Category - History
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Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"Brave Hearted is not just history, it is an incredibly intense page-turning experience. To read what these women endured is to be transported into...
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Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Beautifully observed. . . This jewel of a book belongs on the shelf with our best Western writers--Norman MacLean, Pam Houston, and Annie Proulx."...
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The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-Mile Horseback Journey Into the Old West
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /USA Today Bestseller! "Spellbinding" (Douglas Preston) and "completely fascinating" (Elizabeth Letts), cowboy and journalist Will Grant takes us o...
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Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The long-awaited follow-up to the groundbreaking Massacre at Mountain Meadows Published in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows was a bombshell of a ...
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Introduction to California Spring Wildflowers of the Foothills, Valleys, and Coast
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In the spring, California's rolling hills, green valleys, and coastal slopes are colored with wildflowers treasured by both residents and visitor...
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that l...
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Palm Springs Holiday
HardcoverOriginal price $34.00Original price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /This is the story of Palm Springs in its golden years, a city that had it all, including marvelous midcentury Modern architecture, fabulous fly-i...
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The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado (and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care)
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Through the microcosm of Colorado's stunning political transformation, this is an inside look at the rapidly-changing business of campaigns and e...
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Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One Meal at a Time
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Featured in the PBS documentary The Harvey Girls: Opportunity BoundThe legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of F...
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Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Deadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in U.S. Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking ...
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Unfamiliar Fishes
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /From the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States comes an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn. Of ...
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Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The critically acclaimed, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller—a gripping story of the strife and tragedy that led to San Francisco’s ultimate rebi...
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Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Celebrity gossip meets history in this compulsively readable collection from Buzzfeed reporter Anne Helen Peterson. This guide to film stars and ...
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The 1959 Yellowstone Earthquake
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /At 11:37 p.m. on August 17, 1959, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake rocked Montana's Yellowstone country. In an instant, an entire mountainside fracture...
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Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A New York Times BestsellerOn October 12, 2005, a massive fire broke out in the Wines Central wine warehouse in Vallejo, California. Within hours...
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City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /A vivid history of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform Los AngelesWhen Walter O’Malley moved his Brooklyn Do...
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Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The triumphant true story of the native Hawaiian cowboys who crossed the Pacific to shock America at the 1908 world rodeo championships Oregon Bo...
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Shotguns and Stagecoaches: The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in the Wild West
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /John Boessenecker presents the true stories of the Wild West heroes who guarded the iconic Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains, battling colorful...
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A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a blueprint for a creative life from the perspective of award-winning...
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Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big league city.Dodger Stadium is an American icon. ...
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Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /New York Times Bestseller Editors' Choice —New York Times Book Review In this exceptional cultural history, Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownst...
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Mexifornia: A State of Becoming
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Part history, part political analysis, and part memoir, Mexifornia is an intensely personal work by one of our most important writers. Victor Dav...
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Science Be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Science Be Dammed is an alarming reminder of the high stakes in the management—and perils in the mismanagement—of water in the western United Sta...
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Pretty-shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A rare, documented account of the life of a Crow medicine woman, drawn from interviews conducted by legendary writer and ethnographer Frank Bird ...
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