Local and family history, nostalgia

Boxing was popular in the American West long before Las Vegas became its epicenter.

On July 23, 1967, the eyes of the world fixed on Detroit, as thousands took to the streets to vent their frustrations with white racism, police brutality, and vanishing job prospects in the place that gave rise to the American Dream.

The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nchinchimam is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture.

Historian Carlos A.

No American state is more antistatist than Alaska.

The Life of Paper offers a wholly original and inspiring analysis of how people facing systematic social dismantling have engaged letter correspondence to remake themselvesfrom bodily integrity to subjectivity and collective and spiritual being.

When prospector Ed Schieffelin set out from Fort Huachuca in 1877 in search of silver, skeptics told him all hed find would be his own tombstone.

From the landing of Federal troops at the Tennessee-Ohio confluence to the new river of the TVA, whose dams "e;stand athwart the valley in Egyptian impassivity,"e; this volume completes the story of the transformation of a river and of the culture it nourished.

An ambitious history of a California city that epitomizes the history of race relations in modern America.

Salvage of a sunken slave ship, devastating hurricanes and the odd doingsof locals such as Jimmy Buffett and Hemingway's cats.

This is the new story of the Old West, told by ten historians who dare to reenvision the American West and knock the field of Western history on its ear.

Now with a new design and updated content, including three brand-new chapters plus a new preface and a postscript from the author.

In this lively history and celebration of the Pacific razor clam, David Berger shares with us his love affair with the glossy, gold-colored Siliqua patula and gets into the nitty-gritty of how to dig, clean, and cook them using his favorite recipes.

Hiking Washingtons History reveals the stories embedded in Washingtons landscape.

For decades, civil rights activists fought against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-making.

Bill Roberts is an 82-year-old cowboy from Florida.

By considering the folklore of Cornwall in a Northern European context, this book casts light on a treasury of often-ignored traditions.

Here is an entertaining collection of John Muirs most exciting adventures, representing some of his finest writing.

Depictions of the American west in literature, art and film perpetuate romantic stereotypes of the pioneers--the gold-crazed '49er, the intrepid sodbuster.

In June 1876 the 7th U.

Father James R.

Raised on Gunsmoke, Bat Masterson, and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, we know what it means to get outta Dodgeto make a hasty escape from a dangerous place, like the Dodge City of Wild West lore.

In May 1891, Joe Quigley embarked on a journey north to try his luck prospecting for gold in Alaska.

In the late 19th century Ohio was reeling from a wave of lynchings and other acts of racially motivated mob violence.

The graveyards of old New England hold an incredible range of poetic messages in the epitaphs etched into the gravestones, each a profound expression of emotion, culture, religion, and literature.

This book relates the stories and describes the memorials of the people buried in Shelby, North Carolina's historic Sunset Cemetery, a microcosm of the Southeastern United States.

Maine's premier tourist destination, Bar Harbor has many historic buildings.

In the first decades of the 1800s, white Americans entered the rugged lands of Arkansas, which they had little explored before.

The path of Grand Prix racing in America wound through raceways at Sebring, Riverside, Watkins Glen, Long Beach, and finally Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Raised in poverty on an Iowa farm, the Cherry Sisters had little education and no training.

The book provides a comprehensive history of the third-largest Jewish community in Britain and fills an acknowledged gap in both Jewish and urban historiography.

After the Civil War, the New York City's East River was a massive unsolved and dangerous navigation problem.

In the years before World War I, Montana cowboy Fred Barton was employed by Czar Nicholas II to help establish a horse ranch--the largest in the world--in Siberia to supply the Russian military.

Drawing on a rare family archive and archival material from the Osage Nation, this book documents a unique relationship among white settlers, the Osage and African Americans in Oklahoma.

In the 1800s, New Orleans' local economy evolved from rural-agrarian into urban-industrial.

In the mid-17th century, the Iroquois Confederacy launched a war for control of the burgeoning fur trade industry.

This book tells the story of the town (later city) and port of Liverpool.

From its occupation by the Romans, through its development as an internationally renowned centre of learning, to its current status as one of the world's leading technology hubs, Cambridge has a proud and distinctive identity.

The book provides a comprehensive history of the third-largest Jewish community in Britain and fills an acknowledged gap in both Jewish and urban historiography.

Native Americans have occupied the mountains of northwestern North Carolina for around 14,000 years.

This book explores the role and influence of drink and drugs (primarily opium) in the Old West, which for this book is considered to be America west of the Mississippi from the California gold rush of the 1840s to the closing of the Western Frontier in roughly 1900.

In the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over racial justice.

An important investigation of the sociocultural fallout of America's work on the atomic bombIn The Nuclear Borderlands, Joseph Masco offers an in-depth look at the long-term consequences of the Manhattan Project.

One week after the infamous June 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, when news of the defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops reached the American public, Sitting Bull became the most wanted hostile Indian in America.

Even after WWI had ended, the region of Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas stubbornly refused to be tamed.

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This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws is a great addition to Western author Robert Barr Smith's books on the American frontier.

For fifty years prison inmates in Texas were leased out to railroads, coal mines, farm plantations, and sawmill crews with terrible incidences of brutality, cruelty, injury, and death to the prisoners.

Taken from the interviews conducted by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Arizona during the Great Depression,this regional history offers more than facts, figures, and stilted portraits of ';important history.

This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West goes beyond the tales everyone knows of the OK Corral and the Dead Man's Hand to focus on the gunfights, massacres, and daring deeds that are the stars of local historians but not featured in general histories of the old west.