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  • Past and Present of Alameda County

    by Joseph Eugene Baker ...
    The county was formed on March 25, 1853, from a large portion of Contra Costa County and a smaller portion of Santa Clara County. Much of what is now considered an intensively urban region, with major cities, was developed as a trolley car suburb of San Francisco in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The historical progression from Native American tribal lands to Spanish, then Mexican ranches ... Read more

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  • The American West

    by Dee Brown ...
    Renowned storyteller Dee Brown, author of the bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, recreates the struggles of Native Americans, settlers, and ranchers in this stunning volume that illuminates the history of the old West that’s filled with maps and vintage photographs.Beginning with the demise of the Native Americans of the Plains, Brown depicts the onrush of the burgeoning cattle trade and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Legends and Lies

    Great Mysteries of the American West

    by Dale L. Walker, John Jakes ...
    "A colorful, accurate, fast romp through some of the remaining mysteries of what was once the American Frontier." — The Salem Statesman JournalForeword by New York Times –bestselling author John Jakes"All of history is mystery," Dale L. Walker says, and he proves his point in this lively, humorous—and rational—approach to the West's greatest puzzles. Did Davy Crockett, fo... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Streets Are Blue

    True Tales of Service from the Front Lines of the Los Angeles Police Department

    by Gary Farmer ...
    In 1869, the police force in Los Angeles went from a voluntary to a paid city police force. Since then, thousands upon thousands of men and women have served on the Los Angeles Police Department. In this book, thirty-four former officers share stories of their experiences in police work in their own words. Of the thirty-four, the first officer came on in 1941 and the last officer retired in 2009, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Killing for Coal

    America’s Deadliest Labor War

    by Thomas G. Andrews ...
    On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado’s industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children among the miners’ families lay dead. The strikers had killed at least thirty men, destroyed six mines, ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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  • Building Hoover Dam

    An Oral History Of The Great Depression

    by Andrew J. Dunar, Dennis Mcbride ...
    Andrew J. Dunar and Dennis McBride skillfully interweave eyewitness accounts of the building of Hoover Dam. These stories create the richest existing portrait of the building of Hoover Dam and its tremendous effect on the lives of those involved in its creation: the gritty, sometimes grisly realities of living in cardboard boxes and tents during several of the hottest Southern Nevada summers on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Engineering Nature

    Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise

    by Jessica B. Teisch ...
    Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and after the California Gold Rush of 1849 exported the United States' growing technical and environmental knowledge and associated social and political institutions. In the frontiers of Australia, South ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • San Francisco, California

    by Patricia Kennedy ...
    Series series Images of America
    On January 30, 1847, the small harbor village of Yerba Buena was rechristened "San Francisco." As the Gold Rush quickly propelled the population to over 50,000, fortunes made in the silver Comstock lode and the railroad transformed the area into the financial and cultural center of the West. Captured here in over 200 vintage images are the life and times of the city's earliest residents and their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sunnyvale

    The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family

    by Jeff Goodell ...
    In Sunnyvale, California, in 1979, Jeff Goodell's family lived quietly on Meadowlark Lane, unaware that their town was soon to become ground zero in the digital revolution. Over the course of the next decade, as Silicon Valley boomed, the Goodell family unraveled.Splintered by their parent's divorce, Jeff and his siblings careen toward self-destruction, while their parents end up on opposite sides ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • More Cute Stories Vol. 2: Animators and Imagineers

    by Rolly Crump ...
    THIS IS A TRANSCRIPTION OF THE AUDIOBOOK "MORE CUTE STORIES, VOL.2: ANIMATORS AND IMAGINEERS".Rolly Crump is back, and this time he spills the beans on his fellow co-workers in Disney Animation and WED! Bawdy jokes, off-color pranks, and trippy tales of "smoking" fill this hilarious collection of stories about what it was really like to work with the people who made the Magic.... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Catalina Island

    by Pedersen, Jeannine L., Catalina Island Museum ...
    Series series Images of America
    Throughout its history, the 76-square-mile island of Catalina has played host to Native Americans, smugglers, otter hunters, ranchers, miners, entrepreneurs, vacationers, movie stars, and nature enthusiasts. William Wrigley Jr. (of chewing-gum fame) bought the island in 1919 and later constructed the recognizable casino building, which was never used for gambling but did become one of the best ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The WPA Guide to Nevada

    The Silver State

    by Federal Writers' Project ...
    During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors-many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures-were ... Read more

    $7.19 USD