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THE AGE OF GOLD: the California gold rush and the new American dream. by H. W. Brands.
Discovering the gold that led emigration to the area before it was a state and how that influenced the development of a population. There are stories of emigrant travel by overland routes and also by sea through Panama and Cape Horn and the perils that kept some from reaching the promised land they had intended. Development of San Francisco and the role of its early vigilance committee. discovery of Yosemite, roles of John Sutter, John Fremont, Samuel Clemens, Leland Stanford, the Mormons, Indians, and more. Photographs and drawings, maps, bibliography, 559 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-385-50216-8. 2002. Order #: RAHO2786 cloth$29.95.

 

 

AMERICA'S ANCIENT TREASURES. by Franklin Folsom and Mary Elting Folsom.
Guide to U.S. and Canada archaeological sites and museums of prehistoric Indian life, with profiles of the museums and collections that interpret America's aboriginal past. Discover the America of an earlier era--where the prehistoric Indians came from, how they clothed and fed themselves, and what they left as evidence of their art, religion, architecture, and daily life. Illustrated with drawings and photographs, 448 large-format pages, index, glossary, suggested readings.
ISBN: 0-8263-0651-9. 1983. Order #: UNNM1630 paper$18.95.

 

AMERICA'S HISTORIC PLACES: an illustrated guide to our country's past. Reader's Digest.
Presents 500 historic relics from our country's past--from homes and birthplaces of great Americans (such as Lincoln, Edison, Truman) to entire towns and preserved historic districts , forts and battlefields, ancient Indian ruins, old churches, museum villages. Tells not only what happened at these historic places but also how events there helped shape America;s destiny. Organizes sites in regions and presents them by state, including Manassas Battlefield, Boot Hill Museum in Kansas, Baranoff Museum in Alaska, Marshall Gold Discovery Site in California. Over 350 color illustrations, 352 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-89577-265-5. 1988. Order #: PUTN2352 cloth$29.95.

AMERICAN LIGHTHOUSES: a definitive guide. by Bruce Roberts and Ray Jones.
Describes more than 500 lighthouses, detailing their history and architecture and providing information on their settings and history. Text begins with lighthouse history, insights into the lives of keepers and facts about the Fresnel lens they use, and even the moving of some lighthouses when threatened by erosion. Covers east coast, Great Lakes, south coast and Gulf of Mexico, west coast, Alaska, and Hawaii. Color photos of virtually every lighthouse, maps showing lighthouse locations. 292 pages, index.
ISBN: 978-0-7627-2269-3. 2002. Order #: GLPE4818 paper$$21.95.

AMERICA'S MOUNTAIN: Pikes Peak and the Pikes Peak region. by Richard M. Pearl.
History of region west of Colorado Springs from earliest days. Travel by road, trail, and cog railway to the summit as one of Colorado's 14er mountains over 14000 feet, this one rising from the plains to the summit. The song 'America the Beautiful" was inspired by America's Mountain. Includes  Native American history, flora, fauna, wildlife, geology, ghost towns. 36 pages, illustrations.
  ISBN: 936564-38-5. 1964 revised edition.  Order #: LILO5269 paper4.95.

AMERICA'S Q & A BOOK: fascinating questions and answers about America's past and present. by Jack Weatherwax.
History, presidents, sports, personalities, geography. For instance, what gold deposit helped the Union win the Civil War? Hundreds of questions are posed and answers are given. Use these as a passing-the-time activity with family and friends, or for your own education and entertainment. 94 pages.
ISBN: 0-8117-21515. 1983. Light soiling. Order #: STAC1111 paper$4.95.

 

#ARIZONA AS IT WAS: 1877. by Hiram Hodge.
Missions, railroads, Indians, newspapers, military posts, mining. 273 pages.
ISBN: . Order #: RIGR1229 cloth$20. See related titles (add link)   Check stock.

AT HOME IN THE SMOKIES: a history handbook for Great Smoky Mountains National Park. by Wilma Dykeman & Jim Stokely.
National Park Service Handbook #125 to people who settled and lived in these Tennessee/North Carolina mountains: native Americans, history, historical sites. Includes Cherokee presence, pioneers, sawmills, creation of the park, local handicrafts. Also sections on Oconaluftee, Cades Cove, and other historic sites in the park and nearby. Historical illustrations, 160 pages, index.
ISBN: 024-005-00902-7. 1984. Order #: USGB4605 paper$8.95.

 

THE BAREFOOT MAILMAN. by Theodore Pratt.
Novel of 1880s when Miami was little more than a mangrove swamp, a young man takes a job carrying letters over 100 miles of sand between Jupiter Lighthouse and Miami, living life while fighting to thwart the schemes of an unscrupulous land speculator.
ISBN: 0-89176-034-2. 1984. Order #: MOCK5956 paper$4.95.

 

THE BEAVER MEN. by Mari Sandoz.
History of trappers who roamed the wilds of Canada and western America during the two centuries 1630-1834-their canoes, paddles, portages, and the animal whose fur they sought as bounty for trading to widespread companies. Tells of rivals of trading companies, rendezvous, relations with Indians, politics in the region. A chapter of American history that resulted in the first explorations by the white race of regions formerly known only to Native Americans, fueled largely by a desire to provide hats for folks in civilized areas. 335 pages, illustrated, maps, bibliography, index..
Inventory =1. ISBN: 0-8032-5884-4. Order #: UNNE6948 paper$7.95.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S "GOOD HOUSE": the story of Franklin Court. by Claude-Anne Lopez.
National Park Service Handbook #114 for Independence National Historical Park at Philadelphia. Tells of the Franklin House and Franklin family, of building the house, and of Franklin's many involvements--inventions and scientific instruments, the American Revolution, printing, plus history of present memorial. Color illustrations, 64 pages.
ISBN: 024-005-00817-9. Order #: USGB8815 paper$5.95.

 

BENT'S FORT: crossroads of cultures on the Santa Fe Trail. by Mel Bacon & Daniel Blegen.
Personal accounts highlight the life of this important trading center on the Santa Fe Trail, where U.S., Mexican, and Indian cultures mingled for trading at a key time in American History. Includes restoration of the fort.. Color illustrations, 72 pages. Grades 4-7.
ISBN: 0-86541-062-3. 1995. Order #: FILT5882 paper$12.95.

 

BLOW FOR A LANDING. by Ben Lucien Burman.
A classic novel from 1938 about the lives of people who made their lives along America's great Mississippi River in earlier days of paddlewheel steamboats. 250 pages.
ISBN: 0-345-24072-3. 1974. Order #: MOCK3597 paper$1.50.

 

CABRILLO'S LOG 1542-1543, A Voyage of Discovery. Juan Paez.
Published by Cabrillo Historical Association.
ISBN: . Order #: CABR5987 paper$19.00.

 

 

CHAMPLAIN: explorer of New France. by Matthew G. Grant.
Children's story of exploration of St . Lawrence River and Great Lakes region of United States and Canada. Champlain eventually became governor of New France, with his main activity in Quebec, where he died on Christmas Day in 1635.
ISBN: 0-87191-287-2. 1974. Order #: MISC3821 cloth$4.95

 

THE CHARLESTON STORY: scenes from a city's history. by John Francis Marion.
Captures the charm and spirit of the past that is preserved in the architectural heritage of one of America's oldest cities. History is presented to show that Charleston survived two wars, earthquakes, and fire but still withstands the ravages of three centuries to remain a landmark of southern history and culture. Author gives a tour through time.
ISBN: 0-8117-2070-5. 1978. Covers scuffed. Order #: STAC3616 paper$10.95.

 

CHILDREN OF STRANGERS: a vivid and intimate novel of a girl and  unique community in the deep South. by Lyle Saxon.
A story set in Plantation Louisiana at the century's turn, of young, beautiful, and eager-for-life Famie Vidal whose mulatto ancestors were once as rich and cultured as the white planters, but now only a small pot of ground remained from the the much larger original plantation--a picture of life in this region at the time. 181 pages.
Inventory =3. ISBN: 0-89176-023-7. 1974. Order #: MOCK3591 paper$1.75.

 

 

CONSTRUCTION OF HOOVER DAM. by Bureau of Reclamation.
By 1927 when construction of Hoover Dam was authorized to be built, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation had already constructed some of the largest dams in the world. Although the site here had favorable qualities for a massive dam, that in itself added to the challenge of straddling the steep-walled gorge and diverting the huge Colorado River while they prepared the dam's bed and created the concrete barrier complete with hydroelectric generation and highway bridge crossing the Arizona-Nevada border.. Text and photographs report how the project was done and show its immensity. Engineering diagrams, photographs, 48 pages. Historical reprint
ISBN:0-916122-51-4. Historical reprint 1976. Order #: KCPU8060 paper$4.00.

DEADLY DAYS IN KANSAS. by Wayne C. Lee.
Documents the state's early wild days when it often was tough to tell the good guys from the bad. Meet the legends of Dodge City and Abilene--Bill Hickcock, Clay Alison, the Earp brothers, Tom Swift. Contains more than 60 incidents of the Wild West that occurred between 1843 and 1932. The Civil War years, wild times, last of the trail drives, day of the gangs, last and new century of bad men. Nearly 100 photographs, many historical, 138 large-format pages, index.
ISBN: 0-87004-379-X. 1997. Order # : CAXT2493 paper$14.95.

THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE: the story of the Natchez Trace (AL, MS, TN). by Jonathan Daniels.
Old trail's drama and role in American history--a path that traveled through 3 southern and eastern states from Nashville, Tennessee to Natchez, Mississippi and linking the Cumberland, Tennessee, and Mississippi Rivers. Originally developed by Native Americans and then in the late 1700s and early 1800s the trail carried explorers, pioneers and settlers and traders as well as soldiers and robbers. Conflict between government and Indians over lands occurred, and individuals on both sides sought ways to benefit from outcomes. 278 pages.
ISBN: 0-88289-438-2. 1985. Order #: PELI2817 paper$4.25.

 

#DISCOVERIES IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Farquhar.
A brief chronology of Discovery in the Pacific Ocean from Balboa to Capt. Cook's First Voyage--1513 to 1770. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press. Carries author's card, Xmas greetings. limited to 1000 copies. 16 pages. Fine condition. 1943.
ISBN: . Order #: MISC9401 paper$30.00.

THE DISTANT MUSIC. by H. L. Davis.
Novel classic story of pioneer who traveled to landing on Columbia River in 1850 and saga of three generations settling in the new Oregon Territory. 256 pages.
ISBN: 0-89714-045-7. 1987. Order #: COMS8726 paper$3.95.

 

 

 

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLITICAL BUTTONS: United States 1896-1972. by Ted Hake.
Includes prices, campaign history, technical facts and statistics (note date of publication). Explains the grading of myriad buttons and ribbons as to their condition and presents details of the campaigns they represent. Includes Republican and Democratic parties as well as some no longer prominent such as Prohibition Party, People's and Greenback Party, States Right Party, Socialist Party, and even Communist Party giving insights into the changing issues important to the times. Some thousands of photographs of the items along with prices, most trivial but some as high as $250 when the book was published and perhaps higher today. Photographs, 256 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-918708-06-0. 1998. back cover bent at bottom. Order #: MISC2804 paper$39.00.

THE FAR CORNER: a personal view of the Pacific Northwest. by Stewart Holbrook.
Classic reminiscence from 1952 of early Pacific Northwest--its hamlets, its myths its literatures, and its history. "Presents the universal property of American experience--exploration, adventure, settlement, development." 256 pages.
ISBN: 0-89174-043-0. 1986. Order #: COMS8724 paper$3.95.

 

 

FORT CLATSOP: the story behind the scenery (OR). Dattilio.
Walk in the moccasins of Lewis and Clark at their 1805-06 westmost winter encampment. Relive their daily lives, from tanning beaver hides to candlemaking. Fort Clatsop National Memorial in northwestern Oregon, marks the location of the winter fort. Explore the story of what Lewis & Clark found in the area, their interaction with the native American tribes of the area, and the history that is preserved at the memorial. 9x12, Paperback, 48 pages, 67 color photos, 1 map.
Inventory= 1. ISBN: 978-0-88714-011-4. 1993. Order #: KCPU3581 paper$11.95.

 

FORT VANCOUVER NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE (WA). by Archie Satterfield and David Lavender.
National Park Service Handbook 113. Washington fur-trading post on the bank of the Columbia River in Washington state built by the Hudson's Bay Company, and used for 35 years as trading center with Indians and trappers. The region of the fort was once sought as territory by Russia, Spain, Great Britain, and America. Explains how beavers were trapped and their pelts made into hats for a broad market plus daily life at the fort.. Roles of individuals active in making history are recounted. Includes guide to site and adjacent park areas. Black-and-white and color photographs, drawings, and paintings, maps, 146 pages,index.
ISBN: 024-005-0816-1. 1981. Order #: USGB2345 paper$7.00.

 

FREDERICKSBURG: a self-guiding auto tour. by Joan Hubbard.
Tour the "City of Steeples" (it has more than 12 churches) in this Heart of the Hills town in Texas and learn of the German immigrants who settled here in 1846 to leave their architecture and descendants. See buildings now restored as part of the Admiral Nimitz State Historical Park, including the Steamboat Hotel topped by a ship's bridge and crows-nest and now housing the Museum of the Pacific War. Stroll through the Peace Garden, gift from Japan. Take the History Walk of the Pacific War. See the Pioneer House and many more, all keyed to a centerfold map. Photographs, 20 large-format pages..
ISBN: None. 1977. Order #: AWAN3100 paper$3.00.

THE FRENCH QUARTER AND OTHER NEW ORLEANS SCENES. by Joseph A. Arrigo.
Sketches of city's most charming landmarks accompanied by descriptions of significance--Jackson square, Mint, plantation houses, river boats, street car, band, more. Illustrated with drawings, 91 pages. This edition has a color cover.
ISBN: 0-88289-455-2. 1984. Order #: PELI2816 paper$7.95.

THE FRENCH QUARTER AND OTHER NEW ORLEANS SCENES. by Joseph A. Arrigo.
Sketches of city's most charming landmarks accompanied by descriptions of significance--Jackson square, Mint, plantation houses, river boats, street car, band, more. Illustrated with drawings, 91 pages. This edition has a black-and-white cover.
ISBN: None. 1977. Order #: PELI1027 paper$7.95.

 

GOLD COUNTRY: the story behind the scenery (CA). Paher.
Presents the great gold rush of 1849 to California, with stories of miners and places and peeks at remaining buildings and machinery. 48 large-format pages, color illustratrions.
ISBN: 0-88714-111-0  2005. Second printing. 1996. Out of print. Order #: KCPU4618 paper$11.95.

 

 

GOLD COUNTRY: the story behind the scenery (CA). Paher.
Presents the great gold rush of 1849 to California, with stories of miners and places and peeks at remaining buildings and machinery. 48 large-format pages, color illustratrions.
ISBN: 0-88714-111-0. First printing. 1996. Order #: KCPU4750 paper$8.95.

 

 

GOOD NEIGHBORS: building next to history--design guidelines handbook.
Professional manual from the State Historical Society of Colorado for use in design standards for historical developments and areas as well as environmental and aesthetic considerations. Photographs, maps, drawings including many of Colorado historical character, 44 large-format pages.
ISBN: None. 1980. Order #: COHI3347 paper$4.95.

HERBERT HOOVER'S HIDEAWAY. by Darwin Lambert.
The story of Camp Hoover on the Rapidan River in Shenandoah National Park, used while president by Herbert Hoover. It was selected to be a retreat in natural surroundings with trout fishing and horseback riding as an escape from dealing with the challenges of his office term including the Great Depression. Tells of how the president and first lady used the camp while on visits, of interactions with neighbors, delivery of important mail by airplane drop,and visitors and events. Photos, 157 pages.
ISBN: None. 1971. Order #: MISC3948 paper$6.95.

 

HISTORIC WALKS IN OLD BOSTON. by John Harris.
Stroll through three and a half centuries of Boston's history: choose from among forty historical walks that meander through major areas, including the Commons, Beacon Hill, central Boston, the waterfront, North and West ends, and Back Bay. Discover interesting and little-known facts about famous residents, history, architecture, politics, religion, customs, and intrigues of times past. Includes point-by-point directions. Photographs, maps, 334 pages, index.
ISBN: 1-56440-157-X. 1993. Order #: GLPE1041 paper$14.95.

 

HISTORICAL ATLAS OF EXPLORATION: 1492-1600. by Angus Konstam.
This Age of Discovery was a period of intense passion, rivalry, and excitement during great global discovery by explorers from European nations. Read of the journeys of Christopher Columbus, Vasco de Gama's search for a sea route to the Indies, John Cabot's exploration of north America, Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the planet, and several others including search for the Northwest Passage across North America. Contemporary illustrations and 70 detailed full-color maps follow each explorer on their travels to the New World, the Pacific Islands, the Indies, the Spice Islands, and Asia. Color photographs, maps, paintings, and drawings, 192 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-8160-4248-9. 2000. Order #: MISC2706 cloth$35.00.

HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE WORLD. by R.R. Palmer.
Presents maps of the world and of nations showing changes in country borders that have occurred and geographic aspects of important periods such as the Roman Empire at several periods, Age of Discovery, the Ottoman Empire of 1529-1789, America's Revolutionary War, the United States 1775-1800, the Civil War and Campaigns of the Civil War, Europe 1922-1940 and Europe after World War II. 40 large-format (10 1/2 by 14 inches) pages, 53 maps most with inset maps, index.
ISBN: 0-528-83081-3. 1965. Order #: RAMC2800 paper$5.95.

HOPEWELL FURNACE. by W. David Lewis and Walter Huggins.
National Park Service Handbook #124 to Hopewell Village National Historic Site in Pennsylvania, a reconstructed 19th century iron-making community. Tells how they got the ore and limestone and the coal used for heat to make it into metal products like stove parts, pots and pans, weights, buckets, and even cannon balls; how these products were made, and their distribution to a widespread market. Transportation wagons, tools, buildings, and the people and company involved. Color illustrations, 96 pages.
ISBN: 024-005-00904-3. 1983. Order #: USGB2458 paper$6.95.

LAFITTE: the Terror of the Gulf.  by Catherine Troxell Gonzalez.
Biography of coastal pirate for young readers. Lafitte and his men operated a "back-door" route through the bayous and bays to get around New Orleans with goods stolen from ships off the coast. He sided with Americans in the Battle of New Orleans when the British attempted to take the city, and now his name is on the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park.64 pages, drawings, map.
ISBN: 0-89015-284-5. Order #: EAKI3777 cloth$6.95.

 

HISTORIC SPRINGS OF THE VIRGINIAS: a pictorial history. by Stan Cohen.
Describes 75 of the many spas that were popular resorts from late 1700s to early 1900s when these sites were declining. The springs themselves, hot baths, canoing, and tennis were among the attractions along with often-handsome architecture and gardens, Photographs, period engravings, ads of the time, maps, 216 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-933126-14-X. Order #: PIHI1571 paper$9.95.

 

THE LAST DAYS OF THE LATE, GREAT STATE OF CALIFORNIA. by Curt Gentry.
What would happen if California did, indeed, fall into the sea during an earthquake? After postulating just such an event, the author considers California in a variety of intriguing episodes revealing inconsistencies and incidents in the social, economic, and cultural aspects of the state and within its regions. "Gentry shows what California is by showing what America would not be without it." 416 pages.
Inventory = 5. ISBN: 0-89174-021-X. Order #: COMS0325 paper$6.95.

 

 

 

LINCOLN MEMORIAL: a guide to the Lincoln Memorial, District of Columbia.
by E.J. Applewhite & Paul Angle.
National Park Service Handbook #129 to monument and history, with brief biography of Lincoln and his family plus Civil War involvement and his personality. Creation of the memorial and the statue of seated Lincoln. Describes the setting and the architecture and building of the structure plus early and modern events that took place there. Color illustrations, 48 pages.
ISBN: 0-912627-28-X. 1986. Order #: USGB8817paper$4.95.

 

MEASURING AMERICA. by Andro Linklatr.
How America came to adopt a uniform system of weights and measures based on a then-traditonal system and not on decimal values. Following the war for freedom, the debts incurred winning that had to be paid, and land was to be the asset sold to raise money to do so. But some 100,000 units of measure were in place in the country and so Washington in his first presidential address to Congress proposed unification of measures as well as a monetary system. He, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Alexander Hamilton and many others championed a system based on increments of ten, each measurement type based on some universal constant. However, the use by surveyors of the 22-yard chain both in America and Britain led us instead to the American Customary System, the last traditional system in the world. A thorough discussion of how these units were applied and their effect on American culture and life. 310 pages, illustrations, index.
ISBN: 0-8027-1396-3. 2002. Order #: MISC2745 cloth$14.95.

MORE POTPOURRI. by E. Gretchenn Vandermeer.
Old recipes, cures, remedies and little-known hints. Cook apple grunt; get rid of bed bugs, weave flour sacks into rugs, dress a duck, cure meat, bring the bloom of health to sallow cheeks, use salicylic acid, make a paste for scrap books, and almost you-name-it. Illustrated with historic drawings/ 54 large-format pages.
ISBN: None. Order #: CAMB0251 paper$4.50.

 

MOUNT RUSHMORE: heritage of America (SD). Lincoln Borglum.
Idea behind memorial and carving history, by sculptor's son. 58 color photos, 48 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-916122-20-4. 1980. Third printing. Order #: KCPU 0720 paper$8.95.

