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  • After the Gold Rush

    Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley

    de David Vaught ...
    Series series Revisiting Rural America
    A dramatic history of a group of families in post-gold rush California who turned to agriculture when mining failed."It is a glorious country," exclaimed Stephen J. Field, the future U.S. Supreme Court justice, upon arriving in California in 1849. Field's pronouncement was more than just an expression of exuberance. For an electrifying moment, he and another 100,000 hopeful gold miners found ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Farmers' Game

    Baseball in Rural America

    de David Vaught ...
    A journey through the national pastime's roots in America's small towns and wide-open spaces: "An absorbing read." — The Tampa TribuneIn the film Field of Dreams, the lead character gives his struggling farming community a magical place where the smell of roasted peanuts gently wafts over the crowded grandstand on a warm summer evening, just as the star pitcher takes the mound. In The Farmers' ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Re-Making the American Dream

    Change from Values

    de David Vaught ...
    WHAT HAPPENS?When the Values of Duty, Honor, Country clash at West Point with the religious teachings of the Liberty Baptist Church in Burnt Prairie . . .Join us on this journey in the Vietnam War era when the author was confronted by Colonel Al Haig, soon to join President Nixon's White House and later to serve as President Reagan's Secretary of State, . . .And Admiral Moorer, Chairman of the ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Spitter

    Baseball's Notorious Gaylord Perry

    de David Vaught ...
    Series series Swaim-Paup Sports Series, sponsored by James C. '74 & Debra Parchman Swaim and T. Edgar '74 & Nancy Paup
    Finalist for the 2023 CASEY AwardGaylord Jackson Perry was born in 1938 as the younger son of a tobacco sharecropper in Martin County, North Carolina. He and his older brother Jim grew up against a background of backbreaking work six days a week in a community that boasted not a single paved road until the 1950s. Their only relaxation was playing baseball, first with their father and later at ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • After the Gold Rush

    Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley

    de David Vaught ...
    2008 Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association"It is a glorious country," exclaimed Stephen J. Field, the future U.S. Supreme Court justice, upon arriving in California in 1849. Field's pronouncement was more than just an expression of exuberance. For an electrifying moment, he and another 100,000 hopeful gold miners found themselves face-to-face with something ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

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  • Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

    The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

    de Richard White ...
    A new, incisive history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War.The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating panics in the U.S. economy. Their dependence on public largess drew them into the corridors of ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Nature's Metropolis

    Chicago and the Great West

    de William Cronon ...
    A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Strange Career of William Ellis

    The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

    de Karl Jacoby ...
    **Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award"An American 'Odyssey,' the larger-than-life story of a man who travels far in the wake of war and gets by on his adaptability and gift for gab." —Wall Street Journal**A black child born on the US-Mexico border in the twilight of slavery, William Ellis inhabited a world divided along ambiguous racial lines. Adopting the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Farm Press, Reform and Rural Change, 1895-1920

    de John J. Fry ...
    Series series Studies in American Popular History and Culture
    This project contributes to our understanding of rural Midwesterners and farm newspapers at the turn of the century. While cultural historians have mainly focused on readers in town and cities, it examines Midwestern farmers. It also contributes to the "new rural history" by exploring the ideas of Hal Barron and others that country people selectively adapted the advice given to them by reformers. ... Leer más

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  • Steam & Cinders

    The Advent of Railroads in Wisconsin

    de Axel Lorenzsonn ...
    Based on the author’s extensive research into the early history of Wisconsin’s rails, Steam and Cinders chronicles the boom and bust of the first railroads in the state, from the charters of the 1830s to the farm mortgages of the 1850s and consolidation of the railroads on the eve of the Civil War. Featuring more than 75 period photographs, historic maps, and drawings, Steam and Cinders preserves ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • In Search of the Racial Frontier

    African Americans in the American West 1528-1990

    de Quintard Taylor ...
    "An enthralling work that will be essential reading for years to come." —David Nicholson, Washington PostA landmark history of African Americans in the West, In Search of the Racial Frontier rescues the collective American consciousness from thinking solely of European pioneers when considering the exploration, settling, and conquest of the territory west of the Mississippi. From its surprising ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles

    de Catherine Mulholland ...
    William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a self-taught engineer, was the chief architect of the Owens Valley Aqueduct—a project ranking in magnitude and daring with the Panama Canal—that brought water to semi-arid Los Angeles from the lush Owens Valley. The story of Los Angeles's quest for water is ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD