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Camp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber2022 National Outdoor Book Award Outdoor Classic Winner * Includes stories of such greats as Royal Robbins, Yvon Chouinard, Allen Steck, and Warren Harding * Captures the raucous, outrageous, innovative spirit of climbing in Yosemite during this period * Portrays the advances in equipment...
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The Campaign for Atlanta & Sherman's March to the Sea: Volume 2According to historian Richard McMurry, the 1864 campaign "through the woods and across the hills, valleys, and streams of North Georgia was one of the biggest, longest, and most spellbinding of the American Civil War. It was also one of the most important." Despite...
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The All-American Crew: A True Story of a World War II Bomber and the Men Who Flew ItAn inspiring true story of teamwork, camaraderie, and Americans at war.On January 23, 1943, a B-24 Liberator bomber and its crew of ten men disappeared without a trace in New Guinea. Their families never knew what happened to them. Now, 80 years later, their...
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The Campaign for Atlanta & Sherman's March to the Sea: Volume 1According to historian Richard McMurry, the 1864 campaign "through the woods and across the hills, valleys, and streams of North Georgia was one of the biggest, longest, and most spellbinding of the American Civil War. It was also one of the most important." Despite...
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We Are the Clash: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Last Stand of a Band That MatteredThe Clash's final chapter, after guitarist Mick Jones' 1983 departure, has largely been forgotten--until this book, in which authors Mark Andersen and Ralph Heibutzki argue that the punk pioneers were still creating vital music to the very end.--Rolling Stone, an RS Picks / New...
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Judge Roy Bean CountryWelcome to Judge Roy Bean Country! The landscape is big enough and wild enough to contain any legend--even one the size of Judge Roy Bean. Jack Skiles started with a determination to learn the truth behind the legend of Judge Roy Bean. Armed with...
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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin: Nature's Army at WorkBetween 1933 and 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps, a popular New Deal relief program, was at work across America. During the Great Depression, young men lived in rustic CCC camps planting trees, cutting trails, and reversing the effects of soil erosion. In his latest...
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on...
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The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic: The Rise of the Third ReichA thrilling day-by-day account of the final months of the Weimar Republic, documenting the collapse of democracy in Germany and Hitler's frightening rise to power. November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between rival political parties, the Weimar Republic...
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Shades of Color: Innocence of a Child - An Unequaled LegacyShades of Color was based on the true, heart-warming stories of the first individuals of color to attend Northwestern Oklahoma State University, a mostly white school and western Great Plains area. Tough racial questions were asked. The time period was the 1960s, one of...
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The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights MovementAn authoritative history of the overlooked youth activists that spearheaded the largest protests of the Civil Rights Movement and set the blueprint for future generations of activists to follow. Some of the most iconic images of the Civil Rights Movement are those of young...
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Letters to His ChildrenLetters to His Children has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and...
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The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American WestThe settling of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss,...
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The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave TradeIn this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America's most respected historians of the South--and particularly its history of slavery--turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed to segregation. Dew re-creates...
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America's First Freedom Rider: Elizabeth Jennings, Chester A. Arthur, and the Early Fight for Civil RightsIn 1854, traveling was full of danger. Omnibus accidents were commonplace. Pedestrians were regularly attacked by the Five Points' gangs. Rival police forces watched and argued over who should help. Pickpockets, drunks, and kidnappers were all part of the daily street scene in old...
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The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the PresentThe diplomatic historian examines the ideas, policies and actions that led from Vietnam to the Iraq War and America's disastrous role in the Middle East. "What will stand out one day is not George W. Bush's uniqueness but the continuum from the Carter doctrine...
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The Earl of LouisianaIn the summer of 1959, A. J. Liebling, veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of bizarre events that began with Governor Earl K. Long's commitment to a mental institution. Captivated by his subject, Liebling remained to write...
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Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight"With eighty men I could ride through the entire Sioux nation." The story of what has become popularly known as the Fetterman Fight, near Fort Phil Kearney in present-day Wyoming in 1866, is based entirely on this infamous declaration attributed to Capt. William J....
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When Truth Mattered: The Kent State Shootings 50 Years LaterWhen Truth Mattered is a gripping, authoritative account of a young editor and his staff painstakingly pursuing the truth of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970 - a tragedy that has haunted the nation for 50 years and significantly changed the debate...
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The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of the Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the NortheastOn Aug. 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 massive safe-deposit boxes at a secret bank used by organized crime, La Cosa Nostra, and its associates in Providence, R.I. The crooks fled with duffle bags crammed full of cash, gold, silver, stamps, coins, jewels...
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