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Frontier Cavalry Trooper
University of New Mexico Press 2013; US$ 55.00During his five years in the army, Private Edward L. Matthews wrote a series of exceptionally detailed and engaging letters to his family back home in Maryland describing his life in the Arizona and New Mexico Territories. Eddie Matthews?s letters, published here for the first time, provide an unparalleled chronicle of one soldier?s experiences in... more...
The Yosemite
The Floating Press 2012; US$ 3.99Renowned naturalist John Muir is widely credited as being one of the important early figures in the conservation movement. In this series of essays, Muir introduces readers to the wonders of the majestic Yosemite region, a place he visited as soon as he arrived in America in 1868. The beauty of the area's mountains, lakes, and vistas inspired Muir... more...
The Real Las Vegas
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 73.99What images come to mind when you think of Las Vegas? Mobsters and showgirls, magicians and tigers, multimillion-dollar poker games and prizefights; towering signboards that light up the night in front of ever more spectacular casino hotels. But real people live here, too--over a million today, two million tomorrow. Greater Las Vegas... more...
Rhode Island
Infobase Publishing 2005; US$ 35.00Rhode Island discusses life in the early colony, including the growth of the colony under Roger Williams, farming, trading, the history of slavery in the colony, the presence of pirates, and the Pequot War and King Phillip's War. more...
Old Fences, New Neighbors
Fulcrum Publishing 2006; US$ 15.95... an account of Ouray County, Ridgway, and the unexpected and uninvited external forces that suddenly descended on a sleepy agricultural community where three generations of farmers and ranchers had tended to their crops and livestock through the rhythms of the seasons. Today, a new traffic light signals, "go" to new Hummer's and other fancy... more...
A Kid's Look at Colorado
Fulcrum Publishing 2005; US$ 15.95A Kids Look at Colorado illustrates Colorado's unique past and exciting present. Phyllis Perry provides intriguing details on national parks and monuments, historic sites, ghost towns, selected cities, educational opportunities, economy, government, land, rivers, wildlife, trees and flowers, early explorers, mining, railroading, ranching, Native... more...
The Pacific Northwest
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 38.00The Pacific Northwest--for the purposes of this book mostly Oregon and Washington--has sometimes been seen as lacking significant cultural history. Home to idyllic environmental wonders, the region has been plagued by the notion that the best and brightest often left in search of greater things, that the mainstream world was thousands of miles away--or... more...
Travel Zion National Park
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 4.99This illustrated Travel Guide is designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and by category, making it easier to access individual articles. The guide is complimented by clearly marked trail maps.TABLE OF CONTENTS:Essentials: A-Z INDEX | Sleep | Stay safe 1. General: History | Zion Canyon |... more...
The Yosemite
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00In the spring of 1869, John Muir was looking for means of support to fund his explorations of California?s Central Valley region. A ranch owner offered him a job herding sheep in the Sierra Nevada. As he explored the region, he jotted down his keen observations of the scenic countryside, and he eventually became a guide for some of Yosemite?s most... more...
The Land of Little Rain
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 13.00?Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite?east and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert? is the territory that Mary Austin calls the Land of Little Rain. In this classic collection of meditations on the wonders of this region, Austin generously shares ?such news of the... more...









