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  • Behind San Quentin's Walls

    The History of California's Legendary Prison and Its Inmates, 1851-1900

    A professional screenwriter’s master class in writing the most critical and challenging script element―the individual scene. ... Leer más

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  • Juanita

         For many years one of the prime hardships on the western American frontier was the scarcity of women. Men could endure living a rough existence out in the open, fighting Indians and the elements, but the loneliness of life without women could become almost unendurable. Miners hacking out the wealth of the California Mother Lode treasured a scratched and bent tintype portrait of a woman as ... Leer más

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  • The Great Yosemite Holdups

    The Last Stagecoach Robberies on the Road to Yosemite and How One of the Events Was Actually Photographed!

         The robberies on the road to Yosemite during the early 1900s were unique for several reasons. Despite the lack of money involved, the number of coaches and passengers robbed at one time, coupled with the fact that the bandits were never apprehended, were reason enough to be remembered.        Even more important, however, was the fact that one of the holdups was actually photographed. This ... Leer más

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    This book is an autobiography of the 1971 Oklahoma Teacher of the Year. He details life in Oklahoma from when he was born in 1907, the year Oklahoma became a state and continues through his retirement as a teacher. The cover of the book is a photograph of his father's farm gate. The windmill pumped water from a hand dug, rock lined well that never went dry during the dust bowl. The early stories ... Leer más

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  • The Land of Little Rain

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Beauty of Southwest Wilderness

    Mary Austin's "The Land of Little Rain" is a lyrical exploration of the natural beauty and stark realities of the high desert of California. Through a series of evocative essays, Austin masterfully intertwines the landscape's physicality with its cultural and spiritual significance to native peoples and settlers alike. Her keen observations render the region's flora and fauna not merely as ... Leer más

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  • A Short History of San Francisco

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    A concise, "colorful, well-told" history of the City by the Bay, from the Gold Rush to the Summer of Love to the twenty-first century ( Los Angeles Times).This is the story of San Francisco, a unique and rowdy tale with a legendary cast of characters. It tells of the Indians and the Spanish missions, the arrival of thousands of gold seekers and gamblers, crackbrains and dreamers, the building of ... Leer más

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  • The World's Greatest Civilizations: The History and Culture of the Inca

    *Includes over 25 pictures of important people, places, and events, including Macchu Picchu, Inca ruins, Inca clothing, and more. *Describes the everyday life, religion, architecture and cities of the Inca Empire*Includes a Table of ContentsDuring the Age of Exploration, Native American tribes fell victim to European conquerors seeking legendary cities made of gold and other riches, attempts that ... Leer más

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  • Let It Burn

    MOVE, the Philadelphia Police Department, and the Confrontation that Changed a City

    On a narrow street in a working-class neighborhood, the police are held at bay by a small band of armed radicals. Two assaults have already failed. After a morning-long battle involving machine guns, explosives, and tear gas, the radicals remain defiant. In a command post across the street from the boarded-up row house that serves as the militants’ headquarters, the beleaguered police commissioner ... Leer más

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  • Taking Hawaii

    How Thirteen Honolulu Businessmen Overthrew the Queen of Hawaii in 1893, With a Bluff

    The true story of a queen deposed, a five-year police state, an attempted counter-coup, and the end of an independent nation.On a January afternoon in 1893, men hunkered down behind sandbagged emplacements in the streets of Honolulu, with rifles, machine guns, and cannon ready to open fire. Troops and police loyal to the queen of the sovereign nation of Hawaii faced off against a small number of ... Leer más

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  • History Mysteries

    Series series New Books for New Readers
    Four true stories of unexplained deaths and disappearances from Kentucky's past.Historians are like detectives—and some historical events are like cold cases that haven't been solved yet. This concise, clearly written book presents the stories of four mysteries of Kentucky history:• The disappearance of James Harrod, who told his wife he was going hunting in 1792 and never returned• The unknown ... Leer más

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  • Making Haste from Babylon

    The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History

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    At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Arctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning of doom or a promise of salvation. Two years later, as the Pilgrims prepared to sail across the Atlantic on board the Mayflower, the atmosphere remained charged with fear and expectation. Men and women readied ... Leer más

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  • Embarcadero

    True Tales of Sea Adventure from 1849 to 1906

         There are no tales like high-sea tales and here’s a baker’s dozen of true sea adventures—tales filled with salt spray, blood-and-thunder, and man-overboard action all guaranteed to satisfy the hardiest armchair adventurer.      Researched from ships’ logs, manuscripts, newspaper accounts and historical records and penned by Richard Dillon a gifted storyteller and one of California’s finest ... Leer más

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