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The Beaver Men
UNP - Bison Books 2013; US$ 16.95Covering more than two centuries, The Beaver Men recounts the beginning of the beaver trade along the St. Lawrence to the last great rendezvous of traders and trappers on Ham?s Fork, in what is now Wyoming, in 1834. The Beaver Men is the third in Mari Sandoz?s trilogy of books narrating the history of the American West in relation to an animal... more...
The Days Are Gods
UNP - Bison Original 2013; US$ 18.95?I called the bishop of the local ward, and he put the date of your move into the church bulletin, and these gentlemen came to help,? Brady, the real estate agent, says. Welcome to Wellsville, Utah. Good-bye, L.A. Liz Stephens has come from Los Angeles to Utah for graduate school, and her brief stint working on a Taco Bell commercial is not much... more...
The Cattlemen
UNP - Bison Books 2013; US$ 19.95The Cattlemen is the story of the cattle industry in America and of the men whose ranches reached from the Rio Grande into Montana, from the early Spanish days to Mari Sandoz?s contemporary times. It is the second in Sandoz?s trilogy of books narrating the history of the American West in relation to animal species. more...
The Buffalo Hunters
UNP - Bison Books 2013; US$ 16.95In 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the great herds is the theme of The Buffalo Hunters . Mari Sandoz?s vast canvas is charged with color and excitement?accounts of Indian ambushes, hairbreadth... more...
From the Bullet to the Ballot
The University of North Carolina Press 2013; US$ 52.50In this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jakobi Williams demonstrates that the city's Black Power movement was both a response to and an extension of the city's civil rights movement. Williams focuses on the life and violent death of Fred Hampton, a charismatic leader who served as president... more...
Side-Yard Superhero
Five Star Publications, Inc. 2012; US$ 15.95Although life's journey takes him far from his childhood home, Rick D. Niece, Ph.D., never forgets the people he meets and the lessons he learns as a young man growing up in picturesque DeGraff, Ohio, population 900. A small-town newspaper boy who becomes a lifelong educator himself, Dr. Niece is deeply touched by the endearing residents of DeGraff... more...
Twenty Thousand Roads
University of California Press 2002; US$ 29.95From Sacagawea's travels with Lewis and Clark to rock groupie Pamela Des Barres's California trips, women have moved across the American West with profound consequences for the people and places they encounter. Virginia Scharff revisits a grand theme of United States history?our restless, relentless westward movement--but sets out in new directions,... more...
Rethinking Home
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95Joseph A. Amato proposes a bold and innovative approach to writing local history in this imaginative, wide-ranging, and deeply engaging exploration of the meaning of place and home. Arguing that people of every place and time deserve a history, Amato draws on his background as a European cultural historian and a prolific writer of local history to... more...
Lewis & Clark
University of California Press 2004; US$ 15.95Two centuries after their expedition awoke the nation both to the promise and to the disquiet of the vast territory out west, Lewis and Clark still stir the imagination, and their adventure remains one of the most celebrated and studied chapters in American history. This volume explores the legacy of Lewis and Clark's momentous journey and, on the... more...
White on Arrival
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 26.99Taking the mass Italian immigration of the late nineteenth century as his starting point and drawing on dozens of oral histories and an array of primary sources in English and Italian, the author focuses on how perceptions of Italians' race and colour were shaped in one of America's great centers of immigration and labor, Chicago. more...









