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Cadillac Desert : the American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised and Updated (Rev 93 Edition) by Marc Reisner Publisher Comments "Beautifully written and meticulously researched."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This updated study of the economics, politics, and ecology of water covers more than a century of public and private desert reclamation in the American West.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick Staff Pick Nathaniel Philbrick, author of Mayflower, has written a gripping history of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Cinematic in scope and deft in characterization, The Last Stand captures a defining moment in our nation's past. It's history at its finest.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral-And How It Changed the American West by Jeff Guinn Publisher Comments Now in paperback, bestselling author Jeff Guinn’s definitive, myth-busting account of the most famous shoot-out in American history—“A terrific read” (Clive Cussler). The so-called Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (which was... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides Publisher Comments In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral-And How It Changed the American West by Jeff Guinn Publisher Comments On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, in a vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona, a confrontation between eight armed men erupted in a deadly shootout. The gunfight at the O.K. Corral shaped how future generations came to view the old West. Wyatt Earp, Doc... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West by Linda M Hasselstrom Publisher Comments In the true stories, essays, and poems of Leaning into the Wind we meet the real women of the High Plains today - women far more interesting than the shiny cowgirls of Madison Avenue. Here are reflections on cowboys real and fake, tractor-driving lessons,... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future by Robert D. Kaplan Publisher Comments "Full of surprises and unusual revelations . . . an informed and disturbing portrait of the new American badlands."--Chicago Tribune "[Kaplan is] tireless, curious, and smart. . . . I cannot imagine anyone will concoct a more convincing... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Here Lies Hugh Glass: A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation by Jon T Coleman Publisher Comments In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled Hugh Glass. The animal ripped the trapper up, carving huge hunks from his body. Glasss fellows rushed to his aid and slew the bear, but Glasss injuries mocked their first aid. The expedition leader arranged... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Tales of the Mountain Men: Seventeen Stories of Survival, Exploration, and Outdoor Craft by Lamar Underwood Publisher Comments Classic stories about the adventurers who explored and settled the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Men to Match My Mountains by Irving Stone Publisher Comments Stone has created an interwoven pageant of stories of the great westward drive which, in a few rousing decades, settled a continent and gave the United States dimensions of which its founders hardly ever dreamed of.... (read more) Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Bound Like Grass: A Memoir from the Western High Plains by Ruth Mclaughlin Publisher Comments At the start of this haunting memoir, Ruth McLaughlin returns to the site of her childhood home in rural eastern Montana. In place of her family's house, she finds only rubble and a blackened chimney. A fire has taken the old farmstead and with it ninety-... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban Publisher Comments A New York Times Editors' Choice for Book of the Year Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award Winner of the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award "No one has evoked with greater power the marriage of land and sky that gives this country both... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Oklahoma Western Biographies #9: Father Peter John de Smet: Jesuit in the West by Robert C Carriker Publisher Comments Clad in the black robe of his priestly order and armed only with a crucifix, for more than a quarter of a century Father De Smet relentlessly tramped the American frontier to bring peace and religion to the tribes of the Pacific Northwest and the upper... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides Publisher Comments Praise for Blood and Thunder “Kit Carson’s role in the conquest of the Navajo during and after the Civil War remains one of the most dramatic and significant episodes in the history of the American West. Hampton Sides portrays Carson in the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter in the Bitterroot Wilderness by Pete Fromm Publisher Comments Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromms account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cattle Towns by Robert R. Dykstra Review "One of the most intelligent, interesting, and worthwhile contributions to the field of Western history in some time. [Dykstra] has managed to say something rather basic about American culture in general."—William H. Goetzmann, University of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West by Linda M Hasselstrom Publisher Comments Crazy Woman Creek is a collection of prose and poetry about real women in the West and their connection to a larger whole. Long troubled by the misguided images of skinny cowgirls on prancing palominos, the editors embarked on a mission to set the record... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ordeal by Hunger by George R Stewart Publisher Comments The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty-seven people -- men, women, and children -- set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men by Mari Sandoz Publisher Comments In 1867 the total number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region was conservatively estimated 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 this book. Mari... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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