 

 

MOUNTAIN HOME: the Walker family farmstead, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. by Robert R. Madden and T. Russell Jones.
Genealogy of the family and early history of the house's occupants, of the farmstead adjacent to the house, construction style of squared logs, layout of rooms and functions, furnishings, hand-made products, adaptation of the family to the mountain ways of living. Photographs, drawings 55pages.
ISBN: 024-005-00671-1. 1977. Front cover top edge ragged. Order #: USGB9578 paper$9.50.

 

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: the story behind the scenery. by Horace Albright and others.
History of the national parks by those who helped establish it. 96 large-format color photos.
An uncirculated copy from distributor's shelf; never sold. ISBN: 0-88714-015-7. Order #: KCPU8068 paper$29.95.

 

 

NATIONAL PARKS AND THE WOMAN'S VOICE: a history. by Polly Welts Kaufman.
Presents the story of women's contributions to the national parks, often told by the women themselves. Based on hundreds of interviews and includes information on women's history sites in the National Park System, evolution of a woman's ranger uniform, contributions by individual women and women's groups in the establishment of some parks. Includes the role of ranger wives. Photographs, 330 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-8263-1870-3. 2000. Order #: UNNM2723 paper$18.95.

 

 

NATIONAL PARKS OF WASHINGTON, D.C.: the story behind the scenery (DC). by Robert Fudge.
Wherever people go in Washington DC, they are not far from a National Park area.  These parks represent a remarkable array of places all with a treasure trove of stories giving expression to American values. 9x12, 48 pages, 59 color photos & 4 maps. 2006.
ISBN: 088714-266-4. 20006. Order #: KCPU9521 paper 11.95.

 

 

NORTH AMERICA: a geography of the United States and Canada. by J. H. Paterson.
Thorough discussion of all aspects of this region including the broad physical regions, climate and geologic setting, peopling from Native Americans through immigrations to today, building the cities, the levels of government, land and water resources and their conservation, economics including transportation, agriculture, industry,regionalism, and character of each region with their pasts and prospects. Photographs and maps, 529 large-format pages, index.
ISBN: 0-19-508058-0. 1994. Order #: MISC2708 cloth$24.95.

 

OLD LODGES AND HOTELS OF OUR NATIONAL PARKS. by Bill McMillon.
Complete history of the 22 lodges built in the late 19th or early 20th century for graceful and elegant living in incredible surroundings including national parks and areas that would become national parks. They often occupy premier spots within the most beautiful locations in the country. Narrates the history of each lodge as a part of the history of its park it resides in, and at which you make your stay while visiting the park. Among the lodges and hotels included: The Ahwahnee at Yosemite, Crater Lake Lodge, Furnace Creek Inn at Death Valley, Old Faithful Inn at Yellowstone, Paradise Inn at Mount Rainier, El Tovar at Grand Canyon, Le Conte Lodge at Great Smoky Mountains. These are examples of a style of architecture that has become know as parkatecture. Prices for reservations give a nostalgic look at 1962. Color and black-and-white photographs, 130 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-89651-551-6. 1983. Order #: MISC2229 paper$4.95.

ON THE ROAD TO YELLOWSTONE: the Yellowstone Trail and American Highways 1900-1930. by Harold A. Meeks.
Before 1900 long distance travel in America and elsewhere was strictly a railroad phenomenon, but with improvements in the internal combustion engine, automobile travel gradually became popular. First a sporting activity for the wealthy, this new means of locomotion quickly spread to a greater consuming public and a cry for better roads swept across the land. This book traces the history of America's early roads (1900-1916) with an emphasis on the famous Yellowstone Trail that stretched from Boston to Seattle through the northern tier of states. 8 1/2"x11", 208 pages, 276 photos, maps, documents.
ISBN: 1-57510-079-7. Order #: PIHI2765 paper$15.95.

 

PEACHTREE STREET, ATLANTA. by William B. Williford.
A portrait of Atlanta, Georgia, from Indian village to the railroad town of Terminus along the old Peachtree Trail. as it evolved from a village street to a bustling avenue and a capital of the South, the street remaining the heart of Atlanta. 189 pages.
ISBN: 0-89716-006-7. 1975. Order #:MOCK3596 paper$1.75.

 

 

THE PIONEERS: or, The Sources of the Susquehanna. by James Fenimore Cooper.
Novel from 1823 set at a time only 10 years after the Revolutionary War when the frontier of white settlement is gradually advancing across the American continent to the Pacific, carrying with it pioneers, hunters, and trappers. The frontier setting is Upper New York State around Otsego Lake. 350 pages.
ISBN: 0-8049-0049-3. 1964. Order #: AIRM1071 paper$1.95.

 

 

PIONEER BEAUTY SECRETS: "old and new cosmetics from the kitchen" plus "garden and insect control". by Ferne Shelton.
Early beauty aids in America were made in settlements and frontier kitchens using herbs, honey, juices, vinegar, or other supplies on hand. Some came down from grandmothers; others came from new experiments. Before 1900 few commercially mixed cosmetics were available to the public but kitchen supplies were always plentiful enough to spare for the magic of beauty. As time passed store-bought items were added to improve older mixtures such as glycerine, oils, etc. and later ready-to-use products became widely available However some of the earlier grooming aids are still enjoyed for various reasons--surprisingly simple mixtures. Today's woman can wisely choose the best of old and new. Try Kitchen Wrinkle Cream, Herbal Tonic Bath, Tonic for Red Noses, Calamity Cream, Mary's Foot Cream, and many more. Drawings, 24 pages.
ISBN: None. 1970. by Hutcraft. Order #: HUTC0630 paper$3.95.

PIONEER COMFORTS AND KITCHEN REMEDIES: old-timey highland secrets from the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains. by Ferne Shelton.
America's first settlers were able from their Old World lives able to recognize and use many coastal plants. In the Appalachians they found great variety of plants some of which could be used for food, medicine, and comforts. Much has bee learned about medieval herb lore but the old-timey remedies listed here are neither suggested nor recommended. Chapters include beverages and wines, coughs and colds, aches and pains, miscellaneous miseries, perfumes, dyeing with natural colors, plants as insecticides, and lucky charms. Carrots were said to make strong eyes, horseradish was for dropsy, sage was good for loose teeth. Drawings, 24 pages.
Check stock. ISBN: None. 1965. by Hutcraft. DAMAGED--1" x 1" of upper left corner of book (covers and all pages) is missing, but contents are intact. Order #: HUTC2834 paper$3.95.

PIONEER COOKBOOK: favorite campfire and kitchen recipes from early America. by Ferne Shelton.
Includes many traditional recipes made from roots, barks, leaves, and plants gathered from the woods--as well as meats such as rabbits, 'possums, birds, venison, bear, elk, etc.--depending on the skill of the gatherer or the luck of the hunter or fisher. There is blackberry nectar, locust beer, Indian pumpkin bread, hoarhound candy, long johns, roast duck, chuck wagon chops, fish cakes,, campfire corn roast, rhubarb pie, fisherman's muddle, homesteader;s beef stew--all arranged in categories of beverages and wines, breads, candy, cookies, desserts and puddings, meats, vegetables, pickles/preserves/relishes, pies and pastries, soups and stews. There are also wagon train remedies for foot corns, insect stings, sunburn, colic, and more. Drawings, 32 pages.
ISBN: None. 1973. Order #: HUTC0625 paper$3.95.

PIONEER LUCKY STONES: gem and mineral lore. by Ferne Shelton.
For centuries legends and myths told the special significance of different stones...We now classify many of those early beliefs as superstitions and folklore and today jewels are enjoyed more for their personal and sentimental value. But for anybody who wears gems and jewelry, the legends and lore of earlier times might still entertain and awaken the sense of wonder. Includes gem customs, shapes and symbols, lucky stones, days-of-the-week stones, color superstitions, gems for names, state stones, birth and anniversary stones. Drawings, 24 pages.
ISBN: None. 1974. Order #: HUTC2833 paper$3.95.

 

PIONEER PROVERBS: wit and wisdom from early America. by Mary Turner.
Some of the old sayings in this collection may already be familiar to you, for whether serious or saucy, hundreds of proverbs have endured for generations and were a prominent part of life in early America. Contents include friendship, relationships, money, luck, pleasures, simple communication, love and marriage, and more: "pick your friends, but not to pieces"; "three may keep a secret if two of them are dead; "a little nothing will get you nowhere"'; 'mix a little folly with your serious thoughts"; "nothing is so new as has long been forgotten". Drawings, 24 pages.
ISBN: None. 1971. Order #: HUTC2836 paper$3.95.

 

PIONEER SUPERSTITIONS: old-timey signs and sayings. by Ferne Shelton.
The first American settlers from Europe came from many different countries, each bringing their own native folklore and legends, reflecting the handed down customs, omens, and wisdom of centuries. There was often a saying or rhyme to fit or explain almost any occasion. These sayings were an important part of life in early America. Superstitions are presented in chapters of weather signs, healers, garden crops, love and marriage, weddings, for housewives, New Year's signs, childrens' sayings, lucky charms: "It is a sign of rain if tree leaves show undersides"; "Severe weather ahead if there is a big crop of walnuts"; a horseshoe hung props up keeps witches away; wedding good luck comes if the couple stands with their feet parallel to cracks in the floor; seeing a white cat on the road is good luck; to have good luck for a new year, wear red garters. Drawings, 24 pages.
ISBN: None. 1969. Order #: HUTC2837 paper$3.95.

PIONEERS in PETTICOATS: Yosemite's early women, 1856-1900. by Shirley Sargent. Introduction by Francis P. Farquhar.
Cover photograph: Kitty Tatch and friend on the Overhanging Rock at Glacier Point, 1901. 80 large-format pages, 60 illustrations, index.
ISBN: None. Order: # GRWE7467paper$9.95.

 

PLANTATIONS OF LOUISIANA. by Jess DeHart.
Guides the traveler on tours of homes throughout the state and offers historical briefs and also introduces the basic architectural styles of Louisiana plantations (such as Creole Classic, Louisiana Greek Revival, Louisiana Colonial), featuring over 300. Describes architectural styles of Louisiana plantation homes--how to recognize them, their significance, and their locations to help understand this important link with the region's history. Illustrated, 13 maps, 176 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-88289-338-6. Order #: PELI2813 paper$39.00.

POWER IN THE CITY: decision making in San Francisco. by Frederick M. Wirt.
Historically informed observations of San Francisco that treat not only internal political affairs--but also city, county, state, and federal relations as well, providing an integrated political picture. What emerges is a segmented decision-making system responsive to shifting groups and alliances of powerful outside forces and of diminishing local autonomy. Tells us in a subtle way that the study of urban politics has come of age. 417 pages.
SBN:  0-520-03640-9. 1978. Order #: UNCA3712 paper$6.95.

