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The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945First published in 1984, this prize-winning history of the Manhattan Project is now available in paperback for the first time, fifty years after the explosion of the first atomic bomb.Author: Ferenc Morton SzaszPublisher: University of New Mexico PressPublished: 07/05/1984Pages: 245Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.04h...
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A Great Day to Fight Fire: Mann Gulch, 1949Mann Gulch, Montana, 1949. Sixteen men ventured into hell to fight a raging wildfire; only three came out alive. Searing the fire into the nation's consciousness, Norman Maclean chronicled the Mann Gulch tragedy in his award-winning book Young Men and Fire. Still, the silence...
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Wild Bill Hickok, Gunfighter: A Trading Post on the Upper MissouriJames Butler Hickok, generally called 'Wild Bill, ' epitomized the archetypal gunfighter, that half-man, half-myth that became the heir to the mystique of the duelist when that method of resolving differences waned. . . . Easy access to a gun and whiskey coupled with...
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Fort Robinson and the American West, 1874-1899Few places provided a more storied backdrop for key events related to the high plains Indian wars than had Fort Robinson, Nebraska. Established in 1874 just south of the Black Hills, Fort Robinson witnessed many of the most dramatic, most tragic encounters between whites...
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Arikara Narrative of Custer's Campaign and the Battle of the Little BighornGeneral George Armstrong Custer's defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn is well known through U.S. military sources and Lakota and Cheyenne narratives, but little has been heard from the Indians who fought beside Custer - the Arikara scouts. Now their eyewitness reports...
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Westward Vision: The Story of the Oregon Trail"In one very real sense," David Lavender writes, "the story of the Oregon Trail begins with Columbus." This opening suggests the panoramic sweep of his history of that famous trail. In chiseled, colorful prose, Lavender illustrates the "westward vision" that impelled the early explorers...
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Cowboy Tales on the Eaton Trail in YellowstoneCowboy Howard Eaton began taking people into Yellowstone country in the late 1880s, after it became the first National Park. He and his brothers established the world's first "Dude Ranch" in Medora, North Dakota, and in 1904 moved the Eaton Ranch to Wolf, Wyoming....
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Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed EverythingIt's a contraption that makes the lists of "Greatest Inventions Ever"; at the same time, it's accused of causing global disaster. It has changed everything from architecture to people's food habits to their voting patterns, to even the way big business washes its windows....
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Life and Legacy of Annie OakleyWith a widowed mother and six siblings, Annie Oakley first became a trapper, hunter, and sharpshooter simply to put food on the table. Yet her genius with the gun eventually led to her stardom in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show during the latter half...
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Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Americaa's Leading Comic ArtistsDedicated readers and fans of Theodor Seuss Geisel, or Dr. Seuss, know of Seuss's fascinating, long-forgotten career as a political cartoonist for the New York daily newspaper PM during World War II. Dr. Seuss, however, was only one of a number of distinguished cartoonists...
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Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965-1992The talented men (and later women) who worked in mission control at what is now Johnson Space Center occupied a room located on the third floor of Building 30, a room that at first glance looked like just another auditorium in just another government...
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Best of Covered Wagon Women: Emigrant Girls on the Overland TrailsThe diaries and letters of women on the overland trails in the mid- to late nineteenth century are treasured documents. These eleven selections drawn from the multivolume Covered Wagon Women series present the best first-person trail accounts penned by women in their teens who...
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Montana's Righteous Hangmen: The Vigilantes in ActionThis is the story of Montana Territory in the last half of the nineteenth century, when a massive influx of gold seekers brought murderers and robbers into the region and forced the creation of an organization of law-abiding citizens known as the Vigilantes. Led...
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Forts of the West: Military Forts and Presidios and Posts Commonly Called Forts West of the Mississippi River to 1898The number and variety of forts and posts, together with changes of location, name, and designation, have posed perplexing problems for students of western history. Now Robert W. Frazer has prepared a systematic listing of all presidios and military forts, which were ever, at...
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The Roosevelts and the Royals: Franklin and Eleanor, the King and Queen of England, and the Friendship That Changed HistoryAdvance PraiseFascinating and well researched.... Dr. Swift is the first to concentrate on this unusual subject with such a wealth of sympathetic detail.-Sarah Bradford, author of America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth: A Biography of Britain's Queen, and The Reluctant King:...
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Arizona's Deadliest Gunfight: Draft Resistance and Tragedy at the Power Cabin, 1918On a cold winter morning, Jeff Power was lighting a fire in his remote Arizona cabin when he heard a noise, grabbed his rifle, and walked out the front door. Someone in the dark shouted, "Throw up your hands!" Shots rang out from inside...
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Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Manvolume 27History has portrayed Christopher "Kit" Carson in black and white. Best known as a nineteenth-century frontier hero, he has been represented more recently as an Indian killer responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Navajos. Biographer David Remley counters these polarized views, finding Carson...
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First Manhattans: A History of the Indians of Greater New YorkA concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24 The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sale were Munsees whose ancestral homeland lay between...
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Texas Devils: Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846-1861Reconsidering the myth of "good guys in white hats" 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...
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Bravo of the Brazos: John Larn of Fort Griffin, TexasMore than a century after his death in 1878, the mere mention of John Larn's name can trigger strong reactions along the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in northern Texas. In Bravo of the Brazos, Robert K. DeArment tells for the first time...
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