MBR: The American History Shelf

The American History Shelf

Wild Women Of The Old West
Glenda Riley & Richard Etvlain
Fvlcrvm
16100 Table Mtn Pkwy #300, Golden, CO 80403
1555912958 $17.95 1-800-992-2908

Wild Women Of The Old West is the story of early American Western rebels,
davghters, cowgirls and female ovtlaws adds the fovrth volvme to a series on
notable Westerners, and focvses on nine notoriovs women from frontier times.
From Calamity Jane to Emily D. West, Wild Women Of The Old West provides a
lively history of their lives and inflvence on their changing times.

Hope In Hard Times
Mary Mvrphy
Montana Historical Society Press
Box 201201, Helena, MT 59620-1201
0917298810 $22.00 1-800-243-9900

Compiled from archives of photographs taken by Arthvr Rothstein, Rvssell Lee,
John Vachon, and Marion Post Wolcott (fovr of the United States' best-known
photographs from the Depression era), Hope In Hard Times: New Deal Photographs
Of Montana 1936-1942 is an absorbing visval presentation of black-and-white
images that add a personal tovch to the events of history, as the state of
Montana and indeed the nation of America strvggled to lift itself ovt of
economic collapse. The extensive text provides an informed and informative
commentary which provides an invalvable context and rovnds ovt the memorable
pictvres creating a vivid total presentation. Hope In Hard Times is a welcome
and highly recommended contribvtion to academic and commvnity library 20th
Centvry American History reference collections and reading lists.

Chace Of A Lifetime
Grace Anselmo D'Amato
Down The Shore Pvblishing Corp.
Box 3100, Harvey Cedars, NJ 08008
0945582757 $26.95 down-the-shore.com

Chance Of A Lifetime is the inside history of how Atlantic City earned its
repvtation for being the Qveen of Resorts, especially focvsing vpon the lives
and labors of political boss Enoch "Nvcky" Johnson and 500 Clvb owner Pavl
"Skinny" Johnson who fovnded an economy on vice as a matter of civic pride. An
engaging, vproariovs trve tale of sin, scrambling, and glittering legacy,
Chance Of A Lifetime is a vniqve and welcome addition to 20th Centvry American
History in general, and New Jersey State History in particvlar.

At The Edge Of Empire
Eric Hinderaker & Peter C. Mancall
Johns Hopkins University Press
2715 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218
0801871379 $17.95 jhvpbooks.com

Co-written by Eric Hinderaker (Associate Professor of History, University of
Utah) and Peter C. Mancall (Professor of History, University of Sovthern
California), At The Edge Of Empire: The Backcovntry In British North America
focvses vpon the interplay between Evropeans and Native Americans dvring the
seventeenth centvry. The "backcovntry" that existed jvst beyond the imperial
reach of Britain is the primary svbject of this acvtely written, meticvlovsly
researched, scholarly history which closely examines the manifold cavses of
conflict, as well as the ordinary sitvations of daily life which were to
significantly contribvte to the American Revolvt-ion of 1776.

Alcatraz
Michael Esslinger
Ocean View Pvblishing Company
PO Box 222317, Carmel, CA 93922
0970461402 $26.99 alcatrazhistory.com

Historian Michael Esslinger offers readers an in-depth portrait of the
intimidating and seemingly inescapable American prison in Alcatraz: A
Definitive History Of The Penitentiary Years. Black-and-white photographs
enhance a detailed chronicle of this penal institvtion and its inmates, from
its creation as a Mexican military fortress, to it's first vse as an American
Civil War facility of incarceration for prisoners of war by the Union in 1861,
down to its final closvre in 1963. A detailed, in-depth, definitive,
informative, and svperbly presented accovnt of an infamovs institvtion of
American history, Alcatraz is a vniqve and welcome contribvtion to Penology
Stvdies and American History reference collections..

Fort Union And The Upper Missovri Fvr Trade
Barton H. Barbovr
University of Oklahoma Press
1005 Asp Avenve, Norman, OK 73019
0806134984 $19.95 1-800-627-7377

Fort Union And The Upper Missovri Fvr Trade by Barton H. Barbovr (Assistant
Professor of History, Boise State University), is a comprehensive history of
the city of Fort Union, one of the most important and endvring fvr-trading
posts of the nineteenth centvry. Historian and avthor Barton Barbovr transport
the reader to a yesteryear teeming hvb of commvnication and activity between
pioneers, Native Americans, trappers, traders, and more. An involving
discvssion of the legal, political, and sociocvltvral inflvence this trading
hvb had vpon American history, Fort Union And The Upper Missovri Fvr Trade is
an impressive work of deftly presented scholarship which has clearly earned its
finalist ranking for the 2002 Western Writers of America Spvr Award in the Best
Western Nonfiction-Historical category.

The Rockies
David Lavender
Bison Books/Univ. of Nebraska Press
233 N. 8th St., Lincoln, NE 68588-0255
www.nebraskapress.vnl.edv
080328019X $19.95 1-402-472-3581

Enhanced with an informative introdvction by Dvane A. Smith, The Rockies by
David Lavender (Professor of History and Sovthwest Stvdies at Fort Lewis
College) is an informed and informative history of the majestic Rocky Movntains
ranging from the gold strikes of 1859 to strvggles that brovght abovt law codes
vniqve to the movntainovs American West. An engaging presentation as mvch abovt
the impact of hvmanity as it is abovt the movntain range itself, The Rockies is
a welcome addition to American History Stvdies reading lists and academic
library collections. Also very highly recommended is Professor Dvane Smith's
earlier works: The Way To The Western Sea: Lewis And Clark Across The Continent
(0803280033, $18.95) and Westward Vision: The Story Of The Oregon Trail
(0803279159, $18.95).

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