 

 

PRESERVATION EASEMENTS: a legal mechanism for protecting cultural resources. by State Historical Society of Colorado.
A technical report for use by professionals in the field of finding mechanisms such as easements for protecting heritage properties. Numerous appendixes providing forms and letters for use in applying for easements.176 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-942576-28-4  1984. Scuffed covers. Order #: COHI3345 paper$27.50.

 

 

THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. by Hugh H. Sidey.
Concise portrayals--education, politics, elections, actions in office, war involvements, personalities, religion, family. With official portraits of all US Presidents--Washington to Clinton. 44 color illustrations, 94 pages.
ISBN: 0-912308-48-6. 1994. Order #: INPU9058 paper$9.95.

See also The First Ladies INPU9204.

 

RENDEZVOUS AT THE ALAMO. by Virgil E. Baugh.
Highlights in the lives of Bowie, Crockett, and Travis and how they came from different paths to a common fate in l836 when this San Antonio mission fell to the Mexican army--amid heroism and self-sacrifice. 265 pages, illustrated, index..
ISBN: 0-8032-6074-1. Order #:UNNE1956 paper$13.95.

 

 

RUSH FOR RICHES: gold fever and the making of California. by J. S. Holliday.
Here is the story of California's founding era--four decades of the 19th century that shaped the state perhaps for all time to come. Describes transformation from the quietude of a Mexican hinterland to the forefront of entrepreneurial capitalism. The book recreates the masculine world of mining camps and rough cities, gold mining from treasure hunt to vast industry, the plunder of virgin rivers and vast forests, and feats of engineering of breathtaking scope. Tells of the ambitious persons who brought the transcontinental railroad, of timber barons, gamblers, and farmers and how the latter contested some of the former to ensure their place. Nearly 250 illustrations, 100 in color, and many of historical character, maps, 355 large-format pages, index. ISBN: 0-520-21402-1. 1999. Order #:UNCA2719 paper$35.00.

SAN ANTONIO: a historical and pictorial guide. by Charles Ramsdell.
Past and present of this distinctive Texan city: historic districts, missions, museums, scenic features, sights. Churches, bridges, missions including the Alamo, museums, Mexican and Spanish influence. 123 illustrations,  8 maps, 320 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-292-77605-5. Order #: UNTX4728 paper$8.95.

THE STORY OF MOUNT DESERT ISLAND (MAINE). by Samuel Eliot Morison.
Highlights of the island's history from the time when Abnaki Indians came in summer for fishing, then discovery by Champlain in 1604, a century and a half of rivalry between English and French, settlement by New Englanders in 1761. Way of life of these Mount Deserters is explored as they exploited the island's resources where a single man "could be fisherman, sailor, farmer, lumberman, shipwright, and quarryman rolled into one, and master of all". Island shipping is featured--coastwise trading schooners, passenger steamers, and modern racing yachts. Historical photographs, bibliography, appendix of place names. 81 pages.
ISBN: None. 1960. Jacket cover scuffed. Order #: /Order #: ACPU3192 cloth$45.00.

THE STORY OF THE HOMESTEAD ACT. by Conrad Stein.
Children's history of how the opening of land to settlement encouraged Americans to move into new areas and develop new ways of living. Securing and developing a a homestead, sod houses, travel by wagon, frontier farming and ranching. Illustrated, 31 pages.
ISBN: 0-516-04616-9. Order #: CHIL2057 paper$3.95.

 

#THE STRIPES AND STARS: the evolution of the American flag. Boleslaw & Mastai.
Chronology of flags and the periods which used them, leading to America's present flag. 71p, color Illustrated.
Check stock. ISBN: 0-88360-001-3. Order #: MISC6835 paper$9.95.

THE SUMMER LAND. by Burke Davis.
Novel of the tender and hilarious story of Fax Starling growing up in North Carolina tobacco country around 1916: a loving family of red-soil tobacco farmers, with chapter like "Good Men Don't Cheat--Much", "The Teacher Comes". and "Jimroe Goes Too Far." 223 pages.
ISBN: 0-345-24374-9. 1975. Order #: MOCK3592 paper$1.50.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT: the story behind the scenery (ND)--paper. Schoch.
Eroded bluffs, wildlife, human story of ND park once ranched by Roosevelt. 42 color photos, 32 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-916122-13-1. 1979. Second printing. Order #: KCPU0737 paper$8.95.

 

 

THEODORE ROOSEVELT: the story behind the scenery (ND)--cloth. Schoch.
Eroded bluffs, wildlife, human story of ND park once ranched by Roosevelt. 42 color photos, 32 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-916122-38-7. 1979. Second printing. Order #: KCPU5869 cloth$14.95.

 

 

THE TREE ARMY:a pictorial history of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942 (book). by Stan Cohen.
The New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt changed the life of every American from the time of his inauguration in 1933 down to the present. There is general agreement that one of the best programs—and certainly one that left a remarkable visual legacy of conservation work—was the Civilian Conservation Corps. 8 1/2"x 11", 192 pages, 193 photos.
ISBN: 0-933126-11-5. Order #: PIHI5797 paper$14.95.

 

#THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: our way of life.
Check stock. ISBN: . IDAHO3415 paper$4.95.

VANDERBILT MANSION NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE (NY). by Charles W. Snell.
National Park Service Historical Handbook Series No 32. Story of Vanderbilt family and mansion with details of building and grounds plus history of how wealth was obtained through shipping and railroads. Site is at Hyde Park, New York along the Hudson River. The mansion and its rooms and furnishings are described as well as outbuildings including the elegant coach house and the grounds. Includes tips on visiting the site. Historical photographs and map, 52 pages.
ISBN: 024-005-00956-6. 1961. Order #: USGB2453 paper$4.95.

 

THE VOYAGEUR'S HIGHWAY. by Grace Lee Nute.
This "highway" was the route from Lake Superior along inland waterways to the Minnesota North Country--partly through the joint international Boundary Waters Wilderness. A dependable source on the history of the fur trade, mining of the Iron Range, and logging in the region. Chapters include "Boundary Routes and Disputes", "Famous Men of the Border", "Fur Trading Companies", "Voyageurs", "Border Indians", "Logging Days". It is the story of explorers, fur trappers, missionaries, map makers, lumberjacks, miners, conservationists, naturalists--and the trials, perils, and rewards they faced in and received from this land of water trails. Persons exploring this still-wild world today can add another dimension to their visits by knowing of the story of earlier generations. Photographs, bibliography, chronology, maps, 131 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-87351-006-2. 1999. Order #: MISC2725 paper$19.99.

A WALKER'S GUIDE TO HARPERS FERRY, WEST VIRGINIA. by Dave Gilbert.
See remnants from the past of this historically important town where the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers come together to flow through a break, or "water gap" in ridges of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Here was the site of extensive water-powered and coal-fired factories, a federal armory, and a firehouse where John Brown and some brave followers attempted to start a movement they felt would speedily free America's enslaved humans. There is also the C&O Canal and its locks, which raised boats 605 feet in its 184 1/2 miles. Text includes the Robert Harper's ferry, too, which gave the place its name. Geologic aspects and natural trees are also covered, controverting to its scenic appeal. 28 photos, 11 maps, 80 pages.
Inventory= Check stock. ISBN: 0-933126-28-X. Out of print. 1984. Order #: PIHI2793 paper$7.95.

 

#WHERE INDUSTRY FAILED: water-powered mills at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Gilbert.
60 photos and maps, 92 large-format pages. Out of print.
Inventory=Check stock. ISBN: 0-933126-49-2. Order #: PIHI5548 paper$9.95.

WHITE HOUSE LADIES: fascinating tales and colorful curiosities. by Webb Garrison.
Here are the U.S. presidents' wives from Martha Washington to Hillary Clinton; public roles these women have played and their private accomplishments and peculiarities, naturally providing insights into the presidents, too. Some rode horses, some painted, some chose china dishware. There were even some marriages in the White House. Photographs, 256 pages, index.
Inventory=1. 1-55853-417-2. 1996. ex-library with owner signature and scuffed covers. Order #: MISC1044 paper$12.99.

 

WHITMAN MISSION NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE: here they labored among the Cayuse Indians (WA). by Erwin N. Thompson.
Describes early travel west on Oregon Trail of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, their missionary activities with local Indians and the life and culture of the natives including the mission they built in Washington, efforts made to secure assistance from  church including trips to the east, layout and functions of rooms and outbuildings, artifacts recovered. Reports the effect of measles epidemic that killed half the tribe, arrival of emigrants who became settlers and the resultant dissatisfaction with Whitmans who were in part blamed for these ills, and the resultant massacre by the Indians of the Whitmans. Photographs and drawings (some historical), maps, suggested readings, 92 pages,
Inventory =2; otherwise out of print. ISBN: 024-005-00186-7. 1964. Slight soiling of covers. Order #: USGB2454 paper$6.95.

WIND CATCHERS: American windmills of yesterday and tomorrow. by Volta Torrey.
Presents an historical overview of the development of wind power in this country during the last century and also considers wind power as an alternative energy source; gives insight into the beginnings of a new revolution of use of wind and thus a good historical reference. Photos, 237 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-8289-0438-3. 1976. Order #: STGR3582 paper$9.95.

 

WORTHWHILE PLACES: correspondence of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Horace M. Albright. edited by Joseph W. Ernst.
Illustrates a remarkable public-private partnership that helped shape our national park system, documented through 211 letters covering a 36-year period. Rockefeller and Albright shared a common concern and love of America;s natural had historic heritage and combined the opportunities of both the private sector by Rockefeller and the public one of Albright, a National Park Service director who remained active in parks conservation his entire life. Parks involved include--in some cases as to their establishment: Acadia, Grand Teton, Great Smoky Mountains, Yosemite, Virgin Islands as well as other areas such as the California Big Trees, Florida's Bald Cypress Swamp, and Virginia's Colonial Williamsburg. Photographs, maps, 366 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-8032-1330-7. 1991. /Order #: MISC2732 paper$65.00.

 

Wars/Military

#THE ALAMO AND THE TEXAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (THE). Haythornthwaite.
Covers uniforms and personal equipment of these soldiers.The Alamo is not a part of San Antonio Missions NHP but is closely allied with its hisory. Photos, 48 pages.
ISBN: 0-8505-684-3. Order #: STAC4239 paper$12.95.

