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  • Skirting Traditions: Arizona Women Writers and Journalists 1912-2012

    by Brenda Kimsey Warneka, Carol Hughes, Lois McFarland, June P. Payne, Sheila Roe, Pam Knight Stevenson ...
    Women who skirt traditions, whether on the frontier of a young state or in a male-dominated profession, have relied on resilience, creativity, and grit to survive…and to flourish. These short biographies of twenty-eight female writers and journalists from Arizona span the one hundred years since Arizona became the forty-eighth state in the Union. They capture the emotions, the monumental and often ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • We Had a Little Real Estate Problem

    The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy

    by Kliph Nesteroff ...
    *A Best Book of the Year by NPR and Esquire*"A remarkable book." —Steve Martin"An illumating and stereotype-busting history of Native Americans and comedy" (The Washington Post) from Kliph Nesteroff, “the human encyclopedia of comedy” (VICE).It was one of the most reliable jokes in Charlie Hill’s stand-up routine: “My people are from Wisconsin. We used to be from New York.... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Bowerman and the Men of Oregon

    The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Cofounder

    by Kenny Moore ...
    No man has affected more runners in more ways than Bill Bowerman. During his 24-year tenure as track coach at the University of Oregon, he won four national team titles and his athletes set 13 world and 22 American records. He also ignited the jogging boom, invented the waffle-sole running shoe that helped establish Nike, and coached the US track and field team at the 1972 Munich Olympic GamesWith ... Read more

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  • The Most Interesting People in Politics and History, Volume 3: 250 Anecdotes

    The Most Interesting People in Politics and History: 250 Anecdotes, #3

    by David Bruce ...
    Series Book 3 - The Most Interesting People in Politics and History: 250 Anecdotes
    Some samples: • In September 2008, James Meeks, a Baptist minister and state senator, organized an impressive act of activism. He led a boycott of Chicago Public Schools by nearly 1,000 students and instead bused them to two affluent North Shore schools. His purpose was to show the differences in funding and quality of education in the schools in different areas of Illinois. According to an ... Read more

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  • Hippies, Indians, and the Fight for Red Power

    by Sherry L. Smith ...
    Through much of the 20th century, federal policy toward Indians sought to extinguish all remnants of native life and culture. That policy was dramatically confronted in the late 1960s when a loose coalition of hippies, civil rights advocates, Black Panthers, unions, Mexican-Americans, Quakers and other Christians, celebrities, and others joined with Red Power activists to fight for Indian rights. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • North American Ultrarunning: A History

    by Andy Milroy ...
    North American Ultrarunning: A History explores the rich heritage of ultradistance running stretching back thousands of years; the Americas were originally peopled by nomads on foot. The book documents ultradistance feats by Native Americans, the earliest European explorers and settlers, before recording the growing development of the professional sport in North America in the nineteenth century. ... Read more

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  • Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp

    by Jerry Stanley ...
    Illus. with photographs from the Dust Bowl era. This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without school--until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kids built their own school in a nearby field. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Duchess Ranch of Old John Ware

    by James Davidge ...
    Freed from slavery after the end of the American Civil War, John Ware rode various cattle drives from the southern United States to the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, where he rose to become a prominent rancher. This true tale of determination and character is an inspiration to all. Essential reading in the times of "Black Lives Matter". ... Read more

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  • Graceful Lives

    Family Origins, Life Story, and Descendents of William and Grace Lassey

    by Marilyn Sackman, Bill Lassey, Mavis Berry ...
    Graceful Lives summarizes the family history and descendents of William and Grace Lassey--parents of the authors. Th ey were both born and raised in western North Dakota, where their parents homesteaded in the early 20th Century. Th eir younger married years were a major challenge, as they tried to make a living on a farm in the depths of the Great Depression, while raising their children. Th ey ... Read more

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  • The Gigantic Book of Running Quotations

    Edited by Hal Higdon ...
    With over 3,000 pieces of wit and wisdom from runners famous and humble, here is an important running resource and a great gift for any runner. George Sheehan, a celebrated running writer, philosopher, and physician, once wrote, "The more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am." Today, many runners-whether they are training for the Olympics or ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Creating Minnesota

    A History from the Inside Out

    by Annette Atkins ...
    Winner of a Spur Award, presented by the Western Writers of America (WWA), for the Best Western Nonfiction Historical Book.Renowned historian Annette Atkins presents a fresh understanding of how a complex and modern Minnesota came into being in Creating Minnesota. Each chapter of this innovative state history focuses on a telling detail, a revealing incident, or a meaningful issue that illuminates ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Wiping the War Paint off the Lens

    Native American Film and Video

    by Beverly R. Singer ...
    Series series Visible Evidence
    Native Americans have thrown themselves into filmmaking since the mid-1970s, producing hundreds of films and videos, and their body of work has had great impact on Native cultures and filmmaking itself. With their cameras, they capture the lives of Native people, celebrating community, ancestral lifeways, and identity. Not only artistic statements, the films are archives that document rich and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD