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  • Pleasanton

    by Mary-Jo Wainwright, Museum on Main ...
    Series series Images of America
    The city of Pleasanton, located in the beautiful Amador-Livermore valley, was formed in 1867 when immigrants John Kottinger and Joshua Neal used land from their Californio wives� dowries and laid out a town. Kottinger named the city after Civil War general Alfred Pleasonton, but a postal clerical error changed the spelling to �Pleasanton� and the name stuck. The men secured Pleasanton�s future by ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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

    $21.99 CAD

  • Ghosts of the Queen Mary

    by Brian Clune, Bob Davis ...
    Series series Haunted America
    Learn the stories behind this luxurious—and haunted—ocean liner . . . Includes photos!For thirty-one years, the RMS Queen Mary sailed the North Atlantic. It helped defeat Hitler and was the ship of choice for the world's rich and famous. Now in retirement in the Port of Long Beach, the "Stateliest Ship Afloat" plays host to tourists, travelers—and more than six hundred spirits that roam her halls ... Read more

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  • Islands of Destiny

    A History of Hawaii

    by Olive Wyndette ...
    This is the complete history of Hawaii.It is the fast-moving narrative of an island nation whose settlement antedates the arrival of European pioneers by a thousand years, and whose destiny it was to become the fiftieth star in the flag of the United States of America. It tells how the Islanders have created a modern-day miracle through education, economic progress, and financial growth in the ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Uncovering Nevada's Past

    A Primary Source History of the Silver State

    Edited by John B. Reid, Ronald M. James ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    Nevada’s relatively brief history has been nonetheless remarkably eventful. From the activities of the first Euro-American explorers to the booms and busts of the mining industry, from the struggles and artistry of the Native Americans to the establishment of liberal divorce laws and such unique industries as legalized gambling and prostitution, from Cold War atomic tests to the civil rights ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The American West

    A New Interpretive History, Second Edition

    by Robert V. Hine, Jon T. Coleman ...
    A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox history of America’s West has been updated to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native American lives and cultures. An ideal text for course work, it presents the West as both frontier and region, examining the clashing ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Utah

    by Charles S. Peterson ...
    A place apart, Utah began as an undefined land in the middle of the continent, a place that meant little to the few natives who lived there and even less to the fewer travelers who passed through.Utah is a land whose geographical isolation would forever mark its history. To the Mormons who took refuge there in the 1840s, distance from the outside world was its greatest attraction, and there in the ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • The WPA Guide to Wyoming

    The Cowboy State

    by Federal Writers' Project ...
    During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors-many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures-were ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • Father of Route 66

    The Story of Cy Avery

    by Susan Croce Kelly ...
    If it weren’t for Cy Avery’s dreams of better roads through his beloved Tulsa, the United States would never have gotten Route 66. This book is the story of Avery, his times, and the legendary highway he helped build.In this engaging biography of a remarkable man, Susan Croce Kelly begins by describing the urgency for “good roads” that gripped the nation in the early twentieth century as cars ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The Challenge of Rainier, 40th Anniversary

    A Record of the Explorations and Ascents, Triumphs and Tragedies on the Northwest's Greatest Mountain, 4th Edition

    by Dee Molenaar ...
    CLICK HERE to download the first chapter of The Challenge of Rainier, 40th Anniversary Edition* Special 40th anniversary edition* Featuring 125 photos, 90 illustrations, and 15 maps* Original cover art by Dee MolenaarOriginally published in 1971, The Challenge of Rainier is a classic in mountaineering reference and literature, long c... ... Read more

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  • Song of the Stubborn One Thousand

    The Watsonville Canning Strike, 1985-87

    by Peter Shapiro ...
    "How 1,000 Latina workers in Watsonville, California won an 18-month long strike . . . an inspiring tale" (Mae M. Ngai, author of Impossible Subjects and The Lucky Ones)On September 9, 1985, a predominately Mexican group of one thousand women workers in Watsonville, California, the "frozen food capital of the world," were forced out on strike in response to an attempt by Watsonville Canning owner ... Read more

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  • Pioneer Days In The San Bernardino Valley

    by Eliza Persis Russell Robbins Crafts ...
    The author discloses an intimate picture of Indian life and character, the Indians being the desert Cahuillas and their noted chief-Cabazon. She also tells of the early Mormon pioneers, with some reference to Capt. Jefferson Hunt and the Death Valley Party, and more particularly to the Brier family. Mrs. Crafts' book makes for interesting reading; and it may well be considered one of the most ... Read more

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