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  • Mesa Verde National Park

    par Duane A. Smith ...
    Collections series Images of America
    Mesa Verde National Park was America's first cultural park and also the world's first cultural heritage park. Created in 1906, it preserves the sites and materials of the prehistoric Puebloan people. Located in southwestern Colorado near the famous Four Corners, where the states of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico meet, the magnificent Mesa Verde is situated in Montezuma County, just south ... En savoir plus

    $17.96 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Trail of Gold and Silver

    Mining in Colorado, 1859-2009

    par Duane A. Smith ...
    Collections series Timberline Books
    In The Trail of Gold and Silver, historian Duane A. Smith details Colorado's mining saga - a story that stretches from the beginning of the gold and silver mining rush in the mid-nineteenth century into the twenty-first century. Gold and silver mining laid the foundation for Colorado's economy, and 1859 marked the beginning of a fever for these precious metals. Mining changed the state and its ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies

    Georgetown, Colorado, and the Fight for Survival into the Twentieth Century

    par Christine Bradley, Duane A Smith ...
    Collections series Mining the American West
    There are many studies of local communities during their heydays, but the life of a community in decline is rarely studied. The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies delves into the life of Georgetown, Colorado, after the turn of the twentieth century as mining in Clear Creek County steadily declined and ultimately collapsed.One of the earliest mining communities in the state, Georgetown ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Colorado

    The Highest State, Second Edition

    par Thomas J. Noel, Duane A. Smith ...
    Chronicling the people, places, and events of the state's colorful history, Colorado: The Highest State is the story of how Colorado grew up. Through booms and busts in farming and ranching, mining and railroading, and water and oil, Colorado's past is a cycle of ups and downs as high as the state's peaks and as low as its canyons. The second edition is the result of a major revision, with updates ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Fire and Brimstone

    The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917

    par Michael Punke ...
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Revenant—the basis for the award-winning film starring Leonardo DiCaprio—tells the remarkable story of the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history.A half-hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, a fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Company's Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than two thousand feet below ground, the fire spewed ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Out Where the West Begins

    Profiles, Visions, and Strategies of Early Western Business Leaders

    par Philip F. Anschutz, William J. Convery, Thomas J. Noel ...
    Between 1800 and 1920, an extraordinary cast of bold innovators and entrepreneurs—individuals such as Cyrus McCormick, Brigham Young, Henry Wells and James Fargo, Fred Harvey, Levi Strauss, Adolph Coors, J. P. Morgan, and Buffalo Bill Cody—helped lay the groundwork for what we now call the American West. They were people of imagination and courage, adept at maneuvering the rapids of change, alert ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Cadillac Desert

    The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

    par Marc Reisner, Lawrie Mott ...
    **“I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage — that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Rising Tide

    The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

    par John M. Barry ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of almost one million people, helped elect Huey Long ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Colossus

    Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century

    par Michael Hiltzik ...
    As breathtaking today as the day it was completed, Hoover Dam not only shaped the American West but helped launch the American century. In the depths of the Great Depression it became a symbol of American resilience and ingenuity in the face of crisis, putting thousands of men to work in a remote desert canyon and bringing unruly nature to heel.Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Michael Hiltzik uses ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Transportation and the American People

    par H. Roger Grant ...
    This "outstanding contribution to transportation history" chronicles the evolution of American mobility from stagecoaches to buses and airplanes ( Choice).Transportation is the unsung hero of American history. Stagecoaches, waterways, canals, railways, busses, and airplanes revolutionized much more than just the way people got around; they transformed the economic, political, and social aspects of ... En savoir plus

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  • Ghost Towns of the Southwest

    Your Guide to the Historic Mining Camps & Ghost Towns of Arizona and New Mexico

    par Jim Hinckley, Kerrick James ...
    A traveler's guide to ghost towns and historic villages of Arizona and New Mexico, featuring maps, historical background, and color photos.The Southwest is home to an enticing array of ghost towns and historic villages. Once-bustling mining camps, frontier towns, and railroad towns stand today as reminders of the glory days of mining and the Wild West. Historic buildings, abandoned schoolhouses, ... En savoir plus

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  • How Big Government Won the West

    par Stephen J. Rockwell ...
    This short essay argues that "big government" begins in America's earliest days-- despite our founding myth of small government and limited federal activity. The essay addresses the federal government's indispensable role in land acquisition, its regulation of the fur trade, and its role in managing defense, trade, and social policies. Complementing a wave of new scholarship, "How Big Government ... En savoir plus

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