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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
HMC340
$17.99  
Paperback, Timothy Egan, 352 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780547394602
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...
Portland's Maritime History
Portland's Maritime History
ARC093
$15.50  
Paperback, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9781467130844
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
HMC342
$24.99  
Paperback, Andrés Reséndez, 448 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, Andrés Reséndez
“Long-awaited and important . . . No other book before has so thoroughly related the broad history of Indian slavery in the Americas.”— San Francisco Chronicle “A necessary work . . . [Reséndez’s] reportage will likely surprise you.”—NPR “One of the most profound contributions to North...
California Gold Rush!
California Gold Rush!
CBP016
$9.95  
Paperback, Robin Johnson, 48 pages, 7 x 10, 50
Discusses the California Gold Rush in American history, describing the first discovery of gold, prospectors, boomtowns, and how the gold rush changed the landscape of America.
Daily Life in a Covered Wagon
Daily Life in a Covered Wagon
PGN206
$9.99  
Paperback, Paul Erickson, 48 pages, 8.2 x 0.2 x 11, 9780140562125
Great for classroom lessons on the Oregon Trail and Westward Expansion! In 1853, the Larkin family loaded up their wagons and headed west in search of a new life. But how did they do it? What did they eat? How did they survive sickness, and attacks from cattle thieves? Drawing on diaries and...
Wildheart: The Daring Adventures of John Muir
Wildheart: The Daring Adventures of John Muir
PGW275
$18.99  
hardcover, Julie Bertagna, 128 pages, 7 x 10, 9781930238947
Told for the first time in a graphic novel, this is the exciting life story of John Muir—who sailed to America as a boy and ended up changing the world. John Muir led an adventurous life, starting with his wild and playful boyhood in Scotland and culminating in his legendary exploits in...
Outlaws and Lawmen of the West Vol 1
Outlaws and Lawmen of the West Vol 1
LPP024
$12.95  
Paperback, M. A. Macpherson, 240 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781551051642
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...
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy
HRW152
$17.99  
Paperback, Kent Nerburn, 448 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780061136085
Hidden in the shadow cast by the great western expeditions of Lewis and Clark lies another journey every bit as poignant, every bit as dramatic, and every bit as essential to an understanding of who we are as a nation - the 1,800-mile journey made by Chief Joseph and eight hundred Nez Perce men,...
Who Was Amelia Earhart?
Who Was Amelia Earhart?
PGN192
$5.99  
Paperback, Kate Boehm Jerome, 106 pages, 5.4 x 0.3 x 7.7, 9780448428567
Amelia Earhart was a woman of many "firsts." In 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1935, she also became the first woman to fly across the Pacific. From her early years to her mysterious 1937 disappearance while attempting a flight around the world,...
What Was Pearl Harbor?
What Was Pearl Harbor?
PGN193
$7.99  
Paperback, Patricia Brennan Demuth, 112 pages, 5.3 x 0.3 x 7.6, 9780448464626
A terrifying attack!  On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes appeared out of nowhere to bomb the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It was a highly secretive and devastating attack: four battleships sunk, more than two thousand servicemen died, and the United States was propelled into...
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
PGN284
$19.00  
Paperback, Charles C. Mann, 541 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781400032051
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...
Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000, Revised Edition
Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000, Revised Edition
PGN282
$21.00  
Paperback, Peter Nabokov, 528 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780140281590
From the author of  How the World Moves --the classic collection of more than 500 years of Native American History In a series of powerful and moving documents, anthropologist  Peter Nabokov  presents a history of Native American and white relations as seen though Indian eyes and told through...
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation
PGN239
$18.95  
Paperback, Andrea Wulf, 368 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780307390684
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...
Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine
Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine
PGN222
$18.00  
Paperback, Brian Hicks & Schuyler Kropf, 330 pages, 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.2, 9780345447722
The history of the Confederate submarine  H. L. Hunley  is as astonishing as its disappearance. On February 17, 1864, after a legendary encounter with a Union battleship, the iron “fish boat” vanished without a trace somewhere off the coast of South Carolina. For more than a century the fate of...
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
HMC346
$17.99  
Paperback, 576 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780395859964
The Journals of Lewis and Clark are "the first report on the West, on the United States over the hill and beyond the sunset, on the province of the American future” (Bernard DeVoto).   In 1803, the great expanse of the Louisiana Purchase was an empty canvas. Keenly aware that the course...
Chainsaws: A History
Chainsaws: A History
HPC162
$34.95  
paperback, David Lee, 216 pages, 11x10, 9781550179118
With hundreds of full-colour photographs and fascinating ephemera, combined with an authoritative text listing hundreds of chainsaw models from the 1800s to the present,   Chainsaws   carefully traces the evolutionary threads of countless pioneer devices―from six-hundred-pound steam-powered...
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