Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The...
Bill O'ReillyThe must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's documentary series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fascinating, eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we knowHow did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's ...
Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Ter...
David TalbotIn a kaleidoscopic narrative, New York Times bestselling author David Talbot tells the gripping story of San Francisco in the turbulent years between 1967 and 1982—and of the extraordinary men and women who led to the city's ultimat...
On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the e...
L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul ...
John BuntinMidcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the D...
On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the e...
Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, ...
Julia Flynn Siler"Only one American state was formally a sovereign monarchy. In this compelling narrative, the award-winning journalist Julia Flynn Siler chronicles how this Pacific kingdom, creation of a proud Polynesian people, was encountered,...
The American West: A Very Short Intro...
Stephen AronPart geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popular culture has carved out a short and specific time and place for the region, author an...
L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul ...
John BuntinNow the TNT Original Series MOB CITYMidcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the wor...
A Short History of San Francisco
Tom ColeThis is the story of San Francisco, a unique and rowdy tale with a legendary cast of characters. It tells of the Indians and the Spanish missions, the arrival of thousands of gold seekers and gamblers, crackbrains and dreamers, the bu...
Welcome to the wild and heartwarming world of the Kempton RanchIn its day, the famed Kempton Ranch of eastern Montana was one of the largest horse and cattle operations in Montana, selling mounts to armies and polo-playing royalty ali...
Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsessi...
Frances DinkelspielOn October 12, 2005, a massive fire broke out in the Wines Central wine warehouse in Vallejo, California. Within hours, the flames had destroyed 4.5 million bottles of California's finest wine worth more than $250 million, making it t...
Slaughter on the Otter: The Kendrick ...
Forest B. DunningIn mid-November 1900, a herd of sheep crossed a plowed furrow "deadline" which had separated the public ranges for cattle and sheep herds for many years. On the early morning of December 28, 1900, a determined group of cattlemen, led ...
The Delegates of 1849: Life Stories o...
Laura Emerson1849--Gold Rush madness threatened to destroy California. Congress could not decide if the western territory should be admitted as a slave state or a free state. Something had to be done, and newly-appointed Military Governor Bennet C...
Mochi's War: The Tragedy of Sand Cree...
Chris EnssColorado Territory in 1864 wasn't merely the wild west, it was a land in limbo while the Civil War raged in the east and politics swirled around its potential admission to the union. The territorial governor, John Evans, had ambitions...
Dam Nation: How Water Shaped the West...
Stephen GraceIn the scramble to claim water rights in the West during the fevered days of early emigration and expansion, running out of water was rarely a concern, and the dam building fever that transformed the West in the 19th and 20th centurie...
This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, a...
Christopher Ketcham“A big, bold book about public lands . . . The Desert Solitaire of our time.” —Outside A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American Westand a...
Take a trip back in time to revel in the scandal, murders, infidelities, financial misdeeds, and just plain bad behavior from Colorado's past. Public respectability does not always translate into tidy private lives, and our interest ...
The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagina...
Gary KristFrom bestselling author Gary Krist, the story of the metropolis that never should have been and the visionaries who dreamed it into reality Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California—bone-dry, harbor-less, iso...
Montana Disasters: True Stories of Tr...
Butch LarcombeIn Montana Disasters, fourth-generation Montanan and long-time journalist Butch Larcombe chronicles the explosions, fires, floods, earthquakes, avalanches, train wrecks, airplane crashes, and other major Montana tragedies spanning ove...
Who was the biggest, baddest outlaw in the Old West? Billy the Kid or Jesse James? Which outlaw did the most to wreak havoc across the frontier? And which outlaw left behind the biggest legacy? Author Bill Markley takes on those quest...
Black Cowboys of the Old West: True, ...
Tricia Martineau WagnerThe word cowboy conjures up vivid images of rugged men on saddled horses-men lassoing cattle, riding bulls, or brandishing guns in a shoot-out. White men, as Hollywood remembers them. What is woefully missing from these scenes is thei...
Catalina A to Z: A Glossary Guide to ...
Pat MaxwellSanta Catalina Island is one of the West Coast's great nearby escapes, an hour's boat ride from Los Angeles and Long Beach for one million annual tourists. The island's seventy-six square miles contain two communities--Avalon and Two ...
Weird Wild West: True Tales of the St...
Keven McQueenThe Wild West is infamous for its outrageous stories, cowboys, and gun battles. But the region is also known for its ghost stories, unexplained deaths, bizarre murders, and peculiar burials.In Weird Wild West, author Keven McQueen bri...
The Stories of Yellowstone: Adventure...
M. Mark MillerCovering the time period from 1807, when John Colter first discovered the wonders of the Yellowstone Plateau to the 1920s when tourists sped between luxury hotels in their automobiles, these tales of Wonderland come from the letters...
This Is Chance!: The Great Alaska Ear...
Jon MooallemThe thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster—and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together “A powerful, heart-wrenching book, as much art as it is journalism.”—The Wall ...
Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching ...
Susanna MooreThe dramatic history of America's tropical paradiseThe history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals―from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found th...
Gold!: Madness, Murder, and Mayhem in...
Ian NelighGold! brings together the story of this metal's glittering legacy in the Centennial State and the madness, murder, and mayhem that came along with it. The book examines the rich history of the miners and treasure hunters who came to f...
Finding Carla: The story that forever...
Ross NixonIn March 1967, a Cessna 195 flew from Oregon towards San Francisco carrying a family of three: Alvin Oien, Sr. (the pilot), his wife Phyllis and step-daughter Carla Corbus. Due to worse-than-predicted weather, it went down in the Trin...
Sierra Stories: Tales of Dreamers, Sc...
Gary NoyThe Hidden History of High Country The Sierra Nevada has long been the domain of dreams, attracting the heroic and delusional, the best of humanity and the worst. Along with towering granite mountains, crystalline lakes, and spiky con...
When Montana Territory was established in 1864, it was a land of tepees and ramshackle cabins, of lawless vigilantes and miners scraping out meager livings. One hundred and fifty years later, the dramatic changes to the Treasure State...