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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
by Timothy Egan
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In this remarkable tale of the nation's largest forest fire ... (read more)

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Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (New York Review Books Classics)
Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (New York Review Books Classics)
by George R Stewart
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George R. Stewart's classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the nation's peoples. More than half a century later, Names on the Land remains the authoritative source on its... (read more)

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The National Parks: America's Best Idea
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
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The dazzling companion volume to the acclaimed Ken Burns documentary, The National Parks: America's Best Idea chronicles the fascinating history of the world-renowned United States National Park system. Four hundred pages of richly composed text by... (read more)

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Alaska
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Going Rogue: An American Life
Going Rogue: An American Life
by Sarah Palin
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One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet. Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is. On September 3, 2008 Alaska Governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin delivered a speech at the... (read more)

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Great Plains
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Worst Hard Time: Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (06 Edition)
Worst Hard Time: Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (06 Edition)
by Timothy Egan
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The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de... (read more)

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New York
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The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History
The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History
by Eric Homberger
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A New York Public Library Outstanding Reference Book <BR>The rich and eminently browsable visual guide to the history of New York, in an all-new <BR>second edition <BR>"The Historical Atlas of New York City," second edition, takes us... (read more)

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Rivers Lakes Waterways and Mountains
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
by Wallace Stegner
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In this book Wallace Stegner recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A... (read more)

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Los Angeles
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L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
by John Buntin
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Other cities have histories. Los Angeles has legends. Picture midcentury Los Angeles — a land of orange groves, sunshine, and Hollywood stars — protected by the world's most famous police force, the LAPD. But behind the image was a hidden... (read more)

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Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album (Vintage Departures)
Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album (Vintage Departures)
by Teresa Jordan
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The daughter and granddaughter of Wyoming ranchers, Teresa Jordan gives us a lyrical and superbly evocative book that is at once a family chronicle and a eulogy for the land her people helped shape and in time were forced to leave.... (read more)

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Praying for Sheetrock
Praying for Sheetrock
by Melissa Fay Greene
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Somehow, the sweeping changes of the civil rights movement had bypassed rural McIntosh County, Georgia. In the 1970s, the white sheriff there still wielded all power; he controlled everyone and everything. It took one uneducated, unemployed black man... (read more)

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On Oregon | November 11, 2009

Matt Love: IMG On Stewart Holbrook



On Monday October 26, at the Oregon Book Awards ceremony, I accepted the Stewart L. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award from Oregon Literary Arts. The... Continue »
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Original Essays | October 27, 2009

Mike Cox: IMG The Texas Rangers Versus the Texas Rangers



My two-volume history,The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900 and Time of the Rangers: Texas Rangers: From 1900 to the Present, is... Continue »
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