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  • The Santa Barbara B-24 Disasters: A Chain of Tragedies Across Air, Land & Sea

    par Robert A. Burtness ...
    Collections series Disaster
    Three separate and related tragedies occurred during and after a training run of a B-24 Liberator on July 4, 1943, over the Pacific off Santa Barbara County: The heavy bomber crashed near Santa Barbara and two of the crew were never found, another B-24 search-and-rescue crew looking for survivors off the coast never returned at all and was found later to have cashed on San Miguel Island, killing ... En savoir plus

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  • Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

    The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

    par Richard White ...
    A new, incisive history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War.The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating panics in the U.S. economy. Their dependence on public largess drew them into the corridors of ... En savoir plus

    $19.79 CAD

  • Draw

    The Greatest Gunfights of the American West

    par James Reasoner ...
    Known for his ability to make history come vividly to life, Reasoner strips away the dime novel legends and Hollywood myths to show us how the gunfighters of the Old West really lived, killed, and were killed.Praised for his “well-researched” (Booklist) and “lively, suspenseful” (Publishers Weekly) novels, James Reasoner now proves that truth can be even more exciting than fiction.Among the true ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $16.99 CAD Maintenant $12.99 CAD

  • Almost Eleven

    The Murder of Brenda Sue Sayers

    par Harrell Glenn Crowson ...
    Almost Eleven is the documentation of the January 7, 1965 abduction, rape and murder of ten year-old Brenda Sue Sayers in the small town of Brawley, California. Imperial Valley’s biggest crime is detailed through volumes of official records and interviews with witnesses, relatives and investigators. Serial killer Robert Eugene Pennington not only murdered Sayers, but was a suspect in killing ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD

  • My Captivity

    A Pioneer Woman's Story of Her Life Among the Sioux

    par Fanny Kelly ...
    Fanny Kelly’s memoir, first published in 1872, is an intelligent and thoughtful narrative. Kelly spent five months as a prisoner of Ogalalla Sioux in 1864 when she was nineteen years old. A woman of her time, there was no reason she should feel sympathy toward her captors, but the introduction points out examples of expressed favor toward the Sioux, however unconscious. This narrative is a ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Thunder in the Mountains

    Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War

    par Daniel J. Sharfstein ...
    “Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we should never forget.”—Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877After the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Los Angeles Street Food

    A History from Tamaleros to Taco Trucks

    par Farley Elliott ...
    Collections series American Palate
    A history and guidebook for locals and visitors who want to explore the flavorful delights of the nation's street food capital—includes photos!Los Angeles is the uncontested street food champion of the United States, and it isn't even a fair fight. Millions of hungry locals and tourists take to the streets to eat tacos, down bacon-wrapped hot dogs, and indulge in the latest offerings from a fleet ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Californio Lancers

    The 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry in the Far West, 1863–1866

    par Mr. Tom Prezelski ...
    Collections series Frontier Military Series
    More than 16,000 Californians served as soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War. One California unit, the 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry, consisted largely of Californio Hispanic volunteers from the “Cow Counties” of Southern California and the Central Coast. Out-of-work vaqueros who enlisted after drought decimated the herds they worked, the Native Cavalrymen lent the army their ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Good Medicine For the Bow

    A History of Medicine Bow, Wyoming

    par Marvin Cronberg, B.S., A.F.T. ...
    It was not easy to establish and maintain a frontier community. Aside from the harassment from the native americans, there were the usual petty jealousies and worse, a total lack of law enforcement. Fortunately there were individuals whose leadership would overcome the desire for personal gain and supplant the community effort. These were people who wanted something more and sacrificed to make it ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD

  • A Short History of Reno, Second Edition

    par Richard Moreno ...
    This completely revised and updated edition of A Short History of Reno provides an entertaining and informative account of Reno’s remarkably colorful history. Richard Moreno discusses Reno’s efforts, from its early beginnings in the 1850s to the present day, to reinvent itself as a recreation, entertainment, education, and technology hub. Moreno looks at the gamblers, casino builders, and ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD

  • Downwind

    A People's History of the Nuclear West

    par Sarah Alisabeth Fox ...
    Downwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for the inhabitants and the environment in nuclear testing by the federal government and in uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War.Sarah Alisabeth Fox interviews residents of the Great Basin region affected by environmental contamination from the uranium industry and nuclear ... En savoir plus

    $27.49 CAD

  • The Frontier Club

    Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924

    par Christine Bold ...
    From Hollywood films to novels by Louis L'Amour and television series like Gunsmoke and Deadwood, the Wild West has exerted a powerful hold on the cultural imagination of the United States. Beginning with Theodore Roosevelt's founding of the Boone and Crockett Club in 1887, Christine Bold traces the origins and evolution of the western genre, revealing how a group of prominent eastern aristocrats ... En savoir plus

    $45.59 CAD