THE CONCRETE BATTLESHIP: Fort Drum, El Fraile Island, Manila Bay. by Francis J. Allen.
History of construction of concrete fort in Manila Bay in the Philippines to defend Manila from naval attack, started in 1909, part of a chain of forts across the bay entrance. Built on an island reduced to water level, the fort rises 40 feet above sea level, is 350 feet long and up to 144 feet wide, with walls as thick as 28 feet and a top deck that is 20 feet thick. Interior rooms include engine room, powder and shell rooms, mining casemate, storerooms and tankage, plotting rooms, and accommodations for 300 personnel. Mounted on top are two 14-inch guns mounted in superimposed armored turrets. It is unique in the United States design of coastal fortifications, earning the name of the "Concrete Battleship". Photographs, drawings, map. 64 large-format pages. Perfect-bind spine.
ISBN: 0-929521-06-4. Revised Edition. Order #: PIHI1421 paper$8.95.

THE GOVERNMENT'S WAR POWERS under the Constitution of the United States. by William Whiting.
An analysis of the government's legal powers to fight subversion, treason, and civil war.368 pages.
ISBN: 87380-073-7. 1971. Order #: RIGR3409 cloth$45.00.

HILL OF SACRIFICE: the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl. by Doug Carlson.
History and significance of this Hawaiian hillside from times of legend when used for sacrifice to Polynesian gods and as place to incinerate bodies of violators of ancient codes to its present use as a military graveyard for servicemen and women killed in action in the Pacific region as well as a record of some 30,000 whose remains were never recovered. Includes chronology of development of site. Color photos, map, 64 pages.
ISBN: 0-89610-085-5. 1982. Order #: ISHE3024 paper$6.95.

 

MOUNTAINEER BATTLEWAGON: U. S. S. West Virginia (BB-48). by Myron J. Smith Jr.
History from construction in 1923 to sinking in Pearl Harbor at start of World War II, salvage and rebuilding to again battle in the Pacific 1944-45 until scrapped in 1961. Includes account of predecessor ship. 48 large-format pages, 55 photos.
Check stock. ISBN: 0-933126-16-6. Order #: PIHI2253 paper$9.95.

 

U.S. ARMY UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT, 1889. Quartermaster General of the Army. Foreword by Jerome A. Greene, retired National Park Service historian..
Includes clothing, tents, flags, bugle, broom, more. Marked a milestone in the development of standards and specifications for military clothing and equipment. A valuable reference for articles used by the army during the Indian wars and of special interest to collectors, historians, archaeologists, curators, and antique dealers. 385 pages, with detailed line drawings of virtually every item of uniform and equipment issued, including mosquito bars and tent stoves to overalls for mounted men and uniform coat buttons.
ISBN: 0-8032-9552-9. 1986. This copy has light staining and bending on upper right corner of most pages. Order #: UNNE6525 paper$14.95.

 

 

THE NATURE OF WAR. by John Keegan & Joseph Darracott.
Notes that throughout human history war engagements have been endless, punctuated occasionally by brief periods of peace. This volume presents the eternal sequence of the stages of war--from peace to outbreak, through campaigns, battles, sieges, invasions, retreats, Armageddon and the return to peace from surrender and aftermath. Eight chapters lead through the actual course of a war, presenting the sequence both as a historical account and with artistic renderings from a variety of periods and cultures. Color and black-and-white drawings and paintings, many historical, 276 extra-large-format pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN: 0-03-057777-2. 1981. Order #: HORW3395 cloth w/dust jacket $37.50.

U.S. ARMY UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT, 1889. Quartermaster General of the Army. Foreword by Jerome A. Greene, retired National Park Service historian.
Includes clothing, tents, flags, bugle, broom, more. Marked a milestone in the development of standards and specifications for military clothing and equipment. A valuable reference for articles used by the army during the Indian wars and of special interest to collectors, historians, archaeologists, curators, and antique dealers. 385 pages, with detailed line drawings of virtually every item of uniform and equipment issued, including mosquito bars and tent stoves to overalls for mounted men and uniform coat buttons.
ISBN: 0-8032-9552-9. 1986. This copy has light staining and bending on upper right corner of most pages. Order #: UNNE6525 paper$14.95.

U.S. ARMY UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT, 1889. Quartermaster General of the Army. Foreword by Jerome A. Greene, retired National Park Service historian.
Includes clothing, tents, flags, bugle, broom, more. Marked a milestone in the development of standards and specifications for military clothing and equipment. A valuable reference for articles used by the army during the Indian wars and of special interest to collectors, historians, archaeologists, curators, and antique dealers. 385 pages, with detailed line drawings of virtually every item of uniform and equipment issued, including mosquito bars and tent stoves to overalls for mounted men and uniform coat buttons.
ISBN: 0-8032-9552-9. 1986. Same as above but no staining or bending. Order #: UNNE6525 paper$14.95.

US INFANTRY EQUIPMENTS 1775-1910. Katcher.
Uniform dress, arms, gear used by soldiers as America developed. Color and b/w illustrations,  48 pages.
 ISBN: 0-85045-936-2. Order #: STAC4098 paper$12.95.

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THE AMERICAN WAR 1812-1814. Katcher.
The bitter fighting when British burned the White House and stormed New Orleans. Black-and-white and color illustrations, 4 pages, full of detail. By the Osprey Military Men-at-Arms series
ISBN: 0-85045-197-3. Order #: STAC3732 paper$12.95.

COLONIAL KITCHEN HERBS AND REMEDIES: garden and kitchen secrets from early America. by Ferne Shelton.
As the early ships from Europe landed along the Atlantic coast, colonists brought their cherished seeds and plants because of virtues attributed to them in Old World medicine and cooking. Many plants indicated their usefulness to health by some aspect such as color, texture, or shape and some were named for their uses, such as " heal-all", "heartsease", "liverwort", etc. Dandelion wine was thought good for a blood tonic and the liver and kidneys, honeysuckle tea helped coughs, chest issues and nerves being "good for twitches". Chapters include Beverages and Wines, Herbs in Cooking, Useful Weeds, Household Ointments and Salves, Early Tobacco Mixtures, Lucky Charms. There was also Mary's Magic Foot tonic "to maketh the feet nimble and pains go away."  Recipes, sketch drawings, 24 pages.
ISBN: None. 1972. Order #: HUTC2832 paper $3.95.

 

COLONIAL NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK (VA): the story behind the scenery. Haskett.
First English colony in America--Virginia's Jamestown--and Yorktown Battlefield site where Britain surrendered. Color photos, 48 large-format pages.

ISBN: 0-88714-044-0. 1990. First printing. Order #: KCPU8720 paper$11.95.

 

COLONIAL TREASURE COOKBOOK: special time-tested recipes from early America. by Ferne Shelton.
Hardy settlers along the Atlantic coast brought their food customs and family recipes from many different lands. Colonists provided fruits, meats, vegetables, and learned to use native foods. There were herbs from fancy flavors, beverages, and remedies. The kitchen became the heart of every home. Try crystallized orange peels, southern mint julep, dandelion wine, hopping john New Year's Day good luck dish, Brunswick stew, scalloped oysters, grandmothers molasses cookies, rum tum pie, and many more. Drawings, 24 pages.
ISBN: None. 1970. Order #: HUTC2835 paper $3.95.

 

DECISIVE BATTLES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. by Colonel Joseph B. Mitchell.
A popular work that creates concisely and dramatically the important battles, sieges, and campaigns of America's war for independence--from Lexington to final battle at Yorktown: Progress of the war, military tactics, with maps that show troop deployments, moves of the armies, and strategies of the commanders.
ISBN:0-89176-039-3. Order #: MOCK4672 paper$2.75.

 

 

 

THE FORGING OF THE UNION: 1781-1789. Morris.
History of years from the winning of independence to creation of the federal government. 430 pages.
ISBN: 0-06-015733-X. Order #: HARO9546 cloth $22.95.

 

 

 

FORT MCHENRY NATIONAL MONUMENT AND HISTORIC SITE (MD). by Harold I. Lessom and George McKenzie.
History of this MD fort that defended Baltimore from British attack during War of 1812, including 1814 bombardment which inspired Francis Scott Key to write Star Spangled Banner. Details the movement of ships and soldiers in the attempt to invade the city and the American response to repel them. Includes actions by individual commanders and describes the nature of warfare at that time. Historical drawings, maps, 40 pages. National Park Service Historical Handbook #5.
ISBN: 024-005-00191-3. 1961. Order #:USGB2443 paper $4.25.

 

FORT RALEIGH and the first English settlement in the New World (NC). by Charles W. Porter III.
National Park Service Handbook 130. Settlement at Fort Raleigh and at Roanoake, Virginia, by Sir Walter Raleigh. Customs and life of Native Americans when the colonists arrived, with watercolor drawings of the Indians by John White as "Portraits of a New World. Chapters also include "Exploration of Roanoke Island", "Raleigh's First Colony", "The Lost Colony of 1587", "Links with Jamestown and New England", and "Search for the 'Cittie of Ralieigh;" Dwellings and forts were built by the diverse skilled workmen of the colony, but re-supply ships did not come as expected and at one point the entire colony sailed back to England with Sir Francis Drake. Historical black-and-white and color photographs and drawings, suggested readings, 56 pages.
ISBN: 024-005-00959-1. 1985. Order #: USGB8816 paper$4.95.

 

GUILFORD COURTHOUSE NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, North Carolina. by Courtland T. Reid.
Battle of Guilford Courthouse (1781)--beginning of end of Revolutionary War. Although a British victory, their win left them so weak they lost the overall campaign to defeat the Americans. Includes events leading up to this battle, officers, uniforms of the soldiers and militia. Maps show battle lines and points of interest. Maps, drawings, historical photographs, suggested readings, 44 pages.
 ISBN: 024-005-0019-4. 1961. smudge on lower front cover. Order #: USGB2362 paper $4.75.

 

 

INDEPENDENCE: a guide to Independence National Historical Park. by Richard B. Morris.
National Park Service Handbook #115 to Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia. Role of Independence Hall as site where American government was formed. History of the Constitution, Philadelphia as capital of the United States, history of the Liberty Bell (which is on site), related historic sites nearby including the house where Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence.. Color illustrations, 64 pages.
ISBN: 024-005-00830-6. 1982. Order #: USGB2447 paper $4.95.

 

LIFE AND TIMES IN COLONIAL PHILADELPHIA. by Joseph J. Kelley, Jr..
History of the rapid growth of this city from 1640 to 1799 and the roles of the men and women who conceived the American concept of freedom. Presented as 13 essays reflecting the lives of important persons such as William Penn and Ben Franklin, the planning of the city-to-be, art and culture, Swedes and Quakers and other foreign influences, taverns, marriage, sex, and finally politics. Photographs, 256 pages.
ISBN: 0-8117-0949-3 1973. Dust jacket scuffed. Order #: STAC3299 cloth$16.95.

 

MORRISTOWN: A History and Guide. by George F. Scheer and Russell F. Weigley.
National Park Service Handbook # 120. This historical area preserves the 1777 and 1779-80 sites of the winter encampments of General George Washington's Continental Army at Morristown, New Jersey. Artifacts from the time are described, the harsh winter conditions explained when shelter and clothing were minimal, as well as food--with mutinies of the soldiers as a result. Color illustrations, 112 pages.
ISBN: 0-912627-21-2. 1983. Order #: USGB2460 paper$7.95.

 

  PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE: discovering Independence National Historical Park. by Shirley Milgrim.
Traces the history of Philadelphia to become the leading metropolis of Colonial America and the capitol of the United States from 1790 to 1800.Details the stories of the buildings and sites of the park and its region, including Carpenters' Hall, Christ Church and Cemetery, Franklin Court, First Bank of the United States, Friends' Meeting House, Philadelphia Exchange, and more. Drawings,,127 pages.
ISBN: 0-85699-101-5. 1974. Order #:CHAT3364 cloth $7.95.

 

 

THE PELICAN GUIDE TO HISTORIC HOMES AND SITES OF REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA, Vol. 1: New England. by Adelaide Hechtlinger.
Covers Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut from the standpoint of history of the states, cities, and landmarks dating from the Revolutionary epoch. For instance, there is the Paul Revere House, the Boston Light, the John Paul Jones House, Faneuil Hall, and more. Photos, 128 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-88289-090-5. 1976. Covers with small stains. Order #: PELI2814 paper $7.95.

 

A SPY IN OLD WEST POINT. by Anne Emery.
Children's story set in time of American Revolution. Set along the Hudson River of New York, young Jock Fraser is a member of a militia as America fights Great Britain for independence and comes to admire positive qualities of a spy even as he maintains loyalty to his new country. Illustrated with drawings, 191 pages.
ISBN:0-528-87648-1. 1974. Order #: RAMC3952 paper$4.95.

 

 

STEPPING STONES: the Pilgrims' own story. by Adelia White Notson and Robert Carver Notson.
Stepping stones begins with the Pilgrim society in England and its removal to Holland before embankment to America. In their history they carefully formulated the principles by which they wished to associate and in the process invented the American democratic system. We learn of their interest in God and of the economic contracts they entered. Their story is presented in four sections, with each illuminated by contemporaries and with their compacts, journals, and documents that led to practices of American government today. "Not only did the Pilgrims struggle against the bitterest of hardships, but they reached for principles that were to survive and become the sinews of a nation." Drawings, map, bibliography, 205 pages, index.
Inventory= 1. ISBN; 0-8323-0453-0, 1987. Order #: BIMO 1232 cloth$19.95.

THE STORY OF THE LIBERTY BELL. by Natalie Miller.
Children's history of America's famed freedom symbol--idea for the bell and getting it made in England and then at length installed in the Philadelphia State House, secreted away during the War for Independence, then reinstalled and rung until it cracked (the second time, after repair). In this history the bell became a symbol of American freedom and has gone on tour throughout the United States now to be seen again at Independence National Historic Park in Pennsylvania. Illustrated, 30 pages.
ISBN: 0-516-44622-3. Order #: CHIL2067 paper $3.95.

 

#THE STRIPES AND STARS: the evolution of the American flag. Boleslaw & Mastai.
Chronology of flags and the periods which used them, leading to America's present flag. 71p, color Illustrated.
Check stock. ISBN: 0-88360-001-3. Order #: MISC6835 paper$9.95.

STRUGGLE AND SURVIVAL IN COLONIAL AMERICA. by David G. Sweet & Gary B. Nash.
Stories of 23 individual inhabitants of Spanish, English, and Portuguese colonies in the New World between the 16th and 19th centuries. Persons of both genders and all classes and races of colonial society deal creatively and pragmatically with the challenges of their social world, not always successful. Includes a priest, a slave, a millwright and others. Illustrations, 406 pages.
ISBN: 0-520-04501-7. Order #: UNCA1603 paper$8.95.

 

A WILLIAMSBURG HORNBOOK. Wise.
Mini-encyclopedia to this colonial city. Photos, 128 pages.
ISBN: 0-8117-1203-6. Order #: STAC1383 paper$9.95.

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AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ARMIES: (4) state troops. by Philip Katcher and Ron Volstad.
Uniform dress and equipment that identified state-raised troops from North and South. Color and black-and-white illustrations, full of detail.  48 pages. By the Osprey Military Men-at-Arms series.
ISBN: 0-85045-747-5. Order #: STAC9138 paper $12.95.

 

 

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ARMIES: (5) volunteer militia. Katcher.
Uniform dress and equipment that identified individually formed regiments from North and South. Color and b/w illustrations,  48 pages. By the Osprey Military Men-at-Arms series
ISBN: 0-85045-853-6. Order #: STAC1025 paper$12.95.

 

 

ANDERSONVILLE: the story behind the scenery (GA). by Michael Alan Marsh.
Visit this most infamous Civil War prison camp.  Features a walk-through visit to the Prisoner of War Museum, honoring all American prisoners of war. 9x12, 48 pages, 78 color photos, 2 maps.
ISBN: 0-88714-209-5. 2000. Order #: KCPU8250 paper $11.95

ANTIETAM NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD. by Frederick Tilberg.
National Park Service  Historical Handbook #31; Shrines and memorials and historic Civil War battle at Sharpsburg, Maryland, "bloodiest day of Civil War" with 23,000 casualties. Covers strategies and maneuvers of Lee, the Confederate commander, and of McClellan of the Union, battles, daybreak strikes. The battle had no clear victor but did serve to stop Lee's march to the north. Illustrated, 64pages.
ISBN: 024-005-00892-6. 1980. Order #: USGB2255 paper$4.95.

 

 

ARLINGTON HOUSE: the Robert E. Lee Memorial. by National Park Service.
Story of home of Civil War leader which sits on a bluff overlooking the Potomac River and Washington, D.C. and of Lee himself. How this West Point graduate (for three years its superintendent) and Army officer followed his loyalties to Virginia as it seceded from the Union to become the leader of the Confederate Army--and of the house's subsequent uses by Union forces with the Lee family's loss, regain, and eventual sale of the property, now adjacent to a national cemetery. Details the layout of the house and its grounds, slaves and slave quarters, furnishings, gardens. Associated sites are also described. Timeline of Lee's life is included. Illustrations include drawings, photographs, and maps in black-and-white and color, some historical. 48pages.National Park Service Handbook #133.
ISBN: 0-912627-23-9. 1985. Order #: USGB8814 paper $4.95.

ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. Katcher.
Men-at-Arms Series. Color illustrations, 48 pages.
ISBN: 0-85045-208-2. Order #: STAC6524 paper$12.95.

 

 

 

ASSAULT AND LOGISTICS: Union Army coastal and river operations, 1861-1866. by Charles Dana Gibson with E. Kay Gibson.
Role of naval steamboats, including merchant vessels in Civil War. Explores how more than 3,500 merchant vessels were employed by the Union Army as primary transportation and in cooperation with the nation's rail systems. Major campaigns could not have been undertaken without the steamboat, including the Peninsular Campaign in 1862, the taking of Vicksburg in 1863 and the Petersburg Campaign of 1864-165 as well as others. Volume 2 of the Army's Navy Series. 35 illustrations,  16 maps, ship lists. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN: 0-9608996-3-4. 1995. Order #: MISC6603 cloth w/dust cover$45.00.

 

CAMPAIGN FOR PETERSBURG: Petersburg National Battlefield. by Richard Wayne Lykes.
National Park Service Handbook # 134. Battle late in Civil War that lasted 10 months, trench warfare and tunneling and the explosion that created a crater, fortifications and equipment, dwindling of supplies for the Confederate troops an as a result their many defections, strategies of the opposing Union and Confederate forces, and final outcome that also caused the Southern capital at Richmond to fall and end the war. Maps and historical photographs., 80 pages.
ISBN: 024-005-00979-5. 1985. Order #: USGB2256 paper$5.95.

 

CHANCELLORSVILLE: Lee's Greatest Battle. Stackpole.
Account of one of Civil War's greatest battles. 55 illustrations,  27 maps, 30 drawings.
ISBN: 0-8117-2238-4. Order #: STAC5067 paper$14.95.

CIVIL WAR PARKS: the story behind the scenery. Davis.
Overview of war through capsule descriptions of 26 battle parks. 71 color photos, 64 large-format pages.
Inventory = 76. ISBN: 0-916122-95-6. 1984. Order #: KCPU0713 paper$8.95.

 

 

CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS: their expectations and their experiences. by Reid Mitchell.
Human detail about the war from the common soldiers who fought it--from inexperienced volunteers to hardened veterans, drawn from unpublished letters and diaries. Men on both sides--Union and Confederate--shared misconceptions about their enemy. Both sides went to war to save their ways of life, convinced they fought a savage foe. Yet meeting face-to-face forced them to reexamine. 288 pages, notes, bibliography, index..
ISBN:0-671-68641-0. Order #: SISC3257 paper$9.95.

 

#CIVIL WAR WOMEN. McSherry et. al.
Civil War seen through women's eyes by Alcott, Chopin, Welty, other great women writers. 175 pages.
Check stock. ISBN:0-671-70248-3. Order #: SISC5827 paper$10.00.

FROM ASHBY TO ANDERSONVILLE: the Civil War diary and reminiscences of Private George A. Hitchcock, 21st Massachusetts Infantry. by Ronald Watson with foreword by Edwin C. Bearss.
A Union soldier's epic tale of his experiences fighting in the American Civil War and of his capture and imprisonment at the Confederate prisoner of war camp where there were at times 40,000 suffering soldiers. Of the 109 others who joined the Union army from Ashby, Massachusetts, 18 did not return. Based largely on dated diary entries. Photographs, drawings by the author, chapter notes, 397 pages, index.
ISBN: 1-8828-1018-X. 1997. Order #: MISC2753 clothOrder #: MISC2753 cloth$24.95.

 

 

GETTYSBURG: the story behind the scenery (PA). Davis.
Battle, landscape, reunions of soldiers of both sides, meanings. 46 color photos, 48 large-format pages. 1983.
ISBN: 0-916122-89-1 1983. Order #: KCPU4041 paper$8.95.

 

JOHN BROWN: the thundering voice of Jehovah, a pictorial heritage. by Stan Cohen.
Revisit the raid on the Harpers Ferry arsenal and the fiery abolitionist who led it. 8-1/2x11", 196 pages, 270 photos, maps & drawings.
Out of print; we have 1 copy left. ISBN: 1-57510-055-X. 2001. Order #: PIHI2790 paper$14.95.

 

 

JOHN RANSOM'S ANDERSONVILLE DIARY: life inside the Civil War's most famous prison. by Bruce Catton.
Diary kept by a twenty-year old Union soldier captured by the Confederates and kept as a prisoner of war in the Andersonville prison in Georgia, the worst of the Confederate prison camps. Like may detained there, Ransom's tale brought him near death (and many to it) during a trial of struggle to survive. Includes escape and recapture. His is a testament to an indomitable human spirit and gives a unique viewpoint of the Civil War. Sketches, 299 pages.
ISBN: 0-425-1416-2/ 1994. Order #: MISC2711 paper $12.95.

