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  • Empress San Francisco

    The Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition

    by Abigail M. Markwyn ...
    When the more than 18 million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco in 1915, they encountered a vision of the world born out of San Francisco’s particular local political and social climate. By seeking to please various constituent groups ranging from the government of Japan to local labor unions and neighborhood associations, fair organizers ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Look Up, Santa Fe! A Walking Tour of Santa Fe, New Mexico

    by Doug Gelbert ...
    There is no better way to see America than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour. Whether you are preparing for a road trip or just out to look at your own town in a new way, a downloadable walking tour is ready to explore when you are.Each walking tour describes historical and architectural landmarks and provides pictures to help out ... Read more

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  • Spain in the Southwest

    A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California

    by John L. Kessell ...
    John L. Kessell’s Spain in the Southwest presents a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an eye for human interest, Kessell tells the story of New Spain’s vast frontier--today’s American Southwest and Mexican North--which for two centuries served as a dynamic yet disjoined periphery of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Nuclear Borderlands

    The Manhattan Project in Post–Cold War New Mexico | New Edition

    by Joseph Masco ...
    An important investigation of the sociocultural fallout of America's work on the atomic bombIn The Nuclear Borderlands, Joseph Masco offers an in-depth look at the long-term consequences of the Manhattan Project. Masco examines how diverse groups in and around Los Alamos, New Mexico understood and responded to the U.S. nuclear weapons project in the post–Cold War period. He shows that the American ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Sustaining the Cherokee Family

    Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation

    by Rose Stremlau ...
    During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the federal government sought to forcibly assimilate Native Americans into American society through systematized land allotment. In Sustaining the Cherokee Family, Rose Stremlau illuminates the impact of this policy on the Cherokee Nation, particularly within individual families and communities in modern-day northeastern Oklahoma ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Gone at 3:17

    by David M. Brown; Michael Wereschagin ...
    At 3:17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the London Junior-Senior High School in the oil boomtown of New London, Texas, created a lethal mixture of gas and oxygen in the schools basement. The odorless, colorless gas went undetected until the flip of an electrical switch triggered a colossal blast. The two-story school, one of the nations most modern, disintegrated, burying ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

  • My Boys and Girls Are in There

    The 1937 New London School Explosion

    by Ron Rozelle ...
    On March 18, 1937, a spark ignited a vast pool of natural gas that had collected beneath the school building in New London, a tiny community in East Texas. The resulting explosion leveled the four-year-old structure and resulted in a death toll of more than three hundred—most of them children. To this day, it is the worst school disaster in the history of the United States. The tragedy and its ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Gold-Mining Boomtown

    People of White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory

    by Roberta Key Haldane ...
    The town of White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, was born in 1879 when prospectors discovered gold at nearby Baxter Mountain. In Gold-Mining Boomtown, Roberta Key Haldane offers an intimate portrait of the southeastern New Mexico community by profiling more than forty families and individuals who made their homes there during its heyday.Today, fewer than a hundred people live in White Oaks. Its ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Wicked Women of New Mexico

    by Donna Blake Birchell ...
    New Mexico Territory attracted outlaws and desperados as its remote locations guaranteed non-detection while providing opportunists the perfect setting in which to seize wealth. Many wicked women on the run from their pasts headed there seeking new starts before and after 1912 statehood. Colorful characters such as Bronco Sue, Sadie Orchard and Lizzie McGrath were noted mavens of mayhem, while ... Read more

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  • Rotten Boroughs, Political Thickets, and Legislative Donnybrooks

    Redistricting in Texas

    Edited by Gary A. Keith ...
    Series series Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    Every ten years, the Texas legislature redistricts itself and the state’s congressional districts in an attempt to ensure equality in representation. With a richly textured cultural fabric, Texas often experiences redistricting battles that are heated enough to gain national attention. Collecting a variety of voices, including legislators themselves, in addition to lawyers, community organizers, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • And Other Neighborly Names

    Social Process and Cultural Image in Texas Folklore

    Edited by Richard Bauman, Roger D. Abrahams ...
    "And Other Neighborly Names"—the title is from a study by Americo Paredes of the names, complimentary and otherwise, exchanged across cultural boundaries by Anglos and Mexicans—is a collection of essays devoted to various aspects of folk tradition in Texas. The approach builds on the work of the folklorists who have helped give the study of folklore in Texas such high standing in the field-Mody ... Read more

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  • San Antonio in the Great War

    by John M. Manguso ...
    Series series Images of America
    San Antonio, Texas, has been called �Military City USA� for many years. It earned this sobriquet not only by virtue of its major military installations but also because of its close and cordial relationship with the US Armed Forces. But in 1916, the year before America entered the Great War, all of that was still in the future. Fort Sam Houston was the largest US Army post in the country, but its ... Read more

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