Following in the tradition of Hunter S. Thompson, award-winning journalist Marc Cooper describes his longstanding love affair with Las Vegas. Cooper's kaleidoscopic journey begins in October 2001 with the dynamiting of the Desert Innthe moment when old Vegas "cool" died and the new corporate model claimed definitive victory. From there he takes us on a journey from the glitzy Strip to the frayed downtown, indulging in his lifelong love of blackjack, hanging out with Mormons, mobsters, MBAs, b...
Mexican Americans in Wilmington (Images of America)
by Olivia Cueva-fernandez
Twenty disasters spanning more than a century are brought to life in this engagingly written volume. Among the true accounts dramatically retold are the deadly Mount Hood avalanche of 1927, the 1933 Tillamook forest fire (one of the worst in U.S. history), the devastating tsunami of 1964, and the 1903 flash flood in Heppner, which carried away a fourth of the town's inhabitants.
The Uncompahgre Valley and the Gunnison Tunnel
by Barton Walter 1870- Marsh
Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Five Second Edition (Aunt Phil's Trunk, #5)
by Phyllis Downing Carlson and Laurel Downing Bill
Securing Paradise (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)
by Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez
In Securing Paradise, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez shows how tourism and militarism have functioned together in Hawai`i and the Philippines, jointly empowering the United States to assert its geostrategic and economic interests in the Pacific. She does so by interpreting fiction, closely examining colonial and military construction projects, and delving into present-day tourist practices, spaces, and narratives. For instance, in both Hawai`i and the Philippines, U.S. military modes of mobility, co...
Photographing Mesa Verde (Mesa Verde Centennial)
by William G Howard, Jr, Douglas J. Hamilton, and Kathleen L Howard
Colorado's Small Town Industrial Revolution Commercial Canning and Preserving in Northeastern Colorado
by Lee Scamehorn
Reflections of a Mormon Historian
by Leonard J. Arrington, Reid L. Neilson, and Ronald W. Walker
The growth of modern-day Alaska began with the Klondike gold discovery in 1896. Over the course of the next two decades, as prospectors, pioneers, and settlers rushed in, Alaska developed its agricultural and mineral resources, birthed a structure of highway and railroad transportation, and founded the Alaska cities we know today. All this activity occurred alongside the Progressive Age in American politics. It was a time of widespread reform, as Progressive politicians took on the powerful busi...
Ghosts of the Pioneers is a poignant, first-person account of a family vacation with an unusual purpose: to trace the path of the pioneers who traveled the Oregon Trail.