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Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Twilight Man is biography, romance, and nonfiction mystery, carrying with it the bite of fiction." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "In Twilight Man...
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The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $30.99Original price $30.99 - Original price $30.99Original price $30.99Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." --Wall Street JournalA magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through th...
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Race, Religion, and Civil Rights: Asian Students on the West Coast, 1900-1968
PaperbackOriginal price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Histories of civil rights movements in America generally place little or no emphasis on the activism of Asian Americans. Yet, as this fascinating...
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Growing Up in San Francisco's Chinatown: Boomer Memories from Noodle Rolls to Apple Pie
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Chinese American baby boomers who grew up within the twenty-nine square blocks of San Francisco's Chinatown lived in two worlds. Elders implored...
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Filipinos in the East Bay, California (Images of America Series)
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Filipinos are a community nearly 2.5-million strong in the United States in 2007. At the turn of the 20th century, the first wave of Filipino mig...
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Chinese in Napa Valley: The Forgotten Community That Built Wine Country
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Unearth the origins of Napa Valley's prosperity. Chinese laborers were once the backbone of Napa Valley. Throughout the late 1800s, they toiled in...
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Gay and Lesbian San Francisco
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In recent years, San Francisco has been synonymous with gay and lesbian pride, and the various achievements of the gay and lesbian community are pe...
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LGBTQ+ Trailblazers of San Francisco
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Famous and forgotten, they're all our fabulous ancestors. From Charles Warren Stoddard, the first openly gay San Franciscan, to Felicia 'Flames' E...
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Six Hundred Generations: An Archaeological History of Montana
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Six Hundred Generations is a stunning look at the archaeological evidence of Montana's long Indigenous human history. Focusing on 12 unique archaeo...
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Lewis and Clark Among the Nez Perce: Strangers in the Land of the Nimiipuu
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Lewis and Clark Among the Nez Perce is a generous and careful re-evaluation of Lewis and Clark west of the Bitterroot Mountains. An extraordinary n...
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California Indians and Their Environment: An Introduction Volume 96
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /Capturing the vitality of California's unique indigenous cultures, this major new introduction incorporates the extensive research of the past thir...
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Lakhota: An Indigenous History Volume 281
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 Lakȟóta are among the best-known Native American peoples. In popular culture and even many scholarly works, they were once lumped together wi...
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The Popular Frontier, 4: Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Transnational Mass Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. ...
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Alaska: A History
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The largest by far of the fifty states, Alaska is also the state of greatest mystery and diversity. And, as Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick s...
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Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /Many people first encounter Hawai'i through the imagination--a postcard picture of hula girls, lu'aus, and plenty of sun, surf, and sea. While Hawa...
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Reservations, Removal, and Reform: The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878-1903
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Inseparable from the history of the Indians of Southern California is the role of the Indian agent—a government functionary whose chief duty was,...
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Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trails
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In the first book to focus on relations between Indians and emigrants on the overland trails, Michael L. Tate shows that such encounters were far...
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Standing Rock Sioux, South Dakota (Images of America Series)
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /There is a rock of incredible legend and history that stands before the Standing Rock Agency. Years ago a Dakota man took a second wife, thereby ...
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The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." —Wall Street Journal A magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through ...
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Fighting Invisible Enemies: Health and Medical Transitions among Southern California Indians
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Native Americans long resisted Western medicine—but had less power to resist the threat posed by Western diseases. And so, as the Office of Indi...
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The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In The Revolution Has Come Robyn C. Spencer traces the Black Panther Party's organizational evolution in Oakland, California, where hundreds of you...
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South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95Original price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Named a Best Art Book of 2017 by the New York Times and Artforum In South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black co...
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The Integration of the Pacific Coast League: Race and Baseball on the West Coast
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /While Jackie Robinson's 1947 season with the Brooklyn Dodgers made him the first African American to play in the Major Leagues in the modern era, t...
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Mint Editions--Black Narratives: A True History of Slavery Days
PaperbackOriginal price $7.99 - Original price $7.99Original price $7.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /Written while Nat Love was living in California, this autobiography is an invaluable record of the wildness of the American West in the final decad...
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