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  • Sunnyvale

    par Ben Koning, Anneke Metz, Sunnyvale Historical Society ...
    Collections series Images of America
    Sunnyvale has been a place for forward thinking and innovation since its founding in 1861, when Irish immigrant Martin Murphy Jr. allowed a new railroad to pass through his land. By linking San Jose�s farms to San Francisco�s docks, he did more than help overcome the muddy misery of travel on the El Camino Real. The whistle stop first known as �Encinal� quickly grew into a center for agriculture, ... En savoir plus

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  • Last Stand at Saber River

    par Elmore Leonard ...
    A quiet, haunted man, Paul Cable walked away from a lost cause hoping to pick up where he left off. But things have changed in Arizona since he first rode out to go fight for the Confederacy. Two brothers—Union men—have claimed his spread and they're not about to give it back, leaving Cable and his family no place to settle in peace. It seems this war is not yet over for Paul Cable. But no one's ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Give Your Heart to the Hawks

    A Tribute to the Mountain Men

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • Nevada's Virginia & Truckee Railroad

    par Stephen E. Drew ...
    Collections series Images of Rail
    The Virginia & Truckee is the most famous short line railroad in American history. Brainchild of William Sharon and the Bank of California, the V&T hauled the silver and gold ore, the cordwood, and the mining timbers that made the 1870s �Big Bonanza� a reality. From the state capital at Carson City, V&T rails stretched 66 miles to Virginia City, Reno, and Minden, Nevada. Serving the transportation ... En savoir plus

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  • The Historic Core of Los Angeles

    par Curtis C. Roseman, Ruth Wallach, Dace Taube, Linda McCann ...
    Collections series Images of America
    In the early 20th century, there was no better example of a classic American downtown than Los Angeles. Since World War II, Los Angeles's Historic Core has been "passively preserved," with most of its historic buildings left intact. Recent renovations of the area for residential use and the construction of Disney Hall and the Staples Center are shining a new spotlight on its many pre-1930s Beaux ... En savoir plus

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  • Fremont Older and the 1916 San Francisco Bombing

    A Tireless Crusade for Justice

    par John C. Ralston ...
    On Saturday, July 22, 1916, as "Preparedness Day" parade units assembled south of San Francisco's Market Street, a terrorist bomb exploded, killing ten people and wounding forty. San Francisco was outraged. Instead of searching for the perpetrators, however, the district attorney used the bombing as an excuse to arrest, try and convict two obscure labor figures without evidence. Author John C. ... En savoir plus

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  • Freedom's Orator

    Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s

    par Robert Cohen ...
    Here is the first biography of Mario Savio, the brilliant leader of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, the largest and most disruptive student rebellion in American history. Savio risked his life to register black voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer of 1964 and did more than anyone to bring daring forms of non-violent protest from the civil rights movement to the struggle for free speech and ... En savoir plus

    $36.79 CAD

  • Californio Portraits

    Baja California's Vanishing Culture

    par Harry W. Crosby ...
    Collections series Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico Series
    First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby’s Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical moment of transition, when the 1974 completion of the transpeninsular highway increased the Californios’ contact with the outside world and profoundly affected their traditional way of life. This updated and expanded version of that now-classic work ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Out Where the West Begins, Volume 2

    Creating and Civilizing the American West

    par Philip F. Anschutz ...
    In 1790, it was not a given that the young United States, bruised and healing from its struggle for independence and populated by fewer than 4 million inhabitants, would even survive, much less flourish. But the great adventure that came next—the exploration and settlement of the lands lying to the west and stretching to the Pacific Ocean—would build a nation where only a patchwork of eastern ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Gardeners of Eden

    Rediscovering Our Importance to Nature

    par Dan Dagget ...
    Dan Dagget believes that humanity can have a positive effect on the land. He demonstrates case after case of positive human engagement in the environment and of managed ecosystems and restored areas that are richer, more diverse, and healthier than unmanaged ones. Much of pre-Columbian America, he contends, was not a pristine wilderness but an ancient garden managed over millennia by native ... En savoir plus

    $40.59 CAD

  • American Arcadia

    California and the Classical Tradition

    par Peter J. Holliday ...
    A vivid and engaging exploration of California's debt to the ancient world Discussing the influence of the classics on America is nothing new; indeed, classical antiquity could be considered second only to Christianity as a force in modeling America's national identity. What has never been explored until now is how, from the beginning, Californians in particular chose to visually and culturally ... En savoir plus

    $44.79 CAD

  • The Portuguese in San Jose

    par Meg Rogers ...
    Collections series Images of America
    For hundreds of years, Portuguese explorers have swept across the globe, many of them landing in California in the 1840s as whalers, ship jumpers, and Gold Rush immigrants. Gold was the lure, but land was the anchor. San Jose became home toPortuguese immigrants who overcame prejudice to contribute to the area politically, socially, and economically. They worked hard, transplanting farming, family, ... En savoir plus

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