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  • Wineries of Santa Clara Valley

    by Bev Stenehjem ...
    Series series Images of America
    The Santa Clara Valley was the first premier wine production region in California. The valley's history of winemaking dates back to 1777, when Spanish padres founded Mission Santa Clara and planted their grape cuttings in order to make wine for religious purposes. Immigrants from around the world, following the American dream, were soon lured to the Santa Clara Valley for its rich soil and ideal ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Finding Everett Ruess

    The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer

    by David Roberts ...
    **The definitive biography of Everett Ruess, 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 twenty have earned him a large and devoted cult following.“Easily one of [Roberts’s] best . . . thoughtful and passionate . . . a compelling portrait of the Ruess myth.”—Outside**Wandering ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The King of California

    J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire

    by Mark Arax, Rick Wartzman ...
    The "meticulous" (The New Yorker) and "ground-breaking" (The Los Angeles Times) story of a cotton magnate whose voracious appetite for land drove him to create the first big agricultural empire of the Central Valley of California, and shaped the landscape for decades to come.J. G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Archaeology Of The Donner Party

    by Donald L Hardesty ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    The tragic saga of the Donner Party has inspired both legend and scholarship ever since the survivors were rescued from the High Sierra snows in the spring of 1847. When archaeologist Donald L. Hardesty and four colleagues—a historian and three other archaeologists—turned their collective attention to the ordeal of the Donner Party, the result was an original and sometimes surprising new study of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Sebastopol's Gravenstein Apple Industry

    by Western Sonoma County Historical Society ...
    Series series Images of America
    The Gravenstein apple has been etched into the identity of Sebastopol, California, which is one of the few places on earth to have extensively grown this elusive apple. The Gravenstein is an early apple whose only failing is perishability, but it is celebrated for its superior flavor. Yet Luther Burbank attempted to improve on the Gravenstein, producing the Winterstein and the Bonita for home ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • California Apricots

    The Lost Orchards of Silicon Valley

    by Robin Chapman ...
    Picked warm from a tree, a California apricot opens into halves as easily as if it came with a dotted line down its center. The seed infuses the core with a hint of almond; the fruit carries the scent of citrus and jasmine; and it tastes, some say, like manna from heaven. In these pages, Robin Chapman recalls the season when the Santa Clara Valley was the largest apricot producer in the world and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yellowstone National Park

    Through the Lens of Time

    by Bradly J. Boner ...
    Pioneer photographer William Henry Jackson’s photographs from the 1871 Hayden Survey were instrumental in persuading Congress to designate Yellowstone as a national park—America’s first and greatest experiment in the preservation of an extraordinary landscape. Yellowstone National Park: Through the Lens of Time is an extended visual essay presenting Jackson’s images paired with breathtaking color ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Farming across Borders

    A Transnational History of the North American West

    by Timothy P. Bowman, Kristin Hoganson, Laura Hooton, Josh MacFadyen, Todd Meyers, Peter S Morris, Andrew Dunlop, Alicia Marion Dewey, John Weber, Sonia Hernández, Rosa E Cobos, Matt Caire-Pérez, Paige Raibmon, Jason McCollom, Thomas D Isern, Suzzanne Kelley, Anthony Carlson, Stephen Mumme, Tisa Anders ...
    Series series Connecting the Greater West Series
    Farming across Borders uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of the Pacific Rim, now writ large into a broad history of the North American West. Case studies of commodity production and distribution, trans-border agricultural labor, and environmental change unite to reveal new perspectives on ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Proceedings of Selected Articles of 2013 World Agricultural Outlook Conference

    Edited by Shiwei Xu ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Food security has always been a major global concern and is getting more attention in recent years. In fact, the global economy and stability has been severely challenged by the precarious state of food security, which was exacerbated by a combination of sharp price volatility and disastrous weather conditions related to climate change. The book aims to improve the analysis and projection of ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Lynchings in Kansas, 1850s-1932

    by Harriet C. Frazier ...
    In 1933, Genevieve Yost, Kansas State Historical Society cataloger, published a "History of Lynching in Kansas." The present book is a development of that work, researched with the benefit of modern technology. The author locates 58 lynchings Yost missed and removes 19 from her list that for various reasons are not lynchings in Kansas.Yost apparently catalogued her 123 entries, some containing up ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • A Tale of Two Bridges

    The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridges of 1936 and 2013

    by Stephen Mikesell ...
    A Tale of Two Bridges is a history of two versions of the San Francisco—Oakland Bay Bridge: the original bridge built in 1936 and a replacement for the eastern half of the bridge finished in 2013. The 1936 bridge revolutionized transportation in the Bay Area and profoundly influenced settlement patterns in the region. It was also a remarkable feat of engineering. In the 1950s the American Society ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Golden Rules

    The Origins of California Water Law in the Gold Rush

    by Mark Kanazawa ...
    Series series Markets and Governments in Economic History
    Fresh water has become scarce and will become even more so in the coming years, as continued population growth places ever greater demands on the supply of fresh water. At the same time, options for increasing that supply look to be ever more limited. No longer can we rely on technological solutions to meet growing demand. What we need is better management of the available water supply to ensure ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD