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Our Recommendations

Something in the Soil: Field-Testing the New Western History
by Patricia Nelson Limerick, 2000
$27.95 (less discount)

Something in the Soil is truly an extraordinary book of essays on the American West, past and present. The essays reflect Limerick's lively dialogue with hundreds of scholars, critics, and experts in a dozen fields. As a result, Something in the Soil promises to be one of the most original, revealing, provocative and lively treatments of the American West to appear in a decade. This is a must for understanding the American West in the twenty-first century. --Howard R. Lamar, editor of The New Encyclopedia of the American West

Bear Flag Rising : The Conquest of California, 1846
by Dale L. Walker, 1999
$24.95 (less discount)

Dale Walker writes history as illuminating stories about human beings. He's witty, insightful, and unburdened by political agendas. This book reveals, through exacting research and masterful prose, the full story of how Mexico lost California. He has provided us with so much new material, and has unearthed so many obscure facts that help explain the mysteries of the conquest, that this book will be a powerful clarifying force in our understanding of this period in California history.

One Eye Closed, the Other Red: The California Bootlegging Years
by Clifford James Walker, 1999
$25.00

For 22 years Walker has been interviewing bootleggers, rumrunners and smugglers, as well as constables and border patrolmen. He has buried himself in national and local archives, read court cases and newspaper accounts of that fabulous Roaring 20s in California. He allows these people to tell their own stories in 624 pages of a beautilully bound book, with a glossary, six appendixes, endnotes, index and huge bibliography. The book benefitted from several local authors and historians who have added their specialities.

California Place Names : The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names
by Erwin Gustav Gudde, William Bright, 1998
$45.00 (less discount)

The curious traveler or resident, as well as the serious student, will find a wealth of description and history in these names, as rich and various as the California landscape itself.

California : An Interpretive History
by James J. Rawls, Walton Bean , 1997
$52.50 (less discount)

A thoroughly readable account of California history from the beginning to present day. Excellent review of late 20th Century is included. Highly recommended.

	Something in the Soil: Field-Testing the New Western History by Patricia Nelson Limerick, 2000 $27.95 (less discount)
Something in the Soil is truly an extraordinary book of essays on the American West, past and present. The essays reflect Limerick's lively dialogue with hundreds of scholars, critics, and experts in a dozen fields. As a result, Something in the Soil promises to be one of the most original, revealing, provocative and lively treatments of the American West to appear in a decade. This is a must for understanding the American West in the twenty-first century. --Howard R. Lamar, editor of The New Encyclopedia of the American West
	Bear Flag Rising : The Conquest of California, 1846 by Dale L. Walker, 1999 $24.95 (less discount)
Dale Walker writes history as illuminating stories about human beings. He's witty, insightful, and unburdened by political agendas. This book reveals, through exacting research and masterful prose, the full story of how Mexico lost California. He has provided us with so much new material, and has unearthed so many obscure facts that help explain the mysteries of the conquest, that this book will be a powerful clarifying force in our understanding of this period in California history.
	One Eye Closed, the Other Red: The California Bootlegging Years by Clifford James Walker, 1999 $25.00
For 22 years Walker has been interviewing bootleggers, rumrunners and smugglers, as well as constables and border patrolmen. He has buried himself in national and local archives, read court cases and newspaper accounts of that fabulous Roaring 20s in California. He allows these people to tell their own stories in 624 pages of a beautilully bound book, with a glossary, six appendixes, endnotes, index and huge bibliography. The book benefitted from several local authors and historians who have added their specialities.
	California Place Names : The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names by Erwin Gustav Gudde, William Bright, 1998 $45.00 (less discount)
The curious traveler or resident, as well as the serious student, will find a wealth of description and history in these names, as rich and various as the California landscape itself.
	California : An Interpretive History by James J. Rawls, Walton Bean , 1997 $52.50 (less discount)
A thoroughly readable account of California history from the beginning to present day. Excellent review of late 20th Century is included. Highly recommended.

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