"Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing U.S. Armed Forces to remove citizens a
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressIn Ahead of the Flaming Front, Jerry D. Mathes II takes readers into the heart of wildfires from the forests of Idaho to the deserts of
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressTeeming with the history of the Pacific Northwest, the mighty Columbia River is one of the longest rivers in North America. Surprisingly
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Although the Pacific Northwest was the area furthest removed from the actual battles of the Civil War, it was nonetheless profoundly af
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press In the spring of 2000, Mike Medberry, a longtime advocate of conservation with American Lands, the Wilderness Society, and the Idaho Co
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Competitive Struggle recounts the 101-year history of America’s western fur trade. From the founding of Saint Louis in 1764 through 186
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Blazing a Wagon Trail to Oregon is the story of a determined group of American pioneers who set out to move their families on wheeled v
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThe 172 San Juan Islands of Washington State are the uppermost remains of a mountain range that once separated the fifty miles between V
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressAs a teenager, Cecil Andrus dropped out of college after his first year and drove off with his girlfriend to get married in Reno. The ye
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressDuring the decades from 1820 to 1870, the American frontier expanded two thousand miles across the trans-Mississippi West. In Texas the
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThe seven years from 1853 to 1859 are probably more important to the Pacific Northwest than any period of its recorded history. It was i
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressIn 1967, Edward Johnson II, founder of Fidelity Investments, launched the Fidelity Contrafund in the hope of providing investors with an
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThis book takes a peek at an often overlooked part of Western history. The Victorians were quite adept at keeping immoral or bad behavio
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThis novel details the harrowing voyage of Ferdinand Magellan's fleet as he attempted to find the rumored water route through the New Wo
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressGene Harris, the “Blues Man From Boise,” as the Wall Street Journal once called him, died at the start of a new millennium, but he left
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressGreat Meals Dutch Oven Style covers all aspects of Dutch oven cooking. It will appeal to veteran black kettle chefs and to those prepari
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressWhen Edmund Creffield and his "Holy Roller" religious cult made headlines in 1903, it was page one news - not just in the Pacific Northw
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressColorado is considered by many to be the promised land of lost treasure. Silver miners, gold prospectors, government agents, crooked Ar
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressExperience the world of 1492 through the eyes of a young Basque adventurer who, born to a family of whalers, feels the calling of the se
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressCorporal Burke Langdon thought he was escaping from the doldrums of frontier Army life when he was assigned to take six strange-looking
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressHistorian Brigham Madsen has devoted much of his career to telling the story of the Shoshoni. The tribe once occupied a huge region that
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThis is the story of the other side of Colorado's best-known mountain- the region west of Pikes Peak. It includes stories of the first
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressLaurie Winn Carlson analyzes the lives of the first six white women - missionary wives - to cross the Rocky Mountains. At a time when a
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressBestselling Western novelist Matt Braun brings home the hearty flavors, traditions, and lore of Western cooking in this collection of mo
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThe giant redwood trees are one of California’s best known attractions. Thousands of tourists visit the Northern California groves each
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressTravel through the ghost-town country of the Pacific Northwest, guided by the camera and pen of Norman D. Weis. Both well-known and obsc
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressWayne C. Lee chronicles the violent history of the Nebraska Territory. The state's history is full of stories about violent feuds betwee
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressNebraska's early towns were not settled by peaceful, law-abiding citizens. Because of the territory's strategic position on the westward
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressIn these pages the reader will find a description of the history of the Oregon Trail - from past to present. Inside the reader will fin
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press19 veteran authors, members of the Western Writers of America all, have been collected in this volume of essays detailing the travails a
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThe Nez Perce campaign is among the most famous in the brief and bloody history of the Indian wars of the West. Yellow Wolf was a contem
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressFirst it was Coronado in 1540; then came Vilasur, Bourgmont, Pike an Fremont. All of these explorers found the Smoky Hill valley to be a
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressAn historical novel depicting one woman's fight for power and respect in a world dominated by men; early 19th century Santa Fe.
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressVardis Fisher and Opal Laurel Holmes bring together the stories of all of the remarkable men and women and all of the violent contrasts
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press In this book, along with a complete section on drying and and dehydrating, and on smoking and jerking, we included a comprehensive trea
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThe Nez Perce victory at White Bird Canyon boosted their confidence as warriors and made them believe they could prevail in their fight
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressClassic treatise on the importance of maintaining the rights of the individual in the face of expanding state control manipulated by org
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThis is the third in Robert L. Brown's series of picturesque guidebooks to another era. In text and photographs he has captured the sen
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressAward winning photography and lithography sets this "coffee table" book apart from others of its type.
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThe Oregon Desert is a wild, rough region that does things to people who try to change it. It is like "The anvil that wears the hammer o
