    In the 1960s the Air Force buried 1,000 ICBMs in pastures across the Great Plains to keep U.S. nuclear strategy out of view. As rural civilians of all political stripes found themselves living in the Soviet crosshairs, a proud Plains individualism gave way to an economic dependence on the military-industrial complex that still persists today. ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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