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  • Orange County Chronicles

    de Phil Brigandi ...
    Series series American Chronicles
    Orange County is one of the best-known, yet least understood, counties in California. The popular image of beautiful people in beach cities is certainly accurate. But the Orange County that is often overlooked includes workaday lives in Anaheim, the barrios of Santa Ana, townhouse living in Brea and the diverse communities of Little Saigon, Little Texas, Los Rios, La Habra and Silverado Canyon. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Brief History of Orange, California

    The Plaza City

    de Phil Brigandi ...
    Series series Brief History
    Orange, California, a city that started small, but grew big on the promise, sweat and toil of agriculture. Born from the breakup of the old Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, its early days were filled with horse races, gambling, and fiestas. Citrus was the backbone of the economy for more than half a century, though post-war development eventually replaced the orange groves. Historian, and Orange ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Reservations, Removal, and Reform

    The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878–1903

    de Valerie Sherer Mathes, Phil Brigandi ...
    Inseparable from the history of the Indians of Southern California is the role of the Indian agent—a government functionary whose chief duty was, according to the Office of Indian Affairs, to “induce his Indian to labor in civilized pursuits.” Offering a portrait of the Mission Indian agents of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Reservations, Removal, and Reform reveals how ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • A Call for Reform

    The Southern California Indian Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson

    de Helen Hunt Jackson ...
    Journalist, novelist, and scholar Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–85) remains one of the most influential and popular writers on the struggles of American Indians. This volume collects for the first time seven of her most important articles, annotated and introduced by Jackson scholars Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi. Valuable as eyewitness accounts of Mission Indian life in Southern California ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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  • Three Roads to the Alamo

    The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis

    de William C. Davis ...
    "William C. Davis's Three Roads to the Alamo is far and away the best account of the Alamo I have ever read. The portraits of Crockett, Bowie, and Travis are brilliantly sketched in a fast-moving story that keeps the reader riveted to the very last word." — Stephen B. OatesThree Roads to the Alamois the definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie and William Barret Travis—the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • Billy the Kid in Santa Fe: Wild West History, Outlaw Legends, and the City at the End of the Santa Fe Trail. A Non-Fiction Trilogy. Book One: Young Billy

    Billy the Kid in Santa Fe, #1

    de Lynn Michelsohn ...
    Series Libro 1 - Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
    Billy the Kid spent part of his youth in Santa Fe in the 1870s.~ What was New Mexico's territorial capital like in Billy's day?~ How did Santa Fe's frontier character and its Hispanic culture shape the development of this future desperado?~ What other residents did Billy encounter who would figure significantly in later chapters of his brief life?~ And how did Billy spend his days and his nights ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Eternity Street

    Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles

    de John Mack Faragher ...
    "[A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in 19th century Southern California." —Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A History of Murder in America, in the Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Strange Career of William Ellis

    The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

    de Karl Jacoby ...
    **Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award"An American 'Odyssey,' the larger-than-life story of a man who travels far in the wake of war and gets by on his adaptability and gift for gab." —Wall Street Journal**A black child born on the US-Mexico border in the twilight of slavery, William Ellis inhabited a world divided along ambiguous racial lines. Adopting the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • Kings of Texas

    The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire

    de Don Graham ...
    Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS"Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulous, and very readable. It should find a wide audience."-Larry McMurtry, author of Sin Killer and the Pulitzer Prize--winning Lonesome Dove"This book is about the King Ranch, but it is about much more than that. A compelling chronicle of war, ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Killing for Coal

    America’s Deadliest Labor War

    de Thomas G. Andrews ...
    On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado’s industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children among the miners’ families lay dead. The strikers had killed at least thirty men, destroyed six mines, ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • Roaring Camp

    The Social World of the California Gold Rush

    de Susan Lee Johnson, Ph.D. ...
    Winner of the Bancroft PrizeThe world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Lee Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode.Johnson explores the dynamic social world created by the Gold Rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Stockton, charting ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Seeds of Empire

    Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850

    de Andrew J. Torget ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD