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  • Mexican Labor and World War II

    Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947

    by Kevin Leonard, Erasmo Gamboa ...
    Series series Columbia Northwest Classics
    “Although Mexican migrant workers have toiled in the fields of the Pacific Northwest since the turn of the century, and although they comprise the largest work force in the region’s agriculture today, they have been virtually invisible in the region’s written labor history. Erasmo Gamboa’s study of the bracero program during World War II is an important beginning, describing and documenting the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Bracero Railroaders

    The Forgotten World War II Story of Mexican Workers in the U.S. West

    by Erasmo Gamboa ...
    Desperate for laborers to keep the trains moving during World War II, the U.S. and Mexican governments created a now mostly forgotten bracero railroad program that sent a hundred thousand Mexican workers across the border to build and maintain railroad lines throughout the United States, particularly the West. Although both governments promised the workers adequate living arrangements and fair ... Read more

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  • My Captivity

    A Pioneer Woman's Story of Her Life Among the Sioux

    by Fanny Kelly ...
    Fanny Kelly’s memoir, first published in 1872, is an intelligent and thoughtful narrative. Kelly spent five months as a prisoner of Ogalalla Sioux in 1864 when she was nineteen years old. A woman of her time, there was no reason she should feel sympathy toward her captors, but the introduction points out examples of expressed favor toward the Sioux, however unconscious. This narrative is a ... Read more

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  • Railroad Signaling

    by Brian Solomon ...
    From the 1830s to today, the railroad industry has developed myriad complex mechanisms to help keep North America’s railroad rights-of-ways safe, efficient, and relatively accident-free. In this paperback rerelease of the successful 2003 title, the otherwise-arcane world of railroad signaling is explained in concise language and brought to life with nearly 200 fantastic photographs that depict ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Spain in the Southwest

    A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California

    by John L. Kessell ...
    John L. Kessell’s Spain in the Southwest presents a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an eye for human interest, Kessell tells the story of New Spain’s vast frontier--today’s American Southwest and Mexican North--which for two centuries served as a dynamic yet disjoined periphery of the ... Read more

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  • Eternity Street

    Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles

    by John Mack Faragher ...
    "[A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in 19th century Southern California." —Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A History of Murder in America, in the Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Scoundrels and Saloons: Whisky Wars of the Pacific Northwest 1840-1917

    Whisky Wars of the Pacific Northwest 1840-1917

    by Rich Mole ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    From the days of the fur trade, one constant thread weaves its way through the tumultuous history of frontier British Columbia, Washington and Oregon—the war over liquor. Between 1840 and 1917, the whisky wars of the west coast were fought by historical heavyweights, including Matthew Baillie Begbie (the “Hanging Judge”) and Wyatt Earp, and a contentious assortment of murderous whisky traders, ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Counterculture Kaleidoscope

    Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco

    by Nadya Zimmerman ...
    Forty years after the fact, 1960s counterculture---personified by hippies, protest, and the Summer of Love---basks in a nostalgic glow in the popular imagination as a turning point in modern American history and the end of the age of innocence. Yet, while the era has come to be synonymous with rebellion and opposition, its truth is much more complex.In a bold reconsideration of the late sixties ... Read more

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  • The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918

    Tragedy on the Indiana Lakeshore

    by Richard M Lytle ...
    What really happened on the circus train in 1918? Read the story of this tragedy for the entertainment industry of the time. In the cool, pre-dawn hours on a June night in 1918, a train engineer closed his cab window as he chugged toward Hammond, Indiana. He drifted to sleep, and his train bore down on the idle Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Train. Soon after, the sleeping engineer's locomotive plowed ... Read more

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  • The Routes Not Taken

    A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System

    by Joseph B. Raskin ...
    A fascinating journey into the past—and under the ground—that offers "an insightful look at the what-might-have-beens of urban mass transit" ( The New York Times).From the day it broke ground by City Hall in 1900, it took about four and half years to build New York's first subway line to West 145th Street in Harlem. Things rarely went that quickly ever again.The Routes Not Taken explores the often ... Read more

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  • Good Medicine For the Bow

    A History of Medicine Bow, Wyoming

    by Marvin Cronberg, B.S., A.F.T. ...
    It was not easy to establish and maintain a frontier community. Aside from the harassment from the native americans, there were the usual petty jealousies and worse, a total lack of law enforcement. Fortunately there were individuals whose leadership would overcome the desire for personal gain and supplant the community effort. These were people who wanted something more and sacrificed to make it ... Read more

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  • The Flowers

    A Novel

    by Dagoberto Gilb ...
    Dagoberto Gilb is "one of the most powerful writers in his generation, and The Flowers is perhaps his best book . . . Not to be missed" (Larry McMurtry).Sonny Bravo is a sensitive, unusually smart fifteen-year-old who lives with his vivacious mother. But when she marries an Okie building contractor, they are uprooted to a small apartment building in a city where prejudice is not just white against ... Read more

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