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  • Crosses of Iron

    The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters

    de Nick Pappas ...
    Winner of the Historical Society of New Mexico Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award—for outstanding publication in New Mexico or Southwest borderlands historyIn October 1913, 261 miners and two rescuers died when a massive explosion ripped through a mine operated by Phelps, Dodge & Company in Dawson, New Mexico. Ten years later, a second blast claimed the lives of another 120 miners. Today, Dawson is a ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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    Crosses of Iron

    The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters

    de Nick Pappas ...
    Narrado por Paul Brion ...

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    7 hora 26 minutos

    In October 1913, 261 miners and two rescuers died when a massive explosion ripped through a mine operated by Phelps, Dodge & Company in Dawson, New Mexico. Ten years later, a second blast claimed the lives of another 120 miners. Today, Dawson is a deserted ghost town. All that remains is a sea of white iron crosses memorializing the nearly four hundred miners killed in the two explosions—a death ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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  • Ghost Towns of the Southwest

    Your Guide to the Historic Mining Camps & Ghost Towns of Arizona and New Mexico

    de Jim Hinckley, Kerrick James ...
    A traveler's guide to ghost towns and historic villages of Arizona and New Mexico, featuring maps, historical background, and color photos.The Southwest is home to an enticing array of ghost towns and historic villages. Once-bustling mining camps, frontier towns, and railroad towns stand today as reminders of the glory days of mining and the Wild West. Historic buildings, abandoned schoolhouses, ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Big Wonderful Thing

    A History of Texas

    de Stephen Harrigan ...
    Series series The Texas Bookshelf
    2020 Philosophical Society of Texas Nonfiction Book Prize2019 Nonfiction Book Award Finalist, Writers’ League of Texas2021 Citation from the San Antonio Conservation Society"Harrigan, surveying thousands of years of history that lead to the banh mi restaurants of Houston and the juke joints of Austin, remembering the forgotten as well as the famous, delivers an exhilarating blend of the base and ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Floodpath

    The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles

    de Jon Wilkman ...
    Amazon Book of the Year"Floodpath attempts to rescue the disaster from obscurity . . . The author captures many heartbreaking stories of survivors . . . The effect is powerful." --The Wall Street JournalA visionary and controversial search for water made Los Angeles possible. But the failure of the St. Francis Dam remains an urgent lesson about our human limits, all but forgotten today.Just before ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Colorado

    A History of the Centennial State, Fifth Edition

    de Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, Thomas J. Noel ...
    Since 1976, newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In the fifth edition, coauthors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate recent events, scholarship, and insights about the state in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy.The fifth ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Colorado

    A History

    de Marshall Sprague ...
    Those who travel to look at Colorado will find as much meaning in Marshall Sprague’s well-told story of its historical conflict as will those who live with the beauty—and the challenge.Mountains—so beautiful, the land dominated by the Colorado Rockies, that miners who “thought of returning to the comfort and dull security of their homes back east,” in Marshall Sprague’s words, “found themselves ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Rush to the Rockies! The 1859 Pikes Peak or Bust Gold Rush

    Regional History Series, #5

    de ​Pikes Peak Library District ...
    The 1859 "gold fever" emboldened many adventurous souls to head west to the mineral-rich regions of the Kansas and Nebraska territories. Their destination, commonly called "Pike's Peak," was the area known today as Colorado's Front Range. The prospector's dream was of an easy life of wealth and the never-ending happiness that gold could buy. As you read the chapters in Rush to the Rockies!, ... Leer más

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  • Kansas Oddities

    de Roger L. Ringer ...
    Touch down at Dead Cow International Airport and sample the state's bumper crop of bizarre history. The most commonplace sights contain unlikely stories, from the bulldozer's Morrowsville origins to the sunflower's journey from outlawed weed to state symbol. Some of this heritage lies submerged or buried, like the world's only saltwater spring, which now sits at the bottom of a man-made lake. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Lemon Grove

    de Helen M. Ofield, Pete Smith, Lemon Grove Historical Society ...
    Series series Images of America
    Lemon Grove dates to 1892 when it first appeared in the San Diego County records as 'Lemon Grove.' The tiny, whistle-stop town emerged during the 'second gold rush,' the rise of California's citrus industry, which was facilitated by the 1849 Gold Rush, the break up of the Mexican ranchos in Alta California, and the advent of statehood for California in 1850. Land speculators poured into California ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles

    de Catherine Mulholland ...
    William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a self-taught engineer, was the chief architect of the Owens Valley Aqueduct—a project ranking in magnitude and daring with the Panama Canal—that brought water to semi-arid Los Angeles from the lush Owens Valley. The story of Los Angeles's quest for water is ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Mariposa County

    de Leroy Radanovich ...
    Series series Images of America
    One of the original 27 counties of California, Mariposa County, located on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada and containing more than 900,000 acres, once covered one-fifth of the state and was considered the �Mother of California Counties.� First inhabited by several Native American tribes, the land that became Mariposa County saw a flood of miners and other white settlers to the area with ... Leer más

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