American West | American West
Oct.24.2011
A cross between True Grit and Huckleberry Finn, Bohemian Girl creates "a western world as raucous and unpredictable as any imagined by Larry McMurtry, and teeming with characters as tragically heroic as those created by Willa Cather," according to a starred Booklist review. Kirkus said: True Grit's...
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Sep.14.2011
The earliest perception of California was of a wonderful land of mystery and plenty, a Terrestrial Paradise. California would become a magnet for generations of people seeking the good life.
The first foreign settlements in California were planted by Spaniards in the late eighteenth century. Padres...
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Feb.10.2010
The third volume in the Ethan Gage series, in which Ethan - after an unwise dalliance with Bonaparte's married sister - is sent to the American West by Napoleon and Jefferson to spy on the British, investigate rumors of early Norse explorers, and keep an eye out for woolly mammoths. In short order...
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Jul.01.2009
Among the tens of thousands of pioneers who left home in covered wagons in the 1800s, headed for the West in hopes of fertile land, gold, or escape from religious or racial persecution, some forty thousand were children. Though the hardships and dangers of the trail were many, these children also...
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May.06.2009
"Sun, Sin & Suburbia" is a history of modern Las Vegas, focusing on the rapid development of the city starting during World War II. Las Vegas started as a tiny railroad town and has developed into a major modern metropolis of 2 million people in just about 100 years. The book covers...
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Sep.07.2008
From the author of the acclaimed memoir In the Wilderness (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize): a luminous novel of youthful idealism, of faith and madness, of love and family.
It is 1960 when Thomas Deracotte and his pregnant wife, Helen, abandon a guaranteed future in upper-crust Connecticut and...
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