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  • Money Mountain

    The Story of Cripple Creek Gold

    Cripple Creek was the last of the open gold camps before mining fell to giant corporations. Its life was short and violent, but towns, cities, schools, railroads, institutions and financial dynasties grew upon its yield. Today a million tourists each year pour through the region, enjoying what Teddy Roosevelt called "the ride that bankrupts the English language" through Cripple's upper reaches, ... En savoir plus

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  • Colorado

    A History

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    Those who travel to look at Colorado will find as much meaning in Marshall Sprague’s well-told story of its historical conflict as will those who live with the beauty—and the challenge.Mountains—so beautiful, the land dominated by the Colorado Rockies, that miners who “thought of returning to the comfort and dull security of their homes back east,” in Marshall Sprague’s words, “found themselves ... En savoir plus

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    The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

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  • My Captivity

    A Pioneer Woman's Story of Her Life Among the Sioux

    par Fanny Kelly ...
    Fanny Kelly’s memoir, first published in 1872, is an intelligent and thoughtful narrative. Kelly spent five months as a prisoner of Ogalalla Sioux in 1864 when she was nineteen years old. A woman of her time, there was no reason she should feel sympathy toward her captors, but the introduction points out examples of expressed favor toward the Sioux, however unconscious. This narrative is a ... En savoir plus

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  • Contours of a People

    Metis Family, Mobility, and History

    Collections series New Directions in Native American Studies Series
    What does it mean to be Metis? How do the Metis understand their world, and how do family, community, and location shape their consciousness? Such questions inform this collection of essays on the northwestern North American people of mixed European and Native ancestry who emerged in the seventeenth century as a distinct culture. Volume editors Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda ... En savoir plus

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  • Wild Men

    Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America

    Collections series New Narratives in American History
    When Ishi, "the last wild Indian," came out of hiding in August 1911, he was quickly whisked away by train to San Francisco to meet Alfred Kroeber, one of the fathers of American anthropology. When Kroeber and Ishi came face to face, it was a momentous event, not only for each man but also for the cultures they represented. Each stood on the brink--one was in danger of losing something vital while ... En savoir plus

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  • The King and Queen of Malibu

    The True Story of the Battle for Paradise

    "A true story of the battle for paradise…men and women fighting for a slice of earth like no other." —New York Times Book ReviewFrederick and May Rindge, the unlikely couple whose love story propelled Malibu’s transformation from an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a paradise seeded with movie stars, are at the heart of this story of American grit and determinism. He was a Harvard-trained ... En savoir plus

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  • Blood of the Prophets

    Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows

    par Will Bagley ...
    The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley’s Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train by Mormons in the local militia and a few Paiute Indians. Based on ... En savoir plus

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  • Freedom's Frontier

    California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction

    par Stacey L. Smith ...
    Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom’s Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific Coast. Despite its antislavery constitution, California was home to a dizzying array of bound and ... En savoir plus

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  • Comstock Women

    The Making Of A Mining Community

    Collections series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    When it comes to Nevada history, men get most of the ink. Comstock Women is a collection of 14 historical studies that helps to rectify that reality. The authors of these essays, who include some of Nevada’s most prominent historians, demographers, and archaeologists, explore such topics as women and politics, jobs, and ethnic groups. Their work goes far in refuting the exaggerated popular images ... En savoir plus

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  • Opportunity, Montana

    Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape

    par Brad Tyer ...
    A memoir-meets-exposé that examines our fraught relationship with the West and our attempts to clean up a toxic environmental legacyIn 2002, Texas journalist Brad Tyer strapped a canoe on his truck and moved to Montana, a state that has long exerted a mythic pull on America’s imagination as an unspoiled landscape. The son of an engineer who reclaimed wastewater, Tyer was looking for a pristine ... En savoir plus

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  • Finding Carla

    The Story that Forever Changed Aviation Search and Rescue

    par Ross Nixon ...
    This is not AI-generated content. The contents were written and verified by subject matter experts from Aviation Supplies & Academics, an 85-year-old aviation company. Look for the ASA wings to ensure you are purchasing a reliable publication.In March 1967, a Cessna 195 flew from Oregon towards San Francisco carrying a family of three: Alvin Oien, Sr. (the pilot), his wife Phyllis and step ... En savoir plus

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