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Everett Ruess: His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife
Book Title Author(s) : Philip L. Fradkin
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Everett Ruess was twenty years old when he vanished into the canyonlands of southern Utah, spawning the myth of a romantic desert wanderer that survives to this day. It was 1934, and Ruess was in the fifth year of a quest to record wilderness beauty in works of art whose value was recognized by such...Read More

Stagecoach: Wells Fargo and the American West
Book Title Author(s) : Philip L. Fradkin
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Sweeping in scope, as revealing of an era as it is of a company, Stagecoach is the epic story of Wells Fargo and the American West. The trail of Wells Fargo runs through nearly every imaginable landscape and icon of frontier folklore: the California Gold Rush, the Pony Express, the transcont...Read More

The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself, With a New Preface
Book Title Author(s) : Philip L. Fradkin
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The first indication of the prolonged terror that followed the 1906 earthquake occurred when a ship steaming off San Francisco's Golden Gate "seemed to jump clear out of the water." This gripping account of the earthquake, the devastating firestorms that followed, and the city's subsequent reconstru...Read More

Wallace Stegner and the American West
Book Title Author(s) : Philip L. Fradkin
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Wallace Stegner was the premier chronicler of the twentieth-century western American experience, and his novels, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Angle of Repose and the National Book Award–winning The Spectator Bird, brought the life and landscapes of the West to national and internatio...Read More

After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
Book Title Author(s) : Philip L. Fradkin, Rebecca Solnit
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How exactly has San Francisco's urban landscape changed in the hundred years since the earthquake and cataclysmic firestorms that destroyed three-quarters of the city in 1906? For this provocative rephotography project, bringing past and present into dynamic juxtaposition, renowned photographer Mark...Read More

Wanderings of an Environmental Journalist: In Alaska and the American West
Book Title Author(s) : Philip L. Fradkin
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The Left Coast: California on the Edge
Book Title Author(s) : Philip L. Fradkin
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Philip L. Fradkin, one of California’s most acclaimed environmental historians, felt drawn to the coast as soon as he arrived in California in 1960. His first book, California: The Golden Coast, captured the wonder of the shoreline’s natural beauty along with the controversies it engender...Read More

Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy
Book Title Author(s) : Philip L. Fradkin
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Sagebrush Country: Land and the American West
Book Title Author(s) : Philip L. Fradkin
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The American West: A New Interpretive History (The Lamar Series in Western History)
Book Title Author(s) : Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher
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Two eminent historians, Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher, present the American West as both frontier and region, real and imagined, old and new, and they show how men and women of all ethnic groups were affected when different cultures met and clashed. Their concise and engaging survey of front...Read More

 

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