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  • Gold Rush Towns of Nevada County

    by Maria E. Brower ...
    Series series Images of America
    Nevada County is webbed with some of the richest veins of goldbearing quartz in the world. First discovered in 1849 as placer gold washed into creek beds, hydraulic miners later used massive jets of water to melt mountains and free the precious metal. Rich lodegold districts such as Grass Valley and Nevada City were the most productive in California, and innovations such as hydraulic mining began ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nevada City

    by Maria E. Brower ...
    Series series Images of America
    Vibrant and captivating Nevada City began as a gold-mining camp called Deer Creek Dry Diggins. The large gravel deposits alongside this creek reportedly delivered a pound of pay dirt a day by the fall of 1849, when A. B. Caldwell�s general store opened to supply this haphazard collection of tents. By March 1850, somewhere between 6,000 and 16,000 boisterous souls called it home, and the new town ... Read more

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  • Annals of San Francisco

    by Frank Soulé ...
    The volume is divided into two parts: the first comprising the History of California from its discovery until 1848; the second containing a narrative of events, year by year, that occurred in San Francisco from 1848 to 1854, inclusive, with frequent references to occurrences in other portions of the State. ... Read more

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  • The Indifferent Stars Above

    The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

    by Daniel James Brown ...
    From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book ReviewIn April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois ... Read more

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  • Area 51

    An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

    by Annie Jacobsen ...
    This bestseller from a Pulitzer Prize finalist gives readers the complete untold story of the top-secret military base for the first time.**"Compellingly hard-hitting." —**New York TimesIt is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Give Your Heart to the Hawks

    A Tribute to the Mountain Men

    by Win Blevins ...
    The basis for the Golden Globe–winning and twelve-time Academy Award–nominated film The Revenant starring Leonardo DiCaprio.Mountain man Hugh Glass's harrowing journey 300 miles to civilization after being mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead is just one of the incredible adventures Spur Award–winning author Win Blevins explores in the New York Times bestseller, Give Your Heart to the ... Read more

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  • The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

    by Zane Grey ...
    Series Book 6 - Delphi Parts Edition (Zane Grey)
    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Collected Works of Zane Grey’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for ... Read more

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  • Appetite for America

    Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One Meal at a Time

    by Stephen Fried ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Featured in the PBS documentary The Harvey Girls: Opportunity BoundThe legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history for three generations—from the 1880s all the way through World War II—and still influence our lives today in surprising and fascinating ways. Now award-winning journalist Stephen Fried re-creates the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • The Money and the Power

    by Sally Denton, Roger Morris ...
    Las Vegas—the name evokes images of divorce and dice, gangsters and glitz. But beneath it all is a sordid history that is much more insidious and far-reaching than ever imagined. The Money and the Power is the most comprehensive look yet at Las Vegas and its breadth of influence. Based on five years of intensive research and interviewing, Sally Denton and Roger Morris reveal the city’s historic ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Port of Los Angeles

    by Michael D. White ...
    Series series Images of America
    The epic of the Port of Los Angeles was initiated more than 150 years ago by a handful of visionaries and entrepreneurs who exploited both fortunate and outrageous circumstances to transform a tidal mudflat into the world's largest man-made harbor. Phineas Banning and archrival Augustus Timms were among the first to realize the potential of the coastal dent on the map called San Pedro Bay in the ... Read more

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  • Killing for Coal

    America’s Deadliest Labor War

    by Thomas G. Andrews ...
    On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado’s industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children among the miners’ families lay dead. The strikers had killed at least thirty men, destroyed six mines, ... Read more

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  • Angel Island

    Immigrant Gateway to America

    by Erika Lee, Judy Yung ...
    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 many, this was the real gateway to the United States. For others, it was a prison and their final destination, before being sent home. In this ... Read more

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