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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

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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

    $10.99 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

    $17.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

    $20.89 USD

  • 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

    $4.99 USD

  • Hollywood Studios

    by Tommy Dangcil ...
    Series series Postcard History Series
    Just after the turn of the 20th century, the motion picture industry moved to the West Coast, and the largest land of make-believe was created in Hollywood, California. From the silent-era beginnings of primitive, open-air stages to the fabled back lots of the studios' heyday, Hollywood Studios presents a bygone era of magical moviemaking in rare postcards. Assembled from the author's private ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dance with the Bear

    The Joe Rosenblatt Story

    by Norman Rosenblatt ...
    This carefully researched and illuminating biography recounts a pivotal period in Utah’s history as revealed by the life of businessman, community activist, and statesman Joe Rosenblatt. After successfully building Eimco Corporation, his manufacturing and construction business, into an industry leader—and, by the 1950s, Utah’s largest privately owned company—Rosenblatt spent the better part of his ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West

    by Diana L. Ahmad ...
    America’s current "war on drugs" is not the nation’s first. In the mid-nineteenth century, opium-smoking was decried as a major social and public health problem, especially in the West. Although China faced its own epidemic of opium addiction, only a very small minority of Chinese immigrants in America were actually involved in the opium business. It was in Anglo communities that the use of opium ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Hollywood 1940-2008

    by Marc Wanamaker ...
    Series series Images of America
    Since World War II, Hollywood has fought and won that same war many times, won the West even more often�plus got the girl�and laughed like crazy, too. The postwar era in the dream factory was a prosperous time of expansion and wealth through the 1970s, decline in the 1980s, and rebirth in the new century. Vintage photographs from the rare collections of Hollywood Heritage and Bison Archives depict ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imagined Frontiers

    Contemporary America and Beyond

    by Carl Abbott ...
    We live near the edge—whether in a settlement at the core of the Rockies, a gated community tucked into the wilds of the Santa Monica Mountains, a silicon culture emerging in the suburbs, or, in the future, homesteading on a terraformed Mars. In Imagined Frontiers, urban historian and popular culture scholar Carl Abbott looks at the work of American artists who have used novels, film, television, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Hustlers and Homesteaders: A History of Montana, Volume IV

    Montana History Series, #4

    by Greg Strandberg ...
    Series Book 4 - Montana History Series
    Begin the journey to discover how Montana came to be the great state that it is today!By 1900 Montana was home to 243,329 people. The state had produced 61% of the country's copper just the year before, which amounted to 23% of the world's supply.By 1930 there were 537,606 people in the state. The nation was just beginning to get a taste of the banking crashes and economic depression that ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus