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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, Krakauer searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled 24-year-old Chris McCandless to leave civilization behind and head into the remote Alaskan wilderness. Four months later, McCandless'... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg (P.S.) by Michael Perry Staff Pick Coop is perfect for anyone dreaming of a "simple" life in the country — and for those already living it. Perry is a brilliant storyteller, and this is a funny and poignant account of his unorthodox childhood and his current quest for some cred as a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments Every autumn, men and women across the country undertake a quintessential American tradition: deer hunting. The pinnacle of a hunter's quest is killing a buck with antlers that “score” in the Boone and Crockett record book. Whitetail... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson Staff Pick An amazing history that recounts the inconceivable events surrounding the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Larson's tale captures a time and place that vividly come to life. The central characters in this tale are Daniel H. Burnham, the architect... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Women of the West) by Elinore P Stewart Publisher Comments Elinore Pruitt, a widow and mother who washed clothes for a living in Denver, planned to work as a housekeeper for some rancher while learning all she would need to know about homesteading a place for herself. In 1909 she went to work for Clyde... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M Barry Staff Pick "An account of the Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America. When the river flooded, it was possible to travel in a boat, east to west in the South, two hundred miles. The book is an account of how engineers had tried to control the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - 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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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan Staff Pick In this remarkable tale of the nation's largest forest fire — which burned more than three million acres in 1910 — Timothy Egan vividly narrates the heroic efforts to fight the blaze and the dramatic impact it had on the future of conservation.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart by Clyde A Milner Publisher Comments Granville Stuart (1834-1918) is a quintessential Western figure, a man whose adventures rival those of Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, or Sitting Bull, and who embodied many of the contradictions of America's westward expansion. Stuart collected guns, herded... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The National Parks: America's Best Idea by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns Staff Pick 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) List Price $50.00 Your price: $35.00 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 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: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Touchstone Books) by David McCullough Publisher Comments This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nations history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world. The Brooklyn Bridge rose out of the expansive era following the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto Publisher Comments In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today. In the late 1960s, an archivist in the New... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Butch Cassidy: A Biography (Bison Book) by Richard Patterson Publisher Comments Separating mythology from actual events in the life of Butch Cassidy has been made extremely difficult by the many stories told about him by family members, acquaintances, and writers after his presumed death in a Bolivian village. In an exhaustive... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Atlas of the Great Plains by Stephen J Lavin Publisher Comments 2011 Booklist Editor's Choice, reference category The Great Plains, stretching northward from Texas into Canada, is a region that has been understudied and overlooked. The Atlas of the Great Plains, however, brings a new focus to North Americas... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis Publisher Comments To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To its detractors, it is "The Big Nowhere." No one has better captured L.A.'s bizarre role as both utopia and dystopia than Davis, the author of this mordantly elegant and wide-ranging work... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere by Hank Stuever Publisher Comments In his unique, funny, and haunting reports from "Elsewhere," Hank Stuever records the odd and touching realities of modern life in everyday places. Elsewhere might be revealed in the tract-house adventures of a home-décor reality show, at a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orleans wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. From Floridas swamps to its courtrooms, the New Yorker writer follows one... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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