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Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade
Barton Barbour
Paperback - $44.95
Located on the upper Missouri River on the present-day Montana -- North Dakota border, Fort Union was the nineteenth century's most important and longest-surviving fur trading post. American Indians and people of many races created a system of commun ...
The Mauve Decade : American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Thomas Beer
Paperback - $21.95
Laced with witty anecdotes and sparkling epigrams, Beer's remarkable cultural history encompasses the wild panoply of the Gilded Age's last decade--from high society to the closing of the West--bracketed by Emerson's death and Teddy Roosevelt's presi ...
The Wetherills : Friends of Mesa Verde
Fred M. Blackburn
Paperback - $26.95
Following in the wake of what one noted scientist called 'transients who neither revered nor cared for the ruins as symbols of the past, ' the Wetherill family became the earliest students of Mesa Verde. Their careful excavations and record-keeping h ...
New Deal Days : The CCC at Mesa Verde
Ronald C. Brown
Paperback - $27.95
They fought fires, built roads, constructed dioramas, and put Dolores's jail in the river. They were Mesa Verde's CCC Boys. In 1932 at least one of every four workers in the United States was jobless, perhaps as many as one-third. Slashed paychecks a ...
The Tyranny of Change : America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920
II Chambers
Paperback - $49.95
Between 1890 and 1920, the forces accompanying industrialization sent the familiar nineteenth-century world plummeting toward extinction. The traditional countryside with its villages and family farms was eclipsed by giant corporations and sprawling ...
Fire on the Mesa
Tracey L. Chavis
Paperback - $27.95
Today's visitors to Mesa Verde National Park see a vastly different landscape than their counterparts did a decade ago. In the past ten years, fire has swept over more than half the acreage contained within the park's boundaries. In 2000 alone, two f ...