 

HEROINES OF DIXIE: spring of high hopes. by Katharine M. Jones.
In their own words, the story of the Civil War told by the Southern women who lived through it-what life was like in the Confederacy.
 ISBN: 0-89176-032-6. 1983. Order #: MOCK4675 paper$2.50.

 

 

SHILOH NATIONAL MILITARY PARK (TN). by Albert Dillahunty.
National Park Service Historical Handbook # 10. Story of 2 -day Civil War battle of 1862 which showed Confederates the abilities of the Union Army, doubted before, and led to continued difficulties for the South. The war campaign preliminary to this battle is presented as troops moved into positions and then events of each day are detailed with attacks, stand-offs, retreats, relocations. Roles of leaders is presented, and their tactics and fates. The battle resulted in the two sides reporting 24,000 troops killed, wounded, or missing, a significant portion of both armies lost. Includes guide to and descriptions of battlefield sites and remaining evidence. Presents some of the music and poetry that followed the engagement and observes the nearby national cemetery. Black-and-white photographs, some historical, and maps, 48 pages.
ISBN: 024-005-00161-1. 1961. Order #: USGB2330 paper$4.95.

A SOUTHERN WOMAN'S STORY: life in Confederate Richmond. by Phoebe Yates Pember.
A wry and realistic account of work in a Confederate military hospital, 1862-65, in besieged Richmond, VA. Author writes with "merciless realism tempered with humor. She tells  of the scandals, the gossip, the greed, and the selfishness, along with the courage and the needless suffering of the wounded soldiers in that dark age of medicine.147 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-89176-024-5. 1984. Order #: MOCK3595 paper $4.95.

 

 

STONES RIVER--bloody winter in Tennessee. by James Lee McDonough.
Documents Civil War battle at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, that began the last day of 1862 when 10,000 Confederate soldiers streamed into the Federal forces while they were still breakfasting in camp. Despite such a surprise, victory was won by the Union forces and the result was to offset other losses they had had, to discourage Britain and France from intervening for the Confederacy, and to cause dissension in the high command of the South's leaders and to demoralize their rank soldiers. It was one of the significant engagements of this war. Now a National Park Service historic area Drawings, 271 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-87049-301-9. 1980. Order #: UTEN2132 cloth $16.95.

 

#TERRIBLE SWIFT SWORD. Catton.
Story of Rebellion, Civil War, and Emancipation. Maps, 572 pages.
Check stock. ISBN: 0-671-61933-0 .Order #: SISC9675 paper$5.95.

THEY MET AT GETTYSBURG. Stackpole.
Retelling of battle, first-hand accounts. Photos, maps, 344p.
Check stock. ISBN: 978-0-8117-2089-2. Order #: STAC1382 paper $19.95. Note ISBN.

THEY MET AT GETTYSBURG. Stackpole.
Retelling of battle, first-hand accounts. Photos, maps, 344p.
ISBN: 978-0-8117-2089-6. Order #: STAC2387 paper $10.95. Note ISBN.

 

 

 

THIS HALLOWED GROUND. by Bruce Catton.
Lead-up to America's Civil War, causes, start of the conflict, conduct of the war, battles, conclusion by a Pulitzer Prize winning author. An important study not only for its history-story but also because some of the issues that led to the war are still among us and understanding their roots remains important in understanding aspects of present American society. Maps, bibliography, 559 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-671-63884-X. 1961. Order #: SISC1073 paper$5.95.

 

 

#VICKSBURG AND THE OPENING OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, 1862-63. National Park Service.
National Park Service Handbook to Vicksburg campaign and siege during Civil War in June 1863, last stronghold in Confederate hands; area guide. Color illustrations, 80 pages.
Check stock.  ISBN: 024-005-00976-1. Order #:USGB2332 paper$5.95.

#VIRGINIA COUNTRY'S CIVIL WAR: Vol. II.
Includes articles on Jefferson Davis, Pickett's charge, Lee versus Stuart. Illustrated, 72 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-961072-3-9. 1984. Order #: COPU8381paper $4.95.

A VOICE FROM HARPERS FERRY. by Osborne P. Anderson, a Black revolutionary who was there.
Anderson joined others both Black and white to join John Brown's attempt to start a cause to end slavery and was the only Black combatant to survive the raid. Included essays tell of the cause to be demonstrated by the raid and events leading to it as well as the other raiders and leaders. Explains other early attempts to free slaves. Photographs and drawings, 130 pages.
ISBN: 0-89567-136-0. 2000. Order #: MISC2755 paper$12.00.

 

 

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CUSTER BATTLEFIELD (now Battle of Little Bighorn) NATIONAL MONUMENT. by Robert M. Utley.
National Park Service Handbook #132 to 1876 Sioux War and Battle of Little Big Horn, Wyoming, where Custer was defeated by Teton Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Native Americans. Events leading to the battle, including roles of competing tribes and their alliances, some with the soldiers, and influence of settlers on the conflicts in the region. Pre-battle movements are given, as well as the relocations that occurred during the fight. The story today is known from accounts of those who survived on both sides. (While all those with Custer were killed, there were some in other positions that survived. Story of rescue of these survivors via overland transport to steamboat for a 710-mile ride to Bismark, North Dakota is also told.) Effects of weapons during the battle are considered. Black-and-white and color photographs, drawings, paintings, and maps; 93 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-912627-34-4. 1987. Order #: USGB0110 paper $6.95.

ENCYLOPEDIA OF INDIAN WARS: western battles and skirmishes, 1850-1890. by Gregory F. Michno.
A chronological listings of every significant fight between Indians and the U.S. Army, as well as better-known Indian battles with civilians.474 pages, with maps, photographs, and tables give an illuminating portrayal of a violent era and a compelling examination of the machinations of frontier warfare.
Inventory =1. ISBN: -0-87842-468-7. Order #: MOPR1141 cloth$28.00.

 

 

GUNS ACROSS THE LOXAHATCHEE: remembering the Seminole Wars. by Richard J. Procyk.
An archaeological investigation of Seminole War sites in Florida, with a special focus on the Battle of Loxahatchee, January 24, 1838. Recounts the 42-year struggle (1817-1858) for control of Florida between U.S. armed forces and Red and Black Seminole warriors. Three wars were fought during this conflict, with the longest and bloodiest being the Second War (1835-1842) in which a series of pitched battles culminated in the Battle of Loxahatchee on the Loxahatchee River in northern Palm Beach County in southeastern Florida. Photographs, maps, bibliography, 178 pages.
 ISBN: 978-1-886104-34-4. 1999. Order #: MISC2396 paper $19.95.

 

RC OF GARRYOWEN IN GLORY: The History of the Seventh United States Cavalry Regiment. by Chandler.
This is the Army unit of the Battle of Little Big Horn fame. The song "Garryowen" was Custer's theme song. Period covered is from 1866 to inactivation in 1957--troop movements, engagements, forts where stationed. Small tear on dust jacket.
ISBN: . Order #: EXPO0442 cloth$200.00 RC

 

 

PHIL SHERIDAN AND HIS ARMY. by Paul Andrew Hutton.
Definitive account of Sheridan's western career against native Americans, role in Chicago after its great fire, with Buffalo Bill, and as proponent of national park system. Sheridan's command stretched from the Missouri to the Rockies and from Mexico to Canada; all of the Indian wars of the Great Plains fell under his jurisdiction. 494 pages. Out of print.
ISBN: 0-8032-7227-8. Order #: UNNE2293 paper$14.95.

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ADMIRAL OF THE HILLS: Chester W. Nimitz. by Frank A. Driskill and Dede W. Casad.
Biography from the Texas hill country of this American naval hero who commanded the Pacific Fleet in World War II, said to be the principal architect of victory in the Pacific: family origins, boyhood, the Steamboat Hotel in Fredericksburg, Texas, early manhood, his wartime involvements, and now his legacy at the Admiral Nimitz State Historical Park in Fredericksburg. Foreword by Douglass Hubbard, park superintendent. 82 photos, 312 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-89015-364-7. 1983. Order #: EAKI3778 cloth $14.95.

 

DARK SUN: the making of the hydrogen bomb--paper. by Richard Rhodes.
Definitive, often shocking, story of the politics and science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and birth of the Cold War. Based om files in both the United States and the Soviet Union, this history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for over 40 years. Extensive notes, photographs, 731 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-684-82414-0. 1995. Order #: SISC8812 paper $16.00.

DARK SUN: the making of the hydrogen bomb--cloth. Rhodes.
Definitive, often shocking, story of the politics and science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and birth of the Cold War. Based om files in both the United States and the Soviet Union, this history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for over 40 years. Extensive notes, photographs, 731 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-684-80400-X. 1995.Order #: SISC6083 cloth $32.50.

 

 

THE GOOD SERVANT: making peace with the Bomb at Los Alamos. by Janet Bailey.
Roles of this scientific community in making nuclear weapons and peacetime research. How these products have been and could be used in war and how they have also helped reduce the chance of war, even perhaps causing the end of the Cold War. Behind-the-scenes look at the labs and scientists involved in this work, including those in Russia. 188 pages.
ISBN: 0-684-80939-7. 1995. Order #: SISC6103 cloth $22.00.

 

 

I SAW STARS. by H. Arthur Lamar.
Some memories of Commander Hal Lamar, Fleet Admiral Nimitz' Flag Lieutenant, 1941-45, mainly about the admiral with lots of personal insights even though during a period of war. Contacts with the Roosevelts and other military leaders are also recounted. From The Admiral Nimitz Foundation of Fredericksburg, Texas. Photos and drawings, some whimsical. 42 pages.
 ISBN: None. Order #: MISC3374 paper$3.95.

 

THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB. by Richard Rhodes.
Complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the 1900s discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Beginning as an interesting speculative problem in physics, the effort grew into the Manhattan Project and then rapidly into the bomb itself, produced by scientists known only to their peers but to assume notoriety and controversy. Photographs, 886 pages, bibliography and index.
ISBN: 0-684-81378-5. 1986. Order #: SISC6151paper $16.00.

 

MOUNTAINEER BATTLEWAGON: U. S. S. West Virginia (BB-48). by Myron J. Smith Jr.
History from construction in 1923 to sinking in Pearl Harbor at start of World War II, salvage and rebuilding to again battle in the Pacific 1944-45 until scrapped in 1961. Includes account of predecessor ship. 48 large-format pages, 55 photos.
Check stock. ISBN: 0-933126-16-6. Order #: PIHI2253 paper$9.95.

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19th CENTURY WHALING TALES. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-089-4. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-089-8. Order #: VIST0089 paper$4.95.



