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  • The Texas Rangers

    A Century of Frontier Defense

    by Walter Prescott Webb ...
    Series series Texas Classics
    The renowned historian's classic study of the Texas Ranger Division, presented with its original illustrations and a foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson.Texas Rangers tells the story of this unique law enforcement agency from its origin in 1823, when it was formed by "Father of Texas" Stephen F. Austin, to the 1930s, when legendary lawman Frank Hamer tracked down the infamous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Plains

    by Walter Prescott Webb ...
    Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist UniversityThis iconic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of the continent and the white Americans who moved there in the mid-nineteenth century has endured as one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history since its first ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Taming the Nueces Strip

    The Story of McNelly's Rangers

    by George Durham, Clyde Wantland ...
    Series series Texas Classics
    "Durham's account is modest and straightforward . . . has many lessons for anyone interested in the history of the Old West, leadership or law enforcement." — American West ReviewOnly an extraordinary Texas Ranger could have cleaned up bandit-plagued Southwest Texas, between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande, in the years following the Civil War. Thousands of raiders on horseback, some of them ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Texan's Story

    The Autobiography of Walter Prescott Webb

    by Walter Prescott Webb ...
    Walter Prescott Webb (1888–1963), a towering figure in Texas and western history and letters, published an abundance of books—but for decades the autobiography he’d written late in life sat largely undisturbed among his papers. Webb’s remarkable story appears here in print for the first time, edited and annotated by Michael Collins, an authority on Texas history. This firsthand account offers ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Washington Wife

    Journal of Ellen Maury Slayden from 1897-1919

    by Ellen Maury Slayden ...
    This unique account, written by the wife of a Congressman from Texas and just brought to light, is a tart, lively, and enormously diverting firsthand report about people and events in a fascinating period of American history.In 1897 Ellen Maury Slayden accompanied her newly elected Congressman husband to Washington. James Luther Slayden served as a member of the House of Representatives for the ... Read more

    $5.58 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Washington Irving ...
    In 1836, Irving published " Astoria ; or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains ;" a somewhat curious example of literary skill. A voluminous commercial correspondence was the dull ore of the earth which he refined and wrought into symmetry and splendor. Irving reduced to a regular narrative the events to which it referred, bringing out the picturesque whenever he found it, and ... Read more

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  • The Oregon Trail

    An American Saga

    by David Dary ...
    A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West.Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the whole sweeping story of those who came to explore, to exploit, ... Read more

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  • How the States Got Their Shapes Too

    The People Behind the Borderlines

    by Mark Stein ...
    Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island? Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware? How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of Colorado? All this and more is explained in Mark Stein's new book.How the States Got Their Shapes Too follows How the States Got Their Shapes looks at American ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Woman Of The Boundary Waters

    Canoeing, Guiding, Mushing, and Surviving

    by Justine Kerfoot ...
    The Boundary Waters region of Minnesota and Ontario is a vast wilderness of quiet beauty, visited and loved by many, but home to only a rugged few. In 1928, Justine Kerfoot arrived, a Northwestern University graduate student headed for medical school until her family lost both their Illinois homes in the stock market crash. Thrust into year-round life at her mother's fledgling summer resort, ... Read more

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  • The New History in an Old Museum

    Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg

    by Richard Handler, Eric Gable ...
    The New History in an Old Museum is an exploration of "historical truth" as presented at Colonial Williamsburg. More than a detailed history of a museum and tourist attraction, it examines the packaging of American history, and consumerism and the manufacturing of cultural beliefs. Through extensive fieldwork—including numerous site visits, interviews with employees and visitors, and archival ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • BART

    The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System

    by Michael C. Healy ...
    An insider's "indispensible" behind-the-scenes history of the transit system of San Francisco and surrounding counties ( Houston Chronicle).In the first-ever history book about BART, longtime agency spokesman Michael C. Healy gives an insider's account of the rapid transit system's inception, hard-won approval, construction, and operations, warts and all.With a master storyteller's wit and sharp ... Read more

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  • Song of Brooklyn

    An Oral History of America's Favorite Borough

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