37 books in History - United States - State & Local - West (Ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy)
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Opportunity, Montana
Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape
Written by Brad Tyer
Format: Hardcover, 248 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $25.95
Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape
Written by Brad Tyer
Format: Hardcover, 248 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $25.95
A memoir-meets-exposé that examines our fraught relationship with the West and our attempts to clean up a toxic environmental legacy
In 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...
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Opportunity, Montana
Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape
Written by Brad Tyer
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $25.95
Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape
Written by Brad Tyer
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $25.95
A memoir-meets-exposé that examines our fraught relationship with the West and our attempts to clean up a toxic environmental legacy
In 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...
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A Wicked War
Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
Written by Amy S. Greenberg
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $30.00
Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
Written by Amy S. Greenberg
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $30.00
Often forgotten and overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation later, and launched the career of Abraham Lincoln. Amy S. Greenberg’s skilled storytelling and rigorous scholarship bring this American war for empire...
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A Wicked War
Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
Written by Amy S. Greenberg
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $14.99
Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
Written by Amy S. Greenberg
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $14.99
Often forgotten and overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation later, and launched the career of Abraham Lincoln. Amy S. Greenberg’s skilled storytelling and rigorous scholarship bring this American war for empire...
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Black Fire
The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer--and of the Mysterious Fires That Baptized Gold Rush-Era San Francisco
Written by Robert Graysmith
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $26.00
The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer--and of the Mysterious Fires That Baptized Gold Rush-Era San Francisco
Written by Robert Graysmith
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $26.00
The first biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco.
When 28-year-old San Francisco Daily Morning Call reporter...
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Black Fire
The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer--and of the Mysterious Fires That Baptized Gold Rush-Era San Francisco
Written by Robert Graysmith
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $12.99
The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer--and of the Mysterious Fires That Baptized Gold Rush-Era San Francisco
Written by Robert Graysmith
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $12.99
The first biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco.
When 28-year-old San Francisco Daily Morning Call reporter...
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Ghost Towns
Lost Cities of the Old West
Written by Clint Thomsen
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $9.95
Tombstone, Bodie, St. Elmo, Silver City. These are some of the enduring legends of the Old West- ghost towns and mining camps that dot America's landscape and colour the history of the country. Literally thousands of ghost towns are scattered throughout the West, with some states boasting hundreds of these abandoned... Read more >
Lost Cities of the Old West
Written by Clint Thomsen
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $9.95
Tombstone, Bodie, St. Elmo, Silver City. These are some of the enduring legends of the Old West- ghost towns and mining camps that dot America's landscape and colour the history of the country. Literally thousands of ghost towns are scattered throughout the West, with some states boasting hundreds of these abandoned... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Finding Everett Ruess
The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
Written by David Roberts
Foreword by Jon Krakauer
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $16.00
Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted... Read more >
The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
Written by David Roberts
Foreword by Jon Krakauer
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $16.00
Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted... Read more >
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Ghost Towns
Lost Cities of the Old West
Written by Clint Thomsen
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $9.95
Tombstone, Bodie, St. Elmo, Silver City. These are some of the enduring legends of the Old West- ghost towns and mining camps that dot America's landscape and colour the history of the country. Literally thousands of ghost towns are scattered throughout the West, with some states boasting hundreds of these abandoned... Read more >
Lost Cities of the Old West
Written by Clint Thomsen
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $9.95
Tombstone, Bodie, St. Elmo, Silver City. These are some of the enduring legends of the Old West- ghost towns and mining camps that dot America's landscape and colour the history of the country. Literally thousands of ghost towns are scattered throughout the West, with some states boasting hundreds of these abandoned... Read more >
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Escape from Alcatraz
Written by J. Campbell Bruce
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2012
Price: $10.99
In 1963, just weeks before the original publication of this book, the last prisoner was escorted off Devil’s Island and Alcatraz ceased to be a prison. Author J. Campbell Bruce chronicles in spellbinding detail the Rock’s transition from a Spanish fort to the maximum-security penitentiary that housed such infamous inmates as... Read more >
Written by J. Campbell Bruce
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2012
Price: $10.99
In 1963, just weeks before the original publication of this book, the last prisoner was escorted off Devil’s Island and Alcatraz ceased to be a prison. Author J. Campbell Bruce chronicles in spellbinding detail the Rock’s transition from a Spanish fort to the maximum-security penitentiary that housed such infamous inmates as... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Forts of the American Frontier 1776-1891
California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska
Written by Ron Field
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $18.95
This title explores the contribution made by settlers, explorers, traders and goldseekers of various nations to the nascent architecture of the West Coast of the United States. In doing so, it charts the progress westwards of those who claimed new land as their own, and defended it with forts and blockhouses... Read more >
California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska
Written by Ron Field
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $18.95
This title explores the contribution made by settlers, explorers, traders and goldseekers of various nations to the nascent architecture of the West Coast of the United States. In doing so, it charts the progress westwards of those who claimed new land as their own, and defended it with forts and blockhouses... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Forts of the American Frontier 1776-1891
California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska
Written by Ron Field
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $14.95
With the violent separation between the United States and Britain which began in 1776, the new ‘Americans’ set off to fulfill their manifest destiny and rule their new land from coast to coast. As they pushed westward, they came into conflict with both natives and other European settlers, and began to... Read more >
California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska
Written by Ron Field
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $14.95
With the violent separation between the United States and Britain which began in 1776, the new ‘Americans’ set off to fulfill their manifest destiny and rule their new land from coast to coast. As they pushed westward, they came into conflict with both natives and other European settlers, and began to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Finding Everett Ruess
The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
Written by David Roberts
Foreword by Jon Krakauer
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: July 19, 2011
Price: $25.00
Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted... Read more >
The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
Written by David Roberts
Foreword by Jon Krakauer
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: July 19, 2011
Price: $25.00
Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted... Read more >
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Finding Everett Ruess
The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
Written by David Roberts
Foreword by Jon Krakauer
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 19, 2011
Price: $13.99
Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted... Read more >
The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
Written by David Roberts
Foreword by Jon Krakauer
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 19, 2011
Price: $13.99
Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted... Read more >
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Finding Everett Ruess
The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
Written by David Roberts
Read by Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 19, 2011
Price: $22.50
Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted... Read more >
The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
Written by David Roberts
Read by Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 19, 2011
Price: $22.50
Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted... Read more >
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Appetite for America
Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One Meal at a Time
Written by Stephen Fried
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $18.00
The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history for three generations—from the 1880s all the way through World War II—and still influence our lives today in surprising and fascinating ways. Now award-winning journalist Stephen Fried re-creates the life of this unlikely American hero, the... Read more >
Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One Meal at a Time
Written by Stephen Fried
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $18.00
The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history for three generations—from the 1880s all the way through World War II—and still influence our lives today in surprising and fascinating ways. Now award-winning journalist Stephen Fried re-creates the life of this unlikely American hero, the... Read more >
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L.A. Noir
The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
Written by John Buntin
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Price: $16.00
Other cities have histories. Los Angeles has legends.
Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world’s most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image... Read more >
The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
Written by John Buntin
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Price: $16.00
Other cities have histories. Los Angeles has legends.
Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world’s most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image... Read more >
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Appetite for America
Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One Meal at a Time
Written by Stephen Fried
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Price: $12.99
The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history for three generations—from the 1880s all the way through World War II—and still influence our lives today in surprising and fascinating ways. Now award-winning journalist Stephen Fried re-creates the life of this unlikely American hero, the... Read more >
Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One Meal at a Time
Written by Stephen Fried
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Price: $12.99
The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history for three generations—from the 1880s all the way through World War II—and still influence our lives today in surprising and fascinating ways. Now award-winning journalist Stephen Fried re-creates the life of this unlikely American hero, the... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Frontier Medicine
From the ATlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941
Written by David Dary
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $17.00
In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the native populations. It’s a story filled with colorful characters, from quacks and con artists to heroic healers and ingenious medicine men, and... Read more >
From the ATlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941
Written by David Dary
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $17.00
In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the native populations. It’s a story filled with colorful characters, from quacks and con artists to heroic healers and ingenious medicine men, and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
L.A. Noir
The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
Written by John Buntin
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $11.99
Other cities have histories. Los Angeles has legends.
Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world’s most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image... Read more >
The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
Written by John Buntin
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $11.99
Other cities have histories. Los Angeles has legends.
Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world’s most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The San Francisco Cliff House
Written by Mary Germain Hountalas and Sharon Silva
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $24.95
The shifting fortunes of San Francisco’s legendary Cliff House, from raucous seaside roadhouse to fanciful Victorian palace to world-renowned urban destination, are celebrated in this comprehensive illustrated history.
The story of San Francisco’s Cliff House begins in 1863 with a modest white clapboard building perched on a rocky promontory overlooking the Pacific... Read more >
Written by Mary Germain Hountalas and Sharon Silva
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $24.95
The shifting fortunes of San Francisco’s legendary Cliff House, from raucous seaside roadhouse to fanciful Victorian palace to world-renowned urban destination, are celebrated in this comprehensive illustrated history.
The story of San Francisco’s Cliff House begins in 1863 with a modest white clapboard building perched on a rocky promontory overlooking the Pacific... Read more >
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Imperial
Photographed by William T. Vollmann
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2009
Price: $55.00
The Imperial Valley of southeastern California and the U.S./Mexico border is a place with a heavy history and an uncertain future. It is a land of great progress and crushing failure, home to a past that includes migrant workers, Mexican laborers, struggling farmers, corporate exploitation, pollution, the forgotten paradise of the... Read more >
Photographed by William T. Vollmann
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2009
Price: $55.00
The Imperial Valley of southeastern California and the U.S./Mexico border is a place with a heavy history and an uncertain future. It is a land of great progress and crushing failure, home to a past that includes migrant workers, Mexican laborers, struggling farmers, corporate exploitation, pollution, the forgotten paradise of the... Read more >
Frontier Medicine
Written by David Dary
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $13.99
In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the native populations. It’s a story filled with colorful characters, from quacks and con artists to heroic healers and ingenious medicine men, and... Read more >
Written by David Dary
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $13.99
In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the native populations. It’s a story filled with colorful characters, from quacks and con artists to heroic healers and ingenious medicine men, and... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Other Perversities
Pop Culture of the 1970s and 1980s
Written by George Rose
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2008
Price: $30.00
Celebrity culture in the 1970s and 1980s, through the lens of an award-winning photojournalist.
As a young photographer working in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s, George Rose had his shutter finger on the pulse of the Hollywood scene, documenting film premieres and award ceremonies, arena concerts and Sunset Strip nightclubs... Read more >
Pop Culture of the 1970s and 1980s
Written by George Rose
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2008
Price: $30.00
Celebrity culture in the 1970s and 1980s, through the lens of an award-winning photojournalist.
As a young photographer working in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s, George Rose had his shutter finger on the pulse of the Hollywood scene, documenting film premieres and award ceremonies, arena concerts and Sunset Strip nightclubs... Read more >
California
A History
Written by Kevin Starr
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
California has always been our Shangri-la–the promised land of countless pilgrims in search of the American Dream. Now the Golden State’s premier historian, Kevin Starr, distills the entire sweep of California’s history into one splendid volume. From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, this is the story of... Read more >
A History
Written by Kevin Starr
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
California has always been our Shangri-la–the promised land of countless pilgrims in search of the American Dream. Now the Golden State’s premier historian, Kevin Starr, distills the entire sweep of California’s history into one splendid volume. From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, this is the story of... Read more >
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