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  • Grizzly West

    A Failed Attempt to Reintroduce Grizzly Bears in the Mountain West

    de Michael J. Dax ...
    Environmentalists and the timber industry do not often collaborate, but in the years immediately following gray wolf reintroduction in the interior American West, a plan to reintroduce grizzly bears to the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness of Idaho and Montana brought these odd bedfellows together. The partnership won praise from diverse interests across the country and in 2000 the U.S. Fish and ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

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  • The Bohemians

    Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature

    de Ben Tarnoff ...
    An extraordinary portrait of a fast-changing America—and the Western writers who gave voice to its emerging identityAt once an intimate portrait of an unforgettable group of writers and a history of a cultural revolution in America, The Bohemians reveals how a brief moment on the far western frontier changed our culture forever. Beginning with Mark Twain’s arrival in San Francisco in 1863, this ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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  • Dominion of Bears

    Living with Wildlife in Alaska

    de Sherry Simpson ...
    Winner: John Burroughs MedalLong ago we invited bears into our stories, our dreams, our nightmares, our lives. We have always sought them out where they live, for their hides, their meat, their beauty, their knowingness. Human country and bear country exist side by side.As Sherry Simpson suggests, the relationship between bears and humans is ancient and ongoing and, in Alaska, profoundly and often ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Hercules

    de Jennifer Posedel, Stephen Lawton, Hercules Historical Society ...
    Series series Images of America
    The history of explosives manufacturing in Hercules began in 1879, when the California Powder Works acquired a site on San Pablo Bay, 20 miles northeast of San Francisco. The powder works, subsequently owned by Dupont and the Hercules Powder Company, produced one of the first internationally branded products: Hercules dynamite. It became the world�s leading producer of TNT during World War I. The ... Leer más

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  • Around the World with a King

    de William N. Armstrong ...
    Around the World with a King, is an eyewitness account of Hawaiian King Kalakaua's journey around the world in 1881.William Armstrong accompanied the King as a member of His Majesty's Government and Royal Commissioner for Immigration. His account of this remarkable circumnavigation, the first ever for a monarch, is told with humor and insight, although not always with sympathy for the King's ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Kauai

    de Stormy Cozad ...
    Series series Images of America
    Explore the beautiful island of Kauai through this magnificent collection of photographs. Capt. James Cook stood on his ship gazing at the coastline of Kauai and the Hawaiian village of Waimea in 1778. Kauai was its own kingdom then, and King Kaumualii - the king of Kauai who challenged Kamehameha and managed to keep Kauai from being conquered by him - would not be born for two more years. The ... Leer más

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  • The Spaces Between: Stories from the Kenai Mountains to the Kenai Fjords

    de Doug Capra ...
    A captivating collection of stories about the pioneers that populated Alaska's eastern Kenai Peninsula during its territorial days. Each chapter features the profile of a notable character, some well-known and others who lived quiet yet extraordinary lives in and around the Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Through the Golden Gate - San Francisco 1769 - 1937

    de Catherine Coffin Phillips ...
    California's name was associated with stories of romance and adventure as far back in history as the year 1510. Among those who heard and half believed the romantic tale was Hernando Cortes. By the year 1521 he had conquered the Aztecs of Mexico and forced them to become the subjects of Spain. He was now looking over the western seas for new worlds to conquer. He firmly believed that somewhere in ... Leer más

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  • Paradise

    de Robert Colby ...
    Series series Images of America
    It was more than 150 years ago that Uncle Billy" Leonard took refuge from the hellish heat in the shade beneath a Ponderosa pine, breathing in relief to his companions: "Boys, this has got to be Paradise!" Or so the story goes. Yet it is no fiction that the settlement grew to be more than just a stop on the way from Oroville or Chico to the gold country. Although Paradise was surrounded by mines, ... Leer más

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  • Emporium Department Store

    de Anne Evers ...
    Series series Images of America
    The Emporium��California�s Largest, America�s Grandest Store��was a major shopping destination on San Francisco�s Market Street for a century, from 1896 to 1996. Shoppers flocked to the mid-price store with its beautiful dome and bandstand. Patrons could find anything at the Emporium, from jewelry to stoves, and it was a meeting place for friends to enjoy tea while listening to the Emporium ... Leer más

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  • Torrance Airport

    de Charles Lobb ...
    Series series Images of Aviation
    Californians were panicked by the Pearl Harbor attack of December 7, 1941, and civilian flights within 200 miles of the coast were immediately terminated. Airfields were commandeered and new ones hastily built. One of these was the Lomita Flight Strip, known today as Zamperini Field, the Torrance Municipal Airport, or TOA. This 490-acre parcel sent four squadrons of P-38 fighter pilots off to war ... Leer más

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  • Custer and the Sioux, Durnford and the Zulus

    Parallels in the American and British Defeats at the Little Bighorn (1876) and Isandlwana (1879)

    de Paul Williams ...
    In June 1876 the 7th U.S. Cavalry was savagely defeated at the Little Bighorn in the Montana wilderness during an attempt to seize Sioux and Cheyenne hunting grounds. Three years later redcoats mirrored this utter disaster with an equally high-handed grab for Zulu lands in South Africa.Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and Lieutenant Colonel Anthony W. Durnford had much in common, from modes of ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD