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  • Beyond The Mafia

    Italian Americans And The Development Of Las Vegas

    by Alan Balboni ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    When Beyond the Mafia first appeared in 1996 it was hailed as a significant contribution to the history of Las Vegas and of ethnic minorities in America. Author Alan Balboni traces the history of Italians in Las Vegas from the founding of the city in 1905, recording their activities in the fledgling settlement. As Las Vegas grew, Italian Americans participated in every aspect of the city’s society ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Deadliest Sea

    The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History

    by Kalee Thompson ...
    Deadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in U.S. Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler, Alaska Ranger, in the Bering Sea and its remarkable aftermath in March 2008, Deadliest Sea is real life action and adventure at its finest. The full story of an amazing rescue—where extraordinary courage, ingenuity, will, and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Legends and Lies

    Great Mysteries of the American West

    by Dale L. Walker, John Jakes ...
    "A colorful, accurate, fast romp through some of the remaining mysteries of what was once the American Frontier." — The Salem Statesman JournalForeword by New York Times –bestselling author John Jakes"All of history is mystery," Dale L. Walker says, and he proves his point in this lively, humorous—and rational—approach to the West's greatest puzzles. Did Davy Crockett, fo... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Hell on Wheels

    Wicked Towns Along the Union Pacific Railroad

    by Dick Kreck ...
    Overnight settlements, better known as "Hell on Wheels," sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for gamblers, land speculators, prostitutes, and thugs. Dick Kreck tells their stories along with the heroic individuals who managed, finally, to create permanent towns in the interior West. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trees in Paradise

    A California History

    by 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 ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Sunnyvale

    The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family

    by Jeff Goodell ...
    In Sunnyvale, California, in 1979, Jeff Goodell's family lived quietly on Meadowlark Lane, unaware that their town was soon to become ground zero in the digital revolution. Over the course of the next decade, as Silicon Valley boomed, the Goodell family unraveled.Splintered by their parent's divorce, Jeff and his siblings careen toward self-destruction, while their parents end up on opposite sides ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins

    Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots

    by Brenda Stevenson ...
    Helicopters patrolled low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage, purportedly due to the exoneration of four policemen who had beaten Rodney King. It should be no surprise that such intense anger erupted from ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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

    by John Steven McGroarty ...
    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 ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The WPA Guide to Nevada

    The Silver State

    by Federal Writers' Project ...
    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 ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Emma Lee

    by Juanita Brooks ...
    Emma Lee is the classic biography of one of John D. Lee's plural wives. Emma experienced the best and worst of polygamy and came as near to the Mountain Meadows Massacre as anyone could without participating first hand. ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Shaping the Shoreline

    Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast

    by Connie Y. Chiang ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    The Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck's classic novel Cannery Row, was also the stage for a historical junction of industry and tourism. Shaping the Shoreline looks at the ways in which Monterey has formed, and been formed by, the tension between labor and leisure.Connie Y. Chiang examines Monterey's development from a seaside resort into a working ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Terrible Indian Wars of the West

    A History from the Whitman Massacre to Wounded Knee, 1846-1890

    by Jerry Keenan ...
    Expansion! The history of the United States might well be summed up in that single word. The Indian Wars of the American West were a continuation of the struggle that began with the arrival of the first Europeans, and escalated as they advanced across the Appalachians before American independence had been won.This history of the Indian Wars of the Trans-Mississippi begins with the earliest clashes ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD