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Dodge County, Incorporated: Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America

Dodge County, Incorporated: Big Ag and the Undoing of...

Author: Sonja Trom Eayrs
ISBN: 9781496234995
Format: Paperback
$65.87

In this compelling firsthand account, Sonja Trom Eayrs tells the story of one Dodge County family farm in rural...  Read More >>

Grit and Ghosts: Following the Trail of Eight Tenacious Women across a Century

Grit and Ghosts: Following the Trail of Eight Tenacious...

Author: Robin Foster
ISBN: 9781496238467
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Grit and Ghosts tells the stories of eight women from the American West who speak to a shared human experience of...  Read More >>

Captivity of the Oatman Girls

Captivity of the Oatman Girls

Author: R. B. Stratton ,  Wilcomb E. Washburn
ISBN: 9781496237705
Format: Paperback
$57.95

In 1851, nine members of the Oatman family set out for California on the old Santa Fe Trail. Seventy miles from...  Read More >>

Woodstock: From World War to Culture Wars

Woodstock: From World War to Culture Wars

Author: Richard Heppner
ISBN: 9781438499321
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The story of Woodstock, N.Y., over the last 100 years and how a small, rural town coped with the many challenges...  Read More >>

The Crimson and Gold: Football and Integration in Athens, Georgia

The Crimson and Gold: Football and Integration in Athens,...

Author: Mark Clegg
ISBN: 9780820366982
Format: Paperback
$68.51

A comprehensive narrative detailing the struggle for integration in Athens, Georgia, in the context of highly competitive...  Read More >>

The Nomads Of The Badlands: Continuing the Wilhelm's Adventures Prospecting the Mojave Deserts of Arizona, Nevada, and California in 1915

The Nomads Of The Badlands: Continuing the Wilhelm's...

Author: Walt Wilhelm ,  Jay Barrs
ISBN: 9798989758609
Format: Hardback
$92.27

"'Nomads Of the Badlands' is filled with tales and details vital to understanding of the people, places and times...  Read More >>

Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina & a Century of Backwoods Power

Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South...

Author: Jason Ryan
ISBN: 9781420515213
Format: Hardback
$92.37

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Son of the Old West

Son of the Old West

Author: Nathan Ward
ISBN: 9780802163660
Format: Paperback
$50.16

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Worlds at the End: Los Angeles, Infrastructure, and the Apocalyptic Imagination

Worlds at the End: Los Angeles, Infrastructure, and...

Author: Pacharee Sudhinaraset
ISBN: 9781439925508
Format: Hardback
$331.32

""This book mobilizes a women of color feminist reading practice to examine the role of Los Angeles's infrastructure...  Read More >>

Buried Louisville, Kentucky: President to Paupers, Graves of the City

Buried Louisville, Kentucky: President to Paupers, Graves...

Author: Casey Fredette
ISBN: 9781634994996
Format: Paperback
$65.97

The history-rich city of Louisville, Kentucky, offers stunning examples of haves and have-nots. Nowhere is this...  Read More >>

Sunset Colonies: A Visual Elegy to South Florida's Mobile Home Communities

Sunset Colonies: A Visual Elegy to South Florida's Mobile...

Author: Diego Alejandro Waisman
ISBN: 9780813080734
Format: Paperback
$92.27

In a collection of images that are both quiet and telling, Sunset Colonies portrays the vulnerabilities experienced...  Read More >>

A Farm Family on Long Island's North Fork: The Lost World of the Hallocks and Their Sound Avenue Community

A Farm Family on Long Island's North Fork: The Lost...

Author: Richard A. Wines
ISBN: 9781438499833
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Life, love, and scandal in a nineteenth-century Long Island farm community.  Read More >>

It Started with the Hats: The Life Experiences of Boston's Founding Street Gang Members

It Started with the Hats: The Life Experiences of Boston's...

Author: Paul F. Joyce ,  J. Larry Mayes
ISBN: 9780809339440
Format: Paperback
$46.20

Through interviews, analysis, and life-course theory, retired Boston police officer and criminologist Paul F. Joyce...  Read More >>

West Linn

West Linn

Author: MR Sheperd
ISBN: 9781467161787
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Located along the west bank of the Willamette River at the falls in Oregon, the West Linn area offers a vibrant...  Read More >>

The First Rocky Mountaineers: Coloradans before Colorado

The First Rocky Mountaineers: Coloradans before Colorado...

Author: Marcel Kornfeld
ISBN: 9781647690687
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Based on archaeological research in Colorado’s Middle Park - a high mountain basin initially encountered by Europeans...  Read More >>

Guardian of Savannah: Fort McAllister, Georgia, in the Civil War and Beyond

Guardian of Savannah: Fort McAllister, Georgia, in the...

Author: Roger S. Durham
ISBN: 9781643365282
Format: Paperback
$87.09

A comprehensive history of the Fort McAllister’s construction and its use during the Civil War, as well as its post-war...  Read More >>

Erie's Great Mausoleum Mystery: Ghouls, Grave Robbers and Extortion

Erie's Great Mausoleum Mystery: Ghouls, Grave Robbers...

Author: Justin Dombrowski
ISBN: 9781467156615
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Erie's Shocking Turn of the Century Extortion Scandal On February 8, 1911, the Scott Mausoleum, a symbol of wealth...  Read More >>

A History of St. Rita Parish

A History of St. Rita Parish

Author: St Rita Parish Centennial Committee
ISBN: 9781467156752
Format: Paperback
$65.97

A Century of Faith The first Mass was offered for what would eventually be known as St. Rita Church in the humblest...  Read More >>

Haunted Puget Sound

Haunted Puget Sound

Author: MR Kitmacher
ISBN: 9781467157841
Format: Paperback
$58.05

The Puget Sound region is known for its idyllic scenery--and for harboring the paranormal. From the spirits of...  Read More >>

Land's End Inn

Land's End Inn

Author: Ed Macri ,  Trevor Mikula
ISBN: 9798990846906
Format: Hardback
$92.40

A vibrant history of Land's End Inn in Provincetown, MA Land's End Inn documents the history of this remarkable...  Read More >>

Sacred Southwestern Landscapes: Archaeologies of Religious Ecology

Sacred Southwestern Landscapes: Archaeologies of Religious...

Author: Aaron M. Wright
ISBN: 9781647691646
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Explore the intersection of religion and landscape in the North American Southwest from ancient to recent times....  Read More >>

James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder's Journey from Slave Trader to Abolitionist

James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder's Journey...

Author: Michael L Thurmond ,  Michael L Thurmond
ISBN: 9798228325845
Format: Audio
$121.31

Founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12, 1733, the Georgia colony was envisioned as a unique social welfare experiment....  Read More >>

James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder's Journey from Slave Trader to Abolitionist

James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder's Journey...

Author: Michael L Thurmond ,  Michael L Thurmond
ISBN: 9798228325838
Format: Audio
$121.41

Founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12, 1733, the Georgia colony was envisioned as a unique social welfare experiment....  Read More >>

Indigenous War Painting of the Plains Volume 283: An Illustrated History

Indigenous War Painting of the Plains Volume 283: An...

Author: Arni Brownstone ,  Lindsay M. Montgomery
ISBN: 9780806193649
Format: Hardback
$158.40

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains practiced an archival...  Read More >>

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