ACROSS ARIZONA IN 1883--Yuma, Tombstone, Tucson. by Anonymous. See sample pages, illustrations. ISBN-10: 0-89646-011-8. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-011-9. Order #: VIST0011 paper$3.95.



ACROSS THE PLAINS IN THE DONNER PARTY: a personal narrative of the overland trip to California, 1846-47. by Virginia Reed Murphy.
ISBN: 978-0-89646-099-7. Order #: VIST0099 paper$7.95. See sample pages, illustrations.



THE ASCENT OF MOUNT HAYDEN, GRAND TETON, 1872: a new chapter of Western discovery (WY). by Nathaniel Pitt Langford. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-066-5. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-066-9. Order #: VIST0066 paper$3.95.


AT A NEW MINING CAMP: Creede of Colorado, 1892. by Richard Harding Davis. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-018-5. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-018-8. Order #: VIST0018 paper$3.95.



THE BUFFALO. by Colonel Henry Inman with "Buffalo Bill" Cody. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-028-2. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-028-7.  Order #: VIST0028 paper$4.95.



BUFFALO BILL POSTER.
Portrait of Colonel W.F. Cody from a pre-1900 poster printed in purple, yellow, and sepia on heavy stock, 11 "  15".
ISBN-10: 0-89646-093-2. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-093-5. Order #: VIST0093 poster$3.95.


BUFFALO BILL'S TRUE TALES. by William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-022-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-098-0. Order #: VIST0098 paper$3.95. 



C.P.R.R.: the Central Pacific Railroad. by Charles Nordhoff. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-097-8. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-097-3. Order #: VIST0097 paper$6.95.


THE CAÑONS OF THE COLORADO--the 1869 discovery voyage down the Colorado River. by Major John Wesley Powell.
See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-059-2. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-059-1. Order #: VISeT0059 paper$4.95.


THE CITY OF DENVER, 1888: an early history of "The Queen City of the Plains". by Edwards Roberts. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-006-1. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-006-5. Order #: VIST0006paper$3.95.



CONTRIBUTIONS OF A VENERABLE NATIVE to the ancient history of the Hawaiian Islands. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-056-8. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-056-0. Order #: VIST0056 paper$3.95.



CRIPPLE CREEK 1900--a Colorado mining camp. by Francis Lynde. See sample pages, illustrations.
IISBN-10: 0-89646-080-0. 1987. Order #: VIST0080 paper$3.95.



CUTTER'S OFFICIAL GUIDE TO HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS. by John Milton Cutter.See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-057-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-057-7. Order #: VIST0057 paper$6.95.


DIARY OF PATRICK BREEN: one of the Donner Party (CA). by Frederick J. Teggart. See sample pages, illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-89646-102-4. Order #VIST0102 paper$3.95.


THE DISCOVERY OF GLACIER BAY--1879 (AK). by John Muir, its discoverer. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-045-2. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-045-4. Order #: VIST0045 paper$3.95.



DISCOVERY OF THE YOSEMITE IN 1851 (CA). by Lafayette Houghton Bunnell, M.D., one of the Discoverers, of the Mariposa Battalion.
See sample pages, illustrations.
 ISBN-10: 0-89646-021-5. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-021-8. Order #: VIST0021 paper$6.95.

FAMOUS GUNFIGHTERS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER. by W. B. (Bat) Masterson. See sample pages, illustrations.
. ISBN-10: 0-89646-087-8. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-087-4. Order #: VIST0087 paper$6.95.



HAWAII-NEI, 1873. by Charles Nordhoff. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-030-4. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-030-0. Order #: VIST0030 paper$3.95.\



HOW WE GET GOLD IN CALIFORNIA. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-100-0. Order #: VIST0100 paper$4.95.
How We Get Gold is out of print but with interest could be reprinted.

THE HUMMINGBIRD OF THE CALIFORNIA WATERFALLS. by John Muir. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-019-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-019-5. Order #: VIST0019 paper$3.95.



HYDRAULIC GOLD-MINING IN CALIFORNIA, 1883. by Taliesin Evans.. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-052-5. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-052-2. 16 pages.  Order #: VIST0052 paper $3.95.



IN THE HEART OF THE CALIFORNIA ALPS: a near view of the High Sierra in 1872. by John Muir. See sample pages, illustrations.ISBN-10: 0-89646-026-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-026-3. Order #: VIST0026 paper$3.95.



KAIBETO MEMORIES: a trader's daughter remembers growing up on the Navajo Reservation at Kaibeto Trading Post in remote northern Arizona 1936-1960. by Elizabeth Anne Jones Dewveall. See sample pages, illustrations.
Paper edition: ISBN: 978-0-8946-103-1. Order #: VIST0103 paper$14.95.
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Cloth edition: ISBN: 978-0-8946-105-5. Order #: VIST0105 cloth $25.00.
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LAKE OF THE SKY: Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada. by George Wharton James. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-038-X. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-038-6. Order #: VIST0038 paper$6.95.



THE LIFE AND WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF WILD BILL (J. B. Hickok). by James W. Buel. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-013-4. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-013-3. Order #: VIST0013 paper$4.95.



THE LIGHT-HOUSES OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1874. by Charles Nordhoff & Gustav Kobbe.
See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-086-X. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-086-7. Order #: VIST0086 paper$6.95.


THE MAMMOTH TREES OF CALAVERAS (CA). by J. M. Hutchings. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-050-9. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-050-8. Order #: VIST0050 paper$3.95.



MARK TWAIN IN HAWAII--the noted humorist's 1866 visit. by Mark Twain.See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-070-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-070-6. 1999. Order #: VIST0070 paper$6.95.



MARK TWAIN'S VIRGINIA CITY: Nevada Territory in the 1860s. by Mark Twain. (Samuel Clemens). See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-074-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-074-4. Order #: VIST0074 paper$6.95.



A MINER'S SUNDAY, 1849. by Charles B. Gillespie.See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-005-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-005-8. Published by VistaBooks 1981. Order #: VIST0005 paper$3.95.


MONARCH, the Big Bear of Tallac in the Lake Tahoe High Sierra (CA). by Ernest Thompson Seton. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-040-1. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-040-9. Order #: VIST0040 paper$12.95.



MONTAUK POINT, LONG ISLAND: an 1872 visit (NY). by Charles Parsons. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-082-7. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-082-9. Order #: VIST0082 paper$3.95.



MOUNT DESERT, 1872: an early history of the Maine island that is now Acadia National Park. by George Ward Nichols. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-029-0. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-029-4. Order #: VIST0029 paper$3.95.


MOUNTAINEERING IN THE KINGS RIVER COUNTRY, 1864 (CA). by Clarence King of the California Geological Survey. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-042-8. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-042-3. Order #: VIST0042 paper$3.95.


MOUNTAINEERING ON THE PACIFIC IN 1868 (WA). by Edmund T. Coleman.See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-014-2. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-014-0. Order #: VIST0014 paper$3.95. 



THE MURDER OF JULIA BULETTE: Virginia City, Nevada; 1867--with the life and confession of John Millian, convicted murderer. by Charles E. DeLong, convicted murderer's attorney, et. al.See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-044-4. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-044-7.Order #:VIST0044 paper$3.95.


NOTECARDS--Donner/Tahoe Sierra (CA):
Donner Lake. by Thomas Moran, 1874.
Lake Tahoe. by Thomas Moran, 1874.
Summit of the Sierras. by Thomas Moran, 1874.
Eagle Falls, Emerald Bay at Lake Tahoe. Picturesque America, 1874.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-092-4. Order #: VIST0092 notecards$9.95.  See more...

NOTECARDS--Colorado Rockies:
Mount of the Holy Cross--14,0005 feet. by Thomas Moran 1874.
Longs Peak--14,255 feet. by Thomas Moran 1874.
Grays Peak--14,270 feet. 1874.
Pikes Peak--14109 feet. by Thomas Moran, 1874.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-091-6. Order #: VIST0091 notecards$9.95. See more...

OH, RANGER! a book about the national parks. by Horace M. Albright and Frank J. Taylor.See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-068-1. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-068-3. Order #: VIST0068 paper$7.95.



OUR YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK (CA). by John Muir.See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-061-4. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-061-4. Order #: VIST0061 paper$6.95.



PIONEER DAYS IN SAN FRANCISCO (CA). by John Williamson Palmer. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-015-0. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-015-7. Order #: VIST0015 paper$4.95.



THE PROPOSED YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK--treasures & features, 1890 (CA). by John Muir. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-003-7. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-4. Order #: VIST0003 paper$3.95.



RANCH LIFE IN THE FAR WEST (SD). by Theodore Roosevelt. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-034-7. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-034-8. Order #: VIST0034 paper$9.95.


A RIVAL OF THE YOSEMITE: the cañon of the South Fork of Kings River, California by John Muir. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-010-X. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-010-2.  Order #: VIST0010 paper$3.95.



ROCK ART OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN by Campbell Grant. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-084-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-084-3. Order #: VIST0084 paper$12.95.


SAINT LOUIS IN 1884: "the future great city of the world" (MO). by William Henry Bishop.See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-024-X. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-024-9. Order #: VIST0024 paper$3.95.



SANDY HOOK--in 1879 (NJ). by George Houghton.See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-047-9. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-047-8. Order #: VIST0047 paper$3.95.



SIGNALS OF THE SEA AND HEROES OF THE SURF: the epic story of America's light-houses and life-savers, written at their heyday. by Arthur Hewitt and John R. Spears. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-088-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-088-1. Order #: VIST0088 paper$4.95.


SILVER SAN JUAN: the mines and high scenery in Colorado's southwest mountains--in 1882. by Ernest Ingersoll.24 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-025-8. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-025-6. Order #: VIST0025 paper$3.95.


THE SOUTHERN UTE INDIANS OF EARLY COLORADO. by Verner Z. Reed. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-067-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-067-6. Order #: VIST0067 paper$3.95.



A TRIP TO BODIE BLUFF and the Dead Sea of the West (Mono Lake)--in 1863. written and illustrated by J. Ross Browne. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-076-2. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-076-8. Order #: VIST0076 paper$4.95. Out of print except for scuffed-cover copies.


THE UNITED STATES LIFE-SAVING SERVICE--1880: predecessor to today's Coast Guard. by J. H. Merryman. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-071-1. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-071-3. Order #: VIST0071 paper$6.95.



THE WILD SHEEP. by John Muir. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-017-7. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-017-1. Order #: VIST0017 paper$3.95.



THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (ID/MT/WY). by John Muir. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN 978-0-89646-101-7. Order #VIST0101 paper$7.95.



THE YOSEMITE IN WINTER: an 1892 account (CA). by James M. Carson, with extracts from John Muir's writings.See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-053-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-053-9. Order #: VIST0053 paper$3.95.


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