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  • Eagle County Characters

    Historic Tales of a Colorado Mountain Valley

    de Kathy Heicher ...
    Series series American Chronicles
    Long before the first ski runs were ever carved into the mountains of Vail and Beaver Creek, Eagle County drew adventurous settlers and pioneers who brought life to the mines and the Eagle River Valley. Allow local journalist and historian Kathy Heicher to introduce you to the Doll brothers as they establish their ranching and business legacy. Ride a stagecoach with Sarah Doherty, Cattle Queen of ... Leer más

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  • Early Eagle

    Series series Images of America
    Nestled into a scenic mountain valley at the junction of the Eagle River and Brush Creek, Eagle is a small mountain town that is often overshadowed by its famous ski resort neighbor, Vail. However, this thriving little mountain community claims a rich history of more than 100 years of spunk and fortitude. Eagle�s robust character started with the miners who came to the valley in the 1880s seeking ... Leer más

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  • Cattle Kingdom

    The Hidden History of the Cowboy West

    **"The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!" —Douglas Brinkley, The New York Times–bestselling author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for AmericaThe open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed. Cattle Kingdom ... Leer más

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  • Hoboes

    Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West

    de Mark Wyman ...
    When the railroad stretched its steel rails across the American West in the 1870s, it opened up a vast expanse of territory with very few people but enormous agricultural potential: a second Western frontier, the garden West. Agriculture quickly followed the railroads, making way for Kansas wheat and Colorado sugar beets and Washington apples. With this new agriculture came an unavoidable need for ... Leer más

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  • The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane

    Series series The Oklahoma Western Biographies
    Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life. This lively, concise, and exhaustively ... Leer más

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  • Incredible Hawaii

    The Incredible is a part of American History and tradition and our 50th State is certainly no exception. This unique little book, incredible in its own way, brings together the talents, knowledge and experience of two well-known Hawaiian residents, artist-illustrator Ray Lanterman and author-anthropologist Terence Barrow. Whatever their subject, the authors sail along with justifiable confidence, ... Leer más

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  • Tenderfoot in Colorado

    Series series Timberline Books
    Publication supported in part by the National Science Foundation. ... Leer más

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  • Black Metropolis

    A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City

    Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Few studies since have been able to match its scope and magnitude, offering one of the most comprehensive looks at black life in America. Based on research conducted by Works Progress Administration field workers, it is a sweeping historical and sociological account of the people of ... Leer más

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  • San Francisco's Market Street Railway

    Series series Images of Rail
    The Market Street Railway Company thrived in an age when rails ruled San Francisco. Spanning the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the boom times of World War II, it had a long and legendary lifetime that is deeply ingrained in the city�s early identity. Gradually, however, it became challenged by the emergence of the automobile, cheaper motor coaches, and �nickel jitneys��competing cars ... Leer más

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  • Gold Rush Towns of Nevada County

    Series series Images of America
    Nevada County is webbed with some of the richest veins of goldbearing quartz in the world. First discovered in 1849 as placer gold washed into creek beds, hydraulic miners later used massive jets of water to melt mountains and free the precious metal. Rich lodegold districts such as Grass Valley and Nevada City were the most productive in California, and innovations such as hydraulic mining began ... Leer más

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  • Oahu's Narrow-Gauge Navy Rail

    Series series Images of Rail
    US Navy rail operations on Oahu began in 1908 with construction railroads used to help build the shipyard. Expansion of Pearl Harbor to include the submarine base and the naval magazine on Kuahua Island required a permanent railroad, which was begun in 1911. This construction provided industrial employment to hundreds of local men in the existing agricultural economy, and the influx of additional ... Leer más

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  • Racial Beachhead

    Diversity and Democracy in a Military Town

    In 1917, Fort Ord was established in the tiny subdivision of Seaside, California. Over the course of the 20th century, it held great national and military importance—a major launching point for World War II operations, the first base in the military to undergo complete integration, the West Coast's most important training base for draftees in the Vietnam War, a site of important civil rights ... Leer más

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