Simon & Schuster, September 2014. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). One of the Best Books of the Year as chosen by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Time, USA TODAY, Christian Science Monitor, and more. "A tale so gripping that one questions the need for.....
Mariner Books, September 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This National Book Award-winning story, a tour de force of historical reportage, rescues an iconic chapter of American history--the Dust Bowl that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression--from the shadows. Following a dozen families.....
St Martins Pr, December 1995. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Knopf, January 2001. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Mjf Books, January 2012. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Scribner, January 2004. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). In the tradition of Melissa Faye Greene and her award-winning Praying for Sheetrock, extraordinarily talented debut author Laura Wexler tells the story of the Moore's Ford Lynching in Walton County, Georgia in 1946--the last mass lynching in America, fully explored.....
Vintage, October 2011. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize-winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who.....
Liveright, May 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Widely heralded as a "masterful" (Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood.....
Academic Reprints, 1954. Hardcover. viii, [2], pp. 483-1029. Reprint edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is tanned and soiled with clear tape repair to closed tear along spine.
Princeton Architectural Press, June 2015. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). It's known as the world's friendliest border. Five thousand miles of unfenced, unwalled international coexistence and a symbol of neighborly goodwill between two great nations: the United States and Canada. But just how friendly is it really? In.....
Vintage, February 2004. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death. "Relentlessly fuses history and entertainment to.....
1842. Ephemera. Autograph letter signed, dated New Haven, Dec., 9, 1842. Addressed Mrs. Henry Huggins. Letter sends greeting and best wishes with hopes for Mr. Huggins to 'secure a competence even in these times & independence in better times, for which we see to hope. Several of thy standing in.....
Random House Trade Paperbacks, October 2013. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - The Washington Post - Entertainment Weekly - The Seattle Times - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Bloomberg Businessweek In this magnificent.....
Bison Books, June 1997. Trade Paperback. Abigail Jane Scott was seventeen when she left Illinois with her family in the spring of 1852. Her record of the journey west is full of expressive detail: breakfasting in a snowstorm, walking behind the wagons to keep warm, tasting buffalo meat, trying to.....
Bison Books, April 1996. Trade Paperback. The 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.....
Bison Books, August 1996. Trade Paperback. The wagon trains to California greatly decreased in 1851 as reports of deadly cholera on the trail the year before and strikeouts in gold prospecting became known. Those who did go west-about 2,160 men and 1,440 women-tended toward Oregon's rich Willamette Valley because of.....
Bison Books, April 1997. Trade Paperback. In 1852 a record number of women helped keep the wagons rolling over the perilous western trails. The fourth volume of Covered Wagon Women is devoted to families headed for California that year. Diaries and letters of six pioneer women describe the rigors en.....
Bison Books, September 2000. Trade Paperback. The stories seem simple-they left, they traveled, they settled-yet the restless westering impulse of Americans created one of the most enduring figures in our frontier pantheon: the hardy pioneer persevering against all odds. Undeterred by storms, ruthless bandits, towering mountains, and raging epidemics, the.....
Bison Books, May 2000. Trade Paperback. Forty years after the legendary overland travels of Oregon pioneers in the 1840s, Lucy Clark Allen wrote, "the excitement continues." Economic hard times in Minnesota sent Allen and her husband to Montana in hopes of evading the droughts, grasshoppers, and failed crops that had.....
Bison Books, September 1999. Trade Paperback. In their simplicity is their poignancy. On August 7, 1865, Mary Louisa Black noted in her journal that they were "nooning on a nice stream in a valey in the mountains." A day later she observed that one of the men in the overland.....
Bison Books, April 1999. Trade Paperback. The overland trails in the 1860s witnessed the creation of stage stations to facilitate overland travel. These stations, placed every twenty or thirty miles, ensured that travelers would be able to obtain grain for their livestock and food for themselves. They also sped up.....
Bison Books, September 1998. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "The diaries and letters . . . throb with excitement, pain, and mind-boggling determination."-Kliatt. "These women form a part of the diversity of the West without which our vision is necessarily incomplete."-Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. Some of the women.....
Penguin (Non-Classics), May 2005. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "I cannot remember ever reading a work of history and biography that is quite so fluent, so perfectly composed and balanced . . ." --The New York Sun "Exceptionally rich perspective on one of the most accomplished, complex, and.....
Indiana University Press, 1951. Hardcover. Volume one: 632 pp. Volume Two: 686 pp. B/W illustrations and maps. Second printing. Originally published by The Indiana Historical Society. Very good copies in red cloth covers. Spines mildly soiled and faded. No slipcase.
Castle, 1965. Hardcover. 312 pages. B/W illustrations. 9.25 x 12.25 inches. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.