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  • From the Mountains to the Sea - A History of Los Angeles

    What the author of this book has to tell is the true story of a great City that was founded "by order of the King," in the old days when the Western World was new. It is the story of a City that, for a century of time after its birth, showed few signs of promise, but which has now come to be the Greatest City of Western America and the metropolis of California— the "Land o' Heart's Desire." The ... En savoir plus

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    A True Account of Love and Murder Among the Very Rich

    par Joan Barthel ...
    A troubled Los Angeles socialite is both terrorized and tempted by a killer in this "brilliantly written" true story by the author of A Death in Canaan (Ann Rule).Hope Masters lived in one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in Beverly Hills—but was entitled to food stamps. Pretty, petite, and privileged, she was recovering from two failed marriages and a string of poor decisions. But when Hope ... En savoir plus

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  • The Rush

    America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853

    par Edward Dolnick ...
    A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell.In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as hundreds of thousands of men and women borrowed money, quit their jobs, and allowed themselves- for the ... En savoir plus

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  • Paradise of the Pacific

    Approaching Hawaii

    par Susanna Moore ...
    The dramatic history of America's tropical paradise. ... En savoir plus

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  • Trees in Paradise

    A California History

    par Jared Farmer ...
    From roots to canopy, a lush, verdant history of the making of California.California now has more trees than at any time since the late Pleistocene. This green landscape, however, is not the work of nature. It’s the work of history. In the years after the Gold Rush, American settlers remade the California landscape, harnessing nature to their vision of the good life. Horticulturists, boosters, and ... En savoir plus

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  • Notorious Two-Bit Street

    par Lyle J. Barnes ...
    NOTORIOUS TWO-BIT STREET is a history of three city blocks in the midst of a Mormon community in Ogden Utah that were dramatically infected with vice crime immorality gambling and drinking following the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. The Mormons had immigrated to Utah to escape the persecution they had suffered in three previous locations on the frontier finally settling in the ... En savoir plus

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  • Project Quick Find

    Memoirs of a U.S. Navy SEAL Training Sea Lions

    par Michael G. Wood ...
    Project Quick Find is the true story of sea lions trained to help U.S. Navy SEALs. Begun in Hawaii in the late 1960s, the project recruited trainers in Coronado, California, to successfully teach the animals to recover objects from the ocean floor. The program eventually received official navy certification, expanded its scope and evolved its mission. Author, photojournalist and former Navy SEAL ... En savoir plus

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  • Racial Beachhead

    Diversity and Democracy in a Military Town

    In 1917, Fort Ord was established in the tiny subdivision of Seaside, California. Over the course of the 20th century, it held great national and military importance—a major launching point for World War II operations, the first base in the military to undergo complete integration, the West Coast's most important training base for draftees in the Vietnam War, a site of important civil rights ... En savoir plus

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  • Baseball in San Diego

    From the Plaza to the Padres

    Collections series Images of Baseball
    Baseball in San Diego: From the Plaza to the Padres, takes the reader on a seven-decade journey from Horton Plaza, the site of San Diego's first base ball game in 1871, to lower Broadway and the future home of Lane Field. Before the Pacific Coast League, San Diego had three Class D teams. One was the Bears, whose frustrated owner Dick Cooley complained, �I don't believe they'll make baseball pay ... En savoir plus

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  • Nevada City

    par Maria E. Brower ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The WPA Guide to Idaho

    The Gem State

    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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Out Where the West Begins, Volume 2

    Creating and Civilizing the American West

    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

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