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900 Miles on the Butterfield Trail
University of North Texas Press 2006; US$ 22.36Short as the life of the Southern Overland Mail turned out to be (1858 to 1861), the saga of the Butterfield Trail remains a high point in the westward movement. This work offers a history and guide to retrace that historic and romantic Trail, which stretches 2800 miles from the Mississippi River to the Pacific coast. more...
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De Gruyter 1985; US$ 126.00ADS - Allgemeine Deutsche Seeversicherungs-Bedingungen more...
Across the Plains
The Floating Press 2010; US$ 3.99Although he is now best remembered for rip-roaring adventure novels like Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson was a well-regarded travel writer during his lifetime. In Across the Plains, Stevenson recounts his experiences traveling in the United States in a series of fascinating and detailed... more...
Americas Northern Heartland
University of Minnesota Press 1983; US$ 75.00To most Americans the Northern Heartland has long been the most mystifying part of their country... more...
The American West
Scribner 2010; US$ 19.99Dee Brown is most renowned for authoring the all-time bestselling book on the West, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which has sold more than 5,000,000 copies in English and has had countless translations the world over. This was the first fully realized, sympathetic history of Native Americans and became an immediate classic. Here, now, is The American... more...
The American West
Edinburgh University Press 2009; US$ 148.99The American West used to be a story of gunfights, glory, wagon trails, and linear progress. Historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner and Hollywood movies such as Stagecoach (1939) and Shane (1953) cast the trans-Mississippi region as a frontier of epic proportions where 'savagery' met 'civilization' and boys became men. more...
Bathroom Trivia
DK Publishing 2009; US$ 9.99Bathroom Trivia is a witty, one-off title designed to be read while answering the call of nature in the bathroom. Arranged in an informal way that readers can dip into randomly, the pages provide enough trivia, games, puzzles, stories, articles, and quizzes for even the longest restroom visits. Featuring an innovative mix of photographs and original... more...
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 Best Man for the Job
ECW Press 2001; US$ 13.95Exploring the why and the how of civic corruption in a Northern Ontario city, this compelling story begins in the late 1980s, when the official languages policies of Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, and David Peterson collided with the Sault’s deep-rooted resistance to bilingualism. The man at the center of the uproar over the city's infamous... more...
Black on the Block
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 22.50In Black on the Block , Mary Pattillo—a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century—uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago’s North Kenwood–Oakland neighborhood to explore the politics of race and class in contemporary urban America. ... more...









