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  • A History Lover's Guide to Omaha

    par Eileen Wirth, Carol McCabe ...
    In Omaha, an evening stroll can provide passage into a fascinating past. Travel from a madam's elaborate grave in North Omaha to the site of the first U.S. airmail flight in Aksarben. Chase down the echoes of a Duke Ellington performance at the Dreamland Ballroom in the Jewell Building. Stow away on a tour that treats the whole city like a museum. Colorful street murals and Gilded Age mansions ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Omaha's Historic Houses of Worship

    par Carol McCabe, Eileen Wirth PhD ...
    Collections series Images of America
    From the towers of St. Cecilia�s Cathedral to the Buddhist statuary garden visible from North Omaha�s Sorensen Expressway, Omaha�s physical expressions of worship represent the world�s major faiths. Images of America: Omaha�s Historic Houses of Worship tells the story of how Omahans since the 1850s have created religious buildings and landmarks all over the city as expressions of their beliefs and ... En savoir plus

    $17.96 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium

    par Eileen Wirth ...
    Collections series Landmarks
    Long ranked as one of the top zoos in America and even the world, Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium's history has remained untold, until now. Beginning as little more than a menagerie, the zoo transformed into a spectacular attraction that now draws two million visitors per year. Supporters responded to innovative features such as the iconic desert dome, the new African Grasslands exhibit, the ... En savoir plus

    $17.91 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Women Who Built Omaha

    A Bold and Remarkable History

    par Eileen Wirth ...
    Winner of the 2023 Nebraska Book AwardDuring the 1930s the Federal Writers’ Project described Omaha as a “man’s town,” and histories of the city have all but ignored women. However, women have played major roles in education, health, culture, social services, and other fields since the city’s founding in 1854. In The Women Who Built Omaha Eileen Wirth tells the stories of groundbreaking women who ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • From Society Page to Front Page

    Nebraska Women in Journalism

    par Eileen Wirth ...
    Eileen M. Wirth never set out to be a groundbreaker for women in journalism, but if she wanted to report on social issues instead of society news, she had no alternative. Her years as one of the first women reporters at the Omaha World-Herald, covering gender barriers even as she broke a few herself, give Wirth an especially apt perspective on the women profiled in this book: those Nebraskans who, ... En savoir plus

    $19.79 CAD

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  • The Inconvenient Indian Illustrated

    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    par Thomas King ...
    An illustrated edition of the award-winning, bestselling Canadian classic, featuring over 150 images that add colour and context to this extraordinary work."Every Canadian should read [this] book." —Toronto StarSince its publication in 2012, The Inconvenient Indian has become an award-winning bestseller and a modern classic. In its pages, Thomas King tells the curiously circular tale of the ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Women of the Northern Plains

    Gender and Settlement on the Homestead Frontier

    par Barbara Handy-Marchello ...
    In Women of the Northern Plains, Barbara Handy-Marchello tells the stories of the unsung heroes of North Dakota's settlement era: the farm women. As the men struggled to raise and sell wheat, the women focused on barnyard labor—raising chickens and cows and selling eggs and butter—to feed and clothe their families and maintain their households through booms and busts. Handy-Marchello focuses on ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Hidden History of Portland, Oregon

    par JD Chandler ...
    Collections series Hidden History
    In this engaging narrative, author JD Chandler crafts a people's history of Portland, Oregon, sharing the lesser-known stories of individuals who stood against the tide and fought for liberty and representation: C.E.S. Wood, who documented the conflict between Native Americans and the United States Army; Beatrice Morrow Cannady, founding member of the Portland NAACP and first African American ... En savoir plus

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  • Black Cowboys in the American West

    On the Range, on the Stage, behind the Badge

    Modifié par Bruce A. Glasrud, Michael N. Searles ...
    Who were the black cowboys? They were drovers, foremen, fiddlers, cowpunchers, cattle rustlers, cooks, and singers. They worked as wranglers, riders, ropers, bulldoggers, and bronc busters. They came from varied backgrounds—some grew up in slavery, while free blacks often got their start in Texas and Mexico. Most who joined the long trail drives were men, but black women also rode and worked on ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Creating Minnesota

    A History from the Inside Out

    par Annette Atkins ...
    Winner of a Spur Award, presented by the Western Writers of America (WWA), for the Best Western Nonfiction Historical Book.Renowned historian Annette Atkins presents a fresh understanding of how a complex and modern Minnesota came into being in Creating Minnesota. Each chapter of this innovative state history focuses on a telling detail, a revealing incident, or a meaningful issue that illuminates ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Rogues and Rebels

    Unforgettable Characters from Canada's West

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    Rogues and Rebels introduces us to dozens of larger-than-life Westerners--some infamous, some obscure--who dared to be different.Brian Brennan chronicles the mavericks, iconoclasts, and adventurers who threw away the rulebook, thumbed their noses at convention, and let their detractors howl. They never retracted, never explained, never apologized, and they got things done.Discover the ... En savoir plus

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  • We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here

    Work, Community, and Memory on California's Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941

    par William J. Bauer Jr. ...
    The federally recognized Round Valley Indian Tribes are a small, confederated people whose members today come from twelve indigenous California tribes. In 1849, during the California gold rush, people from several of these tribes were relocated to a reservation farm in northern Mendocino County. Fusing Native American history and labor history, William Bauer Jr. chronicles the evolution of work, ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD