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  • The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast

    The southeastern United States has one of the richest records of early human settlement of any area of North America. This book provides the first state-by-state summary of Paleoindian and Early Archaic research from the region, together with an appraisal of models developed to interpret the data. It summarizes what we know of the peoples who lived in the Southeast more than 8,000 years ago—when ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • From the Pleistocene to the Holocene

    Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America

    Series Book 17 - Texas A&M University Anthropology Series
    The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies represents the first major cultural shift that took place solely in the Americas. This event ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Burnt-Out Fires

    California’s Modoc Indian War

    Burnt-Out Fires deals with a very dark period of American history, a period that, until recently, had been purposefully forgotten ... a period that hopefully will cause a re-evaluation of the American ideals and dreams.Everyone pointed to the Modocs as “model Indians.” Living on the Oregon-California border, they had assimilated the American culture more than any other Indian tribe. They had ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Billy Durant

    Creator of General Motors

    Praise for the first edition:"A fascinating book [and] a sympathetic look at the man who glued General Motors together and in the process made Flint one of the great industrial centers of America."---Detroit Free Press"It is refreshing to report that Billy Durant is one of the best researched books dealing with an automotive giant."---Antique Automobile"Billy Durant fills in a masterly way the ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • History of the Donner Party

    Enriched edition. A Tragedy of the Sierra

    C. F. McGlashan's "History of the Donner Party" presents a meticulous and poignant chronicle of one of America's most harrowing historical episodes. Written in a detailed narrative style that combines elements of both historical documentation and dramatic storytelling, McGlashan explores the fateful journey of the Donner Party, a group of American pioneers who became trapped by snow in the Sierra ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Historic San Francisco

    A Concise History and Guide

    by Rand Richards ...
    No American city has a more colorful history than San Francisco, In this unique book, author Rand Richards not only provides a vivid narrative of this special city from its very beginnings all the way through to the modern era, but also tells where to find the historic buildings, sites, museums, and artifacts that make that history come alive. Illustrated with more than 70 photographs, maps, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Red Corner

    The Rise and Fall of Communism in Northeastern Montana

    The Red Corner chronicles the meteoric rise and decline of Communism on the prairies of northeastern Montana. During the 1920s and early 1930s, Sheridan County boasted a government largely run by Communists, a Communist camp for local youth, and an official newspaper of the Communist Party USA—the Producers News. By the mid-1930s, however, Communist influence in the region had waned, and area ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Summer in New England 1860, Illustrated

    "How would you like to ship with me?"Dick regarded me with a look of mingled surpise and inquiry."To be explicit: I have been thinking of making the tour of New England in search of sport and adventures. I want a companion. How would you like to ship for the voyage as first mate, with half the fish and half the trouble for your wages?"My kinsman's quench countenance blazed with renewed light: ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Pirates, Ghosts, and Coastal Lore

    In 1963, Judge Charles Whedbee was asked to substitute on a Greenville, NC, morning show called Carolina Today while one of the program's regulars was in the hospital. Whedbee took the opportunity to tell some of the Outer Banks stories he'd heard during his many summers at Nags Head. The station received such a volume of mail in praise of his tale-telling that he was invited to remain even after ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pioneer Family

    Life on Florida's Twentieth-Century Frontier

    Tracing the roots of resilience on the American frontier.Pioneer Family is based on the recollections of Hugie and Oleta Oesterreicher, who lived in rural northeast Florida in the early decades of the twentieth century. Northeast Florida was still frontier country then, and Hugie and Oleta were pioneers. Although the time and setting of their story are particular, the theme of survival during hard ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Norman's New Orleans and Environs

    Enriched edition. Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

    In "Norman's New Orleans and Environs," Benjamin Moore Norman provides an intricate portrait of one of America's most culturally rich cities. This work is both a vivid travelogue and a historical narrative, blending detailed descriptions of the city's sights, sounds, and tastes with a careful examination of its multi-layered past. Norman's eloquent prose captures the vibrant atmosphere of New ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great San Francisco Trivia & Fact Book

    by Janet Bailey ...
    The Great San Francisco Trivia and Fact Book"", by Janet Bailey, is a celebration of the City by the Bay. Although relatively young as compared to the world's great cities, it has had a greater influence than many older, larger cities."" ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus