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California Disasters: True Stories of Golden State Tragedies and Triumphs - Book
FAR030
CALIFORNIA DISASTERS highlights some of the major catastrophic events from pre-statehood to the 21st Century. It is said that California has four seasons: drought, flood, fire, and earthquakes. California Disasters covers all these categories and many more. Readers will discover the stories behind some of the most dramatic disasters in the state's history, along with a "near miss.<P>Phyllis Perry's book will captivate fans of disaster literature as they read of the well-known (the Donner Party fiasco of 1846 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire) and the obscure (the wreck of the paddle ship Brother Jonathan in 1865 and the...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Phyllis Perry
ISBN: 9781560377757
$1895
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race - Book
HRW169
The #1 New York Times bestsellerThe phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space-a powerful, revelatory history essential to our understanding of race, discrimination, and achievement in modern America. The basis for the smash Academy Award-nominated film starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8 x 5.31
Author: Margot Lee, Shetterly
ISBN: 9780062363602
$1799
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Along the Trail with Lewis and Clark (Third Edition): A Guide to the Trail Today - Book
FAR031
Take Your Own Journey through History on the Lewis & Clark Trail! Follow the journey of the Corps of Discovery from Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello through the Midwest and the Rockies, to the Pacific Ocean and back with this detailed chronicle of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. This third edition of the classic guidebook features accessible text that combines the historical sites and color maps that merge the past and present in a user-friendly and entertaining way.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
Author: Barbara Fifer
ISBN: 9781560378037
$1895
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Fortune's A River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America - Book
HPC171
Winner of the John Lyman Book Award for best Canadian naval and maritime history Finalist for the Nereus Writers' Trust Non-fiction Award Finalist for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, BC Book Prize Longlisted for the 2007 Victoria Butler Book Prize Honourable Mention for the Canadian Nautical Research Society's Keith Matthews Award Fortune's a River  is the most authoritative and readable account to date of just how British Columbia became British and how Oregon, Washington and Alaska became American. By the closing years of the 18th century, the stage was set for a major international confrontation over the Northwest...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Barry Gough
ISBN: 9781550174595
$2895
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Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway - Book
HRW159
Hailed as "t he single most effective pilot at Midway" ( World War II   magazine),   Dusty Kleiss struck and sank three Japanese warships at the Battle of Midway, including two aircraft carriers, helping turn the tide of the Second World War. This is his extraordinary memoir.  NATIONAL BESTSELLER •   "AN INSTANT CLASSIC" — Dallas Morning News On the morning of June 4, 1942, high above the tiny Pacific atoll of Midway, Lt. (j.g.) "Dusty" Kleiss burst out of the clouds and piloted his SBD Dauntless into a near-vertical dive aimed at the heart of Japan’s Imperial Navy, which six months earlier had ruthlessly struck...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss, Timothy Orr, Laura Orr
ISBN: 9780062692351
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Heaven On The Half Shell: The Story Of The Oyster In The Pacific Northwest - Book
UWP014
Heaven on the Half Shell offers a thoroughly researched and richly illustrated history of the Pacific Northwest's beloved bivalve, the oyster. Starting with the earliest evidence of sea gardens and clam beds from 11,500 years ago, this book covers the history of oyster cultivation through contemporary aquaculture in coastal Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, northern California, and southeastern Alaska. Generations of oyster farmers, Native and non-Native, have weathered many challenges to continue the harvest. Their vivid individual accounts are braided together with significant history, such as the major contributions of Japanese...
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Dimensions (IN): 7.27 x 0.57 x 9.02"
Author: David George Gordon
ISBN: 9780295750781
$2995
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Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation - Book
PGN239
From the bestselling author of  The Invention of Nature , a fascinating look at the Founding Fathers like none you've seen before. For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply ingrained in their characters as the battle for liberty and a belief in the greatness of their new nation.    Founding Gardeners  is an exploration of that obsession, telling the story of the revolutionary generation from the unique perspective of their lives as gardeners, plant hobbyists, and farmers. Acclaimed historian Andrea Wulf describes how George Washington wrote letters to his...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Andrea Wulf
ISBN: 9780307390684
$2000
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Bainbridge Island - Images of America - Book - Paracay
Bainbridge Island - Images of America - Book
ARC185
Bainbridge Island sits in the middle of Puget Sound in Washington State. Its unique history starts with the Native Americans and includes logging, farming, fishing, and shipbuilding from the late 1800s through the present. Early explorers included George Vancouver in 1792 and the Wilkes expedition of 1841. Ferry service and other means of water transport were the only ways onto the island until 1950, when a bridge was completed. Bainbridge Island is only a 30-minute ferry ride from Seattle, and its only bridge approaches the island from the west. The City of Bainbridge Island, which includes the entire 65-square-mile island, incorporated...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 9.3 x 0.3"
Author: Donald R. Tjossem
ISBN: 9780738599922
$2499
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus - Book
PGN284
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.   Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. Mexican cultures created corn in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Charles C. Mann
ISBN: 9781400032051
$1900
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The Lost Journals of Sacajewea - Book - Paracay
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea - Book
IPS330
Winner of the Montana Book Award From the award-winning author of   Perma Red   comes a devastatingly beautiful novel that challenges prevailing historical narratives of Sacajewea. “In my seventh winter, when my head only reached my Appe’s rib, a White Man came into camp. Bare trees scratched sky. Cold was endless. He moved through trees like strikes of sunlight. My Bia said he came with bad intentions, like a Water Baby’s cry.” Among the most memorialized women in American history, Sacajewea served as interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery. In this visionary novel, acclaimed Indigenous...
