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The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon Publisher Comments In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town'sAnglos, furious at this "interracial... (read more) List Price $17.25 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest by Sandra Day Oconnor Publisher Comments Now, for the first time in paperback, here is the remarkable story of Sandra Day OConnors family and early life, her journey to adulthood in the American Southwest that helped make her the woman she is todaythe first female justice of the U.S. Supreme... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope by Gabrielle Giffords Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling author of The Girls from Ames shares an intimate look at a small-town bridal shop, its multigenerational female owners, and the love between parents and daughters as they prepare for their wedding day. Thousands of women... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore by David Dary Publisher Comments From 1610 to the 1860s the Santa Fe Trail, which ran from Missouri and Kansas to New Mexico, was a principal artery to and from the Southwest. Drawing from letters, journals, expedition reports, and newspaper articles, David Dary opens a window into the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by John Wesley Powell Publisher Comments Full text of Powell's 1,000-mile expedition down the fabled Colorado in 1869. Superb account of terrain, geology, vegetation, Indians, famine, mutiny, treacherous rapids, mighty canyons, during exploration of last unknown part of continental U.S.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ecology of Fear Los Angeles & the Imagin by Mike Davis Publisher Comments From the author of City of Quartz, a startling new view of Los Angeles, the disaster capital of the world--and what it has to tell us about America at the millennium. Los Angeles has become a magnet for the American apocalyptic imagination. Riot... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Brief History of New Mexico by Myra Ellen Jenkins Publisher Comments Detailed information on every aspect of New Mexico's past.... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dig Here!: Lost Mines & Buried Treasure of the Southwest by Thomas Penfield Publisher Comments "Dig Here! is a gold mine itself, overflowing with fascinating lore, spellbinding backgrounds, driving Western drama--and exciting, reliable facts!... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Texas Devils: Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846-1861 by Michael L Collins Publisher Comments The Texas Rangers have been the source of tall tales and the stuff of legend as well as a growing darker reputation. But the story of the Rangers along the Mexican border between Texas statehood and the onset of the Civil War has been largely overlooked... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Going Back to Bisbee by Richard Shelton Publisher Comments One of America's most distinguished poets now shares his fascination with a distinctive corner of our country. Richard Shelton first came to southeastern Arizona in the 1950s as a soldier stationed at Fort Huachuca. He soon fell in love with the region... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore by David Dary Publisher Comments The full story of the Santa Fe Trail, from the arrival of the Spanish, the founding of Santa Fe in 1610 and the arrival of the first French and American traders, the establishment of the trail, and what happened after its glory days ended. Here are the... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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River of Traps: A New Mexico Mountain Life (New York Times Notable Books) by William Debuys Synopsis New Mexicos Sangre de Cristo mountains are a place where two cultures Hispanic and Anglo meet. They're also the place where three men meet: William deBuys, a young writer; Alex Harris, a young photographer; and Jacobo Romero, an old farmer.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Solace: Rituals of Loss and Desire by Mary Sojourner Publisher Comments NPR commentator Mary Sojourner, "a pithy yet sensuous, spiritual yet ferocious writer" (Booklist), delivers a powerful memoir about the joys of rejecting the pace, addictions, and false values of society...and learning to live without compromise. Twenty... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Cityscapes: San Francisco and Its Buildings by John King Book News Annotation King, urban design critic for the San Francisco Chronicle shares 50 of his favorite examples of San Francisco architecture in this portable (7x5.2") guide. Grouped into categories of icons, styles and masters, landscape, and change, each entry... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Last Unspoiled Place: Utah's Logan Canyon by Michael S Sweeney Publisher Comments Americans have always been passionately bound to the land: It has shaped our history, our ideas, and our art. In Last Unspoiled Place, the magnificent confines of Logan Canyon, Utah, prove the perfect landscape for exploring these beliefs. In brilliant... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore by David Dary Publisher Comments From 1610, when the Spanish founded the city of Santa Fe, to the 1860s, when the railroad brought unprecedented changes: here is the full, fascinating story of the great Santa Fe Trail which ran between Missouri and Kansas and New Mexico--a lifeline to... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Oklahoma Western Biographies #2: Last Conquistador: Juan de Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest by Mark Simmons Publisher Comments This book chronicles the life and frontier career of Don Juan de Oñate, the first colonizer of the old Spanish Borderlands. Born in Zacatecas, Mexico, in the mid-sixteenth century, Don Juan was the prominent son of an aristocratic silver... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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People of the West Desert: Finding Common Ground by Craig Denton Publisher Comments The West Desert is what Utahns call the basin and range salt desert in the eastern Great Basin. This arid region first caught the attention of photo documentarian and author Craig Denton when voices from it spoke out against turning over large desert... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Picturing Las Vegas by Linda Chase Publisher Comments Through colorful photogra phs and firsthand narrative detail, Picturing Las Vegas tells thestory of a city whose history mirrors that of America itself: a tale of the frontier, of corruption andgreed, of beauty and loss and ineffable hope.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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It Happened on the Santa Fe Trail (It Happened in) by Stephen Glassman Publisher Comments True Tales from the Santa Fe Trail From Jedediah Smiths final fight to an unlikely flash flood in the desert, It Happened on the Santa Fe Trail gives readers a unique look at intriguing people and episodes from one of Americas most historically important... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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