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  • Tangible Memories

    Californians and Their Gardens 1800-1950

    by Harry M. Butte, Judith M. Taylor ...
    California may be the golden state but it is also a garden state. Innumerable gardens have been made since the Europeans first came, starting with the Franciscan missionaries.The gold rush was the defining period, leading to immense expenditures by newly rich miners.This book discusses many simple but beautiful gardens created by waves of immigrants. Gardens were necessary for food but also ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Grand Design

    Strategy and the U.S. Civil War

    by Donald Stoker ...
    Despite the abundance of books on the Civil War, not one has focused exclusively on what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict: differences in Union and Southern strategy. In The Grand Design, Donald Stoker provides for the first time a comprehensive and often surprising account of strategy as it evolved between Fort Sumter and Appomattox. Reminding us that strategy is ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Inventing the Dream

    California through the Progressive Era

    by Kevin Starr ...
    Series series Americans and the California Dream
    This second volume in Kevin Starr's passionate and ambitious cultural history of the Golden State focuses on the turn-of-the-century years and the emergence of Southern California as a regional culture in its own right. "How hauntingly beautiful, how replete with lost possibilities, seems that Southern California of two and three generations ago, now that a dramatically diferent society has ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Building the Skyline

    The Birth and Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers

    by Jason M. Barr ...
    The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world. But how and why did it form? Much has been written about the city's architecture and its general history, but little work has explored the economic forces that created the skyline. In Building the Skyline, Jason Barr chronicles the economic history of the Manhattan skyline. In the process, he debunks some widely held ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Oil in Texas

    The Gusher Age, 1895–1945

    by Diana Davids Hinton, Roger M. Olien ...
    Series Book 3 - Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series
    The dramatic story of the oil boom that transformed the history of a state, drawn from archives and first-person accounts.As the twentieth century began, oil in Texas was easy to find, but the quantities were too small to attract industrial capital and production. Then, on January 10, 1901, the Spindletop gusher blew in. Over the next fifty years, oil transformed Texas, creating a booming economy ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Shenandoah, 1966

    Recollections of a 9-Year Old Along with the Ramblings of a 59-Year Old. a Nostalgic Look Back to the 60’S in a Small Coal Region Town.

    by Andy Ulicny ...
    My Shenandoah, 1966 was originally planned to merely record an objective local history, but its enthusiastic fans will assure you the book developed well beyond that into a highly readable, engrossing work for everyone. Its ample supply of endearing personal anecdotes and historical peculiarities make this local history quite an entertaining read.The book also makes the jump from mere local appeal ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Greater Freedom

    The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina

    by Charles W. McKinney Jr. ...
    Greater Freedom offers a groundbreaking long-term community study of Wilson County, North Carolina. Charting the evolution of Wilson's civil rights movement, Charles McKinney argues that African Americans in Wilson created an expansive notion of freedom that influenced every aspect of life in the region and directly confronted the state's reputation for moderation. Through exhaustive research and ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • California Adventures, Illustrated

    by J. Ross Browne ...
    J Ross Browne called himself a Californian. This Irish born American writer and artist was a world traveler who was at one point minister to China. But it was California that he called home. When he removed to California in 1849 it was the start of the Gold Rush. He followed the Silver Boom across the Sierras (which he reported on in A Peep at Washoe and Washoe Revisited). He toured Arizona and ... Read more

    $12.67 CAD

  • Voices from the Wild Horse Desert

    The Vaquero Families of the King and Kenedy Ranches

    by Jane Clements Monday, Betty Bailey Colley ...
    Founded before the Civil War, the King and Kenedy Ranches have become legendary for their size, their wealth, and their endless herds of cattle. A major factor in the longevity of these ranches has always been the loyal workforce of vaqueros (Mexican and Mexican American cowboys) and their families. Some of the vaquero families have worked on the ranches through five or six generations.In this ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Haunted Marquette

    Ghost Stories from the Queen City

    by Tyler Tichelaar ...
    Over Forty Tales of Ghosts and Paranormal ExperiencesFounded as a harbor town to ship iron ore from the nearby mines, Marquette became known as the Queen City of the North for its thriving industries, beautiful buildings, and being the largest city in Upper Michigan. But is Marquette also the Queen of Lake Superior’s Haunted Cities?Seventh-generation Marquette resident Tyler Tichelaar has spent ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD

  • Cattle Towns

    by Robert Dykstra ...
    The mountain-top volleys from any scholarly set-to among social historians concerning the elusive roots of American democracy do reach our ears from time to time, and this rather formidable cannonade just may strike off some sparks, although it is hardly leisure reading. The author's efforts seem to have been spurred on by academics past and present (including historians Elkins and McKitrick) who ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Tropical Storm Agnes in Greater Harrisburg

    by Erik V. Fasick ...
    Tropical Storm Agnes, along with the unprecedented flooding which resulted from it, is arguably the most significant event to have transpired in the Harrisburg area in the last 150 years. Over the course of June 21 and June 22, 1972, Agnes drenched the region with more than a foot of rain. As a result, the Susquehanna River rose to record-breaking levels and backed into the already overwhelmed ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus