Forty West

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Chuck Parsons
A Lawless Breed: John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West (Volume 14) (A.C. Greene Series)
John Wesley Hardin! His name spread terror in much of Texas in the years following the Civil War as the most wanted fugitive with a $4,000 reward on his head. A Texas Ranger wrote that he killed men just to see them kick. Hardin began his killing career in the late 1860s and remained a wanted man u...
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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...
$22.94
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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...
$16.36
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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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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...
$17.28
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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...
$20.73
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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...
$27.14
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Joan Myers
The Devil's Highway: On the Road in the American West
With this haunting new collection of photographs, Joan Myers continues the decades-long journey she began in Where the Buffalo Roamed (with Lucy Lippard), documenting the changing landscape and culture of the American West. The images in this new collection are more personal, more elegiac—and al...
$45.00
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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...
$10.62
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James A. Crutchfield
The Way West: True Stories Of The American Frontier (Observing American History)
The Texas Rangers, Forty-Niners, the Alamo and clashes with Native Americans — the American West has a diverse and remarkable history. An ideal book for fans of Michael Punke, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. James A. Crutchfield’s The Way West is a bold anthology of Western history. It draws to...
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Emmy E Werner
Pioneer Children On The Journey West
Between 1841 and 1865, some forty thousand children participated in the great overland journeys from the banks of the Missouri River to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. In this engaging book, Emmy Werner gives 120 of these young emigrants, ranging from ages four to seventeen, a chance to tell the st...
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Jack W. Germond
Fat Man in a Middle Seat: Forty Years of Covering Politics
For more than forty years, Jack Germond enjoyed an extraordinary career in political reporting. With his trademark no-nonsense style and tremendous wit in abundance, Fat Man in a Middle Seat remembers the personalities that dominated national politics during Germond’s career: Richard Nixon, Hube...
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Peter Boardman
The Shining Mountain: The first ascent of the West Wall of Changabang
‘It’s a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, it’ll be the hardest thing that’s been done in the Himalayas.’ So spoke Chris Bonington when Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker presented him with their plan to tackle the unclimbed West Wall of Changabang – the Shining Mountain...
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Robert E Hartley
Death Underground: The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters
Death Underground: The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters examines two of the most devastating coal mine disasters in United States history since 1928. In two southern Illinois towns only forty miles apart, explosions killed 111 men at the Centralia No. 5 mine in 1947 and 119 men at the N...
$22.86
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Dennis McCown
The Goddess of War, A True Story of Passion, Betrayal and Murder in the Old West
John Wesley Hardin is the most famous gunfighter of the American Wild West. The subject of conversations from the Mexican border to the rowdy saloons of Kansas, he was the greatest celebrity of the age. He wrote an autobiography, but he only told what he wanted known, and few have researched beyond ...
$24.79
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Elmer Kelton
Hard Ride: Stories of the Old West
Bandits, outlaws, romance, and adventure abound in Hard Ride , a collection of tales of the American West from renowned, seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton Each of Elmer Kelton’s superb stories of the West showcase the strength and power western spirit. They are filled with marve...
$66.52
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Charles River Editors
America’s Westward Expansion Trails: The History and Legacy of the 19th Century’s Most Famous Routes to the West
*Includes pictures *Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts *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 Un...
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H. Chuku Lee
Beauty and the Beast: A Classic West African Fairy Tale for Children (Ages 4-8) About an Enchanted Palace and a Broken Spell
In this remarkable retelling of Beauty and the Beast , award-winning illustrator Pat Cummings creates an enchanted fairy-tale world flavored by the art, architecture, and culture of West Africa, while writer H. Chuku Lee stays true to the story of this beloved classic. With breathtaking palatial se...
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Chris Enss
No Place for a Woman: The Struggle for Suffrage in the Wild West
In 1869, more than twenty years after Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony made their declaration of the rights of women at Seneca Falls, New York, the men of the Wyoming Territorial Legislature granted women over the age of twenty-one the right to vote in general elections. And on September ...
$17.08
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David A.E. Spalding
Whales of the West Coast
Whales, although among our most important and interesting animals, have been little studied until recently. Almost a third of about seventy living cetacean species have been recorded in North American Pacific coast waters. Our word whale describes glimpses of surfacing cetaceans; its Old English ro...
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