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Stories of the Humboldt Wagon Road
Stories of the Humboldt Wagon Road
$21.99 $15.39 Save 30%
The Stagecoach in Northern California: Rough Rides, Gold Camps & Daring Drivers
The Stagecoach in Northern California: Rough Rides, Gold Camps & Daring Drivers
$23.99 $16.79 Save 30%
The Aviation History of Greater Riverside
The Aviation History of Greater Riverside
$19.99 $15.39 Save 23%

Stories of the Humboldt Wagon Road

9781467145268

$21.99 $15.39 Save 30%
Before the completion of the transcontinental railroad, there was the Chico and Humboldt Wagon Road, meant to connect California with the burgeoning mining industries of Nevada and Idaho. The ambitious plan to make Chico a major Northern California transportation hub was spearheaded by John Bidwell and began in earnest in 1864. The road opened new areas to mining and logging and provided opportunities for less scrupulous characters. Stagecoach robberies, murders and shootouts were just some of the misfortunes that occurred on the road, along with the dangers nature provided--snowstorms, perilous terrain and grizzly bears. Author Andy Mark offers a glimpse of what it was like for nineteenth-century travelers and settlers on the route of the Humboldt Wagon Road.
Stories of the Humboldt Wagon Road

The Stagecoach in Northern California: Rough Rides, Gold Camps & Daring Drivers

9781626192546

$23.99 $16.79 Save 30%
New England stagemen followed thousands of bedazzled gold rushers out west in 1849, carving out the first public overland transportation routes in California. Daring drivers like Hank Monk navigated treacherous terrain, while entrepreneurs such as James Birch, Jared Crandall and Louis McLane founded stagecoach companies traveling from Stockton to the Oregon border and over the formidable Sierra Nevada. Stagecoaches hauling gold from isolated mines to big-city safes were easy targets for highwaymen like Black Bart. Road accidents could end in disaster--coaches even tumbled down mountainsides. Journey back with author Cheryl Anne Stapp to an era before the railroad and automobile arrived and discover the wild history of stagecoach travel in California.
The Stagecoach in Northern California: Rough Rides, Gold Camps & Daring Drivers

The Aviation History of Greater Riverside

9781609496302

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Ever since aircraft changed the scope of the First World War, flight became both a passion and business in Riverside. Early barnstormers needed places to park, refuel and service their aircraft, so airports started popping up. Alessandro Field became March Field in 1918. By World War II, seventy-five thousand troops were deployed at March. Today's March Joint Air Reserve Base has been a vital wartime training and relay installation and a sentinel of peacetime. In 1925, Roman Warren, known as the Cowboy Aviator," established Riverside Airport, which later became Flabob Airport. Take to the air with authors Marge and Tony Bitetti as they trace Greater Riverside's history of flight--from Banning, Corona and Riverside Municipal Airports to Perris Airport, Skylark Field and others."
The Aviation History of Greater Riverside