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Dimensions (IN): 5.75 x 8.5
Author: Debra Magpie Earling
ISBN: 9781571311450
$2600
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Of All Tribes: American Indians and Alcatraz - Book - Paracay
Of All Tribes: American Indians and Alcatraz - Book
HCT061
In Of All Tribes, Abenaki children's book icon Joseph Bruchac tells the stirring history of the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz by Native Americans, which established a precedent for Indian activism. Alcatraz is not an island. It's an idea. - activist Richard Oakes (Akwesasne Mohawk) On the night of November 20, 1969 - the end of one of the most tumultuous decades in American history - eighty-nine young Native American activists crossed the San Francisco Bay under cover of darkness, calling themselves the Indians of All Tribes. Their objective? To claim the former prison island of Alcatraz, basing their actions on an 1868 treaty that said...
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Dimensions (IN): 5.9 x 1.0 x 8.3"
Author: Joseph Bruchac
ISBN: 9781419757198
$1999
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Native American Wisdom - Book - Paracay
Native American Wisdom - Book
IPS261
We recognize the philosophy of the original Americans as coming from the earth we walk on, from those who preceded us. As we read the wisdom of these peoples, it is possible to feel a reconnection with our land and ourselves. This beautiful collection of the best of Native American wisdom features the thoughts of Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Black Elk, Ohiyesa, and many others on Native American ways of living, learning, and dying. Taken from orations, recorded observations of life and social affairs, and other first-person testimonies, this book selects a wide range of Native American wisdom and distills it to its essence in...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 7.3 x 0.6"
Author: Louise Mengelkoch (editor), Kent Nerburn (editor)
ISBN: 9780931432781
$1600
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Mine to Mill: History of the Great Lakes Iron Trade: From the Iron Ranges to Sault Ste. Marie
Mine to Mill: History of the Great Lakes Iron Trade: From the Iron Ranges to Sault Ste. Marie - Book
SPC070
The history of the iron ore trade on the Great Lakes, from 1900 to 1980, is perhaps best related in visual form. Historians and enthusiasts alike can now learn about this important part of our country’s industrial heritage in nearly 300 views of the mines, railroads, loading docks, and ships of the Great Lakes. Through the medium of the picture postcard, discover the underground and huge open-pit mines on the iron ranges in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota, and ride the rails as the iron is moved from the mines to the giant loading docks at the Upper Lake ports. In calm seas and stormy weather, travel from these ports to the...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
Author: Phillip J. Stager
ISBN: 9780764347672
$2999
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America - Book
HMC340
In THE WORST HARD TIME, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history, told through characters he brought to indelible life. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America and the tragedy that cemented Teddy Roosevelt's legacy in the land. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Timothy Egan
ISBN: 9780547394602
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Jesintel: Living Wisdom From Coast Salish Elders - Book
UCP001
Dynamic and diverse, Coast Salish culture is bound together by shared values and relations that generate a resilient worldview. Jesintel―"to learn and grow together"―characterizes the spirit of this book, which brings the cultural teachings of nineteen elders to new generations. Featuring interviews that share powerful experiences and stories, Jesintel illuminates the importance of ethical reciprocal relationships and the interconnectedness of places, land, water, and the spirit within all things. Elders offer their perspectives on language revitalization, Coast Salish family values and naming practices, salmon, sovereignty, canoe...
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Dimensions (IN): 9.1 x 0.6 x 10.2"
Author: Children Of The Setting Sun Productions
ISBN: 9780295748641
$3495
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Outlaws and Lawmen of the West Vol 1 - Book
LPP024
The American frontier in its early days was a rough place where only the tough survived. Gold and cattle were king, and many took up stealing the former and rustling the latter. Stage coaches and trains presented themselves for the taking. Billy the Kid, the Daltons, Jesse James, the Reno Brothers and many more all made their names in bandit lore, ending their days at the noose end of a rope or the wrong end of a lawman's bullet. With 16 b/w photographs, 5 maps.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: M. A. Macpherson
ISBN: 9781551051642
$1295
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