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William W.Johnstone
The Forty-Niners: A Novel of the Gold Rush (Thorndike Press Large Print Softcover Western)
From the acclaimed chroniclers of the Old West comes the epic saga of the great American Gold Rush—and the boldhearted dreamers who made it all happen… THEY CALLED THEM THE FORTY-NINERS. In January of 1848, the discovery of gold at Sutters Mill in California sparked a nationwide frenz...
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James R. Skillen
This Land is My Land: Rebellion in the West
Among American conservatives, the right to own property free from the meddling hand of the state is one of the most sacred rights of all. But in the American West, the federal government owns and oversees vast patches of land, complicating the narrative of western individualism and private property ...
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Ron Childress
And West Is West
Winner of the prestigious PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, And West Is West is an inspired novel about two young people who learn, the hard way, about the devastating power of new technology to isolate us from the consequences of our actions. When Jessica, a young Air Force dr...
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Thomas F Stafford
Afflicting the Comfortable: Journalism and Politics in West Virginia (West Virginia & Appalachia)
While investigating the Invest Right scandal, Thomas Stafford, a former journalist for the Charleston Gazette, found himself in a very precarious position. As a reporter he felt obligated to tell the whole truth, and he believed in the need to serve the public and those West Virginians who were bein...
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Woody Allen
Three One-Act Plays: Riverside Drive Old Saybrook Central Park West
Three delightful one-act plays set in and around New York, in which sophisticated characters confound one another in ways only Woody Allen could imagine Woody Allen’s first dramatic writing published in years, “Riverside Drive,” “Old Saybrook,” and “Central Park West” are humorous, in...
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T. Griffith
Deadwood: The Best Writings on the Most Notorious Town in the West
Of the many iconic towns of the old West, none has quite captured our imagination like Deadwood. From the legacy of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane to the current resurgence in mining and gambling, this city in the Black Hills of South Dakota continues to occupy a central place in the American my...
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Brian G. Shellum
Black Cadet in a White Bastion: Charles Young at West Point
Born in slavery, Charles Young (1864–1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first black U.S. military attaché, and the highest-ranking black officer in the Regular Army until his death. Unlike the two black graduates before him, Young went on to a long military career, eventually a...
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Louis S. Warren
Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and The Wild West Show (Vintage)
William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was the most famous American of his age. He claimed to have worked for the Pony Express when only a boy and to have scouted for General George Custer. But what was his real story? And how did a frontiersman become a worldwide celebrity? In this prize-winning biogra...
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Charles River Editors
Mining Towns in the Wild West: The History of the Construction and Abandonment of the Frontier’s Most Famous Sites
*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading The Lewis and Clark Expedition, notwithstanding its merits as a feat of exploration, was also the first tentative claim on the vast interior and the western seaboard of North America by the United States. It set in motion the great move...
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Win Blevins
The River of the West: The Adventures of Joe Meek: The Oregon Years (Epic Adventures)
A Mountain Man Classic The River of the West is easily the most reliable and extensive first-person history ever written of that unique and never-to-be-duplicated era. An extraordinary first-hand account of those who came West and lived with the land. Of all the men who walked the Rocky Mountains a...
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Holly M. Roose
Black Star Rising: Garveyism in the West
In 1916, Marcus Garvey, a recent immigrant from Jamaica, moved to New York City and established what would quickly become the largest Black mass movement in world history. Garveyism and the Garvey movement had a profound effect on the Black diaspora. In the eastern United States, the official name ...
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DAVITT MCATEER
Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster (WEST VIRGINIA & APPALACHIA)
New paperback edition with an introduction by Robert B. Reich Monongah:  The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster  documents the events and conditions that led to the worst industrial accident in the history of the United States. This mining accident claimed hundreds of lives on the mor...
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Joseph C. Dorsey
Slave Traffic in the Age of Abolition: Puerto Rico, West Africa, and the Non-Hispanic Caribbean, 1815-1859
"Impressive. . . . Some of the book's most salient contributions are the conclusions about the origins of the slaves, the relative importance of the Caribbean trade vis-a-vis the African trade, comparisons between Cuba and Puerto Rico, and the inner workings of the slave trade. In all these areas th...
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Fatema Mernissi
Scheherazade Goes West
Throughout my childhood, my grandmother Yasmina, who was illiterate and grew up in a harem, repeated that to travel is the best way to learn and to empower yourself. "When a woman decides to use her wings, she takes big risks," she would tell me, but she was convinced that if you didn't use them, it...
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Keith Heyer Meldahl
Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail
In 1848 news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, and fertile soil of the eastern United States in favor of the rough-hewn lands of the American West. T...
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Chauncey Canfield
The Diary of a Forty-Niner
One of the most important and memorable events of the United States’ westward push across the frontier came with the discovery of gold in the lands that became California in January 1848. Located thousands of miles away from the country’s power centers on the east coast at the time, the announce...
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John M. Findlay
Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography)
Outstanding Title by Choice Magazine On the banks of the Pacific Northwest's greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation, an industrial site that appears to be at odds with the surrounding vineyards and desert. The 586-square-mile compound on the Columbia River is known both for its origins...
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Rus Bradburd
All the Dreams We've Dreamed: A Story of Hoops and Handguns on Chicago's West Side
In the Margins Book Award Winner Shawn Harrington returned to Marshall High School as an assistant coach years after appearing as a player in the iconic basketball documentary film Hoop Dreams . In January of 2014, Marshall’s struggling team was about to improve after the addition of a charism...
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Diane K. Boyd
A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD "This is a book about a courageous woman. Often alone in wild country, she endures hardships and faces danger in many forms …. It is a book I highly recommend: informative, fascinating, and beautifully written."—DR. JANE GOODALL A debut memoir from...
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Sarina Finkelstein
The New Forty-Niners
Shot over four years, The New Forty-Niners documents the new wave of gold prospectors who have rushed to California 160 years after the original Gold Rush of 1849. The tactile and earthy photographs show the gamblers, the adventurers, the desperate, and the young-at-heart in their camps and on cla...
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