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  • The Year Of Decision, 1846

    by Bernard DeVoto ...
    This book tells the story of some people who went west in 1846.Its purpose is to tell that story in such a way that the reader may realize the far western frontier experience, which is part of our cultural inheritance, as personal experience. But 1846 is chosen rather than other years because 1846 best dramatizes personal experience as national experience. Most of our characters are ordinary ... Read more

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  • The Course of Empire

    by Bernard DeVoto, Erwin Raisz ...
    A history of three centuries in which a new race engulfed a continent.For twenty years or more, whenever he was able, Bernard DeVoto has been visiting and revisiting the pioneer trails, the Missouri River in particular. He has studied its volume and seasonal flow, its weather and geological history, and has traced its bends on the minutely detailed sectional maps of the United States Geological ... Read more

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  • The Year of Decision 1846

    by Bernard DeVoto ...
    A classic history of the pre-Civil War, far western frontier of the United States, from a Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author."In the first volume of the trilogy, Devoto made 1846 the "year of the decision." The reason was that it was in 1846 that America began a war with Mexico that would lead to the annexation of New Mexico, Arizona, and California; and that America settled a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Hour

    A Cocktail Manifesto

    by Bernard Devoto ...
    “Dorothy Parker's stern eye mixed with the sass of Mark Twain, and a jigger of Christopher Hitchens thrown in for good, boozy measure.” —The AtlanticOne part celebration, one part history, two parts manifesto, Bernard DeVoto’s The Hour is a comic and unequivocal treatise on how and why we drink—properly. The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author turns his shrewd wit on the spirits ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • The Year Of Decision: 1846

    by Bernard DeVoto ...
    This book tells many fascinating stories of the U.S. explorers who began the Western march from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from Canada to the annexation of Texas, California, and the Southwest lands from Mexico. It is the penultimate book of a trilogy which includes Across the Wide Missouri, for which DeVoto won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes in 1948, and The Course of Empire, which ... Read more

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  • The Western Paradox

    A Conservation Reader

    by Bernard DeVoto ...
    Series series The Lamar Series in Western History
    This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto’s crusade to save the West from itself. . . . His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper.”-Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from the ForewordBernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according to the novelist Wallace Stegner, a fighter for public causes, for conservation of our natural resources, ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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    by Robert M. Utley, Wilcomb E. Washburn ...
    Here, from American Heritage, is the dramatic story of the violent conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers that lasted more than 300 years, the effects of which still resonate today. Acclaimed historians Robert M. Utley and Wilcomb E. Washburn examine both small battles and major wars - from the Native rebellion of 1492 to Crazy Horse and the Sioux War to the massacre at Wounded Knee ... Read more

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  • Pacific Destiny and Bear Flag Rising

    Two Chronicles of the Quest to Claim the American Pacific Northwest

    by Dale L. Walker ...
    Historian Dale L. Walker chronicles the early days of the American Pacific Northwest in two engrossing accounts, now available in one volume: Pacific Destiny and Bear Flag Rising.Pacific Destiny: The Three-Century Journey to the Oregon CountryPacific Destiny chronicles the discovery, exploration, and settlement of America's Pacific Northwest. It is a story of cut-throat competition for control in ... Read more

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  • Pacific Destiny

    The Three-Century Journey to the Oregon Country

    by Dale L. Walker ...
    "Walker constructs a compelling narrative that is a string of unusual profiles rather than an analytic account of a major event in American history." - Publishers WeeklyThe Oregon Country!For a century that fabled place, lying somewhere beyond the Rocky Mountains at the farthest reaches of the continent galvanized the American people.Its riches, in furs, timber, fish, and fecund soil for farming, ... Read more

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  • Fool’s Gold

    The Decline and Fall of Captain John Sutter of California

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    Sutter, the father of California, is one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of the West.With Fool’s Gold, famed California historian Richard Dillon (Wells, Fargo Detective, Embarcadero) brings to life the story of Swiss immigrant John A. Sutter.Via a circuitous route, John Sutter arrived in Yerba Buena—today’s San Francisco— on July 1, 1839. At the time, the territory had a population of ... Read more

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  • The Way to the West : And the Lives of Three Early Americans, Boone-Crockett-Carson (Illustrated)

    by Emerson Hough ...
    “I ask you to look at this splendid tool, the American ax, not more an implement of labor than an instrument of civilization. If you can not use it, you are not American. If you do not understand it, you can not understand America. This tool is so simple and so perfect that it has scarcely seen change in the course of a hundred years. It lacks decoration, as do the tools and the weapons of all ... Read more

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  • Historic Towns of the Western States

    by Anonymous ...
    THE first two volumes of this series—those devoted to the historic towns of New England and the Middle States—dealt with communities each group of which has had for the most part a common origin, has progressed along practically parallel lines, and possesses characteristics closely akin. The volume upon the towns of the South brought closely to view the cosmopolitan character of the population ... Read more

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