Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“harold schindler”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “harold schindler”
Skip side bar filters

  • Orrin Porter Rockwell

    Man of God Son of Thunder

    by Harold Schindler ...
    The legend of the Destroying Angel of Mormondom was well established by the time of his death, of natural causes, in 1878. Travelers sang ballads about him as they gathered around their campfires at night. Mothers used his name to frighten children into obedience. He was accused of literally hundreds of murders, all in the name of the Mormon Church.Yet behind all the myth was a man, a human being. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Blackfoot Redemption

    A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice

    by William E. Farr ...
    In 1879, a Canadian Blackfoot known as Spopee, or Turtle, shot and killed a white man. Captured as a fugitive, Spopee narrowly escaped execution, instead landing in an insane asylum in Washington, D.C., where he fell silent. Spopee thus “disappeared” for more than thirty years, until a delegation of American Blackfeet discovered him and, aided by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, exacted a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hoboes

    Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West

    by Mark Wyman ...
    When the railroad stretched its steel rails across the American West in the 1870s, it opened up a vast expanse of territory with very few people but enormous agricultural potential: a second Western frontier, the garden West. Agriculture quickly followed the railroads, making way for Kansas wheat and Colorado sugar beets and Washington apples. With this new agriculture came an unavoidable need for ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • A Windfall of Musicians: Hitler's Emigres and Exiles in Southern California

    by Dorothy Lamb Crawford ...
    This book is the first to examine the brilliant gathering of composers, conductors, and other musicians who fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the Los Angeles area. Musicologist Dorothy Lamb Crawford looks closely at the lives, creative work, and influence of sixteen performers, fourteen composers, and one opera stage director, who joined this immense migration beginning in the 1930s. Some in this ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Hoover Dam

    An American Adventure

    by Joseph E. Stevens ...
    In the spring of 1931, in a rugged desert canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, an army of workmen began one of the most difficult and daring building projects ever undertaken—the construction of Hoover Dam. Through the worst years of the Great Depression as many as five thousand laborers toiled twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to erect the huge structure that would harness the Colorado ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Bandido

    The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez

    by John Boessenecker ...
    Tiburcio Vasquez is, next to Joaquin Murrieta, America's most infamous Hispanic bandit. After he was hanged as a murderer in 1875, the Chicago Tribune called him "the most noted desperado of modern times." Yet questions about him still linger. Why did he become a bandido? Why did so many Hispanics protect him and his band? Was he a common thief and heartless killer who got what he deserved, or was ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Mexican American Boxing in Los Angeles

    by Gene Aguilera ...
    Series series Images of America
    Welcome to the colorful, flamboyant, and wonderful world of Mexican American boxing in Los Angeles. From the minute they stepped into the ring, Mexican American fighters have electrified fans with their explosiveness and courage. These historical images bring to life a sociological culture consisting of knockouts, the Main Street Gym, the Olympic Auditorium, neighborhood rivalries, Mexican idols, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deadly Dozen

    Twelve Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 1

    by Robert K. DeArment ...
    Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday—such are the legendary names that spring to mind when we think of the western gunfighter. But in the American West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of grassroots gunfighters straddled both sides of the law without hesitation. Deadly Dozen tells the story of twelve infamous gunfighters, feared in their own times but almost ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Fremont

    Explorer For A Restless Nation

    by Ferol Egan ...
    Foreword by Richard Dillon. Between 1842 and 1853, John C. Fremont led five expeditions across the trans-Mississippi West. While the success of his early journeys gained him acclaim as a national hero, his later missions ended in tragedy and ultimately a court-martial. Historian Ferol Egan focuses on Fremont’s explorations, providing a vivid portrait of a courageous man in an emerging young nation ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here

    Work, Community, and Memory on California's Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941

    by William J. Bauer Jr. ...
    The federally recognized Round Valley Indian Tribes are a small, confederated people whose members today come from twelve indigenous California tribes. In 1849, during the California gold rush, people from several of these tribes were relocated to a reservation farm in northern Mendocino County. Fusing Native American history and labor history, William Bauer Jr. chronicles the evolution of work, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Fort Bascom

    Soldiers, Comancheros, and Indians in the Canadian River Valley

    by James Bailey Blackshear ...
    Motorists traveling along State Highway 104 north of Tucumcari, New Mexico, may notice a sign indicating the location of Fort Bascom. The post itself is long gone, its adobe walls washed away. In 1863, the United States, fearing a second Confederate invasion of New Mexico Territory from Texas, built Fort Bascom. Until 1874, the troops stationed at this site on the Eroded Plains along the Canadian ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • At Sword's Point, Part 2

    A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858–1859

    Edited by William P. MacKinnon ...
    Series Book 2 - Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier Series
    The Utah War—an unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon-controlled Utah Territory and the U.S. government—was the most extensive American military action between the U.S.-Mexican and Civil Wars. Drawing on author-editor William P. MacKinnon’s half-century of research and a wealth of carefully selected new material, At Sword’s Point presents the first full history of the conflict through ... Read more

    $28.99 USD