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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
by Mildred Armstrong Kalish  Review “Using this book alone, one could reconstruct, with glorious exactness, a lost time and place. Mildred Kalish has a novelist's eye for detail and a beautiful understanding of what the gestures of daily life mean. A lovely, wise...
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Way Off the Road: Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small Town America
by William Geist Publisher Comments “To say it very simply, freezer burn may very well have set in.” —neighbor on the frozen dead guy kept on ice in a backyard shed in Nederland, Colorado. “Everybody loves a parade; we were just geographically...
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A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - The Last Great Battle of the American West
by James Donovan Publisher Comments In June of 1876, on a desolate hill above a winding river called the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by almost 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this devastating loss caused a public...
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The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
by Alexandra Fuller Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Donat Letas Go to the Dogs Tonight and Scribbling the Cat, the unforgettable true story of a boy who comes of age in the oil-fields and open plains of Wyoming; a heartrending story of the human spirit that lays bare where...
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Luminous Mountains: The Sierra Nevada of California
by Tim (pht) Palmer Synopsis A stunning photographic and text portrait of the entire Sierra Nevada mountain range with 135 full-color photographs. Unmatched in price and quality....
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The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
by Robert Goolrick Publisher Comments In the Goolrick home there was a law: Never talk about the family in the outside world, never reveal the slightest crack in the facade. To all appearances, they lived an almost idyllic life. Two respected, charming parents everyone loved. Three bright...
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Alaska Blues: A Story of Freedom, Risk, and Living Your Dream
by Joe Upton Publisher Comments Step aboard Joe Upton's 32-foot troller and journey with him into another world. It's Southeast Alaska in the 1970s, and this evocative, true-life account chronicles four months of commercial fishing in the Inside Passage. Travel with Upton through open...
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Buffalo Inc.: American Indians and Economic Development
by Sebastian Felix Braun Book News Annotation Braun (Indian studies, U. of North Dakota, Grand Forks) examines a 15-year effort of one tribal community, the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, to build a tribally owned and operated buffalo operation. Based on fieldwork begun in 2001...
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The Prince of Frogtown
by Rick Bragg Publisher Comments In this final volume of the beloved American saga that began with All Over but the Shoutin’ and continued with Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own...
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The Best in Tent Camping: New Mexico: A Guide for Car Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos (Best in Tent Camping New Mexico)
by Monte Parr Publisher Comments Visiting New Mexico offers outdoor enthusiasts extensive options: canyons, deserts, mesas, mountains, rivers, lakes, and even ghost towns. Now, in this indispensable guide, the best campgrounds in and around these remarkable areas are rendered in full...
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Civilization of the American Indian #255: Pre-Removal Choctaw History: Exploring New Paths
by Greg Obrien Publisher Comments In the past two decades, new research and thinking have dramatically reshaped our understanding of Choctaw history before removal. Greg O'Brien brings together in a single volume ten groundbreaking essays that reveal where Choctaw history has been and...
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The Pomo of Lake County (Images of America)
by K. C. Patrick Synopsis Secure in their isolated valley until the arrival of the white man, the Native Americans of Lake County and their ancestors lived for more than 12,000 years in this temperate Eden of abundance. The anthropologist who labeled them all by one name was...
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The Best in Tent Camping: Maryland: A Guide for Car Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos (Best in Tent Camping Maryland)
by Evan Balkan Publisher Comments Maryland's natural beauty can be fully experienced only by visiting, and what better way to do so than to pitch a tent in one of the varied locations Maryland has to offer: the Atlantic Ocean lies nearby, as do the Allegheny Mountains and the Chesapeake...
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Mount Whitney: The Complete Trailhead-To-Summit Guide
by Paul, Jr. Richins Publisher Comments Are you up to the challenge of ascending Mount Whitney? This guidebook contains everything you need to summit the highest point in the contiguous United States. This new edition includes a thorough examination of the planning, preparation, and physical...
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Oswego Township (Images of America)
by Oswegoland Heritage Association (edt) Publisher Comments In 1832, John, Walter, and Daniel Pearce, and their brother-in-law, William Smith Wilson, walked west from their homes in Ohio prospecting for land. When they reached the Fox River in the vicinity of modern Oswego, they agreed they had found the place...
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The Face of Minnesota
by John Szarkowski Publisher Comments “Ducks in a stream, the bridge at St. Anthony Falls, streets of cities and towns, a fish in a net, the glittering lakes seen under low skies. The Face of Minnesota is a fresh, simple, unpretentious statement of a place and time by people who know...
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On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
by Jared Farmer Publisher Comments Shrouded in the lore of legendary Indians, Mt. Timpanogos beckons the urban populace of Utah. And yet, no andldquo;Indianandrdquo; legend graced the mount until Mormon settlers conjured itandmdash;once they had displaced the local Indians, the Utes, from...
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San Gorgonio Search and Rescue Team (Images of America)
by Bob Lehmann Synopsis In February 1958, a tragic climbing accident occurred on Big Falls, in Forest Falls, California, resulting in the death of a 13-year-old boy. Rescue attempts were futile because there were no experienced personnel or climbing equipment available. As a...
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Vanishing America: The End of Main Street Dinners, Drive-Ins, Donut Shops, and Other Everyday Monuments
by Michael (pht) Eastman Publisher Comments Think of the quirky buildings you pass every day but whose quiet beauty you take for granted--the moviehouses, juke joints, soda fountains, barbershops, roadside diners, and storefront churches. You don't miss them until they're gone. As suburban sprawl...
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100 Classic Hikes in Northern California (100 Classic Hikes)
by John R. Soares Synopsis This third edition brings the Soares? brothers classic guide to the 100 best of Northern California's hikes thoroughly up-to-date and adds elevation profiles for all 100 hikes. New color photos have been added to this beautiful guidebook, and all